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iTunes integration
You can display live information in your status, profile, or messages about the song currently playing in iTunes.
Status
Choose the "♫ iTunes" status from the Status menu to be marked as 'Available' with information about the current song as the message.
To show the currently playing song in iTunes in your custom Available and Away statuses, include one of the 'tokens' listed below in your status; you can also choose these directly from the "Insert Script" submenu of the "Edit" menu.
In either case, the information will be automatically updated when the song changes.
Messages
The tokens listed below, or found in the the "Insert Script" submenu of the "Edit" menu, can also be used anywhere else you enter text in Adium, including your messages.
Profiles
You can also add the current playing song in iTunes in your AOL Instant Messenger or MobileMe (formerly known as .Mac) profile by editing your profile and then selecting your choice of iTunes script from the "Insert Script" submenu of the "Edit" menu.
XMPP ("Jabber")
Apart from your status, XMPP ("Jabber") shows a separate "Now Playing" field in other people's clients. You can turn this on or off in the account's preferences → Privacy → "Let others know what iTunes is playing".
Tokens
| Token name | Text replacement |
|---|---|
| %_iTunes | A pre-formatted entry in the form: %_track - %_artist |
| %_music | A pre-formatted entry in the form: /me is listening to %_track by %_artist |
| %_status | Specifies the status if iTunes (i.e., Playing or Paused) |
| %_artist | The artist of the current song. |
| %_album | The album of the current song. |
| %_genre | The genre of the current song. |
| %_track | The track name of the current song. |
| %_composer | The composer of the current song. |
| %_iTMS | A link to the iTunes Music Store for the current song. |
A shortcut for "Track - Artist" is the token %_iTunes.
