To hear sound, play is needed. It comes with the sox package and seems to need some extra files

sudo apt-get install sox libsox-fmt-base libsox-fmt-ao

To get SSL connections working (e.g. Google Talk needs this) following plugin is needed

sudo apt-get install libqca2-plugin-ossl

libqca2-plugin-gnupg

If the server allows it, Psi can use PEP to inform your friends what you are currently listening to.

The file used for this is .psi/tune.

For Songbird there is an addon called “Now Chirping”.

Edit this file: ~/.songbird2/<profile>/extensions/nowchirping@saebekassebil.com/chrome/content/js/nowchirping.js

Navigate to this function:

NowChirping.prototype.saveLocalFile = function() ...

and change following line from:

foStream.init(file, 0x02 | 0x08 | 0x10, 0666, 0);

to

foStream.init(file, 0x02 | 0x08 | 0x20, 0666, 0);

This changes the behaviour from “Append” to “Overwrite”.

Now enable local chirping in the Addons Prefs. The path would be /home/<user>/.psi/tune. The Data fieldshould contain something like:

%title%
%artist%
%album%

Now Chirping only writes to the file when a song starts. It does not delete the file when the playback is stopped. To prevent Psi from showing the last song you listened to for 2 decades or so this file has to be deleted.

Remove tune from Psi

This script should be invoked as a cronjob (Has to be made executable first).

Removes a given file after its age passed the given time. If file is updated within this timespan, nothing is done.

rm_tune_from_psi.sh FILE TIME

FILE /Path/to/tunefile, e.g. /home/semok/.psi/tune

TIME Age of the tunefile, after which it should be deleted in minutes

• ./rm_tune_from_psi.sh /home/semok/.psi/tune 10 - Removes tune file after 10 minutes.