Google Talk Not displaying the Current Music Track as Status message

November 18th, 2007 |Ajay M | 16,613 views | Tips and tricks | Comments (20)

Google Talk has a very good feature of setting your status message to the currently playing music file in Window Media Player. Usually when I am at home I log-in to Google talk and set my status message to currently playing tracks. But for few days it was not displaying the currently playing song in my status message and the reason was not known to me. I thought may be Google talk is corrupted….. so I tried various troubleshooting steps including re-downloading and re-installing g-talk to make this feature working. But nothing worked. And finally I moved into Windows Media Player and guess what I found there?

Yes, I found the setting to enable and disable this feature in Windows Media Player. So if your Google Talk is not showing the currently playing music track do the following :

- Open Windows Media Player
- Click on Tools and Options.
- Go to plug-ins tab.
- Under categories select Background and under Background check the option “Google Talk music plug-in”
- Click on Apply and Ok.

And you are done….Now your status message will show the current music track you are playing in Windows Media Player.
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1. Pingback by Media Districts Entertainment Blog » Google Talk Not displaying the Current Music Track as Status message on 18 November 2007:

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   Comment by Forrest on 20 November 2007:

   I haven’t noticed this, will have to do some experimenting. I think Google has updated something recently, though, because I’ve been having a lot of trouble with gmail in FireFox.
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   Comment by parag on 11 December 2007:

   This post was really helpful…. thanks
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   Comment by TechDune on 19 December 2007:

   I have tried a lot to do this stuff, but did not work..:)
   Going togive a second chance
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   Comment by BigJ on 20 December 2007:

   This post was really helpful… I was having this problem too and was really breaking my head to figure out how to fix it.. Thank you very much.. It didnt for an instant strike me that the setting might require a change in windows media player!
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   Comment by amit on 20 December 2007:

   hay thanks man it’s work’s but after few mints it’s stop showing the status……now what i do …..pleas help me…….

   thanks
   amit
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   Comment by Subtilior on 2 February 2008:

   But what if you’re using Itunes and the same problem happens? Any ideas??

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   Comment by ShadowFox on 17 March 2008:

   Hey Thanq very much…it worked…
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    Comment by Ajay M on 18 March 2008:

    For all support queries, please discuss in forum.
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    Comment by sasquatch on 14 May 2008:

    hey i got the same problem with winamp! :O
    wht to do???
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    Comment by SK jain on 20 May 2008:

    hi.. this post was very helpful.. thanks for the straight answer!!
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    Comment by suresh on 7 June 2008:

    That was really helpful ……….
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    Comment by Jaliya on 8 June 2008:

    The info was most helpful. Thanks.

    Cheers!
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    Comment by jai on 16 August 2008:

    hey buddy………………… thnx a ton……… u helped me out. i too was exasperated searching for remedy. thnx.

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    Comment by Vish on 31 October 2008:

    Thanks a lot !!! was facing the problem… got resolved !!
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    Comment by Partha Barman on 29 January 2009:

    Thanks man you’re post was helpful. Thanks so very much!
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    Comment by divya on 30 January 2009:

    Thanks.. It was helpful.
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    Comment by Amudhan on 3 February 2009:

    It was really very helpful. Thanks for sharing this kind of Tips And Tricks.

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