Thursday, February 3, 2011

Show Current Music Track in Gtalk with WMP - Not Working

Gtalk has the feature to show the current music playing in Windows Media Player as inbuilt feature. This can be achieved just by selecting 'Show Current Music Track' from the status dopdown in Gtalk Application.
(For using the same feature with Winamp please read my Blog
http://checkcomputersolutions.blogspot.com/2011/02/show-current-music-track-in-gtalk-with.html )

If this does not work it maye be because
1. The Gtalk Plugin is not enabled in WMP.
2. If Windows Media Player or your Windows desktop crashes, Windows Media Player will disable all plug-ins, including the music-status plug-in for Google Talk.
3. For Vista and Windows7 install Gtalk with 'Run as  administrator'

To enable/reemable the Gtalk Plugin follow the below steps.

  1. Open Windows Media Player.
  2. Press Alt+t and goto Plug-ins-->Options (See the screenshots below)
  3. From the Category section of the Plug-ins tab, select Background.
  4. Select the Google Talk Music Plugin checkbox.
  5. Click OK.








    2 comments:

    1. On clicking background there is nothing in background pane...
      Should I need to download plugin for this???

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      1. Tay un installing and installing google talk. Remember while installing run the exe file with run as administrator.

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