Show Current Music Track on Gtalk in WMP 12, Windows 7

Google Talk or gTalk chat application has a feature to show currently playing Music track on Windows Media player as you Status. On Windows Xp, it runs without problem but even since I upgraded to Windows 7, GTalk doesn’t update status on change of Music track on Windows Media Player 12.

It was a very small thing but I was unable to make it work. Actually there was no Google Talk Music Plugin for WMP 12 installed on Windows 7 system. So, Follow the steps given to start showing the name of song you are listening as Gtalk status:

Uninstall Google Talk.
Visit http://www.google.com/talk/
Click Download Google Talk client near the bottom of the page.
Save the installation file to your desktop.
5. Right-click the installation file (googletalk-setup.exe) on your desktop and select Run as administrator.
6. Follow the instructions to install Talk

gtalk-music track status

Still not working?

Run Windows Media Player.
Then go to Tools and then options.
Click on the Plug-ins tab and select Background category in it.
Now check the option of “Google Talk music plug-in” on the right side.
Then Apply and exit.

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Ruchi - November 30, 2009

Thanks for sharing the tutorial , it was really useful .

ajay - December 13, 2009

Thanx yaar!!
It’s works.

🙂

MostlyBlog - December 25, 2009

wow it’s working on my windows vista thanks for sharing, i am searching for this information on Google and got your blog

shanky - February 9, 2010

thanks man……….it was really helpful!!!!

Ricky - February 22, 2010

Really helpful ……..Cheers.!!!!!!!!

gaurav - March 16, 2010

nopes… its not working…
i followed the steps….
but still in plugins -> background its not showing the option of google talk

moe net - March 18, 2010

thanks a lot
i can’t do current music track at gtalk at window 7
before i see ur suggestion
now i am ok !
🙂

Sanaaya - April 23, 2010

Thanx.

Ratheesh - May 24, 2010

Yea its working fine in my windows7, but i am facing same issue in winamp can u help me ?

Vaishnavi - May 30, 2010

hey thanksss yaar
🙂

Annu - August 20, 2010

Yes! Nice thanks for sharing…….
After installing as a admin plugin option shown in win media player…. I am worried abt 7
but it’s working fine.

Ankur - September 21, 2010

hey thankx Rohit Langde,
this blog is very useful to all user who want more about any problem about windows software.

Dharmendra - December 5, 2010

thanx it’s working……….:)

Acme - December 24, 2010

Plz,help me.
There’s no “google talk plug-in check box” at the background of plug-in option.
How should I slove to work show current musics track?

wini - January 28, 2011

Thank you sooo much…..i have been struggling for this status to work for past many days…..moreover I have windows 7……but this time it really worked 🙂

april - March 31, 2011

thanks man.. it’s works

Ankur Moulik - July 21, 2011

Thank you so much.Your tutorial was really very helpful.

Pradeep - September 25, 2011

Hey Its work fine, thanks a ton!!!

vishal - October 30, 2011

plz , any1 send me d link for wmp12……
i also wann to current music track in gtalk..
plz

Siddhant Jain - November 13, 2011

man… i followed all the steps… the gtalk plugin box appeared and i checked it… but still… my status is not being updated… there’s no solution for dis in any of the discussions… what do i do!!??

myominzaw - November 30, 2011

Thz It is useful.

krishna - December 6, 2011

thank you….

raja - January 10, 2012

thanks yaar……it really works 🙂

ohnsaw - February 16, 2012

nopes… its not working…
i followed the steps….
but still in plugins -> background its not showing the option of google talk

Anurag - April 3, 2012

It worked for me too…… Thanks dude… 🙂

shweta - May 1, 2012

Worked for me. For those whose Gtalk plugin checkbox option is not available under plugins, run as administrator, while installing setup.

Anil Batham - March 4, 2013

To get the Google Talk now playing plug-in working, you have to uninstall your current Google Talk client (unless you’re starting from scratch) and close Windows Media Player 12. Next, download the Google Talk installer, right-click it in Windows Explorer and choose ‘Run as Administrator’. If you don’t do this, the Google Talk setup won’t install the functionality required by this plug-in. Don’t really know why the Google Talk setup doesn’t show an UAC prompt in the first place and it doesn’t install the plug-in properly.

After installation, you should see the plug-in under the background category in your Windows Media Player 12 plug-ins options window. It’ll be enabled by default. Once it is, you can choose ‘Show current music track’ as your status message and everyone will know what you’re jammin’ to.

Swapnil - June 17, 2013

Thanks buddy! Wonderful tutorial. Setup just needed to run as administrator 🙂 and done!

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