Live Messenger – “Show what I’m listening to” Doesn’t work

by Nish Vamadevan on 07/10/2007 · View Comments

Windows Live Messenger sometimes doesn’t show the music you play on Windows Media Player even though you set it to show.

The work around is the following…

Open up Windows Media Player, and go to Tools => Options (You might need to hit the ALT key to see the hidden menu)

Click the Plug-ins tab, then on the Category Column, Click on Background and make sure Windows Live Messenger Music Plug-in is ticked. If not, tick it and Apply then OK.

See the following screenshot for more info…

Now you should be able to Show what you play on Windows Media Player.

{ 37 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Kiyora-chan October 19, 2007 at 13:06

wow tnx, it worked
Loves -xx-

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2 Genossa November 7, 2007 at 02:46

Thank you very much, i was very stumped when messenger didnt show!

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3 Michael December 17, 2007 at 17:44

It worked! Thank you!!!

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4 denon January 19, 2008 at 05:43

wow thank you so much haha i was so mad when it did not work

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5 Darren April 26, 2008 at 12:45

Thanks alot.

It worked before, and then it just suddenly stopped, this helped me solve it.

Thanks alot again :)

Darren.

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6 lau May 19, 2008 at 17:36

thanks a lot!!!take care

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7 adele x May 23, 2008 at 19:58

It didn’t work for me:(
any other suggestionss???
Email me on adele_28@hotmail.co.uk if ya know how to fix it

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8 eua August 30, 2008 at 12:36

thanx a lot! :-)

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9 ¬. tASHARRRR;* November 3, 2008 at 23:28

You Got Anythin Else i Can Try; That (^) Dont Work; Soz ?x

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10 staka November 26, 2008 at 20:21

Yay! It works.. no wonder it didn’t work few years ago.

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11 Random December 8, 2008 at 10:35

Woot thanks alot lol

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12 luvvy December 24, 2008 at 01:06

thank you very much now every one can see my groovy songs lol thanx

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13 jhaysitq February 4, 2009 at 20:07

If the plugin is not there, choose add and browse to the psmsong.14.0.8050.1202.dll file or the version starting with PSMSONG and add it. Will be located in the messenger program files folder. It will show unknown plugin, this dissappear when you go back to it. But you can show the songs your listening too now.

I had to do this as MS says 2003 Server is not supported, but I got Windows Live Messenger, Photo Gallery and Live writer to all run perfectly on my 2003 server operating system. I use this as my workstation (member server) due to the amount of memory and raid system, much faster than XP. And in no way will I go to Vista. lol

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14 hitetrel April 4, 2009 at 22:53

Thanks! it worked for me too lols.

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15 Ashour April 8, 2009 at 23:03

thxxxx lots and lots :) :) :)

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16 sundin_500 May 30, 2009 at 01:34

thank you sir, i am not sure why i did not venture into these waters my self.

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17 jayne June 2, 2009 at 06:06

thank you!!! it works now :)

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18 Iron Maiden June 5, 2009 at 14:26

THANKS A LOT :D

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19 paul August 28, 2009 at 14:51

Thanks it worked :)
a lot of help
x

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20 Evangeline October 5, 2009 at 13:06

Thank you so much ! ~
So helpful. =]

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21 ZuryLove October 12, 2009 at 17:18

Thank you sooo very much, you saved me :)

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22 hotshot October 17, 2009 at 19:18

Thanks Alot Man..

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23 Abdullah October 29, 2009 at 23:05

thnks for the advice it helped me a lot.

:P

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24 Jessie November 30, 2009 at 11:12

thanks man. i’ve been having this problem for a long time, and it really bugged me.

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25 Kyon December 7, 2009 at 03:44

Such a stupid solution, I feel ashamed that I didn’t thought about it hahaha…

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26 Sam December 13, 2009 at 21:11

Brilliant! Thanks! :)

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27 Ronit December 30, 2009 at 06:36

Hey fren thank u so much it worked Bt not wid the videos do U know its solution?

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28 Nish Vamadevan December 30, 2009 at 07:31

I don’t think it is supported on WLM…

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29 haziq hakim January 28, 2010 at 08:48

lmao thnx!!

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30 Lucifer February 19, 2010 at 20:36

thanks ^^

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31 Shizzle-dizzle July 7, 2010 at 23:20

O M G h3h3 fankyhuu dis rlly helped me, lve yhuuu all woop woop ha!

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32 Jackumorris July 7, 2010 at 23:22

it worked thank you so much i was getting very annoyed with my msn but now i dont have to throw my monitor out the window and rip my harddrive out and jump on it till my feet bleed

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33 enaidchris July 14, 2010 at 18:33

even though i felt kind of stupid for not finding it out for myself jajaja thanks…! :D

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34 Danny July 22, 2010 at 19:36

Ok guys tried all the solutions. Still having this problem. The first song shows up but after that it stops saying what im playing. Tried re-installing it and still the same problem.

Any advice?

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35 gatex July 23, 2010 at 12:44

thanks it works !

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36 Lamada1997 August 7, 2010 at 20:51

thankkkkk u for this soluotion

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37 Guest August 13, 2010 at 05:55

it should be working send me a quick fix lol

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