Spotify to iChat and Adium statuses

spotify-ichat.sh

#!/bin/bash

# shamelessly taken from: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aUG0MH-OLaEJ:codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1954+spotify+ichat&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

# messages have this format:
#   'Mon Jul  5 13:25:05 azeef-macbook GrowlHelperApp[46245] <Warning>: Spotify: Do the Buildings and Cops Make You Smile? (Bedroom Walls\nThe 4400) - Priority 0'
# which this script extracts as:
#   'Spotify: Do the Buildings and Cops Make You Smile? (Bedroom Walls'
#   'The 4400)'
# or (a little more abstract):
#   '$song ($artist'
#   '$album)'
# where $song = 'Spotify: $title'
# The status will be set to 'Spotify: $title - $artist ($album)', dive into the code to change that ;-)
syslog -F '$Message' -w 1 -k Sender GrowlHelperApp | while read first
  do
    if [ -n "`echo $first | egrep '^Spotify: '`" ]; then
      # line starts with 'Spotify: ', so read second line
      read second
      # if you don't want the 'Spotify: ', uncomment the following line:
      first=${first/Spotify: /}

      # extract song, artist and album
      song=${first% (*} # reads 'Spotify: $title' from 'Spotify: $title ($artist'
      artist=${first##* (} # reads '$artist' from 'Spotify: $title ($artist'
      album=${second%%)*} # reads '$album' from '$album)'

      # this part makes sure no ads or spotify messages are posted as your status
      # the test reads:
      # - either the artist equals 'Spotify' (the x's cancel out) or
      # - the album's length is at least 8 (the length of the string 'spotify:') and it starts with 'spotify:'
      # this works, because Spotify plays it's messages with the artist 'Spotify'
      # and (almost all) ads have a link which starts with 'spotify:' embbedded as the album
      if [ "x$artist" = 'xSpotify' -o ${#album} -ge 8 -a "${album:0:8}" = 'spotify:' ]; then
        continue # skip this message if it's an ad
      fi
      status="$song - $artist ($album)"
      echo $status
      echo | osascript <<EOF
tell application "System Events"
  if exists process "iChat" then tell application "iChat" to set the status message to "$status"
  if exists process "Adium" then tell application "Adium" to set status message of every account to "$status"
end tell
EOF
    fi
  done

run as a bash script. if you don't know how to do that, I cannot help you.