Features:-

* Can change status of Pidgin to currently played song in Amarok. The status of Pidgin changes to the form...

♫ The Song Artist- Song Title

* Can change status of Pidgin to currently played song or video in Kaffeine. The status of Pidgin changes to the form...
same as above if music file is being played. For video files the status become...

⚇♪ Video Title

* When Amarok and Kaffeine are not playing or are closed then it can display random messages from fortune.

Depends on pidgin-remote (installed with Pidgin).

For more complete steps of installing and using pidgin-status please goto http://applegrew.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-display-currently-played-song-by.html.
Note: The above link is for gaim-status, so, mentally substitute pidgin for gaim there and use startim instead of startgaim.