ITunes + Windows Live Messenger?

Hey to anyone who can help,
Well, just got a new laptop, downloaded iTunes, and i want my Messenger contacts to to see the music i'm listening too, in my personal message, this works with Windows Media Player, but can someone help me get it working with iTunes?
Thanks In Advance

Okay... I've solved my issue using a work-around. the iTunes code for broadcasting these things definintely needs to be looked into. Its pretty trivial that syncing an iPod that doesn't have the "manual ejection" option ticked could cause a detrimental issue such as this.
As Hinted, to fix the issue. Make sure the iPod is set to be 'manually ejected' once its finished syncing. This means you will effectively have to eject it yourself using iTunes once you've synced it.
The steps I did was...
*1. Set iPod to be 'manually ejected' once synced and hit apply.*
*2. Sync iPod... again, for good measure.*
*3. Restart the computer.*
*4. Start iTunes with the iPod still connected, Sync it again.*
*5. Open Windows Live Messenger and make sure 'show what im listening to' is ticked.*
*6. Play a song in iTunes and see if it worked.*
*Please post if this helped you.* Im sure a few of those steps like re-syncing aren't neccesary, then again it's "Apple" iTunes so it's best to be safe then sorry.
Currently, the wonderful world of iTunes (7.7) is saying I don't have permission to set it as my default audio player, and im the friggin Admin...
*Bravo! Apple Team, Bravo!*

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*1. Set iPod to be 'manually ejected' once synced and hit apply.*
*2. Sync iPod... again, for good measure.*
*3. Restart the computer.*
*4. Start iTunes with the iPod still connected, Sync it again.*
*5. Open Windows Live Messenger and make sure 'show what im listening to' is ticked.*
*6. Play a song in iTunes and see if it worked.*
*Please post if this helped you.* Im sure a few of those steps like re-syncing aren't neccesary, then again it's "Apple" iTunes so it's best to be safe then sorry.
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Okay... I've solved my issue using a work-around. the iTunes code for broadcasting these things definintely needs to be looked into. Its pretty trivial that syncing an iPod that doesn't have the "manual ejection" option ticked could cause a detrimental issue such as this.
As Hinted, to fix the issue. Make sure the iPod is set to be 'manually ejected' once its finished syncing. This means you will effectively have to eject it yourself using iTunes once you've synced it.
The steps I did was...
*1. Set iPod to be 'manually ejected' once synced and hit apply.*
*2. Sync iPod... again, for good measure.*
*3. Restart the computer.*
*4. Start iTunes with the iPod still connected, Sync it again.*
*5. Open Windows Live Messenger and make sure 'show what im listening to' is ticked.*
*6. Play a song in iTunes and see if it worked.*
*Please post if this helped you.* Im sure a few of those steps like re-syncing aren't neccesary, then again it's "Apple" iTunes so it's best to be safe then sorry.
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Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 06/06/2011 7:29:50 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: UberHal
Description:
Faulting application name: firefox.exe, version: 2.0.1.4120, time stamp: 0x4da6a9fb
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x8d394fd6
Faulting process id: 0x1aec
Faulting application start time: 0x01cc24a1a155376a
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
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Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-06-06T23:29:50.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>31380</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
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<Security />
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<Data>firefox.exe</Data>
<Data>2.0.1.4120</Data>
<Data>4da6a9fb</Data>
<Data>unknown</Data>
<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
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<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>8d394fd6</Data>
<Data>1aec</Data>
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P2: 2.0.1.4120
P3: 4da6a9fb
P4: StackHash_0a9e
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00000000
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P8: c0000005
P9: 00000008
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Report Status: 0
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<Data>firefox.exe</Data>
<Data>2.0.1.4120</Data>
<Data>4da6a9fb</Data>
<Data>StackHash_0a9e</Data>
<Data>0.0.0.0</Data>
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<Data>8d394fd6</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>00000008</Data>
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C:\Users\MC\AppData\Local\Temp\WERD47E.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml</Data>
<Data>C:\Users\MC\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_firefox.exe_966114b87f1ef26bf245bee89f49ab1bb58152f2_0c65eb58</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>df4396d9-9094-11e0-8761-0026180e006b</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
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Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
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