Comment 2 for bug 217949

It would not surprise me at all if it was a configuration issue, which is why I immediately dove into the doc directory and checked out the readme. Then I went to the developer's website in search of more information. After spending nearly half a day on it, I'm unable to find any configuration options that will make it work.

So it remains true that the pidgin-audacious plugin doesn't work, either because it is broken or because there is no (discoverable) way to configure it.

On the other hand, I downloaded a similar (but independent) plugin, pidgin-audacious-remote, from sourceforge and built and installed it. It worked as advertised right away.