Most of all gamers use Xfire to communicate with other gamers. All pro gamers use Xfire to browse multiplayer server for their games. It’s a very intelligent application for gamers they can upload their score images, videos and they can create clans and invite other gamers to join it. You can also broadcast your live gaming with this application like a live cricket or football match. It will detect your installed games in pc automatically. After all the top benefits of this application there is a problem as well with this application.

Xfire doesn’t show music players icons when it’s playing any song. Its only shows music status which is running in your music players. The Xfire actually detect window media player, ITunes and winamp. But it’s never showed their icons when they are running. You can fix this error by editing Xifre_games.ini file but after that it won’t shows you the music status. It will only display you music player name in which your listen songs. You can use custom status to write song title or use a automatic custom status music plug-in. The plugs-in known as Xfire Plus its quite old and official site also shut down but the software still working.

How to display music player icon and music status in xfire

First Download Xfire Plus from here and install this software but do not launch now.
Now go to C:\ drive and select ProgramData. It’s a hidden folder so make sure you have selected "show hidden files, folder and drive" to see this folder. Or you can copy paste this line in your explorer C:\ProgramData and click enter. Now go to Xfire folder and open Xfire_Games.ini with Notepad or WordPad or any text editor.

Windows Media Player Users

Press ctrl+F and find Windows Media Player in Xfire_games.ini file. you will see two windows media player codes first 52_1 and second is 52_2.

iTunes Users

Press ctrl+F and find iTunes in Xfire_games.ini file. you will see two iTunes codes first is 51_1 and second is 51_2.

Winamp Users

Press ctrl+F and find Winamp in Xfire_games.ini file. you will see three codes for winamp music player. first is 50_1 second on 50_2 and third on 50_3.

After searching codes for your music player replace these last two lines

SoftwareType=Music

InGameFlags=DISABLE_SCREENSHOTS|DISABLE_VIDEO_CAPTURE

InGameRenderer=OGL

Now save it and exit from Xfire_Games.ini. Now start Xfire Plus and Xfire now start play any music. You will see music player icon on Xfire beside your username. But maybe you won’t see your music status on Xfire don’t worry just go to system tray and right or left click on Xfire plus and click settings > select players which is running and there you go you will see music status as well.