Re: Accessing data in songStreamController

Paul Webster wrote: 
> I am trying to resolve an issue that I have had for ages ... where a
> stream URL changes because of a redirect and then the new stream URL no
> longer matches a regex that I have in place.
> I have been getting around this by working out a set of regex matches
> that work for the original and for the one redirected to but have now
> hit one that this is not feasible to do.
> 
> So - time has come to do it properly and use the original URL.
> 
> I do this because I have to set up a timer to call me back to go out and
> find metadata for the currently playing song (since it is not in the
> stream metadata).
> 
> My recollection of the history of this is that if my timer expires but
> the listener has changed to play something else then I must not
> overwrite the now playing information with the track info from what is
> now the previous station being listened to ... so I get the current
> stream via
> 
> > 
Code:
--------------------
  >   > 
  > my $song = $client->playingSong();
  > if ( $song && $song->streamUrl ) { $playingURL = $song->streamUrl}
--------------------
> > 
> 
> However, I dumped out a bunch of stuff and saw ... (edited) ...
> 
> > 
Code:
--------------------
  >   > 
  > 'songStreamController' => bless( [
  > bless( [
  > 'Slim::Player::Protocols::HTTPS',
  > 0,
  > bless( [
  > -157146472,
  > 1,
  > undef,
  > undef,
  > 'h t t p s ://currentlyplaying.stream/mp3',
  > 'h t t p://originally.launched.stream/mp3',
  > 'mp3',
  > 192000,
  > 0,
  > undef,
  > undef,
  > undef,
  > undef,
  > undef,
  > 'station name',
  > 
--------------------
> > 
> 
> So my question ... what is the correct way to get those 2 URLs from
> songStreamController ?
> Is the first one the same as 
> $song->streamUrl
> 
> I tried to find where the blessed object is defined but without luck
> so far.

This might be correct, it certainly is with protocol handlers when I
handle the redirect myself :

original URL is  :  $song->streamUrl
actual  URL is   :  $song->track()->url



Stuart McLean   

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