XM Music Info

itismyworld

Does anybody know of a way to get the "Now Playing" info from the web to parse?

Besides getting a subscription and a seperate XM tuner with serial info.

The basic subscription issued with DirecTV is what is being used as the XM Source.

Not sure if it possible/legal.

Thanks

jjames

I did that a while back, but haven't worked much on it. [EDIT] Found the code. See below.[/EDIT]

Not sure on the legality of it.

As a side note, I know it's possible to get the info for Sirius quite easily.

DATA_EVENT[dvXM2]
{
	ONLINE:
	{
		cXM_BUFFER2 = ''
		CLEAR_BUFFER cXM_BUFFER2
		// http://www.xmradio.com/padData/pad_provider.jsp?all_channels=true
		SEND_STRING dvXM2,"'GET /padData/pad_provider.jsp?all_channels=true HTTP/1.1',13,10,'Host: www.xmradio.com',13,10,13,10"
		WAIT_UNTIL(FIND_STRING(cXM_BUFFER2,'</paddata>',1))
			IP_CLIENT_CLOSE(dvXM2.PORT)
	}
	
	OFFLINE:
	{	
		LOCAL_VAR CHAR cTEMP_STRING[450]
		LOCAL_VAR CHAR cARTIST[100];
		LOCAL_VAR CHAR cSONG[100]
		LOCAL_VAR CHAR cChannel[100];
		LOCAL_VAR INTEGER nCHANNEL;
		
		IF(FIND_STRING(cXM_BUFFER2,'</paddata>',1))
		{
			REMOVE_STRING(cXM_BUFFER2,'</authenticateduser>',1)
			WHILE(FIND_STRING(cXM_BUFFER2,'</event>',1))
			{
				cTEMP_STRING = ''
				cTEMP_STRING =
					REMOVE_STRING(cXM_BUFFER2,'</event>',FIND_STRING(cXM_BUFFER2,'<event>',1))
				
				cChannel = REMOVE_STRING(cTEMP_STRING,'</channelnumber>',FIND_STRING(cTEMP_STRING,'<channelnumber>',1))
				STRING_REMOVE(cChannel,'<channelnumber>');
				STRING_REMOVE(cChannel,'</channelnumber>');
				
				nCHANNEL = ATOI(cChannel);
				IF(nCHANNEL <= nMAX_XM_CHAN)
				{
					cARTIST = 
						REMOVE_STRING(cTEMP_STRING,'</artist>',FIND_STRING(cTEMP_STRING,'<artist>',1))
					
					STRING_REMOVE(cARTIST,'<artist>');
					STRING_REMOVE(cARTIST,'</artist>');
						
					cSONG = 
						REMOVE_STRING(cTEMP_STRING,'</songtitle>',FIND_STRING(cTEMP_STRING,'<songtitle>',1))
					
					
					STRING_REMOVE(cSONG,'<songtitle>');
					STRING_REMOVE(cSONG,'</songtitle>');
						
					IF(FIND_STRING(cSONG,'&amp;',1))
						STRING_REPLACE(cSONG,'&amp;','&');
					
					IF(FIND_STRING(cARTIST,'&amp;',1))
						STRING_REPLACE(cARTIST,'&amp;','&');
					
					IF(nXM_MAP[nCHANNEL])
					{
						XM_CHNL[nXM_MAP[nCHANNEL]].CUR_ARTIST = cARTIST;
						XM_CHNL[nXM_MAP[nCHANNEL]].CUR_SONG = "'"',cSONG,'"'";
					}
				}
			}
			fnXM_UPDATE(0);
			cXM_BUFFER2 = ''
		}
	}
}

Getting information from here: http://www.xmradio.com/padData/pad_provider.jsp?all_channels=true
Example information for a channel:

<event> 
		<artist>Oasis</artist> 
		<album>Definitely Maybe</album> 
		<songtitle>Live Forever</songtitle>  
		<channelnumber>54</channelnumber> 
		<channelname>Lithium</channelname> 
		<trackId>25162043</trackId> 
		<albumId>12937948</albumId> 
		<artistId>10431522</artistId> 
		<linkURL>http://home.napster.com/ns/purchase/clear/?type=track&amp;affiliate_id=14&amp;referral_id=XMRO&amp;COUNTRYCODE=US&amp;ids=25162043</linkURL> 
  </event> 

Parse accordingly. Have fun!

itismyworld

Looks fun, thanks for your FB!

Chip Moody

Wow! JJ, very cool, thanks for sharing! Do you recall how you came across that? I asked XM a long time ago if this info was even available over the net and they said no. Is there a "now playing" page on their website? (I don't see it)

- Chip

AMXJeff

Chip Moody wrote: »

Wow! JJ, very cool, thanks for sharing! Do you recall how you came across that? I asked XM a long time ago if this info was even available over the net and they said no. Is there a "now playing" page on their website? (I don't see it)

- Chip

// specific channel
http://www.xmradio.com/padData/pad_provider.jsp?channel=7

// all channels
http://www.xmradio.com/padData/pad_provider.jsp?all_channels=true