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Topic: How to get title & artist of current playing track (Read 3100 times) previous topic - next topic
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How to get title & artist of current playing track

I want to get metadata of current playing track. I add some code in function on_playback_new_track :
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void CMyElemWindow::on_playback_new_track(metadb_handle_ptr p_track) {
    file_info_impl info;
    p_track->get_info(info);
    auto mc = info.meta_get_count();
    for(int i=0;i<mc;++i) {
        result += info.info_enum_name(i);
        result += " ";
    }
    update();
    return;
}


After this function call, the value in result is "bitrate bitspersample channels codec cue_embedded encoding md5 samplerate tool".

I think I'm not doing this in correct way.
Could someone tell me how to get title & artist of current playing track?

How to get title & artist of current playing track

Reply #1 –
The hard way, only shown for artist.
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const char * name = "artist";
file_info_impl info;
if (p_track->get_info(info)) {
  const t_size meta_index = info.meta_find(name);
  if (meta_index != pfc::infinite_size) {
    const t_size value_count = info.meta_enum_value_count(meta_index);
    for (t_size value_index = 0; value_index < value_count; ++value_index) {
      const char * value = info.meta_enum_value(meta_index, value_index);
      // TODO: Do something with value.
    }
  }
}

The easy way.
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pfc::string8 artist_and_title;
p_track->format_title_legacy(NULL, artist_and_title, "%artist% - %title%", NULL);