Shoutbox

You should use a regular expression for that.

Here's a small function which will return an array containing the information out of a media string.

code:

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function parseMedia(Media) {
   var mediaExp = /^\\0([a-z]+)\\0([0-1])\\0(.*)\\0(.*)\\0(.*)\\0(.*)\\0(.*)\\0$/i;
   if(typeof(Media) == "string" && mediaExp.test(Media)) {
      var arr = new Array();
      arr['type'] = RegExp.$1;
      arr['enabled'] = RegExp.$2;
      arr['format'] = RegExp.$3;
      arr['title'] = RegExp.$4;
      arr['artist'] = RegExp.$5;
      arr['album'] = RegExp.$6;
      arr['contentId'] = RegExp.$7;
      return arr;
   } else {
      return false;
   }
}

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An example to use this:

code:

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var arrMedia = parseMedia(Messenger.MyCurrentMedia);
if(!arrMedia) {
   //Here you can work with the arrMedia array
   Debug.Trace("Now Playing: " + arrMedia['artist'] + " - " + arrMedia['title'];
} else {
   //The media string was invalid
}

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