I'm writing a simple frontend in Python to play and record internet radio channels (e.g. from shoutcast) using mplayer (in a subprocess). When a user clicks a station the following code is run:
url = http://77.111.88.131:8010 # only an example
cmd = "mplayer %s" % url
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), shell=False)
wait = os.waitpid(p.pid, 1)
return int(p.pid)
This works perfectly, the stream starts playing as it should. Although I would like to somehow parse the title of the stream. It seems that I need to fetch the title from the mplayer output. This is the output when I play the stream in a terminal:
$ mplayer http://77.111.88.131:8010 MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://77.111.88.131:8010. Resolving 77.111.88.131 for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 77.111.88.131 Connecting to server 77.111.88.131[77.111.88.131]: 8010... Name : Justmusic.Fm Genre : House Website: http://www.justmusic.fm Public : yes Bitrate: 192kbit/s Cache size set to 320 KBytes Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) ICY Info: StreamTitle='(JustMusic.FM) Basement - Zajac, Migren live at Justmusic 2010-10-09';StreamUrl='http://www.justmusic.fm'; Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes) Audio only file format detected.
It then runs until it's stopped. So the question is, how can I retrieve "(JustMusic.FM) Basement - Zajac, Migren live at Justmusic 2010-10-09" and still let the process run? I don't think subprocess() actually stores the output, but I might be mistaken. Any help is deeply appreciated :)
Best regards, frigg.