Splitting SHOUTcast track info into "Song title" and "Artist name"

Question

I'm using this 'Now playing' jQuery plugin and was wondering if there's a way to split track info fetched from SHOUTcast (Artist name - Track title) into two different strings: 'Artist name' and 'Track title' separately.

This is the basic configuration of the plugin:

$.SHOUTcast({
   host : '91.109.241.252',
   port : 8170,
   interval : 5000,
   stats : function(){
     $('#songtitle').text(this.get('songtitle','Temporarily Off Air'));
   }
}).startStats();

The code above will return, every 5 seconds, the name in the format Artist name - Track title.

Is there a way to adapt the current configuration in order to achieve the same with the string splitted?

Answer 1

You can get the string "artist - song" and make a split:

var fullTitle = this.get('songtitle','Off Air').split(" - ");

Then get each item separately:

var artist = fullTitle[0];
var title = fullTitle[1];

And write it in different html tags:

$('#title').text(title);
$('#artist').text(artist);