[SOLVED] Splitting SHOUTcast track info into "Song title" and "Artist name"

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

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?

Solution

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);