Get bundle identifier of the app playing the media?

[twio142]

Is this possible?

P.S. Thank you so much for developing this tool! I've been looking for something like this for a long time.

[nyxaria]

Would it be possible to get the name of the app playing the media currently? Can you please help me?

[nyxaria]

I tried decoding the string directly inside nowplaying.mm but it prints out (null) for some reason -- can you please take a look?

...
else if([key isEqualToString:@"kMRMediaRemoteNowPlayingInfoArtworkData"] || [key isEqualToString:@"kMRMediaRemoteNowPlayingInfoClientPropertiesData"]) {
                NSData *data = (NSData *) rawValue;
                NSString *decodeString = [data base64EncodedStringWithOptions:0];

                NSData *decodedData = [[NSData alloc] initWithBase64EncodedString:decodeString options:0];
                NSString *decodedString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:decodedData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

                printf("%s\n", [decodeString UTF8String]);
                printf("%s\n", [decodedString UTF8String]);
            }
...

output:

CJ4REhFjb20uYnJhdmUuQnJvd3NlciD1AzoNQnJhdmUgQnJvd3Nlcg==
(null)

With an online decoder I seem to be able to decode it to give me:

com.brave.Browser :
Brave Browser

However when using terminal I get the following:

$ base64 -d <<< $(./nowplaying-cli get clientPropertiesData)
Brave Browser%   

[twio142]

@nyxaria I don't think you can do the base64 decoding from within the code because the string contains some strange characters. I'd just pipe the result to base64 -d in the terminal.

[nyxaria]

I appreciate it!

[nyxaria]

I tried using python and it managed to decode it properly - as you said there are weird characters but at least now I can do partial matches

In [3]: s = "CJ4REhFjb20uYnJhdmUuQnJvd3NlciD1AzoNQnJhdmUgQnJvd3Nlcg=="

In [4]: base64.b64decode(s)
Out[4]: b'\x08\x9e\x11\x12\x11com.brave.Browser \xf5\x03:\rBrave Browser'