Now-Playing | Class that returns the currently playing track via Last.fm | REST library

I am trying to pass the output of a shell script into python, it works when I do not have unicode characters inside the string that should be returned. The bash script that gets the currently played music:

I would like to get the path of the file currently played by vlc. It seems that information can be obtained using the http server of vlc.

Since I don't know much about http, I was not able to do it even with the help of the previous link or the vlc documentation.

To start an http server, I am supposed to use the command vlc -I http.

First question: Since this command does not open a vlc window, should I open a vlc window by myself after using this command? Or before? Or maybe it does not matter?

So I chose to first use the command, then open a vlc window and play an mp3 file in it.

To get information from vlc, the first link says:

You can then retrieve player status and track information by issuing a GET request to http://127.0.0.1:8080/requests/status.xml

I am not sure how to do a GET request. I tried wget:

On THIS page a have made a custom HTML 5 audio player "handler":

I'm fetching from the moviedb api and working on searching movies. I've taken some reference from alligator.io tutorial. Below is my code of the Header component where i am fetching the data.

Header.js

I've run into a strange behaviour that I've been unable to figure out in my PHP code

using this code (omitting the entirety for the moment) -->

my theme is using Jplayer for a music player. but there is a problem that sometimes the music starts to play for no reason and I didn't click on the play button. sometimes I pause the player and refresh the page or move to another page, and the player starts from the beginning. How can I fix this and disable autoplay for my player?

I am trying to scrape links from a youtube playlist with the help of following code:

The main issue has something to do with the fact that I'm trying to have one component interact with another. I have a list of songs and the idea is that when one song is clicked it calls a function in the "now-playing-bar" component.

Just hitting the play/Pause button calls the playPause function and that works great. The issue comes from when you click a song on the "playlist" component and it calls the function playSong in the "now-playing-bar" component. The function itself seems to work fine, the song starts to play and the data values seem to be assigned. However two errors occur.

Error 1: The html does not update to show the new title and artist.

Error 2: When clicking play/pause to pause a song played from the "playlist" component, playPause function correctly outputs this with all it's correct data fields, but outputs undefined for this.playing

Code is abbreviated for easier reading

now-playing-bar.component.html

I am building a dockerized REST API app with the following structure: