diff --git a/main.rb b/main.rb
index 516441e..9f6288b 100644
--- a/main.rb
+++ b/main.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ require 'shellwords'
 
 def parse_songs_from_string(mpd,message)
   urls = URI.extract(message)
-  if urls != ""
+  if urls.length != 0
     puts "Found #{urls}; downloading"
     urls.each do |url|
       res = `youtube-dl --ignore-errors --output \"spool/%(title)s.%(ext)s\" --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 #{url}`