Introduction

Windows 8 Apps have a good control for playing audio & videos in applications. I have integrated a Media Control in this sample and used several methods to make it work.

To embed a music or video player in your application we use the “MediaElement class”. I also created customized controls to give more functionality such as play, pause, volume +, Volume – and Stop.

You can use also “enable full-screen mode” when you use a video. I used the MediaElement class to control and manage audio media playback in a Windows Store app using C#.

In this sample the MediaElement class has the following methods:

The MediaElement class has these properties:

IsMuted Gets or sets a value indicating whether the audio is muted.

Volume Gets or sets the media’s volume.

Description

I’ve used Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 and used the following 5 buttons:

Button Click handler action
Play Calls the Play method.
Pause Calls the Pause method.
Stop Calls the Stop method.
Vol – Volume Down
Vol + Volume Up

And one MediaElement (Name property: Media).

C# Code

  1. using System;
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;
  3. using System.IO;
  4. using System.Linq;
  5. using Windows.Foundation;
  6. using Windows.Foundation.Collections;
  7. using Windows.UI.Xaml;
  8. using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
  9. using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives;
  10. using Windows.UI.Xaml.Data;
  11. using Windows.UI.Xaml.Input;
  12. using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media;
  13. using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;
  15. // The Blank Page item template is documented at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=234238
  17. namespace Music_Player
  18. {
  19. /// <summary>
  20. /// An empty page that can be used on its own or navigated to within a Frame.
  21. /// </summary>
  22. public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
  23. {
  24. public MainPage()
  25. {
  26. this.InitializeComponent();
  27. }
  29. /// <summary>
  30. /// Invoked when this page is about to be displayed in a Frame.
  31. /// </summary>
  32. /// <param name="e">Event data that describes how this page was reached. The Parameter
  33. /// property is typically used to configure the page.</param>
  34. protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
  35. {
  36. }
  38. private void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
  39. {
  40. Media.Play();
  41. }
  43. private void Button_Click_2(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
  44. {
  45. Media.Pause();
  46. }
  48. private void Button_Click_3(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
  49. {
  50. Media.Stop();
  51. }
  53. private void Button_Click_4(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
  54. {
  55. if (Media.IsMuted)
  56. {
  57. Media.IsMuted = false;
  58. }
  60. if (Media.Volume > 0)
  61. {
  62. Media.Volume -= .1;
  63. }
  64. }
  66. private void Button_Click_5(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
  67. {
  68. if (Media.IsMuted)
  69. {
  70. Media.IsMuted = false;
  71. }
  73. if (Media.Volume < 1)
  74. {
  75. Media.Volume += .1;
  76. }
  77. }
  78. }
  79. }