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Shafiq Abbas
Shafiq Abbas

Reputation: 492

Play two sounds parallel in background agent

I have a mp3 file. I have a background sound file like rain sound or some fire sound. I want to play these two files parallel in the app as well as in background. So that it looks like a single music is playing a story with a background. Please provide any guidance to achieve this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 579

Answers (1)

Romasz
Romasz

Reputation: 29792

AFAIK there are four ways to play audio in WP: BackgroundAudioPlayer, MediaElement, SoundEffect, Microsoft Media Foundation. As for your question:

  • BackgroundAudioPlayer - it won't work, as there is only one Instance of BAP on the phone. So to play a different file, you have to change Track's Source, so it won't handle two at the same time.

  • MediaElement - it's also a bad idea (it won't also run with BAP simultanously), because as MSDN says:

    When a MediaElement control plays audio or video content, any background sounds or media already playing are halted. The app launches the playback experience when the user taps the control. Only one MediaElement control can operate at a time.

  • you can try to play many sounds using SoundEffect (thougt as Documentation says it can be only a wave file), I won't post code here, because there are already many examples: one, two, three

  • as for Microsoft Media Foundation: Walkthrough, Programming Guide, Supported file formats

Upvotes: 1

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