Update Song title in windows phone background audio agent?a - windows-phone-7

Question

I am making a radio app for windows phone 7.5. I want to play radio in the background. For that i am using windows phone background audio agent. In the agent code i nee to indicate the track and all the infor according to it. But i want to update the song title and artist name in the track declaration.The track declaration looks like this:
new AudioTrack(new Uri("Ring03.wma", UriKind.Relative),
"Ringtone 3",
"Windows Phone",
"Windows Phone Ringtones",
new Uri("shared/media/Ring03.jpg", UriKind.Relative)),
I wanted to store strings in some variables and then replace them with "Ringtone 3". So that i constantly change the value of the title string. I want to update the title every 5 seconds. So i want my media player to show to the user the track info, so that when the user changes the volume he would see the name and artist in a neat box. I tried to accomplish that but i get a error:( whic sounds like that:
Error 4 A field initializer cannot reference the non-static field, method, or property 'MyAudioPlaybackAgent.AudioPlayer.title.get'
Please help:(
AudioPlayer.cs
using System;
using System.Windows;
using Microsoft.Phone.BackgroundAudio;
namespace AudioPlaybackAgent1
{
public class AudioPlayer : AudioPlayerAgent
{
private static volatile bool _classInitialized;
/// <remarks>
/// AudioPlayer instances can share the same process.
/// Static fields can be used to share state between AudioPlayer instances
/// or to communicate with the Audio Streaming agent.
/// </remarks>
public AudioPlayer()
{
if (!_classInitialized)
{
_classInitialized = true;
// Subscribe to the managed exception handler
Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(delegate
{
Application.Current.UnhandledException += AudioPlayer_UnhandledException;
});
}
}
/// Code to execute on Unhandled Exceptions
private void AudioPlayer_UnhandledException(object sender, ApplicationUnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
{
if (System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached)
{
// An unhandled exception has occurred; break into the debugger
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Called when the playstate changes, except for the Error state (see OnError)
/// </summary>
/// <param name="player">The BackgroundAudioPlayer</param>
/// <param name="track">The track playing at the time the playstate changed</param>
/// <param name="playState">The new playstate of the player</param>
/// <remarks>
/// Play State changes cannot be cancelled. They are raised even if the application
/// caused the state change itself, assuming the application has opted-in to the callback.
///
/// Notable playstate events:
/// (a) TrackEnded: invoked when the player has no current track. The agent can set the next track.
/// (b) TrackReady: an audio track has been set and it is now ready for playack.
///
/// Call NotifyComplete() only once, after the agent request has been completed, including async callbacks.
/// </remarks>
protected override void OnPlayStateChanged(BackgroundAudioPlayer player, AudioTrack track, PlayState playState)
{
switch (playState)
{
case PlayState.TrackEnded:
player.Track = GetPreviousTrack();
break;
case PlayState.TrackReady:
player.Play();
break;
case PlayState.Shutdown:
// TODO: Handle the shutdown state here (e.g. save state)
break;
case PlayState.Unknown:
break;
case PlayState.Stopped:
break;
case PlayState.Paused:
break;
case PlayState.Playing:
break;
case PlayState.BufferingStarted:
break;
case PlayState.BufferingStopped:
break;
case PlayState.Rewinding:
break;
case PlayState.FastForwarding:
break;
}
NotifyComplete();
}
/// <summary>
/// Called when the user requests an action using application/system provided UI
/// </summary>
/// <param name="player">The BackgroundAudioPlayer</param>
/// <param name="track">The track playing at the time of the user action</param>
/// <param name="action">The action the user has requested</param>
/// <param name="param">The data associated with the requested action.
/// In the current version this parameter is only for use with the Seek action,
/// to indicate the requested position of an audio track</param>
/// <remarks>
/// User actions do not automatically make any changes in system state; the agent is responsible
/// for carrying out the user actions if they are supported.
///
/// Call NotifyComplete() only once, after the agent request has been completed, including async callbacks.
/// </remarks>
protected override void OnUserAction(BackgroundAudioPlayer player, AudioTrack track, UserAction action, object param)
{
switch (action)
{
case UserAction.Play:
if (player.PlayerState != PlayState.Playing)
{
track.Title = "tracktitle";
player.Play();
}
break;
case UserAction.Stop:
player.Stop();
break;
case UserAction.Pause:
player.Pause();
break;
case UserAction.FastForward:
player.FastForward();
break;
case UserAction.Rewind:
player.Rewind();
break;
case UserAction.Seek:
player.Position = (TimeSpan)param;
break;
case UserAction.SkipNext:
player.Track = GetNextTrack();
break;
case UserAction.SkipPrevious:
AudioTrack previousTrack = GetPreviousTrack();
if (previousTrack != null)
{
player.Track = previousTrack;
}
break;
}
NotifyComplete();
}
/// <summary>
/// Implements the logic to get the next AudioTrack instance.
/// In a playlist, the source can be from a file, a web request, etc.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// The AudioTrack URI determines the source, which can be:
/// (a) Isolated-storage file (Relative URI, represents path in the isolated storage)
/// (b) HTTP URL (absolute URI)
/// (c) MediaStreamSource (null)
/// </remarks>
/// <returns>an instance of AudioTrack, or null if the playback is completed</returns>
private AudioTrack GetNextTrack()
{
// TODO: add logic to get the next audio track
AudioTrack track = null;
// specify the track
return track;
}
/// <summary>
/// Implements the logic to get the previous AudioTrack instance.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// The AudioTrack URI determines the source, which can be:
/// (a) Isolated-storage file (Relative URI, represents path in the isolated storage)
/// (b) HTTP URL (absolute URI)
/// (c) MediaStreamSource (null)
/// </remarks>
/// <returns>an instance of AudioTrack, or null if previous track is not allowed</returns>
private AudioTrack GetPreviousTrack()
{
// TODO: add logic to get the previous audio track
AudioTrack track = null;
// specify the track
return track;
}
/// <summary>
/// Called whenever there is an error with playback, such as an AudioTrack not downloading correctly
/// </summary>
/// <param name="player">The BackgroundAudioPlayer</param>
/// <param name="track">The track that had the error</param>
/// <param name="error">The error that occured</param>
/// <param name="isFatal">If true, playback cannot continue and playback of the track will stop</param>
/// <remarks>
/// This method is not guaranteed to be called in all cases. For example, if the background agent
/// itself has an unhandled exception, it won't get called back to handle its own errors.
/// </remarks>
protected override void OnError(BackgroundAudioPlayer player, AudioTrack track, Exception error, bool isFatal)
{
if (isFatal)
{
Abort();
}
else
{
NotifyComplete();
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Called when the agent request is getting cancelled
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Once the request is Cancelled, the agent gets 5 seconds to finish its work,
/// by calling NotifyComplete()/Abort().
/// </remarks>
protected override void OnCancel()
{
}
}
}
AudioStreamer.cs
using Microsoft.Phone.BackgroundAudio;
using System.Windows.Media;
namespace AudioStreamAgent1
{
/// <summary>
/// A background agent that performs per-track streaming for playback
/// </summary>
public class AudioTrackStreamer : AudioStreamingAgent
{
/// <summary>
/// Called when a new track requires audio decoding
/// (typically because it is about to start playing)
/// </summary>
/// <param name="track">
/// The track that needs audio streaming
/// </param>
/// <param name="streamer">
/// The AudioStreamer object to which a MediaStreamSource should be
/// attached to commence playback
/// </param>
/// <remarks>
/// To invoke this method for a track set the Source parameter of the AudioTrack to null
/// before setting into the Track property of the BackgroundAudioPlayer instance
/// property set to true;
/// otherwise it is assumed that the system will perform all streaming
/// and decoding
/// </remarks>
protected override void OnBeginStreaming(AudioTrack track, AudioStreamer streamer)
{
//TODO: Set the SetSource property of streamer to a MSS source
NotifyComplete();
}
/// <summary>
/// Called when the agent request is getting cancelled
/// The call to base.OnCancel() is necessary to release the background streaming resources
/// </summary>
protected override void OnCancel()
{
base.OnCancel();
}
}
}

Answer 1

Background Audio agent is not a right choice for a radio streaming, you should use Background Streaming agent instead.
There are some good samples with mostly complete apps for audio streaming: Streaming MP3 player in WP7 and Background audio overview for Windows Phone.
You can set the track name via this code:
var player = BackgroundAudioPlayer.Instance;
player.Track = "new track name";