How can a silverlight app download and play an mp3 file from a URL?
- by Edward Tanguay
I have a small Silverlight app which downloads all of the images and text it needs from a URL, like this:
if (dataItem.Kind == DataItemKind.BitmapImage)
{
WebClient webClientBitmapImageLoader = new WebClient();
webClientBitmapImageLoader.OpenReadCompleted += new OpenReadCompletedEventHandler(webClientBitmapImageLoader_OpenReadCompleted);
webClientBitmapImageLoader.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(dataItem.SourceUri, UriKind.Absolute), dataItem);
}
else if (dataItem.Kind == DataItemKind.TextFile)
{
WebClient webClientTextFileLoader = new WebClient();
webClientTextFileLoader.DownloadStringCompleted += new DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(webClientTextFileLoader_DownloadStringCompleted);
webClientTextFileLoader.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri(dataItem.SourceUri, UriKind.Absolute), dataItem);
}
and:
void webClientBitmapImageLoader_OpenReadCompleted(object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e)
{
BitmapImage bitmapImage = new BitmapImage();
bitmapImage.SetSource(e.Result);
DataItem dataItem = e.UserState as DataItem;
CompleteItemLoadedProcess(dataItem, bitmapImage);
}
void webClientTextFileLoader_DownloadStringCompleted(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
{
DataItem dataItem = e.UserState as DataItem;
string textFileContent = e.Result.ForceWindowLineBreaks();
CompleteItemLoadedProcess(dataItem, textFileContent);
}
Each of the images and text files are then put in a dictionary so that the application has access to them at any time. This works well.
Now I want to do the same with mp3 files, but all information I find on the web about playing mp3 files in Silverlight shows how to embed them in the .xap file, which I don't want to do since I wouldn't be able to download them dynamically as I do above.
How can I download and play mp3 files in Silverlight like I download and show images and text?
