Properly integrate GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSession

Question

I use the MediaPlayerElement from Microsoft.Toolkit.Forms.UI.Controls. Now I want to properly integrate the GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSession. I can be read out using the GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSessionManager but I cannot control the session using for example TryPauseAsync, TryPlayAsync, TrySkipNextAsync, TrySkipPreviousAsync, ... Also I want to set the metadata like Title, Artist, State, and TimelineProperties.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Methods such as TryPauseAsync and TryPlayAsync belong to GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSession instead of GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSessionManager. We should be free to use these methods according to the GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSession object.

            GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSession currentSession = GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSessionManager.RequestAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult().GetCurrentSession();  
            await currentSession.TryPlayAsync();  
           //......  

How are you using them?

Also I want to set the metadata like Title, Artist, State, and TimelineProperties.

I did not find a way to do this, it seems that the current API does not support this.

Maybe you can refer to the solution in this link and use other packages to do it.

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