Playing a Song from a URI

Demonstrates how to use the MediaPlayer to play a song from a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).

Playing a Song from a URI

To play a song from a URI

The following steps show you how to play an .mp3 song located on the Internet.

1. Set MediaPlayer play state to stopped.

   MediaPlayer.Stop();
   

2. Declare a new instance of Uri using the full URI path to the song.

   Uri uriStreaming = new Uri("http://www.archive.org/download/gd1977-05-08.shure57.stevenson.29303.flac16/gd1977-05-08d02t06_vbr.mp3");
   

3. Use the FromUri method to supply an arbitrary string name for the URI, and then pass the Uri object you created in the previous step.

   Song song = Song.FromUri("StreamingUri", uriStreaming);
   

4. Play the song.

   MediaPlayer.Play(song);
   

Concepts

• Playing a Song
  Demonstrates how to play a song from a user's media library.
• Media Overview
  Provides a high-level overview about the capabilities—such as playing music and video and accessing pictures—of the Media API in XNA Game Studio.

Reference

• MediaPlayer Class
  Provides methods and properties to play, pause, resume, and stop songs. MediaPlayer also exposes shuffle, repeat, volume, play position, and visualization capabilities.
• Song Class
  Provides access to a song in the song library.