Adding a song into music in the Windows Phone Emulator in Visual Studio 2012

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Phone 8.0 SDK.
I want to add a song to Music in the emulator for debugging.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Copy a Happy.mp3 file in your project Assets folder Add the file to the project:
and set the Happy.mp3 Properties :

Then run this code to copy the song to the MediaLibrary.

Uri file = new Uri("Assets/Happy.mp3", UriKind.Relative);

//copy file to isolated storage
var myIsolatedStorage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
var fileStream = myIsolatedStorage.CreateFile("someSong.mp3");
var resource = Application.GetResourceStream(file);
int chunkSize = 4096;
byte[] bytes = new byte[chunkSize];
int byteCount;
while ((byteCount = resource.Stream.Read(bytes, 0, chunkSize)) > 0)
{
    fileStream.Write(bytes, 0, byteCount);
}
fileStream.Close();
Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media.PhoneExtensions.SongMetadata metaData = 
    new Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media.PhoneExtensions.SongMetadata();
metaData.AlbumName = "Some Album name";
metaData.ArtistName = "Some Artist Name";
metaData.GenreName = "test";
metaData.Name = "someSongName";

var ml = new MediaLibrary();
Uri songUri = new Uri("someSong.mp3", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);
var song = Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media.PhoneExtensions.MediaLibraryExtensions.SaveSong(ml, songUri, metaData, Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media.PhoneExtensions.SaveSongOperation.CopyToLibrary);