background-audio

I'm creating an app that plays background audio. Here's the RAM usage of my background audio playing process: Is this a memory leak or no? I'm concerned because if / when it exceeds 15MB, the OS will silently kill my player, which is undesirable. Is there a way to view what occupies that memory? My MediaStreamSource implementation only allocates single 512kb buffer on the startup, and never allocates a single byte while playing. BTW, the stream bitrate is 96 kbit/sec, which is the same as memory allocation rate of the app. Is there a way to make the GC to be less lazy, and sleep for less then

I am streaming music from the web in a background agent using a custom MediaStreamSource. In good network conditions this works fine, but when network connectivity is spotty a strange problem surfaces. When a track starts playback, all goes well up through the first call to MediaStreamSource.GetSampleAsync(). Because the connection is spotty, if not enough data is available the source calls ReportGetSampleProgress(double) and returns without reporting a sample. This is in accordance with MSDN documentation and code samples. What's curious is that there are no further calls to GetSampleAsync at

I am working on my Project (a soundcloud client) and the app can play tracks just fine, but not when the app is minimized. I use the MediaElement-Object for playing the mp3 from the url. How can i force the music to continue playing the music, when the app is in the background. Or whats the easiest way/best explained tutorial to implement this. I searched alot for a good answer, but the ones, i found, was too good for me :D What means, that i didn't understand it. To play audio in the background you will have to do a Declaration in Package.appxmanifest for a Background Tasks, enable audio and

When I am using the BackgroundAudioPlayer in my Windows Phone 7 application, it takes a lot of time to load the first time I want to play a song. Is there any way of preinitializing the BackgroundAudioPlayer before playing the first track, so that when I start playing, it starts right along? I have googled it, but no luck. I am just using BackgroundAudioPlayer.Instance when I e.g. want to play, pause, stop etc an audiotrack. Is there something other i could do to fix this? You could just call BackgroundAudioPlayer.Instance.Stop(); in your App constructor and then discard the first occurance of