Media Playback

You can play different audio formats.

The main media playback features are described below:

Using the WAV player

Enables you to play audio in the WAVE format.
Using the tone player

Enables you to play tones.

WAV player

The Tizen.Multimedia.WavPlayer class allows you to play audio resources (media files stored on the device). Use it to play audio and control playback. You can use the WAV and OGG audio formats.

Multiple instances of the WAV player can be used to play several audio data streams concurrently. This means that your application can play multiple uncompressed audio files, such as WAV, at the same time.

Tone player

You can play a tone or a list of tones using the Tizen.Multimedia.TonePlayer class.

To play tones, use a DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) preset frequency. The possible values are defined in the Tizen.Multimedia.ToneType enumeration.

You can start and stop playing a tone, and play a tone for a specified duration.

Prerequisites

To use the methods and properties of the media playback classes, include the Tizen.Multimedia namespace in your application:


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using Tizen.Multimedia;

Start and stop the WAV player

To start and stop the WAV player, proceed as follows:

To play a WAV file, use the StartAsync() method of the Tizen.Multimedia.WavPlayer class:


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await WavPlayer.StartAsync(wavPath, new AudioStreamPolicy(AudioStreamType.Media));

To set the path of your WAV file, you potentially need to retrieve the default path for audio files.

To stop the WAV player, use the StartAsync() method with the cancellationToken parameter:


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var cancellationTokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();

WavPlayer.StartAsync(wavPath, new AudioStreamPolicy(AudioStreamType.Media), cancellationTokenSource);

cancellationTokenSource.Cancel();

Playing a tone

To start and stop playing a tone, proceed as follows:

To start playback, use the StartAsync() method of the Tizen.Multimedia.TonePlayer class.

The first parameter defines the tone type as a value of the Tizen.Multimedia.ToneType enumeration:


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await TonePlayer.StartAsync(ToneType.Default, new AudioStreamPolicy(AudioStreamType.Media), -1);

To stop playback, use the StartAsync() method with the cancellationToken parameter:


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var cancellationTokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();

TonePlayer.StartAsync(ToneType.Default, new AudioStreamPolicy(AudioStreamType.Media), -1, cancellationTokenSource);

cancellationTokenSource.Cancel();

Playing a tone for a specified duration

To play a tone for a specified duration, use the StartAsync() method of the Tizen.Multimedia.TonePlayer class with the duration parameter (the number of milliseconds you want playback to last). When you set the duration to a specified time, playback stops automatically after that time:


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await TonePlayer.StartAsync(ToneType.Default, new AudioStreamPolicy(AudioStreamType.Media), duration);

Dependencies
- Tizen 4.0 and Higher