Windows Phone - App for Getting the Audio Files List from Windows Phone along with Duration

  Now days mobility plays a key role in all aspects, In this article we are going to see a simple App which will get the Audio files present in Windows Phone along with Duration.

First Let we starts with an Design XAML , UI consists of a Listbox with an Data template,Which will show the Album name and Duration.

Steps to do :

1. Launch the Visual studio 2010 and above 
2. Select File, New Project
3. Select the Create a windows Phone Application from Silverlight for Windows Phone.
4. Give the name 
5. Select Ok

XAML Code 

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage

    x:Class="Songs_List.MainPage"

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

    xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"

    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"

    mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"

    FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"

    FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"

    Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"

    SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"

    shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">

    <!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">

        <Grid.RowDefinitions>

            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>

            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>

        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->

        <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">

            <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Text="Songs List" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>           

        </StackPanel>

        <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->

        <ListBox x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">

            <ListBox.ItemTemplate>

                <DataTemplate>

                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">

                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"></TextBlock>

                        <TextBlock Margin="2,2,2,2" Text="{Binding Duration}"></TextBlock>

                    </StackPanel>

                </DataTemplate>

            </ListBox.ItemTemplate>

        </ListBox>

    </Grid>   

</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

C# Code:

    Right click the project and add reference the following  dll , which will get the details of media "Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media". Iterate the Each and every item present in album.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Net;

using System.Windows;

using System.Windows.Controls;

using System.Windows.Documents;

using System.Windows.Input;

using System.Windows.Media;

using System.Windows.Media.Animation;

using System.Windows.Shapes;

using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;

using System.IO.IsolatedStorage;

using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media;

namespace Songs_List

{

    public class Song

    {

        public string Name { set; get; }

        public string Duration { set; get; }

    }

    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage

    {

        // Constructor

        public MainPage()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

            MediaLibrary libr = new MediaLibrary();

            List<Song> list = (from f in libr.Albums select new Song(){ Name=f.Name,Duration="      duration : "+f.Duration.ToString()}).ToList();

            ContentPanel.ItemsSource = list;

        }

    }

}

Design Installed App :

From the above image you can see the App is installed in the name of Songs_List in Windows Phone.

Output :

From the above image, You can see the Sample Music Album is present in Windows Phone , The Duration of that album is 00:01:17

From this article ,I hope you can learn some basic in Windows Phone Application.