NowPlaying for Windows Phone

With NowPlaying you can listen your music and share the #NowPlaying hashtag in Twitter, Facebook and the other networks.

Gestures control:

• Open your media library.
• Play or pause the music.
• Move to next or previous song.
• Share your #NowPlaying status.

More features:

• Live Tile customizable with the last song played.
• Select your #NowPlaying style from the default formats or create your own with the simple editor: you have the full control.
• Disable the Lockscreen from the application.

Check NowPlaying in the Marketplace and remember to swipe down to share!

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Windows Phone - Get Album Art

When you use MediaPlayer class in Windows Phone, usually you want to get the album cover for the current song.
You can access the current track with the ActiveSong property. This property is exposed by the Queue of MediaPlayer. Then you can check out the album art.

This code is all you need:

if (MediaPlayer.Queue.ActiveSong.Album.HasArt)
{
 BitmapImage bmp = new BitmapImage();
 bmp.SetSource(MediaPlayer.Queue.ActiveSong.Album.GetAlbumArt());
 imgAlbum.Source = bmp;
}

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