MediaPlayerAudioCategory Enum

Definition

Namespace:

Windows.Media.Playback

Specifies the types of audio that can be played by a media player.

public enum class MediaPlayerAudioCategory

/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, 65536)]
enum class MediaPlayerAudioCategory

[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(typeof(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract), 65536)]
public enum MediaPlayerAudioCategory

var value = Windows.Media.Playback.MediaPlayerAudioCategory.other

Public Enum MediaPlayerAudioCategory

Inheritance

Enum

MediaPlayerAudioCategory

Attributes

ContractVersionAttribute

Windows requirements

Device family	Windows 10 (introduced in 10.0.10240.0)
API contract	Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract (introduced in v1.0)

Fields

Alerts	4	The audio is used for alerts.
Communications	3	The audio is used for communications.
GameChat	8	The audio is used for game chat.
GameEffects	6	The audio is a game effect.
GameMedia	7	The audio is game media, such as background music.
Media	11	The audio is for media playback.
Movie	10	The audio is for movie playback.
Other	0	The audio type is not one of the provided enumeration values.
SoundEffects	5	The audio is a sound effect.
Speech	9	The audio is used for speech.

Remarks

Games should categorize their music streams as GameMedia so that game music mutes automatically if another application plays music in the background. Music or video applications should categorize their streams as Media or Movie so they will take priority over GameMedia streams.