Audio Streaming Agents
Audio streaming agents allow you to customize how audio files are downloaded and decoded by your app, and they enable you to support live streaming scenarios not natively supported by the phone.
An audio streaming agent can be created in the same manner as an audio player agent, by using the “Windows Phone Audio Streaming Agent” Visual Studio project template (shown previously in Figure 34.1).
The Visual Studio project template produces a class that derives from AudioStreamingAgent. The agent must then be registered with your main project’s WMAppManifest.xml file, which is done automatically when linking to an Audio Streaming Agent project. The XML definition can be seen alongside the AudioPlayerAgent, as shown:
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