This is a copy of the Java documentation for libGDX. It is not finished being ported.

For any sound that’s longer than a few seconds it is preferable to stream it from disk instead of fully loading it into RAM. SharpGDX provides an IMusic interface that lets you do that.

To load an IMusic instance we can do the following:

var music = Gdx.Audio.NewMusic(GDX.Files.Internal("data/mymusic.wav"));

This loads a WAV file called "mymusic.wav" from the internal directory data.

Playing back the music instance works as follows:

music.Play();

Of course you can set various playback attributes of the IMusic instance:

music.SetVolume(0.5f);			// sets the volume to half the maximum volume
music.SetLooping(true);			// will repeat playback until music.stop() is called
music.Stop();				// stops the playback
music.Pause();				// pauses the playback
music.Play();				// resumes the playback
var isPlaying = music.IsPlaying;	// obvious :)
var isLooping = music.IsLooping;	// obvious as well :)
var position = music.Position;		// returns the playback position in seconds

IMusic instances are heavy on some backends (such as Android), you should usually not have more than about 10 loaded and more than 1 or 2 playing at the same time.

An IMusic instance needs to be disposed if it is no longer needed, to free up resources.

music.Dispose();