UWP Background Media Playback

Question

I'm trying to follow this tutorial to set up the background audio player in my app but I'm stuck at step one. There is no capability called Background Audio Task in my manifest file. Adding it manually doesn't do any good either since these events described in another step aren't even available/shown in properties window/shown by IntelliSense.

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

I thought that page was fairly straightforward. As mentioned on the page, the capability is "Background Media Playback".

If you still don't see that in the list, then it's probably because you do not have the Anniversay SDK (version 14393) or later installed. The Anniversary update introduced a new single process model for background execution, which that webpage is walking you through.