Get current playback time of background audio after navigating away and back to the page - UWP

Question

I am using MediaPlayer class to play audio with the background audio capability enabled in the manifest. I am using my own play/pause button to control the playback.

Everything works fine except when I navigate away from the page and come back, I lose the current playback progress of the background audio being played which is being displayed on a TextBlock.

How do I connect back to that background audio?? I can't seem to find a solution.

Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks Johnny and Vimal for the correct pointers. I am using the class below that always returns a single instance...it works!

public class PlaybackService
{
    private static PlaybackService instance;

    public static PlaybackService Instance
    {
        get
        {
            if (instance == null)
                instance = new PlaybackService();

            return instance;
        }
    }

    public MediaPlayer Player { get; private set; }

    public PlaybackService()
    {
        // Create the player instance
        Player = new MediaPlayer();

    }

}