How do I determine if MediaElement is playing?

Question

Seems simple enough, but I cannot figure out any way to determine what the state of a MediaElement is. There are various properties for some states (such as IsBuffering) but

Answer 1

What I did to "work around" that was subclass MediaPlayer (this would work for MediaElement as well) and add my own methods to Play/Pause/Stop. In those methods, I maintain a field which represents the playback status. Also, you need to hook MediaEnded so that you can change the status from 'playing' to 'stopped.'