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

For Silverlight use CurrentState to check whether the state is playing or pause

 if (YourMediaElementName.CurrentState == MediaElementState.Playing)
 {
     // TODO: when media is playing.
 }