Unobtrusive skin for Windows Media Player featuring album art.
This skin is designed not to distract your peripheral vision on a second screen, with no distracting scrolling text, animated graphics, or frequently-changing text fields (aside from the display of the time index within the current track). It always shows the playing album, artist, and track name for at-a-glance viewing.
The skin is inspired by Groove Music.
- Relatively small size: 560px wide, 230px high
- Supports audio playback only (no video support)
- Displayed at all times for at-a-glance viewing: Author, Track Title, Album, track bitrate, track filesize, track length, track current time index
- Available controls: Play/Pause, Previous Track, Next Track, Mute on/off, Shuffle on/off, Repeat on/off, Track position slider, Volume slider
- Displays album art if available, correctly sized/scaled
- Designed for Windows Media Player 12 (WMP 11 & 10 untested, should work)
Download the .wmz file from the releases, and double-click it.
- Compress all files except for
source.psdinto a.zip. - Rename the archive file extension from
.zipto.wmz. - Double click the newly named
.wmzfile.
- Jon Schneider for the great skin to start off with. Thanks Jon!
- His wife Melissa. I bet he loves her very very much!
- Microsoft, for the free Windows Media Player, the nice Windows Media Player 11 UI, and the equally nice skinning API. XML, Javascript, and image files -- easy!
- Richard Kohut, aka Reeses2150, who created the "Basic6" skin; the TrackInfo pane of Basic6 was the initial inspiration for the Schneider's Eleven design. Thanks Richard!
- Added icon for muted state
- Updated icons to Fluent UI System Icons
- Moved file size and bitrate to the below the track position slider
- Fix volume slider (didn't work at volumes below 5) and repeat button (didn't work at all)
- Add disabledImage states (reuses down state pictures)
- Use localized button tooltips
- Remove edge case for media over an hour (it has much more space now)
- Change JS formatting
- Remove known issue for large WAVs - a 74.2MB wav in my library correctly displays as 74.2MB in WMP 12
- Initial release
- Increased size of player (is now 560x230)
- Rename to dreamscape (because this is obviously no longer Schneider's)
- Reduced the size of the player; the width is now 300 pixels (was 340).
- Swapped the positions of the Minimize and Full Mode buttons.
- When a track is being played directly from a CD, "n/a" is now displayed in the File size / bitrate field. (Previously, size and bitrate values of 0 would be displayed.)
- If the playing track has no information on the author, but does have information on the composer, the composer is now displayed. (Previously, "Unspecified" would be displayed.)
- All authors of the current track are now displayed in the Author field. (Previously, only the first author was displayed.)
- Fixed a bug where the information display for the current track (track name, etc.) wouldn't be updated when using the Back/Forward button to move between tracks while the player was stopped.
- The decimal places for the bitrate are now displayed only if necessary. (For example, "128 kbps" is now displayed instead of "128.00 kbps".)
- Improved the appearance of the "hover" graphics for the Play/Pause button.
- Fixed a bug where for certain albums, the player's UI would sometimes hang for a short time when a track finished and another track started playing.
- Fixed a bug where the Ctrl+T and Ctrl+H shortcut keys were not correctly updating the appearance of the Shuffle and Repeat functions.
- Reduced the number of decimal places displayed for the bitrate to 2 (from 3), and for the file size to 1 (from 2).
- Fixed a bug where the time/duration text would not fit into the available display area if the duration of the current track was an hour long (1:00:00) or longer.
- Initial release.