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Stealth Player: A Hotkey Controlled Music Player Without An Interface

Listening to music while working on the computer is pretty common among regular PC users, but with all the flashy interfaces that come with the latest audio players, getting distracted from your work is a major issue. Other than the interface, some audio players, such as the native Windows Media Player, hog too much memory, [...] (more…)

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MediaKeys – Register Global Hotkeys For Popular Media Players

Many media players have built-in option to register hotkey combinations, so that you can quickly use their provided functions and features, such as, play/pause media playback, shuffle playlist, sort playlist items, jump to next/previous track, etc, but it becomes quite tiring to specify shortcut keys in each media player for performing more or less same [...] (more…)

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How To Set An Image As Windows Media Player 12 Library Background

Windows Media Player 12, despite its excellent features, provides very few customization options. The only changes that you can make to its visual appearance are perhaps the available Media Player skins. WMP12 Library Background Changer is a portable application that allows changing library background images of Windows Media Player 12. An earlier version of this [...] (more…)

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Sync User Ratings And Play Counts Between iTunes And Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player and iTunes are both very capable, comprehensive and user-friendly music management solutions. Both support features like comprehensive libraries, smart playlists, etc, and they monitor your listening patterns to generate their own playlists. They also like to track your favorites, based on ratings you assign. If you’re using both WMP and iTunes at [...] (more…)

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Mirro: Beautiful Aero CD Art Display Skin For Windows 7

CD Art Display is a free application which supports a long list of widely used media players including Windows media player, Media Monkey, iTunes, Winamp and lot more. Recently Mirro (a skin for CD Art Display) intruded our attention with its brilliantly designed layout. It is one awesome looking Windows Aero-glass supported skin that will [...] (more…)

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Get DirectSound Audio With Realtime Spectrum Display

Do you want to display the DirectSound output of an audio file with live spectrum? Sometimes, we want to analyze the synthesis and output pattern of sound. For instance, microphone recorded sounds or an audio input. (more…)

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Fix wmpnetwk.exe In Windows 7

So I asked a friend to get Windows 7 and the first complaint was that wmpnetwk.exe is taking too much system resources. In some cases the resource consumption goes up to 90%. According to Microsoft, this was a small bug in RTM release but should not happen in the official public release. (more…)

Lyrics Plugin For Windows 7 Media Player 12

Lyrics Plugin is a free plugin that adds Lyrics in both Windows Media Player and Winamp Player. The plugin works perfectly with Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7. After you have installed the plugin, simply play a song in Windows Media Player and it will show you the lyrics in the Now Playing mode. (more…)

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Fixing ‘Cannot Play This DVD’ Error Message In Windows Media Player

How many times have you seen that whenever you play a DVD movie it gives the following error, “Cannot Play This DVD” in Windows Media Player? It is the most annoying message I have ever seen in Windows and to be honest, I really hate it when this message pops up. No, I am not [...] (more…)