Media Player Panel

The Media Player Panel is a very nice addition to make to your Desktop Sidebar. In order for this panel to function properly you need a Windows Media Player 9 or later on your computer. You can download latest copy for free from the Microsoft Windows Media website.

Follow these steps to access the options for the Media Player Panel:

• Right mouse click on the Media Player Panel and choose Panel Properties
• Show only minidisplay will display one line of text above the media player buttons that switches between the Artist, Album, and Song Title.
• If you enable Scroll media info rather than switching between the song’s information it will continually scroll from right to left.
• Enabling the Show visualization option will the display a standard visualization above the song information. The included visualization is not customizable, simple yet entertaining.

When you right click on the Media Player Panel you will see a list of command that you can choose. These commands allow you to control the playback of Media Player from your Desktop Sidebar.

• The top of the menu will show you the CD drives available and their contents. Selecting any of these will instruct the Media Player to start playing the selected CD.
• The Artists, Albums, Genres, Radio Stations, My Playlists, and Auto Playlists options will provide a second tier of menu containing media files arranged by the menu title selected. Selecting any of the items from that second menu will instruct the Media Player to start playing the selected media.
• All Music will instruct the Media Player to start playing through your entire media collection.
• Toggle Player will show/hide the view of the Media Player.
• Play will instruct the Media Player to start playing the current file in the Media Player or pause the file currently playing.
• Stop will instruct the Media Player to stop playing the song.
• Prev will instruct the Media Player to go to the Previous Song in the Playlist.
• Next will instruct the Media Player to go to the Next Song in the Playlist.
• Mute will instruct the Media Player to Mute/Un-Mute the Volume.
• Visualization will enable/disable the playing of visualization in the Media Player panel of Desktop Sidebar.

The buttons on the panel have the same commands as their respective commands in the menu.
From Left to Right:

• Play/Pause Button will instruct the Media Player to start playing the current file in the Media Player or pause the file currently playing.
• Stop Button will instruct the Media Player to stop playing the song.
• Prev Button will instruct the Media Player to go to the Previous Song in the Playlist.
• Next Button will instruct the Media Player to go to the Next Song in the Playlist.
• Mute Button will instruct the Media Player to Mute/Un-Mute the Volume.
• Toggle Button will bring the Media Player up into view.