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Chapter 16 - Customizing Windows Media Player
Microsoft Windows Media Player version 8 is an all-in-one client for rendering digital media. You can use it to play sound and video files in a wide variety of formats, as well as audio and video content streamed from Internet sites. You can use it to listen to home-town radio stations (or other radio stations from all parts of the world) and (if you have a properly configured DVD drive) play your favorite movies. You can rip tracks from audio CDs (that is, copy them to your hard disk), create your own custom CDs (if you have a CD-R or CD-RW drive), and download songs to your portable audio player. You can use Windows Media Player as a jukebox to play all your favorite songs, in custom sequences that you devise or in random order. Windows Media Player is also designed to serve as a gateway to media-related sites on the Internet. If you click Media Guide in Media Player’s taskbar (the vertical panel of options at the left edge of the Media Player window), Windows Media Player becomes a special-purpose Web browser, focused initially on http://www.windowsmedia.com, an Internet "magazine" that provides access to all manner of news and entertainment content, as shown in Figure 16-1. You can use links on this site to watch news clips, listen to music, check out previews of current movies, and, of course, purchase various kinds of media items. The content of WindowsMedia.com changes regularly. If you like to keep up with what’s going on in the entertainment world, a daily visit to WindowsMedia.com is not a bad way to start. (You can also go there via Internet Explorer, of course.) 
Figure 16-1. Windows Media Player’s Media Guide (http://www.windowsmedia.com) is an Internet magazine, updated regularly, where you can browse, listen, watch, and buy.
Even more than most other programs you use, Windows Media Player is a highly customizable application. There’s no need to stick with the standard rectangular windows when you’re running Media Player. In its "full" mode, you can make the window frame and menu bar disappear, giving the program a sleek and curvy appearance. (You can also suppress other elements of the standard user interface, as we’ll see later in the chapter.) If you switch to skin mode, you can change Media Player’s appearance utterly by choosing from many custom visual designs, known as skins. Figure 16-2 shows Windows Media Player in full mode without frame and menu bar, and Figure 16-3 shows Media Player wearing the Windows XP skin. The program is playing the same audio track in both guises; all that’s changed is its appearance. tip - Skip the magazine
By default, Windows Media Player goes straight to its Media Guide (WindowsMedia.com) each time you launch the program. This behavior can cause a delay if you have a slow Internet connection, or if you’re not connected all the time. To turn it off, choose Tools, Options. On the Media Player tab, clear Start Player In Media Guide. note
If you don’t see Windows Media Player’s menu bar because it has the appearance shown in Figure 16-2, press Alt. If Windows Media Player is currently in skin mode, press Ctrl+1 to return it to full mode. Then press Alt if necessary.
Figure 16-2. In full mode, you can eliminate Windows Media Player’s frame and menu bar.
Figure 16-3. You can choose from a variety of supplied skins, download others, or even create your own.
Windows Media Player does not connect to Media Guide or AMG. If you find you never connect to , "Using Windows Media Player."
