Change Windows Media Player Skin

[Giorgio Aguilar]

Windows Media Player is a default player for Windows users to play videos. You can change the Window Media Player skin to own a new look player. Besides, you can rotate video in Windows Media player. But, you need to choose MiniTool software if you want to perfectly play video as well as edit video files.

Almost all Windows users use Windows Media Player as their default music player for playing audio and video files. However, do you know how to change the skin on Windows Media player or how to add skins to Windows Media Player?

Orion is a perfect choice for Windows Media Player 10 users who are looking for an interesting theme with many features. This skin offers a customized equalizer, animation, and many other interesting features.

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If you use the 'Revert' skin in windows media player 10 (WMP 10) and then get media player 11 (WMP 11), you will notice that the skin goes transparent when you take the mouse off it. Ok some people may like this new 'feature', but I don't, I like it to stay opaque. There is no (known) official way to make it stay opaque, so I had to figure a way to do it... turns out it was easy...

To make the revert skin opaque all the time, you will need: 'winRAR' decompression software and windows notepad. Goto Program Files, then windows media player, then skins... in the skins folder you should see a file called 'Revert.wmz'

I was thinking of putting my altered version of 'revert.wmz' skin here for download, but as I dont fancy getting sued by Microsoft, I decided against it and you will have to modify it yourselfs unfortunately...

There is another way to fix the revert skin. just copy the old revert skin from the old version of wmp and paste it into the new version. if u want to keep the new 1 then rename the old 1 before u copy and paste. i hav tried ths method and it works. mayb u cn add it to the page.

Windows Media Player is the most popular digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Together with the standard Windows Media Player User Interface (UI) today there exists a great number of modern skins. Skin is a non-standard design of UI aimed to make the use of Windows Media Player more enjoyable. Using skins you can easily customize the look of Windows Media Player to match your mood. Skins are quick and easy to download, and they automatically install directly into your player.

The basic difference between standard UI and skin-mode UI is that while skinned Windows Media Player window usually has no standard Windows title bar, therefore it's impossible to tweak skinned Windows Media Player with additional title buttons as it was described in this article. Fortunately, it's still possible to tweak Windows Media Player using automatic triggers available in Actual Window Manager.

Actual Window Manager is an innovative desktop organization application. It has more than 40 handy tools to help you in daily routine window manipulations. In this article we would like to touch upon just automatic features available in Actual Window Manager that will make your skinned Windows Media Player more pleasurable and convenient to use.

Use the Roll Up action to shrink Windows Media Player in such a way that only a small part of its window remains visible. You can teach Actual Window Manager to roll up Windows Media Player automatically when it becomes inactive (and unroll it when it activates back) or unroll while it's being mouse-hovered. Use the Stay Always-on-Top add-in to never lose rolled Windows Media Player fr om sight and have an easy access to it.

If you like to listen to music when working with other applications then the Minimize Alternatively action will help you to hide Windows Media Player to a nifty icon placed either to the system tray or anywhere on your desktop. Now straight upon composing a playlist and switching focus to other applications, inactive Windows Media Player will be minimized to the tray. This will make your own taskbar less cluttered and more handy! Click this icon - and Windows Media Player is restored and ready to use!

Use the Move to Monitor function to place Windows Media Player to the desired monitor if you have several monitors connected to your computer. In other words, Windows Media Player will be placed to the desired monitor at its startup. No need to drag it manually!

The Remove Taskbar Entry action will further extend your ability to control Windows Media Player and remove it from the taskbar last and all the time if you wish. Now you will forget about taskbar clutter and will be able to free the precious taskbar space for more urgent applications.

The most likely reason of this problem is that Windows Media Player lacks for central processor resources. This problem can be solved by increasing the priority level of Windows Media Player upon its startup. Also, you can lower the priority level of Windows Media Player when it is minimized or inactive to provide the maximum system productivity.

The Resize action lets you change the size of Windows Media Player, which might be useful when watching video to get better view or for extending a playlist. You will get access to the wide range of predefined sizes or specify custom window dimensions yourself as circumstances require. You can maximize Windows Media Player at its startup for watching video or minimize it if you have just a few songs in your playlist.

The Align action provides the automatic horizontal and vertical alignment of Windows Media Player in nine predefined alignment modes. Now you will be able to position Windows Media Player at its startup to the most convenient place on the desktop!

Actual Window Manager makes your work with Windows Media Player and other applications extremely simple and convenient. It will help you to save your time and efforts. It has more than 40 productivity tools which you can use to control every window on your screen.

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This is a little tiny tweak to allow any windows media player skin to become transparent. However, it is made possible with Nvidia. Nvidia has a nView option with some of the latest drivers. It is with this that one can make their windows and stuff transparent. When one right clicks a button in the toolbar you have a nView choice. You do not have this option for windwos media player unless you do this:

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Unfortunately I tried 5 skins from this website and dropped them in the main window (in winamp player mode), but the skin doesn't change and the skin also not appears in the settings window.
So dropping it in the main window doesn't do anything (I use windows 10, latest audacious version)

In the Windows edition of audacious, the BMP files in WinAMP have to be changed to PNG files in order for Audacious to use the skins at all. Can BMP support be re-added to the Windows version of Audacious as well?

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