Watch Visualizations While Playing Your Music February 2005
With Windows Media Player 10, you can display visualizations in the Player to complement the music you are playing. A visualization is a plug-in that displays splashes of color and geometric shapes whose patterns move to the music. In other words, visualizations let you watch your music move.
Visualizations are grouped into collections based on specific themes such as Ambience or Bars and Waves. Once you find a collection you enjoy, you can select the visualization you want from the collection and have fun exploring what it can do. For example, the Bars and Waves collection contains variations, including Bars, Ocean Mist, Firestorm, and Scope.
Visualizations play in the Video and Visualizations pane of the Player, but may have a different appearance, depending on the display mode (full mode, mini Player mode, full-screen mode, or skin mode). When the Player is in skin mode, visualizations display only if the skin supports visualizations.
The following illustration shows the Player in full mode.
The following illustration shows the Player in mini Player mode.
With the Player, you can select the visualization you want to watch from over 30 visualizations that are provided with the Player. You can also download visualization collections from the Internet.
Viewing VisualizationsTo view a visualization in full modeIn Windows Media Player, begin playing a song. Click Now Playing, click the Select Now Playing options button, point to Visualizations, click a visualization collection, and then click the visualization you want to view, as shown in the following screen shot. Once you select a visualization, you're all set—the visualization will be displayed while your music plays. While viewing a visualization, you can click the Previous visualization button or the Next visualization button to see the other visualizations in the collection, as shown in the following screen shot. To view the visualization using the entire Video and Visualization pane, click the Maximize the Video and Visualization pane button, as shown in the following screen shot. To restore the Playlist pane, click the button again. To view the visualization in full screen, double-click the Video and Visualization pane, or press ALT + ENTER. (Note that not all visualizations can be viewed in full screen.)
To view visualizations in mini Player modeIn mini Player mode, begin playing a song. Click the Show Video and Visualization window button to start viewing the visualization. The last visualization you viewed is displayed. - While viewing a visualization, you can do any of the following:
To scroll through visualizations, click the window repeatedly. To jump to the next collection of visualizations, press CTRL and click the window. To jump to the previous collection, press SHIFT+CTRL and click the window.
To download visualizations from the InternetStart Windows Media Player and connect to the Internet. Click Now Playing, click the Select Now Playing Options button  , point to Visualizations, and then click Download Visualizations. Follow the instructions on the Web page for downloading a visualization.
To set the properties of a visualizationIn Windows Media Player, click Now Playing, click the Select Now Playing Options button , point to Visualizations, and then click Options. The Plug-ins tab of the Options dialog box is shown with Visualization selected in the Category list, as shown in the following screen shot. In the Visualization list, click the name of the collection you want to change, and then click Properties. (Not all of the collections have properties.) Any changes you make will take effect the next time you display any visualization in that collection.
To stop viewing visualizationsClick Now Playing, click the Select Now Playing Options button, point to Visualizations, and then click No Visualization, as shown in the following screen shot. All visualizations are turned off.
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