If you are playing mp3 songs on your windows media player then you don’t really need a huge screen feature, often you can minimize the media player but there is a inbuilt option to reduce unwanted screen layouts from the windows media player while you are playing only audio songs, we are talking about “Mini player mode” in windows media player.If you are not sure how to enable it then here are the steps to follow
Mini mode in Windows media player
Windows Media Player 6.4 (mplayer2.exe) has been removed like it was removed in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The MCI version of Media Player (mplay32.exe) has also been removed. Windows Media Player 12 Windows Media Player's taskbar-integrated Mini-player has been removed. Windows Media Player 'Mini-Mode' Problem - posted in Windows XP Home and Professional: My Media Player doesn't go to Mini Mode when I minimized it. I've tried right-clicking the taskbar, pointing. Mini Player mode allows you to minimize the Player to the Windows taskbar, while still having access to playback controls and the ability to view visualizations and information about the currently playing item. Right-click an open area of the Windows taskbar (such as below the system clock), point to Toolbars, and then click Windows Media Player. Small but powerful How to turn your mini PC into a monster media center A 'stick' or 'mini PC' running Windows 10 can make a great, inexpensive streaming box.
1. Open windows media player
2. Go to Tools and then to the options menu
3. A Player dialog box opens where you will find “Start the mini Player for file names that contain this text” box, check it and add “.mp3” in the text box.You can also add real player format, divx, mp4 format or specific drive.
Windows Media Player 12 Mini Mode
4. Click apply and open any mp3 file, there you have your mini media player playing audio files in mini-mode!
Close Mini Window
Mini player mode doesn’t work with all the version of windows player (works with windows media player 11).For other version you can right click on your taskbar, go to the Toolbar option and check the windows media player which displays a small media bar in your taskbar!