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I've been trying to find and 've been waiting for a just simple gadget, showing the album art (cover CD) of the song that I"m currently playing in Media Player..

So far I've found a high-tech advance media player gadget, which can display your libraries, play videos, have a mini preview, etc etc..

I just want a simple gadget that displays the album art (no controller needed on the gadget) is such gadget exist?

Similar like http://closetosoftware.com/ (CD Art Display)

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Where did you find the "high-tech advance media player gadget, which can display your libraries, play videos, have a mini preview, etc etc.."??

Unfortunatley, it appears that many Gadget builders aren't posting their work on the actual Sidebar Gadgets website at Microsoft.com.

Thanks!

--ScottKin

Where did you find the "high-tech advance media player gadget, which can display your libraries, play videos, have a mini preview, etc etc.."??

http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?show...c=5079&st=0

Hmm well I'm currently using the CD Album Art widget (not a vista gadget)..

I've looked into it and i cant find a way to read the current playign track from Media Plyer. Brandon Fuller made a now playing plugin which i could base the gadget on and make in about an hour but he charges $10 for the plugin needed and i doubt he'd be willing to give it away free for this gadget.

So unless you maybe emailed him and beg i can't think of a way to do it, sorry.

LoL..beg.. don't think that will work.. imagine if 10000 people beg him

That album art works on almost all players except Media Player :{..the new one has a support.. but I've tried and couldn't get it to work, so I switched to Winamp just because of this.. not that it's a bad move

I'd like to see one that will pull the artwork when playing iTunes.

There's already one there on the Windows Gadget site that displays album art for music being played in iTunes. I can't get the link right now because I'm at work. I'll link it when I get home.

Aww.. I don't like using iTunes..prefer my simple built-in Media Player :D (WMP11)

Lyon whats that about WMP11 having support?

Oh, it's the software I linked at my 1st post (CD Album Art?). The latest has a WMP11 support, but you need to install a dll, put it somewhere, etc.. I tried that but didn't work or maybe it's just me doing it wrong..

Well I'm very happy to use the CD Album Art Widget, and "reposition" it to the Vista sidebar so it really looks like its own gadget lol (not sure cpu/memory usage wise, whether it's better than a built-in gadget)

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ok but how long does it take to update.. I mean if I am listing to Madonna 1 sec and then swaps over to Fallout Boys the next will it update immediately? Or do I have to wait till 30secs or even longer in the song for it to change?

Indeed there's a big delay, but currently you're not going to get better. You can either have album art for songs your playing in WMP with a 2minute delay. Or you can have album art for a seperate sidebar instance of media player with about a 3 second delay.

You cant get instant album art for media player in a gadget yet.

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