My Piece of the Inter(.)net » Windows Media Player http://mypieceoftheinter.net A place for my geekish ramblings or whatever I find interesting. Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:21:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 View any video format in Windows Media Player http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/765 http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/765#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:04:06 +0000 David McGrath http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/765 I used to use the Combined Community Codec Pack to get a support for a host of codecs on my Windows XP and Windows Vista (32-bit) machines.  It seems that development of the pack has fallen behind, and I have noticed that it does not work as well in Vista x64.  After some research I cam across the Vista Codec Pack, which supports just about every codec, including MOV (QuickTime).  VLC is a good alternative, if you don’t mind (or prefer) a bare-bones media player, but I’m glad to have support for everything that I would want to view right in Windows Media Player.

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The Lyrics Plugin main page really says it all.  It lets you see the lyrics for the music that is playing.  I use it for Windows Media Player 11, and the install process is easy.  Click download, run the installer, which will close Windows Media Player, and after the install Windows Media Player reopens with the plugin enabled.  It takes the place of the visualizer, and it is simple enough to switch between the lyrics plugin and the visualizer.

Enableing or disabling the plugin

It downloads the lyrics dynamically when each song is played, so if you’re offline you’re out of luck, but with an internet connection the lyrics load more or less instantly.  Over all the actual lyrics seem to be pretty accurate as well.

lyrics plugin in action

Oh, and did I mention that it’s free?

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