How to change WMP Now-Playing to something like this??

[taylor]

I upgraded to Windows 7 couple of days ago and so far I am loving every aspect of it. I had been reading an article about the WMP12 on Arstechnica.com website. In that article there was a Now Playing screen, which I liked very much and wanted to make my WMP12 look just like that, but so far I cant find how to do it. Here is the link to screenshots from Arstechnica's website that i am talking about:

WMP12 Screenshot 1 (Notice how album-art is in upper-left corner with song metadata right above it, and gray color of list pane)
WMP12 Screenshot 2 (Album art same place but visualization playing in the background)

Now this is what my respective screenshots look like:

Screenshot1 (My album art is big and centered and song metadata is in small fonts, at very top of screen, and white color of list pane )
Screenshot2 (I cant even display album art while visualization is on )

Any ideas on what setting to change to change the background color of list pane to gray, display albumart in upper-left corner with song metadata and how to display albumart when visualization is playing?

 

[aboulala]

same here

exact same question as the above poster...
had no chance finding now playing plugins

 

[Teerex]

These seem to be from the pre-beta stage of Windows 7, and consequently, WMP 12. The interface probably changed..for the worse it seems.

 

[A Guy]

The color of background would depend on the color of your WMP theme. You see mine is mostly white:



Click the icon in the lower right, where my cursor is. That will give you a smaller version of list. Drag the sides and top and bottom to show the album cover and size you want. That looks like your picture:



The color is white on mine, as that is the color of my background image. I'm sure youd need a dark theme to have it look like picture.

A Guy