Editing Windows Media Player (section)

===Visualizations===
[[File:Windows Media Player 11 Mini-player - Visualization.png|thumb|right|Windows Media Player 11 running in mini-mode (in Windows XP MCE) showing the "Bars and Waves" visualization]]
While playing music, Windows Media Player can show [[music visualization|visualizations]]. The current three visualizations are '''Alchemy''', which was first introduced in version 9, '''Bars and Waves''', which has been used since version 7, and '''Battery''', introduced version 8. Versions 7 and 8 included with [[Windows Me|Me]] and [[Windows XP|XP]] respectively includes an additional visualization called "Musical Colors", which is not present in out-of-band releases of version 7 as well as version 9 onwards, but is retained if Windows Media Player was upgraded from version 7 or 8. Version 11 and above refrains from having the former "Ambience," "Particle," "Plenoptic," and "Spikes" visualizations from versions 7 to 10. The reason for their removal was that the visualizations do not support full screen controls (either the visualization gets shifted to the left while there is a thick black bar to the right side of the screen, or that there are no full screen controls). More visualizations such as "BlazingColors," "ColorCubes," "PulsingColors," "Softie the Snowman," and "Yule Log" were originally offered as optional extras in version 7 and were later made downloadable from Microsoft's official website, however the downloads have since been taken down. As of today, they can still be found on some websites such as the WMP Goodies site.