Thursday, June 28, 2012

Original (size) album art WMP 12 (windows 7)


Make WMP 12 force show original Album Art

Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices.But still it has a Flaw....i.e. Album art is re-sized to 200 x 200 pixel

There are few steps to solve this problem...






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Steps:-
  1. Disable WMP to Retrieve and update track info online..
    for that go to......  Tools > Options..... > Library > and Uncheck "Retrieve additionalinfo from internet"
  2. Now there are two Methods to solve the album art problem
    Method 1:(easy Method)
                       use this Reg file ...Download
                            (password : internetunchained.blogspot.com)
    Method 2:(Hard)
     Go to the registry path : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences
    then Create a key with name "PlayerModeAlbumArtSelected" and set its "Value Data" as "0" (without qoutes) (for creating, new key,right-click anywhere inside the window and select "new->DWORD (32-bit) Value"
    then find the key with name "ShowAlbumArt" and set its "Value Data" as "1" (without qoutes)
  3. DONE!!!!!!!








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