If you are playing mp3 songs on your windows media player then you don’t really need a huge screen feature, often you can minimize the media player but there is a inbuilt option to reduce unwanted screen layouts from the windows media player while you are playing only audio songs, we are talking about “Mini player mode” in windows media player.If you are not sure how to enable it then here are the steps to follow

Mini player mode doesn’t work with all the version of windows player (works with windows media player 11).For other version you can right click on your taskbar, go to the Toolbar option and check the windows media player which displays a small media bar in your taskbar! For most purposes, you’ll be using the Player Library mode. But Windows Media Player 12 also has a Skin mode and a Now Playing mode. From the Player Library, you can switch to any of the modes by right-clicking a blank area and selecting View and the appropriate view mode. Windows Media Player 12+ version was missing the one of the best features of older Windows Media Players (WMP) and that was the mini-player that appeared when you minimized it. The WMP Mini-Player allows you to access the media player right from the Taskbar or system tray area. To open a list of skins in Windows Media Player, you can click View Skin Chooser.That will open a list of the skins you’ve added to the software as below. You can select a skin there and then click Apply Skin to open it in the Now Playing mode. Windows Media Player 1 Answers. I am very confused and every link WMP has doesn't solve my problem. I want to arrange my music library in order of either artist A-Z, or song title A-Z.

Mini mode in Windows media player

1. Open windows media player

2. Go to Tools and then to the options menu

Windows Media Player Activate Mini Mode

3. A Player dialog box opens where you will find “Start the mini Player for file names that contain this text” box, check it and add “.mp3” in the text box.You can also add real player format, divx, mp4 format or specific drive.

4. Click apply and open any mp3 file, there you have your mini media player playing audio files in mini-mode!

Windows Media Player 12 Mini Mode

Mini player mode doesn’t work with all the version of windows player (works with windows media player 11).For other version you can right click on your taskbar, go to the Toolbar option and check the windows media player which displays a small media bar in your taskbar!