TIPS ON WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER
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MENU BAR
If you do not see File, View, Play, Tools, and Help, at the top, click the small square in the upper right hand
corner that toggles the window size. There is also a tiny down arrow in the upper right corner that
produces the same menu selections
VIEW MENU
As shown below, click on View, Plug-ins, Other, Burwen Bobcat to place a check mark. The Burwen Bobcat
window will open.

Conventional player controls, Play, Stop, Previous, Next, Mute, and a horizontal Volume slider are in the
lower left corner. The slider above shows progress along the track being played. You can move it to any
part.
GRAPHIC EQUALIZER
Click on View, Enhancements, Show Enhancements to place a check mark. Then click on View,
Enhancements, Graphic equalizer. There are three circles below TurnOn/Turn Off that
determine how closely the sliders are coupled together. Click the middle circle which couples the controls
loosely to produce gradual curves. For final fine adjustment click the top circle which makes the sliders
independent. Move the sliders only a little bit at a time to zero in on your preferred setting.
The Graphic Equalizer is useful for balancing the sound of your speakers or headphones using basic
bobcat. Once set, you can optimize a lot of different program sources using the 18 big bobcat selections.
VISUALIZATIONS
The colorful pattern above changes with the music and is available at View, Visualizations, Musical Colors,
Electric Rainbow. There are a lot more in the player and others can be downloaded.
PLAY LIST
The playlist in the right hand column is available by clicking View, Now playing, Options, Show Playlist.
Then click View, Now playing Options, Show Media Information.
TOOLS MENU
You can get to Burwen Bobcat faster by clicking Tools, Plug-ins, Burwen Bobcat, but you can't get to the
Graphic Equalizer or Visualizations that way
PLAYER ON THE TASK BAR
You can shrink the player to the size of a button on your Task Bar. Right click any empty area of the Task
Bar. Then click Toolbars, Windows Media Player.
CRASHES
The Windows Media Player and even your entire computer might freeze if you change files or tracks faster
than the Player or your CDROM drive can follow. Change slowly! Recover as follows:
Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open Task Manager. Go to Task Manager, Applications. Click Windows
Media Player, and click End Task. It may be necessary to reboot the computer.
If the Windows Media Player crashes it disables all plug-ins upon reopening. Go to the View menu on
View, Plug-ins, Other and place a check mark at Burwen Bobcat. Before you push Play be sure the
Volume setting is low enough.