The Best Windows Media Player Plugin – MUST HAVE
If you’re like me, you have a lot of mp3s – many of which are very old. Maybe your musical tastes have changed a lot since you downloaded or ripped them. I personally wanted to make iTunes for PC work for me. The problem? No matter what, you can’t delete the songs in iTunes straight off the hard drive, like you can on a mac. If you’re a PC user you’re pretty much out of luck in that department.
Windows Media Player works better in a lot of ways, while lacking a few of the unnecessary iTunes features. One area is with album cover artwork. It seems to find it easier. Also, when you delete a song, it actually gives you the option of sending it to the recycle bin (deleting it altogether). The problem? It’s a huge pain in the behind to delete the current playing song. Usually you have to click now playing under now playing mode, then right click it to go to “find in library”. THEN you can hit the delete key and delete it. Guess what? That’s waaaay too much work. I knew there had to be a way to easily delete the current song that is playing. I thought, “There’s got to be a plugin for this. I can’t be the first person to want or need this feature.” Sure enough, I found it.
A very wise man named Ahmet Sacan created an incredibly helpful plugin for Windows Media Player called MediaPlayer Controller. He had lots of songs on his computer, and didn’t really want to go through the songs to filter out the majority that he didn’t like. It’s annoying to bring the MediaPlayer to front, select the song, and delete it every time a song that you don’t like is playing. So, Ahmet wrote the MediaPlayerController program that would delete the currentlyplaying song, with minimal distraction to what I’m working on. Other features include play/pause, next/previous song, volume up/down, and fast forward operations, which are useful especially if you don’t have media shortcut keys on your keyboard.
There reall is nothing like listening to music of all sorts while you’re designing, creating, editing, or anything else. You’re stuck at a desk, stuck working, you might as well make your workday more enjoyable 
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