Microsoft’s Windows Media Player does not support global hotkeys by default. It comes with a full set of hotkeys that work when the window of the media player is active but these shortcuts stop working once the player’s window is minimized or in the background of the computer desktop. Some keyboard drivers enable media key [...]
Windows Media Player CD-Text
CD-Text stores additional information on a audio CD. The information consist usually of the album, name, song name, track info and artist. Many computer music players like Winamp or MediaMonkey can read CD-Text and display the information. Instead of playing track 1 the user would actually see the track name and related information.
Windows Media Player [...]