Winamp Support For Windows 7 Taskbar and Jump List

WinAmp has long been my music player of choice.  Lately I’ve been looking for support for the new Windows 7 features such as the Jump List and other taskbar uses.  Finally today I found a plugin for Winamp that supports all that.

The plugin’s features, briefly:

1. shows playback status and progress in the icon background of the taskbar icon
2. shows playback status using icon overlays on the taskbar icon
3. customizes the aero peek thumbnail with:
   1. Winamp logo
   2. album art
   3. customized information about the current media playing
   4. custom image file
4. adds player control buttons on the aero peek thumbnail
5. adds the playing media to the ‘Recent’ category of the jump list
6. Winamp is now easier to find in 3DFlip

Compatibility and convenience:

1. Translation support
2. fully compatible with Winamp and Windows 7
3. all features can be turned on and off
4. thumbnail information is selected and customized by user
5. full UNICODE support

Progress Bar:

• Playing local file – green progress bar
• Playing streaming media – green looping ‘indeterminate’ progress bar
• Playback paused – yellow progress bar
• Playback stopped – red icon

Icon Overlays:

• Playing
• Paused
• Stopped
• In combination with progress bar

Thumbnail Images:

Jump List:

Full Taskbar View:

Win7Shell

Popularity: 5% [?]

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