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The mini player follows Winamp: Play on a playing song restarts it, and Pause pauses. A Windows user took the restart for a bug (#630).
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title: The Winamp Mini Player
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description: Use classic Winamp 2 skins with an analyser, equalizer, and playlist.
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nav_order: 4
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---
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Open the mini player with Ctrl+M (Cmd+Shift+M on macOS), the shrink button, or
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**Switch to it** in Settings. It supports classic Winamp 2 `.wsz` skins. Find
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skins at the [Winamp Skin Museum](https://skins.webamp.org).
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Only one player window is open at a time. Click the skin logo or Eject, or use
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the shortcut again, to return to the main window.
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## Skins and window size
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Drop a `.wsz` file on either window to install and use it. Settings lists the
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installed skins and can open the skins folder.
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Choose **Random**, first in that list, to get a different skin each time you
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switch to the mini player, never the same one twice in a row. Settings says
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which skin it picked, and choosing a skin yourself turns Random off.
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You can also use an unpacked skin folder. Spotifast finds skin files inside
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its subfolders, up to eight folders deep, so you do not need to move them all
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into one folder.
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Right-click the title bar, or click **O**, to choose a size from 1x to 4x.
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Each size keeps the classic pixels sharp. The same menu can keep the player
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above other windows. **D** toggles double size and **A** toggles always-on-top.
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Spotifast remembers the window position where your desktop allows it.
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Skins can have transparent areas and shapes other than rectangles. Modern
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Winamp 3 and 5 skin formats are not supported; choose classic Winamp 2 skins.
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## Main controls
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Most controls match Winamp. As in Winamp, Play on a song that is already
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playing starts it again from the beginning; Pause pauses. These work
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differently:
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- **Stop** pauses and rewinds.
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- **I** opens the playing album in the main window.
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- Repeat is either on or off.
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- The X button and both logos return to the main window.
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Click the time to switch between elapsed and remaining time. The balance and
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MONO/STEREO controls affect playback on this computer. Quit from the
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right-click menu or with Ctrl+Q.
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The shade button, or a double-click on the title bar, rolls the player up. The
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playlist and equalizer have their own shade buttons.
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Switching to the main window and back keeps the shade modes and restores the
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mini player's own position. It does not inherit the main window's fullscreen
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or maximized state. On Linux desktops using Wayland, the desktop chooses where
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windows appear and may ignore the saved position.
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The left display shows bars that react to the sound (a spectrum analyser).
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Click it to switch to a moving sound wave (an oscilloscope), then off.
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You can also use the **V** menu. Changes to the equalizer affect the picture;
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turning down the volume does not, even at zero. The display reacts only to
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music playing on this computer.
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## Playlist
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**PL** opens the playlist below the player. It shows the playing song followed
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by the queue. Double-click a song to play it, Ctrl-click to select several, and
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drag the lower-right corner to resize the window. Use X or **PL** to close it.
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- **ADD** opens search or Liked Songs.
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- **SEL** selects rows.
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- **MISC** opens song, artist, and album pages.
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- **LIST OPTS** starts one of your playlists or saves the queue as a new one.
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- **REM → Remove all** clears your queued songs when this computer is playing.
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Spotify does not let third-party apps remove one song from the queue. Notices
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from the main window scroll through the mini player's text display.
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## Equalizer
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**EQ** opens the ten-band equalizer. It affects playback on this computer, not
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other Spotify Connect devices. The preamp ranges from -12 to 12 dB. **AUTO**
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resets all bands. The same controls and presets are in Settings.
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