Psychedelia Viz Pack for WMP

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Dec 28th, 2007 @ 12:49 AM

Windows Media Player users, this one is for you - the Psychedelia Viz Pack is a Windows Media Player plug-in pack available as a free download from wmplugins.com. I discovered this thanks to Ed Bott's blog post about the pack. I may not be a child of the sixties like him, but I've always been a fan of the swirling, shifting shapes that play along with my music, and this pack brings me seven new visualizations to enjoy - Album Art 3D, Bubbles, Distortion, Gigertron 3D, Hypnobloom, Ribbons and UpCube. The 3D Album Art is pretty cool, transforming the album cover into hyper-active cubes bouncing around the screen, but I'm really enjoying Gigertron 3D/Blacklight, which looks good even when minimized to the Windows Media Player toolbar on the taskbar, my favorite way to use WMP. (To use WMP like this, minimize it, then right-click the taskbar, go to Toolbars, and choose "Windows Media Player" from the list.) To enjoy these new visualizations too, remember that you will need a decent video card on your laptop or PC.