Win7shell For Integrating Winamp With Windows 7 Taskbar

Since the first release of Winamp player by Justin Frankel in 1997, today it has becomes one of most popular if not the best MP3 player for Windows operating systems. Although a lot of features and improvement have been included in each newer version but till the latest version of Winamp, it still does not support the integration with Windows 7 taskbar. To enable this features, an addition plug-in is required, which is called as Win7shell. Win7shell is a small plug-in for Winamp that makes it integrates with the new taskbar of Windows 7 to support Jump Lists.

win7shell

Win7shell includes the following features:

  • Shows playback status and progress in the icon background of the taskbar icon.
  • Uses taskbar icon to display a “VU meter”.
  • Shows playback status using icon overlays on the taskbar icon.
  • Customizes the aero peek thumbnail with - Winamp logo, album art, customized information about the current media playing and custom image file.
  • Adds player control buttons on the aero peek thumbnail.
  • Adds the playing media to the ‘Recent’ category of the jump list.
  • Winamp is now easier to find in 3DFlip.
  • Allows enable, disable or customize the plug-in’s features

Win7shell is available for free download.

Download Win7Shell

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8 Responses to “Win7shell For Integrating Winamp With Windows 7 Taskbar”

  1. maeby
    January 23rd, 2010 09:53
    8

    very much appreciated, thank you!

  2. Daffyd
    October 12th, 2009 06:42
    7

    Brilliant addon, makes Winamp so much more usable on Win7

  3. Ali
    October 4th, 2009 06:19
    6

    jUST uSED AND ACTIVATED THANKS FOR THE ACTIVATOR BUT ITS NECESARY TO TURN OFF ANTIVIRUS BEFOR ACTIVATING

  4. Jason E
    September 26th, 2009 00:40
    5

    If you get the funny symbols instead of text, try changing the font. Worked for me

  5. Jon
    September 24th, 2009 07:35
    4

    Programmer has been updating this nearly daily for about past week or so with minor updates. Nice little plugin.

  6. Josh Johnson
    September 24th, 2009 01:58
    3

    This is pretty cool, but VLC is my favourite media player

  7. Robbie Khan
    September 23rd, 2009 16:57
    2

    This news makes me happy :) Always wondered if WinAMP will support the peek and taskbar in Win7 as then I won’t have to bring it into focus over running apps…..now it can :)

  8. me
    September 23rd, 2009 14:45
    1

    is there anything like this for vista ?

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