If you consider it another name for a "skin" does that help ? The
chrome is all the bits of the player that are just screen furniture
and (mostly) have no function other than looking nice and making it
look like a media player rather than a windows application.

What Zach means is the black portion of the player to the right of the
play/pause/fwd buttons, shows a small piece of text occasionally.

So look to the right of the buttons when you select all the items, and
for a second or two the total time will be shown there.

HTH
Cheers - Neil


On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:48:35 -0800, UserXLA
<UserXLA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>What exactly is "the chrome," please?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> To get a tally of the number of songs and their time from within the
>> library, select them. That tally will show up in the chrome briefly. Or
>> hover the mouse over the "Now Doing" region, which is the region above the
>> playlist. If you're building a playlist in the rightmost library pane, you
>> may need to push Stop in order to get the time to show up.
>>
>> --
>> Speaking for myself only.
>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>> --
>>
>> "natalie" <natalie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A443BCA0-4DDD-46F1-A76C-CFEF331D25A9@microsoft.com...
>> > This works when tracks are selected from the library, however when
>> > selecting
>> > selecting tracks from a playlist it says the number of items in the player
>> > chrome, but not the total time. Is there anyway to see the total length of
>> > a
>> > PLAYLIST, without searching through the library and selecting every track
>> > on
>> > a given playlist (which often is random)?
>> >
>> >
>> > "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Select the tracks in question and the time will appear in the player
>> >> chrome.
>> >> This is cleaned up further for the final release.
>> >>
>> >> -Zach
>> >> --
>> >> Windows Media Development Team (speaking for myself only)
>> >> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> >> rights.
>> >> --
>> >> "RosieC" <RosieC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:C29D2063-A247-41D0-A0BC-2CA135B719FF@microsoft.com...
>> >> > I've recently upgraded to WMP 11 and I can't see the Total Running Time
>> >> > and/or the Total Number of Tracks for my play lists.
>> >> >
>> >> > If view the list of tracks by Artist, Genre or Year then I see both
>> >> > these
>> >> > figures next to the picture of the album cover but I can't find them
>> >> > anywhere
>> >> > for my playlists.
>> >> >
>> >> > Am I missing something or is there a setting I need to change?
>> >> >
>> >> > I use Auto-playlists a lot and their contents varies. I often want to
>> >> > know
>> >> > that the playlist I am choosing will last at least a certain running
>> >> > time.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
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