TIPS ON WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER (WMP)
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MENU BAR
If you do not see File, View, Play, Tools, and Help, at the top, click the small square in the upper right
hand corner that toggles the window size. There is also a tiny down arrow in the upper right corner that
produces the same menu selections.
View Menu - As shown below, click on View, Plug-ins, Other, Burwen Output to place a check mark.
Then in AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS at TONE CTRL click PROCESS AUDIO to connect.
If you check Burwen Bobcat the BURWEN BOBCAT window will open. You can convert WMA or MP3 files
to BURWEN BOBCAT processed MP3, 128 kbps files while listening via Burwen Output. To instead listen
thru BURWEN BOBCAT, uncheck Burwen Output. At the right end of your Taskbar, right click on Burwen
Audio and close it.

part. When using AUDIO SPLENDOR’s VOL control, set the WMP Volume at maximum. First be sure you
have connected by clicking the PROCESS AUDIO button in the Tone CTRL window.
Graphic Equalizer
Use this only with Burwen Bobcat. The AUDIO SPLENDOR controls are far superior.
Click on View, Enhancements, Show Enhancements to place a check mark. Then click on View,
Enhancements, Graphic equalizer. There are three circles below Turn On/Turn Off that determine how
closely the sliders are coupled together. Click the middle circle which couples the controls loosely to
produce gradual curves. For final fine adjustment click the top circle which makes the sliders
independent. Move the sliders only a little bit at a time to zero in on your preferred setting. The Graphic
Equalizer is useful for balancing the sound of your speakers or headphones using basIc 3. Once set,
you can optimize a lot of different program sources using the 18 BURWEN BOBCAT selections.
Visualizations
The colorful pattern above changes with the music and is available at View, Visualizations, Musical Colors,
Electric Rainbow. There are a lot more in the player and download able.
PLAY LIST
The playlist in the right hand column is available by clicking View, Now playing, Options, Show Playlist.
Then click View, Now playing Options, Show Media Information.
TOOLS MENU
You can get to BURWEN BOBCAT faster by clicking Tools, Plug-ins, Burwen Bobcat, but you can't get to
the Graphic Equalizer or Visualizations that way
PLAYER ON THE TASK BAR
You can shrink the player to the size of a button on your Task Bar. Right click any empty area of the
Task Bar. Then click Toolbars, Windows Media Player.
CRASHES
The Windows Media Player and even your entire computer might freeze if you change files or tracks
faster than the Player or your CDROM drive can follow. Change slowly! Recover as follows.
If Burwen Audio (SigProc.exe) is open and refuses to close normally, Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open
Task Manager. Go to the Processes tab, click on SigProc.exe, and the click End Process. Then if WMP
will not close normally, go to Task Manager, Applications, click Windows Media Player, and click End
Task. It may be necessary to reboot the computer.
If the Windows Media Player crashes it disables all plug-ins upon reopening. Go to the View menu on
View, Plug-ins, Other and place a check mark at Burwen Output or Burwen Bobcat . Before you push
Play be sure the Volume setting is low enough. If you are using AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS, go to TONE
CTRL and click PROCESS AUDIO to connect.