| Battery | ||
|---|---|---|
 The Battery visualization, set to the "Randomization" preset. | ||
| Description | ||
| Versions Available in: | 8, 9 Series, 10, 11, 12 | |
| Current Status: | Current | |
| Developed by: | Averrett & Microsoft | |
| Years Available: | 2001 - | |
| Random Preset: | Yes | |
| Related Visualizations: | Alchemy, Ambience | |
| Full-Screen Controls | No (WMP 8, 9 series, 10)/Yes (WMP 11 and 12) | |
| Gallery | ||
Battery is a current visualization in Windows Media Player, featuring many different wave shapes, color hues, and backgrounds. It first appeared in Windows Media Player 8 and still remains listed as a current and selectable visualization to this day. Battery has a large number of presets, adding up to a total of twenty-six presets. That's twice the amount of presets that Ambience has since it has thirteen presets instead. One of the presets is titled "Randomization", and it is the random preset for this visualization. Battery also has a former "sister" visualization originally from 1999, known as Ambience. Other visualizations, such as Alchemy and 3D Alchemy are also relatively similar. All of these visualizations, including Battery, are in the Ambience Family.
Presets
Note: The parenthesis indicates it's original preset codenames, that is from the Registry editor.
- Randomization
- brightsphere (BrightSphere)
- dance of the freaky circles (circledance)
- cominatcha (cominatya)
- cottonstar
- dandelionaid
- drinkdeep (DrowningFlower)
- eletriarnation (EletriArnation)
- event horizon (eventhorizon)
- hizodge (Geeks Kick ASCII)
- gemstonematrix (gemstone matrix)
- sepiaswirl (GrooveSwirl)
- illuminator
- i see the truth (ISeeTheTruth)
- kaleidovision (kaleidoscope)
- chemicalnova (khemicalnova)
- lotus
- green is not your enemy (Nerds Are Cool)
- relatively calm (relativelycalm)
- sleepyspray
- smoke or water? (Smoke or Water)
- spider's last moment... (SpidersLastMoment)
- strawberryaid
- the world
- my tornado is resting (tornado)
- back to the groove (what is an egab)
Custom presets
This visualization can be customized by opening the Registry Editor (works best if run as administrator), and go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Battery" (for Windows 11 and other x64 editions of Windows), which contains folders related to these presets.
There are available modifiers within a single preset:
- CurrentShift: These are image displacement effect for video feedback effect part.
- CSwirlShift: Mandala Swirls
- CRingSpinShift: Kaleidoscope
- CStarburstShift: Starburst-shaped displacement effect
- CStretchShift: Tunnel
- CTileShift: Blocks
- CShiitake: Swirl
- CTwirlocity: Natural swirls
- CLinearShift: Up, Down, Left and Right
- CThingusShift: Thingus
- CZoomShift: Zoom
- CTrigShift: Trig
- CSinShimmerShift: Shimmer
- CEdgeFalloffShift: Up, Down, Left, and Right
- CTrigStretchShift: Trig tunnel
- PreShift/PostShift: Basically drawing lines/curves part. The former is drawn after displacement effect and the latter is drawn before any displacement effect.
- CJDar: Radar
- CDotPlane: Dot plane
- CCircleWaveform: Circles
- CEdgeGradiant: Gradient border
- CJiggyScribble: Fireworks
- CEdgeTrace: Border
- CSpectrumEdge: Spectrogram-like border
- CCosEdgeGradiant: Natural gradient border
- CGalaxy:
- Color schemes: Each presets have it's own colors based on it's color palette or various hues.
- PaletteLocked: If the data value is 1, then the preset will retain it's default palette, even when you switch to another preset. However if the data value is 0, it will change into various hues respectively.
- Palette: A group of colors that harmonize the selected preset based on it's shades, hues, and the harmony. It accompanies the "PaletteLocked" data.
Trivia
- This is the current visualization that is still on Windows Media Player, along with Alchemy, and Bars and Waves.
- All of the preset names except Randomization are in lowercase letters.
- Presets like: randomization, brightsphere, cottonstar, illuminator, and my tornado is resting. do not maintain it's own default color.
- On WMP 9, Battery: - Randomization was the default visualization.
- If you select the following visualizations (or more technically, any presets with PaletteLocked of "0x00000001") first, such as lotus, hizodge, gemstonematrix, sepiaswirl, chemicalnova, green is not your enemy, etc. The colors will change, but changing into a different visualization, however, would stay with it's own default color.
- Presets like lotus and cottonstar are very related to each other.
- Selecting presets that have a dot plane on it, then selecting into sleepyspray , event horizon, and brightsphere, the dot plane will remain it's position.