Zune's 'Now Playing' view (above) showed album art overlaid with text animations that included biographical data about the artists, along with a few statistics, such as how many times a song or album had been played. Sadly, there's no sign that Microsoft is planning to resurrect the much-liked visualization that featured in its long-gone Zune media player: Some of Zune's 'Now Playing' animations | Captured from video via MentalMinds The new visualizations may well be the most eagerly anticipated of the new features. Now, after tinkering under Groove's hood, Rafael Rivera from has managed to activate some of those features in the app, and shared details of what he found.
In May, JT Kimbell, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft's Groove team, revealed to The TDL Show that the company was working on new visualizations, an equalizer, and other features for its music app.