# Browsers - Now Playing

The "Now Playing" browser presents various information about the current song playing. Information found in the "Now Playing" page changes as soon as a new track starts.

The "Now Playing" browser

# The "Now Playing" browser provides the following information:

# Album picture

The image in the upper left corner is the album picture.

# Song title

The big headlining text is the song title.

# Artist name

The performers of the current song.

# Album name

The album name in which the current song is featured.

# Genre

This displays the genre of the current playing song.

# Format

Format gives information about sound specific information, the amount of channels, the frequency of the song and the amount of kbps.

# Codec

Codec used for decoding the song.

# Length

Length of the song in minutes, rounded downwords (2:10 = 2 minutes, 1:59 = 1 minute)

# Track number

Track number of the album it's featuring in.

# Artist picture

The image in the upper right corner is the artist image.

# The tabbed view gives you access to:

# Lyrics

Fetches and displays them when possible. (Lyrics can only be fetched when lyrics plugins are installed)

# Guitar Tabs

Fetches guitar tabs for the current playing song. (This only works with the Guitar Tabs plugin installed)

# Similar Songs

Will find similar songs in your own database based on the genre of the song.

# Similar Artists

Last.fm checks for similar artists and these results are displayed.

# Web Links

Shows several links to different pages.

# Artist Information

Shows information about the artist fetched from last.fm.

To the right of the tabbed view there is a list of other albums from the currently playing artist. When you click on one of the albums, it will give you information about the album in the metadata browser.

The album list will only be shown when there are actually other albums from the artist in your mpd database.