Playing around today, I went looking for a sidebar plugin to control WMP. Sadly, nothing quite met my expectations - The ActiveX control for WMP comes close, but it is designed to play just one media file, and the volume control isn't there with the sidebar width I use. What I really want is the little button that WMP calls the quick access panel.

Sadly, I have no idea how to achieve something like that. If anyone would like to lend a hand, that'd be great. I don't know how easy it would be, but I'm looking for something similar to the WMP toolbar, although ideally showing the song name and the "seek" bar.