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Use Music Mini Player on Mac
Mini Player takes up very little space on your screen and still lets you adjust the volume, search for songs, choose which songs play next and more.
Mini Player displays the album artwork for the song that’s playing. When you move the pointer over the artwork, controls appear.
![Expanded Mini Player showing the controls for the song that’s playing. There are window controls in the top-left corner, used to open and close the Full Screen Player. The main part of the window shows the album artwork for the song that’s playing. Below the artwork are a slider to move to a different part of the song, and buttons to adjust the volume, show lyrics and show what’s playing next.](https://help.apple.com/assets/6716BE853414F9E73601CAF4/6716BE87B1C5F9E1A2081580/en_GB/0e2f551c57df5552f4ccffa28021cd6c.png)
You can also shrink the Mini Player window to an even smaller size.
![The smaller Music Mini Player, showing only the controls (and not the album artwork).](https://help.apple.com/assets/6716BE853414F9E73601CAF4/6716BE87B1C5F9E1A2081580/en_GB/5160015c11737c1ddbe8dbf78f46c700.png)
Note: Apple Music, lossless and Dolby Atmos aren’t available in all countries or regions. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.
Go to the Music app
on your Mac.
Play music from your library, Apple Music, the radio or a CD.
Note: A song needs to be playing before you can use the Mini Player.
Choose Window > Switch to MiniPlayer.
If you subscribe to Apple Music, songs available in lossless have the Lossless button
next to them; songs available in Dolby Atmos have the Dolby button
next to them.
Do one of the following:
Shrink to the smaller Mini Player window: In the row of controls, click
, then choose Hide Artwork.
To expand back to the full MiniPlayer, click
, then choose Show Artwork.
Show lyrics: Click
.
To view the Full Screen Player, click
in the top-left corner of the MiniPlayer window.
View and edit a list of upcoming songs: Click
in the bottom-right corner of the MiniPlayer window.
Exit Mini Player: Click
in the top-left corner of the MiniPlayer window.
Tip: To quickly open Mini Player from the playback controls, click the album artwork.
![Click the album art on the left of the banner to open MiniPlayer.](https://help.apple.com/assets/6716BE853414F9E73601CAF4/6716BE87B1C5F9E1A2081580/en_GB/26f078cf93036abd5dcdae82306d841a.png)
To keep MiniPlayer in the foreground on your desktop, choose Music > Settings, click Advanced, then select “Keep MiniPlayer on top of all other windows”.