Listening to a Hidden Media Player

I sometimes like to listen to the radio while working, and a lot of my favorite radio stations are available on the internet as ASX streams. This means that Microsoft Media Player can play them for me. However, the Media Player remains visible (playing one of these distracting "visualisation themes"), and even when I minimize it, I can still see the Media Player button in the Task Bar. Personally, I'd prefer to have it show up only as a Tray Icon when playing internet radio.

Today, it annoyed me enough to try to hide it, so I wrote a little Delphi app to hide it from sight. The simple source code is as follows:

program HideMP;
uses
Windows;
var
H: HWnd;
begin
H := FindWindow(nil, 'Windows Media Player');
ShowWindow(H, SW_HIDE);
end.

It sure hides the Media Player window from sight as well as the Task Bar!

A minor disadvantage is that it's also no longer visible using Alt+Tab, so it's a bit hard to shut down. Fortunately, playing another file (that has a shortcut to Media Player), or just starting Media Player (again) will make it appear again. Or I could make a similar version of HideMP, but then send a SW_SHOW to the Window manually.

With Delphi's help, I'm happy listening to internet radio again (without any distracting visual stuff).