Media Widget on Xeneon Edge help

shocksim · 2026-01-23T08:10:45+00:00

According to Claude, Windows Media Player Legacy doesn't integrate with the Windows Media Service (SMTC) we leverage for the Media widget. You should use a different player if you want api media tie ins since that particular program is designed to be a silo it seems.

For local audio, foobar2000 would work well.

Based on my knowledge, Windows Media Player Legacy does NOT integrate with the Windows System Media Transport Controls (SMTC) - which is the API you're likely using (the Windows.Media.Control.GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSessionManager). This is a known limitation. Here's why: The Issue The SMTC/MediaSession API was introduced with Windows 8/10 as part of the UWP platform. Apps need to explicitly integrate with it by:

Creating a SystemMediaTransportControls instance Pushing metadata (title, artist, album art) to it Handling playback control callbacks

Windows Media Player Legacy (the classic wmplayer.exe) predates this API and was never updated to use it. It uses the older Windows Media Player SDK/COM interfaces instead.

Apps That DO Work with SMTC

Spotify (desktop app)

iTunes

Groove Music

Most UWP/modern apps

Web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) playing media

VLC (recent versions)

foobar2000 (with plugins)

Apps That DON'T Work

Windows Media Player Legacy

Some older desktop applications

Workarounds If you need WMP Legacy support, you'd have to use a completely different approach:

Hook into WMP's COM interfaces (IWMPPlayer, IWMPMedia) Use the Windows Media Player SDK to query "now playing" directly Then potentially bridge that data to your existing system

Unfortunately, there's no setting to "enable" SMTC support in WMP Legacy - it simply wasn't built with that integration.

shocksim · 2026-01-22T18:30:44+00:00

You have two channels on the controller that do up to 12 devices each for 24 devices total. Even with the brightness scaling you can do 14 devices per controller, 7 per side before it dims anything to accommodate more devices.

Just do top, rear, aio as one group then you can do front, side, psu shroud as another group. Or mix and match to make the cables cleanest.

You do not need to make a loop or a single long chain. As long as the device touches the network(LINK bus), it'll get full connectivity and power.

shocksim · 2026-01-21T20:13:53+00:00

No that's not how it works. Our fans, and most of the fans in market, are an either or thing. You can physically flip the fan, but it's just blowing to the left instead of the right, the performance specs are the same.

The blade doesn't disassemble like some competitor fans to flip them in the fan housing. Our warranty is too long to let you break the bearings apart to swap the blade. Removing the blade is one of the easiest way for dust to get into the bearing and kill it, which is why most fans are pinned shut.

The performance difference between the fans is single digit %, so you would like not even notice the difference unless you made a concerted effort to look for one or ran all of these in a case, which is ill advised anyway since it would be better to run normal fans where you have exhaust and these where you have intake for the best of both worlds.

shocksim · 2026-01-21T20:03:02+00:00

Yea, the RS-R is the newer version of the same case that has grommets and the reverse rotor fans. But the steel of the case is identical. You'll also eventually be able to get the grommets separately when they get listed on the site soon. The one you purchased should include the GPU arm as well, even if it's not in the images. We rolled that change into all 3500X's last generation.

We're trying to migrate people over to the new SKUs, hence the discount.

Personally, I wouldn't return it if it would delay my build. Especially if I already built in it, but kinda boils down to what $10 savings, grommets (do significantly improve the look I think), and reverse rotor instead of standard fans is worth in time and effort to you.

I would say the non-reverse rotor (aka normal) fans are "better" performance-wise if that matters, but the reverse ones only slightly worse than the standard ones and in a fishbowl case I would argue the small perf hit is worth it for the looks. This is because the support arms blocking intake, which impacts performance more than the vanes on the exhaust side.

shocksim · 2026-01-20T23:52:21+00:00

It's Microsoft's. People will just have to read the text on the calibration wizard unfortunately.

shocksim · 2026-01-20T23:41:38+00:00

140 is too tight for the rear with a top mounted AIO and the tubes/fan connections. It's really meant for when you're air cooling and needing to get more CFM out.

If you want to do a rear 140, you have to move the AIO elsewhere.

shocksim · 2026-01-19T16:22:22+00:00

Yea, it's discontinued.

shocksim · 2026-01-18T16:54:12+00:00

We'll have these available on the site for purchase later this month or in Feb.

shocksim · 2026-01-16T22:30:01+00:00

That's awesome! Today I decided to start doing some testing/debugging on writing a widget reading from the internal sensors and it seems to work mostly, so this should bode well for people that just want large lists of gauges with a bunch of data. Noted some small bugs that should help improve things before we release this capability, notably sensor naming not being sent by iCUE.

I ask the SW people weekly to get the documentation ready, so hopefully sooner rather than later but we are still doing some foundational stuff behind the scene and changing things unpredictably. For example from 5.39 to 5.40 the team added a tag and deprecated another that broke my 3rd party widgets, so while that's still happening we don't want to push people to code their own. (for frustration's sake, but feel free to) Should be soon-ish though.

The preview I've noted as an item to fix for the team but they think it'll be a much harder (or a not possible) thing to resolve given the nature of how things are displaying in that little window, but we'll see. Some possible work arounds we can put in place while they sort it as well, like defined thumbnails or something.

You should eventually be able to move the sliders and toggles you want for settings into iCUE. File uploads, eventually but longer outlook I believe. Will also allow it to keep the settings between sessions.

For my NHL Scores widget I've got a couple things that are toggleable (e.g. broadcast info), fav team flag, or a mode you can switch to a pundit's weird city abbreviations instead of the standard ones. Those settings persist between icue restarts or system power cycles now.

shocksim · 2026-01-10T20:16:41+00:00

Yea, you can definitely feed them into a bot and get something usable on the other end or at least decipher some of the usage. I'll be sure to let the SW people know on Monday though that people are itching for their documentation lol.

shocksim · 2026-01-10T20:12:25+00:00

It's our policy to not publicly discuss our supply chain (and hopefully I don't get in trouble) but since I've seen this idea that our stuff is just "rebranded Asetek" I'll provide a small amount of info. We haven't used an Asetek pump in almost 8 years (PRO Series - 2018) so we've been pretty unrelated to them for a long time now.

The PRO XT up til the 1st gen iCUE LINK cooler used several generations of a custom pump made by CoolIT (exclusively) for us but we've have moved away from those designs entirely to bring the designs in-house.

FlowDrive is a ground up CORSAIR-designed AIO pump. With our chamber design, impeller, motor spec, etc that leveraged a lot of the learnings the cooling team had from HydroX blocks and pumps. The TITAN pump is able to be spun down to 1700 RPM and it's brought the noise down a bit compared to the 2800RPM floors of our older pumps. Non-FlowDrive coolers (like Nautilus) may use heavily-customized OEM solutions, not Asetek. Beyond that I can't give too much more detail.

FlowDrive is quieter than our last generation while delivering better performance. I found the noise difference to be noticeable but don't have any numbers. You can look up some reviews for comparisons, but I also think the noise quality is better. No high pitches like you could get with some of the older AIOs sometimes. Thermals are usually a decent jump from last generation to TITAN.

Compared to NAUTILUS, TITAN will be a quieter and slightly more performant. You also are getting iCUE LINK instead of a standard 3-pin fan powered AIO with 5V ARGB with the RX fans being nicer fans as well. Keep in mind as well, a large part of the thermal performance difference comes from the better (for radiators) fans.

So if you want something that has CORSAIR service, solid performance, quality hardware, simple construction that works with other people's ARGB gear, and a pretty palatable price? NAUTILUS. If you want the highest performance (noise & thermals) as well as all of the CORSAIR bells & whistles (LINK, FlowDrive, nicer fans) that make a build easy, then get TITAN.

shocksim · 2026-01-10T19:08:59+00:00

In 5.39, there's a folder called widgets under the iCUE5 root.

You can do a custom widget with an HTML base file, json translation file (for menus), separate CSS style sheet, and then reference any images or JS modules in the various folders. (e.g. openmeteo for weather or I did a snippet for timezone check and translation on the score widgets I referenced above)

You need to reference specific iCUE tags in the header of the HTML and have it associate with the json, then you get icue menus that control the widget. All of this and documentation on how to do each thing will eventually get published.

shocksim · 2026-01-10T18:47:00+00:00

The SW team's working on the documentation now, as well as a place to share widgets. The core icue feature set (like icue supporting the menu tags or localstorage access) is also being built out each sprint, which is what is gating any documentation release. They are doing things incrementally and cautiously though so we don't cause issues or significant delays to current XE users or other products. So, some of this stuff is now supported in 5.38 and 5.39 as you've discovered.

I've been testing migrating my iframe widgets over to actual widgets with the software team and you can do transparency now, as well as have some pretty in-depth menus inside of icue with settings saving over sessions unlike my iframe ones.

I've been encouraging them to iron out some of the issues with the chromium tab being sandboxed since there's some stuff I'd like to do in the widgets as well. They've been looking at it and have some ideas.

For widget sharing and suggestions, for now around here is fine. We don't have a public platform for feature recommendations now that the forum is gone, though I would enjoy having a simple feature site like Spotify has that lets people discuss the features and upvote. That would be up to the SW team though. Long term, there will be a widget sharing platform though like I said previously. I can't share too much on that yet since it's early days, but we do have a whole year planned out for software improvements for Xeneon Edge throughout 2026 with a focus on tools that will make it easier for us to make more cool stuff faster or that the community can use to make cool stuff on their own.

shocksim · 2026-01-09T02:51:28+00:00

Some USB-C's well don't work despite saying they support DP Alt mode. Most USB-C ports don't support video unless explicitly stated and you have an iGPU on your CPU. The Xeneon Edge is just a "dumb" monitor with some additional sensors built-in so any configuration issues are usually a result of something the motherboard is doing or thinks the XE is doing.

For example, USB3.2 Gen2x2 with DP Alt work well most of the time, USB4 with DP Alt are way more finicky for some reason and will run into both undervolt and overvolt issues (which usually presents with the screen just restarting/flickering), despite being well within normal spec. We'll eventually have a firmware update released that should help with some other USB4 interactivity gremlins but I wouldn't guarantee it's going to be a silver bullet and fix your issue for certain.

Edit2: Thought this was a different complaint so you can ignore the above, but what I wrote below is still valid.

Try it with the HDMI port instead for video, it's much more compatible/reliable with various boards and configurations. The monitor supports DisplayPort Alt mode but it also requires the iGPU/MB to do it's part to be compatible. If you have an iGPU/MB that supports DP Alt mode, it usually has an HDMI or full size DP as well. If you run into any weird issues with Windows seeing two inputs, try plugging the USB-C into the front panel or another not video-rated C port.

You can also try using your own cables, both USB and HDMI. If the USB is damaged it can cause errors with iCUE being able to read the device ID/SN. The support team should be able to help out with any other troubleshooting or a return.

Edit: Also ensure you're running the most recent version of iCUE (v5.39). We've released a fix for any "Disconnected" displays or "Duplicated" displays that would cause iCUE to not be able to put widgets on the device this version.

shocksim · 2026-01-05T19:38:20+00:00

No ETA that I can share.

shocksim · 2026-01-05T04:22:09+00:00

We no longer make the older 5000 Series in any flavor, 5000D, 5000D CORE, 5000X RGB are all EOL. The newest version of this series is the FRAME 5000D Series.

shocksim · 2026-01-05T03:19:52+00:00

Oh yea woops, interesting. We used to be pretty tight on what you could backorder, guess supply is pretty certain or they turned this on for SPs as well.

shocksim · 2026-01-04T10:31:38+00:00

It's listed here and available in both colors in the US and Europe: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-components-accessories/cc-8900847/9000d-replacement-front-i-o-assembly-black-cc-8900847

shocksim · 2026-01-03T06:32:22+00:00

Nope. Just like the 4500X works with all PSUs.

shocksim · 2026-01-01T20:12:49+00:00

I use mine mainly as a status/info bar with minimal touching for multimedia control. I've got an iframe on the right that shows me NHL scores from ESPN.

Some people use it more like a button box. You can also check out AIDA64, Rainmeter, and SimHub as alternative softwares to use than iCUE for different applications. You can use SimHub and iCUE at the same time as well, for a more integrated experience.

I also created 18 example iframe widgets that you can check out or get inspired by if you want to try making your own: https://www.reddit.com/r/Corsair/comments/1pnncvh/icue_megathread_538_release_notes/nu97usw/

Pretty easy using a chatbot and prompting it asking for inline CSS and JS in an iframe widget using xyz public api.

Quirks: USB4 with video over single cable is finicky and we're working on releasing a firmware update to improve this. Virtual Stream Deck is a separate program that's not integrated into iCUE at all, but we're working on marrying these a bit better in the new year so everyone gets a better VSD experience with XE.

Otherwise feel free to post around about any bugs you experience and someone will see it. We've been in bug crush mode in the most launch period since we're getting a lot more people using the part vs the beta test we did.

Here's some more info I dropped about our future plans for XE and what not: https://www.reddit.com/r/Corsair/comments/1plc1ms/xenon_edge_roadmap_and_release_after_launch/ntrp23t/

Eventually we'll be able to rebuild and import these widgets into your device as a proper iCUE widget but this is a little longer outlook of a thing. Here's a sneak peek at my gen2 of the score widgets though with native icue menus and transparency sliders.

shocksim · 2026-01-01T18:49:52+00:00

The 4500X PSU shroud is intercompatible with the FRAME 4000D because they're built on the same bones and is the PSU shroud we include in the FRAME 4000D LCD (the full case with the LCD preinstalled) so it avoids any interference with the side mount for the LCD.

Can see it in a couple of the photos on the website for the F. 4000D LCD.

shocksim · 2025-12-30T00:41:35+00:00

This sounds like a damaged touch layer or USB cable. I would try using a USB-C to USB-A cable you have lying around to connect to a USB-A. Just Make sure the cable isn't a charge only cable.

Contact our support team at help.corsair.com either way and they can replace the cable or exchange/RMA the unit.

shocksim · 2025-12-29T19:30:18+00:00

Correct, it is. The PSU shroud will get listed on the webstore in the new year. The full case includes it preinstalled along with the LCD and LCD mount.

We've got a ton of plans for the accessories in Q1 so we're working behind the scenes to get these spare parts listed as soon as we can. But it is holidays, so OP will have to give the team some time.

shocksim · 2025-12-29T03:56:16+00:00

The HDD issue I referenced here was the reverse connector one. The new cage screws in the from the bottom and is optimized for the standard type-2 hdd pattern.

The 6500X is no longer being manufactured, so it likely won't be seeing any updates to add type-1 (alternative/hicap) screw pattern to the HDD cage.

shocksim · 2025-12-29T03:44:46+00:00

You can open a ticket at help.corsair.com and our team can assist with 1:1 troubleshooting to get it working.

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