Something is wrong with your systems then...because it works for everyone I've checked with.
Are you sure that you're just not noticing it? Start a song up...make sure you've enabled it in the toolbars section on the taskbar...and then minimize. You should see the play button looking extremely white...the rest of it is nearly transparent.
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