Thoughts for a modest makeover of the now playing display, when displaying in landscape mode on large monitors or HDTV.
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Divide now playing into a left zone and a right zone, each roughly half of the display, maybe with the right zone slightly wider.
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In the left zone, let the user pick album art or artist photo (probably the circular one so it can scale to fit).
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In the right zone, let the user pick either lyrics, artist bio, album info, or track credits (all scrollable).
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Remove the multiple album cover icons and put arrows under album art to allow cycling through them. (Or just remove this feature.)
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Leave the top row content selection icons, but separate them to their respective zones.
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When playing roon radio, remove the ‘add to library’ line under track info and make it the circle with + sign like on album display. Move it over next to the 3 dot menu. This keeps the now playing screen from resizing/flashing when this line appears and is removed.
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Make the track info fonts slightly larger.
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Optional setting for one zone similar to current layout.
Some examples:
