Full screen lyrics issue

[Leovm1]

Plan

Premium

Country

Brazil

Operating System

Windows 11

Spotify Version

Spotify for Windows (64 bit)
1.2.84.476.ga1ff6607

My Question or Issue

Hello,

I’ve always used Spotify with the lyrics displayed in full screen on my second monitor. However, today I clicked the “Show artwork” button and since then I lost the ability to display the lyrics in full screen.

Before this happened, all three options (Show artwork, Show canvas, and Show artist image) were disabled. When I pressed the Lyrics button, the lyrics would appear in full screen and the interface elements (library, side panels, controls, etc.) would disappear.

Now I can no longer disable these options; I can only switch between them.

When I press the Lyrics button, instead of staying in full screen, Spotify zooms out and shows the full interface:

• “Your Library” on the right

• “Now Playing” on the left

• Home/Search on the top

• Playback controls on the bottom

These elements also no longer disappear like they used to in full-screen lyrics mode.

In the attachments, I included:

1. The buttons that triggered the problem

2. How the lyrics appear now

3. How the full-screen lyrics looked before, with the playback controls appearing when hovering the lower part of the screen

Note that I'm talking about the full screen inside the app, the full screen function for the app itself works as intended. 

Thank you in advance for your help.

[underd0g]

Not a fan of this, revert the changes.

[sibski]

There are some work-arounds for technical users (although anyone can figure this out with AI these days).

Here's what worked for me (on a Mac):

1. Install spicetify:

   curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/cli/main/install.sh | sh

2. Create an extension hideContent.js - if you want to customize, edit SELECTOR & HOTKEY values:

(function hideElementsShortcut() {
    if (!Spicetify.Platform) {
        setTimeout(hideElementsShortcut, 100);
        return;
    }

    const SELECTOR = 'div[id="global-nav-bar"], div[id="Desktop_LeftSidebar_Id"], div[class="Root__now-playing-bar"], div[class="Root__right-sidebar"]';
    const HOTKEY = {
        ctrl: true,
        shift: true,
        key: "H",
    };

    let hidden = false;

    function applyHiddenState() {
        const nodes = document.querySelectorAll(SELECTOR);
        nodes.forEach((el) => {
            el.style.display = hidden ? "none" : "";
        });
        console.log(`[spicetify] ${hidden ? "hid" : "showed"} ${nodes.length} element(s)`);
    }

    document.addEventListener("keydown", (event) => {
        const matches =
            (!!HOTKEY.ctrl === event.ctrlKey) &&
            (!!HOTKEY.shift === event.shiftKey) &&
            event.key.toUpperCase() === HOTKEY.key;

        if (!matches) return;

        event.preventDefault();
        event.stopPropagation();

        hidden = !hidden;
        applyHiddenState();
    });

    // Re-apply after Spotify rerenders parts of the UI
    const observer = new MutationObserver(() => {
        if (hidden) applyHiddenState();
    });

    observer.observe(document.body, {
        childList: true,
        subtree: true,
    });

    console.log("[spicetify] hideElementsShortcut loaded");
})();

• Save to ~/.spicetify/Extensions/hideContent.js
• Run these commands:

  1. spicetify config extensions hideContent.js

  2. spicetify apply

• Restart the app - <ctrl + shift + h> will hide those sidebars, search nav, and 'now playing' bottom bar

[Kelvinkam]

This is the most stupid thing I've ever seen in Spotify app. Revert it now!!! We don't need to force to have full screen in lyrics view.

[mcatanzano]

use it an a browser it will be like it was

[lucianct]

I'm not a big fan of the current design with lyrics in the center of the screen.

I liked it when the lyrics were on the right (instead of "now playing"). I want to search for songs (or view the songs in the playlist) and see the lyrics at the same time.  

[wumpoooo]

Having the same issue, clicked "Show artwork" out of curiosity and I'm unable to deselect it now. Clicking the lyrics button just leaves the full screen mode. Uninstalled, cleared cache, nothing helped. It's wild that nothing has been done to fix this yet, why not? Why not give the user a choice?

[Rxts_Leaf]

Hello, chronically online music listener here. Please return the old way the lyrics were shown in fullscreen, this new version where you only get the artists image or album cover is genuinely bad. I usually play something and have Spotify with the lyrics on my 2nd monitor fullscreened so I can follow and sing along to the songs. but with this new update it sucks because sometimes the white font for what lyric is currently being sung will blend into the background or it won't sync and I have to re-sync the lyrics. Please just don't change this ever again unless its just a sync improvement or customizable lyrics/background colors

[lhoet]

Yes this looks terrible and I can't understand why an update is a reduction in the quality of the service. How do  I rill back to an earlier version.