[Desktop] Video size in podcasts

[sirSlani]

You can currently only choose between a small video size and full screen.

I wish you could stretch the video to the rest of the window, as the rest of it is really a waste of space. Full screen would be alright but then I can't do anything else with that screen.

[YoMama1]

cant watch Rogan on a tiny ass screen.. i rather not watch it at all..

[flashfir]

Yeah I'm watching and I have to blow up the scaling on Spotify settings when I watch the video to avoid having it take up my whole monitor... very surprising no customization.

[drdhan]

Hey Spotify!

You need to get on that videoplayer problem for PC!

It's been like almost half a year!

[Jambo_]

This needs to be a thing. Would be nice if we could get a resizable full-screen window, so the Spotify app doesn't render my screen useless.

[gwhit2013]

Maybe adding a "pop-out window" button to separate the video player from the Spotify window? I am having issues looking at other episodes since the video snaps to the default size in the middle of the screen. Makes queuing up additional episodes harder. Also maybe a way to designate if newer episodes play or older episodes play next.

[billystyle]

I just figured out an easy (although clunky and silly) workaround to this while watching podcasts in a browser. Making the browser window wider will make the video player size grow. The height of the browser window doesn't seem to affect the video player size. Right now I have a podcast open in a window that's invisibly hanging quite a ways off of the side of my monitor.

[voolproov]

As of version 1.1.55.498.gf9a83c60-a of the desktop app the video output is even smaller! Now it's on the lower right of the window and literally thumbnail sized. Why are you making it even worse than it already was?!

Why does the video not use the horizontal space of the window like YouTube theater mode does?

[FractionReserve]

For now I use the Stylish Chrome plugin and this snippet as the style; 

#main > div > div.Root__top-container > div.Root__now-playing-bar > footer > div {
	height: 70px;
}

#main > div > div.Root__top-container > div.Root__now-playing-bar > footer > div > div.now-playing-bar__center > div > div.playback-bar {
    width: 140%;
}

#main > div > div.Root__media > div.Root__video-player > div {
    --video-player-min-width: 1500px;   
    right: 20px;
    bottom: 70px;
    z-index: 9999
}

On URLs starting with; https://open.spotify.com/

It's not perfect or the cleanest but for me it's better than using the desktop app. It's really unfortunate being someone who's learning coding and seeing it take them so long to come up with a solution to this, this should have been a feature a long time ago and it doesn't take long to do if you actually have the source to the desktop app. I even considered trying to reverse engineer it just to modify it but that's a bit much.. maybe Spotify could actually improve their platform instead?

[eekhbo0n8z9goio]

I made an account just to upvote this. 

PLEASE add this feature.  I am not really sure why it isn't there already, or why it is taking so long.  I am very aware that the main reason Spotify added video AT ALL was to placate Joe Rogan's requests for coming over to the platform: I know that Spotify did not want ANY video at all, and he had to convince Spotify before he was willing to join.  But please, for the love of all of your users here: LET US RESIZE THE VIDEO TO A SIZE THAT IS IN BETWEEN FULLSCREEN AND A TEENY TINY CORNER OF ABOUT 60 PIXELS!

I have 2 monitors, a 2k and a 4k monitor, that I use for a variety of types of work.  Not having an in-between legitimately kills my ability to listen/watch the podcast while doing ANY other work.  The default non-full screen size is SO SMALL, especially on monitors of this resolution, that it is borderline useless; the other option is to take up the ENTIRE 2560x1440 or 3840x2160, which makes the monitor effectively useless for any type of work that IS NOT watching the podcast.  And although I know I have some large resolutions at play here, I also am aware that THIS IS STILL A PROBLEM AT 1080p RESOLUTIONS, as I have seen the same problem myself, firsthand, with another user who has a 1080p monitor.

One reason that I used YouTube to watch his podcast in the first place, was the fact that YouTube worked in a browser: it allowed you to resize the window as the user sees fit.

I am no whiz-kid programmer myself, but I am VERY CONFIDENT that it should not take the programmers Spotify has at their desks the amount of time it has so far to get ANY sort of in-between of full screen and micro window.  Even a THEATER MODE would be a blessing!

Again, I am NOT someone who has been complaining non-stop about Rogan (and other podcasters, for that matters) move to Spotify: I do NOT believe you are trying to stifle him, or his free-speech, as so many do.  What my complaints ARE, however, are VERY PRACTICAL and completely obvious to anyone who uses these features.  I just don't understand what is taking you guy so long.  This is a VERY BASIC quality of life feature, the ability to stream at different resolutions besides full screen or tiny window no bigger than a postage stamp.  Please folks, for the love of all of your users out there: provide us a solution! 

Again, I would even settle for something as mediocre as THEATER MODE in meantime while you guys figure out how to code something as basic as resizing a window and the resolution that the window takes up.  You already allow it to take up a variety of resolutions (see my resolutions listed earlier: both work in full screen, meaning that you already allowing adjustable resolutions for the stream).  And again, I'm no whiz-kid programmer, but this should not be taking as much time as it has to solve this issue.  If it IS, that speaks to some problems you guys have already on your backend/API, and makes me question what kind of code makes up the bulk of the Spotify web browser as it is. 

It is IMPOSSIBLE to watch the show in the default tiny window provided, ESPECIALLY SO when I need to resize that window right off the back to take up half screen, or quarter screen, which means that the TINY WINDOW is now ALSO half screen/tiny screen, etc.  

We are willfully paying for the service: let us use the service in a practical way!

Attached are some examples so you can see how tiny the Window is at a 4k resolution.  It will probably not mean much to someone viewing the image at a lower resolution (i.e. 1080p), but for someone who views them at 4k, or even 2k, you will see just how drastically small those windows are.

 
@FractionReserve I could NOT AGREE ANYMORE!  I am no whiz-kid programmer, in fact I'd consider myself a poor coder as of now.  But even I could see how easily this could be resolved.  Again, unless there is something REALLY WEIRD on their stack backend, or their API in general, since it was not designed for video AT ALL to begin with and they only capitulated, as far as I am aware, because of how big Rogan is and because he essentially demanded there to be video.  Even still though, you created a solution using a 3rd party browser PLUGIN how quickly?  Thank you for this, by the way.  Again, I consider myself a poor programmer as of now (I'm a hardware guy through and through), but even I BELIEVE I could have solved it eventually (albeit slower than you have).  So, again, THANK YOU for your fix.

Again, @Spotify to reiterate: 

We are willfully paying for the service: let us use the service in a practical way!

I made two edits to this post: first, to thank @FractionReserve for the fix he created using a PLUGIN; second, to correct myself and state that it was using a PLUGIN (according to @FractionReserve) and NOT an extension, as there is a difference between the two.

[domje]

+1 - Watching a podcast on my 34" Ultrawide whilst doing other work is a real nuisance, we need pop out video like you get in chrome.