Full screen playback info and visuals (Desktop)

[user-removed]

When you have a nice evening at home with some friends, music playing in the backgound, one question is raised every time and at least once:

- Wow, this is a great song. Who is performing this? From which album is it? Wasn't this guy playing in another band a few years ago?

Unfortunately, the desktop app is at the moment mainly focused on navigating and searching for music and not at all on the graphical / visual experience of the music being played.

On the iOS app this is far better, because you can swith to full screen mode to a static view of the front-side album art, song title and artist name. For starters, this would already be a great addition if this feature would be available for the desktop app as well.

But there are a lot more opportunities to improve the visual experience.

The best one I've experienced so far is a specific skin in XBMC/Kodi: Aeon MQ 5. It combines album art, artist art, artist biography and lyrics in one full screen view. The artist art is even dynamic and changes at a certain interval.

I added a screenshot to give you an impression.

Although there already are some ideas posted about bigger album art, I didn't see any idea's yet about the whole visual experience while listening to your music. Therefore I decided to post this idea.

Anyone else who is missing this or would like this to be developed? Or is it just me?

[nat_nik]

 I don't have that option yet... Anybody who can help me??

[sokoleoko02]

can this be also implemented in TV app ?

[benniferlopez]

This feature no longer exists, gonna have to make a new thread for this to see if they reimplement it

[1polar31]

Why is the feature gone! I need the cover art for my yule fuel!

[Michdi]

I can't get it to work, however the visualizer app also doesn't work for me: 

I don't see the full-screen button on the playbar either...

[hans-jürgen]

@1polar31: If you scrobble your listened tracks to your Last.fm profile, you could use an external online tool called Last.fm Now. See this support thread with screenshots how to do this.

[1polar31]

Thanks for the info

[isabellavecelli]

So how do you make the album go full screen on IOS?

[jeffthedrummer]

It's really not as noticable on iOS or mobile. But album art would have to scale up on the desktop app and other devices (live TV) with larger screens. It's not the album covers, but album art that would be a full screen experience. The now dead Groove did it best. 

[markhdavis]

Similar thought to picking up the visual experience of the music is a full-screen visualizer linked to a TV. Not linked to the album description, but the mood. This one uses a Mac mini. Post https://mhd.tips/spotify-visualizer-medium