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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?
- 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?
Updated on 2017-08-24
Hey everyone. We're happy to confirm this idea is now Implemented. Currently on Desktop users can go to fullscreen via the fullscreen icon at bottom right on now Playing Bar. This is available within any context so users can watch videos fullscreen as well as experience listening to playlist, podcast in this mode also.
Thanks as always for your continued feedback!