[Fire TV] New 'Now Playing' interface: Feedback

[paulrichardcook]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Insignia 50" TV

Operating System

Amazon Fire TV v. 6241047.1, Fire OS v. 6.2.7.3
Spotify app v. 1.33.0

My Question or Issue

Hello, I would like to submit feedback about the redesign of the 'Now Playing' screen in the Fire TV app, which has been updated at some point over the last week.

Previously the app displayed a minimalist screen that showed a nearly full-screen version of the album artwork for the song currently playing, over top of a gradient background (based on the colors from the album art).  On each side of the main album cover were smaller album covers for the 2 songs just played (to the left), and the next 2 songs in the queue (to the right).

The name of the artist and the title of the song were beneath the main album cover along with the controls (play, pause, timeline, etc.).

This was a simple, elegant design.  The changing gradients were incredibly beautiful, as was the 'carousel' version of showing the queue.  An example image is attached.

Now, the background seems to have been replaced by a very grainy and very dark version of a photo of the artist (sometimes you can't even tell what the photo is, because it's a darkened version of a photo that was dark to begin with!) that is visually unappealing.  The album cover remains, but has been reduced to about 25% of the previous size and has been relegated to the bottom left corner.  Album covers are designed to be visually appealing, so they should be of the utmost prominence.  Looking at a singer's bad teeth is not a justifiable replacement.

Information about which songs are coming up next has been taken away altogether except for a brief few seconds at the end of the current song via a small box in the upper right, which displays information about a single song.

This new design takes away from the visual appeal and *removes* useful information from the UI.

If there were an option to toggle between this new view and the previous one (the beautiful one) (and disable the Genius information/lyrics at the same time - I've seen many users request that), that would be ideal.

Bring back the album covers and minimalist gradients.

[Joelsouza]

O que aconteceu com spotify TV não aparece mais as capas dos artistas uma do lado da outro voltem por favor era tão legal dava pra saber qual cantor iria rodar na próxima música

[Alex]

Hi @paulrichardcook,

Thanks for reaching out in the Community about this and sharing your thoughts on the new interface design.

Spotify constantly strives to improve the user experience with its features and the easiest way to achieve this is by regular app updates. That’s why we appreciate you taking the time to share your suggestion with the Community. 

If you think other users might also like it, go ahead and create an idea on the relevant idea board. We always take new ideas and feedback into consideration to improve the app. Here you can read more on how ideas work.

We also suggest checking this help article for useful tips on how to submit an idea. As a heads-up, it's good to know that the higher the number of votes an idea gets, the more likely it is for the idea to be implemented  

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any more questions.