Allow disabling cover art overlay icon navigation

Feature requests
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Feature description

The icon displayed over the album artwork (currently the Lyrics or chapters icon) acts as a shortcut to its associated screen.

While this is useful for users who frequently access lyrics, some users prefer the album artwork to remain a self-contained part of the Now Playing Screen, without accidentally leaving it.

Would it be possible to add an optional setting to disable navigation from the cover art overlay icon?

When disabled, the icon would remain visible to indicate that lyrics (or other content) are available, but tapping it would perform no action.

This would allow users to keep the visual indicator without introducing another navigation action on the Now Playing Screen.

Problem solved

Prevents accidental navigation away from the Now Playing Screen.
Allows users who primarily interact with playback controls to keep the overlay purely informational.
Existing behaviour remains unchanged by default.

Brought benefits

Gives users a choice between an interactive shortcut and a passive status indicator.
Allows greater customisation of the Now Playing Screen without removing any existing functionality.
Particularly useful for highly customised layouts where minimising unintended navigation is preferred.

Device type

Phone

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Just remove the button ? The information itself have 0 purpose, they are buttons to be pressed.

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For my workflow, I’m actually using the icon as a status indicator to show that lyrics are available for the current song.

I access lyrics using a separate button later in the NPS, which toggles between the cover art and inline lyrics. I prefer that because it lets me read the lyrics without leaving the Now Playing Screen.

So for me, the overlay icon isn’t the primary way of accessing lyrics—it’s simply an indicator that lyrics are available, while the actual interaction happens elsewhere in the NPS.

I realise that’s probably not the typical workflow, which is why I suggested making it an optional setting rather than changing the current behaviour.