Automatic "Now Playing" section colors often lack contrast

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Issue description:

The color automatically chosen from album art for the “Now Playing” section (including progress bar, rating, and rewind/pause/skip buttons) often lacks contrast with my background color, sometimes to the point where I can barely see the buttons when looking closely.

I’ve attached a few example screenshots of especially bad color combinations.

The “state of fluxx” song causes a strange effect I’ve also noticed on other album art where the color of the Now Playing section shows as a gradient. Not sure if that is intentional.

Proposed solution: allow the user to set a static color for the “Now Playing” section.

(this is a request submitted as per a chat conversation from… a while ago. Better late than never, eh?)

lord_llama 8:09 am
Is there a way to disable album art colors being used for the song progress bar, song rating, and playback buttons? I frequently get color combos with very low contrast, and it makes the buttons hard to see.

I’ve disabled both ‘Now playing color sources’ and ‘Library source color.’

Tolriq 8:40 am
Contrast should be ok, please open an issue with the song and your settings. And you can configure many things in the now playing part. Some depends on the others.

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Jellyfin

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Please upload the songs and your theme to https://upload.symfonium.app .

There’s already a settings to expanded now playing to use the theme colors, but I’d still like to fix this too.

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Sure, just uploaded the songs and theme under my username (lord_llama).

Where do I find the setting to use theme colors for now playing?

edit: nevermind, just found it, thanks.

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Ok, I must be stupid, because I still cannot get the Now Playing or Library color source to change away from using a color from album art. I’ve tried setting to: Disabled, Material, and Theme mode color, but none of those settings affect any changes. I’ve also tried all those settings with the default theme applied.

What could I be doing wrong?

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You are not changing the correct option ? :slight_smile:

Expanded now playing, button color, there’s only 2 options Theme default or Dynamic color.

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Ahhhh there it is. That’s what I needed. Thank you for the assistance!