# Automatic "Now Playing" section colors often lack contrast

**URL:** http://support.symfonium.app/t/automatic-now-playing-section-colors-often-lack-contrast/5458
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** fixed
**Created:** [October 6, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/automatic-now-playing-section-colors-often-lack-contrast/5458 "2024-10-06T14:51:00Z")
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### Author: ![lord\_llama](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@lord\_llama](http://support.symfonium.app/u/lord_llama)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/automatic-now-playing-section-colors-often-lack-contrast/5458/1 "2024-10-06T14:51:00Z")

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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.

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(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.

## Logs:

Upload description: lord\_llama

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## Media provider:

Jellyfin

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 ![Screenshot 1](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b297c447001787d2b58d784572c6c89bf68c2a18.png)&nbsp; ![Screenshot 2](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5d3048e2c9ece977329df7019d5c54bd0bc5fbcb.png)&nbsp; ![Screenshot 3](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/9/902bf8e36406a416664f545c9d2fbc39109d197f.png)&nbsp; ![Screenshot 4](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1259cf8784aa1645fc88c53959dd5c56b566d2c7.png)&nbsp;

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### Author: ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/automatic-now-playing-section-colors-often-lack-contrast/5458/2 "2024-10-06T16:04:03Z")

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Please upload the songs and your theme to [https://upload.symfonium.app](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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### Author: ![lord\_llama](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@lord\_llama](http://support.symfonium.app/u/lord_llama)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/automatic-now-playing-section-colors-often-lack-contrast/5458/3 "2024-10-06T16:25:04Z")

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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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### Author: ![lord\_llama](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@lord\_llama](http://support.symfonium.app/u/lord_llama)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/automatic-now-playing-section-colors-often-lack-contrast/5458/4 "2024-10-06T16:43:30Z")

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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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### Author: ![Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/tolriq/32/726_2.png) [@Tolriq](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Tolriq)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/automatic-now-playing-section-colors-often-lack-contrast/5458/5 "2024-10-06T17:01:33Z")

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You are not changing the correct option ? 🙂

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

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### Author: ![lord\_llama](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@lord\_llama](http://support.symfonium.app/u/lord_llama)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/automatic-now-playing-section-colors-often-lack-contrast/5458/6 "2024-10-06T17:07:39Z")

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