Cover art tap to toggle icon overlay visibility

Feature requests
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Feature description

Add an option so that tapping the cover art toggles the icon overlay on and off. Tapping once shows the icons, tapping again hides them.

Problem solved

The current icon overlay is always visible over the cover art, which many users find visually distracting. The existing transparency options when playing don’t fully solve this — ideally the icons should only appear when the user actively wants to interact with them.

Brought benefits

Allows placing more quick-access actions on the now-playing screen without permanently overlapping the cover art. Cleaner look by default, with full functionality available on demand.

Device type

Phone

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Solid idea imo. I’ve needed this before too but have made do with other workarounds.

Specifically, using a Cover String’s icons where the string visibility is tied to a bool gets you 90% of what you want… Limitation being that the strings are always at the bottom of the cover panel. So there’s no way to replicate the two top-corner buttons.

But if the vertical position of the buttons doesn’t matter too much, this method can do what you need. Definitely less elegant though, and means you’re more limited in using the cover strings for other things.