Enhanced Now Playing Screen Gesture Navigation

Feature requests
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Feature description:

Hi,
I’d love to suggest an enhancement to the Now Playing screen UI in Symfonium . The idea is to add intuitive gesture-based navigation for a more fluid and immersive experience:

Proposed gestures:

Swipe Left: Show Listening History

Swipe Right: Show Current Queue

Swipe Up (from bottom): Reveal Lyrics (if available) or Album Details (e.g. release year, genre, label)

Problem solved:

  1. Clunky navigation
    Without gestures, users have to tap multiple buttons or menus to see history, queue, or lyrics, breaking the listening flow.

  2. Disruptive UI switching
    Currently, switching between queue, history, or lyrics may involve leaving the Now Playing screen, which interrupts the seamless experience.

  3. Slow access to useful info
    Album details and lyrics are valuable but often hidden behind extra taps or menus, making it inconvenient to explore while listening.

  4. Non-intuitive controls for a modern audience
    Many apps now use swipes and gestures for quick access, so the lack of these in Symfonium for Qobuz feels outdated.

  5. Reduced engagement with rich content
    Easy access to lyrics and album info encourages deeper engagement with music; without smooth gestures, users may skip exploring this.

Brought benefits:

Keeps the user in the Now Playing screen without needing extra taps.

Adds convenient access to frequently used features.

Makes the experience more consistent with modern, gesture-driven UI paradigms.

Thank you for considering this!

Other application solutions:

 
Qobuz has the beautiful Navigation gesture !!
 

Additional description and context:

 
The first screenshot shows normal player !! The 2nd screen shows of you swipe left it shows the History queue , the 3rd screenshot shows if you swipe right it shows the Queue and the 4th screenshot shows if you swipe down it shows the album information or Lyrics mainly !!!
 

Screenshots / Mockup:

 

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2

You can already configure gestures and tap actions for most of those.

3

I saw that !! But there is no option of swiping right , all the icons come on the album art which looks very wierd !! Any possible way to add gestures to swipe left up or right or down ? Thanks

4

Left / right changes tracks, the UI is not built with a pager for full screen other pages, the pager is for the tracks.

Use a different now playing like Fill dynamic cover and see that swipe left / right looks just fine.

Swipe down is to close the player since it uses a different paradigm.