How can I prevent "string 1 icon 1 action" from decentralizing the track title?

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App version

Production

Issue description

I’ve been tinkering with the interface and managed to get it to look the way I really like, but I’m bothered by how the favorite button (string 1 icon 1 action) messes up the track title, making it off-center. How can I keep it in the same spot without interfering with the position of the track name?

Device type

Phone

Media provider

Local device

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open Interface>Now Playing Screens>Expanded Player(Portrait)>Controls and Information
    2.Set String 1 to Track Name
  2. Set String 1 Icon 1 Action to “Favorite”
  3. Make everything centralized

Additional information

My theme is based on the theme “N-thing Player”

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AFAIK that’s just how the app works. The button takes up some space and then the text is justified within the remaining space.

Best way to consistently re-center it that I have found is to just add another button on the left side, so that the two will balance.

The gimmicky way (if you are dead-set on having only one button) would be to insert some whitespace characters in front of your string. I generally use braille blanks for this (“⠀” U+2800). How many to put depends on your font and text style.

So instead of %title% you’d use something like ⠀⠀⠀%title% and hope that it pushes the text into the right spot… Trade-off being that long titles cannot extend to the left-edge of the line.

Advanced method would be to not use a string icon at all. You could split the string with \t and have a conditional statement to show a Unicode character :heart: or :heart:. (Assuming your device doesn’t convert these into something else… The second heart is supposed to be an outline.)

Downside of this being that you would need to change your Tap Action to be “Toggle Favorite” and this would apply to tapping the %title% as well.

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Thanks for the reply. I’ll try to find a button I like to put on the other side. I thought of another solution, but I’m not sure how to implement it: would it be possible to add this “favorite” button as a string under the track title and then align it to the right? I know this option isn’t available in the app’s default settings, but is there a custom string for that?

Edit: your reply gave me the idea to put “None (Reserve Space)” and it worked how I wanted. Thank you again!

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If you have string slots free, then yes. You can just have a blank custom string, and set the Favorite icon to show on this string.

That moves the heart off the same line as your title and will create a vertical gap between the title and artist.

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I keep forgetting this was added lol.

Glad I could help!