# My adaptive now playing style, with or without T-Rex (🦖)

**URL:** <http://support.symfonium.app/t/my-adaptive-now-playing-style-with-or-without-t-rex/8302>\
**Category:** Styles and themes\
**Tags:** now-playing-style\
**Created:** [May 9, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/my-adaptive-now-playing-style-with-or-without-t-rex/8302 "2025-05-09T17:43:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![655321](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/655321/32/1975_2.png) [@655321](http://support.symfonium.app/u/655321)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/my-adaptive-now-playing-style-with-or-without-t-rex/8302/1 "2025-05-09T17:43:28Z")

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My goal was to achieve a result that can adapt to how much information is present, from **clean** to **information overload**.

**Features:**

- The track number and delimiter are displayed in front of the clean title when present
- The year is displayed behind the album title in braces when present
- The album artist is displayed if it differs from the artist
- The composer is displayed when present, denoted by a `by` in front of the value
- Fields that exceed 1 line are displayed on up to 2 lines (title, artist, album, albumartist)
- All often used buttons are in thumb reach at the bottom at fixed positions

There are 2 versions of my Style. 1 with the unicode T-Rex as the delimiter between track number and title and one with the default delimiter. I also included a legacy version where I still had the font sizes a bit bigger that I presented [here](http://support.symfonium.app/t/show-off-your-now-playing-screen/6783/11).

**Example images for T-Rex delimiter:**  
Minimal information:

 ![01 T-Rex Min](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/3/34f8175ca99ee9aa0764ba9415bbfde4a0d0339c.jpeg)

Medium information:

 ![02 T-Rex Mid](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c397c5d7d4cc42dfb0630e844b59a45cba657124.jpeg)

Maximal information:

 ![03 T-Rex Max](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b449ccef377a81debc79f3e2fa193c715a6c64e7.jpeg)

> **Example images for Plain style**
>
> Minimal information:
> 
> ![01 Plain Min](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/2/21e98c68cfabf17052300ea85721872aa3188afc.jpeg)  
> Medium information:  
> ![02 Plain Mid](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3332bbe6887af2b6b01ea2e1f823c50ef6af59ae.jpeg)  
> Maximal information:  
> ![03 Plain Max](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6f77893d8b7b6f3a338de5e932ac7027900469d6.jpeg)

Admittedly this can become pretty bloated and overwhelming in extreme cases but I’ve color-coded it. Information at the track level is white (title, artist, composer) and album information is grey (album, year, albumartist), alternating between track and album information.

**Update to account for changes to the compact player made in [v13.0.0](http://support.symfonium.app/t/version-13-0-0-released/8488):**

- slightly increased height of the wave bar
- reconfigured the compact player to fit my style
- added the T-Rex delimiter to the compact player

v1.1 Screenshots:  
Compact Player:

 ![04 T-Rex 1.1 Compact](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/7/77c487468fe513a99fe459c68d9f98323df4aac3.jpeg)

Now Playing:

 ![04 T-Rex 1.1](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3714ec79665d76195f122051204fc78849057f8f.jpeg)

I’ve also updated the plain style with ● as delimiter.

Current style with 🦖 as delimiter (looks differently in the app) v1.1:  
[nps-655321 T-Rex v1.1-20250527\_125559-symfonium.json](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/short-url/4vckr2OiOU4uz3ROwPWQ69y00cn.json) (15,3 KB)

Current style with ● as delimiter v1.1:  
[nps-655321 Plain v1.1-20250527\_125559-symfonium.json](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/short-url/85NlkWx9QuvvXx7DTo1V24CUJZa.json) (15,3 KB)

Old style:  
[nps-655321 Plain old-20250509\_191540-symfonium.json](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/short-url/heRWCTmzu7z2M0UY0OCCe7tQyKY.json) (14,0 KB)