# Pure adaptive color background style option for the expanded player (no gradient, no fade to black) **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature requests\ **Tags:** needs-triage\ **Created:** [September 6, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/pure-adaptive-color-background-style-option-for-the-expanded-player-no-gradient-no-fade-to-black/14957 "2026-09-06T23:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fer10](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/fer10/32/10879_2.png) [@Fer10](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Fer10)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/pure-adaptive-color-background-style-option-for-the-expanded-player-no-gradient-no-fade-to-black/14957/1 "2026-09-06T23:16:36Z")
### Feature description Add a “Pure adaptive color” (or “Solid adaptive color without black fallback”) background style option for the expanded player — a solid color taken from the album art that fills the entire background without fading to black. ### Problem solved The two existing adaptive color options have limitations: Solid adaptive color → supposed to fill the background with a solid color, but frequently falls back to black, making it unreliable. Gradient adaptive color → always shows a color, but fades to black toward the bottom, so the entire background never has a consistent color. There is no option that guarantees a full, solid, non-black adaptive color across the entire background. ### Brought benefits A full adaptive color background would be visually striking and modern — similar to how some music apps display a vibrant colored background that matches the album art. If buttons or the progress bar blend into the background, the existing “Background overlay” option can already be used to fix that. ### Other application solutions Apple Music and other modern players display a full vibrant background color extracted from the album art, without fading to black. ### Device type Phone ### Additional description and context The existing “Background overlay” option already provides a solution for contrast issues that may arise when the background color is too similar to the UI elements — so a pure adaptive color option would not require additional contrast handling to be built in. ### I searched existing feature requests on ---
**Author:** ![Fabricio](http://support.symfonium.app/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@Fabricio](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Fabricio)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/pure-adaptive-color-background-style-option-for-the-expanded-player-no-gradient-no-fade-to-black/14957/2 "2026-09-07T22:58:20Z")
Very interesting suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Celorien](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/celorien/32/9277_2.png) [@Celorien](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Celorien)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/pure-adaptive-color-background-style-option-for-the-expanded-player-no-gradient-no-fade-to-black/14957/3 "2026-09-12T21:05:57Z")
> [@Fer10](#): > > Solid adaptive color → supposed to fill the background with a solid color, but frequently falls back to black Would you be able to share a few cover artworks that do this? I have only one art that I _know_ has this issue. I could dig through my library to look for more but if you have some handy that I could play around with, it would be appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Fer10](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/fer10/32/10879_2.png) [@Fer10](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Fer10)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/pure-adaptive-color-background-style-option-for-the-expanded-player-no-gradient-no-fade-to-black/14957/4 "2026-09-12T22:06:53Z")
![Picsart_26-09-12_19-03-51-863](http://support.symfonium.app/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a9855a20f3b83747b758c30d232a793dd7f51faf.jpeg)Many songs make the background turn black, many… ---
**Author:** ![Fer10](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/fer10/32/10879_2.png) [@Fer10](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Fer10)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/pure-adaptive-color-background-style-option-for-the-expanded-player-no-gradient-no-fade-to-black/14957/5 "2026-09-16T22:19:18Z")
One question: Is this an app bug that’s only happening to me? I ask because you said it only happens to you with one song. ---
**Author:** ![Celorien](http://support.symfonium.app/user_avatar/support.symfonium.app/celorien/32/9277_2.png) [@Celorien](http://support.symfonium.app/u/Celorien)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](http://support.symfonium.app/t/pure-adaptive-color-background-style-option-for-the-expanded-player-no-gradient-no-fade-to-black/14957/6 "2026-09-16T22:55:44Z")
No it’s not just you. It’s due to how the app picks colors, I guess. You’ll notice most of the artworks you posted have a lot of white in them. (There’s three that don’t actually fit the bug–the ones where the background is kinda off-grey? The app has actually picked a color for those. Dark mode just has very muted backgrounds.) It’s the same with the track I had. Mainly white, with a fairly even mix of other colors on top. I’m sure I have more tracks that do the same as well, but I was a little lazy to look for them. I switched to Animated Glow a long time ago, which doesn’t have this problem. That said, I’m pretty sure Tolriq knows and will look into it. I asked for some sample pics to help with any testing that may happen.