Refine and animated Album/Artist/playlist header art work

Feature requests
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Feature description:

I think some adjustments to the header artwork would really look nice. There are 2 things I would see as a visual benefit to the app.

  1. Create a image size scroll effect of the header art. So scrolling down makes the artowrk go smaller and vice versa. Some similar motion is already happening with the filter/cast buttons on these pages, or look at spotify for the animation I meant.

  2. The padding in the header could be reduced even more. There is about 1/8 of the screen (I didn’t measure :grinning_face:) of wasted space and it could look beeter in my opinion.

Problem solved:

Solves no problem but just polishing the edges.

Brought benefits:

Looks and the animation makes the app more lively.

Other application solutions:

 

 

Additional description and context:

 
See screenshots for more context.

Edit: Screenshot uploading not working. Will post and try to edit.

Spotify screenshots show the standard view vs the view after scrolling downwards.
 

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you can reduce the size of the space by making the header smaller, you also can hide the banner and keep the image, i doubt about the scrollable size thing tho.

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If you want less space on the edges, you can make the header large and make the header background the album art.

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This doesnt quite work as some of the image will be behind the opaque background. Some album artwork contain text here and it cannot be seen properly with this approach.

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Same as above.

Imo. Having the artwork centered with minimal header still looks best but also more importantly actually works for all artwork.

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This is the best look I can get. Even still I would say the empty header is too big.

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What if you tried putting title and artist “below (center)” instead of above?

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Thanks for the hint and yes this does indeed not cover the album. Looking much better.

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I maybe dumb but where do you dl these bbc radio essentials stuff ? I would love to check these out … Thanks !!