Separate wavebar and controls of mini player in lyrics view

Feature description:

Allow toggling the display of wave bar and playback controls separately instead of together as “mini player”.

Problem solved:

The wavebar and controls together take up so much vertical screen space that the cover (if selected to be displayed in portrait mode) is shrunk down considerably to allow enough space for the lyrics text. When only selecting the controls or the wavebar, this can be avoided, resulting in a cleaner look.

I personally don’t need/want the controls in the lyrics screen (they belong in the now playing screen imho) but I’d love to see the wavebar.

The only part of the playback controls I think belongs in the lyrics view is an option to play/pause, which you could add by allowing play/pause by tapping the cover (if it’s displayed) like in now playing.

That way cover, lyrics and wavebar could be displayed together cleanly (see mockup) and tapping the cover would play/pause, which is the view I’d consider optimal.

Brought benefits:

It would give users more granular control over what they want to see in the lyrics view.

Other application solutions:

 
None, the lyrics view in Symfonium is already leaps and bounds better than that of any other app I know.
 

Additional description and context:

 
Screenshot 1 shows the current view when displaying the cover + mini player, the cover being quite small.
Screenshot 2 shows the current view when displaying only the cover.
Mockup 3 shows what I would like to display. The cover in all it’s glory, the wavebar at the bottom and the lyrics snugly in-between. Being able to tap the cover to play/pause would be the cherry on top.

Separating wavebar and controls would also be an upgrade to the horizontal lyrics view (without cover) where having the mini player currently takes up 3/4 of the vertical space.
 

Screenshots / Mockup:

 

   

Thanks for implementing it!
I just tested the split wavebar/miniplayer and it did not yield the result I had hoped for.
The goal behind my request was to still display the cover big while only showing the wavebar (which takes up little vertical space).

Sadly the cover is shrunk down the same way whether the miniplayer + wavebar are displayed:


or whether only the wavebar (or only the miniplayer) is displayed:

I guess the level of shrinking of the cover depends on the number of elements that are displayed. Currently that seems to be incremented by 1 in all 3 cases (only wavebar, only miniplayer, miniplayer + wavebar).
Could you change this to only increment by 1 in the miniplayer+wavebar case? Neither miniplayer nor wavebar on their own take up a lot of vertical space.
Or alternatively add an option to always display the cover at full size?

I also still think being able to tap the cover to play/pause would be useful and consistent between now playing and lyrics view.

Most people wants to see more lyrics :slight_smile:

And the action on the image will be configurable at some point.

So will stay like that for now.