Tried to replicate BETTER Apple Music Now Playing Screen

(The theme has been edited enough times that I think it’s time for a new thread.)

This is (probably) the closest we can be to the Apple Music theme.

The theme itself:

What I tried to replicate:

One particular addition is the dynamic text (Lossless FLAC), this text has 4 modes. 2 for FLAC files, 1 for OGG/OPUS files, and 1 for EAC3 files:

  • Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless are for flac files, it looks up the sample rate to choose which text to display. 48kHz and below are Lossless, anything higher is Hi-Res Lossless.
  • Data Saver is for OGG/OPUS files, this also works when the player transcodes a FLAC file to a lower bitrate, which I find VERY nice.
  • Dolby Atmos is for MP4/EAC3 files, very rare, but they do exists and this classifies them.

If you have other type of files, you just need to copy a part of the custom string and change the file type. Let’s say you have some MP3 files that you want to classify as “Data Saver“:

  • Go to the custom string, copy something like the OGG/OPUS snippet, and then paste it to recognise MP3 files: {Data Saver %format.codec|format.codec==“MP3” %} (the “MP3“ is referring to whatever the player says on “Mime type“ in the details of the track)
  • “Can’t you just add it to the already existing Data Saver snipper with an OR condition?“ I have seen some very strange behaviour, making me waste a lot of time, just create a new snippet.

You cannot remove the FLAC text after Lossless, this is a limitation of how the app works.

I’d like to thank Tolriq (since it’s based on the theme Resonance) and switchyftw for providing the base for this revisioned theme.

nps-Apple-Music-Royal-v1-20251104_113818-symfonium.json (21.3 KB)

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Open an issue for the white image with details and the file to repro.

The texts should switch to black in that case.

Thank you so much for sharing this :grin:

By any chance do you have a cool look for the home screen of syfonimum I really in joy this player looks amazing

It’s not Apple Music Themed, but this is what I use myself (it should include also this theme)

as-randomtheme-20251105_085248-symfonium.json (55.8 KB)

I’m planning to make a whole Apple Music Theme, but I’ve not started yet since this one looks pretty nice to me, always thanks to the base themes that Tolriq provides (this should be one of the themes with little to no modifications)

Question when you do could you share this would be awesome thank you again for sharing these are amazing

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Question amazing now playing screen one thing has w would you get rid of when you scrub through the song how do you hide the number in over the song cover pls help :grin: