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losnoco / Cog

Cog - A Free and Open Source Audio Player for macOS 10.13+
https://cog.losno.co
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Feature Request: "Vertical" Mini-player #347

Open shrik450 opened 1 year ago

shrik450 commented 1 year ago

Describe Currently, the mini-player is a horizontal toolbar:

Screenshot 2023-03-24 at 10 28 35 AM

In comparison, some other players (e.g. IINA, iTunes) have a "vertical" mini-player:

Screenshot 2023-03-24 at 10 28 32 AM

Over a few weeks of using Cog, my biggest issue is that I've not been able to tuck away the mini player into some corner of the screen so I have it immediately accessible if I need it, but it's not obstructing some other view on my screen. With IINA's mini player, this is a lot easier, because a lot of apps and sites have narrow bands of dead space I can jam a window into. Also, a vertical mini-player can fit in more details and a bigger album art view without drawing as much attention to itself as a wide toolbar would.

Sorry if this has already been suggested and rejected before - I searched a few variants of the title but couldn't find anything similar.

codyellingham commented 1 year ago

To add to this, if the album artwork could be shown more prominently I think this would really make Cog the best music app for me. The one thing missing at the moment is album art in the mini player, and an icon view for each track in the main player.

kode54 commented 1 year ago

Next time I'm on a work binge, I'll try redesigning the mini player layout to be more like this. I'll see what I can do. It will require re-drafting a new window layout and attaching the code to drive it, but it should be reasonably doable.