Desktop: Adjust Now Playing Screen

eddiewho — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:52:22 GMT

Is there a way to change the way the Now Playing Screen looks? There is so much wasted space. The song title scrolls across a tiny area and there is rarely enough room to show the artist name and album title. Why? It's really annoying for no reason. Plaster the page with advertisements, I don't care. But please - I just want to see the full song title, artist name, and album name.

mod edit: changed title for clarity

Re: Desktop: Adjust Now Playing Screen

AlyssaPandora — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:53:27 GMT

Hey there, @eddiewho. 👋

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to adjust the Now Playing screen from the web or the desktop app.

However, if you'd like to have the ability to change it, I would recommend creating a new idea here.

You can upvote ideas by clicking on the 💙 icon next to the title of an idea.

Thanks so much for posting on the community! 🎹

Re: Change Desktop Dashboard/Now Playing Screen

kylejester — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:38:05 GMT

I fixed this with a userscript in the Tampermonkey chrome extension.

1. Get Tampermonkey
2. Click the extension and "Create a new script"
3. Paste the following into the new script file:

// ==UserScript== // @Name Pandora now Playing // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.1 // @description try to take over the world! // @author You // @match https://www.pandora.com/station/play/210184843936399976 // @Icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=pandora.com // @Grant none // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; function addGlobalStyle(css) { var head, style; head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]; if (!head) { return; } style = document.createElement('style'); style.type = 'text/css'; style.innerHTML = css; head.appendChild(style); } addGlobalStyle( '.NowPlaying__centerWrapper, .nowPlayingTopInfo, .nowPlayingTopInfo__coverGroup, .nowPlayingTopInfo__current__inner, .nowPlayingTopInfo__current { max-width: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; }' ); addGlobalStyle( '.nowPlayingTopInfo__current__trackName, .nowPlayingTopInfo__current__row2 { line-height: 130% !important; font-size: 1 !important; font-size: 250% !important; overflow: visible !important; max-width: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; }' ); addGlobalStyle( '.nowPlayingTopInfo__current__albumName, .NowPlayingTopInfo__current__artistName { line-height: 130% !important; font-size: 1 !important; font-size: 100% !important; overflow: visible !important; max-width: 80% !important; width: 80% !important; }' ); addGlobalStyle( '.nowPlayingTopInfo__coverGroup { margin-bottom:20% !important; }' ); })();

4. On line 7 of this code snippet change the URL to your station URL, and add a @match entry for any other stations you want to add (this is the annoying part).
5. Save the userscript file and open/refresh Pandora.

All this does is make the song title, band, and album text larger and less cramped. I'm not a coder, there's probably a more streamlined way, but this worked for me to not have to walk across the room to see what's playing despite having an enormous screen. It really is a waste of space and the text info we want to see is literally smaller than the menu options. Come on Pandora, give us a Now Playing screen that actually tells us WHAT'S PLAYING. Sheesh.

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