- New strings in the app suggest Spotify is working on a larger mini-player for music videos when you navigate.
- Music videos currently shrink to a small Now Playing bar, making them hard to watch outside the player screen.
- We don’t know how it will look if it rolls out, but YouTube made a very similar change some time ago.
Spotify music videos feel so normal now that it’s easy to forget they’re still officially a beta feature. That’s a good thing, because it means some of the rough edges are still being ironed out. One of the biggest issues with them is what happens when you leave the Now Playing screen while a video is playing, and it looks like Spotify might be following YouTube’s example in working on a fix.
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Premium users in several regions, including the US and Canada, can already switch between audio and video directly from the Now Playing screen. That part works well enough. The problem starts when you navigate elsewhere in the app. Currently, the video collapses into the Now Playing bar at the bottom. It continues to play just fine, but it’s so small that it might as well not bother. The screenshots below show how it currently looks.
