Manifest is a nice option but I also think there is room for improvement (in the desktop/tablet view). I made a quick mock-up below to show the idea. This loses nothing, and solves two problems:
the album art now covers more than double the screen area
when activated, the volume control no longer obscures the ‘browse’ icon
Good to hear from you @mervinio and that’s great news to hear that this is on the wish list!
Unfortunately my CSS and JS skills aren’t good enough for the open source UI project but I am happy to contribute ideas and Photoshop mock-ups if that helps.