{"id":2447922,"date":"2026-06-06T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2447922"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:49:11","slug":"new-options-added-to-slick-dynamic-music-pill-gnome-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-options-added-to-slick-dynamic-music-pill-gnome-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"New options added to (slick) Dynamic Music Pill GNOME extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dynamic.webp?ssl=1\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Dynamic Music Pill<\/em>, the blingy GNOME Shell extension that adds now playing track info, media controls and even real-time lyrics to your desktop, has gained some new options.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cLike what?\u201d,<\/em> you ask\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you don\u2019t want to see the name of the artists in the panel pill, you no longer have to: a \u2018show artist\u2019 toggle lets you hide it. The extension already has an option to <em>dynamically<\/em> hide artist labels if there\u2019s not enough room to display it alongside the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On that topic, when long artist names and track titles combine, the pill will scroll the labels from right to left, so you can read it all. The scrolling animation happens even if playback is paused. A new option lets you\u00a0pause scrolling\u00a0when pausing music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using \u2018Tablet Mode\u2019, which embeds your choice of playback control buttons <em>inside<\/em> the pill (so you don\u2019t have to click to reveal it) now lets you set the position of the buttons inside of the pill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sidenote: I prefer the main pop-over (album art, cool colours, lyrics), even in tablet mode. If the pop-was moveable (i.e., \u2018floated\u2019 on the desktop a la <em>Turntable<\/em> (or <em>CoverGloobus<\/em>, for the veteran readers), with the pill toggling it, that would be, to quote one cool teen, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=296jHs4im-U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cool<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other changes in Dynamic Music Pill v1.2.0 update: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u2018Media Source\u2019\u00a0buttons placement options<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Toggle to hide <em>Auto (Smart Selection)<\/em> from player selector <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lyric fetching requests parallelised for \u2018faster loading\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Artist name no longer crop in panel mode<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dynamic Music Pill<\/em> is free, open-source software that works with GNOME 45 to 50, however the v1.2.0 release is (at the time of writing) only listed for GNOME 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It can read from any MPRIS-compatible media source but support for some elements, like album art and lyrics, may vary based on player source. A wealth of options are included \u2013 this news report only covered what\u2019s new in the latest update.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.omgubuntu.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dynamic Music Pill, the blingy GNOME Shell extension that adds now playing track info, media controls and even real-time lyrics to your desktop, has gained some new options. \u201cLike what?\u201d, you ask\u2026 If you don\u2019t want to see the name of the artists in the panel pill, you no longer have to: a \u2018show artist\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2447923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[480623,480624],"class_list":["post-2447922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-eye-candy","tag-gnome-extensions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/New-options-added-to-slick-Dynamic-Music-Pill-GNOME-extension.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447924,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447922\/revisions\/2447924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}