Media

The Media Surface is what the Media Activity expands into: track metadata, album artwork, and a timeline you can seek on. The Island follows the player that is playing, or else the one shown last.

Part	What it does
Player chips	One per player; arrows and Tab ring them, Enter or Space switches
Timeline	Seekable only here, never in the Island’s forms, and only for a player that reports CanSeek with a track id and a length; a seek never leaves the track
Transport	Play/pause, next and previous, through kanade media play-pause|next|previous
Speaker	Left/Right on it sets the volume, 5% a step as Controls’ own bar does
Visualizer	media.visualizer: bars, wave and dots connect to real frequencies through cava, falling back to synthetic motion when cava is absent
Lyrics	media.lyrics: off by default; local reads a .lrc beside a local track, lrclib also asks LRCLIB

[media]
visualizer = "bars"
lyrics = "off"

lrclib sends the playing track’s title, artist, album and length to LRCLIB over https, with a Kanade/<version> User-Agent and nothing else, only while a track plays and this Surface is open. Answers are cached under hashed names in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/kanade/lyrics.

Note

The wheel over an Island showing Media sets the speaker’s level, 5% a line, unless island.wheel is off. A typed character collapses an island opened from a keybind so it goes to the window beneath.

See also

Media configuration, media CLI, and Controls.