Tagging this for both Haruna and Elisa as both programs are KDE’s answers to Windows Media Player.
Something I miss, wholeheartedly, from WMP– and tbh it’s the only small feature WMP had, that I care about, and that isn’t in Haruna or Elisa– are visualizers, baked into the program itself (as in, not part of the desktop), that are viewed when WMP is playing a purely-audio file (i.e. an mp3 file… or wma file, but who wants wma over mp3 lol?). They’d play in the section of the app where, if it were a video file (i.e. an mp4, mov, ect), you’d see the video; and from there, they’d react to the audio. The default Battery visualizer baked into WMP since Windows XP (or earlier???) looked best out of the default ones on offer (and had the best names for its presets; “dance of the freaky circles”, “spider’s last moment”, and “green is not your enemy” are the ones that stick out in my memory); that said, there’s also something to be said for the visualizers you’d download after the fact; the wireframe-based (and heavily not-free) Whitecap was my favorite in that regard.
So, imagine my disappointment when I installed KDE, and… nnnnnothing. Neither Haruna nor Elisa have any sort of answer to this; Elisa has a “now playing” tab but it only lists off a bunch of details about the currently-playing track; meanwhile, if you boot up Haruna and tell it to play an audio file, there’s this huge black blank space where a video’s clearly supposed to be that doesn’t react at all to the fact that you’re playing an audio file. (Even in versions of WMP predating the introduction of visualizers, I’m pretty sure the window shrank down to only have the controls and hide the video if it detected you were playing an audio file…)
Is this a space that anyone else has interest in implementing into one of KDE’s media players, or should I just get used to storing my music on a virtual machine running an old version of Windows so I can have access to a visualizer? (I’m half-joking about the virtual machine thing)