Now playing
The song that's playing, from the desktop's media player.

Now playing
| Setting | Kind | Starts at | Range and notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Layoutlayout | choice | Card | Card, One line, Cover only |
Showsshow | choice | While something plays | While something plays, Always |
Fontfont | font | Outfit | – |
Sizesize | number | 5% | 2% to 20%Share of the screen's height |
Textcolour | colour and alpha | #f4f6f8ff | – |
Progressaccent | colour and alpha | #7ce695ff | – |
Cardcard | colour and alpha | #141415b3 | – |
Cover blurred behindblurCover | on or off | on | – |
Progress lineprogress | on or off | on | – |
From a script
Every setting above can be changed by the scene's logic, by its key. Say the layer is called Now playing:
scene.set("Now playing", "size", 0.2);scene.animate("Now playing", "opacity", 0.5, 2);import { scene } from "motion";scene.set("Now playing", "size", 0.2);scene.animate("Now playing", "opacity", 0.5, 2);◆On Scene Start
ƒSet Layer SettingTarget is Layer
TargetNow playing
Parameter Namesize
Parameter Value0.2
What every layer has
Besides its own settings, every layer has its opacity, blend, placement, quick effects and an effects stack. They're listed once, on the layers page.
Notes from the community
Written by creators and checked by the docs' editors. Not part of Motion's official reference.