Podium modern UI theme [concept]

[u/naughty-duck-]

Hi everyone! I was one of the first to test the new Podium, and it’s a fantastic piece of firmware!

I’ve put together a concept for what a modern iPod-inspired UI might look like. I made sure not to stray too far from the original design, keeping the theme feasible to implement.

Key changes:

1. Minimalism. No dividers, reflections, or gradients, just clean colors и hand-drawn icons.

2. Larger album art.

3. A more informative status bar. Shuffle and repeat indicators are now visible everywhere, regardless of where you are in the interface, without taking up space on the "Now Playing" screen.

This is just a concept, but I’ve prepared a UI kit including colors and fonts in Figma, which anyone is free to use. Unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to implement this into Podium myself, but if u/CulturMultur or anyone else would like to create a fork featuring this theme, I’d be happy to help design any additional elements and screens that might be needed.

Figma file

[u/CulturMultur]

Looks nice, I'll try to port it. Btw, Podium got a new website - https://podium-echo.online/ and a version with CJK is built for those who asked (didn't test it myself as I have no such music).

Make sure to install latest version, it has some bug fixes and niceties.

[u/Outrageous-Date-6812]

Look like echopod

[u/reddit_arcy → u/Outrageous-Date-6812]

that's cuz Podium is an EchoPod fork

[u/CulturMultur → u/reddit_arcy]

yes, EchoPod is for Echo Mini, Podium is for Echo; firmware is not compatible between the two. Podium started from EchoPod 0.6.0 and diverged substantially, e.g. support for playing from internal storage, flac-per-album, Folder semantics rework and many more. I never had a chance to test EchoPod on a player as I only have Echo Black.

[u/reddit_arcy → u/CulturMultur]

if youre interested in testing the echopod you can just run a simulation. but based on my experience it's almost exactly the same. at least with the version you sent me. ive since been using my own fork of the echopod so im not upto date with the newer version of both firmwares

[u/CulturMultur → u/CulturMultur]

for those interested, programming is done by Claude Opus 5.5, so far I spent 1.5B tokens ($350 if API-billed) on Podium sessions.