Horizontal layout

[aptonline]

I've recently unlocked my old Echo Show 5 (2nd gen) and using it in conjunction with View Assist to display dashboard. It's working really well but finding a music card that fits the dimensions (960 × 480) rather tricky even when using a panel view.

I like the look and feel of the mediocre media card but when I managed to get the card to fit with careful height adjustments the artwork is very small.

It would be really helpful to have a horizontal layout to make the most of the screen estate for such layouts, something similar to below.

If this is not possible, a similar approach would be if you could only enable certain elements from the media card (Artwork, Transport controls and footer) that way you could recreate the above image with vertical and horizontal stacked card. 3 in the above example.

The standard card is kind of layout I was thinking but there doesn't appear to be anyway to influence the card height on a panel view. If there was, the artwork size should increate proportionally to take up the space.

[antontanderup]

Panel mode for the regular card could be pretty cool. But the issue is that the card expands when searching etc. so it's not exactly a simple thing to implement

[aptonline]

Panel mode for the regular card could be pretty cool. But the issue is that the card expands when searching etc. so it's not exactly a simple thing to implement

My particular use case is for simple controls for the music and plan to use assist (voice) to find and play new content, yes the mic works on the Echo I also want to use it to control Apple Music on my desktop so the Echo acts as a media player from all devices.

At a minimum would it be possible to set the height of the card and allow the artwork to expand to fit?

[autumntulloch]

This is a horizontal layout I've made from having two massive cards next to each other but chopping the bottom and top off respectively with card-mod. Would love if this could be included by default!