Click the island or swipe down with two fingers to smoothly expand it. You can interact with the media controls within there. Leave the island to smoothly collapse it.
Note: This behaves awkwardly in a scrolling feed because the two finger gesture is also a scroll.
A media player interface inspired by Alcove, a clean and beautiful little app to add Dynamic Island like functionality to your Mac's notch. It also uses Motion+ Ticker to animate the podcast title with a smoothly masked marquee.