I have LineageOS on my phone and noticed the media player has the wavy progress bar on it. Not only that, a lot of music players also have it and lowkey I personally don’t like them. I find it hard to position where I actually want to be in the song and I just don’t like the constant movement. I rather a normal progress bar but that just a personal choose.
This is part of Google’s Material 3 Expressive (M3E for short). A lot of apps have taken the reasonable approach of using the the Android design (M3E) to fit into the system (Also Android happens to make your life easier if you use M3E). This design language sucks in some parts. I personally don’t have an issue with the wavy progress bars, but i agree they should’ve added the option to turn it off.
If you don’t mind all animations being disabled you can get rid of the wiggling by turning on reduced motion.
Edit: It’s called Remove Animations and is located in the Accesibility settings under the Motion mmenu. It also seems to only disable the movement in the media notification for my music player (Auxio), likely a bug, will report to upstream.
It’s supposed to be animated, too?! Thought it was already bad enough as it is…
(Disabling animations is the first thing I do on a new device because why wait for animations when you have a brand new device that is supposed to be faster and snappy)
Ah, thanks for sharing how to remove it. Though, I never realized how choppy it looks to maneuver my phone without animations lol. I’ll keep them on because the one benefit is not outweighing that.