ModernFlyouts VS spicetify-cli

You could use modern flyout. It allows you to increase or decrease (also to 0) the number active of media sessions displayed.

If you don't want to mess around with any of your program's settings, you can install ModernFlyouts and change its' settings to never show any popups.

It's called Modern Flyouts. Link here: https://modernflyouts-community.github.io/

Check out ModernFlyouts, it offers an alternative to the banner by replacing it with one you can customize. Fade duration being one of them

Modern​Flyouts for better looking flyouts for volume and media

This may not be the perfect fix you are looking for, but I faced the same problem as you (wanted flyouts but also wanted explorerpatcher for other functionality that it brought), and my solution was to use ModernFlyouts (link here)

You can try ModernFlyouts, it has a few customization options so maybe you can get a more minimal experience that way https://modernflyouts-community.github.io/

There's spicetify, which you can use to remove podcasts from and customize the UI of the desktop client:

https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli

Anyone wondering, I'm using Spicetify on my computer together with some extra extensions to get what the image shows. It works for both Windows & Mac and it's pretty easy and free to set up. If it's highly requested, I can fix a guide on how to fix this. Otherwise, most stuff can be found on https://spicetify.app/docs/getting-started and install lyrics-plus https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli/tree/master/CustomApps/lyrics-plus via the terminal to get the translated lyrics for bare minimum.

Here is Spicetify: https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli

The Spicetify theme is Dribbblish (Beach-Sunset). I looked through the GitHub repo and funnily enough, the only mention of Star Wars that I could find is a commit that was supposed to disable the easter egg...

What about spicetify? It is FOSS and has an adblock extension which works flawlessly

If your on desktop use SpotX, or you cant use Spicetify, the only downside of spicetify is that you cant queue songs unless you already have premium but atleast its highly customizable.