Thanks for the feedback.

The player already is a pop over dhtml effect (it’s persistent, and expands on playback). Moving it to the bottom may be a good idea, but this has it’s disadvantages to.

One advantage of having the player float in the upper right, is that the TuneTrack header provides a convenient place for the player to end up without obscuring content if you scroll all the way up.

With a persistent player at the bottom, it seems to always end up obscuring more content.

I hear ya. I’m in the same business as you, and always having to balance aesthetics and functionality. Upper right is certainly a more functionally useful place to do it for the reasons you mentioned, but in terms of keeping a clean design layout and where a user’s eyeballs are likely to be drawn to from experience when they click a play link, the bottom would be it.

If I may then modify my suggestion: play it upper right, but when there’s no tune playing, hide the album icon (when the page first loads, an album icon is up there.)

Without a player the album icon is confusing (is it a logo, or…?) and dilutes slightly the TuneTrack mark on the upper right. Branding is important, so that space should probably only be imposed on when a tune is going.