Centered tinted MudOverlay (NowPlayingCard chrome) replaces the anchored popover; eight dials become a deterministic three-row LAVA/WAVE layout; lava + waveform lamp toggles drive a genuine per-subsystem draw-skip; scroll/zoom becomes a slider; playful tooltips; green=interactive/light=static.
Lift the WaveformVisualizer + control popover out of the 120px NowPlayingCard box into NowPlaying as a full-panel background layer; migrate the hero-right wrapper and its scoped styles from Home into NowPlaying.