Visual track art, a feature letting users place giant and detailed backgrounds behind music that is visible in the stream as well as the full track view, has been a staple on SoundCloud ever since the feature was introduced back in 2013, and ever since it became available to more SoundCloud users back in 2015. Sadly, SoundCloud removed the feature in July of 2016 because it supposedly didn't impact fan engagement much and was a long, manual process to set up after submitting it to networks.

Artists and curators on SoundCloud loved the feature as it visually gave content on the platform an edge and potentially made it stand out in the stream, compared to the bland gradient-backed default player. We are very sad that the feature has been removed and have been longing for it back since.

I will propose a solution: make visual track art available for SoundCloud Premier users, or maybe Pro users with restrictions and Premier users without restrictions. The reason for this differentiation is that if anyone got to use visuals, or all Pro users got to use visuals freely, the specialty of visual track art on SoundCloud streams would be highly diminished. Premier users tend to get in through SoundCloud themselves or approval through networks. An option would be to put them into the 'extended metadata' section for Premier users.

If this feature becomes available to Pro users, I am sure that content creators and curators will be more than happy to pay to be able to use it.