status bar going black during music playback - immersive mode?

[ears1991]

when starting a track by pressing on the track name, the android status bar at the top goes black as if you were playing a video
this doesn't happen in a few scenarios:
pressing resume playback button at top of vlc, or the pop up notification to resume at the bottom on app launch
starting playback via the play icon on an album on the albums page of vlc

screenshot https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vyRI7q ... sp=sharing
video example 1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vyB2fQ ... sp=sharing
video example 2 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vvOKpK ... sp=sharing

pixel 6 pro android 13 vlc 3.5.4 2023-02-20