Hm you're right, MC16 had the same level of 'boldness' in the Playing Now list, weird I hadn't noticed that before.
From what I remember it used to be much bolder, even so that the text became wider and wouldn't fit in collums scaled for the normal text.
I'm using the Noire skin btw, always have since it became available.
The If(IsPlaying()... expression works fine btw, thanks for that. The IsInPlayingNow adds the icon to all of them, making it useless.