It will be obvious what mode you are in - the scrolling indicator bar will tell you

I wasn't thinking the indicator bar would be present the whole time you're in seek mode. I imagined it being a pop-up kinda like the volume indicator is. So one wouldn't have to choose between seeing their visuals or the seek mode. I would retain the existing seek info mode as a more detailed view of the seek graph, but I think a more compact "seek bar" with just the song position (no phrases pictured or anything) would be sufficient for the pop-up I'm talking about.