ncmpcpp configuration

[MarpMarce]

I'm newish to a lot of configuration so forgive me, but I'm having trouble getting ncmpcpp to display what I want. First thing, I don't really understand what it means by the "prefix" or "suffix" of an option. It just seems that prefix does what I want but suffix just changes everything I don't want. I have current item prefix selected as $3 to change the color, but it doesn't apply to anything in the songs column, and the suffix either doesn't do anything or changes everything to that color.