fix(e2e): ask the fixture for a track that can navigate
`queue-selection`'s name-click test failed on main on both engines, having passed in its own PR and in two consecutive local suite runs. I added it in #152; this is my defect and it had main red. It staged a queue from the first few rows of `GetTracks(0)` and clicked a track *name*, which `explore-link` routes to that track's **album** page. Four tracks in the fixture library have no album — `01 Tone A`, `02 Tone B`, `Title Only`, `no-tags-at-all` — and a name with nothing to route to renders as plain text rather than as a link. Which tracks arrive first is `audio_files.id` order, which is the order the *scan* inserted them, which depends on concurrency and directory traversal. Locally the first eight are all from two proper albums; CI rebuilds its seed with a real scan and got a different eight. The fixture had a requirement it did not state, so the queue now asks for tracks that have an album. A loose locator is what turned that into a mystery rather than a message. The row was located with `.explore-link` and `first()`, and a row has two — title and artist. With the title as plain text, `first()` silently resolved to the *artist* link, so the click went somewhere real and the assertion was about a destination the test had never exercised. It names `.track-title .explore-link` now. Reproduced before fixing, by staging the CI condition deliberately: a no-album track at row 2 fails the test in 30s on this machine, and the filtered fixture passes in 752ms. The Direction's sweep found one other spec slicing `GetTracks` — `queue-reorder`, which asserts on order alone and needs no property of the tracks it gets, so it is left as it is. Closes #156
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Worth generalising: a spec that resizes and then measures is asserting
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about a moving target for the next dozen frames. Fuse, then poll.
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## "The first N tracks" is not a way to ask for an ordinary one (2026-08-20)
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`queue-selection.spec.ts` staged its queue from the first few rows of
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`library.Library.GetTracks(0)` and clicked a track *name*, which
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`explore-link` routes to that track's **album** page. Four tracks in the
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fixture library have no album at all — `01 Tone A`, `02 Tone B`,
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`Title Only`, `no-tags-at-all` — and a name with nothing to route to
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renders as **plain text**, not as a link.
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Two things follow, and the second is the sharper one.
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**The order is the scan's.** `GetTracks` returns `audio_files.id` order,
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i.e. the order the scan inserted rows, which depends on concurrency and
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directory traversal. Locally the first eight are all from two proper
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albums, so the spec passed twice over; CI rebuilds its seed with a real
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scan, got a different eight, and failed on both engines. This is the
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same family as "a seed freezes every default it has already persisted" —
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the fixture library is not a list, it is a *set* with an incidental
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order, and no spec should depend on that order.
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**A loose locator hid it.** The row was located with
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`.locator('.explore-link').first()`, and a row has two — the title and
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the artist. When the title is plain text, `first()` silently resolves to
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the **artist** link, so the click went somewhere real and the assertion
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was about a destination the test had not exercised. `.track-title
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.explore-link` is the locator that says which one it means; the loose
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one turned a fixture problem into a mystery.
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The general rule for this repo's fixture library: it is deliberately
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full of edge cases (untagged, unicode, duplicates, extremes), so a spec
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that wants an *ordinary* track has to **say so** — filter on the
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property it depends on rather than slicing.
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