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yonluandClaude Opus 5 e7748f1fd5 feat(database): shape the library like files, and shrink the catalog
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Plans 013 and 014, the album page that prompted them, and the smaller
fixes they turned up. Changelog, largest first.

## The local library is shaped like files, not like MusicBrainz

`audio_files` carries its own tags and points at `albums` and
`artists`; `file_genres` is the one real many-to-many. `recordings`,
`release_group_recordings`, `artist_credit`, `artist_credit_artist`,
`recording_genres`, `release_groups` and `release_to_rg` are gone from
the local side, and with them a six-way join in every read, a
`MIN(release_group_id)` subquery in eleven queries and a
first-credited-artist subquery in nine. Measured on a real 25,966-file
library, every many-to-many that model expressed was 1:1 in the data.

- Ownership is a file. `GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs`,
  `LibraryMBIDIndex.CheckMBIDs`, `collectLibraryEntities` and
  `pruneStaleLocalCrossReferences` all join `audio_files`, so the 812
  orphaned recordings, 216 release groups and 260 artists that library
  carried are now structurally impossible.
- One projection: every track query selects from the `track_metadata`
  view, one row type, one mapper. Nine hand-rolled copies had drifted
  far enough to report different years on different screens.
- `library_id = 0` means every library, so each list query exists once
  instead of scoped and unscoped with a branch at every call site.
- No migration chain. `sql/schemas/` is the one description of the
  shape; `sql/migrations/`, `applyMigrations` and `schema_migrations`
  are squashed away, along with the drift between them that had sqlc
  generating against a stale schema.
- `database.InsertTestTrack` is the one test seeder; twenty test files
  had been assembling the old FK chain each in its own order.

## The catalog stores its ids as bytes

`explore_index`'s three 36-char MBID columns and its entity-type text
are 16 raw bytes and a small integer. The table and its six indexes go
780 MB to 405 MB on a real 2,052,200-row catalog, which is why a fresh
install is ~0.6 GB rather than ~1.0 GB.

- `backend/explore/mbid.go` is the only place the encoding is known;
  everything above it speaks dashed strings.
- `CHECK(length(mbid) = 16)` makes a stringly write fail at the insert
  rather than silently returning no rows, since SQLite does not coerce
  between TEXT and BLOB.
- The importer asks the artifact what encoding it carries and converts
  on the way in, so the artifact already published keeps working and no
  format bump is needed.
- `indexRowColumns`/`scanIndexRow` replace four copies of a 22-column
  list, and `TestStoredEncodingRoundTrips` sweeps every read path.

## An album page that says how much of the album is yours

- One question, asked once: is there a file. `filePaths` is filled by a
  single batched lookup when the tracklist settles, and the badge, the
  Play count, the dimmed rows and every menu item read it — replacing
  four claims of decreasing confidence that could show a green tick on
  an album whose every action did nothing.
- Play, Play 7 of 12, or no play button at all.
- `total_tracks` on `explore_index` (~2 bytes over 400,677 release
  groups) and on `audio_files` from tags that have always carried it:
  a complete MBID-matched album now makes no catalog call at all, where
  it used to spend the most expensive request the app makes.
- A merged cluster shows the running order the most releases agree on,
  and the version list marks the release you own rather than standing a
  synthetic entry in for it.
- `AlbumReleasesFailed`: a slow fetch is no longer reported as a failed
  one by a 12-second timer.
- Rows not in the library are dimmed in place (with `aria-disabled`)
  instead of the owned ones wearing a green tick and a legend.

## Caches and cover art get ceilings

- Only the three tiers of a cover are stored; the full-resolution copy
  nothing rendered was 1,134 MB of a 1.4 GB covers directory.
- One artist portrait is downloaded and the rest are remembered as
  URLs — 4.1 GB of a 5.3 GB cache was candidates no code path reads.
- `browsedArtBudget` and `httpCacheBudget` bound what an age cannot:
  the same install held art for 5,770 artists in a 1,301-artist
  library.
- `OrphanedArtistImagesJob` joined a bare MBID onto a sharded
  directory, so it deleted the rows that were the only record of the
  files it left behind. `explore.ArtistImageDir` is that layout's one
  definition now.

## The autotag queue asks whether there is work

`tagging_items` was a row per album folder, not a queue, and no query
read the `tag_status` column that held the answer. The four queue
queries ask the files, which matters most where it is least visible:
`startPrefetch` was scoring every album in a tagged library against
MusicBrainz.

## Phantom playlist tracks resolve in place

An M3U8 imported before its files leaves phantom rows; they now match
by path and fall back to position, keep their place in the playlist
when resolved, and pair best-first so two phantoms cannot claim the
same file.

## Playing a track plays the list it is in

Double-click, and Play on a single row's menu, queue the list as
displayed with `startIndex` on that row — the album page and the track
list used to queue one track and discard the album around it. A
multi-row selection still plays exactly itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfVYUVExXsx1nSWrXN8mAh
2026-08-16 13:58:15 -04:00
logan f854076d95 feat(explore): give the album page a primary action that tells the truth
H-13: no Play, no Shuffle, no Add to queue on the album header. The
reason it is not just three buttons is that explore-album-details is a
catalog page — there is no library-side album detail page at all — so
the album shown may be wholly the user's, partly theirs, or not theirs.
A Play button that plays 7 of a 40-track release under a label saying
'Play' is the page lying about what is owned, so the button says which:
'Play' when all of it is owned, 'Play 7 of 12' when some is, and no
play button at all when none is.

albumLibraryStatus() stays as it was — four claims of decreasing
confidence OR'd into one tick, the weakest firing when a single
recording matches. That is a fine answer to 'is any of this mine' and a
useless basis for a button, so ownership() counts the displayed
tracklist instead.

GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs is the catalog-side sibling of
GetFilePathsByAlbums: one query, paths only, grouped so the caller
keeps the tracklist's order. It is keyed on recording MBID because that
is how the backend decides a track is inLibrary, and because
MBTrack.LocalID is declared and never written by anything. The local
album id is preferred where there is one — a library-only album has no
MBIDs at all, and keying on them alone queued nothing.

The ticks also get the legend H-13 asks for. They were never unlabelled
— the indicator has carried a title and aria-label all along — but a
sighted user got a column of green circles and no key.
2026-08-12 15:28:22 -04:00
logan 9e0e4d5bb8 perf(library): resolve album and genre file paths in one query
"Play this artist" awaited `GetAlbumTracks` inside a for loop — 13
sequential round trips for a 12-album artist — and every one of the
four sites doing that asked for whole track rows to read `FilePath`
off them. Five genres cost 6 MB across the IPC.

`GetFilePathsByAlbums(ids, libraryID)` and `GetFilePathsByGenres(names,
libraryID)` answer once and carry only the paths. Measured at 50 000
tracks: an artist 13 calls / 74.2 kB -> 2 / 19.2 kB, twenty albums
20 / 117.5 kB / 7.8 ms -> 1 / 26.0 kB / 1.7 ms, five genres
5 / 6 014 kB / 213 ms -> 1 / 1 291 kB / 32.6 ms, with the returned path
lists identical.

They return the paths grouped by album id or genre name rather than
flattened, because the caller owns the order — an album list is sorted
by name, not by id, and a flattened result would silently reorder a
queue — and because the album drag cache stores them per album. A
libraryID of 0 means "every library", matching an unset filter.
2026-08-12 01:18:17 -04:00