An album the user holds 2 of 10 tracks of showed a green tick reading
"is in your library", and the mechanism was our own writer. tagwriter
wrote track and disc *numbers* and dropped the totals, so autotagging a
folder made the release MBID-matched -- which is what earns the tick --
while erasing the one field GetAlbumCompleteness reads. The evidence
for "2 of 10" was destroyed by the act that produced the tick.
FieldTotalTracks and FieldTotalDiscs are written as the ID3 "n/N" form
and as Vorbis TRACKTOTAL/DISCTOTAL; the autotag apply pass and the
download importer fill them from the release's own tracklist; and
dbsync persists the track total to audio_files.total_tracks so the
album page agrees with the file without waiting for a rescan.
Five things about it are load-bearing, and four fail silently:
- The total is per *disc*, not per release, because that is what the
tag form declares and what GetAlbumCompleteness sums per disc. A
release total on every file multiplies a two-disc album's expectation
by two, which no library can satisfy. backend/tagtotals is that
derivation once, since the two callers must not import the writer or
each other.
- The Vorbis names are TRACKTOTAL and DISCTOTAL and no other spelling.
dhowden/tag reads exactly those two keys, so TOTALTRACKS -- which
xiph lists and several taggers write -- or a "1/12" packed into
TRACKNUMBER writes successfully and reads back as no total at all.
The tests therefore assert the round trip through the reader the scan
uses, not through the bytes.
- ID3's number and total share one frame, so writing either alone must
read the other off the existing tag or discard it. A total with no
number is not written: "/12" parses as track 0.
- The totals are written unconditionally rather than on a diff. The
case this exists for is a file declaring no total at all, which
compares equal to nothing and is exactly what a "only if it changed"
guard skips.
- A single-track download is not totalled. A RecordingMBID anchor
resolves Expected to that one track, so the same code would tag a
track off a twelve-track album "1 of 1" -- and a declared total
outranks the catalog total that would have answered correctly.
autotag's field constants are a second copy of tagwriter's, deliberately
so autotag stays out of the write pipeline's import graph. A key that
drifts neither fails to compile nor fails to write -- the writer simply
finds nothing under the name it looks for -- so autotagservice, the one
package importing both, now pins them.
Steps 2 and 3 of the issue stay open under #38: the catalog fallback
already landed as completenessAnswer(), and the badge call-site audit is
the part that overlaps it.
Closes#16
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
Ships the fresh-start schema cleanup: rebuilt explore catalog index
pipeline (dump import, artifact fetch/build, incremental listen-count
refresh), a new download subsystem (Lidarr/Prowlarr/qBittorrent/SABnzbd/
slskd/yt-dlp providers, staging, reconciliation, wanted list), and the
supporting schema/query/store changes across backend and frontend.
Also includes two smaller follow-ups: bump the central index's
rebuild-after cadence from 90 to 180 days, and remove the Explore
"library only" online/offline toggle entirely (frontend-only, no
backend counterpart) rather than carry unused UI/state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y2Agd9af5hE7qzti2ackiS
Three issues fixed:
1. asBytes() helper for []interface{} → []byte conversion — same
float64 deserialization issue as numeric fields. Cover art data
from the frontend arrives as []interface{} of float64, not []byte.
2. DB sync for cover art — was a placeholder no-op. Now saves image
to covers cache dir (content-hash dedup + thumbnail generation),
upserts cover_art row, and updates release_groups.cover_art_id.
Clear sets cover_art_id to NULL on linked release groups.
3. Frontend ReadFile returns base64 string (Go []byte JSON encoding),
not number[]. Decode with atob() before creating Uint8Array for
preview blob URL.
Wails deserializes JSON numbers from JavaScript as float64, not int.
All .(int) type assertions on year, track_number, and disc_number
silently failed. Add asInt() helper, replace all assertions.
- syncDatabase runs entity relink + FTS5 + orphan cleanup in single tx
- Handles artist, album, genre changes with upsert-and-relink pattern
- FTS5 delete + insert within transaction for search index consistency
- Orphan cleanup for artist_credits, release_groups, and genres
- All hand-crafted SQL has SAFETY comments per codebase convention
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