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Lot C of the v1.8.0 milestone: the three issues about how a track gets played rather than how it gets written. They turned out to share a subject — the album as a unit rather than a bag of tracks — which is why two of them reinforce each other rather than just sharing a branch.

Closes #587. Closes #618. Closes #581.

Album gain, chosen from context rather than from a setting (#587)

ReplayGain levels every track against every other one. That is right when a song comes up shuffled between two unrelated things, and wrong on a record mastered as a whole: the hushed interlude gets pushed up to meet the single, flattening exactly what the mastering engineer put there.

The feature looked expensive because it sounds like it touches the queue. It does not. queue_item.source_type already travels all the way to the decoder, sitting on ActiveStream right next to the gain — so "is this track playing as part of its album" was a field that had already arrived where the answer is needed. The default is therefore automatic: album gain while a record plays through, track gain otherwise, with nothing for the listener to manage. Album shuffle counts as a record playing through, which is the first place the two issues meet. track and album can still be forced.

The clipping cap switches with the gain, which is the part that is easy to get wrong and the one the issue flagged. In album mode it caps by the album peak — the same number for every track on the record, so the cap is uniform. Capping each track by its own peak would pull tracks down according to their own loudest sample, re-introducing precisely the per-track variation album mode exists to remove.

Album numbers are tag-only, because our analysis pass measures one track at a time and has no notion of a record. A file without them falls back to its track gain, since album mode would otherwise do nothing at all on a half-tagged library. The peak falls back with it, and that one is a deliberate trade in the other direction: an uneven cap is cosmetic, and the cap only ever binds where the alternative is audible clipping.

Shuffle whole records, and build sessions out of them (#618)

Shuffle becomes three-way: off, tracks, albums. In album mode only the order of the records is randomised — inside each one the tracks are put back into disc and track order, so a record that arrived in the queue scrambled still plays the way it was pressed. The record you are in carries on rather than restarting: the current track keeps position 0, the rest of its album follows, and the tracks before it come round at the end. A track with no album is its own record, so loose files still shuffle like tracks instead of being welded into one block that always plays together.

Persisted as the existing on/off switch crossed with a grouping, rather than as one three-valued key. player.shuffle stays authoritative for "is shuffle on" — it is what MPD's random maps onto and what an older build reads — the grouping is remembered while shuffle is off so a preference for whole records survives an off/on, and a profile that predates this needs no migration. MPD's random 1 therefore turns shuffle on without forcing tracks: a remote that cannot express the grouping should not quietly undo it.

Mood Radio and the Daily Mix get the same treatment behind one setting, because it is one preference. A record fits a mood when most of what we have measured of it sits inside the tempo window — a fraction rather than the median the issue suggested, since a median says nothing about spread: a record half ambient and half thrash lands in the middle and would be offered for a mood neither of its halves belongs to. The cap is then spent in whole albums; truncating at 40 or 50 tracks would end the session halfway through a record, which is the single thing this exists to prevent.

Album mode stays a preference rather than a contract: when no whole record fits a mood, the radio falls through to picking tracks rather than refusing to play. A library whose records are mostly unanalysed can satisfy a mood track by track while no album qualifies, and a "play something now" button should not answer with an error.

Two things found in the queue on the way past. Reordering wrote every row back as source_type = 'manual', which threw away the source a play_event is attributed to and the boundary fill_queue uses to tell queued-up "play next" items from the source queue around them — so shuffling an album silently cost both, and unshuffling did not bring them back. Sources now survive a reorder, one per occurrence, so a queue holding the same track twice hands each copy back its own. That same column is what lets automatic ReplayGain tell a record playing through from a shuffled playlist, which is the second place the two issues meet.

Opus (#581)

Opus was not playable, and the scanner refused the extension so the files were not even indexed — while the desktop entry and the AppStream metadata have been claiming audio/opus all along.

symphonia was never the problem for the container: its Ogg reader ships a complete Opus mapper, so tags and durations already came out right. The missing piece was the decoder, and symphonia-codec-opus does not exist. This one is libopus 1.6.1 through opusic-sys.

Why a C binding. Two pure-Rust decoders were measured against a libopus reference rather than assessed from their READMEs, and both were rejected for opposite reasons. libopus-rs covers CELT only and refuses honestly outside that range — too narrow to ship, but it fails loudly. opus-rs decodes everything and never returns an error, including on the files it gets wrong: a 48 kb/s stereo file that is 94 % CELT and 6 % hybrid scores 30 dB. That is silent audio corruption with nothing for the player to catch. Writing our own is not on the table — for scale, the whole DSD pipeline cost 1 688 lines without a single bit of entropy decoding.

Static on every platform, which is a packaging decision rather than a technical one: the Linux packages repackage the release binary rather than building from source, so a system libopus would mean a runtime dependency added to three packaging manifests and a library bundled into the AppImage, to gain nothing. The cost is cmake at build time — see the validation note below, because that turned out not to be free.

The pre-skip is the part that was nearly missed. Every Opus stream opens with encoder priming that must never be played. The obvious reading is that the reader handles it — it sets Track::delay from OpusHead and hands each packet a trim_start, which is exactly how the Vorbis decoder next door disposes of its own priming. That reading is wrong: the Opus packet parser in symphonia-format-ogg 0.6.1 reports a discard of zero for every packet, so the trim is always empty. Measured against a real file rather than reasoned about — a 3-second encode decoded to 144 312 frames instead of 144 000, the difference being precisely the 312-frame priming. The decoder now counts it, credits whatever the reader did report against what is owed so a future upstream fix cannot make it drop twice, and does not re-apply it after a seek, where there is nothing to drop and doing so would eat real audio.

RFC 7845 also suggests decoding ~80 ms before a seek point and discarding it so the decoder has converged. We deliberately do not, and the reason is written where the decision is: that is audio the listener asked for, and the convergence artefact is brief and bounded where the loss would not be.

One codec registry for the whole app. Playback, the analysis pass and the scanner's probe each reached for symphonia::default::get_codecs(). That was harmless only while the app shipped no decoder of its own; now it is not. The three have to agree on what this build can decode, because that disagreement is exactly how an unplayable track gets into a library — the single thing AUDIO_EXTENSIONS exists to prevent. Written up as an invariant.

Also here

A sidecar the user placed beats a description we guessed at. Reported on discussion #519 by the same person who asked for Opus, and not previously tracked. A .m4a pulled with yt-dlp carries the auto-generated "Provided to YouTube by…" credit in its description tag; that blurb is comfortably more than the three lines which were the whole test for treating a description as lyrics, so it won — and because the embedded tier ran before the sidecar, the .lrc placed next to the file was never read at all. Other players showed the lyrics; we showed the credit.

Two things were wrong at once. A description field is not a lyrics field, and reading it as one is a guess; and the guess outranked an explicit statement, which is what made it invisible. The tier survives, because some rips really do put lyrics there, but it moves behind the sidecar and refuses that one blurb — by a recogniser that stays deliberately narrow and only looks near the top of the text, because a false positive here costs someone their real lyrics.

The wrong text was also cached, and the waterfall never refetches once a row exists — so correcting the reader alone would have reached only tracks nobody had opened yet, which does not include the person who reported it. A cached embedded row that the same recogniser identifies as a service credit is dropped on read and re-resolved. Narrow, because the row is provably not lyrics, and governed by one predicate so what we refuse to store and what we refuse to serve cannot drift apart.

Validation

cargo fmt --check and clippy -D warnings at zero across the workspace on all three platforms, and the full suite green on the two that can run it: 900 tests on macOS 26.6 and 912 on Fedora 44. Windows runs the core crate only — the app crate's tests do not execute there (STATUS_ENTRYPOINT_NOT_FOUND from the Tauri DLLs), which is exactly how two of the new ReplayGain tests went from written to green-by-assumption; both platforms caught them, with the same two failures, and the defect was in the expectation rather than the code.

macOS matters more than usual here. No CI job compiles it, and this PR adds a cmake-built C dependency to every platform, so it is the first time libopus has been built there at all.

Nine local review passes before the first push to this repository: 31 founded findings fixed, 12 declined with the reason recorded. Three of those declines were mine to correct — a search window that excluded the binding it was looking for, a consistency argument that had the ages of two conventions backwards, and a first reading of symphonia's pre-skip handling that the measurement then contradicted. The trend across passes was 8 → 6 → 4 → 2 → 1 → 2 → 4 → 2 → 0; the bump at seven is the interesting one, and it is the same shape three times over: a fix moved an invariant and what depended on it did not announce itself.

Opus was checked against real files rather than only against unit tests — encoded with ffmpeg -c:a libopus, probed and decoded through the app's own registry, frame counts compared against the expected duration. That is what turned up the pre-skip.

cmake is a build dependency now, and it is declared rather than assumed. The five Linux workflows install it; the macOS and Windows release jobs check for it and install it if the runner image ever stops shipping it; CONTRIBUTING lists it for all three platforms. That last part is not theoretical: a current Mac with Xcode installed turned out to have neither cmake nor Homebrew, so a contributor on a clean macOS cannot build this without installing one. The one place it is still taken on trust is the Flatpak SDK — no CI job builds that manifest — and the manifest now says so at the line that assumes it.

Two things found on the way, recorded in the commits for whoever hits them next. Running generate-sources.sh on Windows corrupts the Flatpak output in a way CI does not catch: the upstream generator builds paths with os.path.join, so git-sourced entries come out with backslash separators inside shell commands that run under Linux in the Flathub sandbox, and check-sources.py only verifies that every crate is covered, not that the paths are shaped like Linux paths. And MSVC fails the libopus build with C1083: Cannot open compiler generated file when the build directory path is long — a checkout nested deep under a temp directory is enough to trigger it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Nouvelles fonctionnalités

    • Ajout de la lecture audio au format Opus.
    • Le mode aléatoire propose trois options : désactivé, par morceaux ou par albums.
    • Mood Radio et Daily Mix peuvent générer des sessions à partir d’albums complets.
    • ReplayGain prend en charge les modes automatique, par morceau et par album.
  • Améliorations

    • Récupération des paroles enrichie grâce aux descriptions locales, avec filtrage des crédits YouTube.
    • Meilleure prise en charge des métadonnées lors du réordonnancement de la file d’attente.
  • Documentation

    • Documentation mise à jour sur Opus, ReplayGain, le shuffle et les formats audio pris en charge.

ReplayGain levels every track against every other one, which is what
you want when a song comes up shuffled between two unrelated things.
On a record mastered as a whole it is the wrong answer: the hushed
interlude gets pushed up to meet the single, flattening exactly what
the mastering engineer put there.

Album gain applies one gain across the whole record instead. Which of
the two is right depends on why the track is playing, and that was
already known where the gain is applied -- queue_item.source_type
travels all the way to the decoder. So the default mode is automatic:
album gain while a record plays through, track gain otherwise, with
no setting for the listener to manage. Track and album can still be
forced.

The clipping cap switches with the gain, which is the part that is
easy to get wrong. In album mode it caps by the album peak -- the
same number for every track on the record, so the cap is uniform.
Capping each track by its own peak would pull tracks down according
to their own loudest sample, re-introducing the per-track variation
album mode exists to remove.

Album numbers are tag-only: our analysis pass measures one track at a
time and has no notion of a record, so a file gets album gain when a
tagger wrote it and otherwise falls back to its track gain -- album
mode would otherwise do nothing at all on a half-tagged library. The
peak falls back with it, which is a deliberate trade the other way:
an uneven cap is cosmetic, and the cap only ever binds where the
alternative is audible clipping.
Everything was track by track. Shuffle took every album apart, and
Mood Radio and the Daily Mix delivered three tracks of a record, out
of order, between two unrelated artists. That is the right shape for
a playlist and the wrong one for a library of albums.

Shuffle becomes three-way: off, tracks, albums. In album mode only
the order of the records is randomised -- inside each one the tracks
are put back into disc and track order, so a record that arrived
scrambled still plays the way it was pressed. The record you are in
carries on rather than restarting: the current track keeps position
0, the rest of its album follows, and the tracks before it come round
at the end. A track with no album is its own record, so loose files
still shuffle like tracks instead of being welded into one block.

Persisted as the existing on/off switch crossed with a grouping,
rather than one three-valued key. player.shuffle stays authoritative
for "is shuffle on", which is what MPD's random flag maps onto and
what an older build reads; the grouping is remembered while shuffle
is off, so a preference for whole records survives an off/on; and a
profile that predates this needs no migration.

Mood Radio and the Daily Mix get the same treatment behind one
setting. A record fits a mood when most of what we have measured of
it sits inside the tempo window -- a fraction rather than the median
the issue suggested, because a median says nothing about spread: a
record half ambient and half thrash lands in the middle and would be
offered for a mood neither half belongs to. The cap is then spent in
whole albums; truncating at 40 or 50 tracks would end the session
halfway through a record, which is the one thing this exists to
prevent.

Two things found in the queue code on the way past. Reordering wrote
every row back as source_type = 'manual', which threw away the source
a play_event is attributed to and the boundary fill_queue uses to
tell queued-up "play next" items from the source queue around them --
so shuffling an album silently cost both. Sources now survive a
reorder, one per occurrence, so a queue holding the same track twice
hands each copy back its own. And that same column is what lets
ReplayGain's automatic mode tell a record playing through from a
shuffled playlist, which album shuffle now also counts as.
Opus was not playable, and the scanner refused the extension so the
files were not even indexed -- while the desktop entry and the
AppStream metadata have been claiming audio/opus all along.

symphonia was never the problem for the container: its Ogg reader
ships a complete Opus mapper, so tags and durations already came out
right. The missing piece was the decoder, and symphonia-codec-opus
does not exist.

It is libopus, through opusic-sys, built from the source the crate
vendors. Two pure-Rust decoders were measured rather than assessed
from their READMEs and both were rejected, for opposite reasons: one
covers CELT only and refuses honestly outside that range, the other
decodes everything and never returns an error, including on the files
it gets wrong -- a 48 kb/s stereo file that is 94 % CELT and 6 %
hybrid scores 30 dB against a libopus reference, which is silent
corruption with nothing for the player to catch.

Static on every platform. The Linux packages repackage the release
binary rather than building from source, so a system libopus would
mean a new runtime dependency in three packaging manifests and a
library bundled into the AppImage, to gain nothing.

The pre-skip is the part that was nearly missed. Every Opus stream
opens with encoder priming that must not be played, and the obvious
reading -- that the reader handles it, since it sets Track::delay and
hands each packet a trim the way it does for Vorbis -- is wrong: the
Opus packet parser reports a discard of zero for every packet. A
3-second file decoded to 144 312 frames instead of 144 000, the
difference being exactly the 312-frame priming. The decoder now counts
it, credits whatever the reader did report against it so a future
upstream fix cannot make it drop twice, and does not re-apply it after
a seek, where there is nothing to drop and doing so would eat real
audio.

Also here: one codec registry for the whole app instead of three call
sites reaching for symphonia's default. Playback, the analysis pass
and the scanner's probe have to agree on what this build can play --
that disagreement is what puts an unplayable track in a library.
Reported on discussion #519. A .m4a pulled with yt-dlp carries the
auto-generated "Provided to YouTube by..." credit in its description
tag. That blurb is comfortably more than three lines, which was the
whole test for treating a description as lyrics -- so it won, and
because the embedded tier ran before the sidecar, the .lrc the user
had placed next to the file was never read at all. Other players
showed the lyrics; we showed the credit.

Two things were wrong at once. A description field is not a lyrics
field, and reading it as one is a guess; and the guess outranked an
explicit statement, which is the part that made it invisible -- the
sidecar never got a turn.

The description tier survives, because some rips really do put lyrics
there, but it moves behind the sidecar and refuses the one blurb that
reliably fills this field on files people actually have. The
recogniser stays deliberately narrow and only looks near the top of
the text, where the credit always sits: a false positive here costs
someone their real lyrics, which is worse than the bug being fixed.

Note for anyone already affected: the wrong text was cached, and the
cache is never refetched once a row exists, so the entry has to be
refetched once before the sidecar is read.
The three lot C features plus the lyrics precedence fix, written where
the reasoning belongs: docs/features for how each one works, and a new
invariant for the codec registry -- one place decides what this build
can decode, because playback, the analysis pass and the scanner
disagreeing is how an unplayable track gets into a library.
Flathub builds with the network off, so every crate has to be declared
upfront with a sha256. opusic-sys and cmake are new in the lockfile.

Worth knowing for whoever regenerates this next: running
generate-sources.sh on Windows corrupts the file in a way CI does not
catch. The upstream generator builds paths with os.path.join, so the
git-sourced entries come out with backslash separators inside shell
commands that will run under Linux in the Flathub sandbox -- and
check-sources.py only verifies that every crate is covered, not that
the paths are shaped like Linux paths. It also drops the trailing
newline and writes CRLF throughout.
The one that matters, and it is a defect this branch created. Automatic
ReplayGain asked a boolean -- "is shuffle grouping albums" -- and read
source_type otherwise. Track shuffle then fell between the two: an
album queue shuffled track by track still carries source_type = 'album'
on every row, so auto applied album gain to a record that had just been
taken apart. It was not even reachable before, because a reorder used
to flatten the column to 'manual'; preserving it, which is a fix
earlier on this same branch, is what exposed it. The engine now holds
the whole three-state mode, and each state answers for itself.

The Daily Mix album query had the artist filter pushed down into its
aggregates, so a compilation counted two tracks toward the budget and
contributed twenty, and had its tempo judged from whichever two those
were. The artists pick the records; everything after that is measured
over the whole record, which is what gets queued. The doc comment above
it already claimed exactly that -- the reviewer read the code as well
as the comment.

The rest, each small:

- a non-finite album gain now counts as absent rather than costing the
  file its perfectly good track gain;
- the album query is ordered before it is cut, because a Daily Mix that
  reshuffles itself on every visit is the flicker the seeded shuffle
  exists to prevent;
- the reported packet trim is bounded by what was actually decoded;
- "Released on:" no longer condemns a description on its own -- it
  appears in ordinary sleeve notes, and the recogniser was supposed to
  be narrow;
- write_queue_order reads the sources inside the transaction that
  rewrites them;
- the per-artist album cap gets a name, like its neighbours.

One was declined: there is no duplicate shuffle read to eliminate at
the profile-load site -- the value is read once, and no earlier binding
is in scope.

cmake is a build dependency now, so it is declared rather than assumed:
the five Linux workflows install it, CONTRIBUTING lists it, and the
Flatpak manifest says out loud that it comes from the SDK and that no
CI job builds that manifest.
One was stillborn -- written, then routed around. The other is worse
than dead: write_shuffle(pool, true) forces the Tracks grouping, and
now that turning shuffle on is supposed to restore whichever grouping
the listener last picked, leaving the obvious-looking name in place
invites a future caller to throw that preference away silently.
Two mattered.

Switching shuffle from grouping tracks to grouping albums re-took the
pre-shuffle snapshot from a queue that was already shuffled, so turning
shuffle off afterwards restored the mess instead of undoing it. The
snapshot has to be taken once, on the way in -- which was true for as
long as shuffle was a boolean and you could only reach it from off.
Giving it a third state is what made the path reachable.

And the lyrics fix did not reach anyone it was for. The waterfall never
refetches once a row exists, so correcting the reader alone would have
left every already-affected track showing the YouTube credit forever,
including the reporter's. A cached embedded row that the same
recogniser identifies as a service credit is now dropped on read and
re-resolved -- narrow, because the row is provably not lyrics, and
governed by one predicate so what we refuse to store and what we refuse
to serve cannot drift apart.

The rest:

- ALBUM_FIT and ALBUM_MIN_ANALYSED were defined twice, once per
  generator, with a comment pointing at the other copy. Two copies of a
  threshold is two answers to one question; they live in the shared
  module now.
- AlbumCandidate::track_count said "playable and analysed" and counts
  every playable track. The count is the budgeting unit and has to
  match what gets queued, so the doc was the wrong half.
- the Portuguese strings called Mood Radio something the rest of the
  file does not: both locales already say "Rádio por humor".
- the Opus note claimed every build environment has cmake. It is
  installed explicitly on the five Linux workflows and comes with the
  Windows and macOS runner images; the Flatpak SDK is the one place it
  is taken on trust, and nothing in CI builds that manifest.

One declined: gating the new Settings toggle on the hook's `resolved`
flag. ToggleSwitch has no `disabled` prop, no toggle in this file gates
on hydration, and useProfileSetting already serialises writes against
an in-flight read -- so a click inside the hydration window persists
what the user saw and asked for. Adding a prop to a shared component
for a race that resolves correctly is a wider change than it earns.
The Settings toggle now waits for its hydration, which I declined last
pass on a claim that was simply wrong -- I said no toggle in that file
gates on hydration, and three do. The file's own ToggleSwitch takes a
`disabled` prop for exactly this.

set_shuffle_mode reorders before it records. The review offered two
remedies for the same inconsistency -- mirror earlier, or roll the
write back when the reorder fails -- and both compensate for an order
that only needed inverting: apply_shuffle_mode takes the mode as an
argument and reads nothing persisted, so a failed reorder now leaves
the persisted mode, the queue and the engine all still describing the
state the user was already in, with nothing to undo.

AlbumCandidate's FromRow derive follows the crate convention and sits
behind the backend features like every other row type.

And cmake gets a guarded step on the macOS and Windows release jobs.
Measured rather than assumed: a current Mac with Xcode installed has
neither cmake nor Homebrew, so "it is a Mac" guarantees nothing, and
the release is the one path that must not fail. CONTRIBUTING says so
for all three platforms now, including that MSVC fails with C1083 when
the build path is long.

Three declined, each verified against the code:

- the MPD `random` path does not need an Off-to-Tracks fallback:
  read_shuffle_grouping_preference never returns Off, it maps it
  internally;
- there is still no duplicate shuffle read at the profile-load site --
  no `shuffle` binding exists anywhere in that block;
- the mood radio's per-artist album cap can shorten a radio, but the
  track-based path has had exactly that property for as long as it has
  existed, and reporting a "partial" result to the frontend is a
  feature neither path offers.
It picks its work with WHERE l.file_hash IS NULL, so a track holding
one of those rows looks done to it. Teaching it otherwise means
spelling the recogniser a second time in SQL, and two spellings of one
predicate drift -- so the asymmetry is deliberate, and now says so
rather than looking like an oversight. Opening the panel is what heals
the row, which is the moment the wrong text would have been read.
A mood radio in album mode returned an error when no whole record fit
the mood. That is the wrong answer to a "play something now" button:
album mode is a preference, not a contract, and a library whose records
are mostly unanalysed can satisfy a mood track by track while no album
qualifies. It falls through to the track selection now -- and when
there is genuinely nothing, the message the user sees is the one that
applies ("no tracks match this mood") instead of blaming the albums.

And a documentation block had come adrift: an insertion anchored
between a doc comment and its own #[test] attribute, which silently
handed the first test's documentation to the second. It compiles
either way, which is why nothing caught it. Second time I have made
exactly this mistake.

Three declined:

- there is still no shuffle value in scope to reuse at the profile-load
  site -- fourth pass this has been raised, and the block contains no
  such binding;
- the Relaxed store on replaygain_mode_bits is what its sibling setter
  does, field for field; the Release ordering belongs to the boot
  restore, where this write also uses it;
- guarding the new ReplayGain mode against a hydration race would
  single it out from the four fields beside it, none of which are
  guarded. The race is real and uniform across all five, and fixing one
  would read as if the others had been left deliberately.
player_get_state resolved the mode for the snapshot it returns and then
read the same row again to mirror it into the engine. One read now
feeds both, which is not only cheaper: two reads can straddle a change,
and the mirror the decoder trusts should describe the same state the UI
was just told about.

Raised on five consecutive local review passes and declined on four of
them, each time on a search window that happened to exclude the
binding. It sits about two hundred lines above the call, inside the
same function. The reviewer was right and my verification was not.
The ReplayGain mode rollback is conditional now, the way
handleSetDsdPrecision's already was: two quick changes where the first
fails after the second succeeds would otherwise have restored the value
from before both of them.

And the Opus decoder frees its state if creation ever reports an error
alongside a non-null pointer. libopus documents a null return on
failure, so the pairing should not occur -- freeing it anyway keeps
ownership a rule this file enforces rather than one it inherits.

One declined, on the count rather than the merit: `let _ = sqlx::query`
on a persisted player setting appears eighteen times in this file, and
the new command is the eighteenth. The pattern does hide a write
failure from the UI, which is worth fixing -- but for all of them at
once, in a change that is about that, not by making one command behave
differently from every sibling around it.
The Opus decoder invalidated a documented limitation and nobody
noticed. The playback docs said an Opus file with a non-zero header
output gain was unsupported -- the header value neither read nor
compensated for -- because until #581 there was no decoder to apply it
with. There is now: libopus applies it while producing the samples, and
R128_TRACK_GAIN is defined relative to those samples, so the scanner's
tag rides on top rather than competing. Those files are handled now,
and the paragraph saying otherwise has been rewritten.

The new Settings control follows the hydration convention after all. I
declined this twice on the grounds that the four ReplayGain fields
beside it are ungated -- which had it backwards: those are older, and
audioSettingsTouched was introduced two days ago in the device batch,
for exactly this. A slow settings read can no longer land on a choice
the user has already made.

Daily Mix album mode picks by relevance rather than by whatever order
SQLite produced. The track side has always ordered by play count; the
album side took an arbitrary 60 records by the same artists, so a deep
cut was as likely as the album the mix is built around. Counted once in
a grouped join rather than a correlated subquery -- my first attempt at
this re-counted play_event for every track the outer scan touched.

And the decoder stopped cloning its codec parameters, and with them the
whole header, on every seek.

One declined: replacing the two SQLite functions in album_playback with
a repository trait. The crate does have that convention, for domain
CRUD -- but its playback-adjacent materialisers (smart_playlists's
generator and on_repeat) take a &SqlitePool directly behind the same
feature gate, and mod.rs says so in as many words. A trait over two
functions with one implementation is an abstraction with nothing on the
other side of it.
… binds

Both asserted the limiter caps the gain, with a pre-amp too small for
it to be consulted: the record's -7 dB album gain plus 12 dB lands at
5 dB, under the 6.02 dB a 0.5 peak leaves. The code returned 5 dB,
which is right; the expectation was wrong.

Neither had ever run -- the app crate's tests do not execute on Windows
(STATUS_ENTRYPOINT_NOT_FOUND from the Tauri DLLs), so they went from
written to green-by-assumption. Fedora and macOS both caught them, with
the same two failures out of 596 and 584.
The cmake step would have failed the Windows release right after
succeeding at its job: GITHUB_PATH only reaches later steps, so the
`cmake --version` closing the step could not have seen a freshly
installed cmake. It exports to the running shell as well now.

The ReplayGain mode handler captures the active profile at click time,
like every other audio setting around it, so a profile switch while the
write is in flight cannot let a stale failure roll back into someone
else's settings.

That move needed `activeProfileIdRef` declared above its first user,
and the reason is worth recording: referencing it earlier in the
component made `react-hooks/immutability` flag the ref's *existing*
assignment, sixty lines away and untouched. Same family as the
set-state-in-effect surprise from the device batch -- these rules
reason about the whole component, so an edit can change the verdict on
code it never touched.

One declined: giving description-derived lyrics their own
`LyricsSource`. It would be the honest classification, but
`lyrics.source` is CHECK-constrained to four values, so a fifth means
rebuilding a shared cache table for a naming nicety. The consequence is
one absurd edge -- a genuine USLT tag that really does open with a
YouTube credit gets re-read from the file on each panel open -- and it
is now written down next to the predicate rather than left to be
rediscovered.
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Cette PR ajoute le décodage Opus, le ReplayGain par album, trois modes de shuffle et la génération de sessions par albums. Elle étend aussi la résolution des paroles, les workflows de compilation, la documentation et les traductions.

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Pipeline audio Opus

Layer / File(s) Summary
Décodeur et registre de codecs
src-tauri/crates/core/src/audio_format/*, src-tauri/crates/core/src/analysis.rs, src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/*
Le projet ajoute un décodeur libopus avec gestion du pré-skip, du gain d’en-tête, des recherches et des paquets invalides. La lecture, l’analyse et le scanner utilisent le registre partagé.
Indexation et compilation
src-tauri/crates/core/src/scanner/extract.rs, src-tauri/crates/core/Cargo.toml, .github/workflows/*, packaging/flatpak/*, docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
Opus devient indexable. Speex reste refusé. Les workflows et la documentation ajoutent cmake pour la compilation embarquée de libopus.

ReplayGain contextualisé

Layer / File(s) Summary
Calcul et contexte de lecture
src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/replay_gain.rs, src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/state.rs, src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/decoder.rs
TrackGain contient les valeurs d’album. GainMode propose Track, Album et Auto. Le calcul sélectionne le gain et le pic selon le contexte d’écoute, avec repli vers les valeurs de piste.
Commandes et interface
src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/player.rs, src-tauri/crates/app/src/lib.rs, src/lib/tauri/player.ts, src/components/views/SettingsView.tsx
Le backend charge, persiste et expose le mode ReplayGain. Le frontend permet de le modifier avec une mise à jour optimiste et une protection lors des changements de profil.
Traductions et documentation
src/i18n/locales/*, docs/features/playback.md, CLAUDE.md
Les modes ReplayGain et leur comportement sont documentés et traduits.

Shuffle par modes

Layer / File(s) Summary
File et persistance
src-tauri/crates/app/src/queue.rs, src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/player.rs
ShuffleMode remplace le booléen. Le shuffle par albums conserve l’ordre disque/piste, place l’album courant en tête et préserve les métadonnées de source.
Intégrations MPD et frontend
src-tauri/crates/app/src/mpd/commands.rs, src/lib/tauri/player.ts, src/contexts/PlayerContext.tsx, src/components/player/PlaybackControls.tsx, src/hooks/usePlayer.ts
MPD conserve le regroupement sélectionné. Le frontend hydrate, synchronise et fait cycler les modes off, tracks et albums.
Traductions et documentation
src/i18n/locales/*, docs/features/mpd.md, docs/features/playback.md
Les libellés distinguent les trois modes. Les contrats MPD et lecteur décrivent leur comportement.

Lecture par albums

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sélection d’albums
src-tauri/crates/core/src/album_playback.rs, src-tauri/crates/core/src/smart_playlists/generator.rs, src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/mood_radio.rs
Les albums sont filtrés par disponibilité, analyse et adéquation au bucket. Le budget conserve les albums entiers, sauf lorsqu’un premier album dépasse seul la limite.
Réglage par profil et interface
src/hooks/useGeneratorAlbumMode.ts, src/components/views/SettingsView.tsx
Un réglage par profil active le mode album pour Mood Radio et Daily Mix. Le contrôle reste désactivé pendant la résolution initiale.
Traductions et documentation
src/i18n/locales/*, docs/features/smart-playlists.md
Les traductions et la documentation décrivent la génération de sessions par albums.

Résolution des paroles

Layer / File(s) Summary
Niveau local et cache
src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/lyrics.rs, docs/features/integrations.md
La description devient un niveau local après les sidecars. Les crédits YouTube ciblés sont rejetés à l’écriture et à la lecture du cache, ce qui déclenche une nouvelle résolution.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Interface as SettingsView
  participant Backend as player_set_replaygain_mode
  participant Etat as SharedPlayback
  participant Decodeur as AudioDecoder
  Interface->>Backend: sélectionner le mode ReplayGain
  Backend->>Etat: enregistrer le mode actif
  Backend-->>Interface: retourner le résultat
  Decodeur->>Etat: lire le mode et le contexte d’écoute
  Etat-->>Decodeur: fournir GainMode et Listening
  Decodeur->>Decodeur: calculer le gain effectif
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c3fb3

Whole-album sessions can use per-track rather than album-level loudness normalization. This leaves the album-playback behavior incomplete and should be addressed before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed Le titre résume clairement les changements principaux : ReplayGain par album, shuffle par album et support d’Opus. Il respecte le format Conventional Commits avec le scope playback.
Description check ✅ Passed La description est complète et directement liée aux objectifs. Elle explique les fonctionnalités, les choix techniques, les compatibilités, les tests exécutés, les limites connues et les issues clôtur…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed #587 est couvert par les modes track, album et auto, les gains et pics d’album, le plafonnement selon le pic d’album, le repli vers le gain de piste, la persistance et les tests associés. #618 e…
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src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/lyrics.rs modifie la priorité des sources de paroles, filtre les crédits YouTube et invalide des entrées de cache. Ces changements ne mettent en œuvre aucune exigence de #587, #618 ou #581. #581 indique que la détection des sidecars .lrc fonctionne déjà et que les autres demandes de paroles sont séparées. Les changements de build, de packaging et de documentation audio restent liés à #581.

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In `@docs/features/integrations.md`:
- Around line 156-158: Update the cache-repair description near the
affected-track note to state that the invalid cached row is automatically
removed and repaired on the next fetch_lyrics call, without requiring manual
action. Preserve the existing explanation that fetch_lyrics can fall back to the
sidecar and useTrackLyrics triggers the fetch.
- Line 163: Update the LRCLIB documentation paragraph to refer to tier 6, not
tier 5, when describing the earlier /api/get request; leave the remaining
explanation unchanged.

In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/state.rs`:
- Line 511: Transporter un indicateur explicite de session album jusqu’à
AudioCmd lorsque MoodRadioGrid sélectionne mood_radio_by_album, afin que
SharedPlayback::listening_to classe la session en Listening::ToAnAlbum malgré
source_type égal à « radio ». Préserver le contexte existant des sessions Mood
Radio par piste et le comportement de ShuffleMode::Off.

In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/lyrics.rs`:
- Around line 725-728: Update run_prefetch to read the local description with
read_description_lyrics after sidecar loading and before querying network
providers, so a valid description-only track populates the cache and remains
available to fetch_lyrics. Add a prefetch test covering a track whose lyrics
come only from its description.

In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/mood_radio.rs`:
- Line 213: Rendre le champ d’artiste agrégé utilisé par start_mood_radio
optionnel afin que MIN(t.primary_artist) puisse être NULL sans échec de
décodage. Conserver le plafond par artiste en utilisant la clé optionnelle, et
préserver le repli par pistes lorsque toutes les pistes d’un album n’ont pas
d’artiste.

In `@src-tauri/crates/core/src/smart_playlists/generator.rs`:
- Around line 247-259: Update the empty-candidate branch in the smart playlist
generation flow to call pick_tracks_for_artists before delete_existing_slot,
then apply the existing deterministic shuffle and cap the fallback to
TRACKS_PER_MIX. Continue with the track-based result when available, and only
clear the slot when both album selection and track fallback are empty.
- Around line 220-246: Persist the album_mode state when generating the Daily
Mix rule, then read that flag when resolving the mix source so only album-mode
mixes receive album context for ReplayGain ordering and album gain/peak
handling. Keep track-based mixes using the existing playlist context and ensure
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The one that was a regression: run_prefetch keeps its own copy of the
local waterfall, and lost the description tier when that moved out of
read_embedded_lyrics. I updated try_local_lyrics and never looked for a
second caller, so a description-only track stopped being filled locally
and went to the network instead. Both paths now go through one helper
that holds the order.

A mood radio could be killed by a NULL. track.primary_artist is
nullable -- ON DELETE SET NULL -- so an album whose tracks have all
lost theirs aggregates to NULL, which failed to decode into an i64 and
took the whole query down with it. Records with no artist now share one
bucket for the per-artist cap, which is the conservative reading and
keeps a pile of untagged rips from filling the radio between them.

The Daily Mix falls back to tracks when no record fits a bucket, which
is what Mood Radio already did after the fourth review pass -- leaving
them different meant one generator treated the setting as a preference
and the other as a contract, and the comment explaining the Daily Mix
behaviour contradicted its sibling.

And two documentation lines that the code had moved past: the lyrics
cache repairs itself now rather than needing a manual refetch, and
LRCLIB is tier 6 since the description tier was numbered in.

Two findings are deferred to #647 rather than declined: an album-mode
Mood Radio or Daily Mix plays whole records in order but is enqueued as
'radio' or 'playlist', so automatic ReplayGain reads it as a track
session. Real, and the two features in this PR genuinely fail to meet
there -- but the signal does not exist yet, and adding it means a new
flag through the command layer, the queue and the decoder, plus an
album_mode boolean persisted in smart_rules so a mix generated today
still says so when it is played next month. That is its own change.
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@coderabbitai Seven findings: five fixed in c3fb3f8f, two deferred to #647 with the reasoning written down rather than waved at.

The prefetch losing the description tier — founded, and it was a regression, not a gap. You are right that run_prefetch never reaches read_description_lyrics. What makes it worth more than the fix: that tier used to be inside read_embedded_lyrics, which prefetch does call. Moving it out was my change; I updated try_local_lyrics and never looked for a second caller of the function whose contract I had just narrowed. So a description-only track silently stopped being filled locally and started going to the network. Both paths now go through one helper that owns the order, so they cannot drift on it again.

MIN(t.primary_artist) — founded, and worse than a decode error. track.primary_artist is INTEGER REFERENCES artist(id) ON DELETE SET NULL, so an album whose tracks have all lost theirs aggregates to NULL; decoding that into i64 fails the row, which fails the query, which takes the whole radio down. It is Option<i64> now, and records with no artist share one bucket for the per-artist cap — the conservative reading, and it keeps a pile of untagged rips from filling the radio between them.

The Daily Mix fallback — founded on consistency, and the inconsistency was mine. Mood Radio gained exactly this fallback on an earlier review pass, with the argument that album mode is a preference rather than a contract. Leaving the Daily Mix to clear its slot meant the same setting behaved two ways, and the comment explaining why the Daily Mix did not fall back was contradicting its sibling three files away. Both fall back now.

Both documentation lines — founded. The cache repairs itself since a later pass, so the note telling users to refetch was describing the version before that; and LRCLIB became tier 6 when the description tier was numbered in, which I fixed in two places and missed in two more.

The album-session ReplayGain context — deferred to #647, not declined. You have identified something real, and it is the one place where the two features in this PR fail to meet: an album-mode Mood Radio or Daily Mix plays whole records in disc order and is enqueued as 'radio' or 'playlist', so listening_to reads it as a track session.

The reason it is not here is that the signal does not exist. listening_to has two inputs — the queue row's source_type and the shuffle grouping mirrored into SharedPlayback — and a generator session is neither. Mood Radio's command returns a bare Vec<i64>, so the frontend cannot even tell whether the backend answered in albums or fell back to tracks, which it deliberately does. The Daily Mix is harder still: the session outlives its generation, so the flag has to be persisted in smart_rules and read back when the playlist is played weeks later. And queue_item.source_type is CHECK-constrained with each value meaning something to play_event, so an album-mode radio cannot simply claim to be 'album' without lying to analytics. That is a new end-to-end signal plus a rule-schema change — coherent work, but not a fix to either feature on its own. #647 carries the shape and the traps, including the one that matters most: clearing the flag is as important as setting it, or the next ordinary playlist inherits album gain.

For the record on process: this branch went through nine local review passes before it was pushed — 31 findings founded, 12 declined. Three of those declines were mine to correct on a later pass, which is the honest argument for running the passes rather than for trusting the first answer.

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/// is the budgeting unit, and it has to match what actually
/// gets queued.
track_count: i64,
/// `track.primary_artist` is nullable (`ON DELETE SET NULL`),
/// so an album whose tracks have all lost theirs aggregates to
/// NULL. Decoding that into an `i64` fails the whole query,
/// which would take the radio down with it.
primary_artist: Option<i64>,
}

let rows: Vec<Row> = sqlx::query_as::<_, Row>(

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Album-mode Mood Radio still queues every selected track with source type radio. With the default sequential shuffle mode, that maps to Listening::ToATrack, so ReplayGain Auto ignores the album gain and album peak even though this path now plays intact albums. Carry an album-session context through this queueing path so these sessions use album ReplayGain without requiring users to enable album shuffle.

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In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/mood_radio.rs` around lines 210 - 220,
Update the album-mode Mood Radio queueing flow around the Row query and
selected-track enqueue logic to carry an album-session context, ensuring queued
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@InstaZDLL La vérification statique de c3fb3f8f confirme les cinq corrections.

  • run_prefetch appelle maintenant read_local_after_embedded. Le tier description est de nouveau traité après le sidecar.
  • mood_radio_by_album décode MIN(t.primary_artist) en Option<i64>. Les albums sans artiste partagent le même plafond.
  • Daily Mix repasse en sélection par piste si le mode album ne trouve aucun album admissible.
  • La documentation décrit la réparation automatique du cache et numérote LRCLIB comme tier 6.
  • #647 est ouvert et décrit le signal persistant requis, la contrainte de source_type, le fallback honnête, et la remise à zéro du flag.

Le défaut fonctionnel de prefetch est corrigé. Il reste un détail de maintenance : try_local_lyrics conserve son propre enchaînement sidecar → description au lieu d’appeler read_local_after_embedded. Les deux chemins peuvent donc encore diverger lors d’une modification future. Ce point ne bloque pas les corrections actuelles.

Le report de ReplayGain vers #647 est justifié. Le problème reste réel, mais sa correction exige un contrat de session explicite et persisté. Il ne doit pas modifier queue_item.source_type.

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Learning: In `src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/mood_radio.rs` and `src-tauri/crates/core/src/smart_playlists/generator.rs`, album mode is a preference rather than a contract. If no album qualifies, Mood Radio and Daily Mix must fall back to track selection.

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@coderabbitai Same subject as the earlier finding, and it stays in #647 rather than landing here. The reasoning is worth restating with what checking it again turned up, because you are right about the behaviour.

Confirmed, again. MoodRadioGrid calls playerPlayTracks("radio", null, ids, 0) whatever the backend answered with, so an album-mode radio queues as 'radio', listening_to sees neither 'album' nor album grouping on shuffle, and the decoder gets Listening::ToATrack. Whole records, in disc order, on track gain.

Two reasons it is not a narrow fix, and the second is new since last time.

The clearing is harder than the setting. A per-queue "this session is album-ordered" flag has to be written on every path that replaces the queue, or a stale one hands album gain to the next unrelated playlist — a silent audio defect, which is worse than the one being fixed. I had assumed player_play_tracks was that single path. It is not: queue::insert_after_current also fills the queue outright when it finds it empty, so "Play next" on an empty queue is a second entry point that never passes through the command carrying the flag. Any fix has to cover both, and MPD's paths besides.

And doing Mood Radio alone would re-create exactly the inconsistency the previous review round asked me to remove. Those two generators are driven by one setting, and this same PR just made their empty-result behaviour match after you pointed out they disagreed. Giving album context to the radio and not to the Daily Mix would put them straight back to answering the same preference two different ways — and the Daily Mix cannot be fixed the same way, because its session outlives its generation: the mix is a stored playlist, played weeks later through the ordinary playlist path, so the flag has to be persisted in smart_rules and read back at play time.

So it is one change covering both, spanning the command layer, the queue, the decoder and the rule schema — not two independent ones. #647 carries the shape, the traps, and now the insert_after_current case as well.

What ships here is honest about itself: album mode picks and orders whole records, and ReplayGain treats the session the way it treats any radio. Nothing claims otherwise, and the follow-up says exactly what is missing.

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@InstaZDLL Merci pour la vérification complémentaire.

Je confirme que le défaut reste réel, mais que #647 est le bon périmètre. Un correctif limité à Mood Radio serait incomplet et créerait une divergence avec Daily Mix.

Le risque principal est bien le contexte persistant obsolète. Toute opération qui remplace ou initialise une file doit définir ou effacer ce contexte. Cela inclut player_play_tracks, queue::insert_after_current sur une file vide, et les chemins MPD.

Daily Mix exige aussi une donnée persistée dans smart_rules, car la lecture peut arriver longtemps après la génération. Le contexte doit ensuite atteindre la file et listening_to sans modifier queue_item.source_type.

Je laisse donc ce point ouvert dans #647. Aucun marqueur de résolution n’est approprié pour cette PR.

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Timestamp: 2026-09-14T14:48:41.000Z
Learning: In PR `#646`, album-mode Mood Radio queues tracks through `MoodRadioGrid` with `playerPlayTracks("radio", null, ids, 0)`. Thus `SharedPlayback::listening_to` classifies the session as `Listening::ToATrack`, even when the backend selected complete albums. The required ReplayGain fix belongs to issue `#647`. It must introduce an explicit album-session context that is set and cleared for every queue replacement or initialization path, including `player_play_tracks`, `queue::insert_after_current` when the queue is empty, and MPD paths. The solution must cover both Mood Radio and persisted Daily Mix sessions, with Daily Mix context stored in `smart_rules`, and must not overload `queue_item.source_type`.

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InstaZDLL merged commit 2fcd041 into main Sep 14, 2026
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