The Device menu becomes Connections, with "Connect to Chromecast…" beside
the Rabbit sync. It opens a dialog that spins while it searches and lists
devices as they appear; picking one hands playback over, puts a small cast
glyph under the volume slider, and clicking that glyph disconnects.
Media-receiver model: lintunes serves the original file over the LAN on an
ephemeral port and the Chromecast decodes it itself. Bit-exact — no
transcode, no second lossy encode — and the device buffers for itself. The
cost is that lintunes is a remote control while connected: no local PCM, so
the visualizer shows the cast glyph instead of bars, and transport actions
land with about a second of round trip.
Player now walks its queue through a swappable PlaybackSink. It keeps
owning the queue, shuffle walk, start/stop times and the play-count and
scrobble bookkeeping, so casting counts plays and scrobbles exactly like
local playback. set_sink() carries track, position and playing-state both
ways, so connecting and disconnecting pick up mid-song. LocalSink stays in
player.py because the Player tests stub Qt Multimedia in that namespace.
The URL carries an opaque random token, never a path, so there is nothing
to traverse with; only the last few played tracks stay resolvable and the
whole map dies with the session. Range and HEAD are implemented because
the device seeks by re-requesting ranges and won't report a duration
without them.
Failure handling, verified against a real device: a dropped socket gets a
15s grace period, since pychromecast retries on its own and a Wi-Fi blip
heals itself. A real loss, another app taking the device, or a network
change falls back to local playback still playing, at the same position —
the sink reports the state lintunes last asked for rather than the IDLE
status a dying connection pushes just before it goes. Quitting stops the
device instead of leaving it fetching from a server that just died. The
~119 Apple Lossless / AIFF / protected-AAC tracks are skipped with a
status-bar message; the other 21,000+ MP3 and AAC files cast natively.
New dependency: pychromecast>=14.0.10, imported lazily so the app still
launches where it isn't installed (the menu item then explains the
install), and python_requires raised to >=3.11 to match its floor.
NOTE: the other machine needs `pip install -e .` before casting appears.
tests/test_round29.py: 67 tests; 440 pass overall.
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Features:
- Rating hover dots: hovering a rating cell shows 5 clickable slots
(RatingDelegate); click slot k sets k stars, clicking the current count
clears. Undoable, library-only (ratings never rewrite music files).
- Search bar moved into the Library header strip, right of the Library
button, so the tracklist top aligns with the playlist tree.
- Right-click "Download Album Art…": iTunes Search API (no key), off-thread
fetch, preview/confirm dialog with Next Result, embeds via write_artwork
+ size refresh, invalidates the MPRIS art cache.
Fixes:
- MPRIS media keys: PropertiesChanged sent invalidated_properties as "av"
instead of "as", so gsd-media-keys dropped it and never MRU-bumped
lintunes (why the play/pause key kept waking stale players). Now an
explicit QDBusArgument string array; loopback-verified sa{sv}as.
- Exit segfault: ordered Player.shutdown() (stop, clear source, detach
buffer/audio outputs) from closeEvent/aboutToQuit; scripted run exits 0.
- BT zero-volume after pause/resume: volume re-applied on resume, device
swap, and BufferedMedia (needs verify on the affected machine).
Cruft sweep:
- Tag writes filtered to EDITABLE_FIELDS; failures logged + surfaced in
the status bar (was a swallowed print).
- O(n²) import fixed (location index + cached max track id); O(1)
refresh/reveal via TrackTableModel row index.
- lastfm: scrobble-queue thread lock, login prefs write marshalled to the
GUI thread, JSON/raise_for_status order fixed.
- Shared read_json/write_json; TableSettingsMixin dedupes view settings.
TASKS.md rewritten as a resumable board; tests in tests/test_round17.py
(251 total pass).
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Both machines now reflect each other's changes within a couple seconds, and
genuine Syncthing conflicts auto-merge with a backup and an alert.
- sync_watcher.py: QFileSystemWatcher (debounced, re-arms after atomic renames)
emits a single `changed`; the manager decides if it was external.
- library_manager: `reload_from_disk()` re-reads and reconciles disk into memory
(max play/skip counts, newest edit wins, playlist membership unioned), keeping
local unsaved edits and object identity so open views stay valid, then refreshes
the UI without touching the player. `flush()` records each file's (mtime, size)
so our own writes are never mistaken for an external change. New signals
library_reloaded / conflict_resolved.
- conflict_resolver: back up BOTH sides into .resolved/<ts>/{original,incoming}/
before merging, return list[ConflictSummary], add restore_backup(); runs at
startup and live.
- gui/conflict_dialog.py: modeless summary with Open/Restore backup; main_window
shows it from a status-bar notice and preserves scroll+selection on reload.
Tests: tests/test_round16.py (9) + full suite green (225).
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The library is going live as the canonical store, synced to a second machine
via Syncthing. Track locations were stored absolute and only remapped at import,
so on a second machine (where Syncthing mounts the folder at a different path)
every location would break.
- lintunes/paths.py: to_relative/to_absolute. Locations are stored relative to
the data dir and resolved back on load, applied only at the json_storage
boundary (save_tracks/load_library). Track.location stays absolute in memory,
so the player, tagging, and art code are unchanged. The data dir and the music
move together inside one synced tree, so paths resolve wherever it's mounted —
no per-machine music_root config. Absolute paths in older library.json files
still load (back-compat).
- tests/test_round15.py: helper round-trips, back-compat, and a machine-2
scenario (save under root A, load the copied tree under root B).
- TASKS.md/tasks-done.md: mark the data-dir move + real import done; log the
benign exit-time Qt/FFmpeg teardown segfault.
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Snapshot of the existing codebase before working through the TASKS.md
backlog. Real library data (data/) and the iTunes import fixture
(itunes-test-library/) are gitignored.
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