lintunes/tasks-done.md

Done

Round 32 (2026-08-14) — Custom start times survive a track change (v0.5.2)

trav reported "Pretty Girls is a Motherfucker" starting at 0:00 despite its imported 0:40 start time. Import and storage were fine (70 tracks carry a start time, 72 a stop time); the seek was being thrown away. QMediaPlayer.setSource() synchronously emits two status changes before it returns — a LoadedMedia still reporting the outgoing source, then LoadingMedia for the new one — and the stale first event consumed the one-shot _pending_start_ms armed by Round 22, leaving nothing for the new track's real LoadedMedia ~5 ms later. So it misfired on every track change; only the first track after launch worked, which is why Round 22 looked green.

• The armed seek is tagged with the URL it belongs to (_pending_start_url), and _on_media_status consumes it only when source() matches — a status change fired for other media can't eat it.
• LocalSink.load restructured so the pending seek is armed only on the new-source branch; Round 22's same-source replay path still seeks directly and arms nothing.
• tests/test_round32.py models the real Qt event sequence (a setSource side effect that fires the stale LoadedMedia before switching source()), which Round 22's plain MagicMock never did. All three behavioral tests fail on the old code. test_round8 / test_round22 stubs updated to report the new source by the time its LoadedMedia arrives, as real Qt does.
• Verified against the real files headless: switching from a playing track to the Psychic Vagina mp3 with start_ms=40000 now lands at 40.1 s and climbs; a track with no start time still starts at 0.

Round 31 (2026-08-13) — One cast control, not two (v0.5.1)

The cast glyph appeared both under the volume slider and inside the visualizer, which was redundant. Dropped the volume-slider indicator (gui/cast_indicator.py deleted); the visualizer panel is now the single cast control.

• The visualizer panel is the indicator — bigger glyph (20 → 40 px), always painted in the theme highlight rather than following the brightness mode, and clicking it stops casting instead of cycling on/dim/off (which meant nothing with no bars to dim). New cast_stop_requested signal.
• transport_icon(kind, color, size=…) scales the painter instead of upscaling a 20px pixmap, so the panel-sized glyph is crisp; size joins the cache key.
• Collapsed the cast/cast_connected glyph pair into one — only the connected state was ever drawn.

Round 30 (2026-08-13) — Album art on the cast device (v0.5.0)

The Chromecast is on a TV, so it should show the cover. play_media now carries thumb=, which pychromecast folds into metadata["images"] — the field the receiver paints full-screen. Verified against the real device: it fetches both the audio and the artwork URL from us on every track change.

• TrackServer serves in-memory blobs — album art lives in the audio file's tags, not as a file of its own, so a token now resolves to an _Asset that is either a path or bytes. Audio and art get separate eviction rings, so a cover can't push out the previous track's audio while a device is still fetching it. Range and HEAD work on both.
• support.image_type_for sniffs the cover's type from its magic bytes rather than trusting the tag — ID3 APIC mimes are routinely wrong or blank, and the receiver silently drops an image whose type doesn't match.
• Best-effort throughout — no cover, junk where the cover should be, or an unreadable file all just play without art rather than failing the load.
• Also sends albumArtist and trackNumber in the metadata.

Round 29 (2026-08-13) — Cast to Chromecast (v0.4.0)

The Device menu is now Connections, with "Connect to Chromecast…" alongside the Rabbit sync. Picking a device from the search dialog hands playback to it; a small cast glyph appears under the volume slider and clicking it disconnects. See tests/test_round29.py (67 tests).

Uses the media-receiver model: lintunes serves the original file over the LAN and the Chromecast decodes it. Bit-exact (no transcode, no double-lossy on already-lossy files) and the device buffers for itself; the cost is that lintunes becomes a remote control while connected — no local PCM, so the visualizer shows the cast glyph instead of bars, and transport actions land with ~1 s of round trip.

• lintunes/cast/ — support.py (format gate, source-address selection, range parsing), server.py (token-addressed ThreadingHTTPServer with Range/HEAD), discovery.py (CastBrowser behind Qt signals), sink.py (CastSink), controller.py (session lifecycle + its own SleepInhibitor).
• Player sink split — new PlaybackSink base with LocalSink and CastSink; set_sink() carries track/position/playing-state both ways, so connecting and disconnecting pick up mid-song. Play counts and Last.fm scrobbles fire identically on both paths.
• Format handling — 12,610 MP3 + ~8,750 AAC cast natively; the ~119 Apple Lossless / AIFF / protected-AAC tracks are skipped with a status-bar message rather than stalling the device.
• Failure handling — a dropped socket gets a 15 s grace period (pychromecast retries on its own, so a Wi-Fi blip heals itself); a real loss, a foreign app taking the device, or a network change falls back to local playback still playing, at the same position. Quitting stops the device rather than leaving it fetching from a dead server.
• New dependency: pychromecast>=14.0.10, imported lazily so the app still launches where it isn't installed; python_requires raised to >=3.11 (its floor). The menu item explains the pip install -e . when missing.

Misc (recorded 2026-07-02, moved from TASKS.md during the Round 17 rewrite)

• Confirm Last.fm scrobbling works
• Volume slider between the visualizer and the timeline
• Preferences: per-area color adjustments (background, button round-rects, now-playing text + its backing, tracklist stripe gray), each with a live black↔white slider
• Visualizer: discrete light-gray-on-light-gray mode
• Cut/copy/paste tracks (Ctrl+X/C/V); paste inserts above the selected track, not at the end
• Auto-scroll the track list when dragging a track above/below the visible area
• Move data dir to /run/media/trav/tummult/music/lintunes/ + relative track paths (see Round 15)
• Real library import: 21,382 tracks, 462 playlists + 21 folders, 18 smart playlists (3 kept as snapshot), 5 missing files, 1,324 case/unicode path fixes (see Round 15)

Round 16 (2026-07-02) — Live multi-machine sync + conflict alerts

Both machines now reflect each other's changes within a couple seconds, with genuine conflicts auto-merged (backed up first) and surfaced in an alert. See tests/test_round16.py (9 tests) + the known limitations below.

• Live external-change reload — new lintunes/sync_watcher.py (QFileSystemWatcher, 600 ms debounce, re-arms after atomic-rename replaces). LibraryManager.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. Self-write suppression: flush() records each file's (mtime, size) in _own_sigs; the watcher ignores changes matching our own writes so a save never triggers a reload.
• Auto-merge + backups + summaries — storage/conflict_resolver.py now backs up both sides into <data>/.resolved/<timestamp>/{original,incoming}/ before merging, returns list[ConflictSummary], and adds restore_backup(). Conflicts are resolved at startup and live (via the watcher).
• Alert UI — gui/conflict_dialog.py ConflictSummaryDialog (scrollable summary, Open backup folder, Restore pre-merge backup), shown modeless from a status-bar notice so a merge never interrupts playback. Wired in main_window (_on_library_reloaded preserves scroll+selection; _on_conflict_resolved).

Known limitations (v2): a simultaneous conflicting playlist edit unions membership, so a deletion made on one side while the other edits the same file can be resurrected (clean, non-simultaneous deletes reload fine) — proper fix is per-playlist tombstones. No per-change accept/refuse yet (whole-file restore only).

Round 15 (2026-07-01) — Go live: portable multi-machine paths + final import

Prepared LinTunes to become the canonical library, synced to a second machine via Syncthing. See tests/test_round15.py (10 tests).

• Portable track paths (lintunes/paths.py) — track locations are stored relative to the data dir (to_relative) and resolved back to absolute on load (to_absolute), 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 untouched. Because the data dir and the music live inside one synced tree and move together, the library now resolves on any machine no matter where Syncthing mounts the folder — no per-machine music_root config. Absolute paths in older library.json files still load (back-compat).
• Final import + go live — fresh import of the current iTunes Library.xml into the synced data dir /run/media/trav/tummult/music/lintunes/ (inside the verified "music" Syncthing share), config saved via --save-config, preferences (UI tuning + Last.fm) carried over from the old ./data, which is retained as a rollback backup. Git remote set to git.autonomic.zone:2222/trav/lintunes so the second machine can clone.

Round 14 (2026-06-26) — Smart playlists (Phase 1)

Auto-populating, criteria-driven playlists with full iTunes 12 import. See tests/test_round14.py (27 tests, incl. real captured blobs in tests/smart_blobs.json).

• Criteria model + evaluator (lintunes/smart.py) — recursive SmartRule/SmartGroup/SmartLimit/SmartCriteria (JSON round-tripping), a shared FIELD_REGISTRY (field → Track attr, type, operators) used by both evaluator and editor, and evaluate() (match all/any, nested groups, string/int/duration/rating/date/bool ops, relative "in the last N", and limit-by items/time/size with a "selected by" sort).
• iTunes import — the binary "Smart Info"/"Smart Criteria" blobs are decoded by a vendored, MIT-licensed parser (lintunes/itunes_smart/, from github.com/cvzi/itunes_smartplaylist) and converted to our model by parse_itunes_smart(). Nested rule groups parse and evaluate correctly; blobs we can't represent (MediaKind/iCloud/etc.) flag unsupported and keep the imported track snapshot. Validated against all 14 real smart playlists. loved is deliberately dropped per user preference.
• Manager (library_manager.py) — create_smart_playlist / set_smart_criteria (undoable) / recompute_smart_playlist / recompute_all_smart; field-scoped, coalesced live recompute hooked into the track-edit/play/skip/add funnels (honours each playlist's live_update); a no-op equality guard to avoid Syncthing churn; manual add/remove/reorder blocked on smart playlists. main.py recomputes on load; conflict_resolver.py takes newest criteria (no track_id union) for smart.
• GUI — ❧ glyph on smart rows in the sidebar (with a rename-strip delegate), distinct context menu (New/Edit Smart Playlist), read-only track table for smart playlists, and SmartPlaylistEditorDialog (gui/smart_playlist_dialog.py): per-field rule rows, match all/any, limits, live-updating. New Smart Playlist on File menu (Ctrl+Alt+N).

Phase 2 TODO: nested-group editing UI in the dialog (imported nested playlists are currently shown read-only with a banner; they still update/play).

Round 8 (2026-06-19)

All four implemented in Round 8 (2026-06-19); see tests/test_round8.py.

• the ability to right click on any track and within the right-click menu that comes up there's an item that says "show in playlist..." with a right arrow. Hover that and you get a list of all the playlists that that track appears in. Select a playlist and the app jumps to that playlist and highlights the first instance of that song in that playlist.

• ability to edit the ID3 tags of multiple files at once and have it intelligently only modify only the id3 tags that the files share. Say we're editing all songs in an albumb: the song title isn't editable because it isn't the same between the tracks, but the album title would show and the artist. So we could make those changes to all songs at once. (iTunes-style: differing fields show a "Mixed" placeholder but stay editable; only fields you actually touch are written to all selected tracks.)

• search, we need search. It only needs to appear in the library view. This should be a text box that takes up a third of that empty horizontal space between the tracks view and the top control panel. It should be a textbox that has in very light gray text that says "search". When you click into it that the "search" text disappears. As soon as you start typing it starts filtering the music. This should be compatible with the browser columns so the browser columns still show genres, artists and albums that match the search term. The search should search all fields for the search term(s). I could see this being really slow having to search all fields of all tracks at every keypress. So we can pause between key-presses if we want. So it's a search but really more like a filter. (250 ms debounce.)

• I want support for custom start and end times of tracks like itunes has. We need to be able to import this data from how it's stored in the itunes library and we need to be able to respect it during playback. There should also be fields in the 'get info' screen that allows us to turn custom start/end times of the track on and off and set the value of how far into the song it starts/ends. This is a feature in itunes we're implementing. (Import was already wired; added Get Info fields + playback seek-to-start/stop-at-stop. Stored in library JSON only — no standard ID3 frame, same as iTunes.)

• Search box over the library. (Round 8.)

Rounds 1–4 (2026-06-12)

• Spec 1–14 — full iTunes-replacement baseline:
  • iTunes XML import with Mac→local location remap, play counts/ratings/dates preserved, smart + system playlists skipped (importers/itunes_importer.py).
  • Syncthing-friendly JSON storage, conflict-file merge on startup (storage/); data dir lives in the synced music folder.
  • iTunes-style layout: sidebar + track view; genre/artist/album browser (Ctrl+B); per-playlist columns/sort/manual order; playlist folders.
  • PyQt6 GUI; playback (mp3/m4a/flac via Qt Multimedia); scrubbing timeline + transport buttons; Space/←/→ keys + MPRIS2 media keys.
  • Drag/copy-paste tracks; drop-to-import files/folders; Get Info tag editing via mutagen.
• Round 2 — art paste in Get Info; BPM tap button; guessed ratings dropped
  • migrated; big-art window; 60fps EQ visualizer; cue-don't-play arrows; now-playing speaker icon.
• Round 3 — Preferences (preferences.py, Edit ▸ Preferences, Ctrl+,); Last.fm scrobbling (lastfm.py, full-play-through only); theming (theme.py: 5 highlight colors, 3 UI scales); shuffle (walk-order); sidebar restructure (Library button + bottom art); MPRIS artUrl; painted transport glyphs; drag fix; app icon + install-desktop.sh.
• Round 4 — drag chip + glowing drop line; Library button border; 8px BPM box; click-to-jump seek slider; vertical browser splitter; fixed-baseline visualizer (this also resolved the "vibrating bar bottoms" complaint).

Round 5 (2026-06-13) — UI polish + status bar + browser normalization

• Visualizer rounded corners — rounded gray panel + 1px palette(mid) border, bars clipped to the rounded shape (gui/visualizer.py).
• BPM button flat inside its box, matching the transport icons (gui/transport.py).
• Bottom status bar — permanent totals readout N tracks · DD:HH:MM:SS (trimmed leading units) for the visible track set; reflects browser genre/artist/album selection and playlist contents; transient import/scrobble/error messages still shown; height scales with UI size (gui/track_table.py format_total_time/tracks_changed/total_stats, gui/main_window.py, theme.py status_height).
• Browser normalization — merge case variants (display the most-tracks spelling; ties: more capitals, then alphabetical) for genres, artists, albums; ignore leading "The" when sorting artists; case-insensitive filtering so a canonical entry matches all variants (gui/library_view.py).
• Header bold bug — setHighlightSections(False); column headers no longer bold when playback sets the current cell (gui/track_table.py).
• Library button — light-gray rounded button, not bold (gui/sidebar.py).
• Playlist title — name only; count/time moved to the status bar (gui/playlist_view.py).
• Tests: tests/test_round5.py (format_total_time, _canonical_values, _artist_sort_key).

2026-06-18 — top control panel tweaks

• Faster tap-BPM commit — the tapped tempo now saves to the track 3s after the cursor leaves the button, down from 6s (gui/transport.py BpmButton.SAVE_DELAY_MS).

• Control panel redesign — bar height floored at BAR_HEIGHT (84px, ~10% under the old ~95px) via setMinimumHeight, giving the center column vertical slack; the title/artist block is centered with equal top/bottom borders (verified ~11px vs ~10px) using equal addStretch above and below, while the seek row stays pinned to the bottom so the timeline sits low. Key fix: the bpm box was moved out of the seek row into its own box on the far right (layout.addWidget(_box(...))). It was a 37px-tall box that inflated the timeline row, floating the 15px slider with a lopsided phantom gap below the artist; out of that row the seek row collapses to slider/label height so the stretches split evenly. Note: BAR_HEIGHT is a floor — setting it below the natural stacked height (~69px) has no effect. EQ visualizer panel background now matches the transport boxes (palette(alternate-base) instead of window().darker(115)). (gui/transport.py, gui/visualizer.py.) Verified by offscreen QWidget.grab() render + widget-geometry measurement (gnome-screenshot is blocked under Wayland).

• Move data dir to /run/media/trav/tummult/music/lintunes/ once trav confirms the real import looks right (re-run import or copy ./data, update config with --save-config).

• Run the real import on trav's library and eyeball the result (fixture in ./itunes-test-library/).

• Album art beyond now-playing (grid/album view); embedded tags only (decision: no parsing of iTunes' .itc artwork cache).

• Search box over the library.

• Background/threaded bulk file import (current import is synchronous).

• Better duplicate handling on import-by-drop (currently matched by path).

• Volume control in the transport bar (MPRIS exposes a fixed 1.0).

• Smart playlists, if ever (skipped at import for now).

• Wayland edge-drag resize — needs trav's verification; if still bad, try lintunes -platform xcb and switch the .desktop Exec if that fixes it.