lintunes/TASKS.md

# LinTunes — task board

Legend: `[ ]` todo · `[~]` in progress · `[x]` done.
When a round closes, move its finished items to `tasks-done.md`.

## Round 18 (current) — the 2026-07-02 backlog batch

Plan reference: `~/.claude/plans/can-you-knock-out-synthetic-horizon.md`.
Tests land in `tests/test_round18.py`. (The equalizer backlog item moved to
Parked / deferred — see there.)

- [x] Drag tracks from the GNOME file browser into a playlist/Library: the
      copy-to-`Artist/Album/` + unknown-artist machinery already existed;
      the gap was that `playlist_view._on_files_dropped` discarded the drop
      row. Position now threads through `files_dropped` →
      `MainWindow.import_files` → `import_paths` →
      `add_tracks_to_playlist(position)`, so dropped files land at the drop
      line (a file already in the library dedups to its existing track and
      still inserts in place).
- [x] Renaming artist/album/album_artist moves the file so the music folder
      stays organized like the library (`LibraryManager._maybe_move_file`
      under `organize_root()` = `<music_folder>/Music`): folders created as
      needed, Unknown Artist fallback, collision " 1" suffixes, empty dirs
      pruned (never the root), undo/redo moves the file back/forward, a
      failed move keeps the edit + old path and reports via
      `file_move_failed` in the status bar. Files outside the organize root
      are never moved. Cross-machine: `location` now merges
      newest-`date_modified`-wins in `conflict_resolver`, covering both
      sync-conflict files and live `reload_from_disk`. CLAUDE.md's
      never-move rule updated accordingly.
- [x] Visualizer: new "Visualizer (gray mode)" slider in the Preferences
      gray adjustments sets the dim-mode bar color (untouched = the old
      derived look); the color/gray/off click cycle is unchanged and the
      mode now persists across launches (`visualizer_mode` pref).
- [ ] **verify by eye in the running app**: drop files from Nautilus into
      the middle of a manual-sort playlist (land at the drop line, Ctrl+Z
      removes); Get Info an Unknown Artist track → set artist → watch the
      file move in Nautilus (Ctrl+Z moves it back; try once while a track
      is playing); bulk album rename + one Ctrl+Z restores all; drag the
      visualizer slider while playing in gray mode; cycle modes + relaunch.
      (A scripted offscreen run of all of the above passed 2026-07-02.)

## Round 17 — TASKS.md batch + cruft cleanup

Plan reference: `~/.claude/plans/can-you-take-a-drifting-sonnet.md`.
Tests land in `tests/test_round17.py`.

### Phase 1 — cruft & correctness quick wins
- [x] 1a. Tag-write filter: `_write_track_tags` only writes fields in
      `tagging.EDITABLE_FIELDS`; rating/size edits become library-JSON-only
      and no longer rewrite music files (`library_manager.py`)
- [x] 1b. Replace `print()` with logging; new `tag_write_failed` signal
      surfaced in the status bar (`library_manager.py`, `file_importer.py`,
      `main_window.py`, `main.py`)
- [x] 1c. O(n²) import fix: `{location: track}` index per `import_paths` +
      cached `_max_track_id` for O(1) `new_track_id` (`file_importer.py`,
      `library_manager.py`)
- [x] 1d. `TrackTableModel._row_by_id` index → O(1) `refresh_track` /
      `reveal_track` (`track_table.py`)
- [x] 1e. `threading.Lock` around the scrobble-queue load/mutate/save
      (`lastfm.py`)
- [x] 1f. Last.fm login: prefs write marshalled to the GUI thread via an
      internal signal (`lastfm.py`)
- [x] 1g. Shared `read_json`/`write_json` in `json_storage.py`; drop the
      duplicates in `conflict_resolver.py`
- [x] 1h. `lastfm._call`: try JSON first, fall back to `raise_for_status()`
      on non-JSON bodies

### Phases 2–4 — player & desktop integration
- [x] Task F: silent resume after pause — REDIAGNOSED per trav 2026-07-02:
      not Bluetooth-specific; happens on the Debian 13 machine whenever he
      walks away, resumes, and gets no sound despite the visualizer moving
      (decoding runs, the idle-suspended audio sink comes back dead; a
      slight rewind fixed it). Two-part fix in `player.py`: (1)
      `_apply_volume()` re-applied on resume / `setDevice` / `BufferedMedia`;
      (2) resume after a pause ≥30 s (`RESUME_NUDGE_THRESHOLD_S`) does a
      **seek-in-place** first — the automated version of the manual rewind,
      without losing the playback position.
- [ ] **verify Task F on the Debian 13 machine**: play, pause, walk away
      ≥1 min, resume — must be audible without manually seeking
- [x] Task E: exit segfault — idempotent `Player.shutdown()`
      (stop → clear source → detach buffer/audio outputs → disconnect
      QMediaDevices), called from `closeEvent` + `aboutToQuit`.
      Verified 2026-07-02: scripted run (import → play to end → close)
      exits 0, no segfault.
- [x] Task C: MPRIS play/pause commandeering — root cause found & fixed:
      `_notify` sent `PropertiesChanged` with `invalidated_properties`
      marshalled as `av` instead of `as`, so gsd-media-keys dropped it and
      never bumped LinTunes in its media-key MRU. Now an explicit empty
      string-array via `QDBusArgument` (`mpris.py`). Verified 2026-07-02 by
      D-Bus loopback: old code's signature was `sa{sv}av`, new is `sa{sv}as`
      (test_round17).
- [ ] **verify Task C in practice**: play in LinTunes with a stale YouTube
      tab around; the media key should control only LinTunes. Fallbacks if
      GNOME still misroutes (documented, not built):
      `org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys.GrabMediaPlayerKeys`,
      bus-name re-registration on play.

### Phases 5–7 — features
- [x] Task B: search bar moved into the Library header strip
      (`_top_strip`), directly right of the sidebar Library button, so the
      browse/tracklist top aligns with the playlist tree (`library_view.py`)
- [x] Task A: rating hover dots — hovering a rating cell shows 5 slots
      (★ where rated, • where not); click slot k sets k stars; clicking the
      current rating clears it. `RatingDelegate` + `rating_edited` signal,
      wired to `manager.edit_track_fields` in both views (`track_table.py`,
      `library_view.py`, `playlist_view.py`). Rating is library-only (no
      music-file rewrite), undoable with Ctrl+Z.
- [x] Task D: right-click "Download Album Art…" — iTunes Search API
      (no key; upscale artworkUrl100 → 600x600), off-thread fetch,
      confirmation dialog with preview + Next Result, embed via
      `tagging.write_artwork` + size refresh, invalidate MPRIS art cache
      (new `art_search.py`, new `gui/album_art_dialog.py`,
      `track_table.py`, `main_window.py`, `mpris.py`). Follow-up 2026-07-02:
      "Use for All N Songs in Album" button applies the art to every
      library track on that album, not just the selection.
- [ ] verify Tasks A/B/D by eye in the running app (hover/click ratings,
      search-bar alignment, art download on a real album)

### Phase 8
- [x] `TableSettingsMixin`: dedupe sort/columns/width persistence between
      LibraryView and PlaylistView (new `gui/table_settings.py`)

## Standalone maintenance (manual, not code work)

- [ ] Artwork recovery against the LIVE data dir (embeds the 790
      album-propagated covers; gets art-bearing coverage to 100%):
      1. `python3 scripts/audit_artwork.py --data-dir <data>` (read-only re-check)
      2. `python3 scripts/recover_artwork.py --data-dir <data> --dry-run` → review
      3. re-run with `--write`; `audit_artwork.py` again to confirm
      Note: `lintunes/itc.py` is a live dependency of `recover_artwork.py`
      (tests in `test_round9.py`) — do not delete as "unused".

## Parked / deferred

- [ ] Equalizer ("maybe just some bass/mid/treble sliders in preferences" —
      trav 2026-07-02). Deferred from Round 18: QMediaPlayer has no
      audio-effects hooks, so even a 3-band EQ means either a custom
      decode→filter→output pipeline (replaces playback; risky for
      seek/formats) or leaning on the system (PipeWire filter-chain /
      EasyEffects). Needs a design decision before building.
- [ ] Smart playlists Phase 2: nested-group editing UI in the criteria
      dialog (import + evaluation of nested groups already works; imported
      nested playlists are read-only until then). Big change, on hold.
- [ ] Live-sync v2: per-playlist tombstones (so a delete on one machine
      isn't resurrected by the union merge during a simultaneous edit) +
      optional per-change accept/refuse review. Low priority — trav doesn't
      edit on both machines at once; v1 handles sequential use.
- [ ] Data-dir location as an in-app preference (currently only
      `--data-dir` / `--save-config`).
- [ ] Album-art grid view: a browsable grid of album covers for the
      library (the artwork-coverage investigation that motivated it is
      answered & tooled — see Standalone maintenance above).
- [ ] Off-thread artwork reads: `SidebarArt.set_track` and the Get Info
      dialog read embedded art synchronously on the GUI thread (fine for
      local files; worth revisiting for large FLACs).
- [ ] Progress UI (or background thread) for multi-selection tag writes in
      `edit_tracks_fields` — a big batch currently blocks the UI.
- [ ] More aggressive media-key commandeering beyond the Task C fix, if the
      real-machine verification shows GNOME still routing keys elsewhere.