Psychotoxical b950d4704b feat(cover): artist artwork from fanart.tv (off by default) (#1137)
* feat(cover): add artist_artwork_lookup table + accessors

Image-scraper P0 (design-review §12): additive library-SQLite migration 013
plus get/upsert/clear-per-server accessors for the external artist-artwork
lookup (fanart.tv). Render never reads it; the on-demand cover ensure path
and the mbid_ambiguous 24h negative cache use it. server_id = serverIndexKey.

* feat(cover): add fanart.tv + getArtistInfo2 provider layer

Image-scraper P0 (§7/§19/§23): new cover_cache/external.rs — Rust-side
getArtistInfo2 tag-MBID resolution plus fanart.tv v3/music URL + first
artistbackground fetch (BYOK client_key sent in addition to the project
api_key per fanart.tv ToS, §22). Extract a shared build_subsonic_url helper
in fetch.rs (cover URL behaviour unchanged). Add a dedicated low-concurrency
fanart_http_sem so external HTTP never starves Navidrome (§26). URL builders
unit-tested; wired into ensure_inner next.

* feat(cover): wire fanart.tv external branch into ensure_inner

Image-scraper P0 (§16): on-demand artist `fanart` ensures try fanart.tv
before the Navidrome fallback. MBID resolved Rust-side via getArtistInfo2
(§23, tag MBID); on a miss it falls through WITHOUT a .fetch-failed marker so
Navidrome stays the display fallback (§28). External tiers are written as
{tier}-fanart.webp in the same entity dir (same cacheKind, §16) — 2000 + 512
(matryoshka §17); peek prefers them for the fanart surface. Dedicated
low-concurrency fanart lane (§26); .miss-fanart ~30min negative marker.
Additive IPC args (externalArtworkEnabled, surfaceKind), off by default and
gated by PSYSONIC_FANART_KEY — inert until a render surface opts in (P1).
Quality gate (§11), name->MusicBrainz (§19), and lookup-table writes are P1.

* feat(cover): fanart-first peek for the fanart surface

Image-scraper P0: for an artist `fanart` ensure, the early peek serves only
the external {tier}-fanart.webp tiers; if none exist yet it returns None so
ensure runs the external branch (fetch fanart) instead of short-circuiting on
a cached Navidrome tier. Realises "fanart prioritised" (§18) for the opt-in
surface; Navidrome stays the fallback inside the branch's miss path.

* chore(cover): dev-only artist-fanart spike helper

DEV-only window.psyFanartSpike(name) — resolves an artist by name and fires
the real cover_cache_ensure with externalArtworkEnabled+surfaceKind=fanart to
verify the P0 pipeline against a live server (with PSYSONIC_FANART_KEY set).
Not wired in production.

* feat(cover): §11 quality gate for the fanart surface

Before an external fanart fetch, check whether a Navidrome tier already on
disk is an HQ ~16:9 image (width >= 1280, aspect 1.6-2.0) and skip the fetch
if so — square artist portraits never satisfy it, so the common case still
fetches. Reads tier dimensions only (no full decode). Rust consts per the
design review. Unit-tested predicate.

* feat(cover): persist fanart resolution in artist_artwork_lookup (§12)

Wire the lookup table as both the MBID resolution cache and the negative
cache: a cached MBID skips the getArtistInfo2 round-trip; no_mbid/mbid_ambiguous
back off 24h and miss 30min from updated_at before re-querying. Writes
hit/miss/no_mbid with mbid/mbid_source/provider; transient network errors are
not cached. All store reads/writes run off the async executor via
spawn_blocking and no-op before login. Store reached via app.try_state::<LibraryRuntime>().

* feat(cover): compile-time fanart key fallback + album/name IPC args

A runtime PSYSONIC_FANART_KEY still wins (dev), else the key baked in at build
time via option_env! (release). Add additive artistName/albumTitle ensure args
as context for the §19 name->MusicBrainz fallback (inert until the render
passes them). Library backfill passes None.

* feat(settings): add External Artwork Scraper toggle under Integrations

Master toggle (themeStore, off by default per §20) in a new Integrations
subsection, alongside the other opt-in third-party categories. Contacts
fanart.tv only when enabled. i18n across all 9 locales.

* feat(cover): wire fanart background into the fullscreen player (§28)

New useArtistFanart hook resolves a fanart.tv 16:9 background via a dedicated
cover_cache_ensure (surfaceKind=fanart) — it bypasses the shared peek/disk-src
cache (the {tier}-fanart.webp surface is keyed differently) and reuses
coverDiskUrl for the asset URL. Fullscreen background priority is now
fanart -> Navidrome artist image (cover pipeline) -> album cover; the live
useFsArtistPortrait probe is deleted (§28). Additive ensure opts
(surfaceKind/artistName/albumTitle); externalArtworkEnabled is derived in
ensureArgsFromRef from the master toggle and restricted to the artist fanart
surface, so plain cover ensures are unaffected.

* feat(cover): generalize external surface to fanart + banner (§13)

surfaceKind='banner' fetches the fanart.tv musicbanner array -> {tier}-banner.webp
in the same entity dir; fanart stays the 16:9 artistbackground. The ensure
branch, peek, lookup rows (per-surface surface_kind), miss marker
(.miss-<surface>) and tier suffix are all surface-parameterised. The §11
quality gate stays fanart-only (the banner strip has its own aspect). Unit
test for the surface->fanart JSON key map.

* feat(artist): fanart banner on the artist-detail header (§13, Option B)

The artist-detail header gets an album-detail-style background layer: fanart.tv
banner (musicbanner) -> the 16:9 fanart background cropped to the strip ->
empty. Both via a shared useArtistExternalImage hook (useArtistBanner /
useArtistFanart); each fetches on demand and shares the Rust cache, so the
header and the fullscreen player warm each other's images. The header is its
own stacking context (isolation) so a z-index:-1 banner clips behind the avatar
+ meta with no content wrapper; the album-style framing (padding/radius/clip)
is applied only when a banner is shown, so the off-by-default case stays
pixel-identical.

* refactor(artist): reuse album-detail header structure for the fanart banner

The artist-detail header now uses the same album-detail-* container classes as
AlbumHeader (header/bg/overlay/content/hero) with the fanart banner as the
background; the Back button moves inside the header. A surgical
`artist-detail-bleed` cancels the artist page's .content-body padding so the
banner is full-bleed to the container edges, matching the album header exactly
instead of the earlier inset card. Reverts the experimental artist-specific bg
CSS.

* feat(cover): drop artist_artwork_lookup rows on clear-cover-cache (§12/B.4)

cover_cache_clear_server already removed the server's whole cover dir (so the
{tier}-fanart.webp / -banner.webp tiers + .miss-* markers go with it); also
clear the artist_artwork_lookup rows for that server (off-thread) so no stale
resolution state lingers. Automatic toggle-off purge deferred — turning the
toggle off already hides external artwork (render is gated), and explicit
cache-clear now cleans external state too.

* feat(cover): name->MusicBrainz album-confirmed MBID resolution (§19)

When getArtistInfo2 has no tag MBID and the ensure carries the artist name +
an album in context (fullscreen), one MusicBrainz release-search query resolves
the artist MBID: the primary artist across score>=90 releases wins, conflicting
ids -> mbid_ambiguous (24h backoff), none -> no_mbid. Sends the required
User-Agent; a single-permit musicbrainz_sem + >=1s spacing holds us under MB's
rate limit. mbid_source=musicbrainz persisted. Banner surface (no album
context) correctly skips this. Pure classify/escape helpers unit-tested.

* fix(cover): enable banner surface in ensureArgsFromRef

externalEnsureFields only set externalArtworkEnabled for surfaceKind 'fanart',
so the 'banner' surface never fired — the artist-detail header always fell back
to the fanart image instead of the fanart.tv musicbanner. Both external artist
surfaces (fanart/banner) now enable the external branch.

* feat(settings): optional BYOK personal fanart key field

Add an optional personal fanart.tv API key field to the External Artwork
Scraper block (shown when the toggle is on): a masked input, a saved/in-use
status line, and the simple note that it is sent in addition to the app key.
Persisted in themeStore and plumbed through cover_cache_ensure
(externalArtworkByok); Rust prefers the settings key, falling back to the
PSYSONIC_FANART_CLIENT_KEY dev env. i18n x9.

* fix(cover): resolve artist-page fanart image collision on navigation

The artist-detail header keyed its fanart/banner hooks on the route `id`,
which flips immediately on navigation while `artist`/`albums` refetch a beat
later. The mismatched ensure wrote the previous artist's image under the new
artist's id (e.g. Sepultura's image under Lordi's id).

- key on the loaded `artist.id`, not the route `id`, so id/name/album always
  describe the same artist
- pick the §19 album context from an album that actually belongs to this
  artist (`albums.find(a => a.artistId === artist.id)`), so a stale album can't
  run a mismatched name→MusicBrainz query or cache a wrong `no_mbid`
- reset `src` on every input change in `useArtistExternalImage` so a previous
  artist's image never lingers while the new one resolves

* fix(cover): strip trailing album qualifier before MusicBrainz lookup

Library titles like "Show No Mercy (2004 Remastered)" or "Album [Deluxe
Edition]" failed the §19 MusicBrainz release query, blocking name-confirmed
MBID resolution. `normalize_album_for_mb` strips a single trailing
parenthetical/bracketed qualifier; leading qualifiers (e.g. "(What's the
Story) Morning Glory?") are left intact. Unit-tested.

* fix(cover): don't cache no_mbid when album context is unavailable

The banner ensure could fire before the artist's albums loaded, with no album
in context. The old code cached `no_mbid` there and the 24h backoff then
blocked the later ensure that arrived *with* album context. Could-not-attempt
is not tried-and-failed: the no-album branch now returns without persisting.

* fix(cover): don't emit tier-ready for external fanart/banner surfaces

`try_external_fanart` emitted `cover:tier-ready` with the `{tier}-{surface}.webp`
path. That event is keyed by the canonical cover key (cacheKind/cacheEntityId/
tier, no surface), so the frontend `useCoverArtBridge` listener seeded the
Navidrome artist cover's disk-src cache with the external image — leaking
fanart/banner into the plain artist cover (avatar, fullscreen "navidrome-artist"
fallback) even with the scraper toggled off.

Remove the emit: the fanart/banner hooks read the path from the
`cover_cache_ensure` return value, so no event is needed. (No disk-level
overwrite — the suffixed files are never matched by `tier_exists`; this was
frontend disk-src-cache cross-contamination.)

* fix(cover): wait for the final external background before showing it, with fade-in

The fullscreen player and artist-detail header flashed several backgrounds in
sequence while the fanart resolved (upscaled album cover → Navidrome artist
image → fanart), and the artist header could show the fanart first and then
swap to the banner.

- the album cover is no longer a background source — it only feeds the
  foreground thumbnail
- the external-artwork hooks return `{ src, pending }` so callers can tell
  "still resolving" (hold back) from "resolved, no image" (fall back now)
- fullscreen background: scraper on → fanart, empty while it resolves, Navidrome
  artist image only on a confirmed miss; scraper off → Navidrome artist image
- artist header: the banner is preferred — nothing shows while it resolves
  (no fanart flash), fanart is the fallback only once the banner misses
- both backgrounds preload the chosen image and fade it in (`onLoad` plus a
  `ref` `complete` check so an already-cached image, whose load event can fire
  before React attaches the handler, still appears). The header fade is a
  scoped inline opacity so the shared `album-detail-bg` class is untouched.

* ci(release): pass PSYSONIC_FANART_KEY into the macOS + Linux builds

* refactor(cover): extract external-artwork ensure into its own module

Pure code move: the on-demand fanart/banner fetch, the quality gate, the
surface-aware peek and the lookup-table cache move from cover_cache/mod.rs
into cover_cache/external_ensure.rs. Behaviour unchanged; mod.rs 1877 -> 1488.

* chore(cover): remove dev-only fanart spike helper

The real render wiring now exercises the external ensure branch, so the
dev-only window.psyFanartSpike helper is redundant.

* feat(cover): purge external artwork on opt-out (B3)

New cover_cache_purge_external command: when the External Artwork toggle is
turned off, drop every fetched {tier}-{provider}.webp, .miss-{provider}
marker and artist_artwork_lookup row across all configured servers, leaving
the canonical Navidrome covers intact. Opting out now removes the
third-party-sourced data instead of just hiding it (design-review §9/§12/B.4).

* docs: changelog, credits and what's new for artist fanart (PR #1137)
2026-06-20 21:04:21 +02:00

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