Both mixes move from a single hard eligibility rule to the tiered
ladder, with their tier stamped onto playlist_tracks.pick_kind via the
#1270 provenance pipeline.
New for you (#1267) — consume on play, degrade by stepping back:
- "Consumed" = any track attempted >=30s; played albums leave the mix
at the next build instead of crowding it until the calendar window
expires.
- Tier 1: unconsumed albums added <30d by direct-affinity artists.
Tier 2: unconsumed affinity albums from the wider 30-90d window —
added while you weren't looking. Tier 3: any unconsumed album added
<90d, newest first.
First listens (#1268) — track-level "attempted" threshold:
- A 2-second accidental brush no longer disqualifies a whole album;
"attempted" is duration_played_ms >= 30000 per track.
- Tier 1: albums with zero attempted tracks. Tier 2: barely-attempted
albums (<=25% of tracks reached 30s), minus the attempted tracks
themselves. The artist-affinity ordering signal also moves to the
>=30s definition so skip-only contact doesn't read as trust.
Producer plumbing: fetch adapters map the tier column onto pick kinds,
finishMix propagates PickKind into the persisted candidates, and
rotateForDay now rotates within contiguous same-pick-kind blocks so
daily rotation can't hoist tier-3 filler above tier-1's exact fits
(untiered pools are one block — original behavior).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TsF3cNoKrqCYsU78cXC8U6
Three discovery-mix defects from the intent audit (Scribe note #1254),
all sharing the same root pattern — skips treated as non-events:
- Deep Cuts (#1257): eligibility counted only unskipped plays, so a
track skipped twice with zero completed listens read as "barely
heard" and kept being re-offered. Tracks with >=2 skips no longer
qualify; a single accidental skip doesn't banish.
- Rediscover (#1258): a skip on a rediscover-sourced play — the user
explicitly declining the resurfacing invitation — changed nothing,
so declined tracks re-qualified the next day forever. Such tracks
now sit out 90 days.
- On This Day (#1256): day-of-year distance used plain ABS, so
Dec 28 vs Jan 3 read as 359 days apart and the window silently
gutted itself for ~3 weeks around every New Year. Now circular
(LEAST(d, 365-d)), anchored on the build-date parameter instead of
now() so it's testable and consistent with the mix's daily
determinism.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TsF3cNoKrqCYsU78cXC8U6
Confirmed against prod: exactly one track (17 plays, cold since May 21)
met the c>=5 + 30d-cold bar, and three process defects turned that into
a 1-track playlist instead of the locked placeholder.
- ListRediscoverTracks: collapse the two-tier UNION into one blended
pool. The old shallow-tier gate (WHERE NOT EXISTS deep) was
all-or-nothing — one 6-month row suppressed the entire 30-day tier —
and deep was a strict subset of shallow anyway. Eligibility drops to
>=3 non-skip plays (on a weeks-old history the >=5-play tracks are
precisely the ones still in rotation); ordering prefers >=6mo cold,
then >=5 plays, then raw count.
- Minimum viable mix floor for all five discovery mixes: below
minLen (15; 5 for the album-coherent NewForYou/FirstListens) the
variant is withheld so Home renders the 'listen more to unlock'
placeholder instead of a mix that reads as built-wrong.
- /api/events: clamp client-supplied 'at' to [user.created_at,
now+5m]. Unbounded client clocks could write arbitrarily old plays
and poison the 6-month ordering (prod data verified clean — no
scrub needed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TsF3cNoKrqCYsU78cXC8U6
For-You silently vanished after ~7 days of not listening (seed query
required a non-skip play in the last 7 days) and capped at ~40 on
self-hosted libraries with no ListenBrainz similarity data.
- PickTopPlayedTracksForUser: tiered seed — last 30d top plays, else
all-time top plays, else liked tracks. For-You only disappears now
if the account has zero plays AND zero likes.
- produceForYou uses deeper candidate source limits (raised random/
tag/similar K) so it reaches ~100 even with empty lb_similar /
similar_artists; richer when LB enrichment is present.
- Rediscover: tiered — 6-month-dormant, else ≥5-play 30-day-dormant.
- On This Day: floor 60→30 days, window ±7→±10 doy; still skips
cleanly (no rows → no playlist) on insufficient history.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each is one candidate query + one registry entry; zero client work
(R2 made tiles/refresh/shuffle generic, all are singleton kinds so
web's server `refreshable` flag and Flutter's derived getter both
light up automatically).
- deep_cuts (#419): <=2-play tracks from liked / heavily-played
artists; diversity-capped.
- rediscover (#420): >=5-play tracks not heard in 6 months, by
historical affection.
- new_for_you (#421): tracks from albums added <=30d whose artist
the user likes/plays; album-coherent (no cap).
- on_this_day (#422): tracks played within ±7 day-of-year in prior
windows (>60d ago), weighted by play count.
- first_listens (#423): never-played albums, tiered liked-artist →
played-artist → rest; album-coherent.
system_mixes.go producers mirror the Discover model (SQL gives the
ranking; finishMix caps+truncates to 100 to match For-You/Discover
shuffle depth; album-coherent mixes skip the cap). Builder query
failure is non-fatal (logged, yields no playlist) like Discover.
Existing system_test existence checks are unaffected.
Closes the #411 system-playlists-v2 umbrella's new-types thread.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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