- artist_detail_screen.dart missed an `import '../models/artist.dart'`
for the ArtistRef seed parameter; analyze flagged undefined_class.
- radio.dart + player_provider.dart doc comments wrapped URL
parameters in <...> which lint reads as HTML. Switched to backticks.
Full player title is now centered absolutely via a Stack: title with
horizontal padding equal to the actions cluster width sits at the
optical center, while LikeButton + TrackActionsButton are pinned to
the right edge with Positioned. Fixed-height SizedBox(32) keeps the
row stable when the title wraps to a single ellipsized line.
Three changes addressing the cold-start spinner + stale-on-revisit pain.
A. SWR on remaining cacheFirst providers
- artistProvider, artistAlbumsProvider, artistTracksProvider all gain
alwaysRefresh: true. Cache hit still renders instantly; one
background refresh per subscription keeps the row from going stale
forever.
- albumProvider (inline async*) and playlistDetailProvider (inline
async*) now keep a `revalidated` flag and kick a one-shot
background fetch on the first complete cache hit. Same effect as
cacheFirst's alwaysRefresh, just inline.
- Three providers gained the connectivity timeout that
album/artist/playlist already had.
B. Navigation hydration
- AlbumDetailScreen accepts `AlbumRef? seed`; ArtistDetailScreen
accepts `ArtistRef? seed`. When the live provider is still loading,
the seed populates cover/title/artist immediately so the page
isn't blank.
- Routing wires `extra: AlbumRef|ArtistRef` from go_router into
the seed parameter.
- Call sites updated: home (Recently added, Rediscover albums +
artists, Last played), artist detail album grid. Where a ref isn't
available (track actions sheet), the screen falls back to the
spinner — no regression.
C. Cold-start home skeleton
- Replace the full-screen CircularProgressIndicator on /home with a
layout-preserving skeleton: 5 section titles + 6 grey card-shaped
placeholders per row. The page feels populated immediately;
sections fill in independently as data arrives via the per-section
providers.
- Drops the unused DelayedLoading import.
Net effect: re-visits to detail screens render instantly (cache hit
+ silent refresh); first visit from a tile shows the seed header
immediately while tracks load; cold-start home shows a layout
skeleton instead of a 30s blank spinner.
Track row (album detail):
- Vertical padding 10→6 and only render the artist line when non-empty,
so tracks without a populated artist row don't reserve a blank line.
- Number column 28→22 — visually tighter without making 3-digit
numbers cramp.
Mini player missing artist:
- Symptom was an empty `artist` field on MediaItem after tapping a
track in album detail; layout change wasn't the cause. Real cause:
albumProvider's cold-cache only wrote cachedAlbums + cachedTracks,
never cachedArtists. The drift JOINs that build the AlbumRef + each
TrackRef returned null for the artist row, so artistName fell back
to '' and the audio handler stamped MediaItem.artist=''.
- Cold-cache now collects every distinct (artistId, artistName) pair
off the album header + each track, inserts them into cachedArtists
alongside the album/tracks. Subsequent JOINs populate artistName,
the audio handler stamps it on MediaItem, and the mini player picks
it up via the existing artistName.isNotEmpty render.
- Existing cached albums won't get artist names until they're
re-fetched (cache invalidation TBD). Future cold-cache hits will.
Artist detail album grid:
- AlbumCard gains showArtist (default true). Pass false in the artist
detail grid since the page header already names the artist. cellH
trimmed by the 16dp artist line.
AlbumCard gains optional `width` (default 140 keeps horizontal lists
unchanged) and `titleMaxLines` (default 1) so callers can let the
title wrap to a second line. Cover sizes to width - 16 instead of a
hardcoded 124, so the card scales down cleanly when a narrower cell
width is passed in.
Artist detail grid: switch to 3 columns. LayoutBuilder computes the
cell width from the available width so AlbumCard sizes to the cell
exactly (no overflow). cellH = cover + gap + 2-line title + artist
line + small fudge — tight enough that there's no visible gap below
the card, tall enough to fit a wrapped title.
Drift cache intentionally drops cover_url (server-derived). The
adapters comment says "REST cold-cache fallback briefly shows the real
values before drift takes over" — but once drift takes over, covers
are empty forever. Fix per source:
- Album cover: server constructs the URL deterministically as
/api/albums/<id>/cover (internal/api/convert.go:69). Mirror that
in CachedAlbumAdapter.toRef so AlbumRef.coverUrl is non-empty
whether the row came from a fresh fetch or a drift hit. Restores
cover art on the artist detail album grid (and any other surface
reading albums from drift).
- Artist cover: server picks a representative album and reuses its
cover (convert.go:98). Drift doesn't store the pointer, so derive
client-side via the artist's first loaded album. New _ArtistAvatar
prefers a non-empty server-emitted coverUrl and falls back to
/api/albums/<firstAlbumId>/cover, then slate while the album list
is still loading.
Album grid spacing was off because childAspectRatio: 0.8 inflated
each cell taller than the AlbumCard's actual ~160dp footprint,
leaving a visible gap below every card. Switch to mainAxisExtent: 168
with explicit 8dp main/cross spacing — cells now match the card and
sit on a clean grid.
Album detail screen rendered the cover slot as a bare slate Container
— no actual image. Wire ServerImage at /api/albums/<id>/cover (96dp,
rounded). Same for artist detail: ClipOval around ServerImage of the
artist's coverUrl, falling back to slate when empty.
Artist navigation hang: artistProvider goes through cacheFirst, which
had no logging — so we couldn't see whether the cold-cache fetch was
running. Add an optional `tag` parameter that, when set, debugPrints
each step (drift hit/miss, connectivity, fetch start/done/error).
Wire tags into artistProvider and artistAlbumsProvider, plus add the
3s connectivity timeout there too as belt-and-suspenders.
Next test pass should show cacheFirst[artist(<id>)]: lines that
pinpoint where the artist screen is sticking.
PlayerBar reads playbackState + mediaItem streams; hidden when no
queue. Home track-row tap, album play button, album track tap, artist
play button (shuffle) all route to playerActions.playTracks. Token +
baseUrl forwarded to the audio handler before each new queue.
LikedIdsController loads /api/likes/ids once and mutates the local set
on toggle. Failed mutations roll the set back so the icon never lies.
Wired into ArtistDetail header, AlbumDetail header, and per-track in
the album track list.
Headers carry placeholder play buttons (wired in Task 18) + room for
LikeButton (Task 16). Artist screen has a 2-column album grid; album
screen has a track list with mm:ss durations. Routes :id-parameterized
under the shell so the PlayerBar persists.
bvandeusen