feat(auth): throttle login, register, password reset and Subsonic auth failures (M462 #4976)

Every password-shaped check was mounted bare, so guessing was limited only
by bcrypt cost. A shared in-memory AttemptLimiter now sits in front of them:

- login: 10 failures per account and 50 per address per 15 min, checked
  before the user lookup and bcrypt; 429 with Retry-After. A success clears
  the account's count but not the address's.
- unknown usernames run a dummy bcrypt compare, so timing no longer says
  which accounts exist.
- register: 10 per address per hour; forgot-password: 5 per address and 3
  per email per hour (applied whether or not the email matches); reset: 20
  failed tokens per address per 15 min.
- Subsonic /rest: same limits as login, counting only wrong credentials,
  since clients authenticate on every request.

Web login, register, reset and forgot-password screens say how long to
wait; web and Android carry copy for the rate_limited code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.dockerignore

@@ -6,9 +6,20 @@
 **/build
 web/build
 
-# Flutter mobile client — built separately on developer machines / Flutter CI.
+# The Android client — built by its own job, never from this context. The APK
-# Including it in the Go build context wastes ~70 files and invalidates the
+# reaches the image through client/, downloaded as a CI artifact, so nothing
-# `COPY . .` layer cache on every Flutter-only change.
+# here reads android/ sources.
+#
+# This block named `flutter_client/` until 2026-09-10 and lost its PATTERN when
+# that tree was deleted, leaving a comment describing an exclusion that was no
+# longer happening. android/ never took its place, so 4.1 MB of Gradle project
+# has been entering the context and busting the `COPY . .` layer on every
+# Android-only change.
+android/
+
+# Local `make build` output — an 18 MB binary the image never uses, since the
+# builder stage compiles its own.
+bin/
 
 # Docs and IDE noise
 docs/
@@ -26,5 +37,8 @@ docs/
 !.env.example
 
 # CI workflow files don't need to ship in the image.
-.forgejo/
+#
-.github/
+# This said `.forgejo/` and `.github/` — neither of which this repo has. Gitea
+# Actions reads `.gitea/`, so the one directory that actually exists was the
+# one not excluded, and every workflow edit invalidated the context.
+.gitea/

.gitea/workflows/android.yml

@@ -80,15 +80,12 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Upload debug APK
         if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
-        # Mirrored action, never actions/upload-artifact. @v4+ throws
+        # Stock action: it works on this forge since the runner moved to
-        # GHESNotSupportedError client-side on the hostname (no server setting
+        # gitea/runner 3.x, which edits upload-artifact's client-side GHES refusal
-        # reaches that check), and @v3 is worse — it reports success while Gitea
+        # out of the action bundle (Scribe snippet #2271). Never @v3 — it reports
-        # serves artifacts back only through the v4 API, so the upload is stored
+        # success while Gitea serves artifacts back only through the v4 API, and
-        # and invisible to every retrieval path. @v3 is what left 72 unreachable
+        # it is what left 72 unreachable artifacts on this repo (Scribe 2270).
-        # artifacts on this repo. Pinned by SHA because the mirror auto-syncs;
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
-        # full URL because DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL sends bare owner/repo to github.com.
-        # See Scribe issues 2255 / 2270.
-        uses: https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/upload-artifact@cb8afe72b42edc798abfb8fcb556cf660d894245
         with:
           name: minstrel-android-debug-${{ github.sha }}
           path: android/app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk

.gitea/workflows/release.yml

@@ -2,15 +2,71 @@ name: release
 
 # Builds and pushes the minstrel container image to the Gitea registry.
 #
-#   push to main             → :main and :latest (latest-release APK bundled)
+#   push to dev                  → :dev            (freshly-built dev APK bundled)
-#   push tag vYYYY.MM.DD     → :vYYYY.MM.DD and :latest (freshly-built APK bundled)
+#   push to main                 → :latest + :<sha> (latest-release APK bundled)
-#   workflow_dispatch        → manual trigger (same rules based on the ref)
+#   push tag vYYYY.MM.DD.HHMM    → :latest          (fresh APK bundled)
+#   workflow_dispatch            → manual trigger (same rules based on the ref)
 #
-# Release model: per-day CalVer tags (no trailing patch digit). The day's
+# That is the whole tag map, and it is family rule 145 + 147 as written.
-# tag is intentionally mutable — if a second release happens the same day,
+#
-# move the tag with `git push -f origin vYYYY.MM.DD` and the image tag of
+# :<sha> on main is the ROLLBACK UNIT — every production commit addressable
-# the same name gets overwritten. :latest is updated by every main push
+# without a release ceremony. It is minted only on main, where rollback is
-# AND every tag push, so it always reflects the newest blessed image.
+# actually worth having: merges are gated (rule 2) so they number in the dozens
+# per year, while on dev they would be one per push, forever, for a channel
+# whose entire contract is that it moves.
+#
+# There are NO :<version> image tags. This repo published :vYYYY.MM.DD.HHMM
+# until 2026-09-10 and it was the inverse of the rule on both counts — minting
+# a version tag nobody pinned while the rollback unit the rule names did not
+# exist here at all. Git and the build's own self-reported version answer
+# "which build is this"; a third name for the same thing is upkeep for a model
+# we do not run. Operator, 2026-09-10: "only things like the APK need that kind
+# of versioning for their update process."
+#
+# There is no :main either. :latest tracks main's tip with no gate between them
+# (rule 147), so a second name for the same image sends readers looking for a
+# distinction that does not exist.
+#
+# The dev channel exists so testing a build does not require shipping one.
+# Before it, the only way to get an APK onto a phone was to cut a release,
+# which made `main` the staging area by default. `:dev` carries its own
+# freshly-built APK, signed with the SAME key as release builds — a different
+# key cannot install over the stable app, so anyone crossing channels would
+# have to uninstall and lose their data.
+#
+# :dev is published ALONE, with no per-commit tag. A rolling channel is
+# rolling by definition; a commit-addressable image for it would be a
+# rollback target nobody ever pulls, kept forever. Recovery on dev is to fix
+# forward.
+#
+# Note what this repo does NOT need: a cross-repo dispatch to refresh the
+# channel when its bundled APK is rebuilt. That mechanism exists elsewhere in
+# the family because the app and the server live in separate repos. Minstrel
+# is a monorepo — one push builds the APK and the image in the same run from
+# the same commit, so the channel cannot go stale against its own artifact.
+# The requirement is satisfied structurally; copying the mechanism would add
+# a moving part to fix a problem that does not exist here.
+#
+# Release model: the tag IS the artifact's version name with a `v` in front.
+# `v2026.09.10.1432` and `2026.09.10.1432` are the same string, derived from
+# the tagged commit's UTC timestamp — so there is no mismatch to reconcile
+# between what the tag says and what the APK reports, and nothing to look up
+# when minting one.
+#
+# TAGS ARE IMMUTABLE. Never move, retarget or delete a published tag. A
+# same-day second release is not a collision — HHMM makes every tag unique
+# by construction, so the answer is simply another tag.
+#
+# This block used to say the opposite: that the per-day tag was
+# "intentionally mutable" and that a same-day re-cut should
+# `git push -f origin vYYYY.MM.DD`. That instruction is what the family
+# rulebook now forbids outright, and it has incidents behind it — moving a
+# same-day tag forward once took a published release down with it. Anyone
+# installing from a tag is holding something the tag no longer points at,
+# which is a worse failure than an extra row in the tag list.
+#
+# :latest is updated by every main push AND every tag push, so it always
+# reflects the newest blessed image.
 #
 # APK pipeline: on tag pushes the android-release job builds + signs the
 # Android APK and uploads it as a workflow artifact. The image-release
@@ -24,33 +80,37 @@ name: release
 # :latest (not just tags), a main build with no APK would silently strip
 # the in-app update channel off :latest until the next release. So on
 # non-tag builds image-release pulls the MOST RECENT release's signed APK
-# and reconstructs its exact versionName (tag + commit-count, the same
+# AND the version sidecar published beside it — the recorded values, not
-# formula android-release bakes in) for the version sidecar — no rebuild,
+# recomputed ones — so no rebuild is needed, just a rebundle. Tag builds
-# just rebundle. Tag builds keep bundling their own freshly-built APK.
+# keep bundling their own freshly-built APK.
 #
 # Android testing (lint + detekt + unit tests, debug APK upload on main)
 # lives in android.yml and runs independently on every push.
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [main]
+    branches: [main, dev]
     tags: ['v*']
     paths-ignore:
       - 'docs/**'
       - '**/*.md'
   workflow_dispatch:
 
-# Force-moving the per-day tag (or rapidly re-pushing to main) should
+# A rapid re-push to main should supersede the in-flight build — the
-# supersede the in-flight build — the operator explicitly wants the
+# operator explicitly wants the later commit to win. Tags no longer enter
-# later commit to win.
+# into this: they are immutable and unique, so no tag build can ever be
+# superseded by another run on the same ref.
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
   android-release:
-    name: Build signed APK (tag releases only)
+    name: Build signed APK (releases and dev)
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+    # Also builds on `dev`, which is what makes a test channel possible at
+    # all. Without it the only way to get a build onto a phone was to cut a
+    # release, which quietly turns `main` into the staging area.
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') || github.ref == 'refs/heads/dev'
     runs-on: flutter-ci
     container:
       image: git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/ci-android:36
@@ -75,14 +135,18 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       version_name: ${{ steps.ver.outputs.name }}
       version_code: ${{ steps.ver.outputs.code }}
+      channel: ${{ steps.ver.outputs.channel }}
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          # fetch-depth: 0 retrieves full history; default shallow clone
+          # Full history. The version name now reads only the tip commit's
-          # would return 1 for `git rev-list --count HEAD`, breaking the
+          # timestamp, so a shallow clone would technically serve — but this
-          # iteration suffix.
+          # job derives a value that ships to devices, and a shallow checkout
+          # changes what git-derived values resolve to WITHOUT failing. The
+          # whole failure class here is a green build carrying a wrong
+          # version, so the cheap guarantee is worth keeping.
           fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Compute release version
@@ -91,12 +155,23 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
-          TAG="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/v}"
+          # The derivation lives in ci/version.sh, not here, so it can be
-          COMMIT_COUNT=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)
+          # executed by a test on every push. Anything inline in this file is
-          VERSION_NAME="${TAG}.${COMMIT_COUNT}"
+          # unverifiable until a release is already running.
-          echo "name=${VERSION_NAME}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          out="$(ci/version.sh HEAD)"
-          echo "code=${COMMIT_COUNT}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          printf '%s\n' "${out}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          echo "::notice::APK version: ${VERSION_NAME} (code=${COMMIT_COUNT})"
+
+          # The channel is a property of the LANE, not of the commit, which is
+          # why it is derived here rather than in version.sh. Same commit built
+          # on dev and on main reports the same NAME and differs only here —
+          # that is the whole point of separating the two values.
+          if [ "${GITHUB_REF}" = "refs/heads/dev" ]; then
+            channel=dev
+          else
+            channel=stable
+          fi
+          echo "channel=${channel}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "::notice::APK $(printf '%s' "${out}" | tr '\n' ' ') channel=${channel}"
 
       # Checked BEFORE the expensive work, not after it. "Attach APK to gitea
       # Release" below resolves the release by tag and fails if it is absent —
@@ -108,6 +183,7 @@ jobs:
       # the release together, so this passes). A bare `git push origin vX` is the
       # case this catches.
       - name: Release must exist for this tag
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
         shell: bash
         working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}
         env:
@@ -156,13 +232,12 @@ jobs:
             -PMINSTREL_VERSION_CODE=${{ steps.ver.outputs.code }}
 
       - name: Upload APK as workflow artifact
-        # Mirrored action, never actions/upload-artifact — @v4+ refuses on the
+        # Stock action (snippet #2271) — never @v3, which uploads something Gitea
-        # hostname, @v3 uploads something Gitea will never serve back. This is
+        # will never serve back. This is the producing half of a pair:
-        # the producing half of a pair: image-release downloads `minstrel-apk`
+        # image-release downloads `minstrel-apk` below. Any upload v4+ pairs with
-        # below with the matching download-artifact mirror. Both must stay on
+        # any download v4+ on this forge (every combination tested 2026-09-10,
-        # the v4 protocol — mixing a v3 upload with a v4 download (or the
+        # Scribe spike #3843), so the two pins need not move together.
-        # reverse) yields an empty listing, not an error. See Scribe 2255 / 2270.
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
-        uses: https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/upload-artifact@cb8afe72b42edc798abfb8fcb556cf660d894245
         with:
           name: minstrel-apk
           path: android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk
@@ -171,9 +246,15 @@ jobs:
           if-no-files-found: error
 
       - name: Attach APK to gitea Release
+        # Tag releases only. A dev build has no Release to hang assets on and
+        # does not need one — the :dev image bundles the APK, and the server
+        # serves it from /api/client/apk like any other.
+        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
         shell: bash
         env:
           CI_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_TOKEN }}
+          VERSION_NAME: ${{ steps.ver.outputs.name }}
+          VERSION_CODE: ${{ steps.ver.outputs.code }}
         run: |
           set -euxo pipefail
           TAG="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
@@ -181,6 +262,20 @@ jobs:
           APK_PATH="app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk"
           ls -lh "${APK_PATH}"
 
+          # Publish the version sidecar as a release asset next to the APK.
+          #
+          # This is what lets a later :latest build stop RECONSTRUCTING the
+          # bundled APK's version and simply read what was recorded. The
+          # ordering key in particular cannot be re-derived after the fact —
+          # it is build-time minutes, so once this job ends the value exists
+          # nowhere else. Reconstruction could only ever recover the name,
+          # and only by duplicating a formula that then has to be kept in
+          # step across two files.
+          SIDECAR_PATH="/tmp/minstrel.apk.version"
+          printf '{"name":"%s","code":%s,"channel":"stable"}\n' \
+            "${VERSION_NAME}" "${VERSION_CODE}" > "${SIDECAR_PATH}"
+          cat "${SIDECAR_PATH}"
+
           RELEASE_JSON="$(curl -fsSL \
             -H "Authorization: token ${CI_TOKEN}" \
             "https://git.fabledsword.com/api/v1/repos/${REPO}/releases/tags/${TAG}")"
@@ -202,6 +297,20 @@ jobs:
             exit 1
           fi
 
+          # Same treatment for the sidecar. Named `.apk.version` so the
+          # downloader's `\.apk$` match cannot pick it up by mistake.
+          SIDECAR_HTTP=$(curl -sS -L -o /tmp/upload-sidecar.out -w '%{http_code}' \
+            -H "Authorization: token ${CI_TOKEN}" \
+            -F "attachment=@${SIDECAR_PATH}" \
+            "https://git.fabledsword.com/api/v1/repos/${REPO}/releases/${RELEASE_ID}/assets?name=minstrel-${TAG}.apk.version")
+          echo "sidecar_upload_http=${SIDECAR_HTTP}"
+          cat /tmp/upload-sidecar.out || true
+          echo
+          if [ "${SIDECAR_HTTP}" -lt 200 ] || [ "${SIDECAR_HTTP}" -ge 300 ]; then
+            echo "::error::version sidecar upload returned HTTP ${SIDECAR_HTTP}"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
   image-release:
     name: Build + push container image
     # `needs:` waits for android-release. For tag pushes android-release
@@ -222,11 +331,16 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          # Full history + tags so non-tag :latest builds can resolve the
+          # Full history, and rule 149 names this specifically: any job that
-          # latest release tag's commit count and reconstruct the bundled
+          # DERIVES the version name needs it, because a shallow clone changes
-          # APK's exact versionName (see "Bundle latest release APK" below).
+          # what git-derived values resolve to WITHOUT failing — a too-low
+          # value, silently, with every lane green.
+          #
+          # This job was depth-1 while it took the version from GITHUB_REF. It
+          # now runs ci/version.sh itself, because with :<version> image tags
+          # gone the server's self-reported version is the only thing that says
+          # which build an image is.
           fetch-depth: 0
-          fetch-tags: true
 
       - name: Detect buildable project
         id: guard
@@ -244,21 +358,68 @@ jobs:
         if: steps.guard.outputs.ready == 'true'
         shell: bash
         run: |
-          if [[ "${GITHUB_REF}" == refs/tags/v* ]]; then
+          set -euo pipefail
-            VERSION="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
+
-            echo "args=-t ${IMAGE}:${VERSION} -t ${IMAGE}:latest" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          # THE VERSION, and it is derived the same way on every ref — the
-            echo "version=${VERSION}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          # branch decides the CHANNEL, never the version (family rule 149).
-            echo "::notice::Release build: ${VERSION} + latest"
+          #
-          else
+          # This used to be three different things: the literal string "main"
-            # Main is the protected, post-PR-merge branch. Treat it as the
+          # on main, "dev" on dev, and the tag name on a tag. None of them
-            # rolling stable channel — every main push moves :latest.
+          # ordered, and the first two were the same string forever — two dev
-            # Pinned consumers can target :vYYYY.MM.DD; everyone else
+          # images eight weeks apart were indistinguishable in the UI. That
-            # gets the newest main.
+          # mattered little while :vYYYY.MM.DD.HHMM existed to identify a
-            echo "args=-t ${IMAGE}:main -t ${IMAGE}:latest" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          # build; with version image tags gone, this IS how an operator tells
-            echo "version=main" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          # which build a container is running.
-            echo "::notice::Main-branch build: :main + :latest"
+          #
+          # `sed -n s///p` rather than `grep`: it exits 0 when nothing matches,
+          # so the empty check below is actually reachable. A grep here would
+          # kill the step at the assignment under the runner's pipefail — the
+          # exact bug that took down the first main build after the version
+          # rework.
+          VERSION="$(ci/version.sh HEAD | sed -n 's/^name=//p')"
+          if [ -z "${VERSION}" ]; then
+            echo "::error::could not derive a build version from ci/version.sh"
+            exit 1
           fi
 
+          if [[ "${GITHUB_REF}" == refs/tags/v* ]]; then
+            # A release refreshes the CHANNEL and mints nothing else.
+            #
+            # The tag build exists to produce the signed APK and attach it to
+            # the release; the image it rebuilds is the SAME SOURCE as the main
+            # build minutes earlier, differing only in which APK is baked in.
+            # Rule 145 is explicit about that case: when the same source is
+            # rebuilt with different contents, publish the moving channel tag
+            # and never a commit-addressable one.
+            #
+            # :latest must move here rather than waiting for the next main
+            # push, or the channel would carry the PREVIOUS release's APK
+            # indefinitely — a channel that cannot refresh itself (rule 146).
+            CHANNEL=stable
+            echo "args=-t ${IMAGE}:latest" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "::notice::Release build ${VERSION}: refreshing :latest around the new APK"
+          elif [[ "${GITHUB_REF}" == "refs/heads/dev" ]]; then
+            # The rolling test channel, and :dev ALONE — deliberately no
+            # per-commit tag. A rolling channel is rolling by definition, so a
+            # commit-addressable image here would be a rollback target nobody
+            # has ever pulled, accumulating in the registry forever. Recovery
+            # on dev is to fix forward.
+            CHANNEL=dev
+            echo "args=-t ${IMAGE}:dev" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "::notice::Dev-branch build ${VERSION}: :dev"
+          else
+            # The production line: :latest tracks main's tip (rule 147) and
+            # :<sha> is the rollback unit (rule 145). Full 40-char SHA, matching
+            # the family's other repos, so a rollback target is addressable
+            # straight from the commit anyone is reading.
+            CHANNEL=stable
+            echo "args=-t ${IMAGE}:latest -t ${IMAGE}:${GITHUB_SHA}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "::notice::Main-branch build ${VERSION}: :latest + :${GITHUB_SHA}"
+          fi
+
+          echo "version=${VERSION}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "channel=${CHANNEL}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
       - name: Registry login
         if: steps.guard.outputs.ready == 'true'
         shell: bash
@@ -267,54 +428,57 @@ jobs:
             | docker login git.fabledsword.com -u "${{ github.actor }}" --password-stdin
 
       - name: Download signed APK artifact
-        # Tag pushes only — android-release just produced this. Non-tag
+        # Tag and dev pushes — android-release just produced this. Only `main`
-        # builds take the "Bundle latest release APK" path below instead.
+        # takes the "Bundle latest release APK" path below, because it is the
-        if: steps.guard.outputs.ready == 'true' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+        # one ref that moves a channel without building an APK of its own.
-        # Consuming half of the pair — never actions/download-artifact. Same fork,
+        if: >-
-        # same reason: upstream's client-side GHES check rejects this hostname
+          steps.guard.outputs.ready == 'true' &&
-        # before it connects. bvandeusen/download-artifact mirrors
+          (startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') || github.ref == 'refs/heads/dev')
-        # code.forgejo.org/forgejo/download-artifact.
+        # Consuming half of the pair: stock download-artifact, which works here for
-        #
+        # the same reason as the upload (gitea/runner 3.x edits the GHES refusal
-        # SHA below is that fork's `v6` tag. Match on @actions/artifact, NOT on
+        # out of the bundle; snippet #2271). v8 runs on node24, which every
-        # the action's own version number — the two actions release on unrelated
+        # CI-runner image carries — the runner uses the image's own node.
-        # cadences, and download v5 would pair a ^2.3.2 client with this file's
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
-        # ^4.0.0 uploader. v6 is the tag whose bundled library major (^4.0.0) is
-        # the same one proven against this instance by the upload side.
-        # Deliberately NOT v7: it moves to node24 and upstream requires runner
-        # >= 2.327.1 for it, which act_runner does not claim to satisfy.
-        # Pinned, not tagged — the mirror auto-syncs every 8h.
-        uses: https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/download-artifact@8d4e9521a5f7e5f8b6351f341f719f9f45a92a3a
         with:
           name: minstrel-apk
           path: client/
 
       - name: Stage bundled APK + version sidecar
-        if: steps.guard.outputs.ready == 'true' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+        if: >-
+          steps.guard.outputs.ready == 'true' &&
+          (startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') || github.ref == 'refs/heads/dev')
         shell: bash
         env:
-          # Pulled from android-release.outputs.version_name so the
+          # All three pulled from android-release's outputs so the sidecar the
-          # sidecar string the server hands clients matches the
+          # server hands clients matches exactly what is baked into the APK
-          # versionName baked into the APK they're comparing against.
+          # they are comparing against.
           APK_VERSION_NAME: ${{ needs.android-release.outputs.version_name }}
+          APK_VERSION_CODE: ${{ needs.android-release.outputs.version_code }}
+          APK_CHANNEL: ${{ needs.android-release.outputs.channel }}
         run: |
           set -euxo pipefail
           # The artifact lands as `app-release.apk` (the original Gradle
           # output name). The Dockerfile COPYs client/* into /app/client/
           # and the server reads minstrel.apk + minstrel.apk.version.
           mv client/app-release.apk client/minstrel.apk
-          echo "${APK_VERSION_NAME}" > client/minstrel.apk.version
+          printf '{"name":"%s","code":%s,"channel":"%s"}\n' \
+            "${APK_VERSION_NAME}" "${APK_VERSION_CODE}" "${APK_CHANNEL}" \
+            > client/minstrel.apk.version
+          cat client/minstrel.apk.version
           ls -lh client/
 
       - name: Bundle latest release APK (non-tag :latest builds)
         # Main pushes don't build an APK, but they DO move :latest — so
         # without this the in-app update channel would vanish from :latest
         # until the next tag. Pull the most-recent release's signed APK and
-        # reconstruct its exact versionName (${TAG#v}.$(git rev-list --count
+        # the sidecar published beside it, so what the server reports is what
-        # TAG) — identical to android-release's formula) so the version
+        # that build actually recorded rather than something re-derived here.
-        # sidecar the server hands clients matches the installed build.
         # Degrades to an empty client/ (404 update channel) — never a wrong
-        # version — if no release / APK asset / tag-count can be resolved.
+        # version — if no release or APK asset can be resolved. That
-        if: steps.guard.outputs.ready == 'true' && !startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
+        # degradation only actually works because the greps below carry
+        # `|| true`; under the runner's default pipefail a non-matching grep
+        # kills the step instead of falling through to the empty-case branch.
+        if: steps.guard.outputs.ready == 'true' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
         shell: bash
         env:
           CI_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_TOKEN }}
@@ -326,19 +490,40 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "${REL_JSON}" ]; then
             echo "::notice::no published release — image ships without bundled APK"; exit 0
           fi
-          TAG="$(printf '%s' "${REL_JSON}" | grep -oP '"tag_name":\s*"\K[^"]+' | head -1)"
+          # `|| true` on every one of these, and it is load-bearing rather
-          APK_URL="$(printf '%s' "${REL_JSON}" | grep -oP '"browser_download_url":\s*"\K[^"]+' | grep -E '\.apk$' | head -1)"
+          # than defensive habit. The runner already invokes this shell as
+          # `bash -e -o pipefail`, so a pipeline whose grep matches NOTHING
+          # exits non-zero even though `head` succeeded — and the step dies at
+          # the assignment, before ever reaching the `if` written to handle the
+          # empty case. Every "degrades gracefully" branch below is unreachable
+          # without this.
+          TAG="$(printf '%s' "${REL_JSON}" | grep -oP '"tag_name":\s*"\K[^"]+' | head -1)" || true
+          APK_URL="$(printf '%s' "${REL_JSON}" | grep -oP '"browser_download_url":\s*"\K[^"]+' | grep -E '\.apk$' | head -1)" || true
           if [ -z "${TAG}" ] || [ -z "${APK_URL}" ]; then
             echo "::notice::latest release '${TAG:-?}' has no APK asset — image ships without bundled APK"; exit 0
           fi
-          COUNT="$(git rev-list --count "${TAG}" 2>/dev/null || true)"
-          if [ -z "${COUNT}" ]; then
-            echo "::notice::could not resolve commit count for ${TAG} (tag not fetched?) — skipping APK bundle"; exit 0
-          fi
-          VERSION_NAME="${TAG#v}.${COUNT}"
           curl -fsSL -H "Authorization: token ${CI_TOKEN}" -o client/minstrel.apk "${APK_URL}"
-          echo "${VERSION_NAME}" > client/minstrel.apk.version
+
-          echo "::notice::bundled release APK ${TAG} as version ${VERSION_NAME}"
+          # Take the version the release RECORDED rather than recomputing it.
+          # This used to re-derive the name from the tagged commit, which meant
+          # the formula lived in two files that had to be kept in step, and it
+          # could only ever recover the name — the ordering key is build-time
+          # minutes and does not exist anywhere after that build ends.
+          SIDECAR_URL="$(printf '%s' "${REL_JSON}" | grep -oP '"browser_download_url":\s*"\K[^"]+' | grep -E '\.apk\.version$' | head -1)" || true
+          if [ -n "${SIDECAR_URL}" ]; then
+            curl -fsSL -H "Authorization: token ${CI_TOKEN}" -o client/minstrel.apk.version "${SIDECAR_URL}"
+            cat client/minstrel.apk.version
+          else
+            # Releases published before sidecars were attached. Their name is
+            # still recoverable from the tag, but their ordering key genuinely
+            # is not — so it is reported ABSENT rather than guessed. A wrong
+            # key is an install the platform refuses; an absent one just tells
+            # the client to fall back to comparing names, which is exactly
+            # what those builds already do.
+            echo "::notice::release ${TAG} predates the version sidecar — bundling with name only, no ordering key"
+            printf '{"name":"%s","code":null,"channel":"stable"}\n' "${TAG#v}" > client/minstrel.apk.version
+          fi
+          echo "::notice::bundled release APK from ${TAG}"
           ls -lh client/
 
       - name: Build and push
@@ -346,6 +531,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           docker buildx build \
             --build-arg MINSTREL_VERSION="${{ steps.tags.outputs.version }}" \
+            --build-arg MINSTREL_CHANNEL="${{ steps.tags.outputs.channel }}" \
             --push ${{ steps.tags.outputs.args }} .
 
   # Verifies a tag release actually ended up complete, and names the specific
@@ -356,8 +542,8 @@ jobs:
   # `failure` with none executed and image-release showed `skipped`. The run was
   # red, but the *release page rendered fine*, and `main`'s own push build had
   # already moved `:latest`, so the code was deployable and nothing looked
-  # obviously wrong. The release was simply missing its APK and its immutable
+  # obviously wrong. The release was simply missing its APK and its image,
-  # `:vYYYY.MM.DD` image, which is easy to skim past.
+  # which is easy to skim past.
   #
   # This job cannot prevent that (the cause was a runner failing to launch, not
   # anything in this file). What it does is turn an incomplete release into an
@@ -408,18 +594,30 @@ jobs:
       # missing when v2026.08.07 had to be re-cut. `always()` on this job means
       # it runs even when image-release failed, so without this the guard would
       # cheerfully verify an incomplete release.
-      - name: Immutable image tag must exist
+      #
+      # This asserted `:${TAG}` — the :vYYYY.MM.DD.HHMM image — until
+      # 2026-09-10. Version image tags are no longer published (rule 145), so
+      # that assertion would now fail every release for a tag nothing mints.
+      # The rollback target it was really protecting is the :<sha> image, which
+      # main's own build published for this same commit before the tag was cut.
+      #
+      # Checking it here earns its keep twice over: it still catches an image
+      # push that silently did not happen, and it additionally proves the
+      # ORDERING — a tag cut on a commit whose main build never completed has
+      # no rollback target, and that is worth failing on rather than
+      # discovering during an incident.
+      - name: Rollback image must exist for the tagged commit
         shell: bash
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
-          TAG="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
           IMAGE="git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel"
 
           echo "${{ secrets.CI_TOKEN }}" \
             | docker login git.fabledsword.com -u "${{ github.actor }}" --password-stdin
 
-          if ! docker manifest inspect "${IMAGE}:${TAG}" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+          if ! docker manifest inspect "${IMAGE}:${GITHUB_SHA}" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-            echo "::error::image ${IMAGE}:${TAG} was never pushed — the release tag has no immutable image, so there is nothing to pin or roll back to. Re-run this workflow run."
+            echo "::error::image ${IMAGE}:${GITHUB_SHA} does not exist — this commit has no rollback target."
+            echo "::error::That image is published by the MAIN build of this commit, not by the tag build. If main's build never ran or failed, fix that first; a release whose commit cannot be rolled back to is the thing this check exists to refuse."
             exit 1
           fi
-          echo "::notice::image verified: ${IMAGE}:${TAG}"
+          echo "::notice::rollback target verified: ${IMAGE}:${GITHUB_SHA}"

.gitea/workflows/test-go.yml

@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ on:
       - 'cmd/**'
       - '.golangci.yml'
       - '.gitea/workflows/test-go.yml'
+      # The release lane's own trigger is `main` + tags, so nothing it
+      # contains is exercised until a release is already running. These two
+      # entries are what let internal/server/release_version_test.go guard
+      # the version derivation on ordinary dev pushes instead.
+      - 'ci/**'
+      - '.gitea/workflows/release.yml'
 
 # pull_request trigger intentionally omitted — see test-web.yml for
 # the rationale (single-author repo, push covers PR-merge equivalent).

.gitignore

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
 # Test binary, built with `go test -c`
 *.test
 
+# `make build` output. bin/minstrel was tracked until 2026-09-10 — an 18 MB
+# binary committed by accident, last refreshed by a commit about web test
+# mocks, and re-dirtied by every local build since.
+bin/
+
 # Bundled Android APK + version sidecar (#397). Populated by CI for
 # tag releases; never committed. README in client/ explains the flow.
 client/minstrel.apk

Dockerfile

@@ -15,17 +15,32 @@ COPY . .
 # Overwrite the committed placeholder with the freshly-built SPA assets.
 COPY --from=web /web/build ./web/build
 ENV CGO_ENABLED=0
-# Version stamping: release.yml passes the git tag via MINSTREL_VERSION
+# Version stamping. release.yml passes the DERIVED version name
-# build-arg; local `docker build` falls back to "dev". Surfaced at
+# (YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM) and the lane's channel; a local `docker build` falls back
-# /healthz for operator-side image-version verification.
+# to "dev"/"local". Both are surfaced at /healthz.
+#
+# These are two values on purpose (family rule 149): the same commit built on
+# dev and on main reports the same NAME and differs only in CHANNEL. Folding
+# the channel into the version string is what the rule forbids — the version
+# used to BE the channel word here ("main"/"dev"), which meant two dev images
+# eight weeks apart were indistinguishable.
 ARG MINSTREL_VERSION=dev
+ARG MINSTREL_CHANNEL=local
 RUN go build -trimpath \
-    -ldflags="-s -w -X 'git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/server.ServerVersion=${MINSTREL_VERSION}'" \
+    -ldflags="-s -w \
+      -X 'git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/server.ServerVersion=${MINSTREL_VERSION}' \
+      -X 'git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/server.ServerChannel=${MINSTREL_CHANNEL}'" \
     -o /out/minstrel ./cmd/minstrel
 
 FROM debian:bookworm-slim
+# ffmpeg: duration probes and the exact-tier audio hash (a SHA-256 of the
+# encoded audio packets, so no decode). libchromaprint-tools: fpcalc, the
+# acoustic fingerprint that tells the same recording at two bitrates apart
+# from two different recordings (M400). Both are baked in at build time so a
+# deployed instance never fetches either (rule 164); fpcalc is shelled out
+# rather than bound because CGO_ENABLED=0 above rules out cgo.
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates ffmpeg \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates ffmpeg libchromaprint-tools \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 RUN groupadd --system --gid 1000 minstrel \

README.md

@@ -37,8 +37,12 @@ services:
     ports: ['4533:4533']
     volumes:
       # Your music library. Point ./music at wherever your audio files
-      # live. Mounted read-only — Minstrel never writes to your library.
+      # live. Writable, because Minstrel deletes a file when an admin asks
-      - ./music:/music:ro
+      # it to (for example, quarantine's "Delete file"). It never moves,
+      # renames or retags anything. The container runs as uid 1000, so that
+      # user needs write access to the folders. Mount it :ro to forbid even
+      # deletes: those actions then refuse, say why, and delete nothing.
+      - ./music:/music
       # Generated data: playlist cover collages, artist art, caches.
       # The path must match MINSTREL_STORAGE_DATA_DIR, which the image
       # sets to /app/data — keep this mount on /app/data or your cache
@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@ services:
     environment:
       MINSTREL_DATABASE_URL: postgres://minstrel:minstrel@db:5432/minstrel?sslmode=disable
       # Colon-separated library roots to scan; must match the container
-      # path of the read-only music mount above (/music here).
+      # path of the music mount above (/music here).
       MINSTREL_LIBRARY_SCAN_PATHS: /music
     depends_on: [db]
 
@@ -112,11 +116,21 @@ Most operational keys have a `MINSTREL_<SECTION>_<FIELD>` env override. Recommen
 
 Image tags (`git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel:<tag>`):
 
-- `:latest` — the newest blessed image. Moves on every `main` push **and** every release. Recommended for most operators.
+- `:latest` — production. Tracks `main`'s tip and moves on every `main` push and every release. What most operators should run.
-- `:vYYYY.MM.DD` — immutable per-day release tags. Pin one of these for a deployment you don't want moving under you. (Per-day CalVer — no trailing patch digit; a same-day re-cut moves the tag forward.)
+- `:<commit-sha>` — the rollback unit. Every `main` push publishes one, so any production commit is addressable without a release ceremony. Immutable: a given SHA tag is never re-pushed. Pin one if you need a deployment that cannot change under you, and use it to roll back.
-- `:main` — the rolling post-merge tip. Same image as `:latest` at push time; choose it if you want to track `main` explicitly rather than the release line.
+- `:dev` — the rolling test channel, rebuilt on every push to `dev` and carrying its own freshly-built Android APK. Run this to try something before it ships. It moves constantly, has no per-commit tag, and its only recovery path is forward — if a `:dev` image is broken, the fix is the next push, not a rollback.
 
-Every `:latest` and every `:vYYYY.MM.DD` bundles the current signed Android APK, so the in-app update channel is always live. Database migrations run automatically at startup; rollbacks require restoring a Postgres dump.
+That is the whole tag map. **There are no version-numbered image tags**, and no `:main`. Git and the build's own self-reported version answer "which build is this" — the Settings page shows it, and so does `/healthz`. Release *tags* in git are still `vYYYY.MM.DD.HHMM`; they name a changelog entry and the APK attached to it, not an image.
+
+Rolling back to `:<commit-sha>` pins the **server code** at that commit — not the server-and-app pair. The Android APK is baked in at image build time, so a SHA image carries whichever app was current when that commit was built, which may be older than what `:latest` bundles now. If both halves matter, check what the image bundles rather than trusting the tag's name.
+
+Every `:latest`, `:<commit-sha>` and `:dev` bundles a signed Android APK, so the in-app update channel is always live. All are signed with the same key, so a phone can move between the stable and dev channels without uninstalling — point it at a `:dev` server and the in-app updater offers that channel's build.
+
+The app reports which channel it is on alongside its version, and decides whether an update is available using the build's ordering key rather than its displayed name — the same value Android installs by, so an offer it makes is one the platform will accept.
+
+Database migrations run automatically at startup; rollbacks require restoring a Postgres dump.
+
+Releases up to 2026-09-10 also published a `:vYYYY.MM.DD[.HHMM]` image tag. Those images still exist and still work — they are simply not extended.
 
 ## Specs
 
@@ -150,7 +164,7 @@ Two concurrent dev processes:
 
 - Day-to-day work happens on `dev` (or feature branches merged into `dev`).
 - `main` is **protected** — changes land via PR from `dev`.
-- Releases are cut by tagging `v*` off `main`; the release workflow builds and pushes the container image to the Gitea registry.
+- Releases are cut by tagging `v*` off `main`; the release workflow builds the signed APK, attaches it to the release, and refreshes `:latest` around it.
 
 Task and milestone tracking: Fable (`Minstrel` project, id 12).
 

android/app/build.gradle.kts

@@ -21,13 +21,24 @@ android {
         applicationId = "com.fabledsword.minstrel"
         minSdk = 26
         targetSdk = 36
-        // versionName / versionCode are released-build values injected by
+        // versionName / versionCode are released-build values injected by CI.
-        // CI from the git tag + commit count. Local / debug builds fall
+        // Local / debug builds fall back to "dev" so the About card reads
-        // back to "dev" so the About card reads honestly. Releases ship
+        // honestly.
-        // versionName="YYYY.MM.DD.<commits>" (e.g. "2026.06.02.142") and
+        //
-        // versionCode=<commits>, which is monotonic forever and lets the
+        // versionName is "YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM" from the COMMIT's timestamp, so
-        // shared isVersionNewer comparator distinguish two same-day
+        // every lane building this source reports the same string and the
-        // re-cuts (the iteration suffix differs).
+        // channel is the only thing that differs between them.
+        //
+        // versionCode is minutes since 2020-01-01 at BUILD time. It is the
+        // value the platform decides installs by, so it must be monotonic by
+        // construction.
+        //
+        // This comment used to say versionCode was a commit count and that it
+        // was "monotonic forever". It was neither — a commit count runs ahead
+        // on `dev`, so a dev build outranked the `main` release meant to
+        // replace it and Android refused the install as a downgrade. Worth
+        // knowing the claim was here, stated as a reassurance, while the bug
+        // it denied was live.
         val versionNameOverride =
             (project.findProperty("MINSTREL_VERSION_NAME") as String?)?.takeIf { it.isNotBlank() }
         val versionCodeOverride =

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/admin/ui/AdminQuarantineScreen.kt

@@ -15,10 +15,14 @@ import androidx.compose.material3.HorizontalDivider
 import androidx.compose.material3.MaterialTheme
 import androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedButton
 import androidx.compose.material3.Scaffold
+import androidx.compose.material3.SnackbarHost
+import androidx.compose.material3.SnackbarHostState
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.material3.TextButton
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
 import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
+import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.style.TextOverflow
@@ -42,6 +46,12 @@ fun AdminQuarantineScreen(
     viewModel: AdminQuarantineViewModel = hiltViewModel(),
 ) {
     val state by viewModel.uiState.collectAsStateWithLifecycle()
+    val snackbarHostState = remember { SnackbarHostState() }
+    LaunchedEffect(Unit) {
+        viewModel.transientMessages.collect { msg ->
+            snackbarHostState.showSnackbar(msg)
+        }
+    }
     Scaffold(
         contentWindowInsets = ShellContentWindowInsets,
         modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(),
@@ -53,6 +63,7 @@ fun AdminQuarantineScreen(
                 onBack = { navController.popBackStack() },
             )
         },
+        snackbarHost = { SnackbarHost(snackbarHostState) },
     ) { inner ->
         PullToRefreshScaffold(
             onRefresh = { viewModel.refresh().join() },

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/admin/ui/AdminQuarantineViewModel.kt

@@ -10,10 +10,13 @@ import com.fabledsword.minstrel.events.EventsStream
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.models.AdminQuarantineItemRef
 import dagger.hilt.android.lifecycle.HiltViewModel
 import kotlinx.coroutines.Job
+import kotlinx.coroutines.channels.Channel
+import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.Flow
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.MutableStateFlow
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.StateFlow
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.asStateFlow
 import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.filter
+import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.receiveAsFlow
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
 import javax.inject.Inject
 
@@ -34,6 +37,15 @@ class AdminQuarantineViewModel @Inject constructor(
     private val internal = MutableStateFlow<AdminQuarantineUiState>(AdminQuarantineUiState.Loading)
     val uiState: StateFlow<AdminQuarantineUiState> = internal.asStateFlow()
 
+    /**
+     * One-shot messages for the screen's snackbar. A failed action has to say
+     * why: the row quietly reappearing reads as a glitch, and for a Delete
+     * file refused by a read-only library it hides the one thing the
+     * operator can fix (#3918).
+     */
+    private val transientMessagesChannel = Channel<String>(Channel.BUFFERED)
+    val transientMessages: Flow<String> = transientMessagesChannel.receiveAsFlow()
+
     init {
         refresh()
         viewModelScope.launch {
@@ -86,8 +98,9 @@ class AdminQuarantineViewModel @Inject constructor(
             try {
                 action(trackId)
             } catch (
-                @Suppress("TooGenericExceptionCaught", "SwallowedException") e: Throwable,
+                @Suppress("TooGenericExceptionCaught") e: Throwable,
             ) {
+                transientMessagesChannel.trySend(ErrorCopy.fromThrowable(e))
                 refresh()
             }
         }

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/api/ErrorCopy.kt

@@ -37,18 +37,35 @@ object ErrorCopy {
      * as connection failures.
      */
     fun fromThrowable(t: Throwable): String = when (t) {
-        is HttpException -> messageFor(codeFromHttp(t))
+        is HttpException -> fromHttp(t)
         is IOException -> messageFor("connection_refused")
         else -> TABLE.getValue("unknown")
     }
 
-    private fun codeFromHttp(e: HttpException): String {
+    /**
+     * Codes whose server message carries specifics the operator needs in
+     * order to act — which directory, which uid — that fixed copy cannot say.
+     * For these the message follows the copy (#3918). Kept to a named set on
+     * purpose: most server messages are internal detail. Mirrors web's
+     * errors.ts.
+     */
+    private val DETAIL_CODES = setOf("library_not_writable", "file_delete_failed")
+
+    private fun fromHttp(e: HttpException): String {
+        val body = bodyFromHttp(e)
+        val copy = messageFor(body.code.ifEmpty { "unknown" })
+        return if (body.code in DETAIL_CODES && body.message.isNotBlank()) {
+            "$copy ${body.message}"
+        } else {
+            copy
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun bodyFromHttp(e: HttpException): Body {
         val raw = runCatching { e.response()?.errorBody()?.string() }.getOrNull()
-            ?: return "unknown"
+            ?: return Body()
-        val code = runCatching { json.decodeFromString<Envelope>(raw).error?.code }
+        return runCatching { json.decodeFromString<Envelope>(raw).error }
-            .getOrNull()
+            .getOrNull() ?: Body()
-            .orEmpty()
-        return code.ifEmpty { "unknown" }
     }
 
     private val TABLE: Map<String, String> = mapOf(
@@ -58,6 +75,7 @@ object ErrorCopy {
         "forbidden" to "You don't have permission to do that.",
         "not_authorized" to "You don't have permission to do that.",
         "invalid_credentials" to "Wrong username or password.",
+        "rate_limited" to "Too many attempts. Wait a few minutes and try again.",
         "wrong_password" to "Current password is incorrect.",
         "password_too_short" to "Password must be at least 8 characters.",
         "username_invalid" to "That username isn't valid.",
@@ -99,6 +117,8 @@ object ErrorCopy {
         "request_not_pending" to "This request is no longer pending.",
         "request_not_found" to "That request no longer exists.",
         "track_not_found" to "That track no longer exists.",
+        "library_not_writable" to "The music library isn't writable by the server.",
+        "file_delete_failed" to "The file couldn't be deleted.",
         "album_not_found" to "That album no longer exists.",
         "artist_not_found" to "That artist no longer exists.",
         "playlist_not_found" to "That playlist no longer exists.",

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/models/UpdateInfo.kt

@@ -1,15 +1,26 @@
 package com.fabledsword.minstrel.models
 
 /**
- * Wire shape returned by `GET /api/client/version`. Mirrors
+ * The server-bundled APK, as reported by `GET /api/client/version`.
- * the Flutter client's `UpdateInfo`.
  *
- * `version` is the server-bundled APK version (may have a leading
+ * Three values that are deliberately kept apart:
- * "v" from the git tag); `apkUrl` is server-relative (e.g.
+ *
- * `/api/client/apk`); `sizeBytes` is the download size.
+ *  - [version] is a LABEL for people — "YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM", derived from the
+ *    build's commit, so two channels carrying the same code read the same.
+ *    Display this; never decide on it when [code] is present.
+ *  - [code] is the ORDERING KEY, and is the same value Android itself
+ *    installs by. It answers "may this be installed over that?", which the
+ *    name cannot. Null when the server predates the field.
+ *  - [channel] is a SIBLING FIELD, never a suffix inside the name. Reported
+ *    verbatim rather than validated, so an unexpected value is shown rather
+ *    than dropped.
+ *
+ * [apkUrl] is server-relative (e.g. `/api/client/apk`).
  */
 data class UpdateInfo(
     val version: String,
+    val code: Long?,
+    val channel: String?,
     val apkUrl: String,
     val sizeBytes: Long,
 )

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/models/wire/UpdateInfoWire.kt

@@ -4,12 +4,26 @@ import kotlinx.serialization.SerialName
 import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
 
 /**
- * Wire shape for `GET /api/client/version`. Defaults match Flutter:
+ * Wire shape for `GET /api/client/version`.
- * apk_url falls back to `/api/client/apk` if the server omits it.
+ *
+ * `apkUrl` falls back to `/api/client/apk` if the server omits it.
+ *
+ * [code] MUST stay nullable, and this is not a style preference. The app's
+ * Json is configured with `coerceInputValues = true`, which replaces a JSON
+ * null with the declared default for a NON-nullable property — so writing
+ * `val code: Long = 0` would turn "this server reports no ordering key" into
+ * "this build's ordering key is 0", silently, with no error anywhere. A
+ * nullable type is what keeps absent distinguishable from zero, and the
+ * distinction is the whole reason the field exists.
+ *
+ * A server predating the ordering key sends neither [code] nor [channel];
+ * both arrive null and the caller falls back to comparing names.
  */
 @Serializable
 data class UpdateInfoWire(
     val version: String = "",
+    val code: Long? = null,
+    val channel: String? = null,
     @SerialName("apk_url") val apkUrl: String = "/api/client/apk",
     @SerialName("size_bytes") val sizeBytes: Long = 0,
 )

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/player/ui/MiniPlayer.kt

@@ -109,8 +109,11 @@ private fun MiniCover(coverUrl: String, contentDescription: String) {
  * NowPlayingScreen via [onExpandClick].
  *
  * Layout (Column):
- *   - Slim seek slider at the top (4dp track)
+ *   - Slim seek slider pinned at the top (4dp track)
- *   - Row: cover | title/artist column | like | prev | play/pause | next
+ *   - Row: cover | title/artist column | like | prev | play/pause | next.
+ *     Weighted so it fills the rest of the fixed-height bar and centres its
+ *     own content; otherwise the row keeps its intrinsic 48dp and the
+ *     leftover height collects at the bottom as dead surface.
  *
  * No kebab on the mini bar (operator 2026-06-01): the full kebab
  * surface lives on NowPlayingScreen, and dropping it from the mini
@@ -164,6 +167,12 @@ fun MiniPlayer(
                 durationMs = state.durationMs,
             )
             MiniRow(
+                // Take whatever the progress fill leaves. Without this the
+                // Column stacks 4dp + the row's intrinsic 48dp from the top
+                // and the remaining 28dp of an 80dp bar sits empty
+                // underneath — the content looked top-aligned rather than
+                // centred, with a dead strip above the gesture bar.
+                modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
                 track = track,
                 isPlaying = state.isPlaying,
                 isUpnpLoading = state.isUpnpLoading,
@@ -205,6 +214,7 @@ private fun MiniProgressFill(positionMs: Long, durationMs: Long) {
 @Composable
 @Suppress("LongParameterList")
 private fun MiniRow(
+    modifier: Modifier,
     track: TrackRef,
     isPlaying: Boolean,
     isUpnpLoading: Boolean,
@@ -216,7 +226,7 @@ private fun MiniRow(
     onToggleLike: () -> Unit,
 ) {
     Row(
-        modifier = Modifier
+        modifier = modifier
             .fillMaxWidth()
             .padding(horizontal = 12.dp),
         verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/settings/ui/AboutCardViewModel.kt

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.data.ApkInstaller
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.data.InstallStage
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.data.UpdateRepository
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.data.isBusy
-import com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.data.isVersionNewer
+import com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.data.isUpdateAvailable
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.data.message
 import com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.data.stage
 import dagger.hilt.android.lifecycle.HiltViewModel
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ sealed interface UpdateCheckResult {
 
 data class AboutUiState(
     val installedVersion: String = BuildConfig.VERSION_NAME,
+    // The value the platform installs by, and therefore the one the update
+    // check must decide on. Held in state rather than read inline so a test
+    // can drive the comparison without a BuildConfig.
+    val installedCode: Long = BuildConfig.VERSION_CODE.toLong(),
     val isChecking: Boolean = false,
     val installStage: InstallStage = InstallStage.IDLE,
     val installMessage: String? = null,
@@ -45,8 +49,9 @@ data class AboutUiState(
 
 /**
  * Backs the About card's update controls. "Check for updates" calls
- * [UpdateRepository.getLatest], compares versus the build's
+ * [UpdateRepository.getLatest], compares versus this build via
- * VERSION_NAME via [isVersionNewer], and reports the terminal state.
+ * [isUpdateAvailable] — on the ordering key where the server reports one,
+ * on the name otherwise — and reports the terminal state.
  * When an update is available, [install] downloads the APK via
  * [ApkInstaller] and installs it — routing the user to the "install
  * unknown apps" settings page first when that permission hasn't been
@@ -66,9 +71,17 @@ class AboutCardViewModel @Inject constructor(
         viewModelScope.launch {
             internal.update { it.copy(isChecking = true, installMessage = null) }
             val installed = internal.value.installedVersion
+            val installedCode = internal.value.installedCode
             val result = runCatching { repository.getLatest() }
                 .map { latest ->
-                    if (isVersionNewer(latest.version, installed)) {
+                    if (
+                        isUpdateAvailable(
+                            serverCode = latest.code,
+                            serverName = latest.version,
+                            installedCode = installedCode,
+                            installedName = installed,
+                        )
+                    ) {
                         UpdateCheckResult.UpdateAvailable(latest)
                     } else {
                         UpdateCheckResult.Latest

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/update/data/UpdateBannerController.kt

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ private const val POLL_INTERVAL_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000L
 /**
  * Drives the shell's soft "update available" banner. Polls
  * `/api/client/version` at launch + every 24h and, when the bundled
- * APK is strictly newer than this build, exposes its [UpdateInfo] so
+ * APK outranks this build — by ordering key where the server reports one,
+ * by name otherwise — exposes its [UpdateInfo] so
  * [com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.ui.UpdateBanner] can nudge an
  * install. Mirrors Flutter's `ClientUpdateController`.
  *
@@ -58,6 +59,13 @@ class UpdateBannerController @Inject constructor(
 
     private suspend fun runOnce() {
         val info = runCatching { repository.getLatest() }.getOrNull() ?: return
-        latest.value = info.takeIf { isVersionNewer(it.version, BuildConfig.VERSION_NAME) }
+        latest.value = info.takeIf {
+            isUpdateAvailable(
+                serverCode = it.code,
+                serverName = it.version,
+                installedCode = BuildConfig.VERSION_CODE.toLong(),
+                installedName = BuildConfig.VERSION_NAME,
+            )
+        }
     }
 }

android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/update/data/UpdateRepository.kt

@@ -21,10 +21,39 @@ class UpdateRepository @Inject constructor(retrofit: Retrofit) {
 
 private fun UpdateInfoWire.toDomain(): UpdateInfo = UpdateInfo(
     version = version,
+    code = code,
+    channel = channel,
     apkUrl = apkUrl,
     sizeBytes = sizeBytes,
 )
 
+/**
+ * True when [server] should be offered over the installed build.
+ *
+ * **Decide on the ordering key whenever the server sends one.** That is the
+ * same value Android's package installer compares, so an offer made this way
+ * implies an install the platform will actually accept. The app used to
+ * compare NAMES while the platform installed by `versionCode`, with nothing
+ * keeping the two orderings consistent — so it could offer a build Android
+ * then refused as a downgrade, or stay quiet about one it would have taken.
+ *
+ * Name comparison survives only as the fallback for a server that predates
+ * the field. A null code means "this server cannot tell me" — never "zero" —
+ * because treating absent as zero would rank every such server as infinitely
+ * old and offer its build to everyone, forever.
+ */
+fun isUpdateAvailable(
+    serverCode: Long?,
+    serverName: String,
+    installedCode: Long,
+    installedName: String,
+): Boolean =
+    if (serverCode != null) {
+        serverCode > installedCode
+    } else {
+        isVersionNewer(serverName, installedName)
+    }
+
 /**
  * True when [server] is strictly newer than [installed]. Mirrors
  * Flutter's `isVersionNewer` — splits both strings on `.`, parses

android/app/src/test/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/api/ErrorCopyTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+package com.fabledsword.minstrel.api
+
+import okhttp3.MediaType.Companion.toMediaType
+import okhttp3.ResponseBody.Companion.toResponseBody
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
+import retrofit2.HttpException
+import retrofit2.Response
+import java.io.IOException
+
+class ErrorCopyTest {
+    private fun httpError(status: Int, body: String): HttpException =
+        HttpException(
+            Response.error<Unit>(status, body.toResponseBody("application/json".toMediaType())),
+        )
+
+    @Test
+    fun libraryNotWritableAppendsTheServerDetail() {
+        val detail = "Minstrel runs as uid 1000, gid 1000 and cannot delete from /music/A " +
+            "(read-only file system). The library mount must be writable by that user. " +
+            "Nothing was deleted."
+        val e = httpError(409, """{"error":{"code":"library_not_writable","message":"$detail"}}""")
+
+        assertEquals(
+            "${ErrorCopy.messageFor("library_not_writable")} $detail",
+            ErrorCopy.fromThrowable(e),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun detailCodeWithoutAMessageShowsTheCopyAlone() {
+        val e = httpError(409, """{"error":{"code":"library_not_writable","message":""}}""")
+
+        assertEquals(ErrorCopy.messageFor("library_not_writable"), ErrorCopy.fromThrowable(e))
+    }
+
+    // Server messages are usually internal detail; appending them for every
+    // code would leak driver errors into snackbars. This pins the scope.
+    @Test
+    fun otherCodesNeverCarryTheServerMessage() {
+        val e = httpError(404, """{"error":{"code":"track_not_found","message":"pgx: no rows"}}""")
+
+        assertEquals(ErrorCopy.messageFor("track_not_found"), ErrorCopy.fromThrowable(e))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun anUnparseableBodyFallsBackToUnknown() {
+        val e = httpError(500, "not json")
+
+        assertEquals(ErrorCopy.messageFor("unknown"), ErrorCopy.fromThrowable(e))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun transportFailureMapsToConnectionRefused() {
+        assertEquals(
+            ErrorCopy.messageFor("connection_refused"),
+            ErrorCopy.fromThrowable(IOException("refused")),
+        )
+    }
+}

android/app/src/test/java/com/fabledsword/minstrel/update/data/UpdateVersioningTest.kt

@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+package com.fabledsword.minstrel.update.data
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
+import kotlin.test.assertFalse
+import kotlin.test.assertTrue
+
+/**
+ * The update channel had no tests at all before this. That is worth saying
+ * out loud, because the thing it decides — whether anyone is ever offered an
+ * update — fails silently in both directions: an update nobody is offered
+ * looks exactly like being up to date, and nobody files a bug about a prompt
+ * they never saw.
+ */
+class UpdateVersioningTest {
+    @Test
+    fun `decides on the ordering key when the server reports one`() {
+        assertTrue(
+            isUpdateAvailable(
+                serverCode = 3523847, serverName = "2026.09.10.1432",
+                installedCode = 3519456, installedName = "2026.09.09.1828",
+            ),
+        )
+        assertFalse(
+            isUpdateAvailable(
+                serverCode = 3519456, serverName = "2026.09.09.1828",
+                installedCode = 3523847, installedName = "2026.09.10.1432",
+            ),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an equal ordering key is not an update`() {
+        assertFalse(
+            isUpdateAvailable(
+                serverCode = 3523847, serverName = "2026.09.10.1432",
+                installedCode = 3523847, installedName = "2026.09.10.1432",
+            ),
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The property the whole rework exists for: the offer must agree with what
+     * the platform will actually install. Where the two disagree, the ordering
+     * key wins, because that is the value Android compares.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun `the ordering key wins even when the name disagrees`() {
+        // Name looks older, key is newer — e.g. an older commit rebuilt later.
+        assertTrue(
+            isUpdateAvailable(
+                serverCode = 9_000_000, serverName = "2020.01.01.0000",
+                installedCode = 1, installedName = "2099.12.31.2359",
+            ),
+        )
+        // Name looks newer, key is not. Offering this would be offering an
+        // install the platform then refuses as a downgrade.
+        assertFalse(
+            isUpdateAvailable(
+                serverCode = 1, serverName = "2099.12.31.2359",
+                installedCode = 9_000_000, installedName = "2020.01.01.0000",
+            ),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `falls back to the name when the server reports no ordering key`() {
+        assertTrue(
+            isUpdateAvailable(
+                serverCode = null, serverName = "2026.09.10.1432",
+                installedCode = 3519456, installedName = "2026.09.09.1828",
+            ),
+        )
+        assertFalse(
+            isUpdateAvailable(
+                serverCode = null, serverName = "2026.09.09.1828",
+                installedCode = 3519456, installedName = "2026.09.10.1432",
+            ),
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A null code must never be read as zero. Zero would rank every
+     * older server as infinitely behind and offer its build to everyone,
+     * forever — so this asserts the fallback runs instead of a comparison
+     * against 0 succeeding by accident.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun `a null ordering key is absent, not zero`() {
+        // installedCode is 0 here: if null coerced to 0, "0 > 0" would be
+        // false and this would wrongly report no update despite a newer name.
+        assertTrue(
+            isUpdateAvailable(
+                serverCode = null, serverName = "2026.09.10.1432",
+                installedCode = 0, installedName = "2026.09.09.1828",
+            ),
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The recorded migration constraint, pinned so it cannot be forgotten:
+     * the old scheme's fourth segment was a commit count (~1895), the new
+     * one is HHMM. Across a day boundary the date decides and all is well.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun `new-scheme name outranks an old-scheme name on a later day`() {
+        assertTrue(isVersionNewer("2026.09.10.1432", "2026.09.09.1895"))
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * ...but on the SAME day the comparison comes down to HHMM against a
+     * commit count, and any build before ~19:00 UTC reads as older. This is
+     * why the first new-scheme release had to be cut on a later calendar day.
+     * Asserting the trap so nobody "fixes" it by accident.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun `same-day new-scheme name can read older than an old-scheme name`() {
+        assertFalse(isVersionNewer("2026.09.09.1828", "2026.09.09.1895"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `name comparison degrades per segment rather than discarding`() {
+        // The string is still compared rather than rejected outright: an
+        // earlier segment decides and the unparseable tail never matters.
+        assertTrue(isVersionNewer("2026.09.10.1432-dev", "2026.09.09.1828"))
+
+        // A shorter name pads with zeros instead of being refused.
+        assertTrue(isVersionNewer("2026.09.10", "2026.09.09.9999"))
+        assertFalse(isVersionNewer("2026.09.10", "2026.09.10.0"))
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * What "costs that segment's precision" actually means, and it is worth
+     * pinning because it is a real edge rather than a nicety: when the
+     * unparseable segment is the DECIDING one, it reads as 0 and loses. So a
+     * `-dev` suffixed build compares as older than an unsuffixed one from the
+     * same minute.
+     *
+     * That is the correct behaviour for a degrading parser — it is bounded
+     * loss rather than a discarded string — but it is exactly why the channel
+     * belongs in its own field and never in the name.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun `an unparseable deciding segment reads as zero and loses`() {
+        assertFalse(isVersionNewer("2026.09.10.1432-dev", "2026.09.10.1000"))
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Both sides unparseable (branch-name builds) falls back to string
+     * inequality, so a dev build still surfaces rather than comparing equal
+     * and going silent.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun `two unparseable names fall back to string inequality`() {
+        assertTrue(isVersionNewer("main", "dev"))
+        assertFalse(isVersionNewer("dev", "dev"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a leading v is ignored on either side`() {
+        assertTrue(isVersionNewer("v2026.09.10.1432", "2026.09.09.1828"))
+        assertFalse(isVersionNewer("v2026.09.10.1432", "v2026.09.10.1432"))
+    }
+}

ci-requirements.md

@@ -62,57 +62,30 @@ None.
 - **Go toolchain pin.** `go.mod` is on `go 1.25.0` because `golang.org/x/crypto v0.51.0` declares 1.25 as its minimum. `ci-go:1.26` satisfies this with headroom. Future `x/crypto` bumps that move the Go floor should be paired with an image-tag bump in this file + the workflows.
 - **In-app update channel — `needs:`, not polling.** `release.yml`'s `image-release` job declares `needs: [android-release]`, so on tag pushes the signed APK is guaranteed present before the image build starts — no polling window, no race. (The old cross-workflow polling against `flutter.yml` is gone with that workflow.) On non-tag `main` pushes `android-release` is skipped and `image-release` instead pulls the most recent release's APK and reconstructs its exact `versionName`, so `:latest` never ships without an update channel. It degrades to an empty `client/` — never a wrong version — if no release, asset, or tag commit-count can be resolved.
 - **Cache server reachability.** `test-web.yml` does NOT use `cache: 'npm'` on `actions/setup-node` — the Gitea Actions cache server isn't reachable from this runner's container network and `setup-node` was burning ~4m41s on ETIMEDOUT before failing open. With the migration to `ci-go:1.26`, `setup-node` is removed entirely (Node is in the image). The cache concern reappears if a future change re-introduces a network-dependent action.
-- **Artifacts — use the mirrored actions, never `actions/{upload,download}-artifact`.**
+- **Artifacts — stock `actions/upload-artifact@v7` and `actions/download-artifact@v8`; never `@v3`.**
   ```yaml
-  uses: https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/upload-artifact@cb8afe72b42edc798abfb8fcb556cf660d894245
+  uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
-  uses: https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/download-artifact@8d4e9521a5f7e5f8b6351f341f719f9f45a92a3a
+  uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
   ```
-  Upstream's `@v4+` cannot work against this instance and no server-side change
+  Stock works on this forge since the runner moved to gitea/runner 3.x, which
-  will help: `isGhes()` rejects any hostname that isn't `github.com` /
+  edits the actions' client-side `isGhes()` refusal out of their bundles. Proven
-  `*.ghe.com` / `*.localhost` and throws before it opens a connection, so the
+  on 2026-09-10 for upload v4–v7 and download v4–v8 (Scribe spike #3843). Until
-  server is never asked what it supports. `@v3` is worse — it reports success,
+  then this repo pinned SHA mirrors of the Forgejo project's forks, because
-  and Gitea then serves artifacts back only through the v4 API
+  upstream threw on the hostname before it opened a connection (Scribe 2255).
-  (`content_encoding = application/zip`), so a v3 upload is stored but invisible
-  to every retrieval path. A green job producing nothing retrievable; that is how
-  72 unreachable artifacts accumulated on this repo. Scribe issues 2255 / 2270.
 
-  Both are pull mirrors of the Forgejo project's forks
+  `@v3` is still broken: it reports success, and Gitea serves artifacts back only
-  (`code.forgejo.org/forgejo/{upload,download}-artifact`, one commit on upstream
+  through the v4 API (`content_encoding = application/zip`), so a v3 upload is
-  disabling that check), mirrored so CI depends on commits we hold and pinned by
+  stored but invisible to every retrieval path. That is how 72 unreachable
-  SHA because the mirrors auto-sync every 8h — a moved upstream tag would
+  artifacts accumulated on this repo (Scribe 2270).
-  otherwise silently change what runs.
 
-  **Match the pins on `@actions/artifact`, not on the actions' own version
+  **Pairing no longer needs managing.** This entry used to pin upload v5 against
-  numbers.** The two actions release on unrelated cadences, so equal version
+  download v6 so both bundled `@actions/artifact` ^4.0.0, warning that a mismatch
-  numbers do NOT mean a compatible pair — upload `v5` bundles `@actions/artifact`
+  across `release.yml`'s producer/consumer pair would list empty. Tested, and not
-  ^4.0.0 while download `v5` bundles ^2.3.2. The pins above are upload **v5** and
+  true on this instance: every download major v4–v8 read the artifacts of every
-  download **v6**, which is the pairing that puts ^4.0.0 on both sides. This
+  upload major v4–v7, by name and by pattern (CI-runner run 6312). The only real
-  matters because `release.yml` is a producer/consumer pair — `android-release`
+  protocol break is v3 → v4. node24 is no longer a concern either — every
-  uploads `minstrel-apk`, `image-release` downloads it — and a protocol mismatch
+  CI-runner image carries Node 24 and the runner runs actions with the image's
-  across it yields an empty listing rather than an error, exactly the silent
+  `node`.
-  failure this entry exists to prevent.
-
-  | tag | `@actions/artifact` | runtime |
-  |---|---|---|
-  | upload v4 | ^2.1.1 | node20 |
-  | **upload v5** ← pinned | **^4.0.0** | node20 |
-  | download v4 | ^2.1.1 | node20 |
-  | download v5 | ^2.3.2 | node20 |
-  | **download v6** ← pinned | **^4.0.0** | node20 |
-  | download v7 | ^5.0.0 | **node24** |
-
-  The only true protocol break in this history was **v3 → v4** (upstream:
-  "Downloading artifacts that were created from `actions/upload-artifact@v3` and
-  below are not supported"); v4-and-up are one family. Later majors are mostly
-  ergonomics and runtime — upload v4 forbids re-uploading a name and caps a job
-  at 500 artifacts; download v5 made by-ID extraction match by-name.
-
-  **Do not jump the download pin to v7.** That major is a runner requirement, not
-  a feature change: it moves to `runs.using: node24` and upstream states it
-  "requires a minimum Actions Runner version of 2.327.1 … if you are using
-  self-hosted runners, ensure they are updated before upgrading." act_runner is
-  not GitHub's runner and makes no such version claim, so node24 is unverified
-  here. Everything currently pinned is node20.
 
   Upload steps set `if-no-files-found: error` rather than the default `warn`, so
   an upload that matches nothing fails its own job instead of failing the

ci/version.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Derives the three values a build is stamped with, and the tag that names it.
+#
+#   name=YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM   label for people, from the timestamp of the newest
+#                          commit that CHANGED SOMETHING SHIPPED (see SHIPPED)
+#   code=<int>             ordering key, minutes since 2020-01-01 at BUILD time
+#   tag=v<name>            what a release of this commit must be called
+#
+# Usage:  ci/version.sh [<commit-ish>]        (default HEAD)
+#
+# This exists as a script rather than inline workflow YAML for one reason:
+# release.yml only runs on `main` and on tags, so anything living inside it is
+# unverifiable until a release is already happening — which is the worst
+# possible moment to discover the version is wrong, because the failure mode
+# is silent (an update nobody is offered looks exactly like being current).
+# As a script it can be executed by a test on every push instead.
+#
+# The two clocks are deliberate and are NOT interchangeable:
+#
+#   The NAME answers "is this the same code?" — so it must read identically on
+#   every lane that builds this commit. Commit time does that; build time
+#   prints two different strings for one thing.
+#
+#   The CODE answers "may this be installed over that?" — so it must be
+#   monotonic BY CONSTRUCTION. Build time is; commit time is not (rebuild an
+#   older commit and it goes down, which on a phone is a refused install), and
+#   a commit COUNT is worse still, because it runs ahead on `dev` and inverts
+#   against `main`.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+readonly EPOCH_2020=1577836800 # 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
+readonly REF="${1:-HEAD}"
+
+# Both clocks are overridable so a test can pin them. Nothing but tests should
+# set these — the defaults are the real derivation.
+# The paths that do NOT ship, in either artifact. Everything else counts.
+#
+# A DENYLIST, and the direction is the whole point. As an allowlist, the list
+# has to be updated by whoever adds a directory and nothing fails if they
+# don't — so the failure mode is a changed artifact keeping its old version,
+# silently, on a green run. That is a build lying about what it is. Inverted,
+# new content counts by default and the only way to wrongly EXCLUDE something
+# is to name it here deliberately.
+#
+# The two error directions are not symmetric, which is why this is not taste:
+#   wrongly excluded → changed artifact, unchanged version. A silent lie.
+#   wrongly included → version moves when nothing shipped. Cosmetic noise in
+#                      a string nobody sorts.
+#
+# THIS REPO SHIPS TWO ARTIFACTS FROM ONE DERIVATION, and that is why the list
+# is shorter than it looks like it should be. The server image ships cmd/,
+# internal/, shared/, web/, config.example.yaml and client/; the APK ships
+# android/. Neither ships the other's sources — but excluding android/ here
+# would stop an Android-only commit from moving the APK's OWN version, which
+# is the dangerous direction. So this is the union: exclude only what ships in
+# NEITHER, and accept that an Android commit also nudges the server's reported
+# version. Over-inclusion across the two, which is the harmless direction.
+#
+# The family's other repos (roundtable / roundtable-android) each keep a
+# tighter list because they are separate repos with one artifact apiece. Do
+# not copy theirs onto this one.
+readonly SHIPPED=(
+  .
+  ':!.gitea'          # CI workflows — including this script's own caller
+  ':!ci'              # CI scripts — including this script
+  ':!docs'
+  ':!tools'           # asset/font generators; their OUTPUT ships, they do not
+  ':!deploy'          # test-database bootstrap SQL
+  ':!bin'             # local `make build` output
+  ':!*.md'
+  ':!Makefile'
+  ':!docker-compose.yml'
+  ':!.env.example'
+  ':!.gitignore'
+  ':!.dockerignore'
+  ':!renovate.json'
+  ':!.golangci.yml'
+
+  # TESTS DO NOT SHIP, so they must not re-version an artifact.
+  #
+  # Named as globs rather than a directory because this repo has no tests/
+  # tree to exclude: Go tests sit inline beside the code they cover, and the
+  # web suite sits beside its modules. `go build` drops *_test.go outright and
+  # the Vite build never imports a .test.ts, so neither reaches an artifact.
+  #
+  # A commit touching a test AND its source still moves the version — the
+  # source path matches on its own. Only a test-ONLY commit is inert, which is
+  # the whole intent.
+  #
+  # Patterns match what exists today and nothing speculative: there are no
+  # .spec.* files, no __tests__/ directories and no androidTest/ tree. If any
+  # appear they will re-version until named here, which is the harmless
+  # direction and the reason this list is a denylist.
+  ':!*_test.go'                   # 158 files, inline beside the code
+  ':!*.test.ts'                   # 114 files
+  ':!*.test.js'
+  ':!android/app/src/test'        # JVM unit tests; no androidTest tree exists
+  ':!web/vitest.config.ts'        # test-harness config, not build config
+  ':!web/vitest.setup.ts'
+)
+
+commit_epoch="${MINSTREL_COMMIT_EPOCH:-}"
+if [ -z "${commit_epoch}" ]; then
+  commit_epoch="$(git log --format=%ct -1 "${REF}" -- "${SHIPPED[@]}")"
+  # Loudly, on purpose. A silent fallback here is the landmine this whole
+  # script exists to avoid: a plausible-looking version that is quietly wrong,
+  # on a green run. Realistically this means a shallow clone (no commit in
+  # range touches the shipped set) rather than a repo of pure CI config.
+  if [ -z "${commit_epoch}" ]; then
+    echo "version.sh: no commit under '${REF}' touches the shipped file set — shallow clone? (needs fetch-depth: 0)" >&2
+    exit 1
+  fi
+fi
+now_epoch="${MINSTREL_NOW_EPOCH:-$(date -u +%s)}"
+
+if ! name="$(date -u -d "@${commit_epoch}" +%Y.%m.%d.%H%M 2>/dev/null)"; then
+  echo "version.sh: could not read a commit timestamp from '${commit_epoch}'" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if ! [ "${now_epoch}" -eq "${now_epoch}" ] 2>/dev/null; then
+  echo "version.sh: build timestamp '${now_epoch}' is not a number" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+code=$(( (now_epoch - EPOCH_2020) / 60 ))
+
+# Assert the shape here, at the source. A malformed name builds, signs and
+# publishes perfectly happily; it only surfaces later as an update channel
+# that has quietly stopped offering anything.
+if [[ ! "${name}" =~ ^[0-9]{4}\.[0-9]{2}\.[0-9]{2}\.[0-9]{4}$ ]]; then
+  echo "version.sh: name '${name}' is not YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# A non-positive key means the build clock is set before 2020, and every
+# comparison downstream would be nonsense.
+if [ "${code}" -le 0 ]; then
+  echo "version.sh: ordering key '${code}' is not positive — build clock wrong?" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Android's versionCode is a signed 32-bit int and the platform refuses an APK
+# whose code exceeds it. At ~525k minutes a year this is four thousand years
+# away in normal operation, so the realistic cause is a build machine with a
+# badly wrong clock — which produces a code that is not merely too large but
+# also unreachably high, permanently blocking every real build that follows
+# from ever outranking it. Cheaper to refuse the build than to discover that
+# from a phone that will not update.
+readonly VERSION_CODE_CEILING=2147483647
+if [ "${code}" -gt "${VERSION_CODE_CEILING}" ]; then
+  echo "version.sh: ordering key '${code}' exceeds versionCode's int32 ceiling — build clock wrong?" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# KEY=VALUE, which is also exactly $GITHUB_OUTPUT's format.
+echo "name=${name}"
+echo "code=${code}"
+echo "tag=v${name}"

cmd/minstrel/main.go

@@ -122,7 +122,15 @@ func run() error {
 	}
 	defer pool.Close()
 
-	scanner := library.New(pool, logger, cfg.Library.ScanPaths)
+	// Fingerprinting settings (M400 #3913): one instance, shared by the scanner,
+	// the fingerprint backfill, the duplicate sweep and the admin API, so a save
+	// reaches all of them without a restart. A load failure is logged, not fatal:
+	// the service falls back to the shipped defaults.
+	fpSettings, fpErr := library.NewFingerprintSettingsService(ctx, pool)
+	if fpErr != nil {
+		logger.Warn("fingerprint settings: using defaults", "err", fpErr)
+	}
+	scanner := library.New(pool, logger, cfg.Library.ScanPaths, fpSettings)
 
 	contact := cfg.Library.ContactEmail
 	if contact == "" {
@@ -214,6 +222,17 @@ func run() error {
 	// SQL, no external calls; empty on single-user servers.
 	go coplay.NewWorker(pool, logger.With("component", "coplay")).Run(ctx)
 
+	// Fingerprint backfill (M400 #3908): fingerprints the tracks the scan never
+	// will — everything imported before fingerprinting existed, and rows derived
+	// by an older method. A worker of its own rather than a scan stage; see
+	// internal/library/fingerprint_backfill.go for why.
+	go library.NewFingerprintBackfillWorker(pool, logger.With("component", "fingerprint_backfill"), fpSettings).Run(ctx)
+
+	// Duplicate sweep (M400 #3910): proposes groups of tracks holding one
+	// recording, from the fingerprints above. Sweeps only when fingerprints have
+	// changed since the last sweep.
+	go library.NewDuplicateSweepWorker(pool, logger.With("component", "duplicate_sweep"), fpSettings).Run(ctx)
+
 	// Start the tag-enrichment worker (#1490). Reconciles the compiled-in
 	// tag providers with tag_provider_settings, bumps the sources version if
 	// the provider set changed (re-opening settled rows), then drains tracks
@@ -357,6 +376,10 @@ func run() error {
 	srv.PlaylistScheduler = playlistScheduler
 	srv.RecSettings = recSettings
 	srv.TagSettings = tagSettings
+	srv.FingerprintSettings = fpSettings
+	// The sweeper above holds this same instance, so a save from the admin
+	// card changes what it does on its next tick (#3936).
+	srv.ReacqSettings = reacqSettings
 	srv.StreamSecret = cfg.StreamSecret
 	httpServer := &http.Server{
 		Addr:              cfg.Server.Address,

internal/api/admin_coverage.go

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 package api
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"net/http"
 
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/apierror"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/library"
 )
 
 // coverageRollupResp is the wire shape for GET /api/admin/library/coverage.
@@ -36,3 +38,46 @@ func (h *handlers) handleGetLibraryCoverage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Reque
 		PendingNoMbid: row.PendingNoMbid,
 	})
 }
+
+// fingerprintCoverageResp is the wire shape for GET /api/admin/library/fingerprints.
+// fingerprinted + rejected + pending = total. Missing tracks are not counted:
+// there is no file to fingerprint. Enabled travels with the counts because with
+// fingerprinting off (#3913) pending never shrinks, and a gauge that implies
+// progress would be promising work nothing is doing.
+type fingerprintCoverageResp struct {
+	Total         int64 `json:"total"`
+	Fingerprinted int64 `json:"fingerprinted"`
+	Rejected      int64 `json:"rejected"`
+	Pending       int64 `json:"pending"`
+	Enabled       bool  `json:"enabled"`
+}
+
+// fingerprintCoverage reads the gauge against the current settings: a print at
+// another length counts as pending, because the backfill will re-derive it.
+func (h *handlers) fingerprintCoverage(ctx context.Context) (fingerprintCoverageResp, error) {
+	cfg := h.fingerprintSettings.Get()
+	row, err := library.FingerprintCoverage(ctx, h.pool, cfg)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fingerprintCoverageResp{}, err
+	}
+	return fingerprintCoverageResp{
+		Total:         row.Total,
+		Fingerprinted: row.Fingerprinted,
+		Rejected:      row.Rejected,
+		Pending:       row.Pending,
+		Enabled:       cfg.Enabled,
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// handleGetFingerprintCoverage implements GET /api/admin/library/fingerprints:
+// how far the fingerprint backfill (#3908) has got. The backfill is its own
+// worker spanning many passes, with no scan run to attach a tally to, so its
+// progress is read live here. Always 200; zeros on an empty library.
+func (h *handlers) handleGetFingerprintCoverage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	cov, err := h.fingerprintCoverage(r.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		writeErrWithLog(w, h.logger, "admin: get fingerprint coverage", apierror.InternalMsg("lookup failed", err))
+		return
+	}
+	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, cov)
+}

internal/api/admin_duplicates.go

@@ -0,0 +1,316 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5"
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/library"
+)
+
+// duplicateMemberView is one copy in a proposed duplicate group. LikeCount and
+// PlayCount span every user: the report is admin-only, and what a copy carries
+// is the fact the operator weighs when choosing which to keep.
+type duplicateMemberView struct {
+	TrackID     string `json:"track_id"`
+	Title       string `json:"title"`
+	ArtistName  string `json:"artist_name"`
+	AlbumID     string `json:"album_id"`
+	AlbumTitle  string `json:"album_title"`
+	FilePath    string `json:"file_path"`
+	FileFormat  string `json:"file_format"`
+	FileSize    int64  `json:"file_size"`
+	DurationSec int32  `json:"duration_sec"`
+	AddedAt     string `json:"added_at"`
+	LikeCount   int64  `json:"like_count"`
+	PlayCount   int64  `json:"play_count"`
+}
+
+// duplicateGroupView is one proposal. SurvivorTrackID and SurvivorReason are
+// the copy the report proposes keeping and the rule that chose it
+// (library.ProposeSurvivor) — a default the merge (#3911) lets the operator
+// override.
+type duplicateGroupView struct {
+	ID                string                `json:"id"`
+	Tier              string                `json:"tier"`
+	WorstBitErrorRate *float32              `json:"worst_bit_error_rate"`
+	DetectedAt        string                `json:"detected_at"`
+	SurvivorTrackID   string                `json:"survivor_track_id"`
+	SurvivorReason    string                `json:"survivor_reason"`
+	Members           []duplicateMemberView `json:"members"`
+}
+
+// duplicateSweepView is the latest sweep. State is "never" when none has run,
+// which is what lets the page tell an empty report apart from a sweep that
+// found nothing.
+type duplicateSweepView struct {
+	State            string  `json:"state"`
+	StartedAt        *string `json:"started_at"`
+	FinishedAt       *string `json:"finished_at"`
+	Candidates       *int32  `json:"candidates"`
+	GroupsFound      *int32  `json:"groups_found"`
+	OversizeClusters *int32  `json:"oversize_clusters"`
+	ErrorMessage     *string `json:"error_message"`
+}
+
+// adminDuplicatesResponse is the paged report. Total counts groups.
+type adminDuplicatesResponse struct {
+	Sweep        duplicateSweepView      `json:"sweep"`
+	Fingerprints fingerprintCoverageResp `json:"fingerprints"`
+	Total        int64                   `json:"total"`
+	Limit        int                     `json:"limit"`
+	Offset       int                     `json:"offset"`
+	Groups       []duplicateGroupView    `json:"groups"`
+}
+
+// handleListDuplicates implements GET /api/admin/library/duplicates (#3912).
+//
+// Read-only. The sweep's state and the fingerprint backfill's progress travel
+// with the groups because an empty report means three different things — still
+// fingerprinting, never swept, or swept and clean — and the page has to say which.
+func (h *handlers) handleListDuplicates(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	limit, offset, err := parsePaging(r.URL.Query())
+	if err != nil {
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid_paging")
+		return
+	}
+	ctx := r.Context()
+	q := dbq.New(h.pool)
+
+	sweep := duplicateSweepView{State: "never"}
+	last, err := q.GetLatestDuplicateSweep(ctx)
+	switch {
+	case err == nil:
+		sweep = duplicateSweepViewOf(last)
+	case !errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows):
+		h.logger.Error("admin: latest duplicate sweep", "err", err)
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "server_error")
+		return
+	}
+
+	cov, err := h.fingerprintCoverage(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		h.logger.Error("admin: fingerprint coverage", "err", err)
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "server_error")
+		return
+	}
+	total, err := q.CountPendingDuplicateGroups(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		h.logger.Error("admin: count duplicate groups", "err", err)
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "server_error")
+		return
+	}
+	rows, err := q.ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembers(ctx, dbq.ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembersParams{
+		PageLimit: int32(limit), PageOffset: int32(offset),
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		h.logger.Error("admin: list duplicate groups", "err", err)
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "server_error")
+		return
+	}
+
+	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, adminDuplicatesResponse{
+		Sweep:        sweep,
+		Fingerprints: cov,
+		Total:        total,
+		Limit:        limit,
+		Offset:       offset,
+		Groups:       foldDuplicateGroups(rows),
+	})
+}
+
+func duplicateSweepViewOf(s dbq.DuplicateSweep) duplicateSweepView {
+	v := duplicateSweepView{
+		State:            "running",
+		Candidates:       s.Candidates,
+		GroupsFound:      s.GroupsFound,
+		OversizeClusters: s.OversizeClusters,
+		ErrorMessage:     s.ErrorMessage,
+	}
+	started := formatTimestamp(s.StartedAt)
+	v.StartedAt = &started
+	if s.FinishedAt.Valid {
+		finished := formatTimestamp(s.FinishedAt)
+		v.FinishedAt = &finished
+		v.State = "finished"
+	}
+	return v
+}
+
+// foldDuplicateGroups folds the one-row-per-member query result into groups and
+// proposes each group's survivor. It relies on the query ordering members of a
+// group together, so a run-length fold is enough and the page order holds.
+func foldDuplicateGroups(rows []dbq.ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembersRow) []duplicateGroupView {
+	groups := make([]duplicateGroupView, 0, 8)
+	var candidates [][]library.SurvivorCandidate
+	for _, row := range rows {
+		id := uuidToString(row.GroupID)
+		if n := len(groups); n == 0 || groups[n-1].ID != id {
+			groups = append(groups, duplicateGroupView{
+				ID:                id,
+				Tier:              row.Tier,
+				WorstBitErrorRate: row.WorstBitErrorRate,
+				DetectedAt:        formatTimestamp(row.DetectedAt),
+			})
+			candidates = append(candidates, nil)
+		}
+		n := len(groups) - 1
+		trackID := uuidToString(row.TrackID)
+		groups[n].Members = append(groups[n].Members, duplicateMemberView{
+			TrackID:     trackID,
+			Title:       row.Title,
+			ArtistName:  row.ArtistName,
+			AlbumID:     uuidToString(row.AlbumID),
+			AlbumTitle:  row.AlbumTitle,
+			FilePath:    row.FilePath,
+			FileFormat:  row.FileFormat,
+			FileSize:    row.FileSize,
+			DurationSec: row.DurationMs / 1000,
+			AddedAt:     formatTimestamp(row.AddedAt),
+			LikeCount:   row.LikeCount,
+			PlayCount:   row.PlayCount,
+		})
+		candidates[n] = append(candidates[n], library.SurvivorCandidate{
+			TrackID: trackID, FileFormat: row.FileFormat, FileSize: row.FileSize, AddedAt: row.AddedAt.Time,
+		})
+	}
+	for i := range groups {
+		groups[i].SurvivorTrackID, groups[i].SurvivorReason = library.ProposeSurvivor(candidates[i])
+	}
+	return groups
+}
+
+// handleRunDuplicateSweep implements POST /api/admin/library/duplicates/sweep:
+// 202 when a sweep starts, 409 sweep_in_progress when one is already running.
+// The sweep outlives the request, so it runs on a background context, as
+// handleTriggerScan's scan does.
+func (h *handlers) handleRunDuplicateSweep(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+	// Runs whatever the sweep interval says: the interval paces the automatic
+	// sweep, and an operator pressing the button has already decided.
+	started, err := library.TryStartDuplicateSweep(
+		context.Background(), h.pool, h.logger.With("source", "manual"), h.fingerprintSettings.Get(),
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		h.logger.Error("admin: start duplicate sweep", "err", err)
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "server_error")
+		return
+	}
+	if !started {
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusConflict, "sweep_in_progress")
+		return
+	}
+	writeJSON(w, http.StatusAccepted, map[string]bool{"started": true})
+}
+
+// handleDismissDuplicateGroup implements POST
+// /api/admin/library/duplicates/{id}/dismiss: "these are not duplicates". The
+// sweep keeps the dismissal and will not propose that set of tracks again. 404
+// duplicate_group_not_pending when the group was already resolved or is gone.
+func (h *handlers) handleDismissDuplicateGroup(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	id, ok := parseUUID(chi.URLParam(r, "id"))
+	if !ok {
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid_id")
+		return
+	}
+	n, err := dbq.New(h.pool).DismissDuplicateGroup(r.Context(), id)
+	if err != nil {
+		h.logger.Error("admin: dismiss duplicate group", "err", err)
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "server_error")
+		return
+	}
+	if n == 0 {
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusNotFound, "duplicate_group_not_pending")
+		return
+	}
+	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, map[string]string{"status": "dismissed"})
+}
+
+// mergeDuplicateRequest chooses the copy to keep. An empty survivor_track_id
+// keeps the report's proposal.
+type mergeDuplicateRequest struct {
+	SurvivorTrackID string `json:"survivor_track_id"`
+	Unmonitor       bool   `json:"unmonitor"`
+}
+
+// mergeDuplicateResponse reports what the merge removed. RemovedPaths are files
+// deleted from disk; the operator reads them to know exactly what went.
+type mergeDuplicateResponse struct {
+	SurvivorTrackID       string   `json:"survivor_track_id"`
+	RemovedPaths          []string `json:"removed_paths"`
+	LidarrUnmonitorFailed *bool    `json:"lidarr_unmonitor_failed,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// mergeRequestBodyLimit bounds the request body. It holds one id and a flag.
+const mergeRequestBodyLimit = 1 << 16
+
+// handleMergeDuplicateGroup implements POST /api/admin/library/duplicates/{id}/merge
+// (#3911): keep one copy, move the others' likes, plays and playlist entries onto
+// it, and delete the others' files and rows.
+//
+// Errors:
+//   - 409 library_not_writable / 500 file_delete_failed when a file could not be
+//     removed — nothing was changed (fileRemoveAPIError)
+//   - 404 duplicate_group_not_pending when the group was already resolved
+//   - 400 survivor_not_in_group, invalid_id, invalid_body
+func (h *handlers) handleMergeDuplicateGroup(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	admin, ok := requireUser(w, r)
+	if !ok {
+		return
+	}
+	groupID, ok := parseUUID(chi.URLParam(r, "id"))
+	if !ok {
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid_id")
+		return
+	}
+	var body mergeDuplicateRequest
+	if err := json.NewDecoder(http.MaxBytesReader(w, r.Body, mergeRequestBodyLimit)).Decode(&body); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
+		writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid_body")
+		return
+	}
+	var survivorID pgtype.UUID // invalid: keep the proposal
+	if body.SurvivorTrackID != "" {
+		if survivorID, ok = parseUUID(body.SurvivorTrackID); !ok {
+			writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid_id")
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	res, unmonitorFailed, err := h.tracks.MergeDuplicates(r.Context(), groupID, survivorID, admin.ID, body.Unmonitor)
+	if err != nil {
+		if apiErr, ok := fileRemoveAPIError(err); ok {
+			logFileRemoveFailure(h.logger, apiErr, "group_id", uuidToString(groupID))
+			writeErr(w, apiErr)
+			return
+		}
+		switch {
+		case errors.Is(err, library.ErrDuplicateGroupNotPending):
+			writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusNotFound, "duplicate_group_not_pending")
+		case errors.Is(err, library.ErrSurvivorNotInGroup):
+			writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "survivor_not_in_group")
+		default:
+			h.logger.Error("admin: merge duplicate group", "group_id", uuidToString(groupID), "err", err)
+			writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "server_error")
+		}
+		return
+	}
+
+	resp := mergeDuplicateResponse{
+		SurvivorTrackID: uuidToString(res.Survivor.TrackID),
+		RemovedPaths:    make([]string, 0, len(res.Removed)),
+	}
+	for _, c := range res.Removed {
+		resp.RemovedPaths = append(resp.RemovedPaths, c.FilePath)
+	}
+	if body.Unmonitor && unmonitorFailed {
+		failed := true
+		resp.LidarrUnmonitorFailed = &failed
+	}
+	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, resp)
+}

internal/api/admin_duplicates_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+)
+
+func dupUUID(b byte) pgtype.UUID {
+	var u pgtype.UUID
+	u.Bytes[15] = b
+	u.Valid = true
+	return u
+}
+
+func dupTS(t time.Time) pgtype.Timestamptz { return pgtype.Timestamptz{Time: t, Valid: true} }
+
+// Rows arrive one per member, members of a group together. The fold must keep
+// groups apart, keep the query's order, and propose each group's survivor from
+// its own members only.
+func TestFoldDuplicateGroups(t *testing.T) {
+	older := time.Date(2025, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	newer := older.Add(48 * time.Hour)
+	ber := float32(0.04)
+	rows := []dbq.ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembersRow{
+		// Group 1: identical audio, sizes tie, the older copy should be kept.
+		{GroupID: dupUUID(1), Tier: "exact", DetectedAt: dupTS(newer), TrackID: dupUUID(10),
+			Title: "WWW", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 6_900_000, DurationMs: 215_400, AddedAt: dupTS(newer), PlayCount: 3},
+		{GroupID: dupUUID(1), Tier: "exact", DetectedAt: dupTS(newer), TrackID: dupUUID(11),
+			Title: "WWW", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 6_900_000, DurationMs: 215_400, AddedAt: dupTS(older), LikeCount: 1},
+		// Group 2: the same recording, FLAC against MP3.
+		{GroupID: dupUUID(2), Tier: "acoustic", WorstBitErrorRate: &ber, DetectedAt: dupTS(older), TrackID: dupUUID(20),
+			Title: "Lovesick", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 9_000_000, DurationMs: 198_000, AddedAt: dupTS(older)},
+		{GroupID: dupUUID(2), Tier: "acoustic", WorstBitErrorRate: &ber, DetectedAt: dupTS(older), TrackID: dupUUID(21),
+			Title: "Lovesick", FileFormat: "flac", FileSize: 30_000_000, DurationMs: 198_000, AddedAt: dupTS(newer)},
+	}
+
+	got := foldDuplicateGroups(rows)
+	if len(got) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("folded %d groups, want 2", len(got))
+	}
+
+	g1, g2 := got[0], got[1]
+	if g1.ID != uuidToString(dupUUID(1)) || len(g1.Members) != 2 || g1.WorstBitErrorRate != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("group 1 = %+v, want the exact pair with no score", g1)
+	}
+	if g1.SurvivorTrackID != uuidToString(dupUUID(11)) || g1.SurvivorReason != "in the library longest" {
+		t.Errorf("group 1 survivor = (%s, %q), want the older copy", g1.SurvivorTrackID, g1.SurvivorReason)
+	}
+	if g1.Members[0].DurationSec != 215 || g1.Members[0].PlayCount != 3 || g1.Members[1].LikeCount != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("group 1 members lost their facts: %+v", g1.Members)
+	}
+
+	if g2.Tier != "acoustic" || g2.WorstBitErrorRate == nil || *g2.WorstBitErrorRate != ber {
+		t.Fatalf("group 2 = %+v, want the acoustic pair with its score", g2)
+	}
+	// Chosen from group 2's own members: a survivor leaking across groups is
+	// exactly what a wrong fold boundary would produce.
+	if g2.SurvivorTrackID != uuidToString(dupUUID(21)) || g2.SurvivorReason != "lossless (flac)" {
+		t.Errorf("group 2 survivor = (%s, %q), want the FLAC copy", g2.SurvivorTrackID, g2.SurvivorReason)
+	}
+}

internal/api/admin_fingerprint_settings.go

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"net/http"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/apierror"
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/library"
+)
+
+// fingerprintSettingsBody is the wire shape for GET and PUT
+// /api/admin/library/fingerprint-settings (M400 #3913). The threshold travels as
+// the bit-error rate the matcher uses; the card presents it as a match percentage.
+type fingerprintSettingsBody struct {
+	Enabled                 bool    `json:"enabled"`
+	ChromaprintLengthSec    int32   `json:"chromaprint_length_sec"`
+	AcousticMaxBitErrorRate float64 `json:"acoustic_max_bit_error_rate"`
+	BackfillConcurrency     int32   `json:"backfill_concurrency"`
+	SweepIntervalHours      int32   `json:"sweep_interval_hours"`
+}
+
+func fingerprintSettingsBodyOf(s library.FingerprintSettings) fingerprintSettingsBody {
+	return fingerprintSettingsBody{
+		Enabled:                 s.Enabled,
+		ChromaprintLengthSec:    s.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		AcousticMaxBitErrorRate: s.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+		BackfillConcurrency:     s.BackfillConcurrency,
+		SweepIntervalHours:      s.SweepIntervalHours,
+	}
+}
+
+// handleGetFingerprintSettings implements GET /api/admin/library/fingerprint-settings.
+func (h *handlers) handleGetFingerprintSettings(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, fingerprintSettingsBodyOf(h.fingerprintSettings.Get()))
+}
+
+// handleUpdateFingerprintSettings implements PUT /api/admin/library/fingerprint-settings.
+//
+// A whole-row write. A body that leaves a field out decodes it as zero, which no
+// field accepts, so a partial save is refused rather than zeroing what it omitted.
+// The saved settings reach the scanner and both workers at once: they share the
+// service instance.
+func (h *handlers) handleUpdateFingerprintSettings(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	var req fingerprintSettingsBody
+	if err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&req); err != nil {
+		writeErr(w, apierror.BadRequest("invalid_body", "malformed JSON"))
+		return
+	}
+	saved, err := h.fingerprintSettings.Set(r.Context(), library.FingerprintSettings{
+		Enabled:                 req.Enabled,
+		ChromaprintLengthSec:    req.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		AcousticMaxBitErrorRate: req.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+		BackfillConcurrency:     req.BackfillConcurrency,
+		SweepIntervalHours:      req.SweepIntervalHours,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		// Validation mirrors migration 0061's CHECKs and names the field.
+		if errors.Is(err, library.ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange) {
+			writeErr(w, apierror.BadRequest("invalid_setting", err.Error()))
+			return
+		}
+		writeErrWithLog(w, h.logger, "admin fingerprint settings: update failed", apierror.Internal(err))
+		return
+	}
+	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, fingerprintSettingsBodyOf(saved))
+}

internal/api/admin_fingerprint_settings_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"log/slog"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/library"
+)
+
+func TestGetFingerprintSettings_ServesDefaultsWithoutAService(t *testing.T) {
+	h := &handlers{logger: slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil))}
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.handleGetFingerprintSettings(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/api/admin/library/fingerprint-settings", nil))
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want 200", rec.Code)
+	}
+	var got fingerprintSettingsBody
+	if err := json.NewDecoder(rec.Body).Decode(&got); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("decode: %v", err)
+	}
+	if want := fingerprintSettingsBodyOf(library.DefaultFingerprintSettings); got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("body = %+v, want the defaults %+v", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestUpdateFingerprintSettings_Rejects(t *testing.T) {
+	h := &handlers{logger: slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil))}
+	for name, tc := range map[string]struct {
+		body     string
+		code     string
+		mentions string
+	}{
+		"a value out of range, naming the field": {
+			body:     `{"enabled":true,"chromaprint_length_sec":5,"acoustic_max_bit_error_rate":0.15,"backfill_concurrency":2,"sweep_interval_hours":1}`,
+			code:     "invalid_setting",
+			mentions: "chromaprint_length_sec",
+		},
+		// A partial body would otherwise zero every field it left out.
+		"a body missing fields": {body: `{"enabled":false}`, code: "invalid_setting"},
+		"malformed JSON":        {body: `{"enabled":`, code: "invalid_body"},
+	} {
+		rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		h.handleUpdateFingerprintSettings(rec, httptest.NewRequest(
+			http.MethodPut, "/api/admin/library/fingerprint-settings", strings.NewReader(tc.body)))
+		body := rec.Body.String()
+		if rec.Code != http.StatusBadRequest || !strings.Contains(body, `"`+tc.code+`"`) || !strings.Contains(body, tc.mentions) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: status %d body %s; want 400 %s mentioning %q", name, rec.Code, body, tc.code, tc.mentions)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/api/admin_quarantine.go

@@ -133,6 +133,13 @@ func (h *handlers) handleDeleteQuarantineFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Req
 	}
 	action, err := h.lidarrQuarantine.DeleteFile(r.Context(), id, admin.ID)
 	if err != nil {
+		// Written in the enveloped shape, not writeAdminJSONErr's bare code: the
+		// message is the part that tells the operator which directory and uid.
+		if apiErr, ok := fileRemoveAPIError(err); ok {
+			logFileRemoveFailure(h.logger, apiErr, "track_id", uuidToString(id))
+			writeErr(w, apiErr)
+			return
+		}
 		switch {
 		case errors.Is(err, lidarrquarantine.ErrTrackNotFound):
 			writeAdminJSONErr(w, http.StatusNotFound, "track_not_found")

internal/api/admin_quarantine_test.go

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ func installQuarantineClientFn(t *testing.T, h *handlers) {
 		}
 		return lidarr.NewClient(c.BaseURL, c.APIKey)
 	}
-	h.lidarrQuarantine = lidarrquarantine.NewService(h.pool, cfg, clientFn)
+	h.lidarrQuarantine = lidarrquarantine.NewService(h.pool, cfg, clientFn, h.dataDir)
 }
 
 // flagDirect bypasses the HTTP handler to seed a quarantine row via the

internal/api/admin_recommendation_tuning.go

@@ -97,14 +97,16 @@ type tuningSnapshot struct {
 func (h *handlers) tuningSnapshot() tuningSnapshot {
 	var out tuningSnapshot
 	out.Profiles = map[string]weightsResp{
-		recsettings.ScopeRadio:    weightsRespFrom(h.recSettings.Weights(recsettings.ScopeRadio)),
+		recsettings.ScopeRadio:     weightsRespFrom(h.recSettings.Weights(recsettings.ScopeRadio)),
-		recsettings.ScopeDailyMix: weightsRespFrom(h.recSettings.Weights(recsettings.ScopeDailyMix)),
+		recsettings.ScopeDailyMix:  weightsRespFrom(h.recSettings.Weights(recsettings.ScopeDailyMix)),
+		recsettings.ScopeSongsLike: weightsRespFrom(h.recSettings.Weights(recsettings.ScopeSongsLike)),
 	}
 	out.Taste = tasteRespFrom(h.recSettings.Taste())
 	out.Discover = discoverRespFrom(h.recSettings.Discover())
 	out.Shipped.Profiles = map[string]weightsResp{
-		recsettings.ScopeRadio:    weightsRespFrom(recsettings.ShippedRadioWeights()),
+		recsettings.ScopeRadio:     weightsRespFrom(recsettings.ShippedRadioWeights()),
-		recsettings.ScopeDailyMix: weightsRespFrom(recsettings.ShippedDailyMixWeights()),
+		recsettings.ScopeDailyMix:  weightsRespFrom(recsettings.ShippedDailyMixWeights()),
+		recsettings.ScopeSongsLike: weightsRespFrom(recsettings.ShippedSongsLikeWeights()),
 	}
 	out.Shipped.Taste = tasteRespFrom(recsettings.ShippedTasteTuning())
 	out.Shipped.Discover = discoverRespFrom(recsettings.ShippedDiscoverTuning())

internal/api/admin_tracks.go

@@ -23,15 +23,17 @@ type removeTrackResponse struct {
 
 // handleRemoveTrack implements DELETE /api/admin/tracks/{id}?unmonitor=true|false.
 //
-// Admin-only (gated by auth.RequireAdmin on the /admin route group). Always
+// Admin-only (gated by auth.RequireAdmin on the /admin route group). Deletes the
-// deletes the file + DB row and runs the album/artist cascade tidy-up. When
+// file, then the DB row, and runs the album/artist cascade tidy-up — and deletes
+// nothing at all when the file cannot be removed (#3918). When
 // unmonitor=true and the track has an mbid, also calls Lidarr.UnmonitorTrack
 // — failure there is non-fatal (the destructive part already completed) and
 // surfaces as `lidarr_unmonitor_failed: true` in the success envelope.
 //
 // Per spec §5, Lidarr-side errors during the unmonitor step do NOT map to
-// wire error codes; the only error codes this handler emits are not_found,
+// wire error codes. The codes this handler emits are not_found,
-// server_error, plus the auth codes the middleware emits upstream.
+// library_not_writable (409) and file_delete_failed when the file could not be
+// removed, server_error, plus the auth codes the middleware emits upstream.
 func (h *handlers) handleRemoveTrack(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	idStr := chi.URLParam(r, "id")
 	trackID, ok := parseUUID(idStr)
@@ -66,6 +68,11 @@ func (h *handlers) handleRemoveTrack(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			writeErr(w, &apierror.Error{Status: http.StatusNotFound, Code: "not_found", Message: "track not found"})
 			return
 		}
+		if apiErr, ok := fileRemoveAPIError(err); ok {
+			logFileRemoveFailure(h.logger, apiErr, "track_id", idStr)
+			writeErr(w, apiErr)
+			return
+		}
 		h.logger.Error("api: remove track failed", "err", err, "track_id", idStr)
 		writeErr(w, apierror.InternalMsg("remove failed", err))
 		return

internal/api/api.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ package api
 import (
 	"log/slog"
 	"math/rand"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
 	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/playevents"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/playlists"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/reacquisition"
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/recommendation"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/recsettings"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/tags"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/tracks"
@@ -32,29 +34,36 @@ import (
 // Mount attaches /api/* handlers to r. Public endpoints (login) are outside
 // RequireUser; everything else is gated by the middleware. The events writer
 // is shared with the Subsonic mount so /rest/scrobble feeds the same store.
-func Mount(r chi.Router, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, events *playevents.Writer, recCfg config.RecommendationConfig, recSettings *recsettings.Service, lidarrCfg *lidarrconfig.Service, lidarrReqs *lidarrrequests.Service, lidarrQuar *lidarrquarantine.Service, tracksSvc *tracks.Service, playlistsSvc *playlists.Service, coverEnricher *coverart.Enricher, coverSettings *coverart.SettingsService, tagSettings *tags.SettingsService, scanner *library.Scanner, scanCfg library.RunScanConfig, dataDir string, sender mailer.Sender, bus *eventbus.Bus, playlistScheduler *playlists.Scheduler, streamSecret []byte, netSettings *netsettings.Service, reacqSettings *reacquisition.SettingsService) {
+func Mount(r chi.Router, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, events *playevents.Writer, recCfg config.RecommendationConfig, recSettings *recsettings.Service, lidarrCfg *lidarrconfig.Service, lidarrReqs *lidarrrequests.Service, lidarrQuar *lidarrquarantine.Service, tracksSvc *tracks.Service, playlistsSvc *playlists.Service, coverEnricher *coverart.Enricher, coverSettings *coverart.SettingsService, tagSettings *tags.SettingsService, scanner *library.Scanner, scanCfg library.RunScanConfig, dataDir string, sender mailer.Sender, bus *eventbus.Bus, playlistScheduler *playlists.Scheduler, streamSecret []byte, netSettings *netsettings.Service, reacqSettings *reacquisition.SettingsService, fpSettings *library.FingerprintSettingsService) {
 	rng := rand.New(rand.NewSource(rand.Int63()))
 	h := &handlers{
 		pool: pool, logger: logger, events: events, recCfg: recCfg,
-		recSettings:       recSettings,
+		recSettings:         recSettings,
-		rng:               rng.Float64,
+		rng:                 rng.Float64,
-		lidarrCfg:         lidarrCfg,
+		lidarrCfg:           lidarrCfg,
-		lidarrRequests:    lidarrReqs,
+		lidarrRequests:      lidarrReqs,
-		lidarrQuarantine:  lidarrQuar,
+		lidarrQuarantine:    lidarrQuar,
-		tracks:            tracksSvc,
+		tracks:              tracksSvc,
-		playlists:         playlistsSvc,
+		playlists:           playlistsSvc,
-		coverart:          coverEnricher,
+		coverart:            coverEnricher,
-		coverSettings:     coverSettings,
+		coverSettings:       coverSettings,
-		tagSettings:       tagSettings,
+		tagSettings:         tagSettings,
-		scanner:           scanner,
+		scanner:             scanner,
-		scanCfg:           scanCfg,
+		scanCfg:             scanCfg,
-		dataDir:           dataDir,
+		dataDir:             dataDir,
-		mailer:            sender,
+		mailer:              sender,
-		eventbus:          bus,
+		eventbus:            bus,
-		playlistScheduler: playlistScheduler,
+		playlistScheduler:   playlistScheduler,
-		streamSecret:      streamSecret,
+		streamSecret:        streamSecret,
-		netSettings:       netSettings,
+		netSettings:         netSettings,
-		reacqSettings:     reacqSettings,
+		reacqSettings:       reacqSettings,
+		fingerprintSettings: fpSettings,
+		librarySize:         recommendation.NewLibrarySize(nil),
+		loginGuard:          auth.NewLoginGuard(),
+		registerLimit:       auth.NewAttemptLimiter(registerPerAddressMax, time.Hour),
+		forgotAddressLimit:  auth.NewAttemptLimiter(forgotPerAddressMax, time.Hour),
+		forgotEmailLimit:    auth.NewAttemptLimiter(forgotPerEmailMax, time.Hour),
+		resetLimit:          auth.NewAttemptLimiter(resetFailuresPerAddressMax, 15*time.Minute),
 	}
 
 	r.Route("/api", func(api chi.Router) {
@@ -213,6 +222,16 @@ func Mount(r chi.Router, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, events *playev
 				admin.Get("/library/missing", h.handleListMissingTracks)
 
 				admin.Get("/library/coverage", h.handleGetLibraryCoverage)
+				admin.Get("/library/fingerprints", h.handleGetFingerprintCoverage)
+				admin.Get("/library/fingerprint-settings", h.handleGetFingerprintSettings)
+				admin.Put("/library/fingerprint-settings", h.handleUpdateFingerprintSettings)
+				// Duplicates report (#3912): proposals from the duplicate sweep, a
+				// trigger to sweep now, dismissal, and the merge (#3911), which deletes
+				// the removed copies' files after moving their history onto the kept one.
+				admin.Get("/library/duplicates", h.handleListDuplicates)
+				admin.Post("/library/duplicates/sweep", h.handleRunDuplicateSweep)
+				admin.Post("/library/duplicates/{id}/dismiss", h.handleDismissDuplicateGroup)
+				admin.Post("/library/duplicates/{id}/merge", h.handleMergeDuplicateGroup)
 
 				admin.Get("/invites", h.handleListInvites)
 				admin.Post("/invites", h.handleCreateInvite)
@@ -268,12 +287,16 @@ func Mount(r chi.Router, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, events *playev
 }
 
 type handlers struct {
-	pool              *pgxpool.Pool
+	pool        *pgxpool.Pool
-	logger            *slog.Logger
+	logger      *slog.Logger
-	events            *playevents.Writer
+	events      *playevents.Writer
-	recCfg            config.RecommendationConfig
+	recCfg      config.RecommendationConfig
-	recSettings       *recsettings.Service
+	recSettings *recsettings.Service
-	rng               func() float64
+	rng         func() float64
+	// librarySize memoises the track count that sizes the candidate pool
+	// (#3880). Held here rather than counted per request: the count is a
+	// full table scan, and library size only moves when a scan runs.
+	librarySize       *recommendation.LibrarySize
 	lidarrCfg         *lidarrconfig.Service
 	lidarrRequests    *lidarrrequests.Service
 	lidarrQuarantine  *lidarrquarantine.Service
@@ -292,6 +315,18 @@ type handlers struct {
 	// missing files (milestone #290) — grace window, backoff, attempt caps.
 	// Cached in the service, so the admin card reads it without a query.
 	reacqSettings *reacquisition.SettingsService
+	// fingerprintSettings is the fingerprinting policy (M400 #3913), the same
+	// instance the scanner and the fingerprint workers read, so a save from the
+	// admin card reaches them without a restart. Nil serves the defaults.
+	fingerprintSettings *library.FingerprintSettingsService
+	// loginGuard throttles failed logins per account and per address, and
+	// the limiters below cap the other unauthenticated auth routes. All are
+	// nil-safe, so tests that build handlers directly run unthrottled.
+	loginGuard         *auth.LoginGuard
+	registerLimit      *auth.AttemptLimiter
+	forgotAddressLimit *auth.AttemptLimiter
+	forgotEmailLimit   *auth.AttemptLimiter
+	resetLimit         *auth.AttemptLimiter
 	// netSettings caches the trusted reverse-proxy depth read by the auth
 	// middleware on every request and edited from the admin network card.
 	netSettings *netsettings.Service

internal/api/auth.go

@@ -19,6 +19,20 @@ import (
 // so an abandoned laptop doesn't stay logged in forever.
 const sessionCookieMaxAge = 30 * 24 * time.Hour
 
+// Limits on the unauthenticated auth routes other than login (which uses
+// auth.LoginGuard). Per address, per window as wired in Mount.
+const (
+	// registerPerAddressMax: 10 registrations an hour. Every attempt counts,
+	// typos included, which is still far above a household's need.
+	registerPerAddressMax = 10
+	// forgotPerAddressMax / forgotPerEmailMax: reset emails an hour. The
+	// per-email cap is what keeps one inbox from being mailbombed.
+	forgotPerAddressMax = 5
+	forgotPerEmailMax   = 3
+	// resetFailuresPerAddressMax: wrong or expired reset tokens per 15 min.
+	resetFailuresPerAddressMax = 20
+)
+
 func (h *handlers) handleLogout(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	// The session token can be on the cookie OR bearer header — RequireUser
 	// accepted either. Re-resolve it here so we can delete the row.
@@ -70,10 +84,22 @@ func (h *handlers) handleLogin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Checked before any lookup or bcrypt, so a throttled guess costs the
+	// server nothing and learns nothing.
+	addr := auth.ClientIP(r, h.netSettings.Hops())
+	if blocked, wait := h.loginGuard.Blocked(req.Username, addr); blocked {
+		writeRateLimited(w, wait)
+		return
+	}
+
 	q := dbq.New(h.pool)
 	user, err := q.GetUserByUsername(r.Context(), req.Username)
 	if err != nil {
 		if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+			// Same bcrypt time as a wrong password, so timing doesn't say
+			// which usernames exist.
+			auth.DummyVerify(req.Password)
+			h.loginGuard.Fail(req.Username, addr)
 			writeErr(w, apierror.Unauthorized("invalid_credentials", "invalid username or password"))
 			return
 		}
@@ -82,9 +108,11 @@ func (h *handlers) handleLogin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 	if !auth.VerifyPassword(user.PasswordHash, req.Password) {
+		h.loginGuard.Fail(req.Username, addr)
 		writeErr(w, apierror.Unauthorized("invalid_credentials", "invalid username or password"))
 		return
 	}
+	h.loginGuard.Succeed(req.Username)
 
 	token, err := auth.MintSessionToken()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -100,7 +128,7 @@ func (h *handlers) handleLogin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		// the active-sessions surface: a session that was born somewhere the
 		// user recognises but is being used from somewhere they don't is the
 		// case this whole surface exists to surface.
-		Ip: auth.ClientIP(r, h.netSettings.Hops()),
+		Ip: addr,
 	}); err != nil {
 		h.logger.Error("api: insert session failed", "err", err)
 		writeErr(w, apierror.InternalMsg("insert failed", err))

internal/api/auth_forgot.go

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
 
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/audit"
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/auth"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/mailer"
 )
@@ -47,6 +48,19 @@ func (h *handlers) handleForgotPassword(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
 	}
 	email := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(req.Email))
 
+	// Throttled per address (a spray) and per email (a mailbomb of one
+	// inbox). Applied whether or not the email matches, so a 429 says
+	// nothing about which addresses are registered.
+	addr := auth.ClientIP(r, h.netSettings.Hops())
+	blockedAddr, waitAddr := h.forgotAddressLimit.Blocked(addr)
+	blockedEmail, waitEmail := h.forgotEmailLimit.Blocked(email)
+	if blockedAddr || blockedEmail {
+		writeRateLimited(w, max(waitAddr, waitEmail))
+		return
+	}
+	h.forgotAddressLimit.Record(addr)
+	h.forgotEmailLimit.Record(email)
+
 	q := dbq.New(h.pool)
 	var matched bool
 	var auditTarget pgtype.UUID

internal/api/auth_register.go

@@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ type registerReq struct {
 //   - 409 username_taken (PG unique violation on users.username)
 //   - 500 server_error otherwise
 func (h *handlers) handleRegister(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	// Every attempt counts, not only failures: a successful registration is
+	// the thing being sprayed when the mode is open.
+	addr := auth.ClientIP(r, h.netSettings.Hops())
+	if blocked, wait := h.registerLimit.Blocked(addr); blocked {
+		writeRateLimited(w, wait)
+		return
+	}
+	h.registerLimit.Record(addr)
+
 	var req registerReq
 	if err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&req); err != nil {
 		writeErr(w, apierror.BadRequest("invalid_body", "invalid JSON body"))
@@ -175,7 +184,7 @@ func (h *handlers) handleRegister(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		UserID:    user.ID,
 		TokenHash: auth.HashSessionToken(sessionToken),
 		UserAgent: r.UserAgent(),
-		Ip:        auth.ClientIP(r, h.netSettings.Hops()),
+		Ip:        addr,
 	}); err != nil {
 		h.logger.Error("register: insert session failed", "err", err)
 		writeErr(w, apierror.Internal(err))

internal/api/auth_reset.go

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/apierror"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/audit"
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/auth"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
 )
 
@@ -42,6 +43,15 @@ func (h *handlers) handleResetPassword(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 
+	// Tokens carry 256 bits, so guessing one is hopeless; the limit is on
+	// failed tries per address so that nobody gets to find that out at our
+	// expense.
+	addr := auth.ClientIP(r, h.netSettings.Hops())
+	if blocked, wait := h.resetLimit.Blocked(addr); blocked {
+		writeRateLimited(w, wait)
+		return
+	}
+
 	q := dbq.New(h.pool)
 
 	// Look up the reset record so we know which user to update before
@@ -50,6 +60,7 @@ func (h *handlers) handleResetPassword(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	reset, err := q.GetPasswordReset(r.Context(), req.Token)
 	if err != nil {
 		if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+			h.resetLimit.Record(addr)
 			writeErr(w, apierror.BadRequest("invalid_token", ""))
 			return
 		}
@@ -69,6 +80,7 @@ func (h *handlers) handleResetPassword(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 	if rows == 0 {
+		h.resetLimit.Record(addr)
 		writeErr(w, apierror.BadRequest("invalid_token", ""))
 		return
 	}

internal/api/auth_test.go

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ func testHandlers(t *testing.T) (*handlers, *pgxpool.Pool) {
 	}
 	lidarrCfg := lidarrconfig.New(pool)
 	lidarrReqs := lidarrrequests.NewService(pool, lidarrCfg, nil, nil)
-	lidarrQuar := lidarrquarantine.NewService(pool, lidarrCfg, nil)
+	lidarrQuar := lidarrquarantine.NewService(pool, lidarrCfg, nil, "")
 	// tracks.Service has no Lidarr unmonitorer in tests by default; the
 	// admin-tracks tests below override h.tracks via installTracksLidarrStub
 	// when they need a stubbed Lidarr.
@@ -179,6 +179,36 @@ func TestHandleLogin_UnknownUserReturns401(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// A guesser who reaches the account limit is refused with 429 before any
+// password check, so even the right password is turned away until the window
+// passes, and the response says when to come back.
+func TestHandleLogin_ThrottledAfterRepeatedFailures(t *testing.T) {
+	h, pool := testHandlers(t)
+	h.loginGuard = auth.NewLoginGuard()
+	seedUser(t, pool, "alice", "hunter2", false)
+
+	login := func(password string) *httptest.ResponseRecorder {
+		body := strings.NewReader(`{"username":"test-alice","password":"` + password + `"}`)
+		req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/api/auth/login", body)
+		req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		h.handleLogin(w, req)
+		return w
+	}
+	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+		if w := login("wrong"); w.Code != http.StatusUnauthorized {
+			t.Fatalf("attempt %d: status = %d, want 401", i+1, w.Code)
+		}
+	}
+	w := login("hunter2")
+	if w.Code != http.StatusTooManyRequests {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want 429 once the account limit is reached", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w.Header().Get("Retry-After") == "" {
+		t.Error("429 without Retry-After")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestHandleLogin_MalformedBodyReturns400(t *testing.T) {
 	h, _ := testHandlers(t)
 	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/api/auth/login",

internal/api/client_assets.go

@@ -6,19 +6,21 @@ package api
 // /app/client/ at image build time.
 //
 // Both endpoints are authenticated — the bandwidth cost of the APK
-// (~30-60 MB) makes anonymous access an abuse vector. The Flutter
+// (~30-60 MB) makes anonymous access an abuse vector. The client only
-// client's polling only fires after login (banner mounts in the post-
+// polls after login, so this gate is invisible to the actual update flow.
-// login shell), so this gate is invisible to the actual update flow.
 //
 // /api/client/apk additionally rate-limits per user to a single
 // download every 60s. Real install flows fire one download per
 // update; anything tighter is scripted/abusive.
 //
 // Returns 404 gracefully when the APK isn't present (dev environments,
-// pre-CI-wiring); the Flutter client treats 404 as "no update channel
+// pre-CI-wiring); the client treats 404 as "no update channel available."
-// available."
+//
+// (These paragraphs said "the Flutter client" until 2026-09-10. That client
+// was deleted in v2026.08.18 — the Android app is the only one now.)
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
@@ -84,8 +86,36 @@ func clientAPKAllowDownload(userID string, now time.Time) time.Duration {
 	return 0
 }
 
+// clientVersionSidecar is the JSON written beside the bundled APK by
+// release.yml. It carries three values that are deliberately separate:
+//
+//   - Name is a LABEL for people, "YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM" from the commit's
+//     timestamp. Two channels carrying the same code report the same name.
+//   - Code is the ORDERING KEY, minutes since 2020-01-01 at build time, and
+//     is the value Android itself installs by. It answers "may this be
+//     installed over that?" — the name never does.
+//   - Channel is a SIBLING FIELD, never a suffix inside the name.
+//
+// JSON rather than a positional line on purpose. The obvious growth path for
+// the old one-value file was "<name> <code>", which a first-space split
+// silently mangles the moment a third field appears: the code stops parsing,
+// and the reader falls back to name comparison WITHOUT erroring.
+type clientVersionSidecar struct {
+	Name string `json:"name"`
+	// Pointer, not int64: absent must stay distinguishable from zero. An
+	// artifact published before codes were recorded genuinely has no code —
+	// zero would claim it is infinitely old rather than unknown.
+	Code    *int64 `json:"code"`
+	Channel string `json:"channel"`
+}
+
 type clientVersionResponse struct {
-	Version   string `json:"version"`
+	Version string `json:"version"`
+	// omitempty on both: the client must be able to tell "this server does
+	// not report a code" from "this build's code is 0", because those call
+	// for different behaviour on the other end.
+	Code      *int64 `json:"code,omitempty"`
+	Channel   string `json:"channel,omitempty"`
 	APKURL    string `json:"apk_url"`
 	SizeBytes int64  `json:"size_bytes"`
 }
@@ -117,8 +147,25 @@ func (h *handlers) handleClientVersion(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 
+	var sidecar clientVersionSidecar
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(versionBytes, &sidecar); err != nil {
+		// Fail LOUDLY rather than serving a blank version. The failure mode
+		// this avoids is the one that never gets reported: if an unreadable
+		// sidecar produced an empty name, every client would compare against
+		// nothing, conclude it was current, and go quiet — "I cannot read
+		// this" and "there is nothing newer" would be the same answer.
+		writeErrWithLog(w, h.logger, "client_version: sidecar is not valid JSON", err)
+		return
+	}
+	if sidecar.Name == "" {
+		http.Error(w, `{"error":{"code":"bad_client_version","message":"version sidecar has no name"}}`, http.StatusInternalServerError)
+		return
+	}
+
 	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, clientVersionResponse{
-		Version:   strings.TrimSpace(string(versionBytes)),
+		Version:   strings.TrimSpace(sidecar.Name),
+		Code:      sidecar.Code,
+		Channel:   strings.TrimSpace(sidecar.Channel),
 		APKURL:    "/api/client/apk",
 		SizeBytes: stat.Size(),
 	})

internal/api/client_assets_test.go

@@ -77,18 +77,32 @@ func TestClientVersion_404WhenAPKButNoVersion(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestClientVersion_200WithBothFiles(t *testing.T) {
+// writeClientAssets stages an APK plus a raw sidecar body, and returns the
+// APK's size so callers can assert size_bytes without recomputing it.
+func writeClientAssets(t *testing.T, sidecar string) int64 {
+	t.Helper()
 	dir := withClientAPKDir(t)
 	body := []byte("fake apk content")
 	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, clientAPKFilename), body, 0o644); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, clientVersionFile), []byte("v2026.05.10\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, clientVersionFile), []byte(sidecar), 0o644); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	return int64(len(body))
+}
+
+func getClientVersion(t *testing.T) *httptest.ResponseRecorder {
+	t.Helper()
 	h := &handlers{logger: slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil))}
 	rr := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	h.handleClientVersion(rr, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/api/client/version", nil))
+	return rr
+}
+
+func TestClientVersion_200WithBothFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	size := writeClientAssets(t, `{"name":"2026.09.10.1432","code":3523847,"channel":"stable"}`+"\n")
+	rr := getClientVersion(t)
 	if rr.Code != http.StatusOK {
 		t.Fatalf("want 200, got %d (body: %s)", rr.Code, rr.Body.String())
 	}
@@ -96,14 +110,69 @@ func TestClientVersion_200WithBothFiles(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(rr.Body.Bytes(), &resp); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if resp.Version != "v2026.05.10" {
+	if resp.Version != "2026.09.10.1432" {
-		t.Errorf("version: want trimmed v2026.05.10, got %q", resp.Version)
+		t.Errorf("version: want 2026.09.10.1432, got %q", resp.Version)
+	}
+	if resp.Code == nil {
+		t.Fatal("code: want 3523847, got absent — the client decides on this, so absent means it silently falls back to name comparison")
+	}
+	if *resp.Code != 3523847 {
+		t.Errorf("code: want 3523847, got %d", *resp.Code)
+	}
+	if resp.Channel != "stable" {
+		t.Errorf("channel: want stable, got %q", resp.Channel)
 	}
 	if resp.APKURL != "/api/client/apk" {
 		t.Errorf("apk_url: want /api/client/apk, got %q", resp.APKURL)
 	}
-	if resp.SizeBytes != int64(len(body)) {
+	if resp.SizeBytes != size {
-		t.Errorf("size_bytes: want %d, got %d", len(body), resp.SizeBytes)
+		t.Errorf("size_bytes: want %d, got %d", size, resp.SizeBytes)
+	}
+}
+
+// A release published before ordering keys were recorded has a name and
+// genuinely no code. That must arrive as ABSENT, not as 0 — zero would claim
+// the build is infinitely old and offer an update to everyone forever.
+func TestClientVersion_CodeAbsentIsOmittedNotZero(t *testing.T) {
+	writeClientAssets(t, `{"name":"2026.09.09","code":null,"channel":"stable"}`)
+	rr := getClientVersion(t)
+	if rr.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("want 200, got %d (body: %s)", rr.Code, rr.Body.String())
+	}
+	var resp clientVersionResponse
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(rr.Body.Bytes(), &resp); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if resp.Code != nil {
+		t.Errorf("code: want absent, got %d", *resp.Code)
+	}
+	// The wire must omit the key entirely, so a client can distinguish
+	// "this server reports no code" from "this build's code is 0".
+	var raw map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(rr.Body.Bytes(), &raw); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, present := raw["code"]; present {
+		t.Errorf("code key should be omitted entirely, body was %s", rr.Body.String())
+	}
+}
+
+// The failure this guards is the one nobody reports: if an unreadable sidecar
+// produced an empty version, every client would compare against nothing,
+// decide it was current, and go quiet. "I cannot read this" and "there is
+// nothing newer" must not be the same answer.
+func TestClientVersion_MalformedSidecarErrorsRatherThanReportingNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, sidecar := range []string{
+		"2026.09.10.1432",              // the OLD plain-text format
+		`{"name":"x",`,                 // truncated JSON
+		`{"code":123,"channel":"dev"}`, // valid JSON, no name
+		"",
+	} {
+		writeClientAssets(t, sidecar)
+		rr := getClientVersion(t)
+		if rr.Code == http.StatusOK {
+			t.Errorf("sidecar %q: want an error status, got 200 with body %s", sidecar, rr.Body.String())
+		}
 	}
 }
 

internal/api/errors.go

@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ package api
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"log/slog"
+	"math"
 	"net/http"
+	"strconv"
+	"time"
 
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/apierror"
 )
@@ -36,6 +39,17 @@ func writeErr(w http.ResponseWriter, err error) {
 	}})
 }
 
+// writeRateLimited answers 429 with Retry-After in whole seconds, rounded
+// up so a client that honours it never arrives a moment early.
+func writeRateLimited(w http.ResponseWriter, wait time.Duration) {
+	secs := int(math.Ceil(wait.Seconds()))
+	if secs < 1 {
+		secs = 1
+	}
+	w.Header().Set("Retry-After", strconv.Itoa(secs))
+	writeErr(w, apierror.TooManyRequests("rate_limited", "too many attempts; try again later"))
+}
+
 // writeErrWithLog logs the error at Error level and writes the response.
 // Use for 500-class errors where the operator needs the cause in logs.
 func writeErrWithLog(w http.ResponseWriter, logger *slog.Logger, msg string, err error) {

internal/api/file_remove_error.go

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"log/slog"
+	"net/http"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/apierror"
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/library"
+)
+
+// fileRemoveAPIError answers a delete that could not reach the track's file
+// (#3918). Both delete endpoints use it, so the operator gets the same
+// explanation from the admin remove-track action and from quarantine's Delete
+// file.
+//
+// The unwritable case is a 409 rather than a 500 because nothing is broken: the
+// request conflicts with how the library is mounted, and the fix is the
+// operator's. The message names the directory — removal writes to the parent,
+// not the file — and the uid/gid the process runs as, which is the half of a
+// permission problem invisible from the host. Every case says nothing was
+// deleted, because that is exactly what the operator will be worried about.
+func fileRemoveAPIError(err error) (*apierror.Error, bool) {
+	var fre *library.FileRemoveError
+	if !errors.As(err, &fre) {
+		return nil, false
+	}
+	if fre.NotWritable() {
+		return &apierror.Error{
+			Status: http.StatusConflict,
+			Code:   "library_not_writable",
+			Message: fmt.Sprintf(
+				"Minstrel runs as uid %d, gid %d and cannot delete from %s (%s). "+
+					"The library mount must be writable by that user. Nothing was deleted.",
+				fre.UID, fre.GID, fre.Dir(), fre.Reason()),
+			Cause: err,
+		}, true
+	}
+	return &apierror.Error{
+		Status:  http.StatusInternalServerError,
+		Code:    "file_delete_failed",
+		Message: fmt.Sprintf("Could not delete %s (%s). Nothing was deleted.", fre.Path, fre.Reason()),
+		Cause:   err,
+	}, true
+}
+
+// logFileRemoveFailure records a delete that could not reach its file. An
+// unwritable library is an environment fact the operator can fix, so it is a
+// Warn; anything else is a real fault.
+func logFileRemoveFailure(logger *slog.Logger, apiErr *apierror.Error, attrs ...any) {
+	attrs = append(attrs, "code", apiErr.Code, "err", apiErr.Cause)
+	if apiErr.Status == http.StatusConflict {
+		logger.Warn("api: track file could not be deleted", attrs...)
+		return
+	}
+	logger.Error("api: track file could not be deleted", attrs...)
+}

internal/api/file_remove_error_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/fs"
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+	"syscall"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/library"
+)
+
+const removeTestPath = "/music/Moe Shop/WWW (2020)/01 - WWW.mp3"
+
+// removeFailure builds the error a delete service returns when the file would
+// not go, wrapped the way lidarrquarantine.DeleteFile and tracks.RemoveTrack
+// wrap it — the mapping has to see through that.
+func removeFailure(errno syscall.Errno) error {
+	return fmt.Errorf("delete file: %w", &library.FileRemoveError{
+		Path: removeTestPath, UID: 1000, GID: 1000,
+		Err: &fs.PathError{Op: "remove", Path: removeTestPath, Err: errno},
+	})
+}
+
+func TestFileRemoveAPIError(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name       string
+		errno      syscall.Errno
+		wantStatus int
+		wantCode   string
+		wantIn     []string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "read-only mount", errno: syscall.EROFS,
+			wantStatus: http.StatusConflict, wantCode: "library_not_writable",
+			wantIn: []string{"uid 1000, gid 1000", "/music/Moe Shop/WWW (2020)", "read-only file system", "Nothing was deleted"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "permission denied", errno: syscall.EACCES,
+			wantStatus: http.StatusConflict, wantCode: "library_not_writable",
+			wantIn: []string{"permission denied", "Nothing was deleted"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "operation not permitted", errno: syscall.EPERM,
+			wantStatus: http.StatusConflict, wantCode: "library_not_writable",
+			wantIn: []string{"operation not permitted"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "i/o error", errno: syscall.EIO,
+			wantStatus: http.StatusInternalServerError, wantCode: "file_delete_failed",
+			wantIn: []string{removeTestPath, "input/output error", "Nothing was deleted"},
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			apiErr, ok := fileRemoveAPIError(removeFailure(tc.errno))
+			if !ok {
+				t.Fatal("a wrapped *library.FileRemoveError was not recognised")
+			}
+			if apiErr.Status != tc.wantStatus || apiErr.Code != tc.wantCode {
+				t.Fatalf("got %d %s, want %d %s", apiErr.Status, apiErr.Code, tc.wantStatus, tc.wantCode)
+			}
+			for _, want := range tc.wantIn {
+				if !strings.Contains(apiErr.Message, want) {
+					t.Errorf("message %q lacks %q", apiErr.Message, want)
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// The unwritable answer must name the DIRECTORY. Removal needs write access to
+// the parent, so a message naming the file would send the operator to fix the
+// wrong permissions. The directory is a prefix of the file path, which is why a
+// plain "contains the directory" check could never catch that regression.
+func TestFileRemoveAPIError_NotWritableNamesTheDirectoryNotTheFile(t *testing.T) {
+	apiErr, _ := fileRemoveAPIError(removeFailure(syscall.EROFS))
+	if strings.Contains(apiErr.Message, "01 - WWW.mp3") {
+		t.Fatalf("message names the file rather than its directory: %q", apiErr.Message)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFileRemoveAPIError_IgnoresOtherErrors(t *testing.T) {
+	for name, err := range map[string]error{
+		"nil":         nil,
+		"plain error": errors.New("delete track: connection reset"),
+		"path error":  &fs.PathError{Op: "remove", Path: removeTestPath, Err: syscall.EROFS},
+		"not found":   library.ErrTrackNotFound,
+	} {
+		if _, ok := fileRemoveAPIError(err); ok {
+			t.Errorf("%s: mapped as a file-remove failure", name)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/api/library_test.go

@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ func TestRoutesRegisteredInMount(t *testing.T) {
 	r := chi.NewRouter()
 	w := playevents.NewWriter(h.pool, slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil)),
 		30*time.Minute, 0.5, 30000)
-	Mount(r, h.pool, h.logger, w, config.RecommendationConfig{RadioSize: 50, RadioSizeMax: 200, RecentlyPlayedHours: 1}, h.recSettings, h.lidarrCfg, h.lidarrRequests, h.lidarrQuarantine, h.tracks, h.playlists, h.coverart, h.coverSettings, h.tagSettings, h.scanner, h.scanCfg, h.dataDir, nil, eventbus.New(), nil, nil, h.netSettings, nil)
+	Mount(r, h.pool, h.logger, w, config.RecommendationConfig{RadioSize: 50, RadioSizeMax: 200, RecentlyPlayedHours: 1}, h.recSettings, h.lidarrCfg, h.lidarrRequests, h.lidarrQuarantine, h.tracks, h.playlists, h.coverart, h.coverSettings, h.tagSettings, h.scanner, h.scanCfg, h.dataDir, nil, eventbus.New(), nil, nil, h.netSettings, nil, nil)
 
 	paths := []string{
 		"/api/artists",
@@ -484,6 +484,9 @@ func TestRoutesRegisteredInMount(t *testing.T) {
 		// wired.
 		"/api/admin/library/missing",
 		"/api/admin/library/reacquisition",
+		"/api/admin/library/fingerprints",
+		"/api/admin/library/fingerprint-settings",
+		"/api/admin/library/duplicates",
 	}
 	for _, p := range paths {
 		req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, p, nil)

internal/api/radio.go

@@ -87,10 +87,24 @@ func (h *handlers) handleRadio(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	currentVec.DeviceClass = latestDeviceClass(r.Context(), q, user.ID, h.logger)
 
 	exclude := parseExcludeParam(r.URL.Query().Get("exclude"))
-	limits := recommendation.DefaultCandidateSourceLimits()
+	// Size the pool to the library (#3880). A fixed ~170 candidates samples a
+	// shrinking fraction of a growing collection, which is what made the
+	// recommendations feel less relevant as the library grew. Degrades to the
+	// base limits if the count is unavailable — never fails the request over a
+	// sizing hint.
+	librarySize := h.librarySize.Get(r.Context(), func(ctx context.Context) (int64, error) {
+		return recommendation.CountLibraryTracks(ctx, q)
+	})
+	limits := recommendation.ScaleForLibrary(
+		recommendation.DefaultCandidateSourceLimits(), librarySize,
+	)
 	candidates, err := recommendation.LoadCandidatesFromSimilarity(
 		r.Context(), q, user.ID, seedID,
 		h.recCfg.RecentlyPlayedHours, currentVec, exclude, limits,
+		// A fresh seed per request (#3889): radio is a new session each time
+		// and SHOULD draw differently. The system mixes are the surfaces that
+		// promise repeatability; this is not one of them.
+		strconv.FormatInt(time.Now().UnixNano(), 36),
 	)
 	if err != nil {
 		h.logger.Warn("api: radio: similarity-pool failed; falling back to whole-library", "err", err)
@@ -108,7 +122,15 @@ func (h *handlers) handleRadio(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	// Scoring weights come from the DB-backed tuning lab (#1250) —
 	// read per request so an admin change takes effect live.
 	weights := h.recSettings.Weights(recsettings.ScopeRadio)
-	picks := recommendation.Shuffle(candidates, weights, time.Now().UTC(), h.rng, limit-1)
+	// Diversity caps (#3882). Radio had none while every sibling surface did,
+	// which is how a whole session could come back from one artist. Scaled to
+	// the requested length so a 20-track radio and a 200-track one are capped
+	// alike; Shuffle relaxes them rather than returning a short radio.
+	//
+	// limit-1 because the seed track occupies the first slot and is prepended
+	// below — the caps govern the tracks that FOLLOW it.
+	caps := recommendation.RadioDiversityCaps(limit - 1)
+	picks := recommendation.Shuffle(candidates, weights, time.Now().UTC(), h.rng, limit-1, caps)
 
 	out := make([]TrackRef, 0, len(picks)+1)
 	out = append(out, trackRefFrom(track, album.Title, artist.Name))

internal/apierror/apierror.go

@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ func Unauthorized(code, message string) *Error {
 	return &Error{Status: 401, Code: code, Message: message}
 }
 
+func TooManyRequests(code, message string) *Error {
+	return &Error{Status: 429, Code: code, Message: message}
+}
+
 func Internal(cause error) *Error {
 	return &Error{Status: 500, Code: "server_error", Message: "internal server error", Cause: cause}
 }

internal/audit/audit.go

@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ const (
 	// exercised.
 	ActionSessionRevoke       Action = "session_revoke"
 	ActionSessionRevokeOthers Action = "session_revoke_others"
+
+	// Duplicate merge (#3911). Irreversible: a copy's file and row are removed
+	// and its history moved onto the copy kept. The metadata names both, so the
+	// log can answer "where did that file go" long after the report is gone.
+	ActionDuplicateMerge Action = "duplicate_merge"
 )
 
 // Write inserts one audit_log row. metadata is marshaled as JSON;

internal/audit/audit_test.go

@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ func TestWrite_AllActionConstantsArePersisted(t *testing.T) {
 		audit.ActionTokenRegenerate,
 		audit.ActionForgotPasswordInit,
 		audit.ActionPasswordResetByEmail,
+		audit.ActionDuplicateMerge,
 	}
 	for _, a := range actions {
 		if err := audit.Write(context.Background(), pool, nilUUID, nilUUID, a, nil); err != nil {

internal/auth/ratelimit.go

@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+package auth
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt"
+)
+
+// AttemptLimiter caps how many attempts a key may make inside a fixed
+// window. It is the throttle in front of every password-shaped check:
+// native login, register, forgot/reset password and Subsonic /rest auth.
+//
+// In memory on purpose. Minstrel is a single process, the counts only need
+// to outlive a guessing run rather than a restart, and a table would put a
+// write on every failed login. Each key costs one small struct, and expired
+// keys are swept as the map grows, so a spray across many addresses cannot
+// hold memory past one window.
+type AttemptLimiter struct {
+	max    int
+	window time.Duration
+	now    func() time.Time
+
+	mu        sync.Mutex
+	buckets   map[string]*attemptBucket
+	nextSweep int
+}
+
+type attemptBucket struct {
+	count int
+	start time.Time
+}
+
+// sweepFloor is the map size below which expired keys are left in place;
+// past it, a sweep runs whenever the map doubles from its last swept size.
+const sweepFloor = 1024
+
+// NewAttemptLimiter returns a limiter allowing max attempts per key per
+// window.
+func NewAttemptLimiter(max int, window time.Duration) *AttemptLimiter {
+	return &AttemptLimiter{
+		max:       max,
+		window:    window,
+		now:       time.Now,
+		buckets:   map[string]*attemptBucket{},
+		nextSweep: sweepFloor,
+	}
+}
+
+// Blocked reports whether key has used its attempts for the current window,
+// and if so how long until the window resets. It records nothing, so a check
+// can run before the expensive work and the outcome be recorded after.
+func (l *AttemptLimiter) Blocked(key string) (bool, time.Duration) {
+	if l == nil || key == "" {
+		return false, 0
+	}
+	l.mu.Lock()
+	defer l.mu.Unlock()
+	b, ok := l.buckets[key]
+	if !ok {
+		return false, 0
+	}
+	now := l.now()
+	if now.Sub(b.start) >= l.window {
+		delete(l.buckets, key)
+		return false, 0
+	}
+	if b.count < l.max {
+		return false, 0
+	}
+	return true, b.start.Add(l.window).Sub(now)
+}
+
+// Record counts one attempt against key.
+func (l *AttemptLimiter) Record(key string) {
+	if l == nil || key == "" {
+		return
+	}
+	l.mu.Lock()
+	defer l.mu.Unlock()
+	now := l.now()
+	b, ok := l.buckets[key]
+	if !ok || now.Sub(b.start) >= l.window {
+		l.buckets[key] = &attemptBucket{count: 1, start: now}
+		l.maybeSweep(now)
+		return
+	}
+	b.count++
+}
+
+// Reset forgets key, as after a successful login: the user who finally got
+// their password right should not carry their typos into the next window.
+func (l *AttemptLimiter) Reset(key string) {
+	if l == nil || key == "" {
+		return
+	}
+	l.mu.Lock()
+	defer l.mu.Unlock()
+	delete(l.buckets, key)
+}
+
+// maybeSweep drops expired buckets once the map has doubled since the last
+// sweep. Callers hold l.mu.
+func (l *AttemptLimiter) maybeSweep(now time.Time) {
+	if len(l.buckets) < l.nextSweep {
+		return
+	}
+	for k, b := range l.buckets {
+		if now.Sub(b.start) >= l.window {
+			delete(l.buckets, k)
+		}
+	}
+	l.nextSweep = max(sweepFloor, 2*len(l.buckets))
+}
+
+// LoginGuard pairs a per-account and a per-address limiter, the shape every
+// password check uses. The account limit stops a slow guess at one user from
+// many addresses; the address limit stops one address spraying many users.
+// Only failures are recorded, so a user who signs in correctly is never
+// counted at all.
+type LoginGuard struct {
+	account *AttemptLimiter
+	address *AttemptLimiter
+}
+
+// Login limits: 10 failures per account and 50 per address per 15 minutes,
+// the same numbers ThoughtSync settled on. Generous enough that a user
+// fumbling a password manager never meets them, tight enough that an online
+// guess against bcrypt gets ~1,000 tries a day per account.
+const (
+	loginWindow     = 15 * time.Minute
+	loginAccountMax = 10
+	loginAddressMax = 50
+)
+
+// NewLoginGuard returns a guard with the default login limits.
+func NewLoginGuard() *LoginGuard {
+	return &LoginGuard{
+		account: NewAttemptLimiter(loginAccountMax, loginWindow),
+		address: NewAttemptLimiter(loginAddressMax, loginWindow),
+	}
+}
+
+// Blocked reports whether either the account or the address is over its
+// limit, with the longer of the two waits. Check it BEFORE verifying the
+// password, so a blocked guess costs no bcrypt.
+func (g *LoginGuard) Blocked(account, address string) (bool, time.Duration) {
+	if g == nil {
+		return false, 0
+	}
+	aBlocked, aWait := g.account.Blocked(accountKey(account))
+	ipBlocked, ipWait := g.address.Blocked(address)
+	return aBlocked || ipBlocked, max(aWait, ipWait)
+}
+
+// Fail records a failed attempt against both the account and the address.
+// An unknown username counts against its name all the same, so the limit
+// gives away nothing about which accounts exist.
+func (g *LoginGuard) Fail(account, address string) {
+	if g == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	g.account.Record(accountKey(account))
+	g.address.Record(address)
+}
+
+// Succeed clears the account's failures. The address keeps its count: one
+// address that guessed fifty accounts and got one right is still spraying.
+func (g *LoginGuard) Succeed(account string) {
+	if g == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	g.account.Reset(accountKey(account))
+}
+
+// accountKey folds case so "Admin" and "admin" share one budget. Usernames
+// are compared exactly by the lookup, but the guesser shouldn't get a fresh
+// allowance per capitalisation.
+func accountKey(account string) string {
+	return strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(account))
+}
+
+var (
+	dummyHashOnce sync.Once
+	dummyHash     []byte
+)
+
+// DummyVerify spends the same bcrypt time a real password check would, for
+// the path where the username doesn't exist. Without it, an unknown user
+// answers in microseconds and a known one in ~50ms, and the uniform error
+// message hides nothing.
+func DummyVerify(plaintext string) {
+	dummyHashOnce.Do(func() {
+		// What the hash is of doesn't matter — no account carries it. Its
+		// cost does: DefaultCost, the same as every stored password.
+		h, err := bcrypt.GenerateFromPassword([]byte("minstrel-dummy-password"), bcrypt.DefaultCost)
+		if err == nil {
+			dummyHash = h
+		}
+	})
+	if dummyHash != nil {
+		_ = bcrypt.CompareHashAndPassword(dummyHash, []byte(plaintext))
+	}
+}

internal/auth/ratelimit_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+package auth
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// fakeClock lets a test step through a window without sleeping.
+type fakeClock struct{ t time.Time }
+
+func (c *fakeClock) now() time.Time { return c.t }
+
+func newTestLimiter(max int, window time.Duration) (*AttemptLimiter, *fakeClock) {
+	c := &fakeClock{t: time.Date(2026, 10, 6, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)}
+	l := NewAttemptLimiter(max, window)
+	l.now = c.now
+	return l, c
+}
+
+func TestAttemptLimiter_BlocksAtMaxAndReportsWait(t *testing.T) {
+	l, c := newTestLimiter(3, 15*time.Minute)
+	for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
+		if blocked, _ := l.Blocked("k"); blocked {
+			t.Fatalf("blocked after %d attempts, want allowed below max", i)
+		}
+		l.Record("k")
+	}
+	c.t = c.t.Add(5 * time.Minute)
+	blocked, wait := l.Blocked("k")
+	if !blocked {
+		t.Fatal("not blocked after max attempts")
+	}
+	if wait != 10*time.Minute {
+		t.Errorf("wait = %v, want the 10m left in the window", wait)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAttemptLimiter_WindowExpiryClears(t *testing.T) {
+	l, c := newTestLimiter(1, time.Minute)
+	l.Record("k")
+	if blocked, _ := l.Blocked("k"); !blocked {
+		t.Fatal("want blocked inside the window")
+	}
+	c.t = c.t.Add(time.Minute)
+	if blocked, _ := l.Blocked("k"); blocked {
+		t.Fatal("still blocked once the window has passed")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAttemptLimiter_KeysAreIndependentAndResetClears(t *testing.T) {
+	l, _ := newTestLimiter(1, time.Minute)
+	l.Record("a")
+	if blocked, _ := l.Blocked("b"); blocked {
+		t.Fatal("one key's attempts blocked another")
+	}
+	l.Reset("a")
+	if blocked, _ := l.Blocked("a"); blocked {
+		t.Fatal("Reset did not clear the key")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAttemptLimiter_SweepDropsExpiredKeys(t *testing.T) {
+	l, c := newTestLimiter(5, time.Minute)
+	// One short of the floor: no sweep yet, however stale these become.
+	for i := 0; i < sweepFloor-1; i++ {
+		l.Record("k" + time.Duration(i).String())
+	}
+	c.t = c.t.Add(2 * time.Minute)
+	l.Record("fresh") // reaches the floor and triggers a sweep
+	if n := len(l.buckets); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("buckets after sweep = %d, want only the fresh key", n)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAttemptLimiter_NilAndEmptyKeyAreNoOps(t *testing.T) {
+	var l *AttemptLimiter
+	l.Record("k")
+	if blocked, _ := l.Blocked("k"); blocked {
+		t.Error("nil limiter blocked")
+	}
+	real, _ := newTestLimiter(1, time.Minute)
+	real.Record("")
+	if blocked, _ := real.Blocked(""); blocked {
+		t.Error("empty key was counted")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoginGuard_AccountLimitSpansAddressesAndFoldsCase(t *testing.T) {
+	g := NewLoginGuard()
+	for i := 0; i < loginAccountMax; i++ {
+		g.Fail("Alice", "10.0.0."+string(rune('0'+i%10)))
+	}
+	if blocked, _ := g.Blocked("alice", "192.0.2.1"); !blocked {
+		t.Fatal("account limit should hold from a fresh address and any capitalisation")
+	}
+	g.Succeed("ALICE")
+	if blocked, _ := g.Blocked("alice", "192.0.2.1"); blocked {
+		t.Fatal("Succeed should clear the account's failures")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoginGuard_AddressLimitSpansAccounts(t *testing.T) {
+	g := NewLoginGuard()
+	for i := 0; i < loginAddressMax; i++ {
+		g.Fail("user"+time.Duration(i).String(), "203.0.113.9")
+	}
+	if blocked, _ := g.Blocked("someone-new", "203.0.113.9"); !blocked {
+		t.Fatal("address that sprayed many accounts should be blocked")
+	}
+	g.Succeed("someone-new")
+	if blocked, _ := g.Blocked("someone-new", "203.0.113.9"); !blocked {
+		t.Fatal("a success must not clear the address count")
+	}
+}

internal/db/dbq/duplicates.sql.go

@@ -0,0 +1,457 @@
+// Code generated by sqlc. DO NOT EDIT.
+// versions:
+//   sqlc v1.31.1
+// source: duplicates.sql
+
+package dbq
+
+import (
+	"context"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+)
+
+const addDuplicateGroupMember = `-- name: AddDuplicateGroupMember :exec
+INSERT INTO duplicate_group_members (group_id, track_id)
+VALUES ($1, $2)
+ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING
+`
+
+type AddDuplicateGroupMemberParams struct {
+	GroupID pgtype.UUID
+	TrackID pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) AddDuplicateGroupMember(ctx context.Context, arg AddDuplicateGroupMemberParams) error {
+	_, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, addDuplicateGroupMember, arg.GroupID, arg.TrackID)
+	return err
+}
+
+const countPendingDuplicateGroups = `-- name: CountPendingDuplicateGroups :one
+SELECT count(*)::bigint
+  FROM duplicate_groups g
+ WHERE g.status = 'pending'
+   AND (SELECT count(*) FROM duplicate_group_members m WHERE m.group_id = g.id) >= 2
+`
+
+// Proposals awaiting review. A group left with one member — its other tracks
+// deleted since the sweep — is no proposal at all and is not counted; the next
+// sweep retires it.
+func (q *Queries) CountPendingDuplicateGroups(ctx context.Context) (int64, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, countPendingDuplicateGroups)
+	var column_1 int64
+	err := row.Scan(&column_1)
+	return column_1, err
+}
+
+const deleteStalePendingDuplicateGroups = `-- name: DeleteStalePendingDuplicateGroups :execrows
+DELETE FROM duplicate_groups g
+ WHERE g.status = 'pending'
+   AND g.last_seen_sweep_id IS DISTINCT FROM $1
+   AND (g.last_seen_sweep_id IS NULL
+        OR (SELECT s.started_at FROM duplicate_sweeps s WHERE s.id = g.last_seen_sweep_id)
+           < (SELECT s.started_at FROM duplicate_sweeps s WHERE s.id = $1))
+`
+
+// A pending proposal this sweep did not find again no longer describes the
+// library: a member was re-fingerprinted, merged away or went missing. Dismissed
+// groups are kept regardless — they are the memory of a decision.
+//
+// Only proposals last confirmed by an EARLIER sweep go. Should two sweeps ever
+// overlap (a manual trigger racing the worker), neither may delete what the other
+// has just found.
+func (q *Queries) DeleteStalePendingDuplicateGroups(ctx context.Context, sweepID pgtype.UUID) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, deleteStalePendingDuplicateGroups, sweepID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+const dismissDuplicateGroup = `-- name: DismissDuplicateGroup :execrows
+UPDATE duplicate_groups
+   SET status = 'dismissed', resolved_at = now()
+ WHERE id = $1 AND status = 'pending'
+`
+
+// "These are not duplicates." Only a pending group can be dismissed; zero rows
+// means it was already resolved or no longer exists.
+func (q *Queries) DismissDuplicateGroup(ctx context.Context, id pgtype.UUID) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, dismissDuplicateGroup, id)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+const finishDuplicateSweep = `-- name: FinishDuplicateSweep :exec
+UPDATE duplicate_sweeps
+   SET finished_at       = now(),
+       candidates        = $1,
+       groups_found      = $2,
+       oversize_clusters = $3,
+       error_message     = NULLIF($4::text, '')
+ WHERE id = $5
+`
+
+type FinishDuplicateSweepParams struct {
+	Candidates       *int32
+	GroupsFound      *int32
+	OversizeClusters *int32
+	ErrorMessage     string
+	ID               pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) FinishDuplicateSweep(ctx context.Context, arg FinishDuplicateSweepParams) error {
+	_, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, finishDuplicateSweep,
+		arg.Candidates,
+		arg.GroupsFound,
+		arg.OversizeClusters,
+		arg.ErrorMessage,
+		arg.ID,
+	)
+	return err
+}
+
+const getInFlightDuplicateSweep = `-- name: GetInFlightDuplicateSweep :one
+SELECT id, started_at
+  FROM duplicate_sweeps
+ WHERE finished_at IS NULL
+ ORDER BY started_at DESC
+ LIMIT 1
+`
+
+type GetInFlightDuplicateSweepRow struct {
+	ID        pgtype.UUID
+	StartedAt pgtype.Timestamptz
+}
+
+// The guard against two sweeps at once: "in flight" is finished_at IS NULL.
+func (q *Queries) GetInFlightDuplicateSweep(ctx context.Context) (GetInFlightDuplicateSweepRow, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, getInFlightDuplicateSweep)
+	var i GetInFlightDuplicateSweepRow
+	err := row.Scan(&i.ID, &i.StartedAt)
+	return i, err
+}
+
+const getLatestDuplicateSweep = `-- name: GetLatestDuplicateSweep :one
+SELECT id, started_at, finished_at, candidates, groups_found, oversize_clusters, error_message
+  FROM duplicate_sweeps
+ ORDER BY started_at DESC
+ LIMIT 1
+`
+
+func (q *Queries) GetLatestDuplicateSweep(ctx context.Context) (DuplicateSweep, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, getLatestDuplicateSweep)
+	var i DuplicateSweep
+	err := row.Scan(
+		&i.ID,
+		&i.StartedAt,
+		&i.FinishedAt,
+		&i.Candidates,
+		&i.GroupsFound,
+		&i.OversizeClusters,
+		&i.ErrorMessage,
+	)
+	return i, err
+}
+
+const getLatestFingerprintComputedAt = `-- name: GetLatestFingerprintComputedAt :one
+SELECT max(computed_at)::timestamptz AS latest FROM track_fingerprints
+`
+
+// Whether a sweep has anything new to look at: fingerprints written since the
+// last sweep started.
+func (q *Queries) GetLatestFingerprintComputedAt(ctx context.Context) (pgtype.Timestamptz, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, getLatestFingerprintComputedAt)
+	var latest pgtype.Timestamptz
+	err := row.Scan(&latest)
+	return latest, err
+}
+
+const listDismissedDuplicateMemberSets = `-- name: ListDismissedDuplicateMemberSets :many
+SELECT g.id, array_agg(m.track_id ORDER BY m.track_id)::uuid[] AS track_ids
+  FROM duplicate_groups g
+  JOIN duplicate_group_members m ON m.group_id = g.id
+ WHERE g.status = 'dismissed'
+ GROUP BY g.id
+`
+
+type ListDismissedDuplicateMemberSetsRow struct {
+	ID       pgtype.UUID
+	TrackIds []pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// What the operator has already said are not duplicates. A new proposal whose
+// every member sat together in one of these is not proposed again.
+func (q *Queries) ListDismissedDuplicateMemberSets(ctx context.Context) ([]ListDismissedDuplicateMemberSetsRow, error) {
+	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, listDismissedDuplicateMemberSets)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []ListDismissedDuplicateMemberSetsRow
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var i ListDismissedDuplicateMemberSetsRow
+		if err := rows.Scan(&i.ID, &i.TrackIds); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, i)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
+const listDuplicateCandidates = `-- name: ListDuplicateCandidates :many
+SELECT t.id, t.duration_ms, f.audio_stream_sha256, f.chromaprint
+  FROM tracks t
+  JOIN track_fingerprints f ON f.track_id = t.id
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NULL
+   AND f.fingerprint_version >= $1
+   AND f.chromaprint IS NOT NULL
+   -- Only chromaprints taken at the current length: prints at two lengths are not
+   -- comparable, and after a length change the backfill is still re-deriving the
+   -- rest (#3913).
+   AND f.chromaprint_length_sec = $2
+   AND (t.duration_ms, t.id) > ($3::integer, $4::uuid)
+ ORDER BY t.duration_ms, t.id
+ LIMIT $5
+`
+
+type ListDuplicateCandidatesParams struct {
+	CurrentVersion       int16
+	ChromaprintLengthSec int32
+	AfterDurationMs      int32
+	AfterID              pgtype.UUID
+	PageLimit            int32
+}
+
+type ListDuplicateCandidatesRow struct {
+	ID                pgtype.UUID
+	DurationMs        int32
+	AudioStreamSha256 []byte
+	Chromaprint       []int32
+}
+
+// The acoustic tier's input, one page at a time in (duration_ms, id) order so the
+// sweep holds only a sliding window of durations. Tracks without a chromaprint
+// cannot be compared acoustically and are left out; any exact duplicates among
+// them come from ListExactDuplicateHashes.
+func (q *Queries) ListDuplicateCandidates(ctx context.Context, arg ListDuplicateCandidatesParams) ([]ListDuplicateCandidatesRow, error) {
+	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, listDuplicateCandidates,
+		arg.CurrentVersion,
+		arg.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		arg.AfterDurationMs,
+		arg.AfterID,
+		arg.PageLimit,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []ListDuplicateCandidatesRow
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var i ListDuplicateCandidatesRow
+		if err := rows.Scan(
+			&i.ID,
+			&i.DurationMs,
+			&i.AudioStreamSha256,
+			&i.Chromaprint,
+		); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, i)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
+const listExactDuplicateHashes = `-- name: ListExactDuplicateHashes :many
+SELECT f.audio_stream_sha256,
+       array_agg(t.id ORDER BY t.id)::uuid[] AS track_ids
+  FROM track_fingerprints f
+  JOIN tracks t ON t.id = f.track_id
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NULL
+   AND f.fingerprint_version >= $1
+   AND f.audio_stream_sha256 IS NOT NULL
+ GROUP BY f.audio_stream_sha256
+HAVING count(*) > 1
+`
+
+type ListExactDuplicateHashesRow struct {
+	AudioStreamSha256 []byte
+	TrackIds          []pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// The exact tier, library-wide in one pass: identical encoded audio shared by
+// more than one present track.
+func (q *Queries) ListExactDuplicateHashes(ctx context.Context, currentVersion int16) ([]ListExactDuplicateHashesRow, error) {
+	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, listExactDuplicateHashes, currentVersion)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []ListExactDuplicateHashesRow
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var i ListExactDuplicateHashesRow
+		if err := rows.Scan(&i.AudioStreamSha256, &i.TrackIds); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, i)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
+const listPendingDuplicateGroupMembers = `-- name: ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembers :many
+WITH page AS (
+    SELECT g.id, g.tier, g.worst_bit_error_rate, g.detected_at
+      FROM duplicate_groups g
+     WHERE g.status = 'pending'
+       AND (SELECT count(*) FROM duplicate_group_members m WHERE m.group_id = g.id) >= 2
+     ORDER BY g.detected_at DESC, g.id
+     LIMIT $2 OFFSET $1
+)
+SELECT p.id                  AS group_id,
+       p.tier,
+       p.worst_bit_error_rate,
+       p.detected_at,
+       t.id                  AS track_id,
+       t.title,
+       artists.name          AS artist_name,
+       albums.id             AS album_id,
+       albums.title          AS album_title,
+       t.file_path,
+       t.file_format,
+       t.file_size,
+       t.duration_ms,
+       t.added_at,
+       (SELECT count(*) FROM general_likes l WHERE l.track_id = t.id)::bigint AS like_count,
+       (SELECT count(*) FROM play_events e WHERE e.track_id = t.id)::bigint   AS play_count
+  FROM page p
+  JOIN duplicate_group_members m ON m.group_id = p.id
+  JOIN tracks t  ON t.id = m.track_id
+  JOIN albums    ON albums.id  = t.album_id
+  JOIN artists   ON artists.id = t.artist_id
+ ORDER BY p.detected_at DESC, p.id, t.id
+`
+
+type ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembersParams struct {
+	PageOffset int32
+	PageLimit  int32
+}
+
+type ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembersRow struct {
+	GroupID           pgtype.UUID
+	Tier              string
+	WorstBitErrorRate *float32
+	DetectedAt        pgtype.Timestamptz
+	TrackID           pgtype.UUID
+	Title             string
+	ArtistName        string
+	AlbumID           pgtype.UUID
+	AlbumTitle        string
+	FilePath          string
+	FileFormat        string
+	FileSize          int64
+	DurationMs        int32
+	AddedAt           pgtype.Timestamptz
+	LikeCount         int64
+	PlayCount         int64
+}
+
+// One page of proposals, newest first, flattened to one row per member so the
+// handler folds them without a query per group. What each copy carries — likes
+// and plays from every user — is here because it is what the operator weighs
+// when deciding which copy to keep.
+func (q *Queries) ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembers(ctx context.Context, arg ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembersParams) ([]ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembersRow, error) {
+	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, listPendingDuplicateGroupMembers, arg.PageOffset, arg.PageLimit)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembersRow
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var i ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembersRow
+		if err := rows.Scan(
+			&i.GroupID,
+			&i.Tier,
+			&i.WorstBitErrorRate,
+			&i.DetectedAt,
+			&i.TrackID,
+			&i.Title,
+			&i.ArtistName,
+			&i.AlbumID,
+			&i.AlbumTitle,
+			&i.FilePath,
+			&i.FileFormat,
+			&i.FileSize,
+			&i.DurationMs,
+			&i.AddedAt,
+			&i.LikeCount,
+			&i.PlayCount,
+		); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, i)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
+const startDuplicateSweep = `-- name: StartDuplicateSweep :one
+INSERT INTO duplicate_sweeps DEFAULT VALUES RETURNING id, started_at
+`
+
+type StartDuplicateSweepRow struct {
+	ID        pgtype.UUID
+	StartedAt pgtype.Timestamptz
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) StartDuplicateSweep(ctx context.Context) (StartDuplicateSweepRow, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, startDuplicateSweep)
+	var i StartDuplicateSweepRow
+	err := row.Scan(&i.ID, &i.StartedAt)
+	return i, err
+}
+
+const upsertDuplicateGroup = `-- name: UpsertDuplicateGroup :one
+INSERT INTO duplicate_groups (member_key, tier, worst_bit_error_rate, last_seen_sweep_id)
+VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4)
+ON CONFLICT (member_key) DO UPDATE
+   SET tier                 = EXCLUDED.tier,
+       worst_bit_error_rate = EXCLUDED.worst_bit_error_rate,
+       last_seen_sweep_id   = EXCLUDED.last_seen_sweep_id
+ WHERE duplicate_groups.status = 'pending'
+RETURNING id
+`
+
+type UpsertDuplicateGroupParams struct {
+	MemberKey         string
+	Tier              string
+	WorstBitErrorRate *float32
+	SweepID           pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// Proposes a group, or refreshes one already pending. A group already dismissed
+// or merged is left exactly as it is: the WHERE on the update makes the conflict
+// a no-op, and the caller sees no row.
+func (q *Queries) UpsertDuplicateGroup(ctx context.Context, arg UpsertDuplicateGroupParams) (pgtype.UUID, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, upsertDuplicateGroup,
+		arg.MemberKey,
+		arg.Tier,
+		arg.WorstBitErrorRate,
+		arg.SweepID,
+	)
+	var id pgtype.UUID
+	err := row.Scan(&id)
+	return id, err
+}

internal/db/dbq/fingerprint_settings.sql.go

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+// Code generated by sqlc. DO NOT EDIT.
+// versions:
+//   sqlc v1.31.1
+// source: fingerprint_settings.sql
+
+package dbq
+
+import (
+	"context"
+)
+
+const getFingerprintSettings = `-- name: GetFingerprintSettings :one
+SELECT id, enabled, chromaprint_length_sec, acoustic_max_bit_error_rate, backfill_concurrency, sweep_interval_hours, updated_at FROM fingerprint_settings WHERE id = true
+`
+
+func (q *Queries) GetFingerprintSettings(ctx context.Context) (FingerprintSetting, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, getFingerprintSettings)
+	var i FingerprintSetting
+	err := row.Scan(
+		&i.ID,
+		&i.Enabled,
+		&i.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		&i.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+		&i.BackfillConcurrency,
+		&i.SweepIntervalHours,
+		&i.UpdatedAt,
+	)
+	return i, err
+}
+
+const updateFingerprintSettings = `-- name: UpdateFingerprintSettings :one
+UPDATE fingerprint_settings
+   SET enabled                     = $1,
+       chromaprint_length_sec      = $2,
+       acoustic_max_bit_error_rate = $3,
+       backfill_concurrency        = $4,
+       sweep_interval_hours        = $5,
+       updated_at                  = now()
+ WHERE id = true
+RETURNING id, enabled, chromaprint_length_sec, acoustic_max_bit_error_rate, backfill_concurrency, sweep_interval_hours, updated_at
+`
+
+type UpdateFingerprintSettingsParams struct {
+	Enabled                 bool
+	ChromaprintLengthSec    int32
+	AcousticMaxBitErrorRate float64
+	BackfillConcurrency     int32
+	SweepIntervalHours      int32
+}
+
+// Whole-row write from the admin card; migration 0061's CHECKs are the backstop
+// behind the service's own validation.
+func (q *Queries) UpdateFingerprintSettings(ctx context.Context, arg UpdateFingerprintSettingsParams) (FingerprintSetting, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, updateFingerprintSettings,
+		arg.Enabled,
+		arg.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		arg.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+		arg.BackfillConcurrency,
+		arg.SweepIntervalHours,
+	)
+	var i FingerprintSetting
+	err := row.Scan(
+		&i.ID,
+		&i.Enabled,
+		&i.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		&i.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+		&i.BackfillConcurrency,
+		&i.SweepIntervalHours,
+		&i.UpdatedAt,
+	)
+	return i, err
+}

internal/db/dbq/fingerprints.sql.go

@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+// Code generated by sqlc. DO NOT EDIT.
+// versions:
+//   sqlc v1.31.1
+// source: fingerprints.sql
+
+package dbq
+
+import (
+	"context"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+)
+
+const deleteTrackFingerprint = `-- name: DeleteTrackFingerprint :exec
+DELETE FROM track_fingerprints WHERE track_id = $1
+`
+
+// A file changed but could not be fingerprinted, for a reason unrelated to the
+// file. The stored row describes the OLD bytes, so it goes and the backfill
+// re-derives it — nothing may keep trusting a stale identity.
+func (q *Queries) DeleteTrackFingerprint(ctx context.Context, trackID pgtype.UUID) error {
+	_, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, deleteTrackFingerprint, trackID)
+	return err
+}
+
+const getFingerprintCoverage = `-- name: GetFingerprintCoverage :one
+SELECT count(*)::bigint AS total,
+       count(*) FILTER (
+           WHERE f.fingerprint_version >= $1
+             AND f.chromaprint_length_sec = $2
+             AND f.audio_stream_sha256 IS NOT NULL AND f.chromaprint IS NOT NULL
+       )::bigint AS fingerprinted,
+       count(*) FILTER (
+           WHERE f.fingerprint_version >= $1
+             AND f.chromaprint_length_sec = $2
+             AND (f.audio_stream_sha256 IS NULL OR f.chromaprint IS NULL)
+       )::bigint AS rejected,
+       count(*) FILTER (
+           WHERE f.track_id IS NULL
+              OR f.fingerprint_version < $1
+              OR f.chromaprint_length_sec <> $2
+       )::bigint AS pending
+  FROM tracks t
+  LEFT JOIN track_fingerprints f ON f.track_id = t.id
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NULL
+`
+
+type GetFingerprintCoverageParams struct {
+	CurrentVersion       int16
+	ChromaprintLengthSec int32
+}
+
+type GetFingerprintCoverageRow struct {
+	Total         int64
+	Fingerprinted int64
+	Rejected      int64
+	Pending       int64
+}
+
+// The admin gauge for the backfill. fingerprinted + rejected + pending = total.
+// "Current" means derived by the current method AT the current length: a row at
+// another length is pending, because the backfill will re-derive it. rejected is
+// a current row with a NULL half: a tool ran and refused the file, which is
+// settled rather than waiting. Missing tracks are excluded, or the gauge could
+// never reach the end.
+func (q *Queries) GetFingerprintCoverage(ctx context.Context, arg GetFingerprintCoverageParams) (GetFingerprintCoverageRow, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, getFingerprintCoverage, arg.CurrentVersion, arg.ChromaprintLengthSec)
+	var i GetFingerprintCoverageRow
+	err := row.Scan(
+		&i.Total,
+		&i.Fingerprinted,
+		&i.Rejected,
+		&i.Pending,
+	)
+	return i, err
+}
+
+const listTracksNeedingFingerprint = `-- name: ListTracksNeedingFingerprint :many
+SELECT t.id, t.file_path
+  FROM tracks t
+  LEFT JOIN track_fingerprints f ON f.track_id = t.id
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NULL
+   -- A row taken at another length is as stale as one from an older method:
+   -- chromaprints at two lengths cannot be compared (#3913).
+   AND (f.track_id IS NULL
+        OR f.fingerprint_version < $1
+        OR f.chromaprint_length_sec <> $2)
+   AND t.id > $3
+ ORDER BY t.id
+ LIMIT $4
+`
+
+type ListTracksNeedingFingerprintParams struct {
+	CurrentVersion       int16
+	ChromaprintLengthSec int32
+	AfterID              pgtype.UUID
+	BatchLimit           int32
+}
+
+type ListTracksNeedingFingerprintRow struct {
+	ID       pgtype.UUID
+	FilePath string
+}
+
+// The backfill's work queue (#3908): tracks with no fingerprint, or one derived
+// by an older method. Keyset-paged on id so a pass visits each track at most
+// once. That cursor is load-bearing: an inconclusive attempt writes no row, so
+// without it a file that keeps timing out would be listed again straight away
+// and retried in a tight loop. Missing tracks are skipped — there is no file to
+// read.
+func (q *Queries) ListTracksNeedingFingerprint(ctx context.Context, arg ListTracksNeedingFingerprintParams) ([]ListTracksNeedingFingerprintRow, error) {
+	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, listTracksNeedingFingerprint,
+		arg.CurrentVersion,
+		arg.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		arg.AfterID,
+		arg.BatchLimit,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []ListTracksNeedingFingerprintRow
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var i ListTracksNeedingFingerprintRow
+		if err := rows.Scan(&i.ID, &i.FilePath); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, i)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
+const upsertTrackFingerprint = `-- name: UpsertTrackFingerprint :exec
+INSERT INTO track_fingerprints (
+    track_id, audio_stream_sha256, chromaprint, fingerprint_version, chromaprint_length_sec
+) VALUES (
+    $1, $2, $3,
+    $4, $5
+)
+ON CONFLICT (track_id) DO UPDATE SET
+    audio_stream_sha256    = EXCLUDED.audio_stream_sha256,
+    chromaprint            = EXCLUDED.chromaprint,
+    fingerprint_version    = EXCLUDED.fingerprint_version,
+    chromaprint_length_sec = EXCLUDED.chromaprint_length_sec,
+    computed_at            = now()
+`
+
+type UpsertTrackFingerprintParams struct {
+	TrackID              pgtype.UUID
+	AudioStreamSha256    []byte
+	Chromaprint          []int32
+	FingerprintVersion   int16
+	ChromaprintLengthSec int32
+}
+
+// Written whenever a track's fingerprint is derived: by the scan when a file is
+// new or its bytes changed, and by the backfill (#3908) for rows derived by an
+// older method. Replaces the row wholesale — a fingerprint of the old bytes has
+// no standing once the file has changed.
+func (q *Queries) UpsertTrackFingerprint(ctx context.Context, arg UpsertTrackFingerprintParams) error {
+	_, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, upsertTrackFingerprint,
+		arg.TrackID,
+		arg.AudioStreamSha256,
+		arg.Chromaprint,
+		arg.FingerprintVersion,
+		arg.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+	)
+	return err
+}

internal/db/dbq/merge.sql.go

@@ -0,0 +1,339 @@
+// Code generated by sqlc. DO NOT EDIT.
+// versions:
+//   sqlc v1.31.1
+// source: merge.sql
+
+package dbq
+
+import (
+	"context"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+)
+
+const listDuplicateGroupMergeMembers = `-- name: ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembers :many
+SELECT t.id, t.file_path, t.file_format, t.file_size, t.added_at, t.album_id,
+       t.mbid, albums.mbid AS album_mbid
+  FROM duplicate_group_members m
+  JOIN tracks t  ON t.id = m.track_id
+  JOIN albums    ON albums.id = t.album_id
+ WHERE m.group_id = $1
+ ORDER BY t.id
+`
+
+type ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow struct {
+	ID         pgtype.UUID
+	FilePath   string
+	FileFormat string
+	FileSize   int64
+	AddedAt    pgtype.Timestamptz
+	AlbumID    pgtype.UUID
+	Mbid       *string
+	AlbumMbid  *string
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembers(ctx context.Context, groupID pgtype.UUID) ([]ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow, error) {
+	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, listDuplicateGroupMergeMembers, groupID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var i ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow
+		if err := rows.Scan(
+			&i.ID,
+			&i.FilePath,
+			&i.FileFormat,
+			&i.FileSize,
+			&i.AddedAt,
+			&i.AlbumID,
+			&i.Mbid,
+			&i.AlbumMbid,
+		); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, i)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
+const lockDuplicateGroupForMerge = `-- name: LockDuplicateGroupForMerge :one
+
+SELECT id, tier, status
+  FROM duplicate_groups
+ WHERE id = $1
+   FOR UPDATE
+`
+
+type LockDuplicateGroupForMergeRow struct {
+	ID     pgtype.UUID
+	Tier   string
+	Status string
+}
+
+// Duplicate merge (Scribe #3911). Every statement here runs inside the one
+// transaction library.MergeDuplicateGroup opens, after the removed copy's file
+// is already gone. The loser's own track row is deleted last with DeleteTrack;
+// what these do is move everything it carries onto the survivor first, so that
+// delete's CASCADE finds nothing left to destroy.
+// Locks the group for the rest of the transaction, so two merges of one group
+// cannot run at once.
+func (q *Queries) LockDuplicateGroupForMerge(ctx context.Context, id pgtype.UUID) (LockDuplicateGroupForMergeRow, error) {
+	row := q.db.QueryRow(ctx, lockDuplicateGroupForMerge, id)
+	var i LockDuplicateGroupForMergeRow
+	err := row.Scan(&i.ID, &i.Tier, &i.Status)
+	return i, err
+}
+
+const markDuplicateGroupMerged = `-- name: MarkDuplicateGroupMerged :execrows
+UPDATE duplicate_groups
+   SET status = 'merged', resolved_at = now()
+ WHERE id = $1 AND status = 'pending'
+`
+
+func (q *Queries) MarkDuplicateGroupMerged(ctx context.Context, id pgtype.UUID) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, markDuplicateGroupMerged, id)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+const mergeCopyGeneralLikes = `-- name: MergeCopyGeneralLikes :many
+
+INSERT INTO general_likes (user_id, track_id, liked_at)
+SELECT user_id, $1::uuid, liked_at
+  FROM general_likes
+ WHERE track_id = $2::uuid
+ON CONFLICT (user_id, track_id) DO UPDATE
+   SET liked_at = LEAST(general_likes.liked_at, EXCLUDED.liked_at)
+RETURNING user_id
+`
+
+type MergeCopyGeneralLikesParams struct {
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// Collision-safe merges: a unique key includes track_id, so the survivor may
+// already hold a matching row. Copy what it lacks; DeleteTrack's CASCADE then
+// removes the loser's originals.
+// One like per user. A user who liked both copies keeps a single like, dated to
+// the earlier of the two.
+func (q *Queries) MergeCopyGeneralLikes(ctx context.Context, arg MergeCopyGeneralLikesParams) ([]pgtype.UUID, error) {
+	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, mergeCopyGeneralLikes, arg.SurvivorID, arg.LoserID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []pgtype.UUID
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var user_id pgtype.UUID
+		if err := rows.Scan(&user_id); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, user_id)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
+const mergeCopyTrackSimilarity = `-- name: MergeCopyTrackSimilarity :execrows
+INSERT INTO track_similarity (track_a_id, track_b_id, score, source, fetched_at)
+SELECT CASE WHEN track_a_id = $1::uuid THEN $2::uuid ELSE track_a_id END,
+       CASE WHEN track_b_id = $1::uuid THEN $2::uuid ELSE track_b_id END,
+       score, source, fetched_at
+  FROM track_similarity
+ WHERE (track_a_id = $1::uuid OR track_b_id = $1::uuid)
+   AND (CASE WHEN track_a_id = $1::uuid THEN $2::uuid ELSE track_a_id END)
+    <> (CASE WHEN track_b_id = $1::uuid THEN $2::uuid ELSE track_b_id END)
+ON CONFLICT (track_a_id, track_b_id, source) DO NOTHING
+`
+
+type MergeCopyTrackSimilarityParams struct {
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// Rewrites the loser to the survivor on either side of an edge. An edge between
+// the two copies would become a track similar to itself — the table forbids
+// that, and it means nothing — so it is dropped. An edge the survivor already
+// has from the same source is kept as it is.
+func (q *Queries) MergeCopyTrackSimilarity(ctx context.Context, arg MergeCopyTrackSimilarityParams) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, mergeCopyTrackSimilarity, arg.LoserID, arg.SurvivorID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+const mergeCopyTrackTags = `-- name: MergeCopyTrackTags :execrows
+INSERT INTO track_tags (track_id, tag, weight)
+SELECT $1::uuid, tag, weight
+  FROM track_tags
+ WHERE track_id = $2::uuid
+ON CONFLICT (track_id, tag) DO NOTHING
+`
+
+type MergeCopyTrackTagsParams struct {
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) MergeCopyTrackTags(ctx context.Context, arg MergeCopyTrackTagsParams) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, mergeCopyTrackTags, arg.SurvivorID, arg.LoserID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+const mergeInheritTrackMbid = `-- name: MergeInheritTrackMbid :exec
+UPDATE tracks AS survivor
+   SET mbid = loser.mbid
+  FROM tracks AS loser
+ WHERE survivor.id = $1::uuid
+   AND loser.id = $2::uuid
+   AND survivor.mbid IS NULL
+   AND loser.mbid IS NOT NULL
+`
+
+type MergeInheritTrackMbidParams struct {
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// A recording MBID is what the similarity pipeline keys on. If only the removed
+// copy carried one, the survivor takes it rather than going dark to similarity.
+func (q *Queries) MergeInheritTrackMbid(ctx context.Context, arg MergeInheritTrackMbidParams) error {
+	_, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, mergeInheritTrackMbid, arg.SurvivorID, arg.LoserID)
+	return err
+}
+
+const mergeRepointContextualLikes = `-- name: MergeRepointContextualLikes :execrows
+UPDATE contextual_likes SET track_id = $1::uuid WHERE track_id = $2::uuid
+`
+
+type MergeRepointContextualLikesParams struct {
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) MergeRepointContextualLikes(ctx context.Context, arg MergeRepointContextualLikesParams) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, mergeRepointContextualLikes, arg.SurvivorID, arg.LoserID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+const mergeRepointLidarrRequests = `-- name: MergeRepointLidarrRequests :execrows
+UPDATE lidarr_requests SET matched_track_id = $1::uuid
+ WHERE matched_track_id = $2::uuid
+`
+
+type MergeRepointLidarrRequestsParams struct {
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) MergeRepointLidarrRequests(ctx context.Context, arg MergeRepointLidarrRequestsParams) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, mergeRepointLidarrRequests, arg.SurvivorID, arg.LoserID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+const mergeRepointPlayEvents = `-- name: MergeRepointPlayEvents :execrows
+
+UPDATE play_events SET track_id = $1::uuid WHERE track_id = $2::uuid
+`
+
+type MergeRepointPlayEventsParams struct {
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// Plain repoints: no unique key involves track_id, so moving rows cannot collide.
+func (q *Queries) MergeRepointPlayEvents(ctx context.Context, arg MergeRepointPlayEventsParams) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, mergeRepointPlayEvents, arg.SurvivorID, arg.LoserID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+const mergeRepointPlaybackErrors = `-- name: MergeRepointPlaybackErrors :execrows
+UPDATE playback_errors SET track_id = $1::uuid WHERE track_id = $2::uuid
+`
+
+type MergeRepointPlaybackErrorsParams struct {
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) MergeRepointPlaybackErrors(ctx context.Context, arg MergeRepointPlaybackErrorsParams) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, mergeRepointPlaybackErrors, arg.SurvivorID, arg.LoserID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+const mergeRepointPlaylistTracks = `-- name: MergeRepointPlaylistTracks :many
+UPDATE playlist_tracks SET track_id = $1::uuid
+ WHERE track_id = $2::uuid
+RETURNING playlist_id
+`
+
+type MergeRepointPlaylistTracksParams struct {
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// playlist_tracks is keyed by (playlist_id, position), so repointing keeps every
+// entry exactly where it was. A playlist that held both copies simply holds the
+// survivor twice — the user put two entries there, and both stay.
+func (q *Queries) MergeRepointPlaylistTracks(ctx context.Context, arg MergeRepointPlaylistTracksParams) ([]pgtype.UUID, error) {
+	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, mergeRepointPlaylistTracks, arg.SurvivorID, arg.LoserID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var items []pgtype.UUID
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var playlist_id pgtype.UUID
+		if err := rows.Scan(&playlist_id); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		items = append(items, playlist_id)
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
+
+const mergeRepointSkipEvents = `-- name: MergeRepointSkipEvents :execrows
+UPDATE skip_events SET track_id = $1::uuid WHERE track_id = $2::uuid
+`
+
+type MergeRepointSkipEventsParams struct {
+	SurvivorID pgtype.UUID
+	LoserID    pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+func (q *Queries) MergeRepointSkipEvents(ctx context.Context, arg MergeRepointSkipEventsParams) (int64, error) {
+	result, err := q.db.Exec(ctx, mergeRepointSkipEvents, arg.SurvivorID, arg.LoserID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return result.RowsAffected(), nil
+}

internal/db/dbq/models.go

@@ -297,6 +297,42 @@ type DiscoverTuning struct {
 	UpdatedAt        pgtype.Timestamptz
 }
 
+type DuplicateGroup struct {
+	ID                pgtype.UUID
+	MemberKey         string
+	Tier              string
+	WorstBitErrorRate *float32
+	Status            string
+	DetectedAt        pgtype.Timestamptz
+	LastSeenSweepID   pgtype.UUID
+	ResolvedAt        pgtype.Timestamptz
+}
+
+type DuplicateGroupMember struct {
+	GroupID pgtype.UUID
+	TrackID pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+type DuplicateSweep struct {
+	ID               pgtype.UUID
+	StartedAt        pgtype.Timestamptz
+	FinishedAt       pgtype.Timestamptz
+	Candidates       *int32
+	GroupsFound      *int32
+	OversizeClusters *int32
+	ErrorMessage     *string
+}
+
+type FingerprintSetting struct {
+	ID                      bool
+	Enabled                 bool
+	ChromaprintLengthSec    int32
+	AcousticMaxBitErrorRate float64
+	BackfillConcurrency     int32
+	SweepIntervalHours      int32
+	UpdatedAt               pgtype.Timestamptz
+}
+
 type GeneralLike struct {
 	UserID  pgtype.UUID
 	TrackID pgtype.UUID
@@ -667,6 +703,15 @@ type Track struct {
 	MissingSince      pgtype.Timestamptz
 }
 
+type TrackFingerprint struct {
+	TrackID              pgtype.UUID
+	AudioStreamSha256    []byte
+	Chromaprint          []int32
+	FingerprintVersion   int16
+	ComputedAt           pgtype.Timestamptz
+	ChromaprintLengthSec int32
+}
+
 type TrackSimilarity struct {
 	TrackAID  pgtype.UUID
 	TrackBID  pgtype.UUID

internal/db/dbq/recommendation.sql.go

@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ similar_artists AS (
     JOIN seed_artist sa ON asim.artist_a_id = sa.artist_id
     WHERE asim.source = 'listenbrainz'
       AND t.id NOT IN (SELECT id FROM excluded_ids)
-    ORDER BY asim.score DESC, random()
+    ORDER BY asim.score DESC, md5(t.id::text || $12::text)
     LIMIT $6
 ),
 tag_overlap AS (
@@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ likes_overlap AS (
           WHERE t.id = gl.track_id
             AND trim(g_overlap.g) IN (SELECT tag FROM seed_tags)
       )
-    ORDER BY random()
+    ORDER BY md5(gl.track_id::text || $12::text)
     LIMIT $8
 ),
 taste_overlap AS (
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ coplay_artists AS (
     WHERE asim.source = 'user_cooccurrence'
       AND t.id NOT IN (SELECT id FROM excluded_ids)
       AND t.id <> $2
-    ORDER BY asim.score DESC, random()
+    ORDER BY asim.score DESC, md5(t.id::text || $12::text)
     LIMIT $11
 ),
 random_fill AS (
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ random_fill AS (
           UNION SELECT track_id FROM taste_overlap
           UNION SELECT track_id FROM coplay_artists
       )
-    ORDER BY random()
+    ORDER BY md5(t.id::text || $12::text)
     LIMIT $9
 )
 SELECT
@@ -938,17 +938,18 @@ GROUP BY t.id, t.title, t.album_id, t.artist_id, t.duration_ms, t.file_path,
 `
 
 type LoadRadioCandidatesV2Params struct {
-	UserID  pgtype.UUID
+	UserID   pgtype.UUID
-	ID      pgtype.UUID
+	ID       pgtype.UUID
-	Column3 interface{}
+	Column3  interface{}
-	Column4 []pgtype.UUID
+	Column4  []pgtype.UUID
-	Limit   int32
+	Limit    int32
-	Limit_2 int32
+	Limit_2  int32
-	Limit_3 int32
+	Limit_3  int32
-	Limit_4 int32
+	Limit_4  int32
-	Limit_5 int32
+	Limit_5  int32
-	Limit_6 int32
+	Limit_6  int32
-	Limit_7 int32
+	Limit_7  int32
+	Column12 string
 }
 
 type LoadRadioCandidatesV2Row struct {
@@ -971,8 +972,22 @@ type LoadRadioCandidatesV2Row struct {
 //	enter the pool even when the similarity/random arms miss them; scored
 //	in Go via TasteMatch, so sim_score here is 0 pool-inclusion),
 //	$11 coplay_artists K (#1533 — tracks by artists co-played across the
-//	instance with the seed's artist; source='user_cooccurrence').
+//	instance with the seed's artist; source='user_cooccurrence'),
+//	$12 order_seed (text) — see below.
 //
+// $12 REPLACES `ORDER BY random()` IN FOUR ARMS (#3889). Those arms returned
+// a stable set only while their LIMIT exceeded the rows eligible for them: at
+// that point they returned all of them and the order stopped mattering,
+// because the caller sorts by track id before scoring. Below that threshold
+// they returned a random SUBSET, and two builds on the same day drew
+// different ones — so "daily determinism" held by accident, and only for
+// libraries smaller than the limits.
+//
+// md5(id || seed) keeps the intent — an arbitrary spread that changes when
+// the seed does — while making it reproducible for a given seed. The CALLER
+// decides what that means: system mixes pass a per-(user, day) string and get
+// the determinism they promise; radio passes a fresh value per request and
+// keeps varying, which is what a radio should do.
 // Returns same shape as LoadRadioCandidates plus similarity_score column.
 func (q *Queries) LoadRadioCandidatesV2(ctx context.Context, arg LoadRadioCandidatesV2Params) ([]LoadRadioCandidatesV2Row, error) {
 	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, loadRadioCandidatesV2,
@@ -987,6 +1002,7 @@ func (q *Queries) LoadRadioCandidatesV2(ctx context.Context, arg LoadRadioCandid
 		arg.Limit_5,
 		arg.Limit_6,
 		arg.Limit_7,
+		arg.Column12,
 	)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err

internal/db/dbq/tracks.sql.go

@@ -148,39 +148,36 @@ func (q *Queries) DeleteTrack(ctx context.Context, id pgtype.UUID) (DeleteTrackR
 	return i, err
 }
 
-const findMissingTrackByFingerprint = `-- name: FindMissingTrackByFingerprint :many
+const findMissingTrackByAudioHash = `-- name: FindMissingTrackByAudioHash :many
-SELECT id, file_path FROM tracks
+SELECT t.id, t.file_path
- WHERE missing_since IS NOT NULL
+  FROM tracks t
-   AND file_size = $1
+  JOIN track_fingerprints f ON f.track_id = t.id
-   AND duration_ms = $2
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NOT NULL
+   AND f.audio_stream_sha256 = $1
  LIMIT 2
 `
 
-type FindMissingTrackByFingerprintParams struct {
+type FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow struct {
-	FileSize   int64
-	DurationMs int32
-}
-
-type FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow struct {
 	ID       pgtype.UUID
 	FilePath string
 }
 
-// Move detection fallback for files with no MBID (#2528). Exact byte size AND
+// Move detection fallback for files with no MBID (#2528, #3914). The audio stream
-// exact decoded duration is a strong pair: a plain move or rename preserves
+// hash identifies the encoded audio itself, so it survives a rename, a move and a
-// both, while a re-encode changes at least one — and a re-encode genuinely is a
+// retag — anything short of a re-encode. It replaced (file_size, duration_ms),
-// different file, so failing to match there is correct rather than a gap.
+// which could pair two unrelated files that happened to share a byte count and a
+// duration, and missed a file retagged in place, whose size changes.
 //
 // Same missing-only constraint and same LIMIT 2 rationale as the MBID variant.
-func (q *Queries) FindMissingTrackByFingerprint(ctx context.Context, arg FindMissingTrackByFingerprintParams) ([]FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow, error) {
+func (q *Queries) FindMissingTrackByAudioHash(ctx context.Context, audioStreamSha256 []byte) ([]FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow, error) {
-	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, findMissingTrackByFingerprint, arg.FileSize, arg.DurationMs)
+	rows, err := q.db.Query(ctx, findMissingTrackByAudioHash, audioStreamSha256)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	defer rows.Close()
-	var items []FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow
+	var items []FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow
 	for rows.Next() {
-		var i FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow
+		var i FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow
 		if err := rows.Scan(&i.ID, &i.FilePath); err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}

internal/db/migrations/0057_songs_like_tuning.down.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+-- Drop the rows the narrower constraints are about to forbid, or re-adding
+-- them fails against existing data (the 0051 down-migration pattern).
+DELETE FROM recommendation_weight_profiles WHERE profile = 'songs_like';
+DELETE FROM recommendation_tuning_audit WHERE scope = 'songs_like';
+
+ALTER TABLE recommendation_tuning_audit
+    DROP CONSTRAINT recommendation_tuning_audit_scope_check;
+ALTER TABLE recommendation_tuning_audit
+    ADD CONSTRAINT recommendation_tuning_audit_scope_check
+    CHECK (scope IN ('radio', 'daily_mix', 'taste', 'discover'));
+
+ALTER TABLE recommendation_weight_profiles
+    DROP CONSTRAINT recommendation_weight_profiles_profile_check;
+ALTER TABLE recommendation_weight_profiles
+    ADD CONSTRAINT recommendation_weight_profiles_profile_check
+    CHECK (profile IN ('radio', 'daily_mix'));

internal/db/migrations/0057_songs_like_tuning.up.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+-- 0057_songs_like_tuning.up.sql — a THIRD weight profile, for Songs-like
+-- (Scribe #3881, milestone #398).
+--
+-- Songs-like shared the `daily_mix` profile with For-You, and that is the bug.
+-- The two surfaces want opposite things: For-You is a broad "what will they
+-- enjoy today", Songs-like answers "what sounds like THIS", and under one set
+-- of weights the broad answer wins. Operator, 2026-09-10: "I'm expecting to
+-- get a consistent sound and style from the experience... I was getting a
+-- seeming wide variety of music from each one when I was hoping to stay in a
+-- certain neighborhood."
+--
+-- Under the shared daily_mix weights, an UNRELATED track the user had liked
+-- and not played recently scored 1.0 + 2.0 + 1.0 = 4.0 before taste, while a
+-- PERFECT similarity match they had not liked scored 1.0 + 1.5 = 2.5. Liking
+-- something outranked sounding like the seed. Splitting the profile is what
+-- lets similarity dominate here without making For-You narrow.
+--
+-- Rows are seeded by the recsettings boot reconcile, not here, so shipped
+-- defaults live in exactly one place (Go) — same as 0040.
+
+-- Rule #36: a new value for a CHECK-gated column needs the constraint
+-- rewritten in the SAME change, or the first row written under the new
+-- profile fails at runtime rather than at migrate time.
+ALTER TABLE recommendation_weight_profiles
+    DROP CONSTRAINT recommendation_weight_profiles_profile_check;
+ALTER TABLE recommendation_weight_profiles
+    ADD CONSTRAINT recommendation_weight_profiles_profile_check
+    CHECK (profile IN ('radio', 'daily_mix', 'songs_like'));
+
+-- The audit table gates the same name on a separate constraint. Missing this
+-- one would let the profile be seeded and then fail on the first knob turn —
+-- green at boot, 500 on first use.
+ALTER TABLE recommendation_tuning_audit
+    DROP CONSTRAINT recommendation_tuning_audit_scope_check;
+ALTER TABLE recommendation_tuning_audit
+    ADD CONSTRAINT recommendation_tuning_audit_scope_check
+    CHECK (scope IN ('radio', 'daily_mix', 'taste', 'discover', 'songs_like'));

internal/db/migrations/0058_track_fingerprints.down.sql

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DROP TABLE track_fingerprints;

internal/db/migrations/0058_track_fingerprints.up.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+-- 0058_track_fingerprints.up.sql — an acoustic identity per track (Scribe
+-- milestone #400: #3905, #3906).
+--
+-- A table of its own rather than columns on tracks, for the hot path's sake:
+-- tracks is read with SELECT * by eight queries, among them ListTracksByAlbum,
+-- SearchTracks and GetTracksByIDs — album pages, search, the Subsonic surface.
+-- A ~4 KB chromaprint column on tracks would be de-TOASTed on every one of
+-- those reads to carry a value only the duplicate sweep ever looks at.
+--
+-- What a row means, which the backfill depends on:
+--   no row                          never fingerprinted
+--   fingerprint_version < current   derived by an older method; re-derive it
+--   fingerprint_version = current   attempted; a NULL value means that tool
+--                                   failed on this file, and it is not retried
+--                                   until the file changes
+-- A failure that says nothing about the file — a timeout, a cancelled scan, a
+-- missing binary — writes no row at all, so the backfill tries again.
+CREATE TABLE track_fingerprints (
+    -- CASCADE is right here, unlike for the likes and play history M400's
+    -- merge has to carry across: a fingerprint describes one file's bytes and
+    -- means nothing once that file's row is gone.
+    track_id            uuid        PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES tracks (id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
+    -- SHA-256 of the ENCODED audio packets (ffmpeg -c:a copy -f hash), not of
+    -- decoded samples. internal/library/fingerprint.go says why.
+    audio_stream_sha256 bytea
+        CHECK (audio_stream_sha256 IS NULL OR octet_length(audio_stream_sha256) = 32),
+    -- fpcalc -raw -signed: the same 32 bits per item, stored signed because
+    -- integer is.
+    chromaprint         integer[],
+    fingerprint_version smallint    NOT NULL,
+    computed_at         timestamptz NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+);
+
+-- The exact duplicate tier is an equality match on this column. Partial
+-- because a NULL is never looked up — it only means the hash was not taken.
+CREATE INDEX track_fingerprints_audio_stream_sha256
+    ON track_fingerprints (audio_stream_sha256)
+    WHERE audio_stream_sha256 IS NOT NULL;

internal/db/migrations/0059_duplicate_groups.down.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+DROP INDEX IF EXISTS tracks_duration_id_idx;
+DROP TABLE duplicate_group_members;
+DROP TABLE duplicate_groups;
+DROP TABLE duplicate_sweeps;

internal/db/migrations/0059_duplicate_groups.up.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+-- 0059_duplicate_groups.up.sql — proposed duplicates and the sweeps that find
+-- them (Scribe milestone #400: #3910).
+--
+-- The sweep compares fingerprints (track_fingerprints, 0058) and proposes groups
+-- of tracks that hold one recording. Nothing here merges anything: a group is a
+-- proposal the operator reviews, and the merge (#3911) is a separate act.
+
+-- One row per sweep. Lets the report tell "the sweep has never run" apart from
+-- "it ran and found nothing", and gives the in-flight guard something to check,
+-- the same way scan_runs does for the library scan.
+CREATE TABLE duplicate_sweeps (
+    id                uuid        PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
+    started_at        timestamptz NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
+    finished_at       timestamptz,
+    candidates        integer,
+    groups_found      integer,
+    oversize_clusters integer,
+    error_message     text
+);
+CREATE INDEX duplicate_sweeps_started_at_idx ON duplicate_sweeps (started_at DESC);
+
+CREATE TABLE duplicate_groups (
+    id                   uuid        PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
+    -- The group's identity: its member track ids, sorted and joined. A sweep
+    -- that finds the same tracks again updates this row rather than proposing
+    -- them twice, and a dismissal stays attached to the set it was made about.
+    member_key           text        NOT NULL UNIQUE,
+    -- Rule 36: a new value for either CHECK swaps the constraint in the same
+    -- migration.
+    tier                 text        NOT NULL CHECK (tier IN ('exact', 'acoustic')),
+    -- Largest disagreement between any two members; NULL for exact groups,
+    -- which have no score.
+    worst_bit_error_rate real,
+    status               text        NOT NULL DEFAULT 'pending'
+        CHECK (status IN ('pending', 'dismissed', 'merged')),
+    detected_at          timestamptz NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
+    last_seen_sweep_id   uuid        REFERENCES duplicate_sweeps (id) ON DELETE SET NULL,
+    resolved_at          timestamptz
+);
+CREATE INDEX duplicate_groups_status_idx ON duplicate_groups (status);
+
+CREATE TABLE duplicate_group_members (
+    group_id uuid NOT NULL REFERENCES duplicate_groups (id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
+    -- CASCADE is right here: a track that genuinely leaves the library has no
+    -- place in a proposal about its duplicates.
+    track_id uuid NOT NULL REFERENCES tracks (id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
+    PRIMARY KEY (group_id, track_id)
+);
+CREATE INDEX duplicate_group_members_track_idx ON duplicate_group_members (track_id);
+
+-- The sweep streams candidates in (duration_ms, id) order, keyset-paged, so it
+-- only ever holds a few seconds' worth of durations in memory. Without this each
+-- page would sort the whole library again.
+CREATE INDEX tracks_duration_id_idx ON tracks (duration_ms, id);

internal/db/migrations/0060_play_events_track_index.down.sql

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DROP INDEX IF EXISTS play_events_track_idx;

internal/db/migrations/0060_play_events_track_index.up.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+-- 0060_play_events_track_index.up.sql — play_events by track (Scribe #3912, #3911).
+--
+-- play_events is indexed by (user_id, started_at) and (user_id, track_id), both
+-- led by user. Nothing reached it by track alone until the duplicates report,
+-- which shows each copy's play count — a scan of the whole table per copy — and
+-- the merge (#3911), which repoints a duplicate's play history onto the copy
+-- being kept. Both ask "every play of this track", whoever played it.
+CREATE INDEX play_events_track_idx ON play_events (track_id);

internal/db/migrations/0061_fingerprint_settings.down.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ALTER TABLE track_fingerprints DROP COLUMN chromaprint_length_sec;
+DROP TABLE fingerprint_settings;

internal/db/migrations/0061_fingerprint_settings.up.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+-- 0061_fingerprint_settings.up.sql — fingerprinting's knobs, in admin Settings
+-- (Scribe #3913, milestone #400). Rule 25: anything an operator might tune is a
+-- database row, changed without a restart. Singleton in the style of
+-- reacquisition_settings (0056).
+CREATE TABLE fingerprint_settings (
+    id                          boolean PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT true,
+
+    -- Fingerprinting new files, the backfill, and the duplicate sweep. Off stops
+    -- the decode work entirely — the reason to turn it off is a slow NAS, and
+    -- that is the operator's call. On by default: a library that cannot tell its
+    -- duplicates apart is what milestone #400 exists to end.
+    enabled                     boolean NOT NULL DEFAULT true,
+
+    -- Seconds of audio fpcalc fingerprints. Chromaprints taken at different
+    -- lengths cannot be compared, which is why track_fingerprints records the
+    -- length each row was taken at (below): change this and every chromaprint is
+    -- re-derived, and until then only rows at the new length are compared.
+    chromaprint_length_sec      integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 120,
+
+    -- The most disagreement two aligned fingerprints may show and still be
+    -- proposed as one recording. Unrelated audio sits near 0.5, so the ceiling
+    -- stays well clear of it.
+    acoustic_max_bit_error_rate double precision NOT NULL DEFAULT 0.15,
+
+    -- Files the backfill decodes at once. Decoding competes with playback
+    -- transcoding for CPU and with streaming for the mount.
+    backfill_concurrency        integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 2,
+
+    -- The least time between duplicate sweeps. A sweep still runs only when
+    -- fingerprints have changed since the last one.
+    sweep_interval_hours        integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
+
+    -- When the settings were last saved. A new threshold or length can change
+    -- what a sweep finds, so a save makes a sweep due.
+    updated_at                  timestamptz NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
+
+    CONSTRAINT fingerprint_settings_singleton CHECK (id = true),
+    CONSTRAINT fingerprint_settings_length_range
+        CHECK (chromaprint_length_sec >= 30 AND chromaprint_length_sec <= 600),
+    CONSTRAINT fingerprint_settings_threshold_range
+        CHECK (acoustic_max_bit_error_rate >= 0.01 AND acoustic_max_bit_error_rate <= 0.35),
+    CONSTRAINT fingerprint_settings_concurrency_range
+        CHECK (backfill_concurrency >= 1 AND backfill_concurrency <= 8),
+    CONSTRAINT fingerprint_settings_sweep_interval_range
+        CHECK (sweep_interval_hours >= 1 AND sweep_interval_hours <= 168)
+);
+INSERT INTO fingerprint_settings (id) VALUES (true) ON CONFLICT (id) DO NOTHING;
+
+-- Every row written so far was taken at fpcalc's default length.
+ALTER TABLE track_fingerprints ADD COLUMN chromaprint_length_sec integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 120;

internal/db/queries/duplicates.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+-- name: StartDuplicateSweep :one
+INSERT INTO duplicate_sweeps DEFAULT VALUES RETURNING id, started_at;
+
+-- name: FinishDuplicateSweep :exec
+UPDATE duplicate_sweeps
+   SET finished_at       = now(),
+       candidates        = sqlc.arg(candidates),
+       groups_found      = sqlc.arg(groups_found),
+       oversize_clusters = sqlc.arg(oversize_clusters),
+       error_message     = NULLIF(sqlc.arg(error_message)::text, '')
+ WHERE id = sqlc.arg(id);
+
+-- name: GetInFlightDuplicateSweep :one
+-- The guard against two sweeps at once: "in flight" is finished_at IS NULL.
+SELECT id, started_at
+  FROM duplicate_sweeps
+ WHERE finished_at IS NULL
+ ORDER BY started_at DESC
+ LIMIT 1;
+
+-- name: GetLatestDuplicateSweep :one
+SELECT id, started_at, finished_at, candidates, groups_found, oversize_clusters, error_message
+  FROM duplicate_sweeps
+ ORDER BY started_at DESC
+ LIMIT 1;
+
+-- name: GetLatestFingerprintComputedAt :one
+-- Whether a sweep has anything new to look at: fingerprints written since the
+-- last sweep started.
+SELECT max(computed_at)::timestamptz AS latest FROM track_fingerprints;
+
+-- name: ListExactDuplicateHashes :many
+-- The exact tier, library-wide in one pass: identical encoded audio shared by
+-- more than one present track.
+SELECT f.audio_stream_sha256,
+       array_agg(t.id ORDER BY t.id)::uuid[] AS track_ids
+  FROM track_fingerprints f
+  JOIN tracks t ON t.id = f.track_id
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NULL
+   AND f.fingerprint_version >= sqlc.arg(current_version)
+   AND f.audio_stream_sha256 IS NOT NULL
+ GROUP BY f.audio_stream_sha256
+HAVING count(*) > 1;
+
+-- name: ListDuplicateCandidates :many
+-- The acoustic tier's input, one page at a time in (duration_ms, id) order so the
+-- sweep holds only a sliding window of durations. Tracks without a chromaprint
+-- cannot be compared acoustically and are left out; any exact duplicates among
+-- them come from ListExactDuplicateHashes.
+SELECT t.id, t.duration_ms, f.audio_stream_sha256, f.chromaprint
+  FROM tracks t
+  JOIN track_fingerprints f ON f.track_id = t.id
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NULL
+   AND f.fingerprint_version >= sqlc.arg(current_version)
+   AND f.chromaprint IS NOT NULL
+   -- Only chromaprints taken at the current length: prints at two lengths are not
+   -- comparable, and after a length change the backfill is still re-deriving the
+   -- rest (#3913).
+   AND f.chromaprint_length_sec = sqlc.arg(chromaprint_length_sec)
+   AND (t.duration_ms, t.id) > (sqlc.arg(after_duration_ms)::integer, sqlc.arg(after_id)::uuid)
+ ORDER BY t.duration_ms, t.id
+ LIMIT sqlc.arg(page_limit);
+
+-- name: ListDismissedDuplicateMemberSets :many
+-- What the operator has already said are not duplicates. A new proposal whose
+-- every member sat together in one of these is not proposed again.
+SELECT g.id, array_agg(m.track_id ORDER BY m.track_id)::uuid[] AS track_ids
+  FROM duplicate_groups g
+  JOIN duplicate_group_members m ON m.group_id = g.id
+ WHERE g.status = 'dismissed'
+ GROUP BY g.id;
+
+-- name: UpsertDuplicateGroup :one
+-- Proposes a group, or refreshes one already pending. A group already dismissed
+-- or merged is left exactly as it is: the WHERE on the update makes the conflict
+-- a no-op, and the caller sees no row.
+INSERT INTO duplicate_groups (member_key, tier, worst_bit_error_rate, last_seen_sweep_id)
+VALUES (sqlc.arg(member_key), sqlc.arg(tier), sqlc.narg(worst_bit_error_rate), sqlc.arg(sweep_id))
+ON CONFLICT (member_key) DO UPDATE
+   SET tier                 = EXCLUDED.tier,
+       worst_bit_error_rate = EXCLUDED.worst_bit_error_rate,
+       last_seen_sweep_id   = EXCLUDED.last_seen_sweep_id
+ WHERE duplicate_groups.status = 'pending'
+RETURNING id;
+
+-- name: AddDuplicateGroupMember :exec
+INSERT INTO duplicate_group_members (group_id, track_id)
+VALUES (sqlc.arg(group_id), sqlc.arg(track_id))
+ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;
+
+-- name: DeleteStalePendingDuplicateGroups :execrows
+-- A pending proposal this sweep did not find again no longer describes the
+-- library: a member was re-fingerprinted, merged away or went missing. Dismissed
+-- groups are kept regardless — they are the memory of a decision.
+--
+-- Only proposals last confirmed by an EARLIER sweep go. Should two sweeps ever
+-- overlap (a manual trigger racing the worker), neither may delete what the other
+-- has just found.
+DELETE FROM duplicate_groups g
+ WHERE g.status = 'pending'
+   AND g.last_seen_sweep_id IS DISTINCT FROM sqlc.arg(sweep_id)
+   AND (g.last_seen_sweep_id IS NULL
+        OR (SELECT s.started_at FROM duplicate_sweeps s WHERE s.id = g.last_seen_sweep_id)
+           < (SELECT s.started_at FROM duplicate_sweeps s WHERE s.id = sqlc.arg(sweep_id)));
+
+-- name: CountPendingDuplicateGroups :one
+-- Proposals awaiting review. A group left with one member — its other tracks
+-- deleted since the sweep — is no proposal at all and is not counted; the next
+-- sweep retires it.
+SELECT count(*)::bigint
+  FROM duplicate_groups g
+ WHERE g.status = 'pending'
+   AND (SELECT count(*) FROM duplicate_group_members m WHERE m.group_id = g.id) >= 2;
+
+-- name: ListPendingDuplicateGroupMembers :many
+-- One page of proposals, newest first, flattened to one row per member so the
+-- handler folds them without a query per group. What each copy carries — likes
+-- and plays from every user — is here because it is what the operator weighs
+-- when deciding which copy to keep.
+WITH page AS (
+    SELECT g.id, g.tier, g.worst_bit_error_rate, g.detected_at
+      FROM duplicate_groups g
+     WHERE g.status = 'pending'
+       AND (SELECT count(*) FROM duplicate_group_members m WHERE m.group_id = g.id) >= 2
+     ORDER BY g.detected_at DESC, g.id
+     LIMIT sqlc.arg(page_limit) OFFSET sqlc.arg(page_offset)
+)
+SELECT p.id                  AS group_id,
+       p.tier,
+       p.worst_bit_error_rate,
+       p.detected_at,
+       t.id                  AS track_id,
+       t.title,
+       artists.name          AS artist_name,
+       albums.id             AS album_id,
+       albums.title          AS album_title,
+       t.file_path,
+       t.file_format,
+       t.file_size,
+       t.duration_ms,
+       t.added_at,
+       (SELECT count(*) FROM general_likes l WHERE l.track_id = t.id)::bigint AS like_count,
+       (SELECT count(*) FROM play_events e WHERE e.track_id = t.id)::bigint   AS play_count
+  FROM page p
+  JOIN duplicate_group_members m ON m.group_id = p.id
+  JOIN tracks t  ON t.id = m.track_id
+  JOIN albums    ON albums.id  = t.album_id
+  JOIN artists   ON artists.id = t.artist_id
+ ORDER BY p.detected_at DESC, p.id, t.id;
+
+-- name: DismissDuplicateGroup :execrows
+-- "These are not duplicates." Only a pending group can be dismissed; zero rows
+-- means it was already resolved or no longer exists.
+UPDATE duplicate_groups
+   SET status = 'dismissed', resolved_at = now()
+ WHERE id = sqlc.arg(id) AND status = 'pending';

internal/db/queries/fingerprint_settings.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+-- name: GetFingerprintSettings :one
+SELECT * FROM fingerprint_settings WHERE id = true;
+
+-- name: UpdateFingerprintSettings :one
+-- Whole-row write from the admin card; migration 0061's CHECKs are the backstop
+-- behind the service's own validation.
+UPDATE fingerprint_settings
+   SET enabled                     = sqlc.arg(enabled),
+       chromaprint_length_sec      = sqlc.arg(chromaprint_length_sec),
+       acoustic_max_bit_error_rate = sqlc.arg(acoustic_max_bit_error_rate),
+       backfill_concurrency        = sqlc.arg(backfill_concurrency),
+       sweep_interval_hours        = sqlc.arg(sweep_interval_hours),
+       updated_at                  = now()
+ WHERE id = true
+RETURNING *;

internal/db/queries/fingerprints.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+-- name: UpsertTrackFingerprint :exec
+-- Written whenever a track's fingerprint is derived: by the scan when a file is
+-- new or its bytes changed, and by the backfill (#3908) for rows derived by an
+-- older method. Replaces the row wholesale — a fingerprint of the old bytes has
+-- no standing once the file has changed.
+INSERT INTO track_fingerprints (
+    track_id, audio_stream_sha256, chromaprint, fingerprint_version, chromaprint_length_sec
+) VALUES (
+    sqlc.arg(track_id), sqlc.narg(audio_stream_sha256), sqlc.narg(chromaprint),
+    sqlc.arg(fingerprint_version), sqlc.arg(chromaprint_length_sec)
+)
+ON CONFLICT (track_id) DO UPDATE SET
+    audio_stream_sha256    = EXCLUDED.audio_stream_sha256,
+    chromaprint            = EXCLUDED.chromaprint,
+    fingerprint_version    = EXCLUDED.fingerprint_version,
+    chromaprint_length_sec = EXCLUDED.chromaprint_length_sec,
+    computed_at            = now();
+
+-- name: DeleteTrackFingerprint :exec
+-- A file changed but could not be fingerprinted, for a reason unrelated to the
+-- file. The stored row describes the OLD bytes, so it goes and the backfill
+-- re-derives it — nothing may keep trusting a stale identity.
+DELETE FROM track_fingerprints WHERE track_id = $1;
+
+-- name: ListTracksNeedingFingerprint :many
+-- The backfill's work queue (#3908): tracks with no fingerprint, or one derived
+-- by an older method. Keyset-paged on id so a pass visits each track at most
+-- once. That cursor is load-bearing: an inconclusive attempt writes no row, so
+-- without it a file that keeps timing out would be listed again straight away
+-- and retried in a tight loop. Missing tracks are skipped — there is no file to
+-- read.
+SELECT t.id, t.file_path
+  FROM tracks t
+  LEFT JOIN track_fingerprints f ON f.track_id = t.id
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NULL
+   -- A row taken at another length is as stale as one from an older method:
+   -- chromaprints at two lengths cannot be compared (#3913).
+   AND (f.track_id IS NULL
+        OR f.fingerprint_version < sqlc.arg(current_version)
+        OR f.chromaprint_length_sec <> sqlc.arg(chromaprint_length_sec))
+   AND t.id > sqlc.arg(after_id)
+ ORDER BY t.id
+ LIMIT sqlc.arg(batch_limit);
+
+-- name: GetFingerprintCoverage :one
+-- The admin gauge for the backfill. fingerprinted + rejected + pending = total.
+-- "Current" means derived by the current method AT the current length: a row at
+-- another length is pending, because the backfill will re-derive it. rejected is
+-- a current row with a NULL half: a tool ran and refused the file, which is
+-- settled rather than waiting. Missing tracks are excluded, or the gauge could
+-- never reach the end.
+SELECT count(*)::bigint AS total,
+       count(*) FILTER (
+           WHERE f.fingerprint_version >= sqlc.arg(current_version)
+             AND f.chromaprint_length_sec = sqlc.arg(chromaprint_length_sec)
+             AND f.audio_stream_sha256 IS NOT NULL AND f.chromaprint IS NOT NULL
+       )::bigint AS fingerprinted,
+       count(*) FILTER (
+           WHERE f.fingerprint_version >= sqlc.arg(current_version)
+             AND f.chromaprint_length_sec = sqlc.arg(chromaprint_length_sec)
+             AND (f.audio_stream_sha256 IS NULL OR f.chromaprint IS NULL)
+       )::bigint AS rejected,
+       count(*) FILTER (
+           WHERE f.track_id IS NULL
+              OR f.fingerprint_version < sqlc.arg(current_version)
+              OR f.chromaprint_length_sec <> sqlc.arg(chromaprint_length_sec)
+       )::bigint AS pending
+  FROM tracks t
+  LEFT JOIN track_fingerprints f ON f.track_id = t.id
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NULL;

internal/db/queries/merge.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+-- Duplicate merge (Scribe #3911). Every statement here runs inside the one
+-- transaction library.MergeDuplicateGroup opens, after the removed copy's file
+-- is already gone. The loser's own track row is deleted last with DeleteTrack;
+-- what these do is move everything it carries onto the survivor first, so that
+-- delete's CASCADE finds nothing left to destroy.
+
+-- name: LockDuplicateGroupForMerge :one
+-- Locks the group for the rest of the transaction, so two merges of one group
+-- cannot run at once.
+SELECT id, tier, status
+  FROM duplicate_groups
+ WHERE id = sqlc.arg(id)
+   FOR UPDATE;
+
+-- name: ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembers :many
+SELECT t.id, t.file_path, t.file_format, t.file_size, t.added_at, t.album_id,
+       t.mbid, albums.mbid AS album_mbid
+  FROM duplicate_group_members m
+  JOIN tracks t  ON t.id = m.track_id
+  JOIN albums    ON albums.id = t.album_id
+ WHERE m.group_id = sqlc.arg(group_id)
+ ORDER BY t.id;
+
+-- Plain repoints: no unique key involves track_id, so moving rows cannot collide.
+
+-- name: MergeRepointPlayEvents :execrows
+UPDATE play_events SET track_id = sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid WHERE track_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid;
+
+-- name: MergeRepointSkipEvents :execrows
+UPDATE skip_events SET track_id = sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid WHERE track_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid;
+
+-- name: MergeRepointContextualLikes :execrows
+UPDATE contextual_likes SET track_id = sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid WHERE track_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid;
+
+-- name: MergeRepointPlaybackErrors :execrows
+UPDATE playback_errors SET track_id = sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid WHERE track_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid;
+
+-- name: MergeRepointLidarrRequests :execrows
+UPDATE lidarr_requests SET matched_track_id = sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid
+ WHERE matched_track_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid;
+
+-- name: MergeRepointPlaylistTracks :many
+-- playlist_tracks is keyed by (playlist_id, position), so repointing keeps every
+-- entry exactly where it was. A playlist that held both copies simply holds the
+-- survivor twice — the user put two entries there, and both stay.
+UPDATE playlist_tracks SET track_id = sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid
+ WHERE track_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid
+RETURNING playlist_id;
+
+-- Collision-safe merges: a unique key includes track_id, so the survivor may
+-- already hold a matching row. Copy what it lacks; DeleteTrack's CASCADE then
+-- removes the loser's originals.
+
+-- name: MergeCopyGeneralLikes :many
+-- One like per user. A user who liked both copies keeps a single like, dated to
+-- the earlier of the two.
+INSERT INTO general_likes (user_id, track_id, liked_at)
+SELECT user_id, sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid, liked_at
+  FROM general_likes
+ WHERE track_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid
+ON CONFLICT (user_id, track_id) DO UPDATE
+   SET liked_at = LEAST(general_likes.liked_at, EXCLUDED.liked_at)
+RETURNING user_id;
+
+-- name: MergeCopyTrackTags :execrows
+INSERT INTO track_tags (track_id, tag, weight)
+SELECT sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid, tag, weight
+  FROM track_tags
+ WHERE track_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid
+ON CONFLICT (track_id, tag) DO NOTHING;
+
+-- name: MergeCopyTrackSimilarity :execrows
+-- Rewrites the loser to the survivor on either side of an edge. An edge between
+-- the two copies would become a track similar to itself — the table forbids
+-- that, and it means nothing — so it is dropped. An edge the survivor already
+-- has from the same source is kept as it is.
+INSERT INTO track_similarity (track_a_id, track_b_id, score, source, fetched_at)
+SELECT CASE WHEN track_a_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid THEN sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid ELSE track_a_id END,
+       CASE WHEN track_b_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid THEN sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid ELSE track_b_id END,
+       score, source, fetched_at
+  FROM track_similarity
+ WHERE (track_a_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid OR track_b_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid)
+   AND (CASE WHEN track_a_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid THEN sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid ELSE track_a_id END)
+    <> (CASE WHEN track_b_id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid THEN sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid ELSE track_b_id END)
+ON CONFLICT (track_a_id, track_b_id, source) DO NOTHING;
+
+-- name: MergeInheritTrackMbid :exec
+-- A recording MBID is what the similarity pipeline keys on. If only the removed
+-- copy carried one, the survivor takes it rather than going dark to similarity.
+UPDATE tracks AS survivor
+   SET mbid = loser.mbid
+  FROM tracks AS loser
+ WHERE survivor.id = sqlc.arg(survivor_id)::uuid
+   AND loser.id = sqlc.arg(loser_id)::uuid
+   AND survivor.mbid IS NULL
+   AND loser.mbid IS NOT NULL;
+
+-- name: MarkDuplicateGroupMerged :execrows
+UPDATE duplicate_groups
+   SET status = 'merged', resolved_at = now()
+ WHERE id = sqlc.arg(id) AND status = 'pending';

internal/db/queries/recommendation.sql

@@ -45,7 +45,22 @@ WHERE t.id <> $2
 --   enter the pool even when the similarity/random arms miss them; scored
 --   in Go via TasteMatch, so sim_score here is 0 pool-inclusion),
 --   $11 coplay_artists K (#1533 — tracks by artists co-played across the
---   instance with the seed's artist; source='user_cooccurrence').
+--   instance with the seed's artist; source='user_cooccurrence'),
+--   $12 order_seed (text) — see below.
+--
+-- $12 REPLACES `ORDER BY random()` IN FOUR ARMS (#3889). Those arms returned
+-- a stable set only while their LIMIT exceeded the rows eligible for them: at
+-- that point they returned all of them and the order stopped mattering,
+-- because the caller sorts by track id before scoring. Below that threshold
+-- they returned a random SUBSET, and two builds on the same day drew
+-- different ones — so "daily determinism" held by accident, and only for
+-- libraries smaller than the limits.
+--
+-- md5(id || seed) keeps the intent — an arbitrary spread that changes when
+-- the seed does — while making it reproducible for a given seed. The CALLER
+-- decides what that means: system mixes pass a per-(user, day) string and get
+-- the determinism they promise; radio passes a fresh value per request and
+-- keeps varying, which is what a radio should do.
 -- Returns same shape as LoadRadioCandidates plus similarity_score column.
 
 WITH
@@ -87,7 +102,7 @@ similar_artists AS (
     JOIN seed_artist sa ON asim.artist_a_id = sa.artist_id
     WHERE asim.source = 'listenbrainz'
       AND t.id NOT IN (SELECT id FROM excluded_ids)
-    ORDER BY asim.score DESC, random()
+    ORDER BY asim.score DESC, md5(t.id::text || $12::text)
     LIMIT $6
 ),
 tag_overlap AS (
@@ -115,7 +130,7 @@ likes_overlap AS (
           WHERE t.id = gl.track_id
             AND trim(g_overlap.g) IN (SELECT tag FROM seed_tags)
       )
-    ORDER BY random()
+    ORDER BY md5(gl.track_id::text || $12::text)
     LIMIT $8
 ),
 taste_overlap AS (
@@ -142,7 +157,7 @@ coplay_artists AS (
     WHERE asim.source = 'user_cooccurrence'
       AND t.id NOT IN (SELECT id FROM excluded_ids)
       AND t.id <> $2
-    ORDER BY asim.score DESC, random()
+    ORDER BY asim.score DESC, md5(t.id::text || $12::text)
     LIMIT $11
 ),
 random_fill AS (
@@ -158,7 +173,7 @@ random_fill AS (
           UNION SELECT track_id FROM taste_overlap
           UNION SELECT track_id FROM coplay_artists
       )
-    ORDER BY random()
+    ORDER BY md5(t.id::text || $12::text)
     LIMIT $9
 )
 SELECT

internal/db/queries/tracks.sql

@@ -155,17 +155,19 @@ SELECT id, file_path FROM tracks
    AND mbid = sqlc.arg(mbid)::text
  LIMIT 2;
 
--- name: FindMissingTrackByFingerprint :many
+-- name: FindMissingTrackByAudioHash :many
--- Move detection fallback for files with no MBID (#2528). Exact byte size AND
+-- Move detection fallback for files with no MBID (#2528, #3914). The audio stream
--- exact decoded duration is a strong pair: a plain move or rename preserves
+-- hash identifies the encoded audio itself, so it survives a rename, a move and a
--- both, while a re-encode changes at least one — and a re-encode genuinely is a
+-- retag — anything short of a re-encode. It replaced (file_size, duration_ms),
--- different file, so failing to match there is correct rather than a gap.
+-- which could pair two unrelated files that happened to share a byte count and a
+-- duration, and missed a file retagged in place, whose size changes.
 --
 -- Same missing-only constraint and same LIMIT 2 rationale as the MBID variant.
-SELECT id, file_path FROM tracks
+SELECT t.id, t.file_path
- WHERE missing_since IS NOT NULL
+  FROM tracks t
-   AND file_size = sqlc.arg(file_size)
+  JOIN track_fingerprints f ON f.track_id = t.id
-   AND duration_ms = sqlc.arg(duration_ms)
+ WHERE t.missing_since IS NOT NULL
+   AND f.audio_stream_sha256 = sqlc.arg(audio_stream_sha256)
  LIMIT 2;
 
 -- name: AdoptTrackPath :execrows

internal/dbtest/reset.go

@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ var dataTables = []string{
 	// pristine Discover knobs rather than whatever a previous test tuned.
 	"discover_tuning",
 	"recommendation_tuning_audit",
+	"duplicate_group_members", // M400
+	"duplicate_groups",
+	"duplicate_sweeps",
+	"track_fingerprints", // M400
 	"tracks",
 	"albums",
 	"artists",
@@ -126,4 +130,15 @@ func ResetDB(t *testing.T, pool *pgxpool.Pool) {
 	); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("dbtest.ResetDB reset tag-sources version: %v", err)
 	}
+	// Fingerprinting settings (M400 #3913), a singleton like the counters above.
+	// Every column goes back to its migration default rather than to literals
+	// written here, so a test can pin the Go defaults to the migration's.
+	if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx, `
+		UPDATE fingerprint_settings
+		   SET enabled = DEFAULT, chromaprint_length_sec = DEFAULT,
+		       acoustic_max_bit_error_rate = DEFAULT, backfill_concurrency = DEFAULT,
+		       sweep_interval_hours = DEFAULT, updated_at = DEFAULT`,
+	); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("dbtest.ResetDB reset fingerprint settings: %v", err)
+	}
 }

internal/library/delete.go

@@ -5,12 +5,16 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/fs"
+	"log/slog"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5"
 	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
 	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
 
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/coverart"
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
 	syncpkg "git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/sync"
 )
@@ -19,54 +23,179 @@ import (
 // that has no row in tracks.
 var ErrTrackNotFound = errors.New("library: track not found")
 
-// DeleteTrackFile removes a track file from disk and its row from the
+// removeFile is os.Remove behind a variable so a test can make removal fail the
-// tracks table. Album and artist rows are left untouched.
+// way a read-only mount or a wrongly-owned directory does. A chmod-based test
+// cannot stand in for that: root ignores permission bits, so in a CI container
+// running as root it would pass without ever exercising the failure.
+var removeFile = os.Remove
+
+// FileRemoveError reports that a track's file exists but could not be removed.
+// When DeleteTrackFile returns one, NOTHING was deleted: the row, its likes, its
+// play history and its playlist memberships are all intact.
+type FileRemoveError struct {
+	Path string
+	// UID and GID are the identity the server process runs as — the half of a
+	// permission problem the operator cannot see from the host side.
+	UID, GID int
+	Err      error
+}
+
+func (e *FileRemoveError) Error() string { return fmt.Sprintf("remove track file: %v", e.Err) }
+
+func (e *FileRemoveError) Unwrap() error { return e.Err }
+
+// Dir is the directory removal needs write access to. Unlinking a file writes to
+// its PARENT, so a world-writable file inside a read-only directory still cannot
+// be removed — naming the file's own permissions would send the operator to the
+// wrong place.
+func (e *FileRemoveError) Dir() string { return filepath.Dir(e.Path) }
+
+// NotWritable reports whether the library is unwritable for this process — a
+// read-only mount or a permission denial — rather than an I/O fault. It is the
+// case the operator can fix, so callers answer it differently.
+func (e *FileRemoveError) NotWritable() bool {
+	return errors.Is(e.Err, fs.ErrPermission) || errors.Is(e.Err, syscall.EROFS)
+}
+
+// Reason is the underlying cause without the path os.Remove already wrapped
+// around it, for messages that name the directory themselves.
+func (e *FileRemoveError) Reason() string {
+	var pathErr *fs.PathError
+	if errors.As(e.Err, &pathErr) {
+		return pathErr.Err.Error()
+	}
+	return e.Err.Error()
+}
+
+// DeletedTrack reports what a delete tidied away beyond the track itself.
+type DeletedTrack struct {
+	// AlbumID is set when the track was its album's last, so the album went too.
+	AlbumID *pgtype.UUID
+	// ArtistID is set when that album was its artist's last, so the artist went too.
+	ArtistID *pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// DeleteTrackFile removes a track's file from disk and then its row, tidying
+// away an album or artist the delete leaves empty. It is the ONLY path that
+// deletes a track file: the admin remove-track endpoint and quarantine's Delete
+// file both come through here (#3918).
 //
-// Steps:
+// Order is the whole contract. The file goes first, and if it cannot go — a
-//  1. Look up the track to get its file_path.
+// read-only mount, a permission denial, an I/O error — nothing else happens and
-//  2. Remove the file from disk. fs.ErrNotExist is OK — already gone.
+// a *FileRemoveError comes back. Proceeding past that failure is how #3918 lost
-//  3. Delete the tracks row.
+// history: tracks CASCADEs to play_events, general_likes, contextual_likes,
+// playlist_tracks, track_tags and playback_errors, so the row and everything
+// hanging off it were destroyed while the file survived, and the next scan
+// re-imported it as a brand-new track with none of it.
 //
-// Order matters: file first, then DB. If the file delete fails (permission,
+// A file that is already gone (fs.ErrNotExist) is not a failure; the row is
-// I/O error), we leave the DB row alone so the admin can retry.
+// removed as asked.
 //
-// The reverse failure mode — file gone, DB row still present — IS reconciled
+// This is NOT the missing-file path. That lifecycle is deliberately
-// now, and not by this function: the scan's reconcile pass stamps
+// non-destructive: reconcile stamps missing_since (#2523), selection paths
-// tracks.missing_since (#2523), every selection path filters on it, and a file
+// filter on it, and a returning file is un-marked or adopted (#2528). This is the
-// that returns is un-marked or adopted at its new path (#2528). That is the
+// explicit, irreversible "remove this recording", never the way to tidy up a row
-// normal life of a vanished file and it is deliberately non-destructive: the
+// whose file merely went away.
-// row, its play history and its likes survive, because a missing file is a
-// track Minstrel still knows about (#2527).
 //
-// So this function is NOT the missing-file path. It is the explicit admin
+// dataDir, when set, also clears the cached art of an artist the delete removed.
-// action "remove this recording from disk and from the library", and it is
+// logger may be nil.
-// irreversible: tracks CASCADEs to play_events, general_likes_tracks,
+func DeleteTrackFile(
-// contextual_likes, track_tags and playback_errors. Reach for it when the
+	ctx context.Context, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, dataDir string, trackID pgtype.UUID,
-// operator means to destroy the record, never to tidy up a row whose file
+) (DeletedTrack, error) {
-// merely went away.
+	if logger == nil {
-func DeleteTrackFile(ctx context.Context, pool *pgxpool.Pool, trackID pgtype.UUID) error {
+		logger = slog.Default()
+	}
 	q := dbq.New(pool)
 	track, err := q.GetTrackByID(ctx, trackID)
 	if err != nil {
 		if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
-			return ErrTrackNotFound
+			return DeletedTrack{}, ErrTrackNotFound
 		}
-		return fmt.Errorf("get track: %w", err)
+		return DeletedTrack{}, fmt.Errorf("get track: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	if err := os.Remove(track.FilePath); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
+	if err := removeTrackFileOnDisk(track.FilePath); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("remove file: %w", err)
+		return DeletedTrack{}, err
 	}
 
-	if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx, "DELETE FROM tracks WHERE id = $1", trackID); err != nil {
+	// The row and any album or artist it empties go together, so a failure
-		return fmt.Errorf("delete row: %w", err)
+	// partway cannot leave a deleted track with a ghost album behind it.
+	tx, err := pool.Begin(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return DeletedTrack{}, fmt.Errorf("begin tx: %w", err)
 	}
-	// Log the change after the delete succeeds. Best-effort: a Warn-level
+	defer func() { _ = tx.Rollback(ctx) }()
-	// failure here would leave the cache index orphaned on offline clients
+	tq := dbq.New(tx)
-	// until the next scan touches the surrounding album.
+
+	deleted, err := tq.DeleteTrack(ctx, trackID)
+	if err != nil {
+		if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+			// Removed by someone else between the lookup and here.
+			return DeletedTrack{}, ErrTrackNotFound
+		}
+		return DeletedTrack{}, fmt.Errorf("delete track: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	out, err := tidyEmptiedAlbum(ctx, tq, deleted.AlbumID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return DeletedTrack{}, err
+	}
+
+	if err := tx.Commit(ctx); err != nil {
+		return DeletedTrack{}, fmt.Errorf("commit: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Both of these run after the delete has committed, so neither may fail
+	// it: the recording is gone either way. An unlogged change leaves the track
+	// in offline clients' caches until the next scan touches its album; a
+	// leftover art directory is only disk.
 	if err := syncpkg.LogChange(ctx, pool, syncpkg.EntityTrack,
 		syncpkg.FormatUUID(trackID), syncpkg.OpDelete); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("log change: %w", err)
+		logger.Warn("track delete: LogChange failed", "track_id", syncpkg.FormatUUID(trackID), "err", err)
+	}
+	if out.ArtistID != nil && dataDir != "" {
+		if err := coverart.CleanupArtistArt(dataDir, *out.ArtistID); err != nil {
+			logger.Warn("track delete: artist-art cleanup failed",
+				"artist_id", syncpkg.FormatUUID(*out.ArtistID), "err", err)
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// removeTrackFileOnDisk is the one rule for removing a track's file, shared by
+// DeleteTrackFile and the duplicate merge. A file already gone is fine; anything
+// else comes back as a *FileRemoveError, and the caller must then change nothing
+// in the database (#3918).
+func removeTrackFileOnDisk(path string) error {
+	if err := removeFile(path); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
+		return &FileRemoveError{Path: path, UID: os.Getuid(), GID: os.Getgid(), Err: err}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// tidyEmptiedAlbum removes an album a track delete left with no tracks, and its
+// artist if that album was the artist's last. It runs on the caller's
+// transaction, so the tidy-up commits or rolls back with the delete itself.
+func tidyEmptiedAlbum(ctx context.Context, tq *dbq.Queries, albumID pgtype.UUID) (DeletedTrack, error) {
+	var out DeletedTrack
+	album, err := tq.DeleteAlbumIfEmpty(ctx, albumID)
+	switch {
+	case err == nil:
+		id := album.ID
+		out.AlbumID = &id
+		artistID, aerr := tq.DeleteArtistIfEmpty(ctx, album.ArtistID)
+		switch {
+		case aerr == nil:
+			out.ArtistID = &artistID
+		case errors.Is(aerr, pgx.ErrNoRows):
+			// The artist still has other albums or stray tracks.
+		default:
+			return DeletedTrack{}, fmt.Errorf("delete artist if empty: %w", aerr)
+		}
+	case errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows):
+		// The album still has other tracks.
+	default:
+		return DeletedTrack{}, fmt.Errorf("delete album if empty: %w", err)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}

internal/library/delete_test.go

@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"io"
+	"io/fs"
 	"log/slog"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"syscall"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
@@ -64,6 +66,15 @@ func seedTrack(t *testing.T, pool *pgxpool.Pool, filePath string) (dbq.Track, db
 	return track, album, artist
 }
 
+// stubRemoveFile makes file removal fail (or succeed) on demand for one test.
+// See removeFile for why this is a seam rather than a chmod.
+func stubRemoveFile(t *testing.T, fn func(string) error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	orig := removeFile
+	removeFile = fn
+	t.Cleanup(func() { removeFile = orig })
+}
+
 func TestDeleteTrackFile_HappyPath(t *testing.T) {
 	pool := newPool(t)
 	q := dbq.New(pool)
@@ -73,9 +84,18 @@ func TestDeleteTrackFile_HappyPath(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("payload"), 0o644); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("write file: %v", err)
 	}
-	track, album, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, path)
+	track, album, artist := seedTrack(t, pool, path)
+	// A sibling keeps the album non-empty, so this case pins that the tidy-up
+	// only removes an album the delete actually emptied.
+	if _, err := q.UpsertTrack(context.Background(), dbq.UpsertTrackParams{
+		Title: "Sibling", AlbumID: album.ID, ArtistID: artist.ID,
+		DurationMs: 1000, FilePath: filepath.Join(dir, "sibling.mp3"), FileSize: 100, FileFormat: "mp3",
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("sibling: %v", err)
+	}
 
-	if err := DeleteTrackFile(context.Background(), pool, track.ID); err != nil {
+	got, err := DeleteTrackFile(context.Background(), pool, nil, "", track.ID)
+	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("DeleteTrackFile: %v", err)
 	}
 
@@ -85,9 +105,99 @@ func TestDeleteTrackFile_HappyPath(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, err := q.GetTrackByID(context.Background(), track.ID); err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("track row still exists")
 	}
-	// Album row preserved (other tracks may reference it).
 	if _, err := q.GetAlbumByID(context.Background(), album.ID); err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("album row vanished: %v", err)
+		t.Errorf("album with a remaining track vanished: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got.AlbumID != nil || got.ArtistID != nil {
+		t.Errorf("reported tidy-up %+v for an album that still has a track", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestDeleteTrackFile_EmptiedAlbumAndArtistGoToo(t *testing.T) {
+	pool := newPool(t)
+	q := dbq.New(pool)
+
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "lone.mp3")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("payload"), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write file: %v", err)
+	}
+	track, album, artist := seedTrack(t, pool, path)
+
+	got, err := DeleteTrackFile(context.Background(), pool, nil, "", track.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("DeleteTrackFile: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got.AlbumID == nil || *got.AlbumID != album.ID {
+		t.Errorf("AlbumID = %v, want %v", got.AlbumID, album.ID)
+	}
+	if got.ArtistID == nil || *got.ArtistID != artist.ID {
+		t.Errorf("ArtistID = %v, want %v", got.ArtistID, artist.ID)
+	}
+	if _, err := q.GetAlbumByID(context.Background(), album.ID); err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("emptied album row still exists")
+	}
+	if _, err := q.GetArtistByID(context.Background(), artist.ID); err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("emptied artist row still exists")
+	}
+}
+
+// The #3918 proof. A file that cannot be removed must leave EVERYTHING in place:
+// the row is what carries likes, plays and playlist memberships, and the file
+// surviving means the next scan would re-import it as a stranger.
+func TestDeleteTrackFile_UnremovableFileDeletesNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name        string
+		errno       syscall.Errno
+		notWritable bool
+	}{
+		{"read-only mount", syscall.EROFS, true},
+		{"permission denied", syscall.EACCES, true},
+		{"operation not permitted", syscall.EPERM, true},
+		{"i/o error", syscall.EIO, false},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			pool := newPool(t)
+			q := dbq.New(pool)
+
+			dir := t.TempDir()
+			path := filepath.Join(dir, "track.mp3")
+			if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("payload"), 0o644); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("write file: %v", err)
+			}
+			track, album, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, path)
+			stubRemoveFile(t, func(name string) error {
+				return &fs.PathError{Op: "remove", Path: name, Err: tc.errno}
+			})
+
+			_, err := DeleteTrackFile(context.Background(), pool, nil, "", track.ID)
+
+			var fre *FileRemoveError
+			if !errors.As(err, &fre) {
+				t.Fatalf("err = %v, want a *FileRemoveError", err)
+			}
+			if fre.NotWritable() != tc.notWritable {
+				t.Errorf("NotWritable = %v, want %v", fre.NotWritable(), tc.notWritable)
+			}
+			if fre.Dir() != dir {
+				t.Errorf("Dir = %q, want the parent directory %q", fre.Dir(), dir)
+			}
+			if fre.Reason() != tc.errno.Error() {
+				t.Errorf("Reason = %q, want %q", fre.Reason(), tc.errno.Error())
+			}
+			if fre.UID != os.Getuid() || fre.GID != os.Getgid() {
+				t.Errorf("identity = %d:%d, want this process's %d:%d", fre.UID, fre.GID, os.Getuid(), os.Getgid())
+			}
+			if _, err := q.GetTrackByID(context.Background(), track.ID); err != nil {
+				t.Errorf("track row was deleted although its file was not: %v", err)
+			}
+			if _, err := q.GetAlbumByID(context.Background(), album.ID); err != nil {
+				t.Errorf("album row was deleted although the track's file was not: %v", err)
+			}
+			if _, err := os.Stat(path); err != nil {
+				t.Errorf("file gone although removal was refused: %v", err)
+			}
+		})
 	}
 }
 
@@ -97,7 +207,7 @@ func TestDeleteTrackFile_FileAlreadyGoneSucceeds(t *testing.T) {
 
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "/no/such/file/anywhere.mp3")
 
-	if err := DeleteTrackFile(context.Background(), pool, track.ID); err != nil {
+	if _, err := DeleteTrackFile(context.Background(), pool, nil, "", track.ID); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("DeleteTrackFile with missing file: %v", err)
 	}
 	if _, err := q.GetTrackByID(context.Background(), track.ID); err == nil {
@@ -112,7 +222,7 @@ func TestDeleteTrackFile_NotFoundReturnsErr(t *testing.T) {
 	bogus.Bytes = [16]byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16}
 	bogus.Valid = true
 
-	err := DeleteTrackFile(context.Background(), pool, bogus)
+	_, err := DeleteTrackFile(context.Background(), pool, nil, "", bogus)
 	if !errors.Is(err, ErrTrackNotFound) {
 		t.Errorf("err = %v, want ErrTrackNotFound", err)
 	}

internal/library/duplicate_match.go

@@ -0,0 +1,430 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"math"
+	"math/bits"
+	"sort"
+)
+
+// Duplicate matching (M400 #3909).
+//
+// Pure functions over fingerprints: no database, no files. This is the part that
+// decides whether two tracks in the operator's library are proposed as one
+// recording, so every rule in it has to be falsifiable in a unit test.
+//
+// Two tiers, answering different questions:
+//
+//	exact     equal audio_stream_sha256 — the same encoded audio bytes. No score,
+//	          no threshold, no false positives (the #3885 pair).
+//	acoustic  chromaprint fingerprints that agree closely once aligned — the
+//	          same recording at another bitrate or in another codec.
+//
+// The acoustic comparison follows the approach of AcoustID's pg_acoustid
+// (acoustid_compare.c): vote on the relative offset between two fingerprints
+// using items that agree in their high bits, then measure disagreement at the
+// winning offset. Reimplemented from that description; no code was copied.
+// The alignment window and match-bit width below are taken from it.
+
+// maxAlignOffsetItems bounds how far apart two fingerprints may be shifted and
+// still be compared: ±120 items, about 15 seconds at chromaprint's ~8 items per
+// second. Covers a leading silence trimmed differently or a short intro; the
+// same bound pg_acoustid uses (ACOUSTID_MAX_ALIGN_OFFSET).
+const maxAlignOffsetItems = 120
+
+// alignMatchBits is how many high bits two items must share to vote for an
+// offset. Matching whole 32-bit items would miss the same recording at another
+// bitrate, whose low bits are noisier; 14 is pg_acoustid's MATCH_BITS.
+const alignMatchBits = 14
+
+// minOverlapItems is the least overlap worth a verdict: about 10 seconds. A few
+// items agreeing perfectly is not evidence that two recordings are one.
+const minOverlapItems = 80
+
+// minDistinctFraction rejects low-information fingerprints before they can
+// match. Near-silence, a sustained tone or a click track produces the same few
+// items over and over, and two such tracks agree closely without being the
+// same recording. Real music is overwhelmingly distinct item to item, so this
+// floor only catches the pathological case. A judgment value, not a measured
+// one — revisit if the sweep reports real tracks refused for it.
+const minDistinctFraction = 0.3
+
+// defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate is the most disagreement two aligned
+// fingerprints may show and still be proposed as one recording. Unrelated audio
+// sits near 0.5; the same recording re-encoded lands well under 0.1.
+//
+// Deliberately conservative. The operator's stated worry is the opposite of a
+// missed duplicate: "the same song can appear in different albums, usually it's
+// a different recording", and an instrumental shares its vocal version's
+// harmony, which chroma features capture. A false merge is the failure that
+// matters, and the report is reviewed anyway. This is an unmeasured default:
+// calibrate it against real pairs once the backfill (#3908) has populated the
+// library, then expose it in Settings (#3913).
+const defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate = 0.15
+
+// durationToleranceMs is how far apart two tracks' durations may be and still be
+// compared. Encoders pad and trim a little; different edits differ by more.
+const durationToleranceMs = 3000
+
+// maxAcousticGroupSize caps an acoustic group. A cluster bigger than this is far
+// more likely a shared jingle, a skit or a low-information pattern than eight
+// copies of one recording, and proposing it would bury the real duplicates.
+// Exact-tier groups are not capped: identical bytes are identical however many.
+const maxAcousticGroupSize = 8
+
+// acousticScore is the result of comparing two fingerprints.
+type acousticScore struct {
+	// Offset is how many items b is shifted against a: b[i+Offset] aligns with
+	// a[i].
+	Offset int
+	// Overlap is how many aligned items were compared.
+	Overlap int
+	// BitErrorRate is the fraction of differing bits over the overlap, 0..1.
+	BitErrorRate float64
+}
+
+// preparedPrint is a fingerprint with the parts every comparison needs worked
+// out once. The sweep compares each track with every other track within a few
+// seconds of its duration, so rebuilding the alignment index for each pair would
+// dominate its cost.
+type preparedPrint struct {
+	items       []int32
+	index       map[uint32][]int
+	informative bool
+}
+
+// preparePrint indexes a fingerprint's items by their high bits and records
+// whether it varies enough to be compared at all.
+func preparePrint(fp []int32) *preparedPrint {
+	// Each bucket keeps only a few positions: a value repeating many times is
+	// uninformative, and letting it vote once per repeat would make every
+	// pairing O(n²).
+	const keepPerBucket = 4
+	p := &preparedPrint{items: fp, index: make(map[uint32][]int, len(fp))}
+	seen := make(map[int32]struct{}, len(fp))
+	for i, v := range fp {
+		seen[v] = struct{}{}
+		key := alignKey(v)
+		if pos := p.index[key]; len(pos) < keepPerBucket {
+			p.index[key] = append(pos, i)
+		}
+	}
+	p.informative = len(fp) > 0 && float64(len(seen)) >= minDistinctFraction*float64(len(fp))
+	return p
+}
+
+func alignKey(v int32) uint32 { return uint32(v) >> (32 - alignMatchBits) }
+
+// compareChromaprint aligns two raw fingerprints and measures how much they
+// disagree. ok is false when no verdict is possible: no offset gathered any
+// votes, the overlap at the best offset is too short, or either side carries
+// too little information to mean anything.
+func compareChromaprint(a, b []int32) (acousticScore, bool) {
+	return comparePrepared(preparePrint(a), preparePrint(b))
+}
+
+// comparePrepared is compareChromaprint over fingerprints already prepared.
+func comparePrepared(a, b *preparedPrint) (acousticScore, bool) {
+	if len(a.items) < minOverlapItems || len(b.items) < minOverlapItems {
+		return acousticScore{}, false
+	}
+	if !a.informative || !b.informative {
+		return acousticScore{}, false
+	}
+
+	offset, ok := bestOffset(a, b)
+	if !ok {
+		return acousticScore{}, false
+	}
+
+	// a[i] aligns with b[i+offset]; walk the indices valid on both sides.
+	start := max(0, -offset)
+	end := min(len(a.items), len(b.items)-offset)
+	overlap := end - start
+	if overlap < minOverlapItems {
+		return acousticScore{}, false
+	}
+	errBits := 0
+	for i := start; i < end; i++ {
+		errBits += bits.OnesCount32(uint32(a.items[i]) ^ uint32(b.items[i+offset]))
+	}
+	return acousticScore{
+		Offset:       offset,
+		Overlap:      overlap,
+		BitErrorRate: float64(errBits) / float64(32*overlap),
+	}, true
+}
+
+// bestOffset returns the relative shift most items agree on.
+func bestOffset(a, b *preparedPrint) (int, bool) {
+	votes := make([]int, 2*maxAlignOffsetItems+1)
+	for j, v := range b.items {
+		for _, i := range a.index[alignKey(v)] {
+			off := j - i
+			if off >= -maxAlignOffsetItems && off <= maxAlignOffsetItems {
+				votes[off+maxAlignOffsetItems]++
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	best, bestVotes := 0, 0
+	for k, n := range votes {
+		// Strictly greater keeps the smallest shift on a tie, which is the more
+		// likely truth and keeps the result deterministic.
+		if n > bestVotes || (n == bestVotes && n > 0 && abs(k-maxAlignOffsetItems) < abs(best)) {
+			best, bestVotes = k-maxAlignOffsetItems, n
+		}
+	}
+	return best, bestVotes > 0
+}
+
+// fingerprintCandidate is one track as the grouping sees it.
+type fingerprintCandidate struct {
+	ID           string
+	DurationMs   int32
+	StreamSHA256 []byte
+	Chromaprint  []int32
+}
+
+// duplicateTier names what a group's evidence is.
+type duplicateTier string
+
+const (
+	tierExact    duplicateTier = "exact"
+	tierAcoustic duplicateTier = "acoustic"
+)
+
+// duplicateGroup is a set of tracks proposed as one recording. Members are
+// sorted by ID.
+type duplicateGroup struct {
+	Tier    duplicateTier
+	Members []string
+	// WorstBitErrorRate is the largest disagreement between any two members of
+	// an acoustic group — the weakest evidence the group rests on. Zero for
+	// exact groups.
+	WorstBitErrorRate float64
+}
+
+// groupingResult is what one grouping pass found.
+type groupingResult struct {
+	Groups []duplicateGroup
+	// OversizeClusters counts acoustic clusters discarded for exceeding
+	// maxAcousticGroupSize. Reported rather than silent: a sudden rise means the
+	// cap or the information floor needs attention.
+	OversizeClusters int
+}
+
+// groupUnit is one thing the acoustic pass compares: a single track, or an exact
+// group standing in for all its byte-identical copies.
+type groupUnit struct {
+	ids        []string // every member, sorted
+	durationMs int32
+	sortKey    string // the representative's id: ties on duration break on it
+	print      *preparedPrint
+	exact      bool // more than one member with identical audio
+	assigned   bool
+}
+
+// streamGrouper is the acoustic pass over units arriving in (durationMs, sortKey)
+// order. It holds only the units within durationToleranceMs of the oldest one
+// not yet settled, so memory is bounded by the densest few seconds of the
+// library rather than by its size — the whole library's fingerprints would be
+// hundreds of megabytes.
+//
+// A seed can be settled as soon as a unit arrives beyond its window: everything
+// it could group with has already arrived, and no later seed can reach back to
+// it because seeds only look forward. That is what makes the streamed result
+// identical to running the same pass over the whole sorted list.
+//
+// Grouping is COMPLETE-LINKAGE: a unit joins a group only if it matches every
+// unit already in it, within the duration tolerance and the bit-error limit.
+// Single-linkage would let a chain of near-misses — A close to B, B close to C —
+// drag A and C, which are not close, into one proposed merge. Complete linkage
+// also means any member can be chosen as the survivor (#3911).
+//
+// When an acoustic group absorbs an exact group, the result is tier acoustic: a
+// group is only as certain as its weakest link.
+type streamGrouper struct {
+	maxBitErrorRate float64
+	window          []*groupUnit
+	res             groupingResult
+}
+
+func newStreamGrouper(maxBitErrorRate float64) *streamGrouper {
+	return &streamGrouper{maxBitErrorRate: maxBitErrorRate}
+}
+
+// push adds the next unit. Units must arrive in non-decreasing
+// (durationMs, sortKey) order.
+func (g *streamGrouper) push(u *groupUnit) {
+	g.window = append(g.window, u)
+	for len(g.window) > 1 && u.durationMs-g.window[0].durationMs > durationToleranceMs {
+		g.settleOldest()
+	}
+}
+
+// finish settles every unit still waiting and returns what was found. Groups
+// are in no particular order; callers sort with sortGroups.
+func (g *streamGrouper) finish() groupingResult {
+	for len(g.window) > 0 {
+		g.settleOldest()
+	}
+	return g.res
+}
+
+func (g *streamGrouper) settleOldest() {
+	seed := g.window[0]
+	g.window[0] = nil // release it: the window's backing array outlives the slide
+	g.window = g.window[1:]
+	if seed.assigned {
+		return
+	}
+
+	group := []*groupUnit{seed}
+	worst := 0.0
+	for _, cand := range g.window {
+		if cand.durationMs-seed.durationMs > durationToleranceMs {
+			break
+		}
+		if cand.assigned {
+			continue
+		}
+		joined, worstWithCand := true, worst
+		for _, member := range group {
+			if abs32(cand.durationMs-member.durationMs) > durationToleranceMs {
+				joined = false
+				break
+			}
+			score, ok := comparePrepared(member.print, cand.print)
+			if !ok || score.BitErrorRate > g.maxBitErrorRate {
+				joined = false
+				break
+			}
+			worstWithCand = math.Max(worstWithCand, score.BitErrorRate)
+		}
+		if joined {
+			group = append(group, cand)
+			worst = worstWithCand
+		}
+	}
+
+	if len(group) == 1 {
+		if seed.exact {
+			g.res.Groups = append(g.res.Groups, duplicateGroup{Tier: tierExact, Members: seed.ids})
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	// Count units, not tracks: an absorbed exact group is one piece of acoustic
+	// evidence however many identical files it holds.
+	if len(group) > maxAcousticGroupSize {
+		g.res.OversizeClusters++
+		for _, member := range group {
+			member.assigned = true
+			// The acoustic evidence is untrustworthy; identical bytes are not.
+			// An exact group caught inside an oversize cluster is still proposed.
+			if member.exact {
+				g.res.Groups = append(g.res.Groups, duplicateGroup{Tier: tierExact, Members: member.ids})
+			}
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	var members []string
+	for _, member := range group {
+		member.assigned = true
+		members = append(members, member.ids...)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(members)
+	g.res.Groups = append(g.res.Groups, duplicateGroup{
+		Tier: tierAcoustic, Members: members, WorstBitErrorRate: worst,
+	})
+}
+
+// groupDuplicates proposes duplicate groups among candidates held in memory. It
+// runs the same streamGrouper the sweep uses, so there is one grouping rule.
+//
+// Exact groups come first: tracks sharing an audio stream hash. Each becomes a
+// single unit for the acoustic pass, represented by its member with the lowest
+// (duration, id) that has a chromaprint. That is the member the sweep's
+// duration-ordered stream meets first, which keeps the two identical. An exact
+// group with no chromaprint at all cannot be compared acoustically and stands
+// on its own.
+//
+// The output does not depend on input order.
+func groupDuplicates(cands []fingerprintCandidate, maxBitErrorRate float64) groupingResult {
+	byHash := map[string][]fingerprintCandidate{}
+	var units []*groupUnit
+	var printless []duplicateGroup
+	for _, c := range cands {
+		if len(c.StreamSHA256) > 0 {
+			byHash[string(c.StreamSHA256)] = append(byHash[string(c.StreamSHA256)], c)
+			continue
+		}
+		if len(c.Chromaprint) > 0 {
+			units = append(units, &groupUnit{
+				ids: []string{c.ID}, durationMs: c.DurationMs, sortKey: c.ID, print: preparePrint(c.Chromaprint),
+			})
+		}
+	}
+	for _, group := range byHash {
+		ids := make([]string, len(group))
+		for i, m := range group {
+			ids[i] = m.ID
+		}
+		sort.Strings(ids)
+
+		var rep *fingerprintCandidate
+		for i := range group {
+			m := &group[i]
+			if len(m.Chromaprint) == 0 {
+				continue
+			}
+			if rep == nil || m.DurationMs < rep.DurationMs || (m.DurationMs == rep.DurationMs && m.ID < rep.ID) {
+				rep = m
+			}
+		}
+		if rep == nil {
+			if len(group) > 1 {
+				printless = append(printless, duplicateGroup{Tier: tierExact, Members: ids})
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		units = append(units, &groupUnit{
+			ids: ids, durationMs: rep.DurationMs, sortKey: rep.ID,
+			print: preparePrint(rep.Chromaprint), exact: len(group) > 1,
+		})
+	}
+
+	sort.Slice(units, func(i, j int) bool {
+		if units[i].durationMs != units[j].durationMs {
+			return units[i].durationMs < units[j].durationMs
+		}
+		return units[i].sortKey < units[j].sortKey
+	})
+	g := newStreamGrouper(maxBitErrorRate)
+	for _, u := range units {
+		g.push(u)
+	}
+	res := g.finish()
+	res.Groups = append(res.Groups, printless...)
+	sortGroups(res.Groups)
+	return res
+}
+
+// sortGroups orders groups by their first member. Groups are disjoint, so that
+// is a total order.
+func sortGroups(groups []duplicateGroup) {
+	sort.Slice(groups, func(i, j int) bool { return groups[i].Members[0] < groups[j].Members[0] })
+}
+
+func abs(n int) int {
+	if n < 0 {
+		return -n
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+func abs32(n int32) int32 {
+	if n < 0 {
+		return -n
+	}
+	return n
+}

internal/library/duplicate_match_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"math"
+	"math/rand/v2"
+	"reflect"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// printLen is a realistic fingerprint length: fpcalc's 120s at ~8 items/second.
+const printLen = 960
+
+// randomPrint is a deterministic stand-in for one recording's fingerprint.
+func randomPrint(seed uint64, n int) []int32 {
+	r := rand.New(rand.NewPCG(seed, seed^0x9e3779b97f4a7c15))
+	fp := make([]int32, n)
+	for i := range fp {
+		fp[i] = int32(r.Uint32())
+	}
+	return fp
+}
+
+// withBitNoise flips exactly round(fraction × all bits) distinct bits — the
+// same recording through a different encoder, at a known bit-error rate.
+func withBitNoise(fp []int32, fraction float64, seed uint64) []int32 {
+	out := append([]int32(nil), fp...)
+	r := rand.New(rand.NewPCG(seed, seed^0x243f6a8885a308d3))
+	total := 32 * len(fp)
+	for _, pos := range r.Perm(total)[:int(math.Round(fraction*float64(total)))] {
+		out[pos/32] ^= int32(uint32(1) << (pos % 32))
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func constantPrint(v int32, n int) []int32 {
+	fp := make([]int32, n)
+	for i := range fp {
+		fp[i] = v
+	}
+	return fp
+}
+
+func TestCompareChromaprint(t *testing.T) {
+	base := randomPrint(1, printLen)
+
+	t.Run("identical", func(t *testing.T) {
+		got, ok := compareChromaprint(base, base)
+		if !ok || got.BitErrorRate != 0 || got.Offset != 0 || got.Overlap != printLen {
+			t.Fatalf("got %+v ok=%v, want an exact alignment", got, ok)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("re-encoded: known bit noise is measured exactly", func(t *testing.T) {
+		got, ok := compareChromaprint(base, withBitNoise(base, 0.03, 2))
+		if !ok {
+			t.Fatal("a re-encode was not comparable")
+		}
+		if want := math.Round(0.03*32*printLen) / (32 * printLen); got.BitErrorRate != want {
+			t.Fatalf("BitErrorRate = %v, want %v", got.BitErrorRate, want)
+		}
+	})
+
+	// b starts 40 items later in the same audio: b[j] = a[j+40], so a[i] aligns
+	// with b[i-40].
+	t.Run("offset inside the window is recovered", func(t *testing.T) {
+		got, ok := compareChromaprint(base, base[40:])
+		if !ok || got.Offset != -40 || got.BitErrorRate != 0 || got.Overlap != printLen-40 {
+			t.Fatalf("got %+v ok=%v, want offset -40 with no error", got, ok)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("offset beyond the window never matches", func(t *testing.T) {
+		got, ok := compareChromaprint(base, base[200:])
+		if ok && got.BitErrorRate <= defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate {
+			t.Fatalf("a 200-item shift matched: %+v", got)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("unrelated recordings sit near 0.5", func(t *testing.T) {
+		got, ok := compareChromaprint(base, randomPrint(99, printLen))
+		if ok && got.BitErrorRate < 0.4 {
+			t.Fatalf("unrelated fingerprints scored %v", got.BitErrorRate)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("too short an overlap gives no verdict", func(t *testing.T) {
+		if got, ok := compareChromaprint(base, base[:minOverlapItems-1]); ok {
+			t.Fatalf("a %d-item fingerprint was compared: %+v", minOverlapItems-1, got)
+		}
+	})
+
+	// Two near-silent tracks agree perfectly without being one recording. The
+	// information floor is the only thing standing between them and a merge.
+	t.Run("low-information fingerprints give no verdict", func(t *testing.T) {
+		silence := constantPrint(0x1234, printLen)
+		if got, ok := compareChromaprint(silence, silence); ok {
+			t.Fatalf("silence compared as a match: %+v", got)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("the threshold separates close from not close", func(t *testing.T) {
+		near, _ := compareChromaprint(base, withBitNoise(base, 0.10, 3))
+		far, _ := compareChromaprint(base, withBitNoise(base, 0.20, 4))
+		if near.BitErrorRate > defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate {
+			t.Errorf("10%% noise (%v) is over the threshold", near.BitErrorRate)
+		}
+		if far.BitErrorRate <= defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate {
+			t.Errorf("20%% noise (%v) is under the threshold", far.BitErrorRate)
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+func TestGroupDuplicates_ExactTier(t *testing.T) {
+	hash := []byte("sha256-of-www-instrumental-bytes")
+	res := groupDuplicates([]fingerprintCandidate{
+		{ID: "www-01", DurationMs: 215000, StreamSHA256: hash},
+		{ID: "www-02", DurationMs: 215000, StreamSHA256: hash},
+		{ID: "lovesick", DurationMs: 198000, StreamSHA256: []byte("another")},
+	}, defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate)
+	want := []duplicateGroup{{Tier: tierExact, Members: []string{"www-01", "www-02"}}}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(res.Groups, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("groups = %+v, want %+v", res.Groups, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestGroupDuplicates_AcousticPair(t *testing.T) {
+	p := randomPrint(10, printLen)
+	res := groupDuplicates([]fingerprintCandidate{
+		{ID: "album", DurationMs: 240000, Chromaprint: p},
+		{ID: "compilation", DurationMs: 241000, Chromaprint: withBitNoise(p, 0.05, 11)},
+	}, defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate)
+	if len(res.Groups) != 1 || res.Groups[0].Tier != tierAcoustic ||
+		!reflect.DeepEqual(res.Groups[0].Members, []string{"album", "compilation"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("groups = %+v, want one acoustic pair", res.Groups)
+	}
+	if got := res.Groups[0].WorstBitErrorRate; math.Abs(got-0.05) > 0.001 {
+		t.Fatalf("WorstBitErrorRate = %v, want about 0.05", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A is close to B and B is close to C, but A and C are not close. Under
+// single linkage all three would be proposed as one recording; complete linkage
+// must keep C out.
+func TestGroupDuplicates_NoChaining(t *testing.T) {
+	a := randomPrint(20, printLen)
+	b := withBitNoise(a, 0.10, 21)
+	c := withBitNoise(b, 0.10, 22)
+	if s, _ := compareChromaprint(a, c); s.BitErrorRate <= defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate {
+		t.Fatalf("fixture broken: A and C are close (%v), so this cannot test chaining", s.BitErrorRate)
+	}
+	res := groupDuplicates([]fingerprintCandidate{
+		{ID: "a", DurationMs: 200000, Chromaprint: a},
+		{ID: "b", DurationMs: 200000, Chromaprint: b},
+		{ID: "c", DurationMs: 200000, Chromaprint: c},
+	}, defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate)
+	if len(res.Groups) != 1 || !reflect.DeepEqual(res.Groups[0].Members, []string{"a", "b"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("groups = %+v, want only {a, b}", res.Groups)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestGroupDuplicates_DurationTolerance(t *testing.T) {
+	p := randomPrint(30, printLen)
+	res := groupDuplicates([]fingerprintCandidate{
+		{ID: "edit", DurationMs: 200000, Chromaprint: p},
+		{ID: "extended", DurationMs: 200000 + durationToleranceMs + 1, Chromaprint: p},
+	}, defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate)
+	if len(res.Groups) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("tracks %dms apart were grouped: %+v", durationToleranceMs+1, res.Groups)
+	}
+}
+
+// Nine tracks that all match are far likelier a shared jingle than nine copies
+// of one recording. The cluster must be reported, not proposed.
+func TestGroupDuplicates_OversizeClusterIsDiscarded(t *testing.T) {
+	p := randomPrint(40, printLen)
+	var cands []fingerprintCandidate
+	for i := range maxAcousticGroupSize + 1 {
+		cands = append(cands, fingerprintCandidate{
+			ID: string(rune('a' + i)), DurationMs: 30000, Chromaprint: withBitNoise(p, 0.01, uint64(100+i)),
+		})
+	}
+	res := groupDuplicates(cands, defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate)
+	if len(res.Groups) != 0 || res.OversizeClusters != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("groups = %+v, oversize = %d; want none proposed and 1 oversize", res.Groups, res.OversizeClusters)
+	}
+}
+
+// Two byte-identical copies plus a re-encode of the same recording are one
+// group, and it is only as certain as its weakest link.
+func TestGroupDuplicates_ExactGroupAbsorbedIntoAcoustic(t *testing.T) {
+	p := randomPrint(50, printLen)
+	hash := []byte("same-bytes")
+	res := groupDuplicates([]fingerprintCandidate{
+		{ID: "x1", DurationMs: 180000, StreamSHA256: hash, Chromaprint: p},
+		{ID: "x2", DurationMs: 180000, StreamSHA256: hash, Chromaprint: p},
+		{ID: "y", DurationMs: 180000, StreamSHA256: []byte("other-bytes"), Chromaprint: withBitNoise(p, 0.03, 51)},
+	}, defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate)
+	want := []string{"x1", "x2", "y"}
+	if len(res.Groups) != 1 || res.Groups[0].Tier != tierAcoustic || !reflect.DeepEqual(res.Groups[0].Members, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("groups = %+v, want one acoustic group %v", res.Groups, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestGroupDuplicates_UnrelatedTracksNeverGroup(t *testing.T) {
+	var cands []fingerprintCandidate
+	for i := range 6 {
+		cands = append(cands, fingerprintCandidate{
+			ID: string(rune('a' + i)), DurationMs: 210000, Chromaprint: randomPrint(uint64(60+i), printLen),
+		})
+	}
+	if res := groupDuplicates(cands, defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate); len(res.Groups) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("unrelated recordings were grouped: %+v", res.Groups)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestGroupDuplicates_OrderIndependent(t *testing.T) {
+	p := randomPrint(70, printLen)
+	q := randomPrint(71, printLen)
+	hash := []byte("identical")
+	cands := []fingerprintCandidate{
+		{ID: "p1", DurationMs: 200000, Chromaprint: p},
+		{ID: "p2", DurationMs: 201000, Chromaprint: withBitNoise(p, 0.04, 72)},
+		{ID: "q1", DurationMs: 150000, Chromaprint: q},
+		{ID: "q2", DurationMs: 150500, Chromaprint: withBitNoise(q, 0.02, 73)},
+		{ID: "h1", DurationMs: 90000, StreamSHA256: hash},
+		{ID: "h2", DurationMs: 90000, StreamSHA256: hash},
+		{ID: "lone", DurationMs: 200000, Chromaprint: randomPrint(74, printLen)},
+	}
+	want := groupDuplicates(cands, defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate)
+	if len(want.Groups) != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("fixture broken: %d groups, want 3 (p, q, h)", len(want.Groups))
+	}
+	r := rand.New(rand.NewPCG(75, 76))
+	for range 20 {
+		shuffled := append([]fingerprintCandidate(nil), cands...)
+		r.Shuffle(len(shuffled), func(i, j int) { shuffled[i], shuffled[j] = shuffled[j], shuffled[i] })
+		if got := groupDuplicates(shuffled, defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
+			t.Fatalf("input order changed the result:\n got  %+v\n want %+v", got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/library/duplicate_merge.go

@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"log/slog"
+	"sort"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5"
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/coverart"
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+	syncpkg "git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/sync"
+)
+
+// Duplicate merge (M400 #3911).
+
+// ErrDuplicateGroupNotPending means the group was already merged or dismissed,
+// no longer exists, or no longer has two members to merge.
+var ErrDuplicateGroupNotPending = errors.New("library: duplicate group is not pending")
+
+// ErrSurvivorNotInGroup means the copy chosen to keep is not a member of the group.
+var ErrSurvivorNotInGroup = errors.New("library: survivor is not a member of the group")
+
+// MergedCopy is one copy a merge kept or removed.
+type MergedCopy struct {
+	TrackID   pgtype.UUID
+	FilePath  string
+	TrackMbid *string
+	AlbumMbid *string
+}
+
+// MergeResult says what a merge did.
+type MergeResult struct {
+	Tier     string
+	Survivor MergedCopy
+	Removed  []MergedCopy
+
+	// What moved onto the survivor — reported so the operator, and the audit
+	// log, can see that the history was kept rather than take it on trust.
+	PlayEvents      int64
+	SkipEvents      int64
+	Likes           int // users whose like now sits on the survivor
+	PlaylistEntries int
+
+	DeletedAlbumIDs  []pgtype.UUID
+	DeletedArtistIDs []pgtype.UUID
+}
+
+// MergeDuplicateGroup keeps one copy of a duplicate group and removes the rest,
+// carrying everything the removed copies held onto the one kept.
+//
+// survivorID chooses the copy to keep; an invalid (zero) id takes the proposal
+// from ProposeSurvivor.
+//
+// The danger this is built around: every table referencing tracks does so ON
+// DELETE CASCADE, so deleting a duplicate's row outright silently destroys its
+// likes, plays, playlist entries and tags. The merge moves all of that onto the
+// survivor first, and only then deletes the now-empty row.
+//
+// It deletes the removed copies' FILES too, and first, before any row changes
+// (#3918, note #3926). A merge that left the file behind would be undone by the
+// next scan, which re-imports it as a new track with no history. If a file cannot
+// be removed, the *FileRemoveError comes back and nothing in the database changes.
+// With several copies to remove, one file may already be gone when a later one
+// fails; that copy's row keeps all its history and is marked missing by the next
+// scan, and retrying the merge picks up where it stopped.
+//
+// Everything else happens in one transaction, which holds a lock on the group so
+// two merges of it cannot run at once. Sync changes for clients' caches are logged
+// inside it, the way the playlists service logs its own.
+func MergeDuplicateGroup(
+	ctx context.Context, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, dataDir string,
+	groupID, survivorID pgtype.UUID,
+) (MergeResult, error) {
+	if logger == nil {
+		logger = slog.Default()
+	}
+	tx, err := pool.Begin(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("begin merge: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = tx.Rollback(ctx) }()
+	tq := dbq.New(tx)
+
+	group, err := tq.LockDuplicateGroupForMerge(ctx, groupID)
+	if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+		return MergeResult{}, ErrDuplicateGroupNotPending
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("lock duplicate group: %w", err)
+	}
+	if group.Status != "pending" {
+		return MergeResult{}, ErrDuplicateGroupNotPending
+	}
+
+	members, err := tq.ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembers(ctx, groupID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("list group members: %w", err)
+	}
+	if len(members) < 2 {
+		return MergeResult{}, ErrDuplicateGroupNotPending
+	}
+	survivor, losers, err := splitSurvivor(members, survivorID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return MergeResult{}, err
+	}
+
+	for _, l := range losers {
+		if err := removeTrackFileOnDisk(l.FilePath); err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, err
+		}
+	}
+
+	res := MergeResult{Tier: group.Tier, Survivor: mergedCopyOf(survivor)}
+	likers := map[string]struct{}{}
+	changes := mergeChanges{}
+	survivorKey := syncpkg.FormatUUID(survivor.ID)
+
+	for _, l := range losers {
+		ids := struct{ survivor, loser pgtype.UUID }{survivor.ID, l.ID}
+		loserKey := syncpkg.FormatUUID(l.ID)
+
+		n, err := tq.MergeRepointPlayEvents(ctx, dbq.MergeRepointPlayEventsParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser})
+		if err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("move play events: %w", err)
+		}
+		res.PlayEvents += n
+		n, err = tq.MergeRepointSkipEvents(ctx, dbq.MergeRepointSkipEventsParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser})
+		if err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("move skip events: %w", err)
+		}
+		res.SkipEvents += n
+		if _, err := tq.MergeRepointContextualLikes(ctx, dbq.MergeRepointContextualLikesParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser}); err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("move contextual likes: %w", err)
+		}
+		if _, err := tq.MergeRepointPlaybackErrors(ctx, dbq.MergeRepointPlaybackErrorsParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser}); err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("move playback errors: %w", err)
+		}
+		if _, err := tq.MergeRepointLidarrRequests(ctx, dbq.MergeRepointLidarrRequestsParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser}); err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("move lidarr request matches: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		playlists, err := tq.MergeRepointPlaylistTracks(ctx, dbq.MergeRepointPlaylistTracksParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser})
+		if err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("move playlist entries: %w", err)
+		}
+		res.PlaylistEntries += len(playlists)
+		for _, pl := range playlists {
+			plKey := syncpkg.FormatUUID(pl)
+			changes.playlistDelete(syncpkg.EncodePlaylistTrackID(plKey, loserKey))
+			changes.playlistUpsert(syncpkg.EncodePlaylistTrackID(plKey, survivorKey))
+		}
+
+		users, err := tq.MergeCopyGeneralLikes(ctx, dbq.MergeCopyGeneralLikesParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser})
+		if err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("move likes: %w", err)
+		}
+		for _, u := range users {
+			userKey := syncpkg.FormatUUID(u)
+			likers[userKey] = struct{}{}
+			changes.likeDelete(syncpkg.EncodeLikeID(userKey, loserKey))
+			changes.likeUpsert(syncpkg.EncodeLikeID(userKey, survivorKey))
+		}
+
+		if _, err := tq.MergeCopyTrackTags(ctx, dbq.MergeCopyTrackTagsParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser}); err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("merge tags: %w", err)
+		}
+		if _, err := tq.MergeCopyTrackSimilarity(ctx, dbq.MergeCopyTrackSimilarityParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser}); err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("merge similarity: %w", err)
+		}
+		if err := tq.MergeInheritTrackMbid(ctx, dbq.MergeInheritTrackMbidParams{SurvivorID: ids.survivor, LoserID: ids.loser}); err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("inherit recording mbid: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		// Everything the loser carried now sits on the survivor, so the CASCADE
+		// this delete sets off has nothing left to destroy.
+		deleted, err := tq.DeleteTrack(ctx, l.ID)
+		if err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("delete merged copy: %w", err)
+		}
+		tidied, err := tidyEmptiedAlbum(ctx, tq, deleted.AlbumID)
+		if err != nil {
+			return MergeResult{}, err
+		}
+		if tidied.AlbumID != nil {
+			res.DeletedAlbumIDs = append(res.DeletedAlbumIDs, *tidied.AlbumID)
+		}
+		if tidied.ArtistID != nil {
+			res.DeletedArtistIDs = append(res.DeletedArtistIDs, *tidied.ArtistID)
+		}
+		res.Removed = append(res.Removed, mergedCopyOf(l))
+		changes.trackDelete(loserKey)
+	}
+	res.Likes = len(likers)
+
+	marked, err := tq.MarkDuplicateGroupMerged(ctx, groupID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("mark group merged: %w", err)
+	}
+	if marked != 1 {
+		return MergeResult{}, ErrDuplicateGroupNotPending
+	}
+	if err := changes.log(ctx, tx); err != nil {
+		return MergeResult{}, err
+	}
+	if err := tx.Commit(ctx); err != nil {
+		return MergeResult{}, fmt.Errorf("commit merge: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// After commit, like DeleteTrackFile: a leftover art directory is only disk.
+	if dataDir != "" {
+		for _, artistID := range res.DeletedArtistIDs {
+			if err := coverart.CleanupArtistArt(dataDir, artistID); err != nil {
+				logger.Warn("duplicate merge: artist-art cleanup failed",
+					"artist_id", syncpkg.FormatUUID(artistID), "err", err)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return res, nil
+}
+
+// splitSurvivor separates the copy to keep from the copies to remove. An
+// invalid survivorID takes ProposeSurvivor's choice.
+func splitSurvivor(
+	members []dbq.ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow, survivorID pgtype.UUID,
+) (dbq.ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow, []dbq.ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow, error) {
+	want := ""
+	if survivorID.Valid {
+		want = syncpkg.FormatUUID(survivorID)
+	} else {
+		cands := make([]SurvivorCandidate, len(members))
+		for i, m := range members {
+			cands[i] = SurvivorCandidate{
+				TrackID: syncpkg.FormatUUID(m.ID), FileFormat: m.FileFormat, FileSize: m.FileSize, AddedAt: m.AddedAt.Time,
+			}
+		}
+		want, _ = ProposeSurvivor(cands)
+	}
+
+	var survivor dbq.ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow
+	found := false
+	var losers []dbq.ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow
+	for _, m := range members {
+		if syncpkg.FormatUUID(m.ID) == want {
+			survivor, found = m, true
+			continue
+		}
+		losers = append(losers, m)
+	}
+	if !found {
+		return dbq.ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow{}, nil, ErrSurvivorNotInGroup
+	}
+	return survivor, losers, nil
+}
+
+func mergedCopyOf(m dbq.ListDuplicateGroupMergeMembersRow) MergedCopy {
+	return MergedCopy{TrackID: m.ID, FilePath: m.FilePath, TrackMbid: m.Mbid, AlbumMbid: m.AlbumMbid}
+}
+
+// mergeChanges collects the sync-log entries a merge owes clients' caches, each
+// once: a user who liked two removed copies still gets one upsert for the
+// survivor.
+type mergeChanges struct {
+	tracks, likeDeletes, likeUpserts, playlistDeletes, playlistUpserts map[string]struct{}
+}
+
+func addTo(set *map[string]struct{}, id string) {
+	if *set == nil {
+		*set = map[string]struct{}{}
+	}
+	(*set)[id] = struct{}{}
+}
+
+func (c *mergeChanges) trackDelete(id string)    { addTo(&c.tracks, id) }
+func (c *mergeChanges) likeDelete(id string)     { addTo(&c.likeDeletes, id) }
+func (c *mergeChanges) likeUpsert(id string)     { addTo(&c.likeUpserts, id) }
+func (c *mergeChanges) playlistDelete(id string) { addTo(&c.playlistDeletes, id) }
+func (c *mergeChanges) playlistUpsert(id string) { addTo(&c.playlistUpserts, id) }
+
+func (c *mergeChanges) log(ctx context.Context, tx pgx.Tx) error {
+	for _, entry := range []struct {
+		kind syncpkg.EntityType
+		ids  map[string]struct{}
+		op   syncpkg.Op
+	}{
+		{syncpkg.EntityTrack, c.tracks, syncpkg.OpDelete},
+		{syncpkg.EntityLikeTrack, c.likeDeletes, syncpkg.OpDelete},
+		{syncpkg.EntityLikeTrack, c.likeUpserts, syncpkg.OpUpsert},
+		{syncpkg.EntityPlaylistTrack, c.playlistDeletes, syncpkg.OpDelete},
+		{syncpkg.EntityPlaylistTrack, c.playlistUpserts, syncpkg.OpUpsert},
+	} {
+		if len(entry.ids) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		ids := make([]string, 0, len(entry.ids))
+		for id := range entry.ids {
+			ids = append(ids, id)
+		}
+		sort.Strings(ids)
+		if err := syncpkg.LogChanges(ctx, tx, entry.kind, ids, entry.op); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("log merge changes: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}

internal/library/duplicate_merge_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,281 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"io/fs"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"syscall"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/dbtest"
+)
+
+// mergeFixture is a library with one duplicate pair carrying history on both
+// copies, and a neighbour track for similarity edges.
+type mergeFixture struct {
+	pool                  *pgxpool.Pool
+	keep, remove, other   dbq.Track
+	keepPath, removePath  string
+	groupID               pgtype.UUID
+	alice, bob            dbq.User
+	playlistID            pgtype.UUID
+	removePlaylistPos     int32
+	aliceEarlierLikeOnRem time.Time
+}
+
+func newMergeFixture(t *testing.T) mergeFixture {
+	t.Helper()
+	pool := newPool(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	q := dbq.New(pool)
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	f := mergeFixture{pool: pool}
+
+	f.keepPath = filepath.Join(dir, "keep.flac")
+	f.removePath = filepath.Join(dir, "remove.mp3")
+	for _, p := range []string{f.keepPath, f.removePath} {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte("audio"), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("write %s: %v", p, err)
+		}
+	}
+	var album dbq.Album
+	var artist dbq.Artist
+	f.keep, album, artist = seedTrack(t, pool, f.keepPath)
+	upsert := func(title, path string) dbq.Track {
+		t.Helper()
+		tr, err := q.UpsertTrack(ctx, dbq.UpsertTrackParams{
+			Title: title, AlbumID: album.ID, ArtistID: artist.ID,
+			DurationMs: 215000, FilePath: path, FileSize: 100, FileFormat: "mp3",
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("track %s: %v", title, err)
+		}
+		return tr
+	}
+	f.remove = upsert("WWW (copy)", f.removePath)
+	f.other = upsert("Neighbour", filepath.Join(dir, "other.mp3"))
+
+	mustExec := func(sql string, args ...any) {
+		t.Helper()
+		if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx, sql, args...); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("exec %q: %v", sql, err)
+		}
+	}
+	// Only the copy being removed carries a recording MBID.
+	mustExec(`UPDATE tracks SET mbid = 'rec-www' WHERE id = $1`, f.remove.ID)
+
+	user := func(name string) dbq.User {
+		t.Helper()
+		u, err := q.CreateUser(ctx, dbq.CreateUserParams{
+			Username: dbtest.TestUserPrefix + name, PasswordHash: "x", ApiToken: name + "-merge-token",
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("user %s: %v", name, err)
+		}
+		return u
+	}
+	f.alice, f.bob = user("merge-alice"), user("merge-bob")
+
+	// Alice liked both copies, the removed one first; Bob liked only the removed one.
+	f.aliceEarlierLikeOnRem = time.Now().Add(-72 * time.Hour).UTC().Truncate(time.Microsecond)
+	mustExec(`INSERT INTO general_likes (user_id, track_id, liked_at) VALUES ($1, $2, $3), ($1, $4, now()), ($5, $2, now())`,
+		f.alice.ID, f.remove.ID, f.aliceEarlierLikeOnRem, f.keep.ID, f.bob.ID)
+
+	now := pgtype.Timestamptz{Time: time.Now(), Valid: true}
+	session, err := q.InsertPlaySession(ctx, dbq.InsertPlaySessionParams{UserID: f.alice.ID, StartedAt: now})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("session: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, track := range []dbq.Track{f.remove, f.remove, f.keep} {
+		if _, err := q.InsertPlayEvent(ctx, dbq.InsertPlayEventParams{
+			UserID: f.alice.ID, TrackID: track.ID, SessionID: session.ID, StartedAt: now,
+		}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("play event: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, err := q.InsertSkipEvent(ctx, dbq.InsertSkipEventParams{
+		UserID: f.alice.ID, TrackID: f.remove.ID, SessionID: session.ID, SkippedAt: now, PositionMs: 1000,
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("skip event: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	pl, err := q.CreatePlaylist(ctx, dbq.CreatePlaylistParams{UserID: f.alice.ID, Name: "merge-mix"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("playlist: %v", err)
+	}
+	f.playlistID = pl.ID
+	entry, err := q.AppendPlaylistTrack(ctx, dbq.AppendPlaylistTrackParams{PlaylistID: pl.ID, TrackID: f.remove.ID})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("playlist entry: %v", err)
+	}
+	f.removePlaylistPos = entry.Position
+
+	mustExec(`INSERT INTO track_tags (track_id, tag, weight) VALUES ($1, 'j-pop', 1), ($1, 'house', 0.5), ($2, 'house', 0.9)`,
+		f.remove.ID, f.keep.ID)
+	mustExec(`INSERT INTO track_similarity (track_a_id, track_b_id, score, source) VALUES
+		($1, $3, 0.8, 'listenbrainz'),
+		($2, $3, 0.7, 'listenbrainz'),
+		($1, $2, 0.99, 'listenbrainz'),
+		($3, $1, 0.6, 'musicbrainz_tag')`, f.remove.ID, f.keep.ID, f.other.ID)
+
+	if err := pool.QueryRow(ctx,
+		`INSERT INTO duplicate_groups (member_key, tier) VALUES ('merge-fixture', 'exact') RETURNING id`,
+	).Scan(&f.groupID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("group: %v", err)
+	}
+	mustExec(`INSERT INTO duplicate_group_members (group_id, track_id) VALUES ($1, $2), ($1, $3)`,
+		f.groupID, f.keep.ID, f.remove.ID)
+	return f
+}
+
+func (f mergeFixture) count(t *testing.T, sql string, args ...any) int {
+	t.Helper()
+	var n int
+	if err := f.pool.QueryRow(context.Background(), sql, args...).Scan(&n); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("count %q: %v", sql, err)
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+// The #3911 proof: after a merge, every piece of history the removed copy held
+// is on the copy kept, nothing is doubled, and the removed copy — row and file —
+// is gone.
+func TestMergeDuplicateGroup_Integration(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newMergeFixture(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	res, err := MergeDuplicateGroup(ctx, f.pool, nil, "", f.groupID, f.keep.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("merge: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(res.Removed) != 1 || res.Removed[0].FilePath != f.removePath || res.Survivor.TrackID != f.keep.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("result = %+v, want the removed copy reported and the kept one as survivor", res)
+	}
+	if res.PlayEvents != 2 || res.SkipEvents != 1 || res.Likes != 2 || res.PlaylistEntries != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("moved = plays %d skips %d likes %d playlist %d, want 2, 1, 2, 1",
+			res.PlayEvents, res.SkipEvents, res.Likes, res.PlaylistEntries)
+	}
+
+	if _, err := os.Stat(f.removePath); !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		t.Errorf("removed copy's file still on disk: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(f.keepPath); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("kept copy's file is gone: %v", err)
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM tracks WHERE id = $1`, f.remove.ID); n != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("removed copy's row still exists")
+	}
+
+	// Likes: one per user, Alice's dated to her earlier like.
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM general_likes WHERE track_id = $1`, f.keep.ID); n != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("likes on the kept copy = %d, want 2 (Alice once, Bob)", n)
+	}
+	var aliceLiked time.Time
+	if err := f.pool.QueryRow(ctx, `SELECT liked_at FROM general_likes WHERE user_id = $1 AND track_id = $2`,
+		f.alice.ID, f.keep.ID).Scan(&aliceLiked); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("alice's like: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !aliceLiked.Equal(f.aliceEarlierLikeOnRem) {
+		t.Errorf("alice's like dated %v, want her earlier like %v", aliceLiked, f.aliceEarlierLikeOnRem)
+	}
+
+	// Plays and skips move exactly: none lost, none invented.
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM play_events WHERE track_id = $1`, f.keep.ID); n != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("plays on the kept copy = %d, want 3", n)
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM skip_events WHERE track_id = $1`, f.keep.ID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("skips on the kept copy = %d, want 1", n)
+	}
+
+	// The playlist entry stays where it was and now plays the kept copy.
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM playlist_tracks WHERE playlist_id = $1 AND position = $2 AND track_id = $3`,
+		f.playlistID, f.removePlaylistPos, f.keep.ID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("playlist entry at position %d does not point at the kept copy", f.removePlaylistPos)
+	}
+
+	// Tags are a union; the kept copy's own weight wins where both had the tag.
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM track_tags WHERE track_id = $1`, f.keep.ID); n != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("tags on the kept copy = %d, want 2 (house, j-pop)", n)
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM track_tags WHERE track_id = $1 AND tag = 'house' AND weight = 0.9`, f.keep.ID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("the kept copy's own house weight was overwritten")
+	}
+
+	// Similarity: rewritten onto the kept copy, no duplicate edge, no self-edge,
+	// nothing left pointing at the removed copy.
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM track_similarity WHERE track_a_id = $1 AND track_b_id = $2 AND source = 'listenbrainz'`,
+		f.keep.ID, f.other.ID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("listenbrainz edge keep→other = %d rows, want exactly 1", n)
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM track_similarity WHERE track_a_id = $1 AND track_b_id = $2 AND source = 'musicbrainz_tag'`,
+		f.other.ID, f.keep.ID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("musicbrainz_tag edge other→keep was not carried over")
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM track_similarity WHERE track_a_id = track_b_id`); n != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a self-edge was written")
+	}
+
+	// The removed copy's recording MBID is inherited; the group is closed.
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM tracks WHERE id = $1 AND mbid = 'rec-www'`, f.keep.ID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("the kept copy did not inherit the recording MBID")
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM duplicate_groups WHERE id = $1 AND status = 'merged' AND resolved_at IS NOT NULL`, f.groupID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("group was not marked merged")
+	}
+
+	// A second merge of the same group is refused rather than repeated.
+	if _, err := MergeDuplicateGroup(ctx, f.pool, nil, "", f.groupID, f.keep.ID); !errors.Is(err, ErrDuplicateGroupNotPending) {
+		t.Errorf("second merge err = %v, want ErrDuplicateGroupNotPending", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// When the removed copy's file cannot go, nothing may change: its likes, plays
+// and row stay exactly where they were, and the group stays pending.
+func TestMergeDuplicateGroup_UnremovableFileChangesNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newMergeFixture(t)
+	stubRemoveFile(t, func(name string) error {
+		return &fs.PathError{Op: "remove", Path: name, Err: syscall.EROFS}
+	})
+
+	_, err := MergeDuplicateGroup(context.Background(), f.pool, nil, "", f.groupID, f.keep.ID)
+	var fre *FileRemoveError
+	if !errors.As(err, &fre) || !fre.NotWritable() {
+		t.Fatalf("err = %v, want a not-writable *FileRemoveError", err)
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM tracks WHERE id = $1`, f.remove.ID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("the copy's row was deleted although its file was not")
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM general_likes WHERE track_id = $1`, f.remove.ID); n != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("likes on the copy = %d, want both still there", n)
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM play_events WHERE track_id = $1`, f.remove.ID); n != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("plays on the copy = %d, want both still there", n)
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM duplicate_groups WHERE id = $1 AND status = 'pending'`, f.groupID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("group left pending = false, want it still pending")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMergeDuplicateGroup_SurvivorMustBeAMember(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newMergeFixture(t)
+	var stranger pgtype.UUID
+	stranger.Bytes[15], stranger.Valid = 0xEE, true
+
+	_, err := MergeDuplicateGroup(context.Background(), f.pool, nil, "", f.groupID, stranger)
+	if !errors.Is(err, ErrSurvivorNotInGroup) {
+		t.Fatalf("err = %v, want ErrSurvivorNotInGroup", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(f.removePath); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("a refused merge removed a file: %v", err)
+	}
+	if n := f.count(t, `SELECT count(*) FROM duplicate_groups WHERE id = $1 AND status = 'pending'`, f.groupID); n != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("a refused merge changed the group")
+	}
+}

internal/library/duplicate_survivor.go

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// SurvivorCandidate is what choosing which copy to keep needs to know about one
+// member of a duplicate group.
+type SurvivorCandidate struct {
+	TrackID    string
+	FileFormat string
+	FileSize   int64
+	AddedAt    time.Time
+}
+
+// losslessFormats are the scanned extensions that are lossless by definition.
+// m4a is left out on purpose: it holds either ALAC or AAC, and the scanner
+// records only the extension, so calling it lossless would sometimes prefer an
+// AAC copy over a FLAC one.
+var losslessFormats = map[string]bool{"flac": true, "wav": true}
+
+// ProposeSurvivor picks which copy of a duplicate group to keep, and gives the
+// reason in words the operator reads beside it. It is a default, not a verdict:
+// the report shows it and the merge (#3911) lets the operator choose another.
+//
+// In order:
+//  1. lossless over lossy — the one difference no later step can recover
+//  2. the larger file — for one recording at one duration that is the higher
+//     bitrate. The scanner does not record bitrate (tracks.bitrate is never
+//     filled), so file size is the signal that actually exists
+//  3. the copy in the library longest — the one most likely to carry the play
+//     history and likes, so the merge moves the least
+//  4. the lowest track id, so the choice is stable between page loads
+func ProposeSurvivor(cands []SurvivorCandidate) (trackID, reason string) {
+	if len(cands) == 0 {
+		return "", ""
+	}
+	ranked := append([]SurvivorCandidate(nil), cands...)
+	sort.SliceStable(ranked, func(i, j int) bool { return survivorBefore(ranked[i], ranked[j]) })
+	best := ranked[0]
+	if len(ranked) == 1 {
+		return best.TrackID, "the only copy"
+	}
+
+	// The reason names the first rule that separated the best copy from the
+	// runner-up — the rule that actually decided, not every rule it passed.
+	next := ranked[1]
+	switch {
+	case isLossless(best) != isLossless(next):
+		return best.TrackID, "lossless (" + strings.ToLower(best.FileFormat) + ")"
+	case best.FileSize != next.FileSize:
+		return best.TrackID, "largest file"
+	case !best.AddedAt.Equal(next.AddedAt):
+		return best.TrackID, "in the library longest"
+	default:
+		return best.TrackID, "copies are otherwise identical"
+	}
+}
+
+func survivorBefore(a, b SurvivorCandidate) bool {
+	if isLossless(a) != isLossless(b) {
+		return isLossless(a)
+	}
+	if a.FileSize != b.FileSize {
+		return a.FileSize > b.FileSize
+	}
+	if !a.AddedAt.Equal(b.AddedAt) {
+		return a.AddedAt.Before(b.AddedAt)
+	}
+	return a.TrackID < b.TrackID
+}
+
+func isLossless(c SurvivorCandidate) bool {
+	return losslessFormats[strings.ToLower(c.FileFormat)]
+}

internal/library/duplicate_survivor_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestProposeSurvivor(t *testing.T) {
+	older := time.Date(2025, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	newer := older.Add(24 * time.Hour)
+	cases := []struct {
+		name       string
+		cands      []SurvivorCandidate
+		wantID     string
+		wantReason string
+	}{
+		{
+			// Lossless wins even against a much larger lossy file, and even
+			// when the lossy copy has been in the library longer.
+			name: "lossless beats larger and older",
+			cands: []SurvivorCandidate{
+				{TrackID: "mp3", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 90_000_000, AddedAt: older},
+				{TrackID: "flac", FileFormat: "FLAC", FileSize: 30_000_000, AddedAt: newer},
+			},
+			wantID: "flac", wantReason: "lossless (flac)",
+		},
+		{
+			// m4a may be AAC; it must not outrank an mp3 just for being m4a.
+			name: "m4a is not treated as lossless",
+			cands: []SurvivorCandidate{
+				{TrackID: "m4a", FileFormat: "m4a", FileSize: 5_000_000, AddedAt: older},
+				{TrackID: "mp3", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 9_000_000, AddedAt: newer},
+			},
+			wantID: "mp3", wantReason: "largest file",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "larger file wins among lossy copies",
+			cands: []SurvivorCandidate{
+				{TrackID: "128k", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 3_400_000, AddedAt: older},
+				{TrackID: "320k", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 8_600_000, AddedAt: newer},
+			},
+			wantID: "320k", wantReason: "largest file",
+		},
+		{
+			// The #3885 pair: identical audio, sizes equal but for the tags.
+			name: "the longest-standing copy wins when size ties",
+			cands: []SurvivorCandidate{
+				{TrackID: "www-02", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 6_900_000, AddedAt: newer},
+				{TrackID: "www-01", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 6_900_000, AddedAt: older},
+			},
+			wantID: "www-01", wantReason: "in the library longest",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "a full tie falls back to the lowest id, stably",
+			cands: []SurvivorCandidate{
+				{TrackID: "b", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 1, AddedAt: older},
+				{TrackID: "a", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 1, AddedAt: older},
+			},
+			wantID: "a", wantReason: "copies are otherwise identical",
+		},
+		{
+			name:   "one copy",
+			cands:  []SurvivorCandidate{{TrackID: "only", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 1, AddedAt: older}},
+			wantID: "only", wantReason: "the only copy",
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			id, reason := ProposeSurvivor(tc.cands)
+			if id != tc.wantID || reason != tc.wantReason {
+				t.Fatalf("ProposeSurvivor = (%q, %q), want (%q, %q)", id, reason, tc.wantID, tc.wantReason)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// The reason must name the rule that decided. Across three copies that is the
+// comparison between first and second place, not the first rule any pair
+// differs on: here the lossy copy differs from the others by format, but the
+// two FLACs are separated by size.
+func TestProposeSurvivor_ReasonIsTheDecidingRule(t *testing.T) {
+	at := time.Date(2025, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	id, reason := ProposeSurvivor([]SurvivorCandidate{
+		{TrackID: "mp3", FileFormat: "mp3", FileSize: 99_000_000, AddedAt: at},
+		{TrackID: "flac-small", FileFormat: "flac", FileSize: 20_000_000, AddedAt: at},
+		{TrackID: "flac-big", FileFormat: "flac", FileSize: 40_000_000, AddedAt: at},
+	})
+	if id != "flac-big" || reason != "largest file" {
+		t.Fatalf("got (%q, %q), want (flac-big, largest file)", id, reason)
+	}
+}

internal/library/duplicate_sweep.go

@@ -0,0 +1,398 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"log/slog"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5"
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+	syncpkg "git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/sync"
+)
+
+// Duplicate sweep (M400 #3910).
+//
+// Reads fingerprints, runs them through the matcher and records what it proposes
+// in duplicate_groups. It never merges or deletes anything the operator has not
+// asked for: a group is a proposal, reviewed in the admin report (#3912).
+//
+// Blocked on duration, deliberately not on title: the #3885 pair are titled
+// "WWW" and "WWW (instrumental)", so a title block would have missed the case
+// that started the milestone. Candidates stream in (duration_ms, id) order and
+// the grouper holds only a few seconds of durations at a time.
+
+// duplicateCandidatePage is how many candidates one query returns. Each row
+// carries a ~4 KB fingerprint, so a page is about 2 MB.
+const duplicateCandidatePage = 500
+
+// duplicateSweepTick is how often the worker checks whether a sweep is due. The
+// operator's sweep interval (#3913) is the least time between sweeps; the tick
+// only bounds how late past it one starts. With nothing due, a tick is two cheap
+// aggregate queries.
+const duplicateSweepTick = time.Hour
+
+// sweepIntervalSlack absorbs the moment between a tick and the sweep it starts
+// stamping started_at. Without it a one-hour interval checked on a one-hour tick
+// would find the last sweep a moment under an hour old, and skip every other tick.
+const sweepIntervalSlack = 5 * time.Minute
+
+// staleDuplicateSweepThreshold is the age past which an in-flight sweep is
+// assumed dead — a crash mid-sweep leaves finished_at NULL for ever — and another
+// may start. Twice the library scan's threshold, because a sweep compares
+// fingerprints across the whole library and can legitimately run long on a big
+// one.
+const staleDuplicateSweepThreshold = 2 * time.Hour
+
+// duplicateSweepFinishTimeout bounds recording that a sweep ended. It runs on a
+// context detached from the sweep's own, so a sweep cancelled at shutdown still
+// closes its row rather than leaving it in flight until the reaper.
+const duplicateSweepFinishTimeout = 10 * time.Second
+
+// DuplicateSweepResult tallies one sweep.
+type DuplicateSweepResult struct {
+	Candidates int // tracks with a chromaprint that were streamed
+	Groups     int // groups the matcher found
+	Proposed   int // written as pending, new or refreshed
+	Suppressed int // not proposed: already dismissed or resolved by the operator
+	Retired    int // pending proposals this sweep did not find again, removed
+	Oversize   int // acoustic clusters too large to propose
+}
+
+// RunDuplicateSweep runs one sweep and records it in duplicate_sweeps. cfg is a
+// snapshot: one sweep applies one threshold and one length throughout.
+func RunDuplicateSweep(
+	ctx context.Context, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, cfg FingerprintSettings,
+) (DuplicateSweepResult, error) {
+	return runDuplicateSweep(ctx, pool, logger, cfg, duplicateCandidatePage)
+}
+
+func runDuplicateSweep(
+	ctx context.Context, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, cfg FingerprintSettings, pageSize int32,
+) (DuplicateSweepResult, error) {
+	q := dbq.New(pool)
+	sweep, err := q.StartDuplicateSweep(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return DuplicateSweepResult{}, fmt.Errorf("start duplicate sweep: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	res, runErr := sweepDuplicates(ctx, q, sweep.ID, cfg, pageSize)
+
+	finishCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.WithoutCancel(ctx), duplicateSweepFinishTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	errMsg := ""
+	if runErr != nil {
+		errMsg = runErr.Error()
+	}
+	candidates, groups, oversize := int32(res.Candidates), int32(res.Groups), int32(res.Oversize)
+	if ferr := q.FinishDuplicateSweep(finishCtx, dbq.FinishDuplicateSweepParams{
+		ID: sweep.ID, Candidates: &candidates, GroupsFound: &groups, OversizeClusters: &oversize,
+		ErrorMessage: errMsg,
+	}); ferr != nil {
+		logger.Error("duplicate sweep: recording the end of the sweep failed", "err", ferr)
+		if runErr == nil {
+			runErr = fmt.Errorf("finish duplicate sweep: %w", ferr)
+		}
+	}
+
+	logger.Info("duplicate sweep complete",
+		"candidates", res.Candidates, "groups", res.Groups, "proposed", res.Proposed,
+		"suppressed", res.Suppressed, "retired", res.Retired, "oversize", res.Oversize, "err", runErr)
+	return res, runErr
+}
+
+func sweepDuplicates(
+	ctx context.Context, q *dbq.Queries, sweepID pgtype.UUID, cfg FingerprintSettings, pageSize int32,
+) (DuplicateSweepResult, error) {
+	var res DuplicateSweepResult
+
+	// Exact tier, library-wide, in one query.
+	exactRows, err := q.ListExactDuplicateHashes(ctx, fingerprintVersion)
+	if err != nil {
+		return res, fmt.Errorf("list exact duplicates: %w", err)
+	}
+	exactMembers := make([][]string, len(exactRows))
+	exactOf := map[string]int{}
+	for i, row := range exactRows {
+		exactMembers[i] = formatUUIDs(row.TrackIds)
+		for _, id := range exactMembers[i] {
+			exactOf[id] = i
+		}
+	}
+	exactSeen := make([]bool, len(exactRows))
+
+	// Acoustic tier, streamed in duration order. The first member of an exact
+	// group the stream meets stands in for the whole group; the rest are skipped.
+	// Only prints at the current length are streamed: a print at another length
+	// cannot be compared, and is waiting on the backfill to be re-derived.
+	grouper := newStreamGrouper(cfg.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate)
+	params := dbq.ListDuplicateCandidatesParams{
+		CurrentVersion:       fingerprintVersion,
+		ChromaprintLengthSec: cfg.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		// Durations are never negative, and the all-zero uuid sorts first: every
+		// row is after this cursor. Valid must be true, or "> NULL" matches nothing.
+		AfterDurationMs: -1,
+		AfterID:         pgtype.UUID{Valid: true},
+		PageLimit:       pageSize,
+	}
+	for {
+		if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
+			return res, err
+		}
+		rows, err := q.ListDuplicateCandidates(ctx, params)
+		if err != nil {
+			return res, fmt.Errorf("list duplicate candidates: %w", err)
+		}
+		for _, row := range rows {
+			res.Candidates++
+			id := syncpkg.FormatUUID(row.ID)
+			unit := &groupUnit{ids: []string{id}, durationMs: row.DurationMs, sortKey: id}
+			if gi, ok := exactOf[id]; ok {
+				if exactSeen[gi] {
+					continue
+				}
+				exactSeen[gi] = true
+				unit.ids, unit.exact = exactMembers[gi], true
+			}
+			unit.print = preparePrint(row.Chromaprint)
+			grouper.push(unit)
+		}
+		if int32(len(rows)) < pageSize {
+			break
+		}
+		last := rows[len(rows)-1]
+		params.AfterDurationMs, params.AfterID = last.DurationMs, last.ID
+	}
+
+	found := grouper.finish()
+	// Exact groups none of whose members has a chromaprint never reached the
+	// stream. Identical bytes need no acoustic evidence.
+	for gi, seen := range exactSeen {
+		if !seen {
+			found.Groups = append(found.Groups, duplicateGroup{Tier: tierExact, Members: exactMembers[gi]})
+		}
+	}
+	sortGroups(found.Groups)
+	res.Groups, res.Oversize = len(found.Groups), found.OversizeClusters
+
+	dismissed, err := q.ListDismissedDuplicateMemberSets(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return res, fmt.Errorf("list dismissed duplicate groups: %w", err)
+	}
+	dismissedSets := make([]map[string]struct{}, 0, len(dismissed))
+	for _, d := range dismissed {
+		set := map[string]struct{}{}
+		for _, id := range formatUUIDs(d.TrackIds) {
+			set[id] = struct{}{}
+		}
+		dismissedSets = append(dismissedSets, set)
+	}
+
+	for _, group := range found.Groups {
+		if coveredByDismissal(group.Members, dismissedSets) {
+			res.Suppressed++
+			continue
+		}
+		up := dbq.UpsertDuplicateGroupParams{
+			MemberKey: strings.Join(group.Members, ","),
+			Tier:      string(group.Tier),
+			SweepID:   sweepID,
+		}
+		if group.Tier == tierAcoustic {
+			worst := float32(group.WorstBitErrorRate)
+			up.WorstBitErrorRate = &worst
+		}
+		groupID, err := q.UpsertDuplicateGroup(ctx, up)
+		if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+			// This exact member set was already dismissed or merged.
+			res.Suppressed++
+			continue
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			return res, fmt.Errorf("upsert duplicate group: %w", err)
+		}
+		for _, id := range group.Members {
+			var trackID pgtype.UUID
+			if err := trackID.Scan(id); err != nil {
+				return res, fmt.Errorf("parse track id %q: %w", id, err)
+			}
+			if err := q.AddDuplicateGroupMember(ctx, dbq.AddDuplicateGroupMemberParams{
+				GroupID: groupID, TrackID: trackID,
+			}); err != nil {
+				return res, fmt.Errorf("add duplicate group member: %w", err)
+			}
+		}
+		res.Proposed++
+	}
+
+	// Only after a complete sweep: a sweep that failed partway has no basis for
+	// concluding that anything it did not reach has gone.
+	retired, err := q.DeleteStalePendingDuplicateGroups(ctx, sweepID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return res, fmt.Errorf("retire stale duplicate groups: %w", err)
+	}
+	res.Retired = int(retired)
+	return res, nil
+}
+
+// coveredByDismissal reports whether every member of a proposal sat together in
+// one group the operator dismissed. A subset counts: dismissing {A, B, C} said
+// none of them are copies of each other, so proposing {A, B} again would be
+// asking the same question twice. A superset does not count: a new copy joining
+// is new evidence, and worth asking about.
+func coveredByDismissal(members []string, dismissed []map[string]struct{}) bool {
+	for _, set := range dismissed {
+		covered := true
+		for _, id := range members {
+			if _, ok := set[id]; !ok {
+				covered = false
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		if covered {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func formatUUIDs(ids []pgtype.UUID) []string {
+	out := make([]string, len(ids))
+	for i, id := range ids {
+		out[i] = syncpkg.FormatUUID(id)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out
+}
+
+// TryStartDuplicateSweep starts a sweep in the background unless one is already
+// running, reaping a sweep that has been in flight past
+// staleDuplicateSweepThreshold. Mirrors TryStartScan. The sweep runs on ctx, so
+// a caller answering an HTTP request must pass a context that outlives it.
+func TryStartDuplicateSweep(
+	ctx context.Context, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, cfg FingerprintSettings,
+) (bool, error) {
+	q := dbq.New(pool)
+	row, err := q.GetInFlightDuplicateSweep(ctx)
+	switch {
+	case err == nil:
+		age := time.Since(row.StartedAt.Time)
+		if age <= staleDuplicateSweepThreshold {
+			return false, nil
+		}
+		logger.Warn("reaping stale duplicate sweep", "id", syncpkg.FormatUUID(row.ID), "age", age)
+		if ferr := q.FinishDuplicateSweep(ctx, dbq.FinishDuplicateSweepParams{
+			ID: row.ID, ErrorMessage: "reaped (stale)",
+		}); ferr != nil {
+			return false, fmt.Errorf("reap stale duplicate sweep: %w", ferr)
+		}
+	case !errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows):
+		return false, fmt.Errorf("duplicate sweep in-flight check: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	go func() {
+		if _, err := RunDuplicateSweep(ctx, pool, logger, cfg); err != nil {
+			logger.Warn("duplicate sweep failed", "err", err)
+		}
+	}()
+	return true, nil
+}
+
+// DuplicateSweepWorker sweeps whenever its input has changed, at most once per
+// the operator's sweep interval.
+type DuplicateSweepWorker struct {
+	pool     *pgxpool.Pool
+	logger   *slog.Logger
+	settings *FingerprintSettingsService
+	tick     time.Duration
+}
+
+// NewDuplicateSweepWorker builds a worker with the production cadence. settings
+// is shared with the admin API; nil runs on defaults.
+func NewDuplicateSweepWorker(
+	pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, settings *FingerprintSettingsService,
+) *DuplicateSweepWorker {
+	return &DuplicateSweepWorker{pool: pool, logger: logger, settings: settings, tick: duplicateSweepTick}
+}
+
+// Run blocks until ctx is cancelled, checking once at start and then each tick.
+func (w *DuplicateSweepWorker) Run(ctx context.Context) {
+	w.tickOnce(ctx)
+	t := time.NewTicker(w.tick)
+	defer t.Stop()
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-t.C:
+			w.tickOnce(ctx)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// tickOnce contains one check so nothing it does can stop the next tick (rule 157).
+func (w *DuplicateSweepWorker) tickOnce(ctx context.Context) {
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			w.logger.Error("duplicate sweep: tick panicked", "panic", r)
+		}
+	}()
+	cfg := w.settings.Get()
+	due, err := duplicateSweepDue(ctx, dbq.New(w.pool), cfg, time.Now())
+	if err != nil {
+		if ctx.Err() == nil {
+			w.logger.Warn("duplicate sweep: due check failed", "err", err)
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	if !due {
+		return
+	}
+	if _, err := TryStartDuplicateSweep(ctx, w.pool, w.logger, cfg); err != nil {
+		w.logger.Warn("duplicate sweep: start failed", "err", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// duplicateSweepDue reads what sweepIsDue decides on.
+func duplicateSweepDue(ctx context.Context, q *dbq.Queries, cfg FingerprintSettings, now time.Time) (bool, error) {
+	latest, err := q.GetLatestFingerprintComputedAt(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, fmt.Errorf("latest fingerprint: %w", err)
+	}
+	var lastStart pgtype.Timestamptz
+	last, err := q.GetLatestDuplicateSweep(ctx)
+	switch {
+	case err == nil:
+		lastStart = last.StartedAt
+	case !errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows):
+		return false, fmt.Errorf("latest duplicate sweep: %w", err)
+	}
+	return sweepIsDue(latest, lastStart, cfg, now), nil
+}
+
+// sweepIsDue reports whether a sweep should start: something it reads has
+// changed since the last sweep started, and the operator's interval has passed.
+//
+// Two things can change its answer. Fingerprints are its input, so any written
+// after the last sweep began count; while the backfill runs that is true every
+// tick, which is what the interval is for. And a settings save counts, because a
+// new threshold or length changes what the same fingerprints group into.
+func sweepIsDue(latestFingerprint, lastSweepStart pgtype.Timestamptz, cfg FingerprintSettings, now time.Time) bool {
+	if !latestFingerprint.Valid {
+		return false // nothing fingerprinted yet
+	}
+	if !lastSweepStart.Valid {
+		return true // never swept
+	}
+	interval := time.Duration(cfg.SweepIntervalHours) * time.Hour
+	if now.Sub(lastSweepStart.Time) < interval-sweepIntervalSlack {
+		return false
+	}
+	return latestFingerprint.Time.After(lastSweepStart.Time) || cfg.UpdatedAt.After(lastSweepStart.Time)
+}

internal/library/duplicate_sweep_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,250 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"io"
+	"log/slog"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+	syncpkg "git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/sync"
+)
+
+func TestCoveredByDismissal(t *testing.T) {
+	dismissed := []map[string]struct{}{{"a": {}, "b": {}, "c": {}}}
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name    string
+		members []string
+		want    bool
+	}{
+		{"the same set", []string{"a", "b", "c"}, true},
+		{"a subset of it", []string{"a", "b"}, true},
+		// A new copy joining is new evidence: ask again.
+		{"a superset of it", []string{"a", "b", "c", "d"}, false},
+		{"overlapping only in part", []string{"a", "d"}, false},
+		{"unrelated", []string{"x", "y"}, false},
+	} {
+		if got := coveredByDismissal(tc.members, dismissed); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("%s: coveredByDismissal = %v, want %v", tc.name, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestDuplicateSweep_Integration pins what the sweep proposes, what it leaves out,
+// and how re-sweeping treats a dismissal and a proposal that no longer holds.
+func TestDuplicateSweep_Integration(t *testing.T) {
+	pool := newPool(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	q := dbq.New(pool)
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil))
+
+	// seedTrack's own track has no fingerprint row: it must be absent from the
+	// report, not grouped with every other track lacking one.
+	_, album, artist := seedTrack(t, pool, filepath.Join(dir, "unfingerprinted.mp3"))
+	hash := func(b byte) []byte { return bytes.Repeat([]byte{b}, 32) }
+	add := func(name string, durationMs int32, sum []byte, print []int32) string {
+		t.Helper()
+		tr, err := q.UpsertTrack(ctx, dbq.UpsertTrackParams{
+			Title: name, AlbumID: album.ID, ArtistID: artist.ID, DurationMs: durationMs,
+			FilePath: filepath.Join(dir, name+".mp3"), FileSize: 100, FileFormat: "mp3",
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("track %s: %v", name, err)
+		}
+		if err := q.UpsertTrackFingerprint(ctx, dbq.UpsertTrackFingerprintParams{
+			TrackID: tr.ID, AudioStreamSha256: sum, Chromaprint: print, FingerprintVersion: fingerprintVersion,
+			ChromaprintLengthSec: defaultChromaprintLengthSec,
+		}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("fingerprint %s: %v", name, err)
+		}
+		return syncpkg.FormatUUID(tr.ID)
+	}
+	key := func(ids ...string) string {
+		sorted := append([]string(nil), ids...)
+		sort.Strings(sorted)
+		return strings.Join(sorted, ",")
+	}
+
+	recording := randomPrint(200, printLen)
+	onAlbum := add("recording-album", 240000, hash(1), recording)
+	onCompilation := add("recording-compilation", 241000, hash(2), withBitNoise(recording, 0.05, 201))
+	www1 := add("www-01", 215000, hash(9), randomPrint(210, printLen))
+	www2 := add("www-02", 215000, hash(9), randomPrint(210, printLen))
+	// Near-identical duration to the recording, different audio.
+	add("different-song", 240500, hash(3), randomPrint(220, printLen))
+	// Identical to the album copy, but its file is gone: nothing to compare.
+	missing := add("missing-copy", 240000, hash(4), recording)
+	if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx, "UPDATE tracks SET missing_since = now() WHERE file_path LIKE '%missing-copy.mp3'"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("mark missing: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	type stored struct {
+		tier, status string
+	}
+	groups := func() map[string]stored {
+		t.Helper()
+		rows, err := pool.Query(ctx, `SELECT member_key, tier, status FROM duplicate_groups`)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("read groups: %v", err)
+		}
+		defer rows.Close()
+		out := map[string]stored{}
+		for rows.Next() {
+			var k string
+			var s stored
+			if err := rows.Scan(&k, &s.tier, &s.status); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("scan group: %v", err)
+			}
+			out[k] = s
+		}
+		return out
+	}
+
+	// 1. A page size of one forces the keyset cursor across every candidate.
+	res, err := runDuplicateSweep(ctx, pool, logger, DefaultFingerprintSettings, 1)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("first sweep: %v", err)
+	}
+	// Five tracks carry a chromaprint and a present file.
+	if res.Candidates != 5 || res.Groups != 2 || res.Proposed != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("first sweep = %+v, want 5 candidates, 2 groups, 2 proposed", res)
+	}
+	acousticKey, exactKey := key(onAlbum, onCompilation), key(www1, www2)
+	got := groups()
+	want := map[string]stored{
+		acousticKey: {"acoustic", "pending"},
+		exactKey:    {"exact", "pending"},
+	}
+	if len(got) != len(want) || got[acousticKey] != want[acousticKey] || got[exactKey] != want[exactKey] {
+		t.Fatalf("groups = %+v, want %+v", got, want)
+	}
+	for k := range got {
+		if strings.Contains(k, missing) {
+			t.Fatalf("a missing track was proposed: %s", k)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// 2. A dismissed group is not proposed again, and the pending one is
+	// refreshed in place rather than duplicated.
+	if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx, "UPDATE duplicate_groups SET status = 'dismissed' WHERE member_key = $1", acousticKey); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("dismiss: %v", err)
+	}
+	res, err = runDuplicateSweep(ctx, pool, logger, DefaultFingerprintSettings, duplicateCandidatePage)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("second sweep: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.Proposed != 1 || res.Suppressed != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("second sweep = %+v, want 1 proposed, 1 suppressed", res)
+	}
+	got = groups()
+	if len(got) != 2 || got[acousticKey].status != "dismissed" || got[exactKey].status != "pending" {
+		t.Fatalf("after dismissal groups = %+v, want the dismissal kept and one pending group", got)
+	}
+
+	// 3. A proposal that no longer holds is retired; the dismissal survives it.
+	if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx,
+		"DELETE FROM track_fingerprints f USING tracks t WHERE f.track_id = t.id AND t.file_path LIKE '%www-02.mp3'"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("drop fingerprint: %v", err)
+	}
+	res, err = runDuplicateSweep(ctx, pool, logger, DefaultFingerprintSettings, duplicateCandidatePage)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("third sweep: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.Retired != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("third sweep = %+v, want 1 retired", res)
+	}
+	got = groups()
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[acousticKey].status != "dismissed" {
+		t.Fatalf("after retiring groups = %+v, want only the dismissal", got)
+	}
+
+	// 4. The sweep record reflects the last run.
+	last, err := q.GetLatestDuplicateSweep(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("latest sweep: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !last.FinishedAt.Valid || last.ErrorMessage != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("latest sweep = %+v, want finished without error", last)
+	}
+
+	// 5. Prints taken at another length are never compared (#3913). Every print
+	// here was taken at the default length, so a sweep at 60s has nothing to read,
+	// rather than scoring 120s prints against each other as if they were 60s ones.
+	atOtherLength := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	atOtherLength.ChromaprintLengthSec = 60
+	res, err = runDuplicateSweep(ctx, pool, logger, atOtherLength, duplicateCandidatePage)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("sweep at another length: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.Candidates != 0 || res.Groups != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("sweep at another length = %+v, want no candidates and no groups", res)
+	}
+
+	// 6. The sweep applies the threshold it is given. The recording's two copies
+	// disagree on about 5% of their bits: grouped at the default, not at 1%.
+	if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx, "DELETE FROM duplicate_groups"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("clear groups: %v", err)
+	}
+	strict := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	strict.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate = 0.01
+	res, err = runDuplicateSweep(ctx, pool, logger, strict, duplicateCandidatePage)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("strict sweep: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.Groups != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("sweep at a 1%% threshold = %+v, want the copies 5%% apart left ungrouped", res)
+	}
+	res, err = runDuplicateSweep(ctx, pool, logger, DefaultFingerprintSettings, duplicateCandidatePage)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("default sweep: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got := groups(); res.Groups != 1 || got[acousticKey] != (stored{"acoustic", "pending"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("sweep at the default threshold = %+v, groups %+v; want the recording's copies proposed", res, got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSweepIsDue(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2026, 9, 11, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	at := func(ago time.Duration) pgtype.Timestamptz {
+		return pgtype.Timestamptz{Time: now.Add(-ago), Valid: true}
+	}
+	never := pgtype.Timestamptz{}
+	hourly := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	daily := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	daily.SweepIntervalHours = 24
+	savedAgo := func(ago time.Duration) FingerprintSettings {
+		s := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+		s.UpdatedAt = now.Add(-ago)
+		return s
+	}
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name                   string
+		latestPrint, lastSweep pgtype.Timestamptz
+		cfg                    FingerprintSettings
+		want                   bool
+	}{
+		{"nothing fingerprinted", never, never, hourly, false},
+		{"never swept", at(time.Minute), never, hourly, true},
+		{"new fingerprints since the last sweep", at(10 * time.Minute), at(2 * time.Hour), hourly, true},
+		{"nothing new since the last sweep", at(3 * time.Hour), at(2 * time.Hour), hourly, false},
+		// The sweep started a moment after the previous tick, so one tick later
+		// it is a moment under an hour old. Without the slack this is false.
+		{"one tick after an hourly sweep", at(time.Minute), at(time.Hour - 2*time.Second), hourly, true},
+		{"new fingerprints inside the interval", at(time.Minute), at(3 * time.Hour), daily, false},
+		{"new fingerprints past the interval", at(time.Minute), at(25 * time.Hour), daily, true},
+		{"settings saved since the last sweep", at(3 * time.Hour), at(2 * time.Hour), savedAgo(time.Hour), true},
+		{"settings saved before the last sweep", at(3 * time.Hour), at(2 * time.Hour), savedAgo(4 * time.Hour), false},
+	} {
+		if got := sweepIsDue(tc.latestPrint, tc.lastSweep, tc.cfg, now); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("%s: sweepIsDue = %v, want %v", tc.name, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/library/fingerprint.go

@@ -0,0 +1,339 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"log/slog"
+	"os/exec"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+)
+
+// Acoustic identity (M400).
+//
+// Two values per track, because they answer different questions:
+//
+//	audio_stream_sha256  a SHA-256 of the ENCODED audio packets. Equal means the
+//	                     same audio bytes, whatever the tags or container around
+//	                     them say. No threshold and no false positives — this is
+//	                     what catches two copies of one MP3 that differ only in
+//	                     their ID3 (#3885).
+//
+//	chromaprint          fpcalc's raw fingerprint. Close means the same
+//	                     recording, even at another bitrate or in another codec
+//	                     — the case an exact hash cannot see.
+//
+// Both shell out, in the shape probeDurationMs already set: a deadline on every
+// call, and a failure that leaves the value unset rather than failing the file.
+// A track with no fingerprint is never a duplicate candidate; it is still a
+// track.
+
+// fingerprintTimeout bounds one ffmpeg hash or fpcalc call. Longer than
+// probeTimeout because both read the audio rather than a header: the hash reads
+// every packet and fpcalc decodes up to its -length. 60s leaves room for a large
+// lossless file on a slow network mount; a call needing more is a stall, not a
+// big file.
+const fingerprintTimeout = 60 * time.Second
+
+// fingerprintWaitDelay bounds how long Output may keep waiting on the tool's
+// pipes after the deadline has killed it. Without it, a child that left a
+// descendant holding stdout open would block the scan past its own timeout.
+const fingerprintWaitDelay = 5 * time.Second
+
+// fingerprintVersion stamps how a track_fingerprints row was derived. Bump it
+// whenever the derivation changes — the hash arguments or fpcalc's flags — and
+// the backfill re-derives every row below it. Fingerprints taken by two methods
+// are not comparable, and nothing else would reveal that the library held a mix.
+//
+// The length is deliberately not part of it: it is an operator setting (#3913),
+// so each row records the length it was taken at and readers compare only rows
+// at the current one. See fingerprint_settings.go.
+const fingerprintVersion int16 = 1
+
+// errFingerprintTimeout marks a tool that ran out of time. Distinct from a
+// failed exit because a stall is a fact about the mount, not about the file.
+var errFingerprintTimeout = errors.New("fingerprint tool timed out")
+
+// defaultChromaprintLengthSec is the shipped value of the length setting (#3913):
+// how many seconds of audio fpcalc fingerprints. 120 is fpcalc's own default.
+const defaultChromaprintLengthSec = 120
+
+// errChromaprintSkipped marks a chromaprint not taken because fingerprinting is
+// switched off. Inconclusive rather than a verdict: nothing was learned about
+// the file.
+var errChromaprintSkipped = errors.New("chromaprint skipped: fingerprinting is off")
+
+// fpcalcStderrTail caps how much of a failing tool's stderr reaches the log.
+const fpcalcStderrTail = 512
+
+// streamHashArgs hashes the encoded audio packets, never decoded samples.
+//
+// -c:a copy is the point, not an optimisation. A decoded hash of a lossy file
+// depends on the decoder's float maths and sample conversion, which can move
+// between ffmpeg releases — so an image upgrade could silently change every
+// stored hash, and yesterday's duplicate would stop matching today's copy.
+// Packet bytes do not move. It is also far cheaper: demux only, no decode.
+//
+// -map 0:a keeps embedded cover art (an attached-picture video stream) out of
+// the hash, so two copies of one recording carrying different art still match.
+func streamHashArgs(path string) []string {
+	return []string{
+		"-v", "error",
+		"-i", path,
+		"-map", "0:a",
+		"-c:a", "copy",
+		"-f", "hash", "-hash", "sha256",
+		"-",
+	}
+}
+
+// fpcalcArgs asks for the raw fingerprint as SIGNED integers.
+//
+// -raw because the matcher compares items bit by bit, which the compressed form
+// cannot do without being unpacked first. -signed because the column is Postgres
+// integer[], which is signed: fpcalc's default prints uint32, and half of those
+// values do not fit. Signed output is the same 32 bits with no reinterpretation
+// step left to get wrong.
+func fpcalcArgs(path string, lengthSec int) []string {
+	return []string{
+		"-raw", "-signed",
+		"-length", strconv.Itoa(lengthSec),
+		path,
+	}
+}
+
+// fingerprintResult is one attempt at both halves of a track's identity. They
+// fail independently: a file ffmpeg can demux may still defeat fpcalc.
+type fingerprintResult struct {
+	streamSHA256 []byte
+	chromaprint  []int32
+	hashErr      error
+	printErr     error
+}
+
+// fingerprintOptions is what the settings decide for one attempt. Captured once
+// per file, so the length a chromaprint was taken at is the length stored with it
+// even if the setting changes mid-attempt.
+type fingerprintOptions struct {
+	lengthSec int32
+	// chromaprint false takes the stream hash alone: a demux, no decode.
+	chromaprint bool
+}
+
+// computeFingerprint derives the halves opts asks for, for the file at path.
+func computeFingerprint(ctx context.Context, path string, opts fingerprintOptions) fingerprintResult {
+	var r fingerprintResult
+	r.streamSHA256, r.hashErr = computeAudioStreamSHA256(ctx, path)
+	if !opts.chromaprint {
+		r.printErr = errChromaprintSkipped
+		return r
+	}
+	r.chromaprint, r.printErr = computeChromaprint(ctx, path, opts.lengthSec)
+	return r
+}
+
+// inconclusive reports whether either half failed for a reason that says
+// nothing about the file. Such a result must never be stored: stamped at the
+// current version it would read as "tried, and this file cannot be
+// fingerprinted", and the backfill would never try it again.
+func (r fingerprintResult) inconclusive() bool {
+	return isInconclusive(r.hashErr) || isInconclusive(r.printErr)
+}
+
+// isInconclusive names the failures that are not a verdict on the file: a
+// stall, a cancelled scan, a tool that is not installed, and a chromaprint
+// skipped because fingerprinting is off. A missing tool matters outside the
+// image — a dev binary run without fpcalc on PATH must not stamp every track in
+// the library as unfingerprintable.
+func isInconclusive(err error) bool {
+	return errors.Is(err, errFingerprintTimeout) ||
+		errors.Is(err, errChromaprintSkipped) ||
+		errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) ||
+		errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded) ||
+		errors.Is(err, exec.ErrNotFound)
+}
+
+// fingerprintFile runs the scanner's fingerprinter. A Scanner built without New
+// gets the real tools rather than a nil-func panic halfway through a scan.
+func (s *Scanner) fingerprintFile(ctx context.Context, path string, opts fingerprintOptions) fingerprintResult {
+	if s.fingerprint == nil {
+		return computeFingerprint(ctx, path, opts)
+	}
+	return s.fingerprint(ctx, path, opts)
+}
+
+// fingerprintOutcome is what storeFingerprint did with one attempt.
+type fingerprintOutcome int
+
+const (
+	outcomeFingerprinted fingerprintOutcome = iota // both halves stored
+	outcomeRejected                                // stored with a NULL half: a verdict
+	outcomeInconclusive                            // nothing stored; worth trying again
+	outcomeStoreFailed                             // the write itself failed
+)
+
+// storeFingerprint records one attempt, for the scan (new or changed bytes) and
+// the backfill (#3908) alike, so there is one rule for what gets written. It
+// never fails its caller: a missing fingerprint only keeps a track out of
+// duplicate detection, which is not worth dropping a scan or a pass over.
+//
+// lengthSec is the length fp's chromaprint was taken at, stored with it (#3913).
+func storeFingerprint(
+	ctx context.Context, q *dbq.Queries, logger *slog.Logger,
+	trackID pgtype.UUID, path string, fp fingerprintResult, lengthSec int32,
+) fingerprintOutcome {
+	if fp.hashErr != nil {
+		logger.Warn("fingerprint: audio stream hash failed", "path", path, "err", fp.hashErr)
+	}
+	if fp.printErr != nil {
+		logger.Warn("fingerprint: chromaprint failed", "path", path, "err", fp.printErr)
+	}
+	if fp.inconclusive() {
+		// Any row this track holds describes bytes we could not confirm — the
+		// previous bytes for the scan, an older derivation for the backfill.
+		// Drop it rather than stamp a failure that says nothing about the file.
+		if err := q.DeleteTrackFingerprint(ctx, trackID); err != nil {
+			logger.Warn("fingerprint: clearing stale fingerprint failed", "path", path, "err", err)
+		}
+		return outcomeInconclusive
+	}
+	// A NULL half here is a verdict — the tool ran and rejected this file — and
+	// is stamped at the current version so the backfill does not retry it on
+	// every pass. It is retried when the file changes.
+	if err := q.UpsertTrackFingerprint(ctx, dbq.UpsertTrackFingerprintParams{
+		TrackID:              trackID,
+		AudioStreamSha256:    fp.streamSHA256,
+		Chromaprint:          fp.chromaprint,
+		FingerprintVersion:   fingerprintVersion,
+		ChromaprintLengthSec: lengthSec,
+	}); err != nil {
+		logger.Warn("fingerprint: storing fingerprint failed", "path", path, "err", err)
+		return outcomeStoreFailed
+	}
+	if fp.hashErr != nil || fp.printErr != nil {
+		return outcomeRejected
+	}
+	return outcomeFingerprinted
+}
+
+// computeAudioStreamSHA256 returns the SHA-256 of the file's encoded audio.
+func computeAudioStreamSHA256(ctx context.Context, path string) ([]byte, error) {
+	out, err := runFingerprintTool(ctx, "ffmpeg", streamHashArgs(path))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return parseStreamHash(out)
+}
+
+// computeChromaprint returns the raw acoustic fingerprint of the first
+// lengthSec seconds of the file.
+func computeChromaprint(ctx context.Context, path string, lengthSec int32) ([]int32, error) {
+	out, err := runFingerprintTool(ctx, "fpcalc", fpcalcArgs(path, int(lengthSec)))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return parseFpcalcRaw(out)
+}
+
+// runFingerprintTool runs one tool under fingerprintTimeout.
+//
+// Any non-zero exit is an error, and that deliberately includes fpcalc's exit 3:
+// "reading failed, but here is a fingerprint of what I got". A partial
+// fingerprint of a damaged file is not that file's identity. Stored, it would
+// score against a healthy copy over whatever prefix survived, and could group
+// or fail to group either way. Absent is better than wrong.
+func runFingerprintTool(ctx context.Context, name string, args []string) ([]byte, error) {
+	runCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, fingerprintTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+
+	cmd := exec.CommandContext(runCtx, name, args...)
+	cmd.WaitDelay = fingerprintWaitDelay
+	out, err := cmd.Output()
+	if err == nil {
+		return out, nil
+	}
+	// The caller gave up (a cancelled scan). Report that rather than the
+	// signal-killed exit it caused, so it is never mistaken for a verdict on
+	// the file.
+	if ctx.Err() != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", name, ctx.Err())
+	}
+	// Named separately so a stall reads as a stall, not as a crash.
+	if errors.Is(runCtx.Err(), context.DeadlineExceeded) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: no result within %s: %w", name, fingerprintTimeout, errFingerprintTimeout)
+	}
+	var exitErr *exec.ExitError
+	if errors.As(err, &exitErr) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s exited %d: %s", name, exitErr.ExitCode(), stderrTail(exitErr.Stderr))
+	}
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", name, err)
+}
+
+// stderrTail keeps the END of a failing tool's stderr. ffmpeg and fpcalc print
+// the actual reason last, after any banner or per-frame warnings, so a cap that
+// kept the head would log the noise and drop the cause.
+func stderrTail(stderr []byte) []byte {
+	stderr = bytes.TrimSpace(stderr)
+	if len(stderr) > fpcalcStderrTail {
+		stderr = stderr[len(stderr)-fpcalcStderrTail:]
+	}
+	return stderr
+}
+
+// parseStreamHash reads the ffmpeg hash muxer's "SHA256=<hex>" line.
+func parseStreamHash(out []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(string(out), "\n") {
+		hexed, ok := strings.CutPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(line), "SHA256=")
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		sum, err := hex.DecodeString(hexed)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("stream hash %q: %w", hexed, err)
+		}
+		if len(sum) != sha256.Size {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("stream hash is %d bytes, want %d", len(sum), sha256.Size)
+		}
+		return sum, nil
+	}
+	return nil, errors.New("ffmpeg printed no SHA256= line")
+}
+
+// parseFpcalcRaw reads fpcalc's text output:
+//
+//	DURATION=<seconds>
+//	FINGERPRINT=<int32>,<int32>,...
+func parseFpcalcRaw(out []byte) ([]int32, error) {
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(string(out), "\n") {
+		list, ok := strings.CutPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(line), "FINGERPRINT=")
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		if list == "" {
+			return nil, errors.New("fpcalc returned an empty fingerprint")
+		}
+		items := strings.Split(list, ",")
+		fp := make([]int32, len(items))
+		for i, item := range items {
+			// ParseInt at 32 bits, not ParseUint: a value past int32 means the
+			// output was unsigned — -signed went missing from the invocation —
+			// and nothing downstream would reinterpret it. Refuse it here.
+			v, err := strconv.ParseInt(item, 10, 32)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("fingerprint item %d %q: %w", i, item, err)
+			}
+			fp[i] = int32(v)
+		}
+		return fp, nil
+	}
+	return nil, errors.New("fpcalc printed no FINGERPRINT= line")
+}

internal/library/fingerprint_backfill.go

@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"log/slog"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgtype"
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+)
+
+// Fingerprint backfill (M400 #3908).
+//
+// The scan fingerprints only bytes it has not seen (see scanFile), so every track
+// imported before fingerprinting existed — and every row derived by an older
+// fingerprintVersion — needs a pass of its own. That pass is this worker.
+//
+// Its own worker rather than a stage in RunScan, for two reasons, both about
+// time:
+//   - RunScan runs at boot and then every safetyNetScanInterval (12h), and an
+//     in-flight scan older than StuckScanThreshold (1h) is reaped and a second
+//     one started beside it. A stage would have to stop well inside the hour — a
+//     few hundred decodes — so a 50k-track library would take about a month.
+//   - A long stage holds the scan run in flight, and a manual rescan answers 409
+//     for as long as it runs.
+//
+// Progress is read live (FingerprintCoverage, the admin gauge) rather than from a
+// scan_runs tally: the work spans many passes with no single run to attach to.
+
+// fingerprintBackfillTick is how often the worker looks for work. Once the
+// library has caught up, a tick is one indexed query; mostly the hour bounds how
+// long a file that timed out on a slow mount waits before it is tried again.
+const fingerprintBackfillTick = time.Hour
+
+// fingerprintBackfillBatch is how many tracks one query hands the worker. Small,
+// so tracks the scan adds mid-pass are not stuck behind one enormous page.
+const fingerprintBackfillBatch = 50
+
+// fingerprintBackfillConcurrency is the shipped value of the concurrency setting
+// (#3913): how many files are decoded at once. Two is deliberately low: fpcalc
+// and the stream hash compete with playback transcoding for CPU and with
+// streaming for the mount, and a backfill that makes playback stutter is worse
+// than one that takes longer.
+const fingerprintBackfillConcurrency = 2
+
+// BackfillFingerprintsResult tallies one pass.
+type BackfillFingerprintsResult struct {
+	Processed     int
+	Fingerprinted int // both halves stored
+	Rejected      int // stored with a NULL half: a tool refused the file (settled)
+	Inconclusive  int // nothing stored; tried again on a later pass
+}
+
+func (r *BackfillFingerprintsResult) add(o fingerprintOutcome) {
+	r.Processed++
+	switch o {
+	case outcomeFingerprinted:
+		r.Fingerprinted++
+	case outcomeRejected:
+		r.Rejected++
+	default:
+		r.Inconclusive++
+	}
+}
+
+// FingerprintBackfillWorker fingerprints the tracks the scan never will.
+type FingerprintBackfillWorker struct {
+	pool     *pgxpool.Pool
+	logger   *slog.Logger
+	settings *FingerprintSettingsService
+	tick     time.Duration
+	batch    int32
+	// fingerprint is a field for the same reason as Scanner.fingerprint: an
+	// integration test pins which tracks a pass touches, not what the tools print.
+	fingerprint func(ctx context.Context, path string, opts fingerprintOptions) fingerprintResult
+}
+
+// NewFingerprintBackfillWorker builds a worker with the production cadence.
+// settings is shared with the scanner and the admin API; nil runs on defaults.
+func NewFingerprintBackfillWorker(
+	pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, settings *FingerprintSettingsService,
+) *FingerprintBackfillWorker {
+	return &FingerprintBackfillWorker{
+		pool:        pool,
+		logger:      logger,
+		settings:    settings,
+		tick:        fingerprintBackfillTick,
+		batch:       fingerprintBackfillBatch,
+		fingerprint: computeFingerprint,
+	}
+}
+
+// Run blocks until ctx is cancelled: one pass at start, so a fresh deploy does
+// not sit idle for an hour, then one per tick.
+func (w *FingerprintBackfillWorker) Run(ctx context.Context) {
+	w.runOnce(ctx)
+	t := time.NewTicker(w.tick)
+	defer t.Stop()
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-t.C:
+			w.runOnce(ctx)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// runOnce contains a pass so that nothing it does — an error, a panic — can stop
+// the next tick from firing (rule 157).
+func (w *FingerprintBackfillWorker) runOnce(ctx context.Context) {
+	defer func() {
+		if r := recover(); r != nil {
+			w.logger.Error("fingerprint backfill: pass panicked", "panic", r)
+		}
+	}()
+	res, err := w.pass(ctx)
+	if err != nil && ctx.Err() == nil {
+		w.logger.Warn("fingerprint backfill: pass failed", "err", err, "processed", res.Processed)
+	}
+	if res.Processed > 0 {
+		w.logger.Info("fingerprint backfill: pass complete",
+			"processed", res.Processed, "fingerprinted", res.Fingerprinted,
+			"rejected", res.Rejected, "inconclusive", res.Inconclusive)
+	}
+}
+
+// pass walks every track needing a fingerprint once, keyset-paged on id. The
+// cursor is what lets a pass end: an inconclusive attempt writes no row, so a
+// file that keeps timing out would otherwise be listed again immediately and
+// retried forever within the pass.
+//
+// Settings are read before every batch, so a save takes effect within a batch
+// rather than an hour (#3913): switching fingerprinting off ends the pass, a new
+// concurrency applies to the next batch, and a new length restarts the walk from
+// the top at that length, because every row written at the old one went stale
+// the moment it changed.
+func (w *FingerprintBackfillWorker) pass(ctx context.Context) (BackfillFingerprintsResult, error) {
+	q := dbq.New(w.pool)
+	var (
+		res BackfillFingerprintsResult
+		mu  sync.Mutex
+	)
+	// The all-zero uuid sorts before every real id. Valid must be true: a NULL
+	// cursor would make "id > NULL" match nothing and every pass a silent no-op.
+	start := pgtype.UUID{Valid: true}
+	after := start
+	lengthSec := w.settings.Get().ChromaprintLengthSec
+	for {
+		if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
+			return res, err
+		}
+		cfg := w.settings.Get()
+		if !cfg.Enabled {
+			return res, nil
+		}
+		if cfg.ChromaprintLengthSec != lengthSec {
+			lengthSec, after = cfg.ChromaprintLengthSec, start
+		}
+		rows, err := q.ListTracksNeedingFingerprint(ctx, dbq.ListTracksNeedingFingerprintParams{
+			CurrentVersion:       fingerprintVersion,
+			ChromaprintLengthSec: lengthSec,
+			AfterID:              after,
+			BatchLimit:           w.batch,
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			return res, fmt.Errorf("list tracks needing fingerprint: %w", err)
+		}
+		if len(rows) == 0 {
+			return res, nil
+		}
+
+		opts := fingerprintOptions{lengthSec: lengthSec, chromaprint: true}
+		// Validation keeps concurrency at one or more; the floor guards a zero
+		// that would block the first send for ever.
+		sem := make(chan struct{}, max(1, int(cfg.BackfillConcurrency)))
+		var wg sync.WaitGroup
+		for _, row := range rows {
+			if ctx.Err() != nil {
+				break
+			}
+			sem <- struct{}{}
+			wg.Add(1)
+			go func(trackID pgtype.UUID, path string) {
+				defer wg.Done()
+				defer func() { <-sem }()
+				defer func() {
+					if r := recover(); r != nil {
+						w.logger.Error("fingerprint backfill: track panicked", "path", path, "panic", r)
+					}
+				}()
+				outcome := storeFingerprint(ctx, q, w.logger, trackID, path, w.fingerprintFile(ctx, path, opts), lengthSec)
+				mu.Lock()
+				res.add(outcome)
+				mu.Unlock()
+			}(row.ID, row.FilePath)
+		}
+		wg.Wait()
+		after = rows[len(rows)-1].ID
+	}
+}
+
+func (w *FingerprintBackfillWorker) fingerprintFile(ctx context.Context, path string, opts fingerprintOptions) fingerprintResult {
+	if w.fingerprint == nil {
+		return computeFingerprint(ctx, path, opts)
+	}
+	return w.fingerprint(ctx, path, opts)
+}
+
+// FingerprintCoverage reports how much of the library carries a current
+// fingerprint, for the admin gauge. It lives here, beside the backfill, so the
+// version and length it counts against are the ones the backfill writes.
+func FingerprintCoverage(
+	ctx context.Context, pool *pgxpool.Pool, cfg FingerprintSettings,
+) (dbq.GetFingerprintCoverageRow, error) {
+	return dbq.New(pool).GetFingerprintCoverage(ctx, dbq.GetFingerprintCoverageParams{
+		CurrentVersion:       fingerprintVersion,
+		ChromaprintLengthSec: cfg.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+	})
+}

internal/library/fingerprint_backfill_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log/slog"
+	"maps"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+)
+
+// TestFingerprintBackfill_Integration pins which tracks a pass touches, that a
+// pass ends, and that the coverage gauge counts what the pass wrote.
+func TestFingerprintBackfill_Integration(t *testing.T) {
+	pool := newPool(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	q := dbq.New(pool)
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+
+	_, album, artist := seedTrack(t, pool, filepath.Join(dir, "unfingerprinted.mp3"))
+	addTrack := func(name string) dbq.Track {
+		t.Helper()
+		tr, err := q.UpsertTrack(ctx, dbq.UpsertTrackParams{
+			Title: name, AlbumID: album.ID, ArtistID: artist.ID,
+			DurationMs: 1000, FilePath: filepath.Join(dir, name+".mp3"), FileSize: 100, FileFormat: "mp3",
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("track %s: %v", name, err)
+		}
+		return tr
+	}
+	current := addTrack("current")
+	stale := addTrack("stale")
+	missing := addTrack("missing")
+
+	sum := bytes.Repeat([]byte{0xCD}, 32)
+	for _, seed := range []struct {
+		track   dbq.Track
+		version int16
+	}{
+		{current, fingerprintVersion},
+		{stale, fingerprintVersion - 1},
+	} {
+		if err := q.UpsertTrackFingerprint(ctx, dbq.UpsertTrackFingerprintParams{
+			TrackID: seed.track.ID, AudioStreamSha256: sum, Chromaprint: []int32{1},
+			FingerprintVersion: seed.version, ChromaprintLengthSec: defaultChromaprintLengthSec,
+		}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("seed fingerprint: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx, "UPDATE tracks SET missing_since = now() WHERE id = $1", missing.ID); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("mark missing: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	var mu sync.Mutex
+	calls := map[string]int{}
+	settings, err := NewFingerprintSettingsService(ctx, pool)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("fingerprint settings: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		if _, err := settings.Set(context.Background(), DefaultFingerprintSettings); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("restore fingerprint settings: %v", err)
+		}
+	})
+	w := NewFingerprintBackfillWorker(pool, slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil)), settings)
+	// A batch of one forces the keyset cursor across several queries in a pass.
+	w.batch = 1
+	lengths := map[int32]int{}
+	w.fingerprint = func(_ context.Context, path string, opts fingerprintOptions) fingerprintResult {
+		name := filepath.Base(path)
+		mu.Lock()
+		calls[name]++
+		lengths[opts.lengthSec]++
+		mu.Unlock()
+		switch name {
+		case "stall.mp3":
+			return fingerprintResult{streamSHA256: sum, printErr: fmt.Errorf("fpcalc: %w", errFingerprintTimeout)}
+		case "rejected.mp3":
+			return fingerprintResult{hashErr: errors.New("ffmpeg exited 1"), printErr: errors.New("fpcalc exited 2")}
+		default:
+			return fingerprintResult{streamSHA256: sum, chromaprint: []int32{7, -7}}
+		}
+	}
+	callCount := func(name string) int {
+		mu.Lock()
+		defer mu.Unlock()
+		return calls[name]
+	}
+
+	// 1. Only the track with no row and the stale one are fingerprinted — never
+	// the current one, never the missing one.
+	res, err := w.pass(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("first pass: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.Processed != 2 || res.Fingerprinted != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("first pass = %+v, want 2 processed, 2 fingerprinted", res)
+	}
+	for name, want := range map[string]int{
+		"unfingerprinted.mp3": 1, "stale.mp3": 1, "current.mp3": 0, "missing.mp3": 0,
+	} {
+		if got := callCount(name); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("%s fingerprinted %d times, want %d", name, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// 2. A pass after a complete one is a no-op. A backfill that redoes its work
+	// every hour is the expensive way this could be wrong.
+	res, err = w.pass(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("second pass: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.Processed != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("second pass processed %d tracks, want 0", res.Processed)
+	}
+
+	// 3. An inconclusive file is tried exactly once and the pass ENDS. Without the
+	// keyset cursor it would be re-listed immediately and this call would never
+	// return.
+	addTrack("stall")
+	addTrack("rejected")
+	res, err = w.pass(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("third pass: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.Processed != 2 || res.Inconclusive != 1 || res.Rejected != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("third pass = %+v, want 2 processed, 1 inconclusive, 1 rejected", res)
+	}
+	if got := callCount("stall.mp3"); got != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("stalling file tried %d times in one pass, want exactly 1", got)
+	}
+
+	// 4. The gauge counts what the passes wrote, and its buckets add up.
+	cov, err := FingerprintCoverage(ctx, pool, settings.Get())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("coverage: %v", err)
+	}
+	// Five present tracks: unfingerprinted, current, stale, stall, rejected.
+	// The missing track is not counted.
+	if cov.Total != 5 || cov.Fingerprinted != 3 || cov.Rejected != 1 || cov.Pending != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("coverage = %+v, want total 5, fingerprinted 3, rejected 1, pending 1", cov)
+	}
+	if cov.Fingerprinted+cov.Rejected+cov.Pending != cov.Total {
+		t.Errorf("coverage buckets %+v do not sum to the total", cov)
+	}
+
+	// 5. Changing the length (#3913) makes every stored row stale at once — the
+	// gauge shows the whole library pending before the backfill has touched a
+	// file — and the next pass re-derives each at the new length. The failure
+	// this prevents is invisible from the UI: prints at two lengths that silently
+	// never match.
+	shorter := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	shorter.ChromaprintLengthSec = 60
+	if _, err := settings.Set(ctx, shorter); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("change length: %v", err)
+	}
+	cov, err = FingerprintCoverage(ctx, pool, settings.Get())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("coverage after length change: %v", err)
+	}
+	if cov.Total != 5 || cov.Pending != 5 {
+		t.Fatalf("coverage after length change = %+v, want all 5 tracks pending", cov)
+	}
+	mu.Lock()
+	clear(lengths)
+	mu.Unlock()
+	res, err = w.pass(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("new-length pass: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.Processed != 5 {
+		t.Fatalf("new-length pass = %+v, want all 5 present tracks re-derived", res)
+	}
+	mu.Lock()
+	asked := maps.Clone(lengths)
+	mu.Unlock()
+	if len(asked) != 1 || asked[60] != 5 {
+		t.Fatalf("new-length pass asked for lengths %v, want 60s for all 5", asked)
+	}
+	var atOldLength int
+	if err := pool.QueryRow(ctx,
+		"SELECT count(*) FROM track_fingerprints WHERE chromaprint_length_sec <> 60").Scan(&atOldLength); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("count old-length rows: %v", err)
+	}
+	if atOldLength != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d fingerprints are still at the old length after a complete pass", atOldLength)
+	}
+
+	// 6. Switched off, the backfill does nothing, even with work waiting.
+	off := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	off.Enabled = false
+	if _, err := settings.Set(ctx, off); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("switch fingerprinting off: %v", err)
+	}
+	addTrack("later")
+	res, err = w.pass(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("pass with fingerprinting off: %v", err)
+	}
+	if res.Processed != 0 || callCount("later.mp3") != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("pass with fingerprinting off = %+v (later.mp3 tried %d times), want nothing done",
+			res, callCount("later.mp3"))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBackfillFingerprintsResult_Add(t *testing.T) {
+	var r BackfillFingerprintsResult
+	for _, o := range []fingerprintOutcome{
+		outcomeFingerprinted, outcomeFingerprinted, outcomeRejected, outcomeInconclusive, outcomeStoreFailed,
+	} {
+		r.add(o)
+	}
+	// A failed write stored nothing, so like an inconclusive attempt it is
+	// tried again next pass — and counts as such.
+	want := BackfillFingerprintsResult{Processed: 5, Fingerprinted: 2, Rejected: 1, Inconclusive: 2}
+	if r != want {
+		t.Errorf("tally = %+v, want %+v", r, want)
+	}
+}

internal/library/fingerprint_scan_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,230 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log/slog"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5"
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db"
+)
+
+// TestScanner_FingerprintsOnlyNewOrChangedBytes_Integration pins WHEN the scan
+// fingerprints. The cost of getting it wrong is asymmetric and invisible: a
+// scan that re-fingerprints unchanged files still produces correct rows, just
+// by decoding the entire library on every tag-repair pass.
+//
+// The fingerprinter is stubbed. CI has no real audio, and the tools' output is
+// covered by the parser tests; this covers the scan's decisions.
+func TestScanner_FingerprintsOnlyNewOrChangedBytes_Integration(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("skipping scanner integration in -short mode")
+	}
+	dsn := os.Getenv("MINSTREL_TEST_DATABASE_URL")
+	if dsn == "" {
+		t.Skip("MINSTREL_TEST_DATABASE_URL not set")
+	}
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil))
+
+	if err := db.Migrate(dsn, logger); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("migrate: %v", err)
+	}
+	pool, err := pgxpool.New(ctx, dsn)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("pool: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(pool.Close)
+	if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx, "TRUNCATE tracks, albums, artists RESTART IDENTITY CASCADE"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("truncate: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	a := filepath.Join(root, "artist/album/01.mp3")
+	b := filepath.Join(root, "artist/album/02.mp3")
+	writeTestMP3(t, a, map[string]string{"TIT2": "One", "TPE1": "Artist", "TALB": "Album", "TRCK": "1"})
+	writeTestMP3(t, b, map[string]string{"TIT2": "Two", "TPE1": "Artist", "TALB": "Album", "TRCK": "2"})
+
+	sum := bytes.Repeat([]byte{0xAB}, 32)
+	chroma := []int32{7, -7, 2147483647}
+	result := fingerprintResult{streamSHA256: sum, chromaprint: chroma}
+	calls := map[string]int{}
+
+	settings, err := NewFingerprintSettingsService(ctx, pool)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("fingerprint settings: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := settings.Set(ctx, DefaultFingerprintSettings); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reset fingerprint settings: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		if _, err := settings.Set(context.Background(), DefaultFingerprintSettings); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("restore fingerprint settings: %v", err)
+		}
+	})
+
+	var lastOpts fingerprintOptions
+	scanner := New(pool, logger, []string{root}, settings)
+	scanner.fingerprint = func(_ context.Context, path string, opts fingerprintOptions) fingerprintResult {
+		calls[path]++
+		lastOpts = opts
+		return result
+	}
+
+	scan := func(step string) Stats {
+		t.Helper()
+		st, err := scanner.Scan(ctx, nil)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: scan: %v", step, err)
+		}
+		return st
+	}
+	type row struct {
+		sha     []byte
+		chroma  []int32
+		version int16
+		length  int32
+	}
+	stored := func(path string) (row, bool) {
+		t.Helper()
+		var r row
+		err := pool.QueryRow(ctx, `
+			SELECT f.audio_stream_sha256, f.chromaprint, f.fingerprint_version, f.chromaprint_length_sec
+			  FROM track_fingerprints f JOIN tracks t ON t.id = f.track_id
+			 WHERE t.file_path = $1`, path).Scan(&r.sha, &r.chroma, &r.version, &r.length)
+		if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+			return row{}, false
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("read fingerprint for %s: %v", path, err)
+		}
+		return r, true
+	}
+	// A later step moves mtime forward past the row's updated_at, which is
+	// what the scan reads as "these bytes changed".
+	touch := func(path string, ahead time.Duration) {
+		t.Helper()
+		when := time.Now().Add(ahead)
+		if err := os.Chtimes(path, when, when); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("chtimes %s: %v", path, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// 1. New files are fingerprinted, and stored at the current version.
+	scan("first scan")
+	if calls[a] != 1 || calls[b] != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("first scan fingerprint calls = %v, want one per file", calls)
+	}
+	got, ok := stored(a)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("first scan stored no fingerprint")
+	}
+	if !bytes.Equal(got.sha, sum) || !slices.Equal(got.chroma, chroma) || got.version != fingerprintVersion ||
+		got.length != defaultChromaprintLengthSec {
+		t.Fatalf("stored %+v, want sha %x chromaprint %v version %d length %d",
+			got, sum, chroma, fingerprintVersion, defaultChromaprintLengthSec)
+	}
+	if !lastOpts.chromaprint || lastOpts.lengthSec != defaultChromaprintLengthSec {
+		t.Fatalf("first scan asked for %+v, want a chromaprint at the default length", lastOpts)
+	}
+
+	// 2. A tag-repair pass re-reads every unchanged file and must not
+	// fingerprint any of them again.
+	//
+	// The Updated count is what makes this able to fail. Without it, a scan
+	// that simply SKIPPED both files would also leave the call counts at one,
+	// and the assertion would pass without the re-read path ever running.
+	if _, err := pool.Exec(ctx, "UPDATE tracks SET duration_ms = 1000, tag_read_version = 0"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("force tag re-read: %v", err)
+	}
+	if st := scan("tag-repair scan"); st.Updated != 2 || st.Skipped != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("tag-repair scan stats = %+v, want both files re-read (Updated=2 Skipped=0)", st)
+	}
+	if calls[a] != 1 || calls[b] != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("tag-repair scan re-fingerprinted unchanged files: calls = %v", calls)
+	}
+	if _, ok := stored(a); !ok {
+		t.Fatal("tag-repair scan dropped a stored fingerprint")
+	}
+
+	// 3. Bytes that changed are fingerprinted again, and only those.
+	touch(a, time.Hour)
+	scan("changed-file scan")
+	if calls[a] != 2 || calls[b] != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("changed-file scan calls = %v, want a=2 b=1", calls)
+	}
+
+	// 4. A changed file whose attempt is inconclusive loses its old row: that
+	// row describes the previous bytes, and a stall says nothing about the new
+	// ones.
+	result = fingerprintResult{streamSHA256: sum, printErr: fmt.Errorf("fpcalc: %w", errFingerprintTimeout)}
+	touch(a, 2*time.Hour)
+	scan("inconclusive scan")
+	if _, ok := stored(a); ok {
+		t.Fatal("inconclusive attempt left the previous bytes' fingerprint in place")
+	}
+	if _, ok := stored(b); !ok {
+		t.Fatal("inconclusive attempt on one file removed another file's fingerprint")
+	}
+
+	// 5. A file the tools reject gets a row at the current version with both
+	// halves NULL — a verdict, so the backfill does not retry it every boot.
+	result = fingerprintResult{
+		hashErr:  errors.New("ffmpeg exited 1"),
+		printErr: errors.New("fpcalc exited 2"),
+	}
+	touch(a, 3*time.Hour)
+	scan("rejected scan")
+	got, ok = stored(a)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("a file the tools rejected got no row, so the backfill would retry it forever")
+	}
+	if got.sha != nil || got.chroma != nil || got.version != fingerprintVersion {
+		t.Fatalf("rejected file stored %+v, want both halves NULL at version %d", got, fingerprintVersion)
+	}
+
+	// 6. With fingerprinting off (#3913) the scan decodes nothing. It still asks
+	// for the stream hash — a demux, and what recognises a moved file — but stores
+	// no row, and a changed file's old row goes: it describes bytes that are gone.
+	result = fingerprintResult{streamSHA256: sum, chromaprint: chroma}
+	off := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	off.Enabled = false
+	if _, err := settings.Set(ctx, off); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("switch fingerprinting off: %v", err)
+	}
+	touch(a, 4*time.Hour)
+	scan("fingerprinting-off scan")
+	if calls[a] != 5 || lastOpts.chromaprint {
+		t.Fatalf("fingerprinting-off scan: calls = %v, last options %+v; want a fifth call asking for no chromaprint",
+			calls, lastOpts)
+	}
+	if _, ok := stored(a); ok {
+		t.Fatal("with fingerprinting off, a changed file kept the previous bytes' fingerprint")
+	}
+	if _, ok := stored(b); !ok {
+		t.Fatal("with fingerprinting off, an unchanged file lost its fingerprint")
+	}
+
+	// 7. The length setting reaches the scan, and is stored with the row.
+	longer := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	longer.ChromaprintLengthSec = 90
+	if _, err := settings.Set(ctx, longer); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("change length: %v", err)
+	}
+	touch(a, 5*time.Hour)
+	scan("new-length scan")
+	got, ok = stored(a)
+	if !ok || got.length != 90 || lastOpts.lengthSec != 90 || !lastOpts.chromaprint {
+		t.Fatalf("new-length scan stored %+v (present %v) after asking for %+v; want a chromaprint at 90s", got, ok, lastOpts)
+	}
+}

internal/library/fingerprint_settings.go

@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
+
+	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
+)
+
+// Fingerprinting settings (M400 #3913).
+//
+// Rule 25: what an operator might tune lives in the database and changes without
+// a restart. One service instance is shared by the scanner, the backfill, the
+// duplicate sweep and the admin API, so a save reaches all of them at once.
+//
+// The length is the dangerous knob: chromaprints taken at two lengths cannot be
+// compared. Rather than bumping fingerprintVersion when it changes, every row
+// records the length it was taken at (migration 0061) and every reader filters
+// on the current one. A row at another length is stale to the backfill, pending
+// to the gauge and invisible to the sweep, which is the effect a version bump
+// would have, with one difference worth having: setting the length back makes
+// rows not yet re-derived current again, instead of redoing the library twice.
+
+// Bounds for each setting, mirrored by migration 0061's CHECKs.
+const (
+	// Below 30s a print has too few items to align at the matcher's larger
+	// offsets and still overlap by minOverlapItems. Above 600s each print passes
+	// 20 KB and a candidate page of them grows past what one sweep should hold.
+	minChromaprintLengthSec = 30
+	maxChromaprintLengthSec = 600
+	// Unrelated audio sits near 0.5; a ceiling of 0.35 keeps a loosened
+	// threshold well clear of proposing noise.
+	minAcousticMaxBitErrorRate = 0.01
+	maxAcousticMaxBitErrorRate = 0.35
+	minBackfillConcurrency     = 1
+	maxBackfillConcurrency     = 8
+	minSweepIntervalHours      = 1
+	maxSweepIntervalHours      = 168
+
+	defaultSweepIntervalHours = 1
+)
+
+// FingerprintSettings mirrors the fingerprint_settings row.
+type FingerprintSettings struct {
+	// Enabled off stops every decode: the scan takes only the stream hash (a
+	// demux, and what recognises a moved file) and stores nothing, and the
+	// backfill idles.
+	Enabled                 bool
+	ChromaprintLengthSec    int32
+	AcousticMaxBitErrorRate float64
+	BackfillConcurrency     int32
+	SweepIntervalHours      int32
+	// UpdatedAt is when the settings were last saved. Set by the database;
+	// ignored by Set.
+	UpdatedAt time.Time
+}
+
+// DefaultFingerprintSettings mirrors migration 0061's column defaults, so a
+// database that cannot be read still fingerprints the way a fresh install does.
+var DefaultFingerprintSettings = FingerprintSettings{
+	Enabled:                 true,
+	ChromaprintLengthSec:    defaultChromaprintLengthSec,
+	AcousticMaxBitErrorRate: defaultAcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+	BackfillConcurrency:     fingerprintBackfillConcurrency,
+	SweepIntervalHours:      defaultSweepIntervalHours,
+}
+
+// ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange is returned by Set for a value migration
+// 0061's CHECKs would reject, so the API answers 400 naming the field rather
+// than surfacing a constraint violation.
+var ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange = errors.New("fingerprint setting out of range")
+
+// FingerprintSettingsService caches the settings and owns their persistence.
+// Cached because the scanner reads them for every file it fingerprints.
+type FingerprintSettingsService struct {
+	pool *pgxpool.Pool
+
+	mu  sync.RWMutex
+	cur FingerprintSettings
+}
+
+// NewFingerprintSettingsService loads once and caches. It always returns a
+// usable service, holding the defaults when the load fails; the error says so.
+func NewFingerprintSettingsService(ctx context.Context, pool *pgxpool.Pool) (*FingerprintSettingsService, error) {
+	s := &FingerprintSettingsService{pool: pool, cur: DefaultFingerprintSettings}
+	row, err := dbq.New(pool).GetFingerprintSettings(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return s, fmt.Errorf("fingerprint settings: load: %w", err)
+	}
+	s.cur = fingerprintSettingsFromRow(row)
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+// Get returns the cached settings. A nil service answers with the defaults, so
+// a Scanner or worker built without one fingerprints as a fresh install would.
+func (s *FingerprintSettingsService) Get() FingerprintSettings {
+	if s == nil {
+		return DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	}
+	s.mu.RLock()
+	defer s.mu.RUnlock()
+	return s.cur
+}
+
+// Set validates, persists and re-caches.
+func (s *FingerprintSettingsService) Set(ctx context.Context, in FingerprintSettings) (FingerprintSettings, error) {
+	if err := validateFingerprintSettings(in); err != nil {
+		return FingerprintSettings{}, err
+	}
+	if s == nil {
+		return FingerprintSettings{}, errors.New("fingerprint settings: no settings service")
+	}
+	row, err := dbq.New(s.pool).UpdateFingerprintSettings(ctx, dbq.UpdateFingerprintSettingsParams{
+		Enabled:                 in.Enabled,
+		ChromaprintLengthSec:    in.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		AcousticMaxBitErrorRate: in.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+		BackfillConcurrency:     in.BackfillConcurrency,
+		SweepIntervalHours:      in.SweepIntervalHours,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return FingerprintSettings{}, fmt.Errorf("fingerprint settings: save: %w", err)
+	}
+	out := fingerprintSettingsFromRow(row)
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	s.cur = out
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func validateFingerprintSettings(in FingerprintSettings) error {
+	switch {
+	case in.ChromaprintLengthSec < minChromaprintLengthSec || in.ChromaprintLengthSec > maxChromaprintLengthSec:
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: chromaprint_length_sec must be %d-%d",
+			ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange, minChromaprintLengthSec, maxChromaprintLengthSec)
+	// Written as a negated range so NaN, which fails every comparison, is refused.
+	case !(in.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate >= minAcousticMaxBitErrorRate && in.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate <= maxAcousticMaxBitErrorRate):
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: acoustic_max_bit_error_rate must be %.2f-%.2f",
+			ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange, minAcousticMaxBitErrorRate, maxAcousticMaxBitErrorRate)
+	case in.BackfillConcurrency < minBackfillConcurrency || in.BackfillConcurrency > maxBackfillConcurrency:
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: backfill_concurrency must be %d-%d",
+			ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange, minBackfillConcurrency, maxBackfillConcurrency)
+	case in.SweepIntervalHours < minSweepIntervalHours || in.SweepIntervalHours > maxSweepIntervalHours:
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: sweep_interval_hours must be %d-%d",
+			ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange, minSweepIntervalHours, maxSweepIntervalHours)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func fingerprintSettingsFromRow(row dbq.FingerprintSetting) FingerprintSettings {
+	return FingerprintSettings{
+		Enabled:                 row.Enabled,
+		ChromaprintLengthSec:    row.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+		AcousticMaxBitErrorRate: row.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+		BackfillConcurrency:     row.BackfillConcurrency,
+		SweepIntervalHours:      row.SweepIntervalHours,
+		UpdatedAt:               row.UpdatedAt.Time,
+	}
+}

internal/library/fingerprint_settings_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"math"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestValidateFingerprintSettings(t *testing.T) {
+	with := func(edit func(*FingerprintSettings)) FingerprintSettings {
+		s := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+		edit(&s)
+		return s
+	}
+	valid := map[string]FingerprintSettings{
+		"defaults":          DefaultFingerprintSettings,
+		"shortest length":   with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.ChromaprintLengthSec = minChromaprintLengthSec }),
+		"longest length":    with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.ChromaprintLengthSec = maxChromaprintLengthSec }),
+		"strictest match":   with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate = minAcousticMaxBitErrorRate }),
+		"loosest match":     with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate = maxAcousticMaxBitErrorRate }),
+		"fewest at once":    with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.BackfillConcurrency = minBackfillConcurrency }),
+		"most at once":      with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.BackfillConcurrency = maxBackfillConcurrency }),
+		"shortest interval": with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.SweepIntervalHours = minSweepIntervalHours }),
+		"longest interval":  with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.SweepIntervalHours = maxSweepIntervalHours }),
+		"switched off":      with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.Enabled = false }),
+	}
+	for name, s := range valid {
+		if err := validateFingerprintSettings(s); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s: rejected: %v", name, err)
+		}
+	}
+	invalid := map[string]FingerprintSettings{
+		"length too short":   with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.ChromaprintLengthSec = minChromaprintLengthSec - 1 }),
+		"length too long":    with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.ChromaprintLengthSec = maxChromaprintLengthSec + 1 }),
+		"match too strict":   with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate = minAcousticMaxBitErrorRate - 0.001 }),
+		"match too loose":    with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate = maxAcousticMaxBitErrorRate + 0.001 }),
+		"match not a number": with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.AcousticMaxBitErrorRate = math.NaN() }),
+		"none at once":       with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.BackfillConcurrency = 0 }),
+		"too many at once":   with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.BackfillConcurrency = maxBackfillConcurrency + 1 }),
+		"no interval":        with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.SweepIntervalHours = 0 }),
+		"interval too long":  with(func(s *FingerprintSettings) { s.SweepIntervalHours = maxSweepIntervalHours + 1 }),
+	}
+	for name, s := range invalid {
+		if err := validateFingerprintSettings(s); !errors.Is(err, ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: err = %v, want ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange", name, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFingerprintSettingsService_NilServesDefaults(t *testing.T) {
+	var s *FingerprintSettingsService
+	if got := s.Get(); got != DefaultFingerprintSettings {
+		t.Fatalf("nil service Get = %+v, want the defaults", got)
+	}
+	// Validation still runs first, so a bad value is named rather than hidden
+	// behind the missing service.
+	bad := DefaultFingerprintSettings
+	bad.BackfillConcurrency = 0
+	if _, err := s.Set(context.Background(), bad); !errors.Is(err, ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange) {
+		t.Fatalf("nil service Set of a bad value: err = %v, want ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFingerprintSettingsService_Integration(t *testing.T) {
+	pool := newPool(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	reload := func(step string) FingerprintSettings {
+		t.Helper()
+		fresh, err := NewFingerprintSettingsService(ctx, pool)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: load: %v", step, err)
+		}
+		return fresh.Get()
+	}
+	withoutTime := func(s FingerprintSettings) FingerprintSettings {
+		s.UpdatedAt = time.Time{}
+		return s
+	}
+
+	svc, err := NewFingerprintSettingsService(ctx, pool)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("load: %v", err)
+	}
+	// ResetDB puts every column back to its migration default, so this pins the
+	// Go defaults to migration 0061's. Were they to drift, a database that could
+	// not be read would fingerprint differently from one that could.
+	loaded := svc.Get()
+	if loaded.UpdatedAt.IsZero() {
+		t.Fatal("loaded settings carry no updated_at")
+	}
+	if withoutTime(loaded) != DefaultFingerprintSettings {
+		t.Fatalf("stored defaults = %+v, want the Go defaults %+v", withoutTime(loaded), DefaultFingerprintSettings)
+	}
+
+	// Every bound the service accepts, the table accepts too. A CHECK tighter
+	// than validate would turn a value the card allows into a 500.
+	lowest := FingerprintSettings{
+		Enabled:                 false,
+		ChromaprintLengthSec:    minChromaprintLengthSec,
+		AcousticMaxBitErrorRate: minAcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+		BackfillConcurrency:     minBackfillConcurrency,
+		SweepIntervalHours:      minSweepIntervalHours,
+	}
+	highest := FingerprintSettings{
+		Enabled:                 true,
+		ChromaprintLengthSec:    maxChromaprintLengthSec,
+		AcousticMaxBitErrorRate: maxAcousticMaxBitErrorRate,
+		BackfillConcurrency:     maxBackfillConcurrency,
+		SweepIntervalHours:      maxSweepIntervalHours,
+	}
+	for _, step := range []struct {
+		name string
+		want FingerprintSettings
+	}{{"lowest", lowest}, {"highest", highest}} {
+		saved, err := svc.Set(ctx, step.want)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: save: %v", step.name, err)
+		}
+		// A save must move updated_at forward: it is what makes a sweep due.
+		if !saved.UpdatedAt.After(loaded.UpdatedAt) {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: updated_at %v did not move past %v", step.name, saved.UpdatedAt, loaded.UpdatedAt)
+		}
+		if withoutTime(saved) != step.want || withoutTime(svc.Get()) != step.want {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: saved %+v, cached %+v, want %+v", step.name, saved, svc.Get(), step.want)
+		}
+		if got := withoutTime(reload(step.name)); got != step.want {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: table holds %+v, want %+v", step.name, got, step.want)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// An out-of-range save changes nothing, in the cache or the table.
+	before := svc.Get()
+	bad := highest
+	bad.ChromaprintLengthSec = maxChromaprintLengthSec + 1
+	if _, err := svc.Set(ctx, bad); !errors.Is(err, ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange) {
+		t.Fatalf("out-of-range save: err = %v, want ErrFingerprintSettingOutOfRange", err)
+	}
+	if svc.Get() != before {
+		t.Fatalf("out-of-range save changed the cache to %+v", svc.Get())
+	}
+	if got := reload("after out-of-range save"); got != before {
+		t.Fatalf("out-of-range save changed the table to %+v", got)
+	}
+}

internal/library/fingerprint_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+package library
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os/exec"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestParseFpcalcRaw(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name    string
+		out     string
+		want    []int32
+		wantErr string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "signed output with negatives",
+			out:  "DURATION=213\nFINGERPRINT=-1453821711,17,0,2147483647,-2147483648\n",
+			want: []int32{-1453821711, 17, 0, 2147483647, -2147483648},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "fingerprint line need not come second",
+			out:  "FINGERPRINT=5,6\nDURATION=1\n",
+			want: []int32{5, 6},
+		},
+		{
+			// fpcalc's default is uint32. This value only appears when -signed
+			// is missing, and storing it would need a reinterpretation nothing
+			// performs.
+			name:    "unsigned output is refused",
+			out:     "DURATION=213\nFINGERPRINT=2841145585,17\n",
+			wantErr: "item 0",
+		},
+		{name: "empty fingerprint", out: "DURATION=0\nFINGERPRINT=\n", wantErr: "empty fingerprint"},
+		{name: "no fingerprint line", out: "DURATION=213\n", wantErr: "no FINGERPRINT= line"},
+		{name: "non-numeric item", out: "FINGERPRINT=1,x,3\n", wantErr: "item 1"},
+		{name: "trailing comma", out: "FINGERPRINT=1,2,\n", wantErr: "item 2"},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got, err := parseFpcalcRaw([]byte(tc.out))
+			if tc.wantErr != "" {
+				if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tc.wantErr) {
+					t.Fatalf("err = %v, want one containing %q", err, tc.wantErr)
+				}
+				return
+			}
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("unexpected err: %v", err)
+			}
+			if !slices.Equal(got, tc.want) {
+				t.Fatalf("got %v, want %v", got, tc.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseStreamHash(t *testing.T) {
+	// The real value ffmpeg printed for both files of the #3885 pair.
+	const www = "24e2daa3b4a534ff1a8d1a76f67810205869daf89f728d83a16625da4d28a18e"
+
+	got, err := parseStreamHash([]byte("SHA256=" + www + "\n"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected err: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(got) != 32 || got[0] != 0x24 || got[31] != 0x8e {
+		t.Fatalf("decoded %x, want %s", got, www)
+	}
+
+	for name, out := range map[string]string{
+		"no hash line":  "",
+		"other hash":    "MD5=" + www[:32] + "\n",
+		"not hex":       "SHA256=" + strings.Repeat("zz", 32) + "\n",
+		"short digest":  "SHA256=" + www[:62] + "\n",
+		"odd hex chars": "SHA256=" + www[:63] + "\n",
+	} {
+		if _, err := parseStreamHash([]byte(out)); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s: parsed %q without error", name, out)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// followedBy reports whether flag appears in args immediately followed by value.
+func followedBy(args []string, flag, value string) bool {
+	for i := 0; i+1 < len(args); i++ {
+		if args[i] == flag && args[i+1] == value {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// The exact tier's stored hashes must stay comparable across ffmpeg upgrades,
+// which only holds while the packets are copied rather than decoded. A decoded
+// hash still matches within one ffmpeg build, so nothing else would notice the
+// change until an image upgrade silently broke every stored value.
+func TestStreamHashArgs_HashPacketsNotSamples(t *testing.T) {
+	args := streamHashArgs("/music/a.mp3")
+	for _, pair := range [][2]string{
+		{"-c:a", "copy"}, // no decode
+		{"-map", "0:a"},  // audio only: cover art stays out of the hash
+		{"-f", "hash"},   // the hash muxer, not a file
+		{"-hash", "sha256"},
+		{"-i", "/music/a.mp3"},
+	} {
+		if !followedBy(args, pair[0], pair[1]) {
+			t.Errorf("streamHashArgs lacks %s %s: %v", pair[0], pair[1], args)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFpcalcArgs_RequestSignedRawOutput(t *testing.T) {
+	args := fpcalcArgs("/music/a.flac", 90)
+	for _, flag := range []string{"-raw", "-signed"} {
+		if !slices.Contains(args, flag) {
+			t.Errorf("fpcalcArgs lacks %s: %v", flag, args)
+		}
+	}
+	if !followedBy(args, "-length", "90") {
+		t.Errorf("fpcalcArgs does not pass the requested length: %v", args)
+	}
+	// fpcalc takes the file as its trailing positional argument.
+	if args[len(args)-1] != "/music/a.flac" {
+		t.Errorf("path is not last: %v", args)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStderrTail_KeepsTheCauseNotTheBanner(t *testing.T) {
+	banner := bytes.Repeat([]byte("warning: skipping frame\n"), fpcalcStderrTail)
+	got := stderrTail(append(banner, []byte("ERROR: could not decode\n")...))
+	if len(got) != fpcalcStderrTail {
+		t.Fatalf("tail is %d bytes, want the %d-byte cap", len(got), fpcalcStderrTail)
+	}
+	if !bytes.HasSuffix(got, []byte("ERROR: could not decode")) {
+		t.Fatalf("tail dropped the final line: ...%q", got[len(got)-40:])
+	}
+
+	if got := stderrTail([]byte("  short  \n")); string(got) != "short" {
+		t.Fatalf("short stderr = %q, want it trimmed and whole", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A stored failure is permanent until the file changes, so the classification
+// decides whether a track is ever retried. Every inconclusive case here would,
+// if misfiled as a verdict, silently exclude that track from duplicate
+// detection for good.
+func TestIsInconclusive(t *testing.T) {
+	notInstalled := fmt.Errorf("fpcalc: %w", &exec.Error{Name: "fpcalc", Err: exec.ErrNotFound})
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		err  error
+		want bool
+	}{
+		{"timeout", fmt.Errorf("fpcalc: no result: %w", errFingerprintTimeout), true},
+		{"scan cancelled", fmt.Errorf("ffmpeg: %w", context.Canceled), true},
+		{"caller deadline", fmt.Errorf("ffmpeg: %w", context.DeadlineExceeded), true},
+		{"tool not installed", notInstalled, true},
+		{"tool rejected the file", errors.New("fpcalc exited 2: could not decode"), false},
+		{"unparseable output", errors.New("fpcalc printed no FINGERPRINT= line"), false},
+		{"success", nil, false},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		if got := isInconclusive(tc.err); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("%s: isInconclusive = %v, want %v", tc.name, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Either half being inconclusive taints the whole result: storing the half that
+// succeeded would stamp the row at the current version with the other half
+// NULL, and that NULL would then read as a verdict.
+func TestFingerprintResult_InconclusiveIfEitherHalfIs(t *testing.T) {
+	stall := fmt.Errorf("fpcalc: %w", errFingerprintTimeout)
+	rejected := errors.New("fpcalc exited 2")
+	for name, tc := range map[string]struct {
+		r    fingerprintResult
+		want bool
+	}{
+		"both succeeded":            {fingerprintResult{streamSHA256: []byte{1}, chromaprint: []int32{1}}, false},
+		"hash ok, print stalled":    {fingerprintResult{streamSHA256: []byte{1}, printErr: stall}, true},
+		"hash stalled, print ok":    {fingerprintResult{hashErr: stall, chromaprint: []int32{1}}, true},
+		"hash ok, print rejected":   {fingerprintResult{streamSHA256: []byte{1}, printErr: rejected}, false},
+		"both rejected by the file": {fingerprintResult{hashErr: rejected, printErr: rejected}, false},
+	} {
+		if got := tc.r.inconclusive(); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("%s: inconclusive = %v, want %v", name, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/library/moved.go

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ import (
 // match/ambiguity logic can be tested against a fake.
 type trackAdopter interface {
 	FindMissingTrackByMbid(ctx context.Context, mbid string) ([]dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow, error)
-	FindMissingTrackByFingerprint(ctx context.Context, arg dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintParams) ([]dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow, error)
+	FindMissingTrackByAudioHash(ctx context.Context, audioStreamSha256 []byte) ([]dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow, error)
 	AdoptTrackPath(ctx context.Context, arg dbq.AdoptTrackPathParams) (int64, error)
 }
 
@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ type trackAdopter interface {
 // pre-#2528 behaviour.
 func (s *Scanner) adoptMovedTrack(
 	ctx context.Context, q trackAdopter, newPath string,
-	fileSize int64, durationMs int32, recordingMBID string,
+	audioHash []byte, recordingMBID string,
 ) bool {
 	// MBID first. It identifies the recording rather than the bytes, so it
-	// survives a re-encode that the fingerprint cannot.
+	// survives a re-encode that the audio hash cannot.
 	if recordingMBID != "" {
 		rows, err := q.FindMissingTrackByMbid(ctx, recordingMBID)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -67,19 +67,17 @@ func (s *Scanner) adoptMovedTrack(
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Fingerprint fallback for untagged files. Both components must be real:
+	// Audio-hash fallback for untagged files (#3914): the encoded audio itself,
-	// duration_ms is 0 when ffprobe failed, and matching 0 against 0 would pair
+	// which a rename, a move or a retag leaves unchanged. Absent when the hash
-	// up unrelated broken files.
+	// could not be taken, and then nothing is matched — an empty hash must never
-	if fileSize > 0 && durationMs > 0 {
+	// be looked up, or every unhashable file would pair with every other.
-		rows, err := q.FindMissingTrackByFingerprint(ctx, dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintParams{
+	if len(audioHash) > 0 {
-			FileSize:   fileSize,
+		rows, err := q.FindMissingTrackByAudioHash(ctx, audioHash)
-			DurationMs: durationMs,
-		})
 		if err != nil {
-			s.logger.Warn("library scan: move lookup by fingerprint failed",
+			s.logger.Warn("library scan: move lookup by audio hash failed",
 				"path", newPath, "err", err)
-		} else if c, ok := s.uniqueMatch(rowsFromFingerprint(rows), newPath, "fingerprint"); ok {
+		} else if c, ok := s.uniqueMatch(rowsFromAudioHash(rows), newPath, "audio_hash"); ok {
-			return s.adopt(ctx, q, c, newPath, "fingerprint")
+			return s.adopt(ctx, q, c, newPath, "audio_hash")
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -100,7 +98,7 @@ func rowsFromMbid(rows []dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow) []candidate {
 	return out
 }
 
-func rowsFromFingerprint(rows []dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow) []candidate {
+func rowsFromAudioHash(rows []dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow) []candidate {
 	out := make([]candidate, 0, len(rows))
 	for _, r := range rows {
 		out = append(out, candidate{id: r.ID, filePath: r.FilePath})

internal/library/moved_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package library
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"testing"
@@ -10,18 +11,21 @@ import (
 	"git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/minstrel/internal/db/dbq"
 )
 
+// fakeAdopter answers the audio-hash lookup only for the hash it holds, the way
+// the real query does. A fake that returned its rows for any hash could not tell
+// adoption by identity apart from adoption by coincidence.
 type fakeAdopter struct {
-	byMbid        []dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow
+	byMbid    []dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow
-	byFingerprint []dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow
+	hash      []byte
+	byHash    []dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow
+	mbidErr   error
+	hashErr   error
+	adoptErr  error
+	adoptRows int64
 
-	mbidErr        error
+	mbidQueried []string
-	fingerprintErr error
+	hashQueried [][]byte
-	adoptErr       error
+	adopted     []dbq.AdoptTrackPathParams
-	adoptRows      int64
-
-	mbidQueried        []string
-	fingerprintQueried []dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintParams
-	adopted            []dbq.AdoptTrackPathParams
 }
 
 func (f *fakeAdopter) FindMissingTrackByMbid(_ context.Context, mbid string) ([]dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow, error) {
@@ -29,11 +33,17 @@ func (f *fakeAdopter) FindMissingTrackByMbid(_ context.Context, mbid string) ([]
 	return f.byMbid, f.mbidErr
 }
 
-func (f *fakeAdopter) FindMissingTrackByFingerprint(
+func (f *fakeAdopter) FindMissingTrackByAudioHash(
-	_ context.Context, arg dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintParams,
+	_ context.Context, audioStreamSha256 []byte,
-) ([]dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow, error) {
+) ([]dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow, error) {
-	f.fingerprintQueried = append(f.fingerprintQueried, arg)
+	f.hashQueried = append(f.hashQueried, audioStreamSha256)
-	return f.byFingerprint, f.fingerprintErr
+	if f.hashErr != nil {
+		return nil, f.hashErr
+	}
+	if !bytes.Equal(audioStreamSha256, f.hash) {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	return f.byHash, nil
 }
 
 func (f *fakeAdopter) AdoptTrackPath(_ context.Context, arg dbq.AdoptTrackPathParams) (int64, error) {
@@ -51,10 +61,12 @@ func mbidRow(n byte, path string) dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow {
 	return dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow{ID: testUUID(n), FilePath: path}
 }
 
-func fpRow(n byte, path string) dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow {
+func hashRow(n byte, path string) dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow {
-	return dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow{ID: testUUID(n), FilePath: path}
+	return dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow{ID: testUUID(n), FilePath: path}
 }
 
+func audioHash(b byte) []byte { return bytes.Repeat([]byte{b}, 32) }
+
 const (
 	oldPath = "/music/Linkin Park/Minutes to Midnight/02 - Bleed It Out.mp3"
 	newPath = "/music/Linkin Park/Minutes to Midnight/04 - Bleed It Out.mp3"
@@ -64,47 +76,53 @@ func TestAdoptMovedTrack_MatchesByMbid(t *testing.T) {
 	s := testScanner(t)
 	q := &fakeAdopter{byMbid: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow{mbidRow(7, oldPath)}, adoptRows: 1}
 
-	if !s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, 5_000_000, 200_000, "rec-mbid") {
+	if !s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, audioHash(1), "rec-mbid") {
 		t.Fatal("expected the moved track to be adopted")
 	}
-	if len(q.adopted) != 1 {
+	if len(q.adopted) != 1 || q.adopted[0].ID != testUUID(7) || q.adopted[0].FilePath != newPath {
-		t.Fatalf("adopted %d rows, want 1", len(q.adopted))
+		t.Fatalf("adopted = %+v, want row 7 at %q", q.adopted, newPath)
-	}
-	if q.adopted[0].ID != testUUID(7) {
-		t.Errorf("adopted the wrong row: %v", q.adopted[0].ID)
-	}
-	if q.adopted[0].FilePath != newPath {
-		t.Errorf("adopted FilePath = %q, want %q", q.adopted[0].FilePath, newPath)
 	}
 	// MBID matched, so the weaker signal should not have been consulted.
-	if len(q.fingerprintQueried) != 0 {
+	if len(q.hashQueried) != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("queried the fingerprint despite an MBID match")
+		t.Errorf("queried the audio hash despite an MBID match")
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAdoptMovedTrack_FallsBackToFingerprint(t *testing.T) {
+func TestAdoptMovedTrack_FallsBackToAudioHash(t *testing.T) {
 	s := testScanner(t)
-	q := &fakeAdopter{byFingerprint: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow{fpRow(3, oldPath)}, adoptRows: 1}
+	q := &fakeAdopter{hash: audioHash(3), byHash: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow{hashRow(3, oldPath)}, adoptRows: 1}
 
 	// No MBID: an untagged file, which is exactly what the fallback is for.
-	if !s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, 4_200_000, 187_000, "") {
+	if !s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, audioHash(3), "") {
-		t.Fatal("expected adoption via fingerprint")
+		t.Fatal("expected adoption via the audio hash")
 	}
 	if len(q.mbidQueried) != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("queried by MBID with no MBID available")
 	}
-	if len(q.fingerprintQueried) != 1 {
+	if len(q.hashQueried) != 1 || !bytes.Equal(q.hashQueried[0], audioHash(3)) {
-		t.Fatalf("fingerprint queried %d times, want 1", len(q.fingerprintQueried))
+		t.Fatalf("hash queried = %x, want exactly the file's hash", q.hashQueried)
-	}
-	got := q.fingerprintQueried[0]
-	if got.FileSize != 4_200_000 || got.DurationMs != 187_000 {
-		t.Errorf("fingerprint = %+v, want size 4200000 duration 187000", got)
 	}
 	if len(q.adopted) != 1 || q.adopted[0].ID != testUUID(3) {
 		t.Errorf("adopted = %+v, want row 3", q.adopted)
 	}
 }
 
+// The case the old (file_size, duration_ms) pair got wrong: an unrelated file
+// that happens to share a size and a duration with a missing track. Size and
+// duration are no longer inputs at all; only the audio itself can match, and a
+// different recording has a different hash.
+func TestAdoptMovedTrack_DifferentAudioIsNotAdopted(t *testing.T) {
+	s := testScanner(t)
+	q := &fakeAdopter{hash: audioHash(0xAA), byHash: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow{hashRow(1, oldPath)}, adoptRows: 1}
+
+	if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, audioHash(0xBB), "") {
+		t.Fatal("adopted a missing track whose audio differs")
+	}
+	if len(q.adopted) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("adopted = %+v, want none", q.adopted)
+	}
+}
+
 // Two missing rows carrying the same recording MBID means real duplicates.
 // Adopting one arbitrarily would attach this file's future history to a coin
 // flip, so it must insert fresh instead.
@@ -115,7 +133,7 @@ func TestAdoptMovedTrack_RefusesAmbiguousMbidMatch(t *testing.T) {
 		mbidRow(2, "/music/b.mp3"),
 	}, adoptRows: 1}
 
-	if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, 0, 0, "rec-mbid") {
+	if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, nil, "rec-mbid") {
 		t.Fatal("expected refusal on an ambiguous MBID match")
 	}
 	if len(q.adopted) != 0 {
@@ -123,66 +141,57 @@ func TestAdoptMovedTrack_RefusesAmbiguousMbidMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// An ambiguous MBID may still be resolvable by the fingerprint, which is a
+// An ambiguous MBID may still be resolvable by the audio hash, which is a
 // narrower signal — so falling through is allowed to succeed.
-func TestAdoptMovedTrack_AmbiguousMbidFallsThroughToFingerprint(t *testing.T) {
+func TestAdoptMovedTrack_AmbiguousMbidFallsThroughToAudioHash(t *testing.T) {
 	s := testScanner(t)
 	q := &fakeAdopter{
 		byMbid: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow{
 			mbidRow(1, "/music/a.mp3"),
 			mbidRow(2, "/music/b.mp3"),
 		},
-		byFingerprint: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow{fpRow(2, "/music/b.mp3")},
+		hash:      audioHash(2),
-		adoptRows:     1,
+		byHash:    []dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow{hashRow(2, "/music/b.mp3")},
+		adoptRows: 1,
 	}
 
-	if !s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, 1000, 2000, "rec-mbid") {
+	if !s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, audioHash(2), "rec-mbid") {
-		t.Fatal("expected the fingerprint to disambiguate")
+		t.Fatal("expected the audio hash to disambiguate")
 	}
 	if len(q.adopted) != 1 || q.adopted[0].ID != testUUID(2) {
 		t.Errorf("adopted = %+v, want row 2", q.adopted)
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAdoptMovedTrack_RefusesAmbiguousFingerprintMatch(t *testing.T) {
+// Two missing tracks with identical audio are duplicates of each other; a new
+// file matching both cannot be assigned to either.
+func TestAdoptMovedTrack_RefusesAmbiguousAudioHashMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	s := testScanner(t)
-	q := &fakeAdopter{byFingerprint: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow{
+	q := &fakeAdopter{hash: audioHash(5), byHash: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow{
-		fpRow(1, "/music/a.mp3"),
+		hashRow(1, "/music/a.mp3"),
-		fpRow(2, "/music/b.mp3"),
+		hashRow(2, "/music/b.mp3"),
 	}, adoptRows: 1}
 
-	if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, 1000, 2000, "") {
+	if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, audioHash(5), "") {
-		t.Fatal("expected refusal on an ambiguous fingerprint match")
+		t.Fatal("expected refusal on an ambiguous audio-hash match")
 	}
 	if len(q.adopted) != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("adopted despite ambiguity: %+v", q.adopted)
 	}
 }
 
-// duration_ms is 0 when ffprobe failed. Matching 0 against 0 would pair up
+// No hash means it could not be taken. An empty hash must never be looked up:
-// unrelated broken files, so the fingerprint must not be attempted.
+// every unhashable file would pair with every other.
-func TestAdoptMovedTrack_SkipsFingerprintWithoutRealValues(t *testing.T) {
+func TestAdoptMovedTrack_SkipsAudioHashWhenAbsent(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
+	for name, hash := range map[string][]byte{"nil": nil, "empty": {}} {
-		name     string
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
-		size     int64
-		duration int32
-	}{
-		{"no duration", 1000, 0},
-		{"no size", 0, 2000},
-		{"neither", 0, 0},
-	}
-	for _, tc := range tests {
-		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			s := testScanner(t)
-			q := &fakeAdopter{
+			q := &fakeAdopter{hash: hash, byHash: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow{hashRow(1, oldPath)}, adoptRows: 1}
-				byFingerprint: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow{fpRow(1, oldPath)},
+			if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, hash, "") {
-				adoptRows:     1,
+				t.Error("adopted without an audio hash")
 			}
-			if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, tc.size, tc.duration, "") {
+			if len(q.hashQueried) != 0 {
-				t.Error("adopted on an unusable fingerprint")
+				t.Error("looked up an absent audio hash")
-			}
-			if len(q.fingerprintQueried) != 0 {
-				t.Error("queried the fingerprint with unusable values")
 			}
 		})
 	}
@@ -192,7 +201,7 @@ func TestAdoptMovedTrack_NoCandidates(t *testing.T) {
 	s := testScanner(t)
 	q := &fakeAdopter{adoptRows: 1}
 
-	if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, 1000, 2000, "rec-mbid") {
+	if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, audioHash(9), "rec-mbid") {
 		t.Fatal("expected no adoption when nothing matches")
 	}
 	if len(q.adopted) != 0 {
@@ -209,7 +218,7 @@ func TestAdoptMovedTrack_LostRaceReportsNotAdopted(t *testing.T) {
 		adoptRows: 0,
 	}
 
-	if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, 1000, 2000, "rec-mbid") {
+	if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, audioHash(5), "rec-mbid") {
 		t.Fatal("expected not-adopted when the update matched no rows")
 	}
 }
@@ -223,7 +232,7 @@ func TestAdoptMovedTrack_ToleratesQueryErrors(t *testing.T) {
 		q    *fakeAdopter
 	}{
 		{"mbid lookup fails", &fakeAdopter{mbidErr: sentinel}},
-		{"fingerprint lookup fails", &fakeAdopter{fingerprintErr: sentinel}},
+		{"audio hash lookup fails", &fakeAdopter{hashErr: sentinel}},
 		{"adopt fails", &fakeAdopter{
 			byMbid:   []dbq.FindMissingTrackByMbidRow{mbidRow(1, oldPath)},
 			adoptErr: sentinel,
@@ -232,24 +241,25 @@ func TestAdoptMovedTrack_ToleratesQueryErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, tc := range tests {
 		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			s := testScanner(t)
-			if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), tc.q, newPath, 1000, 2000, "rec-mbid") {
+			if s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), tc.q, newPath, audioHash(1), "rec-mbid") {
 				t.Error("reported adoption despite a query error")
 			}
 		})
 	}
 }
 
-// A failed MBID lookup must not stop the fingerprint from being tried.
+// A failed MBID lookup must not stop the audio hash from being tried.
-func TestAdoptMovedTrack_MbidErrorStillTriesFingerprint(t *testing.T) {
+func TestAdoptMovedTrack_MbidErrorStillTriesAudioHash(t *testing.T) {
 	s := testScanner(t)
 	q := &fakeAdopter{
-		mbidErr:       errors.New("db hiccup"),
+		mbidErr:   errors.New("db hiccup"),
-		byFingerprint: []dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow{fpRow(9, oldPath)},
+		hash:      audioHash(9),
-		adoptRows:     1,
+		byHash:    []dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow{hashRow(9, oldPath)},
+		adoptRows: 1,
 	}
 
-	if !s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, 1000, 2000, "rec-mbid") {
+	if !s.adoptMovedTrack(context.Background(), q, newPath, audioHash(9), "rec-mbid") {
-		t.Fatal("expected the fingerprint to be tried after an MBID lookup error")
+		t.Fatal("expected the audio hash to be tried after an MBID lookup error")
 	}
 	if len(q.adopted) != 1 || q.adopted[0].ID != testUUID(9) {
 		t.Errorf("adopted = %+v, want row 9", q.adopted)
@@ -280,9 +290,9 @@ func TestRowConverters(t *testing.T) {
 	if len(got) != 2 || got[0].id != testUUID(1) || got[1].filePath != "/b" {
 		t.Errorf("rowsFromMbid = %+v", got)
 	}
-	got = rowsFromFingerprint([]dbq.FindMissingTrackByFingerprintRow{fpRow(3, "/c")})
+	got = rowsFromAudioHash([]dbq.FindMissingTrackByAudioHashRow{hashRow(3, "/c")})
 	if len(got) != 1 || got[0].id != testUUID(3) || got[0].filePath != "/c" {
-		t.Errorf("rowsFromFingerprint = %+v", got)
+		t.Errorf("rowsFromAudioHash = %+v", got)
 	}
 }
 

internal/library/scanner.go

@@ -75,10 +75,18 @@ type Scanner struct {
 	pool   *pgxpool.Pool
 	logger *slog.Logger
 	paths  []string
+	// fingerprint derives a file's acoustic identity (M400). A field so an
+	// integration test can substitute a deterministic one: CI has no real audio
+	// to fingerprint, and what the test pins is WHEN the scan fingerprints, not
+	// what the tools print. Call it through fingerprintFile.
+	fingerprint func(ctx context.Context, path string, opts fingerprintOptions) fingerprintResult
+	// settings is the operator's fingerprinting policy (#3913), shared with the
+	// workers and the admin API. Nil fingerprints with the defaults.
+	settings *FingerprintSettingsService
 }
 
-func New(pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, paths []string) *Scanner {
+func New(pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.Logger, paths []string, settings *FingerprintSettingsService) *Scanner {
-	return &Scanner{pool: pool, logger: logger, paths: paths}
+	return &Scanner{pool: pool, logger: logger, paths: paths, fingerprint: computeFingerprint, settings: settings}
 }
 
 // Scan walks every configured root and upserts any audio file whose mtime is
@@ -295,17 +303,44 @@ func (s *Scanner) scanFile(
 		durationMs = probed
 	}
 
+	// Fingerprint only bytes this row has not seen: a new path, or a file whose
+	// mtime moved past the row's. An unchanged file re-read for a tag repair
+	// keeps its stored fingerprint, for the same reason it keeps its duration
+	// above — a tagReadVersion bump must stay bound by tag reads, not become a
+	// decode of the whole library.
+	//
+	// An unchanged file with NO fingerprint yet is the backfill's job (#3908),
+	// deliberately not the scan's. Folding it into the skip check would make
+	// the first scan after an upgrade re-decode every track and push a sync
+	// change to every client for each one.
+	//
+	// Computed before move adoption so adoption can match on the audio hash
+	// (#3914); stored after the upsert, once the row id is known.
+	//
+	// With fingerprinting switched off (#3913) the scan decodes nothing, but it
+	// still takes the stream hash: a demux rather than a decode, and the only
+	// thing that recognises a moved file with no MBID.
+	var fp fingerprintResult
+	fpCfg := s.settings.Get()
+	fingerprinted := !unchanged
+	if fingerprinted {
+		fp = s.fingerprintFile(ctx, path, fingerprintOptions{
+			lengthSec:   fpCfg.ChromaprintLengthSec,
+			chromaprint: fpCfg.Enabled,
+		})
+	}
+
 	// A path we've never seen might not be a new track — it might be one that
 	// moved or was renamed (#2528). Adopting re-points the existing row at this
 	// path and clears its missing mark, so the UpsertTrack below conflicts on
 	// file_path and updates THAT row: same track id, likes and play history
 	// intact. Without this, renumbering an album forks every track on it.
 	//
-	// Runs here rather than earlier because the fingerprint needs the probed
+	// Runs after fingerprinting because, for a file with no MBID, adoption matches
-	// duration, and only for genuinely unknown paths — a known path is already
+	// on its audio hash (#3914), and only for genuinely unknown paths — a known
-	// the row we're going to update.
+	// path is already the row we're going to update.
 	if !knownTrack {
-		if s.adoptMovedTrack(ctx, q, path, info.Size(), durationMs, recordingMBID) {
+		if s.adoptMovedTrack(ctx, q, path, fp.streamSHA256, recordingMBID) {
 			// Count it as an update: the row existed, and reporting it as Added
 			// would overstate library growth on every reorganisation.
 			knownTrack = true
@@ -359,6 +394,15 @@ func (s *Scanner) scanFile(
 		// touches this track will re-emit the change.
 		s.logger.Warn("library scan: LogChange track upsert failed", "track_id", track.ID, "err", err)
 	}
+	if fingerprinted {
+		if fpCfg.Enabled {
+			storeFingerprint(ctx, q, s.logger, track.ID, path, fp, fpCfg.ChromaprintLengthSec)
+		} else if err := q.DeleteTrackFingerprint(ctx, track.ID); err != nil {
+			// Off, nothing is stored — but a row describing the previous bytes
+			// must not outlive them, or the sweep would compare audio that is gone.
+			s.logger.Warn("fingerprint: clearing stale fingerprint failed", "path", path, "err", err)
+		}
+	}
 
 	if knownTrack {
 		stats.Updated++

internal/library/scanner_test.go

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ func TestScanner_Integration(t *testing.T) {
 		"TIT2": "Solo", "TPE1": "The Artist Y", "TALB": "Y Album", "TRCK": "1",
 	})
 
-	scanner := New(pool, logger, []string{root})
+	scanner := New(pool, logger, []string{root}, nil)
 	stats, err := scanner.Scan(ctx, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("first scan: %v", err)
@@ -211,9 +211,9 @@ func writeTestMP3(t *testing.T, path string, frames map[string]string) {
 // playlist memberships travel with it — rather than forking into a marked ghost
 // plus a fresh zero-history row.
 //
-// Uses the MBID path. The synthetic MP3s here carry no real audio, so ffprobe
+// Uses the MBID path. The synthetic MP3s here carry no real audio, so their audio
-// yields duration 0 and the size+duration fingerprint is deliberately unusable —
+// stream hash cannot be relied on — which is why the recording MBID is the signal
-// which is why the recording MBID is the signal under test.
+// under test. The audio-hash path is covered by moved_test.go.
 //
 // Eight tracks with one rename keeps the marked fraction at 12.5%, under
 // missingMarkMaxFraction. That is load-bearing: if the rename exceeded the cap,
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ func TestScanner_AdoptsMovedFile_Integration(t *testing.T) {
 			})
 	}
 
-	scanner := New(pool, logger, []string{root})
+	scanner := New(pool, logger, []string{root}, nil)
 	if _, err := scanner.Scan(ctx, nil); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("first scan: %v", err)
 	}

internal/lidarrquarantine/service.go

@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ var (
 // config changes in lidarrconfig take effect immediately. clientFn returns
 // nil when Lidarr is disabled.
 type Service struct {
+	// dataDir lets a Delete file that empties an artist clear that artist's
+	// cached art, the same as the admin remove-track path.
+	dataDir   string
 	pool      *pgxpool.Pool
 	lidarrCfg *lidarrconfig.Service
 	clientFn  func() *lidarr.Client
@@ -42,11 +45,11 @@ type Service struct {
 
 // NewService constructs a Service. Pass nil for clientFn to disable the
 // Lidarr-using methods (DeleteViaLidarr will return ErrLidarrDisabled).
-func NewService(pool *pgxpool.Pool, cfg *lidarrconfig.Service, clientFn func() *lidarr.Client) *Service {
+func NewService(pool *pgxpool.Pool, cfg *lidarrconfig.Service, clientFn func() *lidarr.Client, dataDir string) *Service {
 	if clientFn == nil {
 		clientFn = func() *lidarr.Client { return nil }
 	}
-	return &Service{pool: pool, lidarrCfg: cfg, clientFn: clientFn}
+	return &Service{pool: pool, lidarrCfg: cfg, clientFn: clientFn, dataDir: dataDir}
 }
 
 // Flag inserts or updates a quarantine row for the caller. Re-flagging
@@ -245,10 +248,13 @@ func (s *Service) snapshot(ctx context.Context, q *dbq.Queries, track dbq.Track)
 	}, nil
 }
 
-// DeleteFile removes the track file from disk and the tracks row, then
+// DeleteFile removes the track file from disk and the tracks row (tidying away
-// (via FK ON DELETE CASCADE) clears all per-user quarantine rows for that
+// an album or artist that leaves empty), then — via FK ON DELETE CASCADE —
-// track and writes an audit row. If the file deletion fails, the per-user
+// clears every per-user quarantine row for that track and writes an audit row.
-// rows stay so admin can retry. No partial state.
+//
+// If the file cannot be removed, nothing is deleted and the per-user rows stay
+// so the admin can retry: the error wraps a *library.FileRemoveError, which the
+// handler turns into an answer naming the cause (#3918). No partial state.
 func (s *Service) DeleteFile(ctx context.Context, trackID, adminID pgtype.UUID) (dbq.LidarrQuarantineAction, error) {
 	q := dbq.New(s.pool)
 	track, err := q.GetTrackByID(ctx, trackID)
@@ -267,7 +273,7 @@ func (s *Service) DeleteFile(ctx context.Context, trackID, adminID pgtype.UUID)
 	if err != nil {
 		return dbq.LidarrQuarantineAction{}, fmt.Errorf("count: %w", err)
 	}
-	if err := library.DeleteTrackFile(ctx, s.pool, trackID); err != nil {
+	if _, err := library.DeleteTrackFile(ctx, s.pool, nil, s.dataDir, trackID); err != nil {
 		return dbq.LidarrQuarantineAction{}, fmt.Errorf("delete file: %w", err)
 	}
 	// tracks row is gone; ON DELETE CASCADE on lidarr_quarantine.track_id

internal/lidarrquarantine/service_test.go

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func TestFlag_HappyPath(t *testing.T) {
 	user := seedUser(t, pool, "alice")
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "Bad Track", "abc")
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	row, err := svc.Flag(context.Background(), user.ID, track.ID, "bad_rip", "crackly")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Flag: %v", err)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ func TestFlag_UpsertOnSecondFlag(t *testing.T) {
 	user := seedUser(t, pool, "alice")
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "T", "x")
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	if _, err := svc.Flag(context.Background(), user.ID, track.ID, "bad_rip", "first"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("first flag: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func TestFlag_NonexistentTrackReturnsErrTrackNotFound(t *testing.T) {
 	bogus.Bytes = [16]byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16}
 	bogus.Valid = true
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	_, err := svc.Flag(context.Background(), user.ID, bogus, "bad_rip", "")
 	if !errors.Is(err, ErrTrackNotFound) {
 		t.Errorf("err = %v, want ErrTrackNotFound", err)
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ func TestFlag_BadReasonRejected(t *testing.T) {
 	user := seedUser(t, pool, "alice")
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "T", "x")
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	_, err := svc.Flag(context.Background(), user.ID, track.ID, "garbage", "")
 	if !errors.Is(err, ErrBadReason) {
 		t.Errorf("err = %v, want ErrBadReason", err)
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ func TestUnflag_DeletesRow(t *testing.T) {
 	user := seedUser(t, pool, "alice")
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "T", "x")
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	if _, err := svc.Flag(context.Background(), user.ID, track.ID, "bad_rip", ""); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Flag: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ func TestListMine_OrderedNewestFirst(t *testing.T) {
 	t1, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "T1", "x")
 	t2, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "T2", "y")
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	if _, err := svc.Flag(context.Background(), user.ID, t1.ID, "bad_rip", ""); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Flag t1: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ func TestListAdminQueue_AggregatesByTrackWithReasonCounts(t *testing.T) {
 	carol := seedUser(t, pool, "carol")
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "Hot Mess", "abc")
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	if _, err := svc.Flag(context.Background(), alice.ID, track.ID, "bad_rip", ""); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("alice flag: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ func TestResolve_ClearsRowsAndWritesAudit(t *testing.T) {
 	bob := seedUser(t, pool, "bob")
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "T", "x")
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	if _, err := svc.Flag(context.Background(), alice.ID, track.ID, "bad_rip", ""); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("alice flag: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ func TestResolve_NoExistingRowsStillWritesAudit(t *testing.T) {
 	user := seedUser(t, pool, "alice")
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "T", "x")
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	// No flags applied — resolve a track with zero quarantine rows.
 	audit, err := svc.Resolve(context.Background(), track.ID, user.ID)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ func TestResolve_TrackNotFound(t *testing.T) {
 	bogus.Bytes = [16]byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16}
 	bogus.Valid = true
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	_, err := svc.Resolve(context.Background(), bogus, user.ID)
 	if !errors.Is(err, ErrTrackNotFound) {
 		t.Errorf("err = %v, want ErrTrackNotFound", err)
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ func TestDeleteFile_RemovesFileAndAuditsAffected(t *testing.T) {
 		DurationMs: 1000, FilePath: path, FileSize: 1, FileFormat: "mp3",
 	})
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	if _, err := svc.Flag(context.Background(), user.ID, track.ID, "bad_rip", ""); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Flag: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ func TestDeleteViaLidarr_FullCascade(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("save config: %v", err)
 	}
 	clientFn := func() *lidarr.Client { return lidarr.NewClient(stub.URL, "k") }
-	svc := NewService(pool, cfg, clientFn)
+	svc := NewService(pool, cfg, clientFn, "")
 
 	q := dbq.New(pool)
 	artist, _ := q.UpsertArtist(context.Background(), dbq.UpsertArtistParams{Name: "A", SortName: "A"})
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ func TestDeleteViaLidarr_LidarrDisabled(t *testing.T) {
 	user := seedUser(t, pool, "alice")
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "T", "x")
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	_, _, err := svc.DeleteViaLidarr(context.Background(), track.ID, user.ID)
 	if !errors.Is(err, ErrLidarrDisabled) {
 		t.Errorf("err = %v, want ErrLidarrDisabled", err)
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ func TestDeleteViaLidarr_AlbumMBIDMissing(t *testing.T) {
 	cfg := lidarrconfig.New(pool)
 	_ = cfg.Save(context.Background(), lidarrconfig.Config{Enabled: true, BaseURL: stub.URL, APIKey: "k"})
 	clientFn := func() *lidarr.Client { return lidarr.NewClient(stub.URL, "k") }
-	svc := NewService(pool, cfg, clientFn)
+	svc := NewService(pool, cfg, clientFn, "")
 	_, _ = svc.Flag(context.Background(), user.ID, track.ID, "bad_rip", "")
 
 	_, _, err := svc.DeleteViaLidarr(context.Background(), track.ID, user.ID)
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ func TestDeleteViaLidarr_LidarrAlbumNotFound(t *testing.T) {
 	cfg := lidarrconfig.New(pool)
 	_ = cfg.Save(context.Background(), lidarrconfig.Config{Enabled: true, BaseURL: stub.URL, APIKey: "k"})
 	clientFn := func() *lidarr.Client { return lidarr.NewClient(stub.URL, "k") }
-	svc := NewService(pool, cfg, clientFn)
+	svc := NewService(pool, cfg, clientFn, "")
 
 	track, _, _ := seedTrack(t, pool, "T", "x")
 	_, _ = svc.Flag(context.Background(), user.ID, track.ID, "bad_rip", "")
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ func TestDeleteFile_TrackNotFound(t *testing.T) {
 	bogus.Bytes = [16]byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16}
 	bogus.Valid = true
 
-	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil)
+	svc := NewService(pool, lidarrconfig.New(pool), nil, "")
 	_, err := svc.DeleteFile(context.Background(), bogus, user.ID)
 	if !errors.Is(err, ErrTrackNotFound) {
 		t.Errorf("err = %v, want ErrTrackNotFound", err)
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ func TestDeleteViaLidarr_TrackNotFound(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("save config: %v", err)
 	}
 	clientFn := func() *lidarr.Client { return lidarr.NewClient(stub.URL, "k") }
-	svc := NewService(pool, cfg, clientFn)
+	svc := NewService(pool, cfg, clientFn, "")
 
 	var bogus pgtype.UUID
 	bogus.Bytes = [16]byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16}

internal/playlists/system.go

@@ -219,7 +219,30 @@ var (
 		// uniform with radio pending trend data.
 		ContextTimeWeight: 1.0,
 	}
+	// Songs-like's own profile (#3881). Pre-push literal only; shipped
+	// defaults live in recsettings.ShippedSongsLikeWeights and must stay in
+	// sync with it, exactly as systemMixWeights does above.
+	//
+	// SimilarityWeight dominates here and every seed-INDEPENDENT term is
+	// demoted, which is the whole difference between this surface and For-You.
+	// See ShippedSongsLikeWeights for the property the numbers encode.
+	songsLikeWeights = recommendation.ScoringWeights{
+		BaseWeight:        1.0,
+		LikeBoost:         0.5,
+		RecencyWeight:     0.25,
+		SkipPenalty:       2.0,
+		JitterMagnitude:   0.05,
+		ContextWeight:     0.5,
+		SimilarityWeight:  4.0,
+		TasteWeight:       0.25,
+		ContextTimeWeight: 0.5,
+	}
 	systemTasteConfig = taste.DefaultConfig()
+
+	// Sizes the candidate pool to the library (#3880). Cached because the
+	// count is a full table scan and the daily build runs it once per user;
+	// within the TTL every user in a build shares one count.
+	systemLibrarySize = recommendation.NewLibrarySize(nil)
 )
 
 // SetSystemMixWeights installs the current daily_mix scoring weights.
@@ -230,6 +253,20 @@ func SetSystemMixWeights(w recommendation.ScoringWeights) {
 	systemMixWeights = w
 }
 
+// SetSongsLikeWeights installs the songs_like scoring profile (#3881).
+// Same push model as SetSystemMixWeights — recsettings calls it on boot and
+// after every knob turn, so a tuning change takes effect on the next daily
+// build with no restart.
+//
+// Separate from systemMixWeights because Songs-like and For-You want opposite
+// things: For-You roams, Songs-like must not. Sharing one profile is what made
+// "Songs like X" wander.
+func SetSongsLikeWeights(w recommendation.ScoringWeights) {
+	systemTuningMu.Lock()
+	defer systemTuningMu.Unlock()
+	songsLikeWeights = w
+}
+
 // SetTasteConfig installs the taste-profile build configuration
 // (half-life + engagement curve, #1250). Same push model as
 // SetSystemMixWeights.
@@ -239,6 +276,23 @@ func SetTasteConfig(c taste.Config) {
 	systemTasteConfig = c
 }
 
+// dailyOrderSeed is the value the randomised candidate arms order by (#3889).
+//
+// Per (user, day) so a same-day rebuild draws the SAME set — which is what
+// TestBuildSystemPlaylists_DailyNonceDeterminism asserts and what those arms
+// only ever achieved by accident before, when their limits happened to exceed
+// the eligible rows. It changes on the day boundary, so the mixes still move
+// daily.
+func dailyOrderSeed(userID pgtype.UUID, dateStr string) string {
+	return uuidStringPL(userID) + ":" + dateStr
+}
+
+func currentSongsLikeWeights() recommendation.ScoringWeights {
+	systemTuningMu.RLock()
+	defer systemTuningMu.RUnlock()
+	return songsLikeWeights
+}
+
 func currentSystemMixWeights() recommendation.ScoringWeights {
 	systemTuningMu.RLock()
 	defer systemTuningMu.RUnlock()
@@ -392,7 +446,13 @@ func pickWeightedTail(tailPool []recommendation.Candidate, dateStr string, tailN
 // tieBreakHash). The scoring RNG is seeded by userIDHash so jitter is
 // deterministic per (user, day) but rotates across days. Pure — no
 // truncation, no cap.
-func scoreAndSortCandidates(cands []recommendation.Candidate, userID pgtype.UUID, dateStr string, now time.Time) []recommendation.Candidate {
+// weights is a parameter rather than a read of currentSystemMixWeights()
+// because this sort IS the selection: the caller caps and truncates in the
+// order this returns, so whatever profile ranks here decides which tracks
+// reach the playlist. Scoring with daily_mix here and re-scoring with
+// songs_like afterwards would have let the new profile relabel tracks it had
+// no part in choosing — inert where it matters (#3881).
+func scoreAndSortCandidates(cands []recommendation.Candidate, userID pgtype.UUID, dateStr string, now time.Time, weights recommendation.ScoringWeights) []recommendation.Candidate {
 	rng := rand.New(rand.NewSource(int64(userIDHash(userID, dateStr))))
 	type scored struct {
 		c     recommendation.Candidate
@@ -411,7 +471,6 @@ func scoreAndSortCandidates(cands []recommendation.Candidate, userID pgtype.UUID
 	sort.SliceStable(ordered, func(i, j int) bool {
 		return uuidLessPL(ordered[i].Track.ID, ordered[j].Track.ID)
 	})
-	weights := currentSystemMixWeights()
 	pairs := make([]scored, len(ordered))
 	for i, c := range ordered {
 		pairs[i] = scored{c: c, score: recommendation.Score(c.Inputs, weights, now, rng.Float64)}
@@ -581,6 +640,7 @@ func produceForYou(
 			zeroVec,
 			seeds,
 			systemForYouSourceLimits(),
+			dailyOrderSeed(userID, dateStr),
 		)
 		if cerr != nil {
 			logger.Warn("system playlist: for-you candidates load failed for seed; continuing",
@@ -632,6 +692,13 @@ func produceSeedMixes(
 	seedPool := pickSeedArtistsFromRows(seedRowsLocal)
 	seeds := pickSeedArtistsForDay(seedPool, userID, dateStr)
 
+	// Once per build rather than once per seed artist — six mixes would
+	// otherwise mean six full-table counts for a number that cannot have
+	// changed between them.
+	librarySize := systemLibrarySize.Get(ctx, func(c context.Context) (int64, error) {
+		return recommendation.CountLibraryTracks(c, q)
+	})
+
 	out := make([]builtPlaylist, 0, len(seeds))
 	for _, artistID := range seeds {
 		artistRow, aerr := q.GetArtistByID(ctx, artistID)
@@ -647,23 +714,47 @@ func produceSeedMixes(
 			continue
 		}
 		zeroVec := recommendation.SessionVector{Seed: true}
+		// Songs-like's own pool shape, not the default (#3881). Same total
+		// size; the composition shifts toward arms that actually measure
+		// distance from the seed. The default gave ~29% of candidates a
+		// sim_score of literally 0.
+		//
+		// Then scaled to the library (#3880): a bigger collection should put
+		// more genuinely-similar candidates in reach, not the same ~170
+		// regardless. The weights still rank sim_score-0 arms last, so the
+		// growth reaches coherence rather than working against it.
 		cands, cerr := recommendation.LoadCandidatesFromSimilarity(
 			ctx, q, userID, seedTrack, 1, zeroVec, []pgtype.UUID{seedTrack},
-			recommendation.DefaultCandidateSourceLimits(),
+			recommendation.ScaleForLibrary(
+				recommendation.SongsLikeCandidateSourceLimits(), librarySize,
+			),
+			dailyOrderSeed(userID, dateStr),
 		)
 		if cerr != nil {
 			logger.Warn("system playlist: seed candidates load failed; skipping",
 				"artist_id", uuidStringPL(artistID), "err", cerr)
 			continue
 		}
-		// "Songs like X" excludes X's own songs.
+		// The seed artist's own songs are ELIGIBLE here, deliberately.
-		filtered := make([]recommendation.Candidate, 0, len(cands))
+		//
-		for _, c := range cands {
+		// This used to filter them out — "Songs like X excludes X's own
-			if !pgtypeUUIDEqual(c.Track.ArtistID, artistID) {
+		// songs" — which reads as obviously right and is not. The seed is a
-				filtered = append(filtered, c)
+		// TRACK, and the tracks most likely to sound like it are usually the
-			}
+		// rest of that artist's catalogue; excluding them threw away the
-		}
+		// nearest neighbours of the very thing the mix is built around, and
-		tracks := pickTopN(filtered, userID, dateStr, now, systemMixLength)
+		// then reached further out to replace them. On a surface whose whole
+		// job is staying in one neighbourhood, that is backwards.
+		//
+		// Operator, 2026-09-10: "it should also be able to include music from
+		// the same artist."
+		//
+		// Domination is bounded by the cap rather than by exclusion, which is
+		// the distinction that makes this safe: capCandidatesByAlbumAndArtist
+		// inside pickTopN allows at most discoverMaxTracksPerArtist (3) of a
+		// 25-track mix — 12%, a presence rather than a takeover. The seed
+		// track itself still cannot appear; it is passed as an exclusion to
+		// LoadCandidatesFromSimilarity above.
+		tracks := pickTopN(cands, userID, dateStr, now, systemMixLength)
 		if len(tracks) == 0 {
 			continue
 		}
@@ -838,13 +929,20 @@ func BuildSystemPlaylists(ctx context.Context, pool *pgxpool.Pool, logger *slog.
 // truncates to n. Used by Songs-like-X (and as the fallback inside
 // pickHeadAndTail for small pools).
 func pickTopN(cands []recommendation.Candidate, userID pgtype.UUID, dateStr string, now time.Time, n int) []rankedCandidate {
-	sorted := scoreAndSortCandidates(cands, userID, dateStr, now)
+	// songs_like, not daily_mix (#3881). produceSeedMixes is this function's
+	// only caller, so the switch moves exactly one surface — For-You ranks
+	// through pickHeadAndTail and keeps the broader daily_mix profile.
+	//
+	// The SAME profile does the selection sort and the final score. Passing
+	// one and using the other is the subtle version of this bug: the playlist
+	// would still be chosen by daily_mix and merely wear songs_like numbers.
+	weights := currentSongsLikeWeights()
+	sorted := scoreAndSortCandidates(cands, userID, dateStr, now, weights)
 	capped := capCandidatesByAlbumAndArtist(sorted)
 	if len(capped) > n {
 		capped = capped[:n]
 	}
 	rng := rand.New(rand.NewSource(int64(userIDHash(userID, dateStr))))
-	weights := currentSystemMixWeights()
 	out := make([]rankedCandidate, len(capped))
 	for i, c := range capped {
 		out[i] = rankedCandidate{
@@ -873,10 +971,11 @@ func pickHeadAndTail(
 	cands []recommendation.Candidate, seedOf map[pgtype.UUID]int, numSeeds int,
 	userID pgtype.UUID, dateStr string, now time.Time, headN, tailN int,
 ) []rankedCandidate {
-	sorted := scoreAndSortCandidates(cands, userID, dateStr, now)
+	// daily_mix — For-You is the broad surface and keeps the roaming profile.
+	weights := currentSystemMixWeights()
+	sorted := scoreAndSortCandidates(cands, userID, dateStr, now, weights)
 	capped := capCandidatesByAlbumAndArtist(sorted)
 	rng := rand.New(rand.NewSource(int64(userIDHash(userID, dateStr))))
-	weights := currentSystemMixWeights()
 
 	total := headN + tailN
 	if len(capped) <= total {

internal/playlists/system_test.go

@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ package playlists_test
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"log/slog"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"sync"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -287,6 +289,141 @@ func TestBuildSystemPlaylists_Concurrency(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// seedSharedArtistLibrary seeds artists that genuinely OWN several tracks.
+//
+// seedActiveLibrary cannot be used for this: its helper documents that
+// "artist and album are not deduplicated across calls (mbid-less upsert)",
+// so every track gets its own artist row and a seed artist always has
+// exactly one track — the seed itself, which is excluded. A same-artist
+// assertion against that fixture can never pass no matter what the code
+// does, which is how the first version of this test failed.
+//
+// Albums are not deduplicated either, for the same mbid-less reason, so each
+// track ends up under its own album row however the titles are written. That
+// is convenient here rather than a problem: it means the per-ALBUM cap (2)
+// never binds, and the per-ARTIST cap (3) is unambiguously the thing under
+// test. Do not "fix" the album titles into something shared without checking
+// which cap you are then measuring.
+func seedSharedArtistLibrary(
+	t *testing.T, pool *pgxpool.Pool, name string, numArtists, tracksPerArtist int,
+) (dbq.User, []pgtype.UUID) {
+	t.Helper()
+	q := dbq.New(pool)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	u := seedUser(t, pool, name)
+	now := time.Now().UTC()
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+
+	artistIDs := make([]pgtype.UUID, 0, numArtists)
+	for a := 0; a < numArtists; a++ {
+		artistName := name + "-shared-" + string(rune('A'+a))
+		ar, err := q.UpsertArtist(ctx, dbq.UpsertArtistParams{Name: artistName, SortName: artistName})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("seed artist: %v", err)
+		}
+		artistIDs = append(artistIDs, ar.ID)
+
+		for k := 0; k < tracksPerArtist; k++ {
+			albumTitle := fmt.Sprintf("%s - Album %d", artistName, k/2)
+			al, err := q.UpsertAlbum(ctx, dbq.UpsertAlbumParams{
+				Title: albumTitle, SortTitle: albumTitle, ArtistID: ar.ID,
+			})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("seed album: %v", err)
+			}
+			tk, err := q.UpsertTrack(ctx, dbq.UpsertTrackParams{
+				Title: fmt.Sprintf("%s-t%d", artistName, k), AlbumID: al.ID, ArtistID: ar.ID,
+				DurationMs: 1000,
+				FilePath:   filepath.Join(dir, fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d-%d.mp3", name, a, k)),
+				FileSize:   100, FileFormat: "mp3",
+			})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("seed track: %v", err)
+			}
+			// Well clear of the recently-played exclusion window, which uses
+			// the DATABASE clock rather than the build's `now`.
+			for pl := 0; pl < 3; pl++ {
+				seedPlayEvent(t, pool, u.ID, tk.ID,
+					now.Add(-time.Duration(24+a*10+k+pl)*time.Hour), false)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return u, artistIDs
+}
+
+// The seed artist's own tracks are ELIGIBLE for its "Songs like" mix, and are
+// bounded by the diversity cap rather than excluded outright (#3881).
+//
+// produceSeedMixes used to filter them out — "Songs like X excludes X's own
+// songs" — which threw away the nearest neighbours of the seed TRACK and then
+// reached further out to replace them. Operator, 2026-09-10: "it should also
+// be able to include music from the same artist."
+//
+// Asserted end-to-end rather than by reading the source, because the guard has
+// to survive the filter coming back in a different shape — and because an
+// absence check would now match the comment explaining why the filter is gone.
+func TestBuildSystemPlaylists_SongsLikeIncludesItsSeedArtist(t *testing.T) {
+	pool := newPool(t)
+	logger := discardLogger()
+	u, _ := seedSharedArtistLibrary(t, pool, "seedartist", 4, 6)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	now := time.Date(2026, 5, 4, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+
+	if err := playlists.BuildSystemPlaylists(ctx, pool, logger, u.ID, now, t.TempDir()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("build: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	rows, err := pool.Query(ctx, `
+		SELECT count(*) FILTER (WHERE t.artist_id = p.seed_artist_id) AS own,
+		       count(*)                                              AS total
+		  FROM playlists p
+		  JOIN playlist_tracks pt ON pt.playlist_id = p.id
+		  JOIN tracks t          ON t.id = pt.track_id
+		 WHERE p.user_id = $1 AND p.system_variant = 'songs_like_artist'
+		 GROUP BY p.id
+	`, u.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("query: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+
+	// discoverMaxTracksPerArtist, which this package_test cannot reference.
+	// Duplicated deliberately: if the cap moves, this failing is the point.
+	const maxPerArtist = 3
+
+	mixes, withOwn := 0, 0
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var own, total int
+		if err := rows.Scan(&own, &total); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("scan: %v", err)
+		}
+		mixes++
+		if own > 0 {
+			withOwn++
+		}
+		// The bound is what makes inclusion safe. Without it, "include the
+		// seed artist" becomes "the mix is mostly the seed artist", which is
+		// the radio failure (#3882) arriving on a different surface.
+		if own > maxPerArtist {
+			t.Errorf("a songs_like mix carries %d tracks by its own seed artist "+
+				"out of %d; the per-artist cap (%d) is not being applied",
+				own, total, maxPerArtist)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("rows: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if mixes == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("no songs_like_artist mixes were built, so this test asserts nothing")
+	}
+	if withOwn == 0 {
+		t.Errorf("none of the %d songs_like mixes contains a single track by its own "+
+			"seed artist — the tracks most likely to sound like the seed are being "+
+			"excluded from the surface whose job is sounding like the seed", mixes)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestBuildSystemPlaylists_DailyNonceDeterminism(t *testing.T) {
 	pool := newPool(t)
 	logger := discardLogger()

internal/playlists/you_might_like.go

@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ func buildYouMightLike(
 	cands, err := recommendation.LoadCandidatesFromSimilarity(
 		ctx, q, userID, seed, 1, zeroVec,
 		[]pgtype.UUID{seed}, ymlLimits,
+		dailyOrderSeed(userID, dateStr),
 	)
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Warn("you-might-like: candidate load failed; skipping",