The taste roll-up surfaces top-similar albums/artists, which for a heavy
listener are mostly ones they already play — so the read-time dedup (vs Most
Played + Rediscover + Last Played) can strip the section down to a single tile
(reported on the artists row). The code was sound; the section was just starved.
Adds a read-time fallback: when a You-might-like row comes up short after dedup,
top it up from the user's LIKED artists/albums — a far larger pool than the
12-entity similarity roll-up, so the same exclusions still leave plenty. Reuses
the existing Rediscover-fallback queries (no new SQL), applies the same
exclusions (already-shown + Rediscover + Most/Last Played) so it never
duplicates a tile or suggests an actively-played entity, and is best-effort
(a query error leaves the section as-is). Takes effect immediately — no rebuild.
A cold-start user with no likes gets nothing from the fallback, so the
new-user-empty behaviour is preserved (test still passes).
Test: 20 liked artists, none played → Rediscover fills 10, You-might-like
fallback fills the other 10, disjoint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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