A play can take seconds before audio starts (esp. Plex, whose resolve downloads
the whole file) with no feedback today. Add a source-agnostic loading indicator:
- A loading flag keyed to PENDING_PLAY_ID, raised at the top of play_audible
(before the Plex/Qobuz/local resolve — single chokepoint, covers auto-advance)
and cleared by the poll loop when the requested track's audio actually starts
(position > 0). Cleared on every play-error early-return and force-cleared on
queue-finished / peer-controller / ephemeral-stop so it never sticks.
- Watchdog: force-clear after 45s if the engine accepted a play that silently
never advances (undecodable-but-valid file) — otherwise the spinner is eternal.
- Spinner on three surfaces driven by NowPlayingState.loading: now-playing bar
(cover overlay + play/pause button), the active track row's play cell, and the
album big play button (gated to the album actually being launched).
Audio backend / playback routing untouched. The spinner only communicates the
wait; the underlying Plex fetch latency is fixed separately (progressive streaming).
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Ephemeral folders: open / browse / play a folder without indexing it —
album-grouped pane, CUE seek fast-path (no full re-decode per virtual track),
folder-path persistence + rehydrate, "already playing" add-vs-replace choice
dialog (ephemeral-only), and now-playing / queue / menu gating so an ephemeral
track exposes no persistence actions.
Folders tree brought 1:1 with Tauri:
- Rail header: select-mode, collapse-all, open-ephemeral, tree search.
- Resizable rail (default ~20% narrower; drag handle, min 50% default /
max 50% of the content area).
- Subfolder cover grid + grid/list toggle, recursive track count, name search;
compact icon bulk bar (folder-check / play-next / queue / playlist / clear).
- Tree is the default mode; circular checkboxes homologated with TrackRow;
compact rows (smaller type + icon, no ambiguous trailing count).
- Flat/Tree icon toggle (disc-album / folder-tree), floated right.
Per-source TrackRow context menu (logic, not a blanket trim): Qobuz/offline =
full; local = play/next/queue + add-to-playlist; plex/ephemeral = play/next/
queue only.
App-wide standard: Math.round pixel-snap on icon centering across the UI to
kill sub-pixel blur (CircleAction, header back/forward/collapse, and the rest).
NowPlayingBar context icon -> turntable (frees disc-album for the Folders
toggle). New assets: folder-check, folder-tree, turntable.
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- Follow button on the artist card is no longer a pill — Radius.sm
rounded rectangle, matching the rest of the app (new ADR-008).
- PlaylistCard sized identically to AlbumCard (220x266) with the same
220px artwork area; collage and the grid/carousel updated to match.
- Track row play overlay now appears anywhere over the row, not only
when the pointer is directly over the cell. Slint does not propagate
has-hover to ancestor TouchAreas, so each row OR-s its own ta with
every nested TouchArea (play-cell, fav/dl/more) into row-hovered.
- EqualizerBars sit on a fixed 16px baseline so the animation stays
perfectly centered while the bar heights oscillate.
- TrackPlayCell exposes out hovered so rows can OR it cleanly.
- Search dedupes a top-result artist that is also the first carousel
entry, removing the redundant duplicate.
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New shared TrackPlayCell for the track-row leading slot, ported 1:1 from
the Tauri track rows: at rest it shows the cover thumbnail or track
number; on row hover a play triangle; for the current track an animated
three-bar equalizer, swapping to a pause glyph on hover. Clicking a
non-current cell plays the track, clicking the current one toggles
play/pause. Wired into the search, album-page and artist-page track
rows.
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