**Deferred external rows.** The album page awaited the Last.fm row before
publishing anything, so the tracklist waited on an external service plus
MusicBrainz. It publishes in stages now — header and tracks first, then each
Qobuz rail as it lands, then Last.fm — with every patch merged under a
generation counter so a late reply for album A cannot paint onto album B. The
artist page was already staged this way; its views were the part still showing
bare "Loading…" text.
**Skeletons as the standard.** One control, new variants rather than new
components, mounted across the views. Its second job is the one the owner
named: cleanup. A cover that never resolves settles the placeholder once and
reveals the card's own empty state instead of shimmering forever — local albums
with no embedded art produce no artwork entry at all, so a placeholder gated
only on "not arrived yet" would never stop.
**Local artwork streams.** Fifteen seconds to first cover on a 1274-album grid
was one batch emitted after the whole window resolved. Each cover emits as it
resolves now, visible band before prefetch margin.
**Lyrics migrated.** Smooth sync instead of a 1 Hz tick, word-level karaoke
where the document carries it, the surrounding-line dimming, the controls
flyout and the translation layer the v10 backend already supported. Exactly one
row subscribes to the 30 Hz output; the timer drops to 250ms when paused or
hidden.
**Navigation by mouse and touchpad.** Side buttons and a two-finger horizontal
swipe, matching #653 — including the part that matters, which is that a swipe
over a carousel scrolls the carousel. The layer is declared first in the shell
so everything else gets first refusal.
**Context menus.** Brought to the Slint inventory, Play later included, with
right-click opening the same menu as the button everywhere. Entries whose seam
does not exist are hidden rather than shipped inert.
Two controls that rendered and no-opped are now honestly disabled: the My QBZ
nav row, which routes to a view the shell has no case for, and three sidebar
menu entries with no backing call.
The sidebar caret was never a condition bug. The row is a positioner and the
name cell's width ignored the count label, so a folder WITH content pushed the
chevron past the clip — which is why it vanished exactly when it mattered.
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The Last.fm similar-albums row exists now. The recommendation building was
already frontend-agnostic in qbz-external-reco, so this only adapts QbzCore to
its catalog trait and publishes the result; the row seeds on the album's artist
and excludes what the two Qobuz rows already show, including ids the
pre-resolution dedup misses. Resolved rows cache per album for thirty days in
the same store the Discover tab uses, so re-opening an album makes no Last.fm
or Qobuz calls, and only a non-empty result is cached — a transient failure
must not hide the row until restart. With Last.fm not connected it resolves to
nothing and makes no network call, so the rail simply never appears.
Relationship rows navigate. They carry a name rather than a catalog id, so the
click resolves through MusicBrainz first and only a CONFIRMED match opens an
artist — landing the user on a same-name musician is worse than a row that does
nothing. The role travels with the name so a match in another role is not
mistaken for this one.
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The two pages were missing most of what Slint shows. With MusicBrainz, Last.fm
and ListenBrainz wired this round, the sections that depend on them can exist:
the artist biography and network, relationship rows, listener figures and the
credit blocks the Slint pages carry.
Nothing is faked. A section whose data an integration cannot supply is absent
rather than an empty frame, and a section fed by an integration the user has
not connected degrades to absent without a network call — integrations stay
strictly opt-in. The relationship rows are non-navigable for now because
resolving a musician name to a catalog artist needs a bridge invokable that is
not there yet; an informational row is better than a dead click.
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Two singletons rather than one merged object, per the owner: each maps to the
view it backs. Registering them and deleting the duplicates from bridge.rs is
one change, because wiring one without removing the other compiles fine and
leaves two independent states with the view frozen and nothing in the log.
view_param_id goes with them. It had no consumer in QML, verified, and none in
Rust once the two opens stopped writing it — so it is deleted rather than
carried into a new bridge for symmetry's sake.
bridge.rs is down to three domains: settings, search and playlist.
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library_bridge.rs has sat in the tree unreferenced since the phase-23 work
stopped: no mod declaration, not in build.rs, zero call sites, and duplicating
members that were still live in bridge.rs. It could not have been wired as it
stood — its module was named qbz_library, which is ambiguous with the
qbz-library crate this binary depends on, so it never compiled. The module is
now qbz_library_bridge; the QML type name comes from the QObject, so QML is
unaffected.
Registering it and deleting the duplicates had to happen together. Wiring it
alone would have compiled cleanly and produced two independent Library states —
QML reading one object while Rust published to the other — with the view simply
frozen and nothing in the log.
Moved with it: four properties, five invokables, three signals, the seven
library-only ui() hops in main.rs, and thirty-four QML references. The
Connections blocks in LibraryView, Sidebar, QueuePanel, AlbumView and
PlaylistCollage retarget wholesale because every handler in them is a library
signal. ArtistView's does not: it mixes onLibraryArtworkReady with
onReleaseSectionReady, so it becomes two blocks — retargeting it whole would
have orphaned the releases pager, and QML resolves handlers lazily enough that
the discography would just have stopped loading with nothing in the log.
bridge.rs is down to 389 lines and five domains.
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Two fronts of the modularization, both gated green before this commit.
QML leaves the flat qml/ directory for seven modules: cards, controls,
rows, settings, shell, theme, views. Only Main.qml and LoginScreen.qml
stay at the root. build.rs matches the tree exactly (55 files), relative
imports and asset paths were re-anchored for the new depth.
The QbzBridge God-object starts breaking up: QbzSession, QbzShell,
QbzPlayer, QbzQueue and QbzHome are now their own #[cxx_qt::bridge]
singletons, each with its own OnceLock<CxxQtThread> and ui() hop, booted
in order from Main.qml. Bridge files stay directly under src/ because
cxx-qt-build only accepts rust_files from one directory (QTBUG-93443).
bridge.rs keeps 5.5 domains (library, album/artist, settings,
integrations, search, playlist) and dies once they are split out.
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