Replaces the thin name+counts grid (which was built without a Tauri
review) with the real structure: a two-column master/detail, 1:1 with
the Svelte Artists tab.
Left rail: a merged/deduped, A-Z grouped master list of compact rows
(round avatar + display name + "N albums · M tracks") with a proportional
alpha jump strip and in-place search. The name-merge collapses
normalized-equal spellings into one canonical row (canonical = most
albums, tie by most tracks) and computes accurate unique album counts
from the album set's all_artists, mirroring Tauri's artistMergeResult.
Diacritics are folded best-effort (no unicode-normalization dep).
Right pane: the selected artist's albums, filtered IN PLACE from the
loaded album set by primary/all_artists/multi-credit match (no new
backend call) and rendered via the shared AlbumCollectionView; covers
load through a new LocalArtistAlbumCard artwork target. Clicking an
album opens the local album detail; the play action queues the album.
Custom DB artist images are resolved into the rail model; rendering them
(plus the capped/sequential Qobuz photo fetch) is the remaining image
follow-up — the rail shows the placeholder avatar until then.
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vicrodh
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