soulsync 2.7.6 — dev → main
patch release on top of 2.7.5. the headline is going the other way with playlists — exporting them TO listenbrainz — plus youtube liked-music sync, a deep-scan data-loss guard, and a round of dashboard performance work.
what's new
export playlists to listenbrainz (#903)
soulsync already pulls playlists IN from everywhere — now it can push one back OUT. every mirrored-playlist card gets a 📤 export button: pick download .jspf (a standard playlist file you can hand-upload anywhere) or sync to listenbrainz (creates the playlist straight on your LB account). each track is matched to its musicbrainz recording id via a cheapest-first waterfall — cache → your library (musicbrainz_recording_id) → the file's own tag → a live musicbrainz lookup — with the result cached so the same song never costs twice. live "matching N/M · X matched" status shows on the card, and re-syncing updates the same LB playlist in place instead of making duplicates. tracks that can't be resolved to an MBID are skipped (LB requires them) and counted so you see the coverage.
youtube liked-music sync (#902)
you can now sync your youtube music Liked Music playlist (music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM). it's a private playlist, so it needs auth — and the existing "read a browser's cookies" option only works when the browser is on the same machine. added a "paste cookies.txt" option in Settings → YouTube so server/docker installs (and anyone on a browser like Zen that yt-dlp can't read) can supply their login from anywhere.
deep scan won't relocate your library (#904)
a standalone Deep Scan moves files it doesn't recognize into Staging for import. if the DB was empty/out of sync with disk (a volume swap, a DB reset, external tag edits), it treated your entire library as "unrecognized" and relocated all of it — one user lost ~1,500 tracks into Staging. now a guard refuses the move when the unrecognized share is implausibly large (the desync signature), leaves everything in place, and warns instead. plus a "Transfer is my permanent library — never move files out" toggle for people whose Transfer folder is their live library.
dashboard performance
a pass at the "soulsync makes my GPU work hard just sitting there" complaints. the sidebar sweep animates transform instead of left (no per-frame layout), particle glows are pre-rendered sprites instead of per-frame gradients, blur radii + redundant/invisible card shadows are trimmed, and low-power machines auto-drop to performance mode. all the visible effects stay; they're just cheaper to draw.
fixes
- file-import manual matches stick (#901) — a manual match on a file-imported playlist track is no longer forgotten on re-sync (the tracks now carry a stable id; existing ones are backfilled once).
- manual match heals a stale Plex key — a Find & Add match whose stored Plex ratingKey went stale is now re-resolved against a live Plex search instead of silently breaking.
- multi-disc albums — a track now files into the Disc folder that matches its own disc tag (no more disc-2 tracks landing in Disc 1), and a track is never written disc-less.
- auto-download track numbers — a track auto-grabbed from the playlist pipeline / wishlist / watchlist now gets its real in-album position instead of being tagged
1/1.
a brief recap of what came before
2.7.5 was a fix-heavy cycle — matching & artwork accuracy, the HiFi preview mess (#895) — plus M3U import (#893), ignore-list management (#897), and per-playlist file naming. 2.7.4 was re-identify; 2.7.3 the Quality Upgrade Finder + ignore-list (#874); 2.7.2 playlist-folder mirroring + M3U export; 2.7.1 download verification + a review queue (#852); 2.7.0 made multi-user real.
tests
additive + fail-safe — new behavior is opt-in or guarded, nothing existing rewired. new seam/regression suites across the listenbrainz export (JSPF build, the MBID waterfall + dedup, the persistent cache, the LB create/update-in-place client), the youtube cookie precedence, and the #904 deep-scan guard (incl. the 1,500-file regression). the listenbrainz push + update-in-place were also validated live against a real account. relevant suites green; ruff check clean on touched modules.