soulsync 2.7.9 — dev → main

a big one. the headline is the new best-quality download system + a real quality profile, plus a much smarter Discover page, a new Wing It Pool, a redesigned Auto-Sync board, and a pile of reported fixes (multi-disc albums, playlist sync labels, the import-vs-quarantine race).

what's new

best-quality downloads + a real quality profile

downloads are now driven by a ranked-target quality profile instead of a fixed preference. you order the formats you want (drag to reorder — FLAC 24/192 down to mp3, every format controllable, with "all lossless / all lossy" group shortcuts), and:

• best-quality search mode pools candidates across every source per query and grabs the highest-quality copy that meets your profile — not just the first/fastest match. priority mode is still there, now with an opt-in "rank-based download order" toggle if you want quality-first ordering there too.
• each streaming source's download tier is derived from the one global profile, so you set it once.
• AAC is an opt-in tier; old per-source Hi-Res preferences migrate into the profile automatically.

quarantine, cleaned up + safer

• the quarantine view is consolidated into the Downloads page as a filter (no separate place to check), with real audio quality shown on the rows and approve/retry handled inline.
• AcoustID fail-closed mode (opt-in): only import tracks that actually verify, so a wrong file never lands in your library.
• silence + truncated-download guards catch mostly-silent preview files and downloads that are shorter than their container claims, before they import.
• a library quality check runs as a repair job and can flag files that are upgradeable to your preferred quality.

Discover got a lot smarter

• "Based On Your Listening" — a new artist row, ranked from who you actually play the most (consensus + recency weighted), with a "because you listen to X, Y" reason on each card.
• "Your Listening Mix" — a playable track playlist built from those artists' top tracks. works on any metadata source (falls back to Deezer's public API), not just Spotify.
• Fresh Tape actually fills now — it was starving down to 5–10 tracks because future-dated albums ate the candidate budget.
• the SoulSync Discovery tab on the Sync page now lists every playlist kind (incl. the Listening Mix) so you can mirror + auto-sync them.

Wing It Pool

a new button next to Discovery Pool on the Mirrored Playlists tab. Wing It auto-matches tracks it couldn't match to metadata on a best-effort guess — those were invisible until now. the Wing It Pool opens to a two-card view (guesses to review + resolved) so you can verify or re-match what it guessed.

Auto-Sync Manager redesign

the scheduling board no longer scrolls sideways through a wall of columns. intervals (hourly) and days (weekly) are now horizontal lanes — empty ones collapse, busy ones grow, and the scroll position holds when you add a playlist.

fixes

• multi-disc albums showed disc-2 tracks as "missing" / under disc 1 (#927) — the library scan never read the disc number, so every track was stored as disc 1. it now captures the real disc from Jellyfin/Plex/Navidrome at scan time. (re-scan your library once to backfill existing tracks.)
• playlists always said "Never Synced" (#925) — auto-synced/mirrored playlists were only checked against the direct-sync status, never their auto-sync status. fixed (thanks @ramonskie).
• tracks imported while quarantined / shown "completed" (#928) — a race let both the browser poll and the download monitor post-process the same finished download. an atomic claim now ensures exactly one path handles it (thanks @nick2000713).
• library card badges hijacked the click — clicking the watchlist eye or a source badge on an artist card also opened the artist detail page (and the badge's own link). badges now do only their own thing.

under the hood

• music automations page no longer shows video-app automations (they live in the shared engine DB).
• quality-settings tile tidied up — collapsible ⓘ help instead of walls of text, proper reset button, dropped the redundant per-source "quality is global" notes.
• download clients don't crash on init when the download path can't be created.