IGDB allows 4 requests a second, and an import searching three entries
at once (plus detail lookups) went over it. Every IGDB request now waits
at least 300 ms after the last one, and a 429 is retried after 1, 2 and
4 seconds before giving up.
The import dialog, ranking editor and their error messages are reworded
in plainer language, and talk about "spots" instead of "places".
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Search
- Albums and songs search Deezer and MusicBrainz at once and merge the
results: duplicates keep the Deezer copy, best word matches first.
Deezer's search misses albums it carries (Death Magnetic) and most game
soundtracks; MusicBrainz finds them
- MusicBrainz secondary types are shown ("Soundtrack", "Live")
- Settings: Deezer + MusicBrainz (default), Deezer only, MusicBrainz only
- Search results show which service they came from
Previews
- Songs and albums get a play button (cards, rows, detail view, editor,
and Deezer search results) for a 30-second Deezer clip; albums play
their most popular track
- Clips are looked up fresh (Deezer URLs expire), cached 10 minutes, and
streamed through Canon with Range support; hidden lists stay private
- Entries from MusicBrainz or added by hand are matched to Deezer on save
so they can preview too
- "Play previews" toggle in Settings → Profile
Tests cover merging and title/artist matching; `-tags live` runs checks
against the real services.
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Descriptions
- Items keep the source's description (TMDB/TheTVDB overview, IGDB
summary, Wikipedia intro) in a new items.description column
(migration 3); editable in the item form
- Deezer/MusicBrainz track counts and album names are now display-only
hints, not saved as descriptions
Why it's #N
- The owner's note is presented as "Why it's #N" in the editor and the
public detail view, above an "About" section with the description
IGDB developers
- IGDB credits internal divisions ("Nintendo EAD", "Nintendo EPD
Production Group No. 8"). A developer whose name shares its first word
with its parent company is credited to the parent ("Nintendo");
independently named studios keep their name (Retro Studios, Naughty
Dog, Landfall Games)
- Fall back to the publisher when IGDB lists no developer
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- Module github.com/cdnutter/canon, binary/command cmd/canon, Docker
image and compose project "canon"
- Environment variables now use the CANON_ prefix
- Default site title is "<Your name>'s Canon" (or "Canon" with no name);
a Site title set in Settings still overrides it
- Existing topdeck.db (and WAL files) is renamed to canon.db on start
- README: upgrade notes, including moving the old compose volume
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Export
- GET /l/<list>/export?format=csv|txt downloads a list's titles in rank
order, one per line, with no header or other fields (CSV gets a UTF-8
BOM for Excel)
- Export menu in the list editor and, for the owner, on the public list
page; hidden lists stay owner-only
Custom lists
- New "Custom" category for anything not built in (sports teams,
drinks…): owner-named, slug from the title, entries added by hand or
from an unfiltered Wikipedia search
- Per-list artwork shape (square or tall), stored in a new lists.art
column (migration 2)
- Art can be uploaded while adding an entry, not only after
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A single Go binary with SQLite that serves a public page of the owner's
ranked lists (movies, TV, albums, songs, video games, theater) and a
login-gated editor.
- Lists of 1–65,535 entries (100 recommended), several per category
- Search-to-add via TMDB, TheTVDB, IGDB, Deezer/MusicBrainz, Wikipedia;
manual entry as a fallback
- Theater entries carry a production (Broadway, tour, …), venue and cast
- Artwork cached locally; URL override and uploads
- Drag, arrow and type-a-rank reordering; paginated for long lists
- 12 theme presets plus custom CSS
- First-run setup code or env-provided admin; bcrypt, rate-limited login,
CSRF-guarded JSON API
- Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml
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