Settings → Notifications sends a message to Discord, Pushover, ntfy,
Gotify or a JSON webhook when a scan finds songs that newly need
review, when auto-link replaced identical files, and when an automatic
cleanup ran. Each event can be turned off and each service tested; an
optional Playlink address adds a link back to the right page.
A new per-pair option removes empty slave folders after each scan. Only
folders with no file at all inside are removed (into the quarantine,
recorded in History); folders holding any file wait in Cleanup, folders
changed within the settle time are skipped, and dry run removes nothing.
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Scans now mark slave-only songs as missing from the master when the master
has their album folder or at least their artist folder. A new Missing from
master filter in Review lists them, split by album and artist.
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- Name: Playlink in the UI, page title, footer, messages and README
(file names like playlink.db and .playlink-trash are unchanged).
- Theme: plum-black surfaces with a coral-to-pink accent, a soft glow
behind the page, gradient primary buttons, toggles and progress bars,
accent focus rings and slim scrollbars.
- New logo (beamed notes on the brand gradient) and a Play/link wordmark.
- Inter variable font, bundled so it works under the strict CSP.
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Restores the code of 1da0132 ("Add a setting to hide the quarantine from
Plex") and removes everything added after it: the tag editor, album art,
organizing/naming, the step-by-step tune-up and library types.
Kept:
- Database backups (Settings -> Backups): scheduled, manual, download,
restore, and the optional backup before every action.
- The .env-driven docker-compose.yml for Arcane.
Databases that already ran the later migrations keep working: migrations
6-10 stay in the list (they only add columns) so numbering never goes
backwards, and Undo refuses History entries of removed features instead
of treating them as links.
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Disc numbers: the organizer writes two-digit disc numbers by default
(Disc 01, 01-04 Title, {disc}), with an option for the plain style
(Disc 2, 2-04). Migration 8 adds the per-pair setting.
Backups (Settings -> Backups), similar to Sonarr:
- A backup is a zip with a consistent snapshot of the database (VACUUM
INTO, safe while running) and backup.json. Configurable folder,
schedule (off/1/3/7/14 days) and retention for scheduled backups;
manual backups are kept until deleted. List, download, delete.
- Restore from a listed backup or an uploaded zip: validated first
(integrity check, playlink tables, not a newer schema), staged next to
the live database, then the server restarts; at startup the staged
database is swapped in and the previous one kept as
playlink.db.pre-restore-<time>. Refused while a job runs. Backup names
are validated, so downloads/deletes cannot reach other files.
- Optional backup before every action in live mode: once per action the
user starts (link, promote, bulk, build/remove, tag edit, folder
renames, undo, purge) and before scans auto-link or auto-organize,
never per file and never in dry run. If the backup fails the action
does not run. The newest 10 action backups are kept.
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A new Organize tab renames audio files from their tags into a per-pair
naming pattern, by default {artist}/{album}/{track} {title} (album
artist, falling back to artist). Multi-disc albums get a disc prefix
(2-04) or a Disc N folder; names are made safe for Windows/SMB shares.
- Preview first: every rename, files already organized, and files
skipped with the reason (missing tags, with a button into the tag
editor; two files resolving to the same name; an existing file).
- Applying re-checks each file against the preview, moves it within its
library (hardlinks and contents untouched, case-only renames via a
temporary name, completed on startup after a crash), carries .lrc
lyrics and folder cover art along, and removes emptied folders. Each
move is an operation that can be undone; the library is rescanned.
- Optional automatic organizing of the slave, master or both during
scans (off by default). Dry run applies.
- Scans now recognise a slave file that is a hardlink of a master file
at a different path as linked ("same file, other path") instead of
unmatched.
Migration 7 adds the per-pair naming settings.
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Warnings are now stored and served as structured data (title, detail,
slave/master items, total) and rendered as cards with a Slave -> Master
table: the first five rows, with "Show all" for the rest.
- Renamed folders highlight the characters that differ; non-ASCII
characters get their code point in a tooltip, so look-alikes such as
"-" (U+002D) and "‐" (U+2010) can be told apart.
- Songs in a different folder are grouped by folder pair with a song
count, most affected first, instead of two long examples.
- Folders that only differ by name are no longer also reported as
songs in a different folder.
- Warnings saved as plain text by earlier scans still display.
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A singles library naturally has artists and songs the albums library
lacks, so "only N of M top-level folders exist in the master" and "N of M
slave files have no counterpart" were false alarms.
Layout warnings now only flag real layout problems:
- Folders that are the same but named differently (case, punctuation,
accents, "&"/"and", leading/trailing "The"), at the top level and one
level down inside shared folders, with examples.
- Songs found in both libraries that mostly live in a different folder in
the master (e.g. Artist/Song vs Artist/Album/Song). Slave-only songs are
ignored, as are singles/EPs/compilations matched to their album version.
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Matching:
- Prefer the studio album over singles, EPs and compilations when a song
exists on several releases, including when the master also has the
single at the slave's exact folder.
- Ignore release labels (Single Version, Remastered, Explicit, Deluxe)
inside brackets or a trailing " - ..." part; "Clean" stays a version.
- Treat live/acoustic/remix/... album folders as different recordings;
the strict top-folder fallback now respects this too.
- Add a last-resort library-wide search that only accepts candidates whose
artist tag agrees with the slave file.
Linking:
- Cross-folder matches now mirror the master's path in the slave (e.g. a
single moves into the album folder) and prune the emptied folder; a
"keep in current folder" option preserves the old behaviour. Undo
recreates and prunes folders accordingly.
- Operations record the match kind and reason, so undo (and promotes that
rename the master file) restore the correct pairing instead of leaving
the file unmatched until the next scan.
UI: rewrite the approximate matching description with Avenged Sevenfold
examples and clear safeguards, and show where linking will place a file.
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A per-pair "Approximate matching" setting adds a second pass for slave
files the strict rules could not place. It searches the same album with
disc folders (Disc 02, CD2, ...) ignored, then the top-level folder, and
scores titles by edit distance and word containment against a configurable
threshold (default 85%), with a small track-number bonus.
Guards against false matches: version words (live, remix, reprise,
instrumental, ...) must agree, near-tied candidates are left unmatched,
and approximate matches always go to manual review, never auto-link.
Each match records a human-readable reason.
Review now flags matches where the master copy is better as upgrades,
with an Upgrades filter and count and an "Upgrade to master copy" action.
The redundant "master is lossless" warning note is dropped.
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The two libraries are now "master" and "slave" everywhere: UI text, API
JSON fields (master_root, rel_master, master_size, ...), Go identifiers,
database columns, quality verdicts, quarantine subfolders and docs.
Existing databases are upgraded by a new migration that renames the
columns in place and rewrites stored "host" values, so pairs, history,
cached verdicts and restorable quarantine entries carry over. Network
"host" usages (SplitHostPort, the Origin/Host check) are unchanged.
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Matching has always been by relative path, so any folder layout works as
long as both libraries use the same one. Remove the depth and loose-root-file
warnings, which flagged valid layouts, and reword the UI and README to say
"same folder layout on both sides" with Artist/Album/Title.ext only as an
example. The "elsewhere" fallback is now described as same top-level folder,
different subfolder. Add a test covering flat and deeply nested layouts.
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Go backend (chi, SQLite) with an embedded React/TypeScript UI that finds
songs present in both a host and a slave music library and replaces the
slave copy with a hardlink to the host copy.
- Path-first matching with format/title/album-folder fallbacks
- Auto-linking of byte-identical files, re-verified with cmp before linking
- Manual review with ffprobe quality comparison, downgrade guard and
promote-to-host override
- Build mode to populate an empty slave library from the host
- Dry run by default, atomic stage+rename replacement, quarantine with
retention, undo, path confinement and authenticated UI
- Dockerfile and compose file for Unraid
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