Plex only builds the `Guid` array for the Plex Movie / Plex TV Series
agents. A library still on a legacy agent answers with the scalar `guid`
alone, so `fetchExternalIds` returned nothing for it and every consumer
went quiet: trackers logged "no external IDs" and skipped the write,
manual ratings showed "Not available", the detail screen dropped its
watchlist button, and Continue Watching stopped collapsing duplicate
copies. The reverse lookup already read that scalar; only the forward
path ignored it.
Read both shapes from the one request the method already makes, with the
array winning per field and the scalar filling the rest.
HAMA identifies anime by AniDB id and nothing else, which no id set could
carry. AniDB is the Fribb mapping's own primary key, so it now travels on
`ExternalIds` and indexes those rows directly — 7177 of them expose no
tvdb/tmdb/imdb at all and were unreachable by any other path. Only plain
`anidb-` maps: `anidb2`..`anidb9` group several AniDB entries under one
TVDB-numbered show, so the guid names the root entry only.
Two guards keep the new id where it means something. It is trusted for
season 1, because that mode puts the anime there and its specials in
season 0, while a higher season means the library is numbered by TVDB
instead. And it resolves nothing for Trakt and Simkl, which never map
anime and cannot address an AniDB id, so they keep reporting no ids
rather than failing silently further down. `hasCatalogIds` marks the
callers that can only speak IMDb/TMDB/TVDB.
close#1788
The Discover tab fanned out its whole request set twice on every cold
start and replayed slow rows on a shrinking timeout ladder, so a healthy
remote server produced anywhere from 4s to 15s of loading.
Measured against a remote Jellyfin server with four libraries, 24
interleaved cold-start samples per side:
requests 19 -> 9 payload 219 KB -> 94 KB
settled 5231ms -> 2502ms median, 13222ms -> 5927ms p95
Four independent causes:
- Retry policy. `Client.send` resolves on response headers, so the
connect budget covers the server's think time and a slow-but-alive
query raises `connectionTimeout`. Replaying it made the server re-run
the query with a shorter budget than the one it just missed; the
`[10s, 8s, 5s]` ladder turned an 11s answer into an empty row after
23s. Hub surfaces now get one whole-request deadline, retry only
immediate connection errors, and the deadline bounds the whole call
including the request still in flight.
- Request shape. `/Items/Latest` groups a TV library by series, so its
rows are Series folder dtos and `RecursiveItemCount`/`ChildCount` cost
a DB count each, per row. Hub rows now ask for `Overview` only; watch
state survives because Jellyfin derives `UserData.Played` from
`UnplayedItemCount` when the count fields are absent. `/Shows/NextUp`
sends `NextUpDateCutoff` to bound the server's series-key scan, and
`Thumb` leaves `EnableImageTypes` since nothing reads it. `UserData`
and `PremiereDate` leave the browse set: neither is an `ItemFields`
member, so the server dropped them anyway.
- Fan-out. Per-library hubs ran in batches of three separated by a
barrier, so one slow library stalled every library behind it. A
sliding window keeps the same peak concurrency without head-of-line
blocking. Concurrent `fetchLibraries` calls now share one `/Views`
instead of racing two identical round trips, Plex's global and music
hub legs start together, and Jellyfin gets Plex's pool tuning.
- Duplicate pass. `DiscoverScreen.initState` starts a load and the
online-entry hook asked for a full refresh on top of it, which
`CoalescedLoadCoordinator` correctly queued as a trailing pass. The
hook now calls `primeRefresh`, which rides along with a load already
in flight; profile switches still go through `fullRefresh`.
Refs #1784
Jellyfin search rows do not expose their owning collection, so hidden libraries cannot be filtered after the response. Scope searches to visible libraries, stamp the returned rows, reuse the latest loaded views, propagate cancellation, and fail closed when views cannot be loaded.
Keep full candidate budgets and split music libraries into parallel album, audio, and artist requests. Album requests disable UserData and use the existing album field set to avoid recursive per-album work from #1552; audio requests retain cheap leaf play state.
close#1770
searchAcrossServers was the only aggregation entry point without a
hiddenLibraryKeys parameter, so libraries hidden from home hubs, Continue
Watching and the library rail still surfaced their contents in the Search
tab. Thread the profile's hidden keys from SearchScreen through to the
aggregation, and drop matching items between the fan-out and the ranking
pass so hidden hits cannot spend the result limit and shrink what is
shown. Items the backend cannot attribute to a library, such as Plex
shared and external media, are kept.
The screen re-runs the visible query when a library is hidden or unhidden
while results are on screen. Its listener is attached only after the
provider has hydrated, so the initial load notification cannot race the
first query into running twice.
Plex search rows now go through the library-aware tagger, so a response
that names its section only via librarySectionKey or
targetLibrarySectionID is still attributable, and therefore filterable.
Jellyfin search results carry no library id at all: the mapper's
ParentLibraryId is not a Jellyfin field, and ParentId resolves to a
season or physical folder rather than a CollectionFolder. Filtering there
needs server-side ParentId scoping and is left for a follow-up.
close#1770
`MediaServerClient.findByExternalIds` returned `MediaItem?`, so the Explore
"In these libraries" chooser could never show more than one copy per server.
A movie held by both a 4K library and an HD library on one Plex server
therefore resolved to whichever copy came back first, with no way to reach
the other.
Return every id-verified match instead. `/library/all` is already
server-wide and each `Metadata` entry carries its own `librarySectionID`,
so both copies come back labelled with no extra request; Plex was simply
taking `Metadata[0]` and the title ladder was returning on its first hit.
An exact-guid hit no longer short-circuits the title search either — a
library still on a legacy agent has a different primary guid and is
invisible to the `guid=` filter.
Copies are deduped by global key and ordered best-first, and each row now
states its resolution, since library names need not mention it.
Resolution passes merge rather than replace: the cross-server fan-out logs
and skips per-server failures, so a later pass can come back short a server
that answered an earlier one, and a failed pass no longer claims the title
left the library. Duplicate keys fold field by field, because Jellyfin's
library stamp is a best-effort ancestors lookup that returns the item bare
when it fails and an unstamped row is indistinguishable from its sibling.
Focus nodes are keyed by copy and reclaimed after a merge re-sorts the
rows, so a dpad user is not thrown to a different copy.
close#1754
MAL/AniList season entries never matched the library show they belong to.
Both backends use the catalog title as a server-side filter before verifying
external ids, and a title like "Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2"
cannot reach a show stored as "Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation". Measured
against a 267-show Plex library, 3 of 113 mapped sequel entries matched.
The reverse lookup now takes two ordered title candidates instead of one: the
entry's own title and its season-stripped form, with typographic punctuation
normalised because both servers miss on a curly apostrophe. That matches 77 of
113. Widening it further to romaji/native/synonym variants reached only 81, so
the cap stays at two rather than spending up to five more requests per lookup
that finds nothing.
A sequel's year is its own season's, not the parent show's, so the +/-1 year
window is dropped for one - it would exclude the very show being looked for.
That also keeps a miss at the two requests the single-title lookup already
spent. A Plex Discover item additionally skips the title search entirely by
filtering on the plex:// guid its own rating key already is, which costs no
extra request and needs no cloud lookup.
A season 2+ entry only matches when the server really has that season, which
costs one children fetch on a match. Only a season both TVDB and TMDB agree on
is gated: which provider a library numbers its seasons by is a server setting
no dataset supplies and none of it is inferable from the ids an item exposes,
so a disagreeing reference is left ungated rather than gated on a guess.
The match cache is keyed per source and per entry rather than by canonical id,
which every season of a series shares: all five Mushoku Tensei entries collapse
to imdb:tt13293588, so one season-gated result would have poisoned the rest.
Entries whose Fribb row carries no provider id at all remain unmatched. That is
an upstream mapping gap, not something to guess around with extra lookups.
close#1704
Consolidates duplicated logic behind shared implementations — paginated
grid tabs, focus chrome, cached remote stores, sheet selection columns,
the server artifact store and a test fixture layer — and removes code
that had become unreachable. Net reduction of about 5,500 lines with no
behaviour change.
Where a fix had landed separately in code that moved into a shared
helper, the fix was re-applied inside the helper rather than left behind
in the copy that went away.
Collapses indirection layers and one-caller abstractions across the video
player, shortcut dispatch, shader loading and context-menu code, including
the VideoPIPManager pass-through over PipService.
Album/artist downloads expand to tracks with pinned parent metadata,
aggregate progress, container deletes with reference-counted album
covers, and a Music tab on the downloads screen with fully offline
album playback. Home rows include music libraries (fixes plex hub
items being filtered to video types) and audio playlists join
download/sync rules.
Signing in triggered two back-to-back profile rebinds; the second re-added
the same Jellyfin connection, which tore down the live client and aborted
the home screen's in-flight fetches. The aborted pass was committed as
loaded-empty, flashing 'no content available' until the follow-up load
landed. Fix at the root instead of patching the sign-in window:
- addJellyfinConnection now reuses the live client when the connection is
unchanged (token, deviceId, URL set), matching the existing Plex
refreshTokensForProfile behavior; material changes still recreate it.
- Cancelled requests are classified end-to-end: the client's
treat-as-empty helpers rethrow cancellations, and the aggregation
fan-outs report cancelledServerIds alongside succeededServerIds.
- A fetch pass in which zero servers succeeded is never authoritative:
it keeps existing content instead of wiping it (also fixes the
pre-existing blanking of home/sidebar on a totally failed refresh),
stays in loading while disrupted (cancellation or binding in flight),
and only commits loaded-empty on a settled failure.
Discover and libraries now fetch only the servers that came online since
the last pass and merge the results; already-loaded servers are not
refetched. Both providers also own their online-servers listener
(registered in the constructor, removed in dispose), so profile switches
no longer leak listeners that kept disposed providers refetching.
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