Three related improvements to the now-playing media player and the
"add to wishlist" / "download missing" modals.
1. Play buttons across track-list modals
Every track row in the download-missing modals (Spotify, Tidal,
YouTube, services, artist album, wishlist download-missing) and
the add-to-wishlist modal now carries a play button. Click runs
playTrackFromLibraryOrStream:
- If the track has a local file_path → playLibraryTrack
- Else POST /api/stats/resolve-track to find it in the library
by title + artist → playLibraryTrack
- Else fall back to _gsPlayTrack streaming
Backend ownership response gains track_id / title / file_path so
the wishlist modal's owned tracks can hand the right metadata
to the player without an extra round trip.
The add-to-wishlist modal previously showed the play button only
on owned tracks; now the button is unconditional so the streaming
fallback can take over for unowned ones (matches the standard
pattern from the rest of the app).
2. Clean media-player display titles
YouTube / Tidal / Qobuz / torrent / usenet plugins encode their
source-side identifier into the filename field as
<source_id>||<display> so download() can recover it later. The
media player's track-title renderer never knew about this
convention and showed strings like
"wvgFsXoGFnQ||Sometimes I Cry When I'm Alone" verbatim in the
now-playing UI. extractTrackTitle and setTrackInfo now strip the
<id>|| prefix defensively so any path into the player gets a
clean display.
Local library playback also fetches canonical metadata from
/api/stats/resolve-track when track.id is present so title /
artist / album / album art come straight from the SoulSync DB
instead of whatever the caller passed in. Falls back silently
to caller values on any error so playback never blocks on the
metadata fetch.
3. Lyrics panel + View Artist close
New collapsed lyrics panel between the playback controls and
queue panel. POST /api/lyrics/fetch (new backend endpoint)
prefers the local .lrc / .txt sidecar files SoulSync writes
during post-processing so downloaded tracks resolve lyrics with
zero network hits; falls back to LRClib exact-match (when album
+ duration are available) then to LRClib search.
Synced LRC results are parsed (handles multi-stamp lines for
repeated choruses), and the active line highlights + smooth-
scrolls into the middle of the viewport on every audio
timeupdate. Plain-text results render without highlighting.
Per-track cache prevents re-fetching when the user revisits the
same track. Lyrics fetch is fire-and-forget — failure shows
"No lyrics found" without ever blocking playback.
View Artist on the expanded player now calls
closeNowPlayingModal before navigating; the modal was previously
sitting open over the artist page, hiding it. Handler is bound
once and is a no-op when no artist_id is attached.
CSS additions are additive (new .modal-track-play-btn and
.np-lyrics-* rules); no existing styles touched. Backend endpoint
returns 200-with-success-false on any miss so callers can render
"no lyrics" without treating it as an error.
WHATS_NEW updated under 2.5.9 with two entries (lyrics + View
Artist close).