feat(spotify): search albums and open them from the results - #318
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/v1/search was asked for type=track,episode, so an album could never appear
in the results. Searching an artist returned whichever of their tracks
Spotify ranked highest, and there was no way to reach a record as a record.
Albums are now requested too and lead the results, as an album placeholder:
a Track carrying the album's name, artist and year, marked through
ProviderMeta so the UI can tell it apart without knowing which provider
produced it. Placeholders are not streamable, because spotify:album: URIs
are not something go-librespot can play, so SpotifyProvider now implements
provider.AlbumTrackLoader to expand a chosen one into its tracks.
/v1/albums/{id}/tracks returns simplified track objects without the album
they belong to, so the album's own metadata is fetched once and filled in
on every track for display.
Enter, a and q on an album expand it through AlbumTrackLoader and then act on the full record, matching what they already did for a single track: Enter starts it now, a appends it, q queues it next. Like playTrackImmediate they add rather than replace, so a queue built up over an evening survives picking an album. The overlay stays open while the expansion runs, showing "Loading album...": closing it would bump the request generation and drop the response. The in-flight flag is separate from the playlist fetch's so the results screen only claims to be loading an album when it is. p is refused on an album with an explanation. The playlist picker adds one track, an album is many, and Spotify has no single call to add a record to a playlist.
With albums and tracks in one flat list an album read exactly like one of its own tracks. The results now carry "Albums" and "Tracks" separators in the same style the playlist already uses for album headers, and the label repeats at the top of the viewport when it opens mid-section. Separators take rows of their own, so scrolling counts rendered rows rather than results, the way albumSeparatorRows does for the playlist. Without it the cursor could sit below the bottom of the window.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSpotify search now includes album placeholders alongside tracks and episodes. Users can expand albums to load paginated tracks, then play, append, or queue them. The UI groups album and track results into sections and tracks album-loading state separately. ChangesSpotify album search and expansion
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Closing album search while it is loading can still allow a delayed response to enqueue tracks or start playback after cancellation, so request invalidation should be fixed before merging. Possibly related PRs
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In `@external/spotify/provider.go`:
- Around line 708-726: The AlbumTracks method returns raw errors from
ensureSession, album, and albumTracksPage without operation context. Wrap each
of these errors with fmt.Errorf using descriptive context and %w before
returning, while preserving the existing return values and control flow.
In `@ui/model/keys_spotify_search.go`:
- Around line 125-126: Move user-facing album error formatting out of the model:
in ui/model/keys_spotify_search.go lines 125-126 and 172-175, return typed
errors for album playlist operations and unsupported album loading instead of
assigning text to m.spotSearch.err; in ui/model/update.go lines 739-745,
preserve load failures and empty-album conditions as errors, then format their
messages at the application boundary in main.go/run(...).
In `@ui/model/update.go`:
- Around line 734-756: Update closeSpotSearch to increment m.requests.spotAlbum,
invalidating in-flight album responses when search closes. Also handle leaving
the results screen during album loading by invalidating the request and clearing
m.spotSearch.albumLoading, while preserving the existing generation check in the
spotAlbumTracksMsg handler.
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external/spotify/album_test.goexternal/spotify/provider.goexternal/spotify/provider_shared.goplaylist/playlist.goui/model/commands.goui/model/inline_overlays.goui/model/keys_spotify_search.goui/model/playback.goui/model/spot_search_sections_test.goui/model/state.goui/model/update.goui/model/view_helpers.go
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| func (p *SpotifyProvider) AlbumTracks(albumID string) ([]playlist.Track, error) { | ||
| if err := p.ensureSession(); err != nil { | ||
| return nil, err | ||
| } | ||
| ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second) | ||
| defer cancel() | ||
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| album, err := p.album(ctx, albumID) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return nil, err | ||
| } | ||
| placeholder := albumFromItem(album) | ||
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| var tracks []playlist.Track | ||
| for offset := 0; ; offset += spotifyTrackPageSize { | ||
| page, err := p.albumTracksPage(ctx, albumID, offset) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return nil, err | ||
| } |
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Wrap errors at the AlbumTracks boundary.
Lines 709, 717, and 725 return errors without added operation context. Wrap each error with fmt.Errorf before returning it from AlbumTracks.
Proposed fix
if err := p.ensureSession(); err != nil {
- return nil, err
+ return nil, fmt.Errorf("spotify: ensure session: %w", err)
}
...
if err != nil {
- return nil, err
+ return nil, fmt.Errorf("spotify: load album %q: %w", albumID, err)
}
...
if err != nil {
- return nil, err
+ return nil, fmt.Errorf("spotify: load album tracks at offset %d: %w", offset, err)
}As per coding guidelines, **/*.go: “Error handling: wrap with fmt.Errorf("context: %w", err).”
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| func (p *SpotifyProvider) AlbumTracks(albumID string) ([]playlist.Track, error) { | |
| if err := p.ensureSession(); err != nil { | |
| return nil, err | |
| } | |
| ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second) | |
| defer cancel() | |
| album, err := p.album(ctx, albumID) | |
| if err != nil { | |
| return nil, err | |
| } | |
| placeholder := albumFromItem(album) | |
| var tracks []playlist.Track | |
| for offset := 0; ; offset += spotifyTrackPageSize { | |
| page, err := p.albumTracksPage(ctx, albumID, offset) | |
| if err != nil { | |
| return nil, err | |
| } | |
| func (p *SpotifyProvider) AlbumTracks(albumID string) ([]playlist.Track, error) { | |
| if err := p.ensureSession(); err != nil { | |
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("spotify: ensure session: %w", err) | |
| } | |
| ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second) | |
| defer cancel() | |
| album, err := p.album(ctx, albumID) | |
| if err != nil { | |
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("spotify: load album %q: %w", albumID, err) | |
| } | |
| placeholder := albumFromItem(album) | |
| var tracks []playlist.Track | |
| for offset := 0; ; offset += spotifyTrackPageSize { | |
| page, err := p.albumTracksPage(ctx, albumID, offset) | |
| if err != nil { | |
| return nil, fmt.Errorf("spotify: load album tracks at offset %d: %w", offset, err) | |
| } |
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In `@external/spotify/provider.go` around lines 708 - 726, The AlbumTracks method
returns raw errors from ensureSession, album, and albumTracksPage without
operation context. Wrap each of these errors with fmt.Errorf using descriptive
context and %w before returning, while preserving the existing return values and
control flow.
Source: Coding guidelines
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| if track.IsAlbum() { | ||
| m.spotSearch.err = "Open the album with Enter, then add tracks from the queue." |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Move album error presentation to the application boundary.
These changes create user-facing text inside ui/model. Route typed or wrapped errors to the application boundary, then format the user-facing message there.
ui/model/keys_spotify_search.go#L125-L126: return a typed album-playlist-operation error instead of assigning explanatory text tom.spotSearch.err.ui/model/keys_spotify_search.go#L172-L175: return a typed unsupported-album-loader error instead of assigning text tom.spotSearch.err.ui/model/update.go#L739-L745: preserve the load failure and empty-album condition as errors, then format the displayed message at the application boundary.
As per coding guidelines, **/*.go: “Surface user-facing messages from main.go / run(...) only.”
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ui/model/keys_spotify_search.go#L125-L126(this comment)ui/model/keys_spotify_search.go#L172-L175ui/model/update.go#L739-L745
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@ui/model/keys_spotify_search.go` around lines 125 - 126, Move user-facing
album error formatting out of the model: in ui/model/keys_spotify_search.go
lines 125-126 and 172-175, return typed errors for album playlist operations and
unsupported album loading instead of assigning text to m.spotSearch.err; in
ui/model/update.go lines 739-745, preserve load failures and empty-album
conditions as errors, then format their messages at the application boundary in
main.go/run(...).
Source: Coding guidelines
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| case spotAlbumTracksMsg: | ||
| if msg.gen != m.requests.spotAlbum { | ||
| return m, nil | ||
| } | ||
| m.spotSearch.albumLoading = false | ||
| if msg.err != nil { | ||
| m.spotSearch.err = msg.err.Error() | ||
| return m, nil | ||
| } | ||
| if len(msg.tracks) == 0 { | ||
| m.spotSearch.err = "That album has no tracks available here." | ||
| return m, nil | ||
| } | ||
| album := msg.album | ||
| tracks := msg.tracks | ||
| m.closeSpotSearch() | ||
| switch msg.action { | ||
| case spotAlbumAppend: | ||
| return m, m.appendAlbum(album, tracks) | ||
| case spotAlbumQueueNext: | ||
| return m, m.queueAlbumNext(album, tracks) | ||
| default: | ||
| return m, m.playAlbumImmediate(album, tracks) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Invalidate album requests when the search closes.
Line 735 accepts a response when its generation matches. closeSpotSearch does not increment m.requests.spotAlbum. If the user closes search with Ctrl+C during album loading, the response still matches and Lines 747-756 can modify the queue or start playback after the user cancelled the search.
Increment m.requests.spotAlbum in closeSpotSearch. Also invalidate the request and clear albumLoading when the user leaves the results screen during album loading.
Proposed fix
func (m *Model) closeSpotSearch() {
m.cancelSpotRequest()
nextRequest(&m.requests.spotSearch)
+ nextRequest(&m.requests.spotAlbum)
nextRequest(&m.requests.spotLists)
nextRequest(&m.requests.spotMutation)
m.spotSearch = spotSearchState{}
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In `@ui/model/update.go` around lines 734 - 756, Update closeSpotSearch to
increment m.requests.spotAlbum, invalidating in-flight album responses when
search closes. Also handle leaving the results screen during album loading by
invalidating the request and clearing m.spotSearch.albumLoading, while
preserving the existing generation check in the spotAlbumTracksMsg handler.
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Why
Searching Spotify never turns up an album.
SearchTracksasks/v1/searchfortype=track,episode, so albums are never requested in the first place.What that means in practice: search for
NoFXand you get a list of individual NoFX songs, ranked by whatever Spotify thinks is most popular. If you wanted to put on Punk in Drublic and hear it front to back, there is no way to get there. The album is not in the results, and the only route to albums in cliamp is the artist browser, which the Spotify provider does not implement.What changed
Albums are searched, and lead the results. They come back as album placeholders: a
playlist.Trackcarrying the album's name, artist and year, marked throughProviderMetaso the UI can tell one apart without knowing which provider produced it (Track.IsAlbum()/Track.AlbumID()).A placeholder is deliberately not playable, because
spotify:album:is not something go-librespot can stream, soSpotifyProvidernow implementsprovider.AlbumTrackLoader./v1/albums/{id}/tracksreturns simplified track objects without the album they belong to, so the album's own metadata is fetched once and filled in on every track for display.Enter,aandqact on the whole record, matching what they already did for a single track:Enterstarts it now,aappends it,qqueues it next. LikeplayTrackImmediatethey add rather than replace, so a queue built up over an evening survives picking an album. The overlay stays open while the expansion runs, showingLoading album..., because closing it would bump the request generation and drop the response.pis refused on an album with an explanation: the playlist picker adds one track, an album is many, and Spotify has no single call to add a record to a playlist.Results are grouped into sections. In one flat list an album read exactly like one of its own tracks.
AlbumsandTracksseparators now use the same style the playlist already uses for album headers, and the label repeats at the top of the viewport when it opens mid-section. Separators take rows of their own, so scrolling counts rendered rows rather than results, the wayalbumSeparatorRowsdoes for the playlist. Without that the cursor could sit below the bottom of the window.Screenshot
Tests
external/spotify/album_test.gocovers the search query actually asking foralbum,track,episode(the bug this started from), albums leading the results, andAlbumTrackspaging while filling in album metadataui/model/spot_search_sections_test.gocovers the section split, the repeated header, the row count, and the cursor staying inside the windowgo build ./...,go vet ./...,gofmtand the full suite are clean.Notes
devModeSearchLimitpaging now carries albums alongside tracks, and a type that runs out simply yields an empty page at the next offset, so nothing is duplicated or skipped.limitper type, so a query now returns up tolimitalbums andlimittracks. Nothing truncates the album list, but happy to cap it if you would rather keep the results shorter.Summary by CodeRabbit
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