The music library reused the movie-poster tile (2:3, hover-revealed
actions) for artists and albums too, since it was already there for
video - functional, but never reads as "this is music" the way real
apps do. Explored as mockups first, then implemented without touching
any of MusicBar's existing sync/cast/HLS logic:
- tiles.ts's tileHtml() now dispatches on Emby type: artists get a
circle with no hover overlay, albums a square - same "whole tile is
the one link" idea, since there's only ever one action either way.
- Artist/album pages gain a real hero header (circular/square art, a
pill-shaped play button) instead of a plain title + text button.
Album's per-track buttons shrink from a wide text button repeated on
every row to a small icon that swaps play/plus with the same two
states as before.
- MusicBar gains a real mobile "now playing" full-screen view (tap the
collapsed mini bar to expand it) instead of only ever being a thin
strip - the screen every music app has that this one was missing.
The existing thin top-edge progress bar didn't change shape at all,
on either breakpoint.
Nothing here invents a feature without a real data source behind it -
no popular tracks, no previous-track, no favorites, none of that
exists server-side.
Caught and fixed one real bug via computed-style verification, not
just reading the CSS back: the new circular play button was silently
losing to .iconBtn's own background/radius at equal specificity,
outcome depending on esbuild's bundle order rather than either rule's
own declared intent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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