Reported directly: the music bar's queue popup looked broken, and the
listen-party card on the home page never showed an image. Put together a
mockup first (this app's own theme tokens, not a generic one) to confirm
the redesign direction before touching any code, since the queue side
was a real UI rework, not a one-line fix.
The layout bug: MusicBar.ts's queue rows were reusing views/album's
shared .trackRow (styles/trackList.css) - a CSS grid with 4 fixed
columns sized for THAT page's own row shape (track number, name,
duration, a button). The queue never had a track number, and rendered
completely different content in that same slot, so the track's own name
- the first child - landed in the 28px column meant for a one-or-two-
digit index, crushed to its first couple of characters, while the
artist/album text filled the wide column meant for the name instead.
Fixed with a dedicated .queueRow (flex, not grid): album art, a
truncating name+artist/album/added-by info column, duration on the
right.
The missing images: confirmed directly against the real Emby server
(three sampled tracks, Fields=AlbumId,ImageTags) that an individual
Audio item essentially never carries its own Primary image - every one
tested answered 500, not even a clean 404 - while the same tracks'
parent albums mostly did. Every place that built an image URL from a
raw EmbyItem was independently reconstructing /api/catalog/image/{id}
by hand (CatalogService.toItemDto, and three separate spots in
index.ts's party-creation routes bypassing toItemDto entirely) - all
now funnel through one new CatalogService.imageUrlFor(item), which
points a track at its AlbumId instead of its own id when one's known.
EmbyItem gained AlbumId; every Fields param listing Audio items now
requests it.
While fixing the now-working image, the home page's party card turned
out to be the wrong shape for music too: a fixed 48x72 portrait box,
correct for a movie/show poster, forcing a hard crop on an album's
square cover. Video parties are untouched; a music party's card now
gets a 56x56 square box instead, toggled from LobbyPartyDto.mediaType.
Tests: imageUrlFor (movie/episode unaffected, a track with an AlbumId
falls back to it, a track with neither still falls back to its own id
rather than a broken URL). Full typecheck/test/build clean on both
projects (118/118 server tests). Verified visually against the actual
compiled app.css (not just the mockup) - injected real markup using the
new classes into a running instance and confirmed the queue rows and
both card shapes render as designed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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