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Closes #218 on the design side. Nothing is implemented — the Implemented by line says so, and the four containers still answer empty.

Why the issue needed correcting before it could be answered

#218 frames the way out as a binary choice: host the desktop's plugin engine, or write a Last.fm client. Both halves were wrong about the facts.

The desktop does not have the capability the issue credits it with. Its SDK declares artist-info: func(name: string) -> result<artist-details, string> in all three versions of the metadata world, with record artist-details { bio, image-url, similar }. The host never calls it — runtime.rs holds five metadata_* helpers (album-info in v1/v2/v3, lyrics in v2/v3) and no artist_info among them. A WIT contract is a declaration, not an implementation.

The capability that does exist is native, and already linked into this binary. waveflow-core exposes pub mod metadata outside any feature gate, and this repo already depends on that crate: Last.fm (artist_get_info, artist_get_similar), TheAudioDB, Deezer, LRCLIB, plus name_match.rs and album_match.rs — the hard half. Its module header says it was written "to be reusable from both the desktop app and the future waveflow-server without any glue".

The eleven decisions

1 the server enriches — only it serves the web client and third-party Subsonic clients
2 no Wasmtime. waveflow-core's own Cargo.toml already names waveflow-server and says why the ~5 MiB Cranelift tree would be bloat. Deferring costs nothing: the engine is a feature flag on a dependency already in the graph, not an integration to build
3 off by default, on its own switch — enabling scrobbling must not silently enable catalogue-wide lookups. No embedded key; FREE_API_KEY = "123" is not a server's credential
4 cache keyed (provider, name_canonical), merged field by field at read. artist rows are per library; a biography is not
5 three outcomes: hit, miss (the provider answered nothing), unreached (no row — retry next time)
6 the lookup never runs on the answering path: the writer gate does not cross network I/O, and twenty artists on one page would spend four seconds of the instance's Last.fm budget
7 similar artists resolve only through library_member; an unresolved neighbour is dropped, never given a sentinel id
8 the server fetches artist images
9 outbound surface: constant base URLs, no redirect, nothing echoed, and the API key never reaches the log
10 what the six methods answer, and the compatibility matrix to re-run before the next tag
11 provenance per field, an explicit state, and no ingestion route

The two places this moves something that was already decided

Decision 8 reverses the stance of #217. There, the server refuses to fetch a radio stream because the user names the target — that is the SSRF primitive. Here the URL comes out of a response from a host the operator opted into, reached at a compile-time constant base URL. And the privacy argument runs the other way: passing third-party image URLs through would make every browser and phone opening an artist page announce its address and its listening to TheAudioDB, from the self-hosted server that existed to avoid exactly that. The fetcher is narrow — host allowlist, https only, no redirect, private ranges refused, the validated address pinned for the connection, bounded size and type.

Decision 8 also reopens RFC-007 decision 6 on its own terms. That decision declined an artist event and named the condition: "artist.artwork_hash is read all over this server and written nowhere. An artist photo cannot change because there never is one. The question reopens the day something writes it, and on that day this is the line to re-read." This is that day. It is also the answer to how a client learns that a scheduled enrichment arrived, without polling or a manual reload.

A side effect worth noting: artist.artwork_hash is already read by the artwork sweep, by cover-art resolution, and by the coverArt attribute src/subsonic/nodes.rs emits. Artist portraits need no new route — only a writer for a column that has four readers and none.

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Two external review passes. The first corrected the premise above. The second asked for four adjustments, all taken:

  • the multi-provider cache — one row per name with one provider column could not hold "Last.fm for bios, TheAudioDB for images", and worse, a Last.fm miss would have masked a hit elsewhere. Now keyed per provider, merged on read, with per-field provenance.
  • getSimilarSongs takes three kinds of id — artist, album or song, where getSimilarSongs2 takes an artist id only; and the selection is random from the artist and their neighbours, not the neighbours alone, count defaulting to 50. Checked against the OpenSubsonic documentation. Feishin and Juliet are the callers in the matrix.
  • image URLs are untrusted input — host allowlist and address pinning added to the redirect and private-range refusals.
  • absence cannot mean four things — disabled / pending / ready / none is now explicit on the native API, because a missing object covered "off", "waiting", "nothing found" and "not asked yet" with one signal.

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  • Documentation
    • L’index de documentation renvoie désormais au RFC-011, qui présente une proposition d’enrichissement des métadonnées dans les réponses Subsonic et de l’API native.
    • Le RFC décrit les fournisseurs configurables, le cache et la fusion des données, la résolution des artistes similaires ainsi que la récupération sécurisée des images. Il précise aussi les réglages prévus, les méthodes concernées, les différences entre les API et les questions encore ouvertes. Ces éléments décrivent une proposition, et non des fonctionnalités livrées.

…n engine

Four Subsonic containers answer empty for want of a source: getArtistInfo,
getArtistInfo2, getSimilarSongs, getSimilarSongs2. Issue #218 frames the way
out as hosting the desktop's plugin engine or writing a Last.fm client, and
both halves of that framing needed correcting first.

The desktop declares artist-info in all three versions of its metadata world
and never calls it — runtime.rs holds album-info and lyrics helpers and no
artist_info. The capability that does exist is native and already linked into
this binary: waveflow-core exposes pub mod metadata outside any feature gate,
with Last.fm, TheAudioDB, Deezer and LRCLIB clients plus the fuzzy name and
album matchers, and its module header says it was written to be reused here.

Eleven decisions. The server enriches, because only the server serves the web
client and third-party Subsonic clients. No Wasmtime: waveflow-core's own
Cargo.toml already names waveflow-server and says why the Cranelift tree would
be bloat, and deferring costs nothing since the engine is a feature flag on a
dependency already in the graph. Off by default, on its own switch rather than
scrobbling's, because those are two consents.

The cache is keyed per provider and canonical name, merged field by field at
read time; artist rows are per library and a biography is not. A provider that
answered nothing is cached as a miss, one that was never reached writes no row.
The lookup never runs on the answering path. Similar artists resolve only to
artists the caller can see.

Two places where this reverses or reopens something. The server fetches artist
images rather than passing third-party URLs to clients, which #217 does not
forbid: there the user names the target, here the operator does, and passing
the URL through would announce every viewer's address to TheAudioDB. And
RFC-007 decision 6 declined an artist event on the grounds that
artist.artwork_hash is read everywhere and written nowhere, naming the day it
reopens; decision 8 writes it, so that is the day.

Closes #218 on the design side; nothing is implemented yet, which the
Implemented by line says.

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Le README ajoute un lien vers RFC-011. Ce document propose une conception d’enrichissement des métadonnées côté serveur pour les réponses Subsonic et l’API native. Il décrit la configuration, le cache, les recherches, les contrôles de sécurité et les données exposées.

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Périmètre et configuration
README.md, docs/rfcs/RFC-011-metadata-enrichment.md
Le RFC décrit les besoins et retient l’enrichissement côté serveur, sans moteur Wasmtime. Il définit une activation distincte du scrobbling et une liste de fournisseurs vide par défaut. Le README ajoute un lien vers le RFC.
Cache et recherches
docs/rfcs/RFC-011-metadata-enrichment.md
Le RFC décrit un cache partagé par instance, ses durées de conservation et les recherches à la demande. Il spécifie aussi la résolution des artistes similaires parmi ceux accessibles à l’appelant.
Images et appels aux fournisseurs
docs/rfcs/RFC-011-metadata-enrichment.md
Le RFC définit les contrôles de récupération et de stockage des images, ainsi que les limites des appels sortants aux fournisseurs.
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docs/rfcs/RFC-011-metadata-enrichment.md
Le RFC décrit les réponses prévues pour Subsonic et l’API native. Il énumère les documents à mettre à jour et les questions ouvertes.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in README.md: La ligne « The design » ajoute un lien vers RFC-011, consacré à l’enrichissement des métadonnées.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/rfcs/RFC-011-metadata-enrichment.md: Le RFC présente les réponses Subsonic actuellement vides, distingue les déclarations du SDK desktop de leurs implémentations effectives et recense les capacités de métadonnées déjà fournies par waveflow-core.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/rfcs/RFC-011-metadata-enrichment.md: Le RFC retient l’enrichissement côté serveur pour les clients Subsonic et web. Il écarte l’intégration de Wasmtime : les fournisseurs natifs existent déjà, aucun plugin recensé ne fournit les biographies recherchées, et l’activation du moteur ajouterait Cranelift et des exigences de sandbox. Les mondes ui et canvas restent hors périmètre.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/rfcs/RFC-011-metadata-enrichment.md: L’enrichissement est désactivé par défaut et reste indépendant du scrobbling, même si les deux réglages peuvent recevoir la même clé. La liste ordonnée WAVEFLOW_METADATA_PROVIDERS, vide par défaut, sert de commutateur ; WAVEFLOW_METADATA_IMAGES=off ne désactive que la récupération des images. Les autres paramètres couvrent clé Last.fm, TTL, débit et délai. Aucun secret de fournisseur n’est embarqué.
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Comment thread docs/rfcs/RFC-011-metadata-enrichment.md
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Decision 8 offers WAVEFLOW_METADATA_IMAGES as the operator's escape from the
image fetch, and decision 3 — which is where this RFC says the settings live —
never declared it. A setting that exists only in the prose of the decision that
uses it is a setting nobody deploying from this document would find.

It is also the place to say which way the two interact: the image switch
narrows, it never widens. An empty provider list means no outbound request of
any kind, and this setting cannot contradict that.

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