Deluan Quintão 83fff44c82 feat(archiver): add folder cover image to downloaded zips (#6224)
* feat(archiver): add folder cover image to downloaded zips

Album, artist, playlist and share downloads now include the item's cover as
folder.<ext>, the image most players and car stereos show for the files next to
it. This helps users who copy transcoded downloads to offline devices, since
transcoding drops the embedded artwork (#5841).

Album folders get the album cover, the artist zip root gets the artist image,
and playlist and share zips get the playlist or shared item's cover at the root.
The image is the same one getCoverArt serves, resized to 500px (not square),
and named by its detected type. Items without artwork get no image, and a cover
that fails to load is logged and skipped so it never breaks the archive.

The archiver reads covers through a new core.CoverArtReader interface,
implemented by artwork.CoverArtReader, to avoid an import cycle between core
and core/artwork.

* refactor(archiver): read covers through artwork.Artwork directly

The archiver no longer needs a local CoverArtReader interface and adapter.
The only reason core/artwork imported core was a core.AbsolutePath call in
loadArtistFolder, which now reads the library path from the repository and
cleans it the same way. With the import cycle gone, the archiver takes
artwork.Artwork and treats ErrUnavailable and ErrNotFound as no cover.

Covers are now written after each album's tracks (and after all tracks for
the archive root), so a slow artwork lookup does not delay the first bytes
of the download.

* fix(archiver): read share covers as admin so private playlists keep theirs

Public share downloads run with an anonymous context, and the playlist
repository hides private playlists from anonymous users, so a zip of a shared
private playlist silently had no folder image. Like the public image handler,
the share itself is the authorization: the cover lookup now runs with an admin
user. Only the cover read is elevated; streaming keeps the anonymous context,
so the transcode limiter still keys public downloads the same way.

* style(archiver): trim comments

Shorten the comments added by the folder cover image change and drop the ones the names already explain.

* fix(archiver): add one cover per album folder in artist zips

Albums with the same name share a zip folder (pre-existing naming), so an
artist zip with two such albums wrote two folder.<ext> entries at the same
path. Keep the first cover and skip the rest for that folder.
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Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It's like your personal Spotify!

Note: The master branch may be in an unstable or even broken state during development. Please use releases instead of the master branch in order to get a stable set of binaries.

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Features

  • Handles very large music collections
  • Streams virtually any audio format available
  • Reads and uses all your beautifully curated metadata
  • Great support for compilations (Various Artists albums) and box sets (multi-disc albums)
  • Multi-user, each user has their own play counts, playlists, favourites, etc...
  • Very low resource usage
  • Multi-platform, runs on macOS, Linux and Windows. Docker images are also provided
  • Ready to use binaries for all major platforms, including Raspberry Pi
  • Automatically monitors your library for changes, importing new files and reloading new metadata
  • Supports lyrics from sidecar .ttml, .yaml/.yml Lyricsfile, .elrc, .lrc, .srt, .txt files and embedded TTML, Enhanced LRC, LRC, SRT, and plain-text tags (via lyricspriority)
  • Themeable, modern and responsive Web interface based on Material UI
  • Compatible with all Subsonic/Madsonic/Airsonic clients
  • Transcoding on the fly. Can be set per user/player. Opus encoding is supported
  • Translated to various languages

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