Release v1.3.1

A Windows friend's 1.3.0 dies about a second in on every start, right
around the 2 s audio warm-up (no Dart error, no close lines). Opening the
device is now logged and leaves audio-init.pending until it returns; a
start that finds it skips sounds instead of crashing again, and a sound
preview in Settings tries once more.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitea/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: packages/server
 
   # The updater's Windows apply path (running exe parked as .old) only
-  # means something on real NTFS. Runner notes: see release.yml.
+  # means something on real NTFS, and the close smoke run needs the real
+  # build. Runner notes: see release.yml.
   updater-windows:
     # Not for a "Release v…" commit: release.yml builds it on the same
     # (only) Windows runner, which this job would hold up.
@@ -71,3 +72,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Windows build
         shell: powershell
         run: powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tool/package_windows.ps1
+      # The close smoke run on that build (P32): start, open a short clip in
+      # a player with a video output, close; it must exit within 45 s and
+      # leave no process. A runner that cannot show a window skips with a
+      # warning. Here rather than in a job of its own: one build, one runner.
+      - name: Smoke (start, open, close)
+        shell: powershell
+        timeout-minutes: 3
+        run: powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tool/smoke_windows.ps1 -Limit 45

README.md

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ few hours, and when one exists a band across the top of the window says so
 (never over a playing video). "Update and restart" downloads,
 verifies, applies in place and restarts; "Later" hides it until the next
 check; the install folder must be writable by you. The version you run is
-under the Settings tab. Settings has Check now and an auto-check toggle. From a terminal:
+at the bottom of every Settings page (and in the Settings tab's tooltip). Settings has Check now and an auto-check toggle. From a terminal:
 `./starsync-server --upgrade` (no display needed, so it works on a
 server box too), `./starsync --upgrade`, or the shipped `update.sh` /
 `update.bat` (which run the first). Each updates the whole folder, app and
@@ -60,35 +60,37 @@ telling you to update.
 
 ## Getting started
 
-Three ways in, all at the top of the Library when you are not in a server.
+The app always runs its own server, quietly: your server. When it starts
-None of them needs Jellyfin or an account.
+you are on it, alone, and it is a plain player. Three ways in, at the top
+of the Library the first time; none needs Jellyfin or an account.
 
-- **Join a friend** (most people): your friend sends you an address and,
+- **Join a friend** (most people): your friend sends you an invite (an
-  maybe, a password. See [Join](#join).
+  address) and, maybe, a password. See [Join](#join).
-- **Host**: you have the video and friends watch it with you. See
+- **Invite friends**: you have the video and friends watch it with you.
-  [Host from the app](#host-from-the-app).
+  See [Your server and Invite](#your-server-and-invite).
-- **Watch solo**: just play something from the Library. It plays for you
+- **Watch on your own**: just play something from the Library, with
-  alone, with everything a server has (Jellyfin progress, next episode,
+  everything a server has (Jellyfin progress, next episode, skip buttons).
-  skip buttons); nothing is reachable from outside this computer. Invite
+  Nobody else can reach your server until you invite them; inviting never
-  friends in the strip turns it into a hosted server (the Host card's port
+  interrupts what plays.
-  and password) and the video carries on from where it was; Stop ends it.
 
 ## The window
 
 One window. Along the top, the strip: your avatar (click it for your
 profile: name, picture with a crop editor, colour, and links to the
-settings), the Library / Schedule / Settings tabs, and the party. Offline
+settings), the Library / Schedule / Settings tabs, and the party. Alone
-the party side has Join a friend and Host; watching solo it says Solo,
+on your server it has just Join a friend and Invite (and "Sharing" while
-with Invite friends and Stop; in a server it shows everyone's avatar
+your server is open to friends); with others there it shows everyone's avatar
 with a ring for their state (green ready, amber buffering, grey not ready,
 a little faded joining, dimmed reconnecting, dimmed with a moon sitting
 out; a crown on whoever
 hosts, a tower on whoever passes the video on). Click the avatars for the
-member list (force ready, Nudge, Sit out, "Copy invite address"; when you host it lists this computer's
+member list (each member's app version, amber when it differs from yours,
-network addresses with the port, and friends outside your network need
+and the server's at the top; force ready, Nudge, Sit out; on your
-that port forwarded or a server they can all reach, like a VPS). Beside them the server and "ready n/m" (who is sitting out or
+server the invite with Copy invite and Stop sharing, on a friend's "Copy
+invite address"). Beside them the server and "ready n/m" (who is sitting out or
 reconnecting does not count), the chat button with unread
-count, and Leave. Empty strip space drags the window.
+count, and Invite on your server or Leave on a friend's. Empty strip
+space drags the window.
 
 The player fills the window under the strip. Pick a tab and it shrinks to
 a mini player in a corner: drag it anywhere and it snaps to the nearest
@@ -107,10 +109,23 @@ loading…") or what went wrong, with Retry or Cancel when it helps. Chat and ac
 Tab), ready to type; it shows messages (select text to copy it, or
 right-click for Copy message and, with a link in it, Copy link / Open in
 browser), and its "Activity" toggle adds
-joins, ready, seeks and the like between them. Joins, leaves, chat and
+joins, ready, seeks and the like between them. Joins, leaves, someone
-other news also pop up bottom left with the person's avatar; click a message to open the chat
+losing connection and coming back, video changes, additions to Up next
-(Settings → Notifications → Chat messages: All by default, or Only when
+(the title, its picture and who added it), chat and problems also pop up
-paused, or Off; messages always reach the chat, with their sound). Unread chat shows as a count on the chat
+bottom left with the person's avatar, above the player's controls (never
+on them); ready, seeks and pauses stay in the activity. Click a message
+to open the chat (Settings → Notifications & sounds → Chat messages: All
+by default, or Only when paused, or Off; messages always reach the chat,
+with their sound). Watching alone, nothing pops up or sounds about the
+party (there is nobody); the app's own notices still show.
+
+**While sitting out or in the background.** Sitting out, only chat,
+nudges, "starting now" (the video starts for the others) and Up next
+reach you; joins and leaves too if you turn on Settings → Notifications &
+sounds → "Joins and leaves too". With the window in the background or
+minimised, the same ones also come as desktop notifications (Linux's
+notification center, Windows' toasts); clicking one brings the window
+up, and a chat one opens the chat. Unread chat shows as a count on the chat
 buttons and, in fullscreen with the controls hidden and the video paused,
 as a small chip top right.
 
@@ -146,19 +161,28 @@ same profile) takes your place over, and the first one says so and stops.
 only they hear it (a sound, a pop-up, and the taskbar entry asks for
 attention when the window is in the background).
 
-## Host from the app
+## Your server and Invite
 
-Host in the strip: set a port and an optional password (blank = anyone can
+Your server starts with the app and stops when it closes. Only this app
-join), then Host. The app starts a server inside itself and joins it; you
+can reach it until you press **Invite** (in the strip, or in the member
-are the host (the crown). Nothing is up yet: pick what to
+list): that opens it on your network at the port from Settings → Party &
-watch in the Library tab (below) and put it up. Leaving or
+network (default 8080, with the password set there; blank = anyone can
-closing the app stops the server. Friends need to reach your machine: open
+join) and copies an invite ("Join me on Starsync: 192.168.1.20:8080 ·
-the TCP port on your router (or use a LAN or VPN address). Friends open
+Starsync 1.3.0") to send to friends. Nothing restarts: what plays and Up
-nothing. Ports you hosted on before are one click away in the Host card.
+next carry on, and you are the host (the crown). The invite picks this
+computer's home-network address (not a VPN or proxy one, nor a Docker or
+VM bridge). Friends elsewhere need the TCP port forwarded on your router
+(or a VPN address, or a server they can all reach, like a VPS). Friends
+open nothing. **Stop sharing** (in the member list) closes it again:
+everyone else leaves (their app goes back to their own server and says
+why), you and Up next stay.
 
-If you put up a local file, the server streams it to everyone from your
+If you put up a local file, your server streams it to everyone from your
 disk. Nothing is uploaded or stored anywhere.
 
+Joining a friend leaves your server for theirs; it stays up meanwhile,
+and leaving theirs brings you back to it as you left it.
+
 ## Library
 
 What to watch, from three sources (the switch at the top). Drop a video,
@@ -192,15 +216,30 @@ Up next, add the folder to Files, or fill Link).
   open here (needs cookies, 403, 404, not a video) says why and goes up
   only with "Put it up anyway"; in the player, whoever cannot play it is
   named ("Bob can't play this: Not allowed (403)") and nobody waits for them.
-- **Files**: video folders you add on this computer, grouped by series
+- **Files**: your own library from the video folders you add on this
-  (click a series to list its episodes), or any file through Browse. The others stream it from you.
+  computer (the **Library** shows them all together, each folder on its
+  own too), or any file through Browse. Files are sorted into shows and
+  movies by their names and folders: one show split over several folders
+  is one show, OP/ED and specials go under its **Extras**, a folder like
+  "Show (Season 3 - Alicization)" gives the season and its name. Shows
+  are looked up on AniList for their proper name, cover and banner. A
+  show's page has its seasons and episodes and a button for the next one
+  after what you last watched here; when episodes are missing on the way
+  it says so ("66–107 aren't in your folders — skip to 108?"). An
+  episode you put up continues with the next one at its end (see Up
+  next). Matched
+  the wrong show? **Wrong show?** searches AniList and pins the right one
+  for the show everywhere or just one folder; **Episode numbers…** says
+  which episode the first file is when the files count differently. Both
+  stay through rescans. The others stream what you put up from you, and
+  see its proper name too.
 
-Put it up and the player opens. Not in a server, the buttons say Play
+Put it up and the player opens. With nobody else in the server, the
-and it plays for you alone ([Watch solo](#getting-started)).
+buttons say Play and a link plays straight from the site.
 
 ### Up next (the queue)
 
-In a server (solo too), anything can wait its turn instead of going up
+Anything can wait its turn instead of going up
 now: **Add to queue** on the Link page (in the way you picked), or
 right-click a Jellyfin card or episode, a video in Files, a recent link
 or an episode on the Schedule for **Add to queue** / **Play next**; the
@@ -216,7 +255,7 @@ app open for that. Everyone shares one Up next and anyone can change it; what
 you added stays when you leave.
 
 In the player, Up next sits in the top bar, right of the title: the
-next item's picture and title (or the next episode's). Rest the mouse on
+next item's picture and title (or what continues the episode). Rest the mouse on
 it for a larger preview (who added it, its length, whether it is ready
 to start); ⏭ plays it now, a click opens the queue: drag rows to reorder, hover a
 row to play it now (▶) or remove it (×), right-click it for more (copy its
@@ -224,17 +263,22 @@ title or link, open it in the browser or in Jellyfin). To add, press
 Ctrl+V with the queue open (a copied link or video file goes in at once,
 its title and picture showing while it is checked), type one after
 **+ Add link**, or drop a link or a video on it. When a video ends, a card shows
-what is up next with a 10 s countdown (Cancel stops it on your screen)
+what is up next with a 10 s countdown everyone sees, and it plays;
-and it plays; `>` or Shift+N plays it at once. Under the queue,
+Cancel stops it for everyone, and so does seeking back. `>` or Shift+N
-**Continues with** shows the next episodes of the Jellyfin series
+plays it at once. Under the queue, **Continues with** shows what
-playing (greyed: they play only once Up next is empty); **+** adds one,
+continues the episode playing: its next episode (a Jellyfin episode's,
-**Clear** drops them for this episode.
+or a file's next one in your Files library, saying which numbers it
+skips), added by whoever put the episode up, and greyed because it
+plays only once Up next is empty; **Clear** drops it for everyone. The
+further episodes of a Jellyfin series show under it; **+** adds one.
 
 A link you pass on ("through me") or a file of yours can only be played
 by your app: if you left when its turn comes, it is skipped ("Skipped …:
-Foxyz left"). A Jellyfin item needs someone with an account on that
+Foxyz left"). If you are only gone for a moment, the countdown waits for
-server. Up next is kept by the server while it runs; restarting the
+you. A Jellyfin item needs someone with an account on that server. Up
-server empties it.
+next is kept by the server while it runs. If the server restarts, the
+apps put back what was playing, where it was, and Up next with it (a
+link the server fetched has to be added again).
 
 ## Schedule
 
@@ -288,8 +332,8 @@ clipboard: paste it to whoever helps you, from both sides if you can.
 
 While you are in a server, the app also sends its log to that server, which
 merges everyone's lines and its own into one session log
-(`session-YYYY-MM-DD.log` next to the server's logs; the hosting app keeps
+(`session-YYYY-MM-DD.log` next to the server's logs; your own server
-it in its own logs folder), so a problem can be read afterwards from every
+keeps it in the app's logs folder), so a problem can be read afterwards from every
 side. Chat is never logged anywhere, nor passwords, tokens and cookies.
 When something goes wrong, press **Mark a problem** (Ctrl+Shift+B, also in
 the player's ⚙ and Settings → About) and add a few words if you like: a
@@ -301,24 +345,29 @@ notes that you don't share; a problem you mark still goes in).
 
 ## Join
 
-Join in the strip. Servers you got into are listed first (up to 6), with
+Join a friend in the strip. Servers you got into are listed first (up
-live status (online and how many are watching, or offline, plus "needs
+to 6), with live status (online and how many are watching, or offline,
-update" when the server runs another protocol): click one to rejoin, x to
+plus "needs update" when its version and yours do not match): click one
-forget it. Or enter the host's address, port, and the password if there
+to rejoin, x to forget it. Or paste the invite (or the address and port)
-is one, then Enter or Join. Your name and picture come from your profile
+and the password if there is one, then Enter or Join. Before connecting
-(your avatar at the top left).
+the app checks the server's version: when they do not match it says who
+has to update ("Bob's server runs Starsync 1.2.1 — they need to
+update"), and offers the update when it is you. Your name and picture
+come from your profile (your avatar at the top left). Leave goes back to
+your own server.
 
 ## Settings
 
 The Settings tab (Ctrl+,) has a page per topic, each setting with a line
-of help: Profile; Party & network (the Host card's default port and
+of help: Profile; Party & network (your server's port and password for
-password, recent servers with remove); Player (below); Jellyfin &
+Invite, recent servers with remove); Player (below); Jellyfin &
 integrations (linked Jellyfin servers, below, the AnimeFlow connection:
 "connected as <name>" with what you may do, or why not, and playing the
-next episode automatically); Notifications & sounds (what pops up; the sound
+next episode automatically); Notifications & sounds (what pops up, chat
+pop-ups, what reaches you while sitting out or in the background; the sound
 volume and sound set, and every sound with a preview, its own set and a switch); Updates; Keyboard shortcuts (read-only); About
-(the version; resting the mouse on the Settings tab shows it too; and the
+(the version, also at the bottom of every Settings page and in the
-credits, e.g. that the Minimal player design is inspired by uosc).
+Settings tab's tooltip; and the credits, e.g. that the Minimal player design is inspired by uosc).
 
 Player settings live in the player too: ⚙ → Player settings, at the
 right of its controls, and Settings → Player has the same ones (plus the
@@ -397,7 +446,8 @@ during the first 6 minutes.
 | Sync WebSocket and `/health` | TCP 8080 | plain `ws://`, no TLS |
 | Local file streaming | same port | path `/m/...`, needs a session token |
 
-Only the host needs the port reachable.
+Only the one who invites needs the port reachable; until Invite your
+server listens on 127.0.0.1 and a free port only.
 
 ## Jellyfin
 
@@ -430,15 +480,19 @@ Watching:
   directly with their own sign-in. Jellyfin tracks progress per account:
   your watched state, Continue watching and resume point follow what you
   saw (reported on start, every 10 s, on pause, resume, seek and track
-  change, and when it stops). Watched means you actually played most of
+  change, and when it stops). Watched means you were there while most
-  it (or reached the ending after half), not where you stopped: opening
+  of it played (or while half of it played and it reached the ending),
-  a watched episode to check a moment keeps it watched, and a quick peek
+  not where it stopped: time you sat out does not count, skipping around
-  leaves no resume point.
+  does not count, opening a watched episode to check a moment keeps it
+  watched, and a quick peek leaves no resume point. Files and links you
+  watch are remembered the same way on your computer (a show's next
+  episode in Files follows them).
 - Friends without an account watch through the server: whoever put the
   item up passes it on automatically, with their own sign-in, which never
   leaves their computer (only the current item, only to people in the
-  session). They show "via server" in the member list (click the avatars). When the app hosts,
+  session). They show "via server" in the member list (click the avatars). On your
-  or a dedicated server has its own login (`--jellyfin <file>`, see
+  own server (with your sign-in on that item's Jellyfin, whichever of
+  your linked servers it is), or a dedicated server with its own login (`--jellyfin <file>`, see
   [docs/ARCHITECTURE.md](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md), Jellyfin relay), the server
   fetches it itself instead.
 - If nobody can pass it on (the person who put it up left), the app says
@@ -449,12 +503,11 @@ Episodes: the ⏮ / ⏭ buttons next to play (or `<` / `>`,
 Shift+P / Shift+N) put up the previous or next episode for everyone. From
 the ending (when it is known, see Skipping above; else in the last two
 minutes) a "Next episode" button floats in the corner while the controls
-are up. When an
+are up. With "Play the next episode automatically" (Settings, on by
-episode ends, a card shows what is next with Play next; with "Play the
+default), the episode you put up continues with the next one: when it
-next episode automatically" (Settings, on by default) it counts down 10 s
+ends, everyone sees a 10 s countdown, and anyone can cancel it (see Up
-first, and Cancel stops it on your screen (seeking back stops it for
+next). Anyone with an account can put the next one up; friends watching
-everyone). Anyone with an account can put the next one up; friends
+via the host cannot.
-watching via the host cannot.
 
 Audio and subtitles: the Audio and Subtitles buttons in the controls pick tracks.
 Your choice is remembered per series (and as a default) and the closest
@@ -489,7 +542,11 @@ export (picked or dropped; every site in it is kept). They stay on this
 computer and are used by its yt-dlp only (your own playback, "through
 me", and a server you host). Cookies log yt-dlp in as you on those
 sites: keep the file private, and for YouTube consider a throwaway
-account (Google may flag accounts used with yt-dlp).
+account (Google may flag accounts used with yt-dlp). When a page shows
+no video, the message says which cookies were used: none, your file
+(and whether it has any for that site), or your browser's (and how many
+it has for that site), so you know whether to sign in there or add
+cookies.
 YouTube works in all three too, and so do pages and links that only
 offer streaming playlists (HLS `.m3u8`, DASH `.mpd`, the HLS of X videos).
 Through me and Server fetches it never show the link to anyone; they can't pass on live
@@ -502,9 +559,11 @@ top: who passes it on, or that the server fetches it, everyone plays the
 link, or everyone streams it from Jellyfin, with how many watch through
 the server and, for a relay, how fast it arrives against what the video
 needs (the bar's mark; past it is keeping up). It turns amber when the
-source is too slow or reconnecting, red when it left (the others play
+source is too slow or its connection dropped ("Bob's connection dropped —
-out what the server already has), and whoever passes it on is told once
+playing what the server has (2 min)"), red when it left (the others play
-when their upload is too slow. Each member's line says how they get it
+out what the server already has; the player's pill says the same and a
+pop-up tells you once), and whoever passes it on is told once when their
+upload is too slow. Each member's line says how they get it
 ("via server" with their speed, or "direct") after a dot for their
 buffer: green enough to play on, amber low, red empty. A red dot on one
 member while the source keeps up is their own connection.

apps/desktop/lib/main.dart

@@ -3,17 +3,18 @@ import 'dart:io';
 
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:hive_ce_flutter/hive_flutter.dart';
-import 'package:media_kit/media_kit.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import 'app.dart';
+import 'src/app/app_graph.dart';
+import 'src/files/thumbnails.dart' show thumbnailPlayers;
 import 'src/platform/app_log.dart';
-import 'src/platform/app_shutdown.dart';
+import 'src/platform/app_shutdown.dart' show closeAppWith;
 import 'src/platform/desktop/desktop_app_dirs.dart';
 import 'src/platform/desktop_entry.dart';
+import 'src/platform/smoke.dart';
 import 'src/screens/home/ui.dart';
 import 'src/session/app_events.dart' show UpdateAvailable;
-import 'src/state/session_state.dart';
 import 'src/state/settings.dart';
 import 'src/update/update_controller.dart' show UpdateController, UpdatePhase, launchArgs;
 
@@ -46,20 +47,33 @@ Future<void> main(List<String> args) async {
   await startAppLogging(dirs);
   Hive.init(dirs.hive);
   await AppSettings.instance.ensureLoaded();
+  // The composition root: every system, made once.
+  final graph = AppGraph.build();
+  // Sounds stay off after an audio-device crash (see SoundEngine.crashMark).
+  graph.sfx.engine.crashMark = '${dirs.support}${Platform.pathSeparator}audio-init.pending';
+  final ports = graph.ports;
   // Close button / Alt+F4: the orderly close ([shutDownApp]), so others
-  // see "left", a hosted server shuts down and no player outlives the
+  // see "left", your server shuts down and no player outlives the engine.
-  // engine.
+  final close = closeAppWith(graph);
-  final ports = SessionState.instance.ports;
   await ports.shell.start(
-      title: dirs.profile == null ? appName : '$appName [${dirs.profile}]', onCloseRequest: shutDownApp);
+      title: dirs.profile == null ? appName : '$appName [${dirs.profile}]', onCloseRequest: () => close());
-  // Focus, minimise and restore feed auto sit-out.
+  // Focus, minimise and restore feed auto sit-out and the Notifier (in
-  ports.shell.watchActivity(SessionState.instance.coordinator.windowActivity);
+  // the background, notices go out as system notifications).
+  ports.shell.watchActivity((a) {
+    graph.coordinator.windowActivity(a);
+    graph.notifier.window = a;
+  });
   try {
-    await SessionState.instance.loadForm();
+    await graph.forms.load();
   } catch (e, st) {
     debugPrint('load connect form failed: $e\n$st');
   }
-  MediaKit.ensureInitialized();
+  // The library's matches, pins and offsets, and the watch history
+  // (device-owned).
+  unawaited(graph.library.ensureLoaded());
+  unawaited(graph.watch.history.ensureLoaded());
+  ports.players.init();
+  thumbnailPlayers = ports.players;
   // yt-dlp for web page links: downloaded on first run, kept current.
   ports.links.warmUp();
   // Linux: the launcher entry and icon Wayland needs (release installs).
@@ -70,10 +84,18 @@ Future<void> main(List<String> args) async {
     final s = updates.status.value;
     final version = s.manifest?.version;
     if (s.phase == UpdatePhase.available && version != null) {
-      SessionState.instance.notifier.notify(UpdateAvailable(version));
+      graph.notifier.notify(UpdateAvailable(version));
     }
   });
-  runApp(const WatchTogetherApp());
+  runApp(AppScope(graph: graph, child: const WatchTogetherApp()));
+  // CI's close smoke run: open a file, play, close (see smoke.dart).
+  final smoke = smokeMedia;
+  if (smoke != null) {
+    unawaited(WidgetsBinding.instance.endOfFrame.then((_) => runSmoke(graph, smoke)));
+  }
+  // Home: your own server, quietly (only this app can reach it until
+  // Invite).
+  unawaited(graph.navigation.start());
   // The sound device opens once the window is up, not on the first sound.
-  Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 2), SessionState.instance.sfx.warmUp);
+  Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 2), graph.sfx.warmUp);
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/app/app_graph.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
+
+import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
+import '../library/library_store.dart';
+import '../library/local_next.dart';
+import '../library/show_matcher.dart';
+import '../platform/app_log.dart' show appLogDir;
+import '../platform/desktop/desktop_ports.dart';
+import '../platform/ports/ports.dart';
+import '../schedule/anilist.dart';
+import '../schedule/animeflow.dart';
+import '../screens/home/health_probe.dart';
+import '../session/connection.dart' show Connection;
+import '../session/identity.dart' show ClientIdentity, Profile;
+import '../session/navigation.dart';
+import '../session/notifier.dart';
+import '../session/session_coordinator.dart';
+import '../session/your_server.dart';
+import '../sfx/sfx.dart';
+import '../sfx/sound_bank.dart';
+import '../sfx/synth_sfx.dart';
+import '../state/connect_prefs.dart';
+import '../state/settings.dart';
+import '../watch/watch_history.dart';
+import '../watch/watch_tracker.dart';
+
+/// The composition root: builds the app's systems once (in `main`), wires
+/// them through their constructors and disposes them. No logic and no
+/// signals of its own. Widgets reach it through [AppScope].
+class AppGraph {
+  /// The platform (window, links, folders, yt-dlp, notifications).
+  final Ports ports;
+
+  /// Owns the app's audio device ([SynthSfx.dispose] on close).
+  final SynthSfx sfx;
+
+  /// Every toast, sound, system notification and activity-log line.
+  final Notifier notifier;
+
+  /// The link to whichever server this app is in.
+  final Connection connection;
+
+  final SessionCoordinator coordinator;
+
+  /// The connect form and recent servers.
+  final ConnectStore forms;
+
+  /// This app's own server, alive for the whole run.
+  final YourServer yourServer;
+
+  /// Home (your server) or a friend's.
+  final Navigation navigation;
+
+  /// The library's matches (L2): local shows to AniList, pins, offsets.
+  final ShowMatcher library;
+
+  /// Watch tracking and the device's watch history (D3).
+  final WatchTracker watch;
+
+  AppGraph._({
+    required this.ports,
+    required this.sfx,
+    required this.notifier,
+    required this.connection,
+    required this.coordinator,
+    required this.forms,
+    required this.yourServer,
+    required this.navigation,
+    required this.library,
+    required this.watch,
+  });
+
+  /// The desktop app's graph. Tests pass their own [ports], [identity]
+  /// (default: the install's stored one), [healthGet] and server starter.
+  factory AppGraph.build({
+    Ports? ports,
+    ClientIdentity? identity,
+    HealthGetter healthGet = defaultHealthGet,
+    ServerStarter? serverStarter,
+    JellyfinAccounts? jellyfin,
+    ShowMatcher? library,
+    WatchHistory? history,
+  }) {
+    final p = ports ?? desktopPorts();
+    final settings = AppSettings.instance;
+    final sfx = SynthSfx(
+      volume: () => settings.soundVolume.peek(),
+      // A nudge is an explicit poke: it ignores its switch (not the volume).
+      enabled: (k) => k == SfxKind.nudge || !settings.soundsOff.peek().contains(k.name),
+      presetFor: soundPresetFor,
+    );
+    final notifier = Notifier(
+      sfx: sfx,
+      attention: p.shell.requestAttention,
+      system: p.notifications,
+      focusWindow: p.shell.focus,
+      prefs: () => settings.notifyPrefs,
+    );
+    final connection = Connection(notify: notifier.notify, identity: identity ?? ClientIdentity.stored());
+    // Device-owned: the watch history box.
+    final watch = WatchTracker(history: history ?? WatchHistory());
+    final coordinator = SessionCoordinator(
+        notifier: notifier,
+        connection: connection,
+        ytDlp: p.links,
+        jellyfin: jellyfin,
+        players: p.players,
+        settings: settings,
+        watch: watch);
+    // Device-owned: the library box; AnimeFlow's runs when signed in.
+    final matcher = library ??
+        ShowMatcher(
+          store: HiveLibraryStore(),
+          aniList: AniListClient(),
+          flow: AnimeFlowLookup(AnimeFlowClient.fromAccounts(coordinator.jellyfin)),
+        );
+    coordinator
+      ..fileRef = matcher.refForPath
+      ..nextFile = LocalNextFinder(matcher: matcher, scan: p.folders.scan).nextAfter;
+    final forms = ConnectStore();
+    final yourServer = YourServer(
+      forms: forms,
+      jellyfin: jellyfin,
+      // The app's yt-dlp folder; '' (the server's own default) when the
+      // app-support folder is not available.
+      ytDlpDir: () async {
+        try {
+          return (await p.links.ytDlp).dir;
+        } catch (_) {
+          return '';
+        }
+      },
+      logDir: () => appLogDir,
+      starter: serverStarter,
+    );
+    final navigation = Navigation(
+      coordinator: coordinator,
+      yourServer: yourServer,
+      forms: forms,
+      healthGet: healthGet,
+    );
+    // The profile keeps its name in the connect form and pushes changes
+    // to whichever server this app is in.
+    Profile.instance
+      ..forms = forms
+      ..push = ({String? name, String? avatar}) {
+        if (navigation.online.peek()) coordinator.updateProfile(name: name, avatar: avatar);
+      };
+    return AppGraph._(
+      ports: p,
+      sfx: sfx,
+      notifier: notifier,
+      connection: connection,
+      coordinator: coordinator,
+      forms: forms,
+      yourServer: yourServer,
+      navigation: navigation,
+      library: matcher,
+      watch: watch,
+    );
+  }
+
+  Future<void> dispose() async {
+    navigation.dispose();
+    await coordinator.dispose();
+    await watch.dispose();
+    await yourServer.stop();
+    await sfx.dispose();
+  }
+}
+
+/// The sound set [kind] plays from: its own pick in Settings, else the
+/// overall one.
+SoundPreset soundPresetFor(SfxKind kind) {
+  final s = AppSettings.instance;
+  final name = s.soundPresetFor.peek()[kind.name] ?? s.soundPreset.peek();
+  return SoundPreset.values.where((p) => p.name == name).firstOrNull ?? defaultPreset;
+}
+
+/// Hands the [AppGraph] to every widget below: `AppScope.of(context)`.
+/// The graph never changes, so reading it registers no dependency (safe
+/// in `initState`).
+class AppScope extends InheritedWidget {
+  final AppGraph graph;
+  const AppScope({super.key, required this.graph, required super.child});
+
+  static AppGraph of(BuildContext context) {
+    final scope = context.getInheritedWidgetOfExactType<AppScope>();
+    assert(scope != null, 'no AppScope above this widget');
+    return scope!.graph;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  bool updateShouldNotify(AppScope oldWidget) => !identical(graph, oldWidget.graph);
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/control_menus.dart

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Future<void> runControlAction(BuildContext context, PlayerControlsModel model, C
       model.changeVideo();
     case ControlAction.copyLink:
       final link = model.link();
-      if (link != null) await copyToClipboard(link, done: 'Link copied');
+      if (link != null) await copyToClipboard(context, link, done: 'Link copied');
     case ControlAction.reload:
       model.reload();
     case ControlAction.markAllReady:

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/minimal/minimal_controls.dart

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class MinimalControls extends StatelessWidget {
         const Expanded(
           child: Align(alignment: AlignmentDirectional.centerStart, child: NowPlayingTitle()),
         ),
-        UpNextButton(queue: m.queue, onPlayNextEpisode: m.playNextEpisode, look: UpNextLook.minimal, hold: hold),
+        UpNextButton(queue: m.queue, look: UpNextLook.minimal, hold: hold),
         const SizedBox(width: 4),
         SignalBuilder(
           builder: (context) {

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/minimal/timeline.dart

@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ abstract final class MinimalTimelineSpec {
   /// What is left of it while they are hidden.
   static const lineSize = 3.0;
 
+  /// The played part's accent tint.
+  static const played = 0.4;
+
   /// The position line.
   static const lineWidth = 2.0;
   static const fontSize = 15.0;
@@ -467,13 +470,10 @@ class MinimalTimelinePainter extends CustomPainter {
     final w = size.width, h = size.height;
     final x = lineX(w);
     final band = Offset.zero & size;
-    // The band, darker as it grows; hidden, a faint track.
+    // The same colours shown and hidden: hidden, it is the band shrunk to
-    canvas.drawRect(band, Paint()..color = Color.lerp(const Color(0x40FFFFFF), MinimalStyle.band, visibility)!);
+    // a line, so growing and shrinking never switches colour.
-    // Played: an accent tint, solid once the band is a line.
+    canvas.drawRect(band, Paint()..color = MinimalStyle.band);
-    canvas.drawRect(
+    canvas.drawRect(Rect.fromLTRB(0, 0, x, h), Paint()..color = accent.withValues(alpha: MinimalTimelineSpec.played));
-      Rect.fromLTRB(0, 0, x, h),
-      Paint()..color = accent.withValues(alpha: 0.28 + 0.72 * (1 - visibility)),
-    );
     _stripes(canvas, w, h);
     _chapters(canvas, w, h);
     if (visibility > 0) {
@@ -500,7 +500,8 @@ class MinimalTimelinePainter extends CustomPainter {
     canvas.save();
     canvas.clipRect(Rect.fromLTRB(ax, 0, w, h));
     final paint = Paint()
-      ..color = Colors.white.withValues(alpha: 0.10 + 0.08 * (1 - visibility))
+      // Stronger on the line, where only a few pixels of each show.
+      ..color = Colors.white.withValues(alpha: 0.12 + 0.22 * (1 - visibility))
       ..strokeWidth = 1.5 * scale;
     for (var c = (ax / period).floorToDouble() * period - h; c <= w; c += period) {
       canvas.drawLine(Offset(c, h), Offset(c + h, 0), paint);
@@ -509,7 +510,7 @@ class MinimalTimelinePainter extends CustomPainter {
   }
 
   void _chapters(Canvas canvas, double w, double h) {
-    final cut = Paint()..color = Colors.black.withValues(alpha: 0.55);
+    final cut = Paint()..color = Colors.black.withValues(alpha: 0.3);
     for (final f in chapters) {
       if (f <= 0) continue;
       final cx = w * f;

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/model/controls_layout.dart

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class ControlsSnapshot {
   final bool hasDuration;
 
   /// Watching alone (no one to mark ready).
-  final bool solo;
+  final bool alone;
 
   /// A link to copy (`SessionCoordinator.currentLink`).
   final bool hasLink;
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class ControlsSnapshot {
     this.nextIsUpNext = false,
     this.hasChapters = false,
     this.hasDuration = false,
-    this.solo = false,
+    this.alone = false,
     this.hasLink = false,
     this.fullscreen = false,
     this.chatOpen = false,
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ List<ControlAction> menuActions(ControlsSnapshot s, Set<OptionalControl> hidden)
       ControlAction.skipForward => s.hasDuration,
       ControlAction.chat => hidden.contains(OptionalControl.chat),
       ControlAction.copyLink => s.hasLink,
-      ControlAction.markAllReady => !s.solo,
+      ControlAction.markAllReady => !s.alone,
       _ => true,
     })
       a,
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ String controlTooltip(BarControl c, ControlsSnapshot s) => switch (c) {
   BarControl.playPause => switch (s.play) {
     PlayState.playing => 'Pause for everyone (Space)',
     PlayState.waiting => 'Ready, waiting for the others (Space: not ready)',
-    PlayState.paused => s.solo ? 'Play (Space)' : 'Ready: play when everyone is (Space)',
+    PlayState.paused => s.alone ? 'Play (Space)' : 'Ready: play when everyone is (Space)',
     PlayState.finished => 'Ready (Space)',
   },
   BarControl.previous => 'Previous: ${s.previousLabel ?? ''}  (< or Shift+P)',

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/model/controls_model.dart

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import '../../playback/playback_controller.dart';
 import '../../queue/queue_controller.dart';
 import '../../session/session_coordinator.dart';
 import '../../shaders/shader_presets.dart';
-import '../../state/session_state.dart';
 import '../../state/settings.dart';
 import '../player_settings.dart' show applyShaderChoice;
 import '../volume.dart' as vol;
@@ -82,16 +81,19 @@ class PlayerControlsModel {
   /// Everything the layout depends on (not the position: that changes
   /// four times a second and only the timeline needs it).
   late final Computed<ControlsSnapshot> snapshot = computed(() {
-    final items = queue.items.value;
+    final queued = queue.items.value.firstOrNull;
+    final continues = queue.continues.value;
     final next = coord.nextEpisode.value;
     return ControlsSnapshot(
       play: play.value,
       previousLabel: coord.previousEpisode.value?.label,
-      nextLabel: items.isNotEmpty ? items.first.title : next?.label,
+      // Up next's first item, else the next episode, else what continues
-      nextIsUpNext: items.isNotEmpty,
+      // this (a file's next episode).
+      nextLabel: queued?.title ?? next?.label ?? continues?.title,
+      nextIsUpNext: queued != null,
       hasChapters: chapters.value.isNotEmpty,
       hasDuration: duration.value > Duration.zero,
-      solo: SessionState.instance.solo.value,
+      alone: coord.alone.value,
       // Not a signal: read again whenever the state changes.
       hasLink: coord.serverState.value != null && coord.currentLink() != null,
       fullscreen: fullscreen.value,
@@ -122,7 +124,7 @@ class PlayerControlsModel {
 
   /// A seek bar's press or drag; through `player.seek`, the user-seek
   /// path, so everyone follows.
-  void seek(Duration to) => playback.player.seek(to);
+  void seek(Duration to) => playback.userSeek(to);
 
   /// Arrow keys: ±[secs], relative to a seek still in flight.
   void nudge(double secs) => coord.nudge(secs);
@@ -138,9 +140,10 @@ class PlayerControlsModel {
 
   void pickChapter(MediaChapter c) => coord.seekTo(c.start.inMicroseconds / 1e6);
 
-  /// Up next's first item, else the next episode. False when neither.
+  /// What plays next (Up next's first item, else the continuation), else
+  /// the next episode. False when neither.
   bool next() {
-    if (queue.items.peek().isNotEmpty) {
+    if (queue.head.peek() != null) {
       queue.skip();
       return true;
     }
@@ -158,7 +161,7 @@ class PlayerControlsModel {
 
   void playNextEpisode() => coord.playNextEpisode();
 
-  void setVolume(double v) => playback.player.setVolume(v.clamp(0.0, vol.maxVolume));
+  void setVolume(double v) => playback.setVolume(v.clamp(0.0, vol.maxVolume));
 
   /// One volume step up (+1) or down (-1) from the wheel or ↑ / ↓;
   /// flashes the volume readout.
@@ -184,7 +187,7 @@ class PlayerControlsModel {
 
   /// Saved as the choice and applied live; a null quality keeps the
   /// saved one.
-  void pickShader(ShaderPreset preset, ShaderQuality? quality) => applyShaderChoice(preset, quality);
+  void pickShader(ShaderPreset preset, ShaderQuality? quality) => applyShaderChoice(coord, preset, quality);
 
   void toggleTimeDisplay() => settings.setTimeDisplay(settings.timeDisplay.peek().toggled);
 

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/player_settings.dart

@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show JellyfinStreamType;
 
 import '../jellyfin/track_prefs.dart' show MpvTrack;
 import '../playback/playback_controller.dart' show PlaybackController, RenderMode;
+import '../session/session_coordinator.dart' show SessionCoordinator;
 import '../shaders/shader_presets.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../shell/mark_problem.dart';
 import '../shell/motion.dart';
 import '../state/settings.dart';
@@ -200,11 +201,10 @@ class ProgressLineSetting extends StatelessWidget {
 
 /// Saves a shader choice (also used on the next join) and puts it on the
 /// running player, if any; the player announces the result.
-void applyShaderChoice(ShaderPreset preset, ShaderQuality? quality) {
+void applyShaderChoice(SessionCoordinator coord, ShaderPreset preset, ShaderQuality? quality) {
   final s = AppSettings.instance;
   if (quality != null) s.setShaderQuality(quality);
   s.setShaderPreset(preset);
-  final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
   coord.markInput();
   coord.playback.applyShaders(announce: true);
 }
@@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ class ShaderPresetSetting extends StatelessWidget {
       final preset = s.shaderPreset.value;
       final quality = s.shaderQuality.value;
       final hasCustom = s.customShaders.value.isNotEmpty;
-      final mode = (renderMode ?? PlaybackController.lastRenderMode).value;
+      final mode = (renderMode ??
+              context.getInheritedWidgetOfExactType<AppScope>()?.graph.ports.players.renderMode)
+          ?.value;
       final warning = switch (mode) {
         RenderMode.software => 'Software rendering: shaders have no effect',
         RenderMode.softwareGl => 'OpenGL on the CPU: shaders will be slow',
@@ -242,7 +244,7 @@ class ShaderPresetSetting extends StatelessWidget {
                 for (final p in ShaderPreset.values)
                   if (p != ShaderPreset.custom || hasCustom || preset == p) (p, p.label),
               ],
-              onChanged: (p) => applyShaderChoice(p, null),
+              onChanged: (p) => applyShaderChoice(AppScope.of(context).coordinator, p, null),
             ),
             if (preset.isAnime4k) ...[
               const SizedBox(width: 8),
@@ -250,7 +252,7 @@ class ShaderPresetSetting extends StatelessWidget {
                 key: const ValueKey('shader-quality'),
                 value: quality,
                 items: [for (final q in ShaderQuality.values) (q, q.label)],
-                onChanged: (q) => applyShaderChoice(preset, q),
+                onChanged: (q) => applyShaderChoice(AppScope.of(context).coordinator, preset, q),
               ),
             ],
           ],
@@ -265,13 +267,12 @@ class ShaderPresetSetting extends StatelessWidget {
 
 /// Puts the hwdec setting on the running player (mpv switches decoders
 /// on the fly). `SYNC_RELAY_HWDEC` wins, as at player start.
-Future<void> applyHwdecLive() async {
+Future<void> applyHwdecLive(PlaybackController playback) async {
   if ((Platform.environment['SYNC_RELAY_HWDEC'] ?? '').isNotEmpty) return;
-  final playback = SessionState.instance.coordinator.playback;
+  final p = playback.current;
-  if (!playback.alive.peek()) return;
+  if (p == null) return;
   try {
-    final dynamic platform = playback.player.platform;
+    await p.setProperty('hwdec', AppSettings.instance.hwdec.peek());
-    await platform?.setProperty('hwdec', AppSettings.instance.hwdec.peek());
   } catch (e) {
     debugPrint('live hwdec failed: $e');
   }
@@ -308,7 +309,7 @@ class _HwdecSettingState extends State<HwdecSetting> {
           items: const [(HwdecMode.auto, 'Auto'), (HwdecMode.off, 'Off'), (HwdecMode.custom, 'Custom')],
           onChanged: (m) {
             _s.setHwdecMode(m);
-            applyHwdecLive();
+            applyHwdecLive(AppScope.of(context).coordinator.playback);
           },
         ),
         below: mode != HwdecMode.custom
@@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ class _HwdecSettingState extends State<HwdecSetting> {
                     border: OutlineInputBorder(),
                   ),
                   onChanged: _s.setHwdecCustom,
-                  onSubmitted: (_) => applyHwdecLive(),
+                  onSubmitted: (_) => applyHwdecLive(AppScope.of(context).coordinator.playback),
                 ),
               ),
       );
@@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ class TrackSetting extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+    final coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
     return SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
       final list = [
         for (final t in coord.playback.tracks.value)

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/standard/standard_controls.dart

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ class StandardControls extends StatelessWidget {
     return Row(
       children: [
         const Expanded(child: NowPlayingTitle()),
-        UpNextButton(queue: m.queue, onPlayNextEpisode: m.playNextEpisode, look: UpNextLook.standard, hold: hold),
+        UpNextButton(queue: m.queue, look: UpNextLook.standard, hold: hold),
         SignalBuilder(
           builder: (context) {
             final full = m.fullscreen.value;

apps/desktop/lib/src/files/name_parser.dart

@@ -1,196 +0,0 @@
-// Release file names -> series / season / episode, anitomy-style but small:
-// enough to group a downloads folder into shows. Unknown shapes fall back to
-// the cleaned name with no episode, never to a wrong number.
-
-/// What a release file name says.
-class ParsedName {
-  /// Title without group, season marker, episode, year or release tags.
-  final String series;
-  final int? season;
-  final int? episode;
-  /// Release group: leading `[Group]` or scene-style trailing `-GRP`.
-  final String? group;
-  /// Release year, taken out of [series] (movies, `Title (2019)`).
-  final int? year;
-  /// Non-episode marker (`NCOP1`, `NCED`, `OVA 2`, `Special`): such files
-  /// carry no [episode] so they never sort among the real ones.
-  final String? extra;
-
-  const ParsedName(
-    this.series, {
-    this.season,
-    this.episode,
-    this.group,
-    this.year,
-    this.extra,
-  });
-
-  /// `S01E03`, `E25`, the [extra] marker, `S02` for a season pack, else ''.
-  String get label {
-    final s = season == null ? '' : 'S${season.toString().padLeft(2, '0')}';
-    if (episode != null) return '${s}E${episode.toString().padLeft(2, '0')}';
-    return extra ?? s;
-  }
-
-  /// Grouping key: case, punctuation and spacing do not split a series.
-  String get seriesKey => normalizeSeries(series);
-
-  @override
-  String toString() => 'ParsedName($series, s=$season, e=$episode, '
-      'group=$group, year=$year, extra=$extra)';
-}
-
-/// Lowercase letters and digits of [s], single spaces between words.
-String normalizeSeries(String s) => s
-    .toLowerCase()
-    .replaceAll(RegExp(r"['’`]"), '')
-    .replaceAll(RegExp(r'[^\p{L}\p{N}]+', unicode: true), ' ')
-    .trim();
-
-// Release tags: the title ends where the first of these starts.
-final _junk = RegExp(
-  r'\b(?:2160p|1440p|1080[pi]|720p|576p|480p|4K|UHD|[xh]\.?26[45]|HEVC|AVC|'
-  r'AV1|VP9|WEB(?:-?DL|-?Rip)?|BD(?:Rip|Remux)?|Blu-?Ray|BRRip|DVD(?:Rip)?|'
-  r'HDTV|HDR(?:10)?|DV|REMUX|AAC(?:\d\.\d)?|FLAC|Opus|DTS(?:-HD)?|E?-?AC-?3|'
-  r'DDP?\d?|TrueHD|Atmos|10-?bit|8-?bit|Hi10P?|PROPER|REPACK|Dual[ -]Audio|'
-  r'Multi(?:ple)?[ -]Subs?(?:titles?)?|AMZN|NF|CR|DSNP|HMAX|ATVP|'
-  r'Batch|Complete)\b',
-  caseSensitive: false,
-);
-final _ext = RegExp(r'\.(?=[a-z0-9]*[a-z])[a-z0-9]{2,4}$', caseSensitive: false);
-final _leadingGroup = RegExp(r'^\s*\[([^\]]+)\]');
-final _sceneGroup = RegExp(r'-([A-Za-z0-9]+)$');
-final _bracketYear = RegExp(r'[(\[]((?:19|20)\d{2})[)\]]');
-final _brackets = RegExp(r'\[[^\]]*\]|\([^)]*\)|\{[^}]*\}|【[^】]*】');
-// S01E02, S01.E02, S1 E2; a batch `S01E01-E02` / `S01E01E02` keeps the first.
-final _sxe = RegExp(r'\bS(\d{1,2})[ .]?E(\d{1,4})(?:v\d)?(?!\d)',
-    caseSensitive: false);
-final _nxn = RegExp(r'\b(\d{1,2})x(\d{2,3})\b');
-// Anime: `Title - 25`, `- 03v2`, `- 01-02` (batch keeps the first).
-final _dashNumber = RegExp(r'\s[-–]\s(\d{1,4})(?:v\d)?(?=$|[\s\-~.])');
-final _episodeWord = RegExp(
-  r'\b(?:Episode|Ep\.?|E)\s?(\d{1,4})(?:v\d)?\b',
-  caseSensitive: false,
-);
-// Extras: unambiguous words anywhere, short ones only right after the dash.
-final _extraAnywhere = RegExp(
-  r'(?:^|\s)(NCOP|NCED|OVA|OAD|ONA)\s?(\d{1,2})?(?:v\d)?(?=$|\s)',
-  caseSensitive: false,
-);
-final _extraAfterDash = RegExp(
-  r'\s[-–]\s(OP|ED|SP|Specials?|Extras?|Recap|Preview|PV|Menu)\s?(\d{1,2})?'
-  r'(?:v\d)?(?=$|\s)',
-  caseSensitive: false,
-);
-final _seasonInTitle = RegExp(
-  r'\s(?:S(\d{1,2})|Season\s?(\d{1,2})|(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)\s+Season)\s*$',
-  caseSensitive: false,
-);
-final _trailingYear = RegExp(r'\s((?:19|20)\d{2})$');
-
-/// Parses a file name (with or without the extension, no directories).
-ParsedName parseReleaseName(String fileName) {
-  var s = fileName.replaceFirst(_ext, '').trim();
-  final original = s;
-  String? group = _leadingGroup.firstMatch(s)?.group(1)?.trim();
-  int? year;
-  final by = _bracketYear.firstMatch(s);
-  if (by != null) year = int.parse(by.group(1)!);
-  s = s.replaceAll(_brackets, ' ');
-
-  // Dots and underscores as separators (scene style), unless the name
-  // already has spaces and only the odd `Dr. Stone` dot.
-  final dotted = !s.contains(' ') || RegExp(r'\w\.\w').allMatches(s).length > 2;
-  if (dotted) {
-    // `...H264-GRP`, but not `...WEB-DL`.
-    final tags = _junk.allMatches(s);
-    if (group == null && tags.isNotEmpty && tags.last.end < s.length) {
-      final g = _sceneGroup.firstMatch(s);
-      if (g != null) {
-        group = g.group(1);
-        s = s.substring(0, g.start);
-      }
-    }
-    s = s.replaceAll('.', ' ');
-  }
-  s = s.replaceAll('_', ' ').replaceAll(RegExp(r'\s+'), ' ').trim();
-
-  // Release tags end the interesting part.
-  final junk = _junk.firstMatch(s);
-  if (junk != null && junk.start > 0) s = s.substring(0, junk.start).trim();
-
-  int? season, episode;
-  String? extra;
-  var cut = s.length;
-  final extraMatch =
-      _extraAfterDash.firstMatch(s) ?? _extraAnywhere.firstMatch(s);
-  final sxe = _sxe.firstMatch(s);
-  if (extraMatch != null) {
-    final word = extraMatch.group(1)!;
-    final upper = word.length <= 4 ? word.toUpperCase() : _title(word);
-    // `OVA - 02`: the number may follow the dash instead.
-    final n = extraMatch.group(2) ??
-        _dashNumber.firstMatch(s.substring(extraMatch.end))?.group(1);
-    extra = n == null
-        ? upper
-        : (upper.startsWith('NC') || upper.length <= 2)
-            ? '$upper${int.parse(n)}'
-            : '$upper ${int.parse(n)}';
-    cut = extraMatch.start;
-    if (sxe != null && sxe.start < cut) {
-      season = int.parse(sxe.group(1)!);
-      cut = sxe.start;
-    }
-  } else if (sxe != null) {
-    season = int.parse(sxe.group(1)!);
-    episode = int.parse(sxe.group(2)!);
-    cut = sxe.start;
-  } else {
-    final nxn = _nxn.firstMatch(s);
-    if (nxn != null) {
-      season = int.parse(nxn.group(1)!);
-      episode = int.parse(nxn.group(2)!);
-      cut = nxn.start;
-    } else {
-      final m = _dashNumber.firstMatch(s) ?? _episodeWord.firstMatch(s);
-      if (m != null) {
-        episode = int.parse(m.group(1)!);
-        cut = m.start;
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  var series = s.substring(0, cut);
-  // Season pack or season marker kept in the title: `Title S2`,
-  // `Title Season 2`, `Title 2nd Season`, `Title.S01.1080p`.
-  final sIn = _seasonInTitle.firstMatch(series);
-  if (sIn != null) {
-    season ??= int.parse(sIn.group(1) ?? sIn.group(2) ?? sIn.group(3)!);
-    series = series.substring(0, sIn.start);
-  }
-  series = series.replaceAll(RegExp(r'[\s\-–:,~]+$'), '').trim();
-  // A trailing year is the release year, unless it is the whole title or
-  // too far ahead to be one (`Blade Runner 2049`).
-  final ty = _trailingYear.firstMatch(series);
-  if (ty != null) {
-    final y = int.parse(ty.group(1)!);
-    if (y <= DateTime.now().year + 1) {
-      year ??= y;
-      series = series.substring(0, ty.start).trim();
-    }
-  }
-  series = series.replaceAll(RegExp(r'[\s\-–:,~]+$'), '').trim();
-  if (series.isEmpty) {
-    series = original.replaceAll(RegExp(r'[._]+'), ' ').trim();
-  }
-  return ParsedName(
-    series,
-    season: season,
-    episode: episode,
-    group: group,
-    year: year,
-    extra: extra,
-  );
-}
-
-String _title(String w) => w[0].toUpperCase() + w.substring(1).toLowerCase();

apps/desktop/lib/src/files/scanner.dart

@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 import 'dart:io';
 import 'dart:isolate';
 
-import 'name_parser.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
-// Folder scan for the Files source: videos with their parsed names,
+export 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show FileKind, LocalFile, kindOf, subtitleExtensions, videoExtensions;
-// sidecar subtitles, everything else counted and hidden. The walk is
-// synchronous I/O, so it runs in its own isolate.
 
-const videoExtensions = {
+// Folder scan for the Files source: the videos (grouped into shows by
-  'mkv', 'mp4', 'webm', 'avi', 'mov', 'm4v', 'ts', 'm2ts', 'wmv', 'flv', //
+// core's `groupLocal`, L1), sidecar subtitles, everything else counted
-};
+// and hidden. The walk is synchronous I/O, so it runs in its own isolate.
-const subtitleExtensions = {'ass', 'ssa', 'srt', 'vtt', 'sup'};
 
 /// Files looked at per scan; past this the result is [FolderScan.truncated].
 const maxScannedFiles = 20000;
@@ -18,27 +15,8 @@ const maxScannedFiles = 20000;
 /// Samples and trailers under this size are hidden next to the real thing.
 const _sampleMaxBytes = 300 << 20;
 
-enum FileKind { video, subtitle, other }
-
-FileKind kindOf(String path) {
-  final ext = _extension(_baseName(path));
-  if (videoExtensions.contains(ext)) return FileKind.video;
-  if (subtitleExtensions.contains(ext)) return FileKind.subtitle;
-  return FileKind.other;
-}
-
-class VideoFile {
-  final String path;
-  final int size;
-  final ParsedName parsed;
-  final DateTime modified;
-  const VideoFile(this.path, this.size, this.parsed, this.modified);
-
-  String get name => _baseName(path);
-}
-
 class FolderScan {
-  final List<VideoFile> videos;
+  final List<LocalFile> videos;
   /// Non-video files and samples (subtitles and dot-entries not counted).
   final int hiddenCount;
   /// Up to 6 of the hidden file names, for "and N other files" hints.
@@ -75,7 +53,7 @@ Future<FolderScan> scanFolder(String dir, {int maxFiles = maxScannedFiles}) =>
 
 /// The walk behind [scanFolder]; blocks, so call it from an isolate.
 FolderScan scanFolderSync(String dir, {int maxFiles = maxScannedFiles}) {
-  final videos = <VideoFile>[];
+  final videos = <LocalFile>[];
   final subs = <String>[];
   final examples = <String>[];
   var hidden = 0, seen = 0;
@@ -123,8 +101,7 @@ FolderScan scanFolderSync(String dir, {int maxFiles = maxScannedFiles}) {
         if (examples.length < 6) examples.add(name);
         continue;
       }
-      videos.add(VideoFile(e.path, size, parseReleaseName(name),
+      videos.add(LocalFile(e.path, size, stat?.modified ?? DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(0)));
-          stat?.modified ?? DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(0)));
     }
   }
   return FolderScan(
@@ -138,7 +115,7 @@ FolderScan scanFolderSync(String dir, {int maxFiles = maxScannedFiles}) {
 
 /// Subtitles in the same folder whose name is the video's base name,
 /// optionally followed by `.lang` / `.forced` style suffixes.
-Map<String, List<String>> _sidecars(List<VideoFile> videos, List<String> subs) {
+Map<String, List<String>> _sidecars(List<LocalFile> videos, List<String> subs) {
   final byStem = <String, List<String>>{};
   for (final s in subs) {
     final stem = _stripExtension(s);
@@ -163,93 +140,11 @@ Map<String, List<String>> _sidecars(List<VideoFile> videos, List<String> subs) {
   };
 }
 
-/// One show: its episodes in season/episode order plus its extras
-/// (NCOP, OVA...) in name order.
-class SeriesGroup {
-  /// Display title: the most common spelling among the files.
-  final String title;
-  final String key;
-  final List<VideoFile> episodes;
-  final List<VideoFile> extras;
-  const SeriesGroup(this.title, this.key, this.episodes, this.extras);
-
-  /// Distinct seasons, ascending; files without one count as season 1.
-  List<int> get seasons =>
-      ({for (final e in episodes) e.parsed.season ?? 1}.toList()..sort());
-}
-
-/// [groupBySeries] result: shows, and videos that are not episodes.
-class GroupedVideos {
-  final List<SeriesGroup> series;
-  final List<VideoFile> loose;
-  const GroupedVideos(this.series, this.loose);
-}
-
-/// Groups videos with an episode number (or an extra marker) by
-/// [ParsedName.seriesKey]; the rest (movies, clips) stay loose, by name.
-/// An extra whose series has no episodes in the list is loose too.
-GroupedVideos groupBySeries(Iterable<VideoFile> videos) {
-  final episodes = <String, List<VideoFile>>{};
-  final extras = <String, List<VideoFile>>{};
-  final loose = <VideoFile>[];
-  for (final v in videos) {
-    final p = v.parsed;
-    final key = p.seriesKey;
-    if (p.episode != null && key.isNotEmpty) {
-      episodes.putIfAbsent(key, () => []).add(v);
-    } else if (p.extra != null && key.isNotEmpty) {
-      extras.putIfAbsent(key, () => []).add(v);
-    } else {
-      loose.add(v);
-    }
-  }
-  for (final e in extras.entries) {
-    if (!episodes.containsKey(e.key)) loose.addAll(e.value);
-  }
-  int byName(VideoFile a, VideoFile b) =>
-      a.name.toLowerCase().compareTo(b.name.toLowerCase());
-  final groups = [
-    for (final e in episodes.entries)
-      SeriesGroup(
-        _commonTitle(e.value),
-        e.key,
-        e.value..sort(_byEpisode),
-        (extras[e.key] ?? [])..sort(byName),
-      ),
-  ]..sort((a, b) => a.title.toLowerCase().compareTo(b.title.toLowerCase()));
-  return GroupedVideos(groups, loose..sort(byName));
-}
-
-int _byEpisode(VideoFile a, VideoFile b) {
-  final pa = a.parsed, pb = b.parsed;
-  final s = (pa.season ?? 1).compareTo(pb.season ?? 1);
-  if (s != 0) return s;
-  final e = pa.episode!.compareTo(pb.episode!);
-  if (e != 0) return e;
-  // Same episode twice (v2, another group): newest release first.
-  return b.name.compareTo(a.name);
-}
-
-String _commonTitle(List<VideoFile> files) {
-  final counts = <String, int>{};
-  for (final f in files) {
-    counts.update(f.parsed.series, (n) => n + 1, ifAbsent: () => 1);
-  }
-  return counts.entries
-      .reduce((a, b) => b.value > a.value ? b : a)
-      .key;
-}
-
 String _baseName(String path) {
   final i = path.lastIndexOf(RegExp(r'[/\\]'));
   return i < 0 ? path : path.substring(i + 1);
 }
 
-String _extension(String name) {
-  final dot = name.lastIndexOf('.');
-  return dot <= 0 ? '' : name.substring(dot + 1).toLowerCase();
-}
-
 String _stripExtension(String path) {
   final dot = path.lastIndexOf('.');
   final sep = path.lastIndexOf(RegExp(r'[/\\]'));

apps/desktop/lib/src/files/thumbnails.dart

@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ import 'dart:io';
 
 import 'package:crypto/crypto.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
-import 'package:media_kit/media_kit.dart';
 import 'package:path_provider/path_provider.dart';
 
+import '../platform/desktop/media_kit_host.dart' show MediaKitHost;
+import '../platform/ports/player_host.dart';
+
 // Poster frames for the Files source, made by mpv itself (no ffmpeg on
 // users' machines; Windows ships only libmpv). A hidden player per file
 // with `vo=null`: mpv still keeps the last decoded frame, so
@@ -23,6 +25,9 @@ class Thumbnail {
 
 const thumbnailWidth = 480;
 
+/// The players thumbnails are made with (the app's host, set in `main`).
+PlayerHost thumbnailPlayers = MediaKitHost()..init();
+
 /// Where thumbnails are cached; swapped in tests.
 Future<Directory> Function() thumbnailCacheRoot = getApplicationCacheDirectory;
 
@@ -33,7 +38,7 @@ const _timeout = Duration(seconds: 20);
 int _running = 0;
 final _waiting = <Completer<void>>[];
 final _inFlight = <String, Future<Thumbnail?>>{};
-final _players = <Player>{};
+final _players = <HostedPlayer>{};
 bool _closed = false;
 
 /// App close: no new thumbnails, running ones stop at their next check
@@ -49,7 +54,7 @@ Future<void> cancelAllThumbnails({
   for (final p in _players.toList()) {
     _players.remove(p);
     try {
-      await p.dispose().timeout(deadline);
+      await thumbnailPlayers.dispose(p).timeout(deadline);
     } catch (_) {}
   }
 }
@@ -147,19 +152,10 @@ Future<Thumbnail?> _generate(
   String out,
   bool Function() cancelled,
 ) async {
-  final player = Player(
+  final player = await thumbnailPlayers.create(PlayerRole.thumbnail);
-    configuration: const PlayerConfiguration(
-      vo: 'null',
-      muted: true,
-      osc: false,
-      libass: false,
-      title: 'thumbnail',
-      bufferSize: 4 << 20,
-    ),
-  );
   _players.add(player);
   try {
-    final mpv = player.platform as NativePlayer;
+    final mpv = player;
     for (final (k, v) in [
       ('ao', 'null'),
       ('aid', 'no'),
@@ -176,7 +172,7 @@ Future<Thumbnail?> _generate(
     ]) {
       await mpv.setProperty(k, v);
     }
-    await player.open(Media(path), play: false);
+    await player.open(path);
     final target = File(out);
     final deadline = DateTime.now().add(_timeout);
     while (DateTime.now().isBefore(deadline)) {
@@ -199,6 +195,6 @@ Future<Thumbnail?> _generate(
     return null;
   } finally {
     // [cancelAllThumbnails] may have taken it already.
-    if (_players.remove(player)) await player.dispose();
+    if (_players.remove(player)) await thumbnailPlayers.dispose(player);
   }
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/files/ui/file_tiles.dart

@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ import 'dart:io';
 
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
 import '../../shell/avatar.dart';
-import '../name_parser.dart';
-import '../scanner.dart';
 import 'thumb.dart';
 
-// The Files page's rows and cards: a series header, an episode row (also
+// The Files page's rows and cards: an episode row (also used for Recent),
-// used for Recent), a loose-video card, and the empty states.
+// a loose-video card, and the empty states.
 
 /// What a play control is doing right now.
 enum PlayState { idle, starting, playing }
@@ -25,76 +25,8 @@ String parentName(String path) => baseName(File(path).parent.path);
 /// Cleaned title of a loose video: `Title (2019)`.
 String cleanTitle(ParsedName p) => p.year == null ? p.series : '${p.series} (${p.year})';
 
-class SeriesHeader extends StatelessWidget {
+/// One file as a row: an episode on a show's page, or a Recent entry
-  final SeriesGroup group;
+/// ([indent] off).
-  final ThumbCache thumbs;
-  /// Its episodes are listed below; [onTap] opens or closes them.
-  final bool expanded;
-  final VoidCallback? onTap;
-  const SeriesHeader(
-      {super.key, required this.group, required this.thumbs, this.expanded = true, this.onTap});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
-    final first = group.episodes.first;
-    final n = group.episodes.length;
-    final extras = group.extras.length;
-    final detail = [
-      '$n ${n == 1 ? 'episode' : 'episodes'}',
-      if (extras > 0) '$extras ${extras == 1 ? 'extra' : 'extras'}',
-      ?first.parsed.group,
-    ].join(' · ');
-    return Padding(
-      padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 14),
-      child: InkWell(
-        onTap: onTap,
-        borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
-        child: Padding(
-          padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 4),
-          child: Row(
-            children: [
-              ClipRRect(
-                borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8),
-                child: ThumbBuilder(
-                  cache: thumbs,
-                  path: first.path,
-                  builder: (context, t, _) => ThumbImage(t, width: 96, height: 54),
-                ),
-              ),
-              const SizedBox(width: 12),
-              Expanded(
-                child: Column(
-                  crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
-                  children: [
-                    Text(group.title,
-                        maxLines: 1,
-                        overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                        style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.titleMedium),
-                    Text(detail,
-                        maxLines: 1,
-                        overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                        style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12)),
-                  ],
-                ),
-              ),
-              if (onTap != null)
-                AnimatedRotation(
-                  turns: expanded ? 0.5 : 0,
-                  duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 200),
-                  child: Icon(Icons.expand_more, color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant),
-                ),
-              const SizedBox(width: 8),
-            ],
-          ),
-        ),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// One file as a row: an episode under its series header, or a Recent
-/// entry ([title] given, [indent] off).
 class FileRow extends StatelessWidget {
   final String path;
   final String title;
@@ -207,7 +139,7 @@ const videoCardTextHeight = 66.0;
 /// A loose video (movie, clip): 16:9 frame with its duration, then the
 /// cleaned title and size.
 class VideoCard extends StatelessWidget {
-  final VideoFile video;
+  final LocalEpisode video;
   final PlayState state;
   final ThumbCache thumbs;
   final VoidCallback? onTap;
@@ -281,7 +213,7 @@ class VideoCard extends StatelessWidget {
                   ),
                 ),
               ),
-              Text(formatSize(video.size),
+              Text(formatSize(video.file.size),
                   style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12)),
             ],
           ),

apps/desktop/lib/src/files/ui/files_page.dart

@@ -3,57 +3,63 @@ import 'dart:io';
 
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
+import '../../library/show_matcher.dart';
 import '../../shell/motion.dart';
 import '../../platform/ports/folder_access.dart';
-import '../../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../../app/app_graph.dart';
+import '../../watch/watch_history.dart';
 import '../../widgets/app_menu.dart';
 import '../folder_store.dart';
-import '../name_parser.dart';
 import '../scanner.dart';
 import 'file_tiles.dart';
+import 'library_view.dart';
 import 'thumb.dart';
 
 export 'thumb.dart' show ThumbnailLoader;
 
-// The Files source: watched folders on the left (chips on top when
+// The Files source as a library: the watched folders on the left (chips
-// narrow), the open one on the right grouped into series and loose
+// on top when narrow): the Library (every folder together), Recent, then
-// videos, or Recent. A folder is scanned when first opened and on Rescan;
+// each folder. A library is shows and movies as poster cards, grouped by
-// scans are kept for the app session. Series start collapsed; the ones
+// the library's L1 and named by its L2 match, plus the videos that are
-// opened stay open for the app session. Playing goes through [onPlay].
+// neither; a show opens its own page. Folders are scanned when first
+// needed and on Rescan; scans, the open place and the open show are kept
+// for the app session. Playing goes through [onPlay].
 
 /// Below this width the sidebar turns into chips above the list.
 const filesNarrowWidth = 700.0;
 
+/// The place that shows every watched folder together.
+const libraryPlace = '\u0000library';
+
 /// Scans kept for the app session, by folder.
 final _scans = <String, FolderScan>{};
 final _running = <String, Future<FolderScan>>{};
-String? _lastOpen;
+String? _lastOpen = libraryPlace;
-/// Series opened this session, by `folder\nseries key`.
+/// The show open in each place (by show key) for the app session.
-final _expanded = <String>{};
+final _openShows = <String, String>{};
 final _showRequests = ValueNotifier(0);
 
-FolderAccess get _folders => SessionState.instance.ports.folders;
+/// Opens [dir] (null: Recent; [libraryPlace]: the library) in the Files
-
+/// page: now if one is showing, else when it next opens.
-/// Opens [dir] (null: Recent) in the Files page: now if one is showing,
-/// else when it next opens.
 void showFilesFolder(String? dir) {
   _lastOpen = dir;
   _showRequests.value++;
 }
 
-/// Forgets the session's scans, open series and the open folder.
+/// Forgets the session's scans, open shows and the open place.
 @visibleForTesting
 void resetFilesPageSession() {
   _scans.clear();
   _running.clear();
-  _expanded.clear();
+  _openShows.clear();
-  _lastOpen = null;
+  _lastOpen = libraryPlace;
 }
 
 class FilesPage extends StatefulWidget {
-  /// Nobody else watches (offline or solo): no relay notice.
+  /// Nobody else is in the server: no relay notice.
-  final bool solo;
+  final bool alone;
   /// The file will stream from this computer through the server.
   final bool relayed;
   /// Plays [path] in the session; returns an error text, or null.
@@ -67,13 +73,15 @@ class FilesPage extends StatefulWidget {
   final Future<FolderScan> Function(String dir)? scan;
   /// Defaults to [FolderStore.instance].
   final FolderStore? store;
+  /// Defaults to the app's (`AppGraph.library`).
+  final ShowMatcher? matcher;
   /// Default: the system folder / file dialogs.
   final Future<String?> Function()? pickFolder;
   final Future<String?> Function()? pickVideo;
 
   const FilesPage({
     super.key,
-    this.solo = false,
+    this.alone = false,
     required this.relayed,
     required this.onPlay,
     this.onAddToQueue,
@@ -81,6 +89,7 @@ class FilesPage extends StatefulWidget {
     this.thumbnails,
     this.scan,
     this.store,
+    this.matcher,
     this.pickFolder,
     this.pickVideo,
   });
@@ -89,50 +98,57 @@ class FilesPage extends StatefulWidget {
   State<FilesPage> createState() => _FilesPageState();
 }
 
-/// A scan grouped for display, made once per scan.
+/// A place's scans grouped (L1), made once per set of scans.
 class _Library {
-  final GroupedVideos grouped;
+  final List<FolderScan> scans;
-  final int subtitleFiles;
+  final LocalLibrary lib;
+  final Map<String, LocalEpisode> byPath;
 
-  _Library(FolderScan scan)
+  _Library(this.scans, List<String> roots)
-      : grouped = groupBySeries(scan.videos),
+      : lib = groupLocal([for (final s in scans) ...s.videos], roots: roots),
-        subtitleFiles = {for (final l in scan.subtitles.values) ...l}.length;
+        byPath = {} {
+    for (final e in lib.files) {
+      byPath[e.path] = e;
+    }
+  }
 
-  /// Series rows in order: a header (video null), then, for the series
+  int get videos => scans.fold(0, (n, s) => n + s.videos.length);
-  /// [open] says, its episodes and extras.
+  int get hidden => scans.fold(0, (n, s) => n + s.hiddenCount);
-  List<(SeriesGroup, VideoFile?)> rows(bool Function(SeriesGroup g) open) => [
+  int get subtitleFiles => {
-        for (final g in grouped.series) ...[
+        for (final s in scans)
-          (g, null),
+          for (final l in s.subtitles.values) ...l
-          if (open(g))
+      }.length;
-            for (final v in [...g.episodes, ...g.extras]) (g, v),
+  bool get truncated => scans.any((s) => s.truncated);
-        ],
-      ];
 }
 
-final _libraries = Expando<_Library>();
-
 class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
+  FolderAccess get _folders => AppScope.of(context).ports.folders;
+  ShowMatcher get _matcher => widget.matcher ?? AppScope.of(context).library;
+
   late final ThumbCache _thumbs =
       widget.thumbnails == null ? ThumbCache.shared : ThumbCache(widget.thumbnails!);
   FolderStore get _store => widget.store ?? FolderStore.instance;
+  WatchHistory get _history => AppScope.of(context).watch.history;
 
-  /// Null: Recent.
+  /// Null: Recent; [libraryPlace]: every folder.
   String? _open = _lastOpen;
   bool _showHidden = false;
   String? _starting;
   String? _error;
+  final _libs = <String, _Library>{};
 
   @override
   void initState() {
     super.initState();
     _showRequests.addListener(_shown);
+    unawaited(_matcher.ensureLoaded());
     _store.ensureLoaded().then((_) {
       if (!mounted) return;
       final open = _open;
-      if (open != null && !_store.folders.value.contains(open)) {
+      if (open != null && open != libraryPlace && !_store.folders.value.contains(open)) {
-        _select(null);
+        _select(libraryPlace);
-      } else if (open != null) {
+      } else {
-        _scan(open);
+        _scanFor(open);
       }
     });
   }
@@ -147,19 +163,32 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
 
   Future<FolderScan> _runScan(String dir) => (widget.scan ?? _folders.scan)(dir);
 
-  void _select(String? dir) {
+  /// The folders a place needs scanned.
+  List<String> _foldersOf(String? place) => place == null
+      ? const []
+      : place == libraryPlace
+          ? _store.folders.peek()
+          : [place];
+
+  void _scanFor(String? place) {
+    for (final f in _foldersOf(place)) {
+      if (!_scans.containsKey(f) && !_running.containsKey(f)) _scan(f);
+    }
+  }
+
+  void _select(String? place) {
     setState(() {
-      _open = _lastOpen = dir;
+      _open = _lastOpen = place;
       _showHidden = false;
     });
-    if (dir != null && !_scans.containsKey(dir)) _scan(dir);
+    _scanFor(place);
   }
 
   Future<void> _scan(String dir, {bool rescan = false}) async {
     var f = _running[dir];
     if (f == null || rescan) {
       f = _running[dir] = _runScan(dir);
-      if (rescan) _thumbs.forget([for (final v in _scans[dir]?.videos ?? const <VideoFile>[]) v.path]);
+      if (rescan) _thumbs.forget([for (final v in _scans[dir]?.videos ?? const <LocalFile>[]) v.path]);
     }
     if (mounted) setState(() {});
     FolderScan result;
@@ -175,6 +204,26 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
     if (mounted) setState(() {});
   }
 
+  /// The grouped library of [place], once its folders are scanned (the
+  /// library: those scanned so far).
+  _Library? _libraryOf(String place) {
+    final folders = _foldersOf(place);
+    final scans = [for (final f in folders) ?_scans[f]];
+    if (place != libraryPlace && scans.isEmpty) return null;
+    final known = _libs[place];
+    if (known != null && known.scans.length == scans.length && _same(known.scans, scans)) return known;
+    final lib = _libs[place] = _Library(scans, folders);
+    _matcher.remember(lib.lib);
+    return lib;
+  }
+
+  static bool _same(List<FolderScan> a, List<FolderScan> b) {
+    for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
+      if (!identical(a[i], b[i])) return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
   Future<void> _addFolder() async {
     String? dir;
     try {
@@ -198,7 +247,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
     if (path != null && mounted) await _play(path);
   }
 
-  static Future<String?> _pickVideo() async {
+  Future<String?> _pickVideo() async {
     final files = await _folders.pickFiles(dialogTitle: 'Pick a video', extensions: videoExtensions.toList());
     return files.firstOrNull;
   }
@@ -206,7 +255,8 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
   void _removeFolder(String dir) {
     _store.removeFolder(dir);
     _scans.remove(dir);
-    if (_open == dir) _select(null);
+    if (_open == dir) _select(libraryPlace);
+    setState(() {});
   }
 
   Future<void> _play(String path) async {
@@ -247,7 +297,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
     final add = widget.onAddToQueue;
     if (add == null) return;
     final pick = await showAppMenu<int>(context, items: [
-      AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: widget.solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
+      AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: widget.alone ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
       const AppMenuItem(value: 1, label: 'Add to queue'),
       const AppMenuItem(value: 2, label: 'Play next'),
     ]);
@@ -270,6 +320,29 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
           child: Builder(
               builder: (context) => GestureDetector(onSecondaryTap: () => _menu(context, path), child: child)));
 
+  late final _actions = FilesActions(
+    play: (p) => unawaited(_play(p)),
+    stateOf: _stateOf,
+    menuable: _menuable,
+    thumbs: _thumbs,
+  );
+
+  /// The last episode of [show] watched here (the watch history: the
+  /// newest one watched to the end), else the last one opened (Recent), by
+  /// key.
+  String? _lastPlayed(_Library lib, LocalShow show) {
+    for (final (key, entry) in _history.entries) {
+      if (!entry.played || !key.value.startsWith('file:')) continue;
+      final e = lib.byPath[key.value.substring(5)];
+      if (e != null && e.showKey == show.key && e.kind == LocalKind.episode) return e.key;
+    }
+    for (final p in _store.recent.value) {
+      final e = lib.byPath[p];
+      if (e != null && e.showKey == show.key && e.kind == LocalKind.episode) return e.key;
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) => LayoutBuilder(
         builder: (context, box) {
@@ -277,11 +350,14 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
           return SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
             final folders = _store.folders.value;
             final recent = _store.recent.value;
-            final open = _open != null && folders.contains(_open) ? _open : null;
+            _matcher.revision.value;
+            _history.revision.value;
+            final open = _open == null || _open == libraryPlace || folders.contains(_open) ? _open : libraryPlace;
+            final showKey = open == null ? null : _openShows[open];
             final main = fadeThrough(
               KeyedSubtree(
-                key: ValueKey(open ?? ''),
+                key: ValueKey('${open ?? ''}\n${showKey ?? ''}'),
-                child: _main(context, narrow, folders, recent, open),
+                child: _main(context, narrow, folders, recent, open, showKey),
               ),
             );
             if (narrow) return main;
@@ -301,12 +377,23 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
   Widget _sidebar(BuildContext context, List<String> folders, String? open) {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
     final shape = RoundedRectangleBorder(borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10));
+    Widget? status(String? s) =>
+        s == null ? null : Text(s, style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 11));
     return ListView(
       padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(20, 20, 8, 20),
       children: [
-        const Text('Folders', style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
-        const SizedBox(height: 8),
         ListTile(
+          key: const ValueKey('place:library'),
+          dense: true,
+          selected: open == libraryPlace,
+          shape: shape,
+          leading: const Icon(Icons.video_library_outlined, size: 18),
+          title: const Text('Library'),
+          subtitle: status(_libraryStatus(folders)),
+          onTap: () => _select(libraryPlace),
+        ),
+        ListTile(
+          key: const ValueKey('place:recent'),
           dense: true,
           selected: open == null,
           shape: shape,
@@ -314,6 +401,9 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
           title: const Text('Recent'),
           onTap: () => _select(null),
         ),
+        const SizedBox(height: 12),
+        const Text('Folders', style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
+        const SizedBox(height: 8),
         for (final f in folders)
           ListTile(
             key: ValueKey('folder:$f'),
@@ -322,10 +412,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
             shape: shape,
             leading: const Icon(Icons.folder_outlined, size: 18),
             title: Text(baseName(f), maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis),
-            subtitle: switch (_folderStatus(f)) {
+            subtitle: status(_folderStatus(f)),
-              final s? => Text(s, style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 11)),
-              null => null,
-            },
             trailing: IconButton(
               tooltip: 'Remove folder',
               icon: const Icon(Icons.close, size: 16),
@@ -363,19 +450,15 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
     return n == null ? null : '$n ${n == 1 ? 'video' : 'videos'}';
   }
 
-  Widget _main(
+  String? _libraryStatus(List<String> folders) {
-    BuildContext context,
+    if (folders.any(_running.containsKey)) return 'scanning…';
-    bool narrow,
+    if (folders.isEmpty || folders.any((f) => !_scans.containsKey(f))) return null;
-    List<String> folders,
+    final n = _libraryOf(libraryPlace)?.lib.shows.length ?? 0;
-    List<String> recent,
+    return '$n ${n == 1 ? 'show' : 'shows'}';
-    String? open,
+  }
-  ) {
+
-    final scan = open == null ? null : _scans[open];
+  List<Widget> _notices() => [
-    final scanning = open != null && _running.containsKey(open);
+        if (!widget.alone && widget.relayed) const _RelayNotice(),
-    final top = <Widget>[
-      _header(context, open),
-      if (narrow) _chips(folders, open),
-      if (!widget.solo && widget.relayed) const _RelayNotice(),
         AnimatedSize(
           duration: easeTime,
           curve: ease,
@@ -385,11 +468,59 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
               : _ErrorBanner(_error!, onClose: () => setState(() => _error = null)),
         ),
       ];
+
+  Widget _main(
+    BuildContext context,
+    bool narrow,
+    List<String> folders,
+    List<String> recent,
+    String? open,
+    String? showKey,
+  ) {
+    final lib = open == null ? null : _libraryOf(open);
+    final show = showKey == null ? null : lib?.lib.show(showKey);
+    if (open != null && lib != null && show != null) {
+      return ShowPage(
+        key: ValueKey('show:$open:${show.key}'),
+        show: show,
+        matcher: _matcher,
+        actions: _actions,
+        lastPlayed: _lastPlayed(lib, show),
+        backLabel: open == libraryPlace ? 'Library' : baseName(open),
+        onBack: () => setState(() => _openShows.remove(open)),
+        top: [if (narrow) _chips(folders, open), ..._notices()],
+      );
+    }
+    final scanning = _foldersOf(open).any(_running.containsKey);
+    // A folder added elsewhere (a drop, the handoff) joins the library.
+    if (open == libraryPlace && folders.any((f) => !_scans.containsKey(f) && !_running.containsKey(f))) {
+      scheduleMicrotask(() {
+        if (mounted) _scanFor(libraryPlace);
+      });
+    }
+    final top = <Widget>[
+      _header(context, open),
+      if (narrow) _chips(folders, open),
+      ..._notices(),
+    ];
     final slivers = <Widget>[
       SliverList.list(children: top),
       if (open == null)
         ..._recent(context, recent)
-      else if (scan == null)
+      else if (open == libraryPlace && folders.isEmpty)
+        SliverToBoxAdapter(
+          child: FilesEmpty(
+            Icons.video_library_outlined,
+            'Your library is empty',
+            'Add a folder with your videos: shows, seasons and movies are found by their names.',
+            action: FilledButton.icon(
+              onPressed: _addFolder,
+              icon: const Icon(Icons.create_new_folder_outlined),
+              label: const Text('Add folder'),
+            ),
+          ),
+        )
+      else if (lib == null)
         const SliverToBoxAdapter(
           child: Padding(
             padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 60),
@@ -397,7 +528,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
           ),
         )
       else
-        ..._folder(context, open, scan, scanning),
+        ..._library(context, open, lib, scanning),
     ];
     return CustomScrollView(
       slivers: [
@@ -411,25 +542,30 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
 
   Widget _header(BuildContext context, String? open) {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
+    final (icon, title, sub) = switch (open) {
+      null => (Icons.history, 'Recent', null),
+      libraryPlace => (Icons.video_library, 'Library', null),
+      final dir => (Icons.folder, baseName(dir), dir),
+    };
     return Padding(
       padding: const EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 14),
       child: Row(
         children: [
-          Icon(open == null ? Icons.history : Icons.folder, color: scheme.primary),
+          Icon(icon, color: scheme.primary),
           const SizedBox(width: 10),
           Expanded(
             child: Column(
               crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
               children: [
                 Text(
-                  open == null ? 'Recent' : baseName(open),
+                  title,
                   maxLines: 1,
                   overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
                   style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.headlineSmall,
                 ),
-                if (open != null)
+                if (sub != null)
                   Text(
-                    open,
+                    sub,
                     maxLines: 1,
                     overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
                     style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12),
@@ -448,6 +584,11 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
           spacing: 8,
           runSpacing: 8,
           children: [
+            ChoiceChip(
+              label: const Text('Library'),
+              selected: open == libraryPlace,
+              onSelected: (_) => _select(libraryPlace),
+            ),
             ChoiceChip(
               label: const Text('Recent'),
               selected: open == null,
@@ -505,6 +646,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
               _RecentRow(
                 key: ValueKey(path),
                 path: path,
+                matcher: _matcher,
                 state: _stateOf(path),
                 thumbs: _thumbs,
                 onTap: _tapOf(path),
@@ -515,21 +657,32 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
     ];
   }
 
-  List<Widget> _folder(BuildContext context, String dir, FolderScan scan, bool scanning) {
+  Widget _section(BuildContext context, String title, {String? count}) => Padding(
+        padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 22, bottom: 10),
+        child: Row(children: [
+          Text(title, style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.titleMedium),
+          if (count != null) ...[
+            const SizedBox(width: 8),
+            Text(count, style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: Colors.grey)),
+          ],
+        ]),
+      );
+
+  List<Widget> _library(BuildContext context, String place, _Library lib, bool scanning) {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
-    final lib = _libraries[scan] ??= _Library(scan);
+    final l = lib.lib;
-    final series = lib.grouped.series.length;
+    final folderScan = place == libraryPlace ? null : _scans[place];
     String count(int n, String one, String many) => '$n ${n == 1 ? one : many}';
     final summary = [
-      count(scan.videos.length, 'video', 'videos') + (series > 0 ? ' in $series series' : ''),
+      count(lib.videos, 'video', 'videos') +
-      if (scan.hiddenCount > 0)
+          (l.shows.isEmpty ? '' : ' in ${count(l.shows.length, 'show', 'shows')}'),
-        '${count(scan.hiddenCount, 'other file', 'other files')} hidden',
+      if (lib.hidden > 0) '${count(lib.hidden, 'other file', 'other files')} hidden',
       if (lib.subtitleFiles > 0) count(lib.subtitleFiles, 'subtitle file', 'subtitle files'),
-      if (scan.truncated) 'stopped after $maxScannedFiles files',
+      if (lib.truncated) 'stopped after $maxScannedFiles files',
     ].join(' · ');
-    final loose = lib.grouped.loose;
+    final folders = _foldersOf(place);
-    String seriesId(SeriesGroup g) => '$dir\n${g.key}';
+    final movies = l.movies;
-    final rows = lib.rows((g) => _expanded.contains(seriesId(g)));
+    final other = l.other;
     return [
       SliverToBoxAdapter(
         child: Wrap(
@@ -538,7 +691,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
             Icon(Icons.filter_alt_outlined, size: 16, color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant),
             const SizedBox(width: 6),
             Text(summary, style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12)),
-            if (scan.hiddenCount > 0) ...[
+            if (folderScan != null && folderScan.hiddenCount > 0) ...[
               const SizedBox(width: 8),
               TextButton(
                 onPressed: () => setState(() => _showHidden = !_showHidden),
@@ -546,16 +699,22 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
               ),
             ],
             TextButton.icon(
-              onPressed: scanning ? null : () => _scan(dir, rescan: true),
+              onPressed: scanning
+                  ? null
+                  : () {
+                      for (final f in folders) {
+                        _scan(f, rescan: true);
+                      }
+                    },
               icon: scanning
-                  ? const SizedBox.square(
+                  ? const SizedBox.square(dimension: 14, child: CircularProgressIndicator(strokeWidth: 2))
-                      dimension: 14, child: CircularProgressIndicator(strokeWidth: 2))
                   : const Icon(Icons.refresh, size: 16),
               label: Text(scanning ? 'Scanning…' : 'Rescan'),
             ),
           ],
         ),
       ),
+      if (folderScan != null)
         SliverToBoxAdapter(
           child: AnimatedSize(
             duration: easeTime,
@@ -565,7 +724,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
                 ? const SizedBox(width: double.infinity)
                 : Column(
                     children: [
-                    for (final f in scan.hiddenExamples)
+                      for (final f in folderScan.hiddenExamples)
                         ListTile(
                           dense: true,
                           enabled: false,
@@ -576,19 +735,19 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
                             style: const TextStyle(fontSize: 12),
                           ),
                         ),
-                    if (scan.hiddenCount > scan.hiddenExamples.length)
+                      if (folderScan.hiddenCount > folderScan.hiddenExamples.length)
                         ListTile(
                           dense: true,
                           enabled: false,
-                        title: Text('and ${scan.hiddenCount - scan.hiddenExamples.length} more'),
+                          title: Text('and ${folderScan.hiddenCount - folderScan.hiddenExamples.length} more'),
                         ),
                     ],
                   ),
           ),
         ),
-      if (scan.videos.isEmpty)
+      if (lib.videos == 0)
         SliverToBoxAdapter(
-          child: _folders.folderExists(dir)
+          child: place == libraryPlace || _folders.folderExists(place)
               ? const FilesEmpty(
                   Icons.search_off,
                   'No videos here',
@@ -600,46 +759,25 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
                   'It may have been moved, renamed or be on a drive that is not connected.',
                 ),
         ),
-      // Series: files whose names carry an episode number; a header
+      if (l.shows.isNotEmpty) ...[
-      // click opens or closes its episodes.
+        SliverToBoxAdapter(child: _section(context, 'Shows', count: '${l.shows.length}')),
-      SliverList.builder(
+        SliverGrid.builder(
-        itemCount: rows.length,
+          gridDelegate: posterGrid(),
-        itemBuilder: (context, i) {
+          itemCount: l.shows.length,
-          final (group, v) = rows[i];
+          itemBuilder: (context, i) => _showCard(place, lib, l.shows[i]),
-          if (v == null) {
-            final id = seriesId(group);
-            return SeriesHeader(
-              key: ValueKey('series:${group.key}'),
-              group: group,
-              thumbs: _thumbs,
-              expanded: _expanded.contains(id),
-              onTap: () => setState(() => _expanded.contains(id) ? _expanded.remove(id) : _expanded.add(id)),
-            );
-          }
-          return _menuable(
-              v.path,
-              FileRow(
-                key: ValueKey(v.path),
-                path: v.path,
-                title: v.parsed.label.isEmpty ? v.parsed.series : v.parsed.label,
-                subtitle: v.name,
-                size: formatSize(v.size),
-                state: _stateOf(v.path),
-                thumbs: _thumbs,
-                onTap: _tapOf(v.path),
-              ));
-        },
         ),
-      // Everything else (movies, clips) as a thumbnail grid.
+      ],
-      if (loose.isNotEmpty) ...[
+      if (movies.isNotEmpty) ...[
+        SliverToBoxAdapter(child: _section(context, 'Movies', count: '${movies.length}')),
+        SliverGrid.builder(
+          gridDelegate: posterGrid(),
+          itemCount: movies.length,
+          itemBuilder: (context, i) => _movieCard(movies[i]),
+        ),
+      ],
+      if (other.isNotEmpty) ...[
         SliverToBoxAdapter(
-          child: Padding(
+          child: _section(context, l.shows.isEmpty && movies.isEmpty ? 'Videos' : 'Other videos'),
-            padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 22, bottom: 10),
-            child: Text(
-              series == 0 ? 'Videos' : 'Other videos',
-              style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.titleMedium,
-            ),
-          ),
         ),
         SliverLayoutBuilder(builder: (context, c) {
           const gap = 12.0;
@@ -653,9 +791,9 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
               crossAxisSpacing: gap,
               mainAxisExtent: cardW * 9 / 16 + videoCardTextHeight,
             ),
-            itemCount: loose.length,
+            itemCount: other.length,
             itemBuilder: (context, i) {
-              final v = loose[i];
+              final v = other[i];
               return _menuable(
                   v.path,
                   VideoCard(
@@ -671,12 +809,60 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
       ],
     ];
   }
+
+  Widget _showCard(String place, _Library lib, LocalShow show) {
+    final m = _matcher.showMatch(show);
+    final last = _lastPlayed(lib, show);
+    final String subtitle;
+    if (last == null) {
+      final n = show.episodeCount;
+      subtitle = '$n ${n == 1 ? 'episode' : 'episodes'}';
+    } else {
+      final next = show.nextAfter(last);
+      subtitle = next == null ? 'Watched to the end' : 'Next: ${episodeNumber(next.episode)}';
+    }
+    final playing = widget.nowPlayingPath != null && show.files.any((e) => e.path == widget.nowPlayingPath);
+    return PosterCard(
+      key: ValueKey('showcard:${show.key}'),
+      title: m?.entry.title ?? show.title,
+      subtitle: subtitle,
+      coverUrl: m?.entry.cover,
+      framePath: show.episodes.firstOrNull?.path,
+      thumbs: _thumbs,
+      playing: playing,
+      onShown: () => _matcher.want(show),
+      onTap: () => setState(() => _openShows[place] = show.key),
+    );
+  }
+
+  Widget _movieCard(LocalEpisode movie) {
+    final m = _matcher.seasonMatch(movie);
+    return _menuable(
+        movie.path,
+        PosterCard(
+          key: ValueKey('moviecard:${movie.path}'),
+          title: m?.entry.title ?? (movie.parsed.year == null ? movie.title : '${movie.title} (${movie.parsed.year})'),
+          subtitle: [
+            if (movie.movieNumber != null) movie.label,
+            if (m?.entry.year != null) '${m!.entry.year}' else if (movie.parsed.year != null) '${movie.parsed.year}',
+            formatSize(movie.file.size),
+          ].join(' · '),
+          coverUrl: m?.entry.cover,
+          framePath: movie.path,
+          thumbs: _thumbs,
+          playing: _stateOf(movie.path) == PlayState.playing,
+          onShown: () => _matcher.wantMovie(movie),
+          onTap: _tapOf(movie.path),
+        ));
+  }
 }
 
-/// A Recent entry: `Series · S01E03` over the file name, or the cleaned
+/// A Recent entry: `Show · E02` over the file name (the library's names
-/// title over its folder; greyed when the file is gone.
+/// when it knows the show), or the cleaned title over its folder; greyed
+/// when the file is gone.
 class _RecentRow extends StatefulWidget {
   final String path;
+  final ShowMatcher matcher;
   final PlayState state;
   final ThumbCache thumbs;
   final VoidCallback? onTap;
@@ -684,6 +870,7 @@ class _RecentRow extends StatefulWidget {
   const _RecentRow({
     super.key,
     required this.path,
+    required this.matcher,
     required this.state,
     required this.thumbs,
     required this.onTap,
@@ -695,6 +882,8 @@ class _RecentRow extends StatefulWidget {
 }
 
 class _RecentRowState extends State<_RecentRow> {
+  FolderAccess get _folders => AppScope.of(context).ports.folders;
+
   FileStat? _stat;
 
   @override
@@ -708,12 +897,14 @@ class _RecentRowState extends State<_RecentRow> {
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     final path = widget.path;
-    final p = parseReleaseName(baseName(path));
+    final e = widget.matcher.episodeAt(path) ??
+        readLocalFile(LocalFile(path, 0, DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(0)));
     final missing = _stat?.type == FileSystemEntityType.notFound;
-    final episode = p.episode != null || p.extra != null;
+    final episode = e.kind == LocalKind.episode || e.kind == LocalKind.extra;
+    final name = widget.matcher.seasonMatch(e)?.entry.title ?? e.title;
     return FileRow(
       path: path,
-      title: episode ? '${p.series} · ${p.label}' : cleanTitle(p),
+      title: episode ? '$name · ${e.label}' : (e.kind == LocalKind.other ? cleanTitle(e.parsed) : name),
       subtitle: missing ? 'File not found' : (episode ? baseName(path) : parentName(path)),
       size: _stat == null || missing ? null : formatSize(_stat!.size),
       state: widget.state,

apps/desktop/lib/src/files/ui/library_view.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,712 @@
+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:flutter/rendering.dart';
+import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../../library/show_matcher.dart';
+import '../../schedule/anilist.dart' show AniListEntry;
+import '../../shell/avatar.dart' show Pill;
+import 'file_tiles.dart';
+import 'thumb.dart';
+
+// The Files library: shows and movies as poster cards (like the Jellyfin
+// browser's), a show's own page (banner, the next episode with what is
+// missing on the way, seasons, extras, movies) and the corrections
+// ("Wrong show?", "Episode numbers…"). Names and art come from the
+// library's AniList match when there is one, else from the files.
+
+/// What the page hands its views: playing, the right-click menu, the
+/// thumbnails, what plays now.
+class FilesActions {
+  final void Function(String path) play;
+  final PlayState Function(String path) stateOf;
+  final Widget Function(String path, Widget child) menuable;
+  final ThumbCache thumbs;
+  const FilesActions({required this.play, required this.stateOf, required this.menuable, required this.thumbs});
+}
+
+/// "66–107 aren't in your folders", "66 isn't in your folders".
+String missingText(EpisodeGap gap) =>
+    gap.first == gap.last ? '${gap.label} isn\'t in your folders' : '${gap.label} aren\'t in your folders';
+
+/// The next-episode prompt: "66–107 aren't in your folders — skip to
+/// 108?", or at the start "1–55 … — start at 56?"; null when nothing is
+/// skipped.
+String? skipPrompt(LocalNext next, {required bool started}) {
+  final gap = next.skipped;
+  if (gap == null) return null;
+  final n = next.episode.episode;
+  return started ? '${missingText(gap)} — skip to $n?' : '${missingText(gap)} — start at $n?';
+}
+
+/// A show's label for an episode: `56`, `S3 E1`.
+String episodeNumber(LocalEpisode e) =>
+    e.season == null ? '${e.episode}' : 'S${e.season} E${e.episode}';
+
+/// The 2:3 picture of a show or movie: its AniList cover, else a frame of
+/// [framePath].
+class PosterImage extends StatelessWidget {
+  final String? url;
+  final String? framePath;
+  final ThumbCache thumbs;
+  const PosterImage({super.key, this.url, this.framePath, required this.thumbs});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final frame = framePath == null
+        ? const ThumbImage(null)
+        : ThumbBuilder(cache: thumbs, path: framePath!, builder: (context, t, _) => ThumbImage(t));
+    final u = url;
+    if (u == null) return frame;
+    return Image.network(
+      u,
+      fit: BoxFit.cover,
+      gaplessPlayback: true,
+      errorBuilder: (_, _, _) => frame,
+      loadingBuilder: (context, child, progress) => progress == null ? child : frame,
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// A show (or movie) as a poster card: picture, title, one line under it.
+class PosterCard extends StatefulWidget {
+  final String title;
+  final String subtitle;
+  final String? coverUrl;
+  final String? framePath;
+  final ThumbCache thumbs;
+  final VoidCallback onTap;
+  final bool playing;
+  /// Called once when the card is first built (the library matches what
+  /// is on screen).
+  final VoidCallback? onShown;
+  const PosterCard({
+    super.key,
+    required this.title,
+    required this.subtitle,
+    required this.thumbs,
+    required this.onTap,
+    this.coverUrl,
+    this.framePath,
+    this.playing = false,
+    this.onShown,
+  });
+
+  @override
+  State<PosterCard> createState() => _PosterCardState();
+}
+
+class _PosterCardState extends State<PosterCard> {
+  bool _hover = false;
+
+  @override
+  void initState() {
+    super.initState();
+    widget.onShown?.call();
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
+    final t = Theme.of(context).textTheme;
+    return InkWell(
+      onTap: widget.onTap,
+      onHover: (h) => setState(() => _hover = h),
+      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(12),
+      child: Column(
+        crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+        children: [
+          Expanded(
+            child: AnimatedContainer(
+              duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 150),
+              decoration: BoxDecoration(
+                borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(12),
+                border: Border.all(
+                  color: widget.playing ? scheme.primary : (_hover ? scheme.onSurfaceVariant : Colors.transparent),
+                  width: 2,
+                ),
+              ),
+              child: ClipRRect(
+                borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
+                child: PosterImage(url: widget.coverUrl, framePath: widget.framePath, thumbs: widget.thumbs),
+              ),
+            ),
+          ),
+          const SizedBox(height: 6),
+          Text(widget.title,
+              maxLines: 1,
+              overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+              style: t.titleSmall?.copyWith(color: widget.playing ? scheme.primary : null)),
+          Text(widget.subtitle,
+              maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis, style: t.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: Colors.grey)),
+        ],
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// Title and meta lines under a [PosterCard]'s picture.
+const posterTextHeight = 46.0;
+
+/// Poster cards in a grid: about 170 px wide each.
+SliverGridDelegate posterGrid() => const _PosterGrid();
+
+class _PosterGrid extends SliverGridDelegate {
+  const _PosterGrid();
+
+  @override
+  SliverGridLayout getLayout(SliverConstraints constraints) {
+    const gap = 12.0;
+    final w = constraints.crossAxisExtent;
+    final cols = (w / 170).floor().clamp(2, 12);
+    final cardW = (w - gap * (cols - 1)) / cols;
+    return SliverGridRegularTileLayout(
+      crossAxisCount: cols,
+      mainAxisStride: cardW * 1.5 + posterTextHeight + gap,
+      crossAxisStride: cardW + gap,
+      childMainAxisExtent: cardW * 1.5 + posterTextHeight,
+      childCrossAxisExtent: cardW,
+      reverseCrossAxis: false,
+    );
+  }
+
+  @override
+  bool shouldRelayout(covariant SliverGridDelegate oldDelegate) => false;
+}
+
+/// One show's page: header (banner, proper name, what the files are,
+/// the match), the next episode with what is missing on the way, the
+/// season's episodes with their holes, extras and the show's movies.
+class ShowPage extends StatefulWidget {
+  final LocalShow show;
+  final ShowMatcher matcher;
+  final FilesActions actions;
+  /// The last episode of this show played here ([LocalEpisode.key]).
+  final String? lastPlayed;
+  final String backLabel;
+  final VoidCallback onBack;
+  /// Notices above the page (the relay notice, errors).
+  final List<Widget> top;
+  const ShowPage({
+    super.key,
+    required this.show,
+    required this.matcher,
+    required this.actions,
+    required this.lastPlayed,
+    required this.backLabel,
+    required this.onBack,
+    this.top = const [],
+  });
+
+  @override
+  State<ShowPage> createState() => _ShowPageState();
+}
+
+class _ShowPageState extends State<ShowPage> {
+  int? _season;
+  bool _seasonPicked = false;
+
+  @override
+  void initState() {
+    super.initState();
+    widget.matcher.want(widget.show);
+  }
+
+  LocalShow get show => widget.show;
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) => SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
+        widget.matcher.revision.value;
+        final busy = widget.matcher.busy.value.contains(show.key);
+        final m = widget.matcher.showMatch(show);
+        final next = show.nextAfter(widget.lastPlayed);
+        final seasons = show.seasons;
+        if (!_seasonPicked) _season = next?.episode.season ?? seasons.firstOrNull?.number;
+        final season = show.season(_season) ?? seasons.firstOrNull;
+        return CustomScrollView(
+          key: PageStorageKey('show:${show.key}'),
+          slivers: [
+            SliverPadding(
+              padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(12, 12, 20, 24),
+              sliver: SliverMainAxisGroup(slivers: [
+                SliverToBoxAdapter(
+                  child: Align(
+                    alignment: Alignment.centerLeft,
+                    child: TextButton.icon(
+                      onPressed: widget.onBack,
+                      icon: const Icon(Icons.arrow_back, size: 18),
+                      label: Text(widget.backLabel),
+                    ),
+                  ),
+                ),
+                SliverList.list(children: widget.top),
+                SliverToBoxAdapter(child: _header(context, m, next, busy)),
+                if (seasons.length > 1)
+                  SliverToBoxAdapter(
+                    child: Padding(
+                      padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 14),
+                      child: Wrap(spacing: 8, runSpacing: 8, children: [
+                        for (final s in seasons)
+                          ChoiceChip(
+                            key: ValueKey('season:${s.number}'),
+                            label: Text(s.title),
+                            selected: identical(s, season),
+                            onSelected: (_) => setState(() {
+                              _season = s.number;
+                              _seasonPicked = true;
+                            }),
+                          ),
+                      ]),
+                    ),
+                  ),
+                if (season != null) ..._episodes(context, season),
+                if (show.extras.isNotEmpty) ...[
+                  _section(context, 'Extras', show.extras.length),
+                  SliverList.list(children: [for (final e in show.extras) _row(e, e.label, e.name)]),
+                ],
+                if (show.movies.isNotEmpty) ...[
+                  _section(context, show.movies.length == 1 ? 'Movie' : 'Movies', show.movies.length),
+                  SliverList.list(children: [for (final e in show.movies) _row(e, e.label, e.name)]),
+                ],
+              ]),
+            ),
+          ],
+        );
+      });
+
+  Widget _section(BuildContext context, String title, int n) => SliverToBoxAdapter(
+        child: Padding(
+          padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 22, bottom: 6),
+          child: Row(children: [
+            Text(title, style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.titleMedium),
+            const SizedBox(width: 8),
+            Text('$n', style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: Colors.grey)),
+          ]),
+        ),
+      );
+
+  Widget _row(LocalEpisode e, String title, String subtitle) => widget.actions.menuable(
+      e.path,
+      FileRow(
+        key: ValueKey(e.path),
+        path: e.path,
+        title: title,
+        subtitle: subtitle,
+        size: formatSize(e.file.size),
+        state: widget.actions.stateOf(e.path),
+        thumbs: widget.actions.thumbs,
+        onTap: () => widget.actions.play(e.path),
+      ));
+
+  List<Widget> _episodes(BuildContext context, LocalSeason season) {
+    final rows = <Widget>[];
+    var expect = 1;
+    for (final e in season.episodes) {
+      final n = e.episode!;
+      final gap = season.gaps.where((g) => g.first >= expect && g.last < n).firstOrNull;
+      if (gap != null) rows.add(_GapRow(missingText(gap)));
+      if (n >= expect) expect = n + 1;
+      final offset = widget.matcher.offset(show.key, season.number);
+      final shown = n + offset;
+      final name = widget.matcher.episodeTitle(e);
+      // Like the Jellyfin browser's rows: "12. Name", else "Episode 12".
+      final title = name == null ? 'Episode $shown' : '$shown. $name';
+      rows.add(_row(e, title, e.name));
+    }
+    final tail = season.gaps.where((g) => g.first >= expect).firstOrNull;
+    if (tail != null) rows.add(_GapRow(missingText(tail)));
+    return [
+      _section(context, season.title, season.distinct.length),
+      SliverList.list(children: rows),
+    ];
+  }
+
+  Widget _header(BuildContext context, SeasonMatch? m, LocalNext? next, bool busy) {
+    final theme = Theme.of(context);
+    final t = theme.textTheme;
+    final scheme = theme.colorScheme;
+    final entry = m?.entry;
+    final title = entry?.title ?? show.title;
+    final count = show.episodeCount;
+    final meta = [
+      if (show.seasons.length > 1) '${show.seasons.length} seasons',
+      '$count ${count == 1 ? 'episode' : 'episodes'}',
+      if (show.extras.isNotEmpty) '${show.extras.length} ${show.extras.length == 1 ? 'extra' : 'extras'}',
+      if (show.movies.isNotEmpty) '${show.movies.length} ${show.movies.length == 1 ? 'movie' : 'movies'}',
+      ?show.group,
+      if (show.folders.length > 1) 'in ${show.folders.length} folders',
+    ].join(' · ');
+    final String matchLine;
+    if (entry != null) {
+      final what = [
+        if (entry.format.isNotEmpty) entry.format.replaceAll('_', ' '),
+        if (entry.year != null) '${entry.year}',
+        if (entry.episodes != null) '${entry.episodes} eps',
+      ].join(', ');
+      matchLine = [
+        'AniList: ${entry.romaji.isNotEmpty && entry.romaji != title ? entry.romaji : entry.title}'
+            '${what.isEmpty ? '' : ' ($what)'}',
+        if (title != show.title) 'files say "${show.title}"',
+      ].join(' · ');
+    } else {
+      matchLine = busy ? 'Looking it up on AniList…' : 'Not matched on AniList';
+    }
+    final started = widget.lastPlayed != null;
+    final prompt = next == null ? null : skipPrompt(next, started: started);
+    final nextLabel = next == null
+        ? 'Watched to the end'
+        : next.skipped != null
+            ? (started ? 'Skip to ${next.episode.episode}' : 'Start at ${next.episode.episode}')
+            : '${started ? 'Next' : 'Play'}: ${episodeNumber(next.episode)}';
+    return LayoutBuilder(builder: (context, box) {
+      final h = (box.maxWidth * 0.28).clamp(220.0, 340.0);
+      final cover = entry?.cover;
+      return ClipRRect(
+        borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(12),
+        child: SizedBox(
+          height: h,
+          child: Stack(fit: StackFit.expand, children: [
+            PosterImage(
+                url: entry?.banner ?? entry?.cover,
+                framePath: show.episodes.firstOrNull?.path,
+                thumbs: widget.actions.thumbs),
+            DecoratedBox(
+              decoration: BoxDecoration(
+                gradient: LinearGradient(
+                  begin: Alignment.centerLeft,
+                  end: Alignment.centerRight,
+                  colors: [
+                    scheme.surface.withValues(alpha: 0.96),
+                    scheme.surface.withValues(alpha: 0.8),
+                    scheme.surface.withValues(alpha: 0.15),
+                  ],
+                  stops: const [0, 0.5, 1],
+                ),
+              ),
+            ),
+            Padding(
+              padding: const EdgeInsets.all(20),
+              child: Row(crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start, children: [
+                if (cover != null && box.maxWidth > 560) ...[
+                  ClipRRect(
+                    borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8),
+                    child: SizedBox(
+                      width: (h - 40) / 1.5,
+                      child: PosterImage(url: cover, thumbs: widget.actions.thumbs),
+                    ),
+                  ),
+                  const SizedBox(width: 18),
+                ],
+                Expanded(
+                  child: SingleChildScrollView(
+                    child: Column(crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start, children: [
+                      Row(children: [
+                        Flexible(
+                          child: Text(title,
+                              maxLines: 2, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis, style: t.headlineMedium),
+                        ),
+                        if (m?.pinned != null) ...[
+                          const SizedBox(width: 8),
+                          Pill(m!.pinned == PinScope.folder ? 'pinned for this folder' : 'pinned', scheme.primary),
+                        ],
+                      ]),
+                      const SizedBox(height: 6),
+                      Text(meta, style: t.bodyMedium?.copyWith(color: Colors.grey)),
+                      const SizedBox(height: 2),
+                      Text(matchLine,
+                          maxLines: 2,
+                          overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                          style: t.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant)),
+                      if (prompt != null) ...[
+                        const SizedBox(height: 10),
+                        Row(children: [
+                          Icon(Icons.info_outline, size: 16, color: scheme.tertiary),
+                          const SizedBox(width: 6),
+                          Flexible(child: Text(prompt, style: t.bodyMedium?.copyWith(color: scheme.tertiary))),
+                        ]),
+                      ],
+                      const SizedBox(height: 12),
+                      Wrap(spacing: 8, runSpacing: 8, children: [
+                        FilledButton.icon(
+                          key: const ValueKey('show-next'),
+                          onPressed: next == null ? null : () => widget.actions.play(next.episode.path),
+                          icon: const Icon(Icons.play_arrow),
+                          label: Text(nextLabel),
+                        ),
+                        OutlinedButton.icon(
+                          onPressed: () => showWrongShowDialog(context, show, widget.matcher),
+                          icon: const Icon(Icons.manage_search, size: 18),
+                          label: const Text('Wrong show?'),
+                        ),
+                        TextButton(
+                          onPressed: () => showEpisodeNumbersDialog(context, show, widget.matcher),
+                          child: const Text('Episode numbers…'),
+                        ),
+                      ]),
+                    ]),
+                  ),
+                ),
+              ]),
+            ),
+          ]),
+        ),
+      );
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+class _GapRow extends StatelessWidget {
+  final String text;
+  const _GapRow(this.text);
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
+    return Padding(
+      padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(20, 6, 8, 6),
+      child: Row(children: [
+        Icon(Icons.more_vert, size: 18, color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant),
+        const SizedBox(width: 10),
+        Expanded(
+          child: Text(text,
+              maxLines: 2,
+              overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+              style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontStyle: FontStyle.italic, fontSize: 13)),
+        ),
+      ]),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// "Wrong show?": search AniList, pick the right entry, pin it for the
+/// show everywhere or for one of its folders.
+Future<void> showWrongShowDialog(BuildContext context, LocalShow show, ShowMatcher matcher) =>
+    showDialog<void>(context: context, builder: (context) => WrongShowDialog(show: show, matcher: matcher));
+
+class WrongShowDialog extends StatefulWidget {
+  final LocalShow show;
+  final ShowMatcher matcher;
+  const WrongShowDialog({super.key, required this.show, required this.matcher});
+
+  @override
+  State<WrongShowDialog> createState() => _WrongShowDialogState();
+}
+
+class _WrongShowDialogState extends State<WrongShowDialog> {
+  late final _query = TextEditingController(text: widget.show.title.replaceAll(RegExp(r'[._]+'), ' '));
+  List<AniListEntry>? _hits;
+  String? _error;
+  bool _searching = false;
+  /// Null: the whole show; else one of its folders.
+  String? _folder;
+
+  @override
+  void initState() {
+    super.initState();
+    _search();
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void dispose() {
+    _query.dispose();
+    super.dispose();
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _search() async {
+    setState(() {
+      _searching = true;
+      _error = null;
+    });
+    try {
+      final hits = await widget.matcher.search(_query.text);
+      if (mounted) setState(() => _hits = hits);
+    } catch (e) {
+      if (mounted) setState(() => _error = 'AniList did not answer ($e)');
+    } finally {
+      if (mounted) setState(() => _searching = false);
+    }
+  }
+
+  void _pin(AniListEntry e) {
+    final folder = _folder;
+    folder == null ? widget.matcher.pinShow(widget.show.key, e) : widget.matcher.pinFolder(folder, e);
+    Navigator.of(context).pop();
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final show = widget.show;
+    final m = widget.matcher;
+    final showPin = m.showPin(show.key);
+    final folderPins = [for (final f in show.folders) if (m.folderPin(f)?.folder == f) f];
+    final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
+    return AlertDialog(
+      title: const Text('Wrong show?'),
+      content: SizedBox(
+        width: 520,
+        child: Column(mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min, crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start, children: [
+          Text('Search AniList and pick what "${show.title}" really is. '
+              'A pin wins over the automatic match and survives rescans.',
+              style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant)),
+          const SizedBox(height: 12),
+          TextField(
+            controller: _query,
+            autofocus: true,
+            decoration: InputDecoration(
+              isDense: true,
+              border: const OutlineInputBorder(),
+              hintText: 'Title on AniList',
+              suffixIcon: IconButton(tooltip: 'Search', icon: const Icon(Icons.search), onPressed: _search),
+            ),
+            onSubmitted: (_) => _search(),
+          ),
+          if (show.folders.length > 1 || folderPins.isNotEmpty) ...[
+            const SizedBox(height: 10),
+            DropdownButton<String?>(
+              value: _folder,
+              isExpanded: true,
+              items: [
+                const DropdownMenuItem(value: null, child: Text('For this show everywhere')),
+                for (final f in show.folders)
+                  DropdownMenuItem(value: f, child: Text('Only the folder "${baseName(f)}"', overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis)),
+              ],
+              onChanged: (v) => setState(() => _folder = v),
+            ),
+          ],
+          const SizedBox(height: 8),
+          ConstrainedBox(
+            constraints: const BoxConstraints(maxHeight: 340),
+            child: _searching && _hits == null
+                ? const Padding(padding: EdgeInsets.all(24), child: Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator()))
+                : _error != null
+                    ? Text(_error!, style: TextStyle(color: scheme.error))
+                    : (_hits ?? const []).isEmpty
+                        ? const Padding(padding: EdgeInsets.all(12), child: Text('Nothing found'))
+                        : ListView(shrinkWrap: true, children: [
+                            for (final e in _hits!)
+                              ListTile(
+                                key: ValueKey('hit:${e.id}'),
+                                dense: true,
+                                leading: SizedBox(
+                                  width: 32,
+                                  height: 48,
+                                  child: ClipRRect(
+                                    borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(4),
+                                    child: e.coverSmall == null
+                                        ? const ColoredBox(color: Colors.black26)
+                                        : Image.network(e.coverSmall!,
+                                            fit: BoxFit.cover,
+                                            errorBuilder: (_, _, _) => const ColoredBox(color: Colors.black26)),
+                                  ),
+                                ),
+                                title: Text(e.title, maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis),
+                                subtitle: Text([
+                                  if (e.romaji.isNotEmpty && e.romaji != e.title) e.romaji,
+                                  if (e.format.isNotEmpty) e.format.replaceAll('_', ' '),
+                                  if (e.year != null) '${e.year}',
+                                  if (e.episodes != null) '${e.episodes} eps',
+                                ].join(' · '), maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis),
+                                onTap: () => _pin(e),
+                              ),
+                          ]),
+          ),
+        ]),
+      ),
+      actions: [
+        if (showPin != null)
+          TextButton(
+            onPressed: () {
+              m.unpinShow(show.key);
+              Navigator.of(context).pop();
+            },
+            child: const Text('Remove the pin'),
+          ),
+        for (final f in folderPins)
+          TextButton(
+            onPressed: () {
+              m.unpinFolder(f);
+              Navigator.of(context).pop();
+            },
+            child: Text('Unpin "${baseName(f)}"'),
+          ),
+        TextButton(onPressed: () => Navigator.of(context).pop(), child: const Text('Cancel')),
+      ],
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// "Episode numbers…": which episode the first file of each season is
+/// ("these files are episodes N..M").
+Future<void> showEpisodeNumbersDialog(BuildContext context, LocalShow show, ShowMatcher matcher) =>
+    showDialog<void>(context: context, builder: (context) => _EpisodeNumbersDialog(show: show, matcher: matcher));
+
+class _EpisodeNumbersDialog extends StatefulWidget {
+  final LocalShow show;
+  final ShowMatcher matcher;
+  const _EpisodeNumbersDialog({required this.show, required this.matcher});
+
+  @override
+  State<_EpisodeNumbersDialog> createState() => _EpisodeNumbersDialogState();
+}
+
+class _EpisodeNumbersDialogState extends State<_EpisodeNumbersDialog> {
+  late final _fields = {
+    for (final s in widget.show.seasons)
+      s.number: TextEditingController(
+          text: '${s.distinct.first.episode! + widget.matcher.offset(widget.show.key, s.number)}'),
+  };
+
+  @override
+  void dispose() {
+    for (final c in _fields.values) {
+      c.dispose();
+    }
+    super.dispose();
+  }
+
+  void _save() {
+    for (final s in widget.show.seasons) {
+      final first = s.distinct.first.episode!;
+      final want = int.tryParse(_fields[s.number]!.text.trim());
+      if (want != null && want > 0) widget.matcher.setOffset(widget.show.key, s.number, want - first);
+    }
+    Navigator.of(context).pop();
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) => AlertDialog(
+        title: const Text('Episode numbers'),
+        content: SizedBox(
+          width: 420,
+          child: Column(mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min, crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start, children: [
+            const Text('When the files count differently from AniList, say which episode the first file is; '
+                'the others follow.'),
+            const SizedBox(height: 12),
+            for (final s in widget.show.seasons)
+              Padding(
+                padding: const EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 8),
+                child: Row(children: [
+                  Expanded(
+                    child: Text('${s.title}: the file numbered ${s.distinct.first.episode} is episode',
+                        maxLines: 2),
+                  ),
+                  const SizedBox(width: 8),
+                  SizedBox(
+                    width: 72,
+                    child: TextField(
+                      key: ValueKey('offset:${s.number}'),
+                      controller: _fields[s.number],
+                      keyboardType: TextInputType.number,
+                      decoration: const InputDecoration(isDense: true, border: OutlineInputBorder()),
+                    ),
+                  ),
+                ]),
+              ),
+          ]),
+        ),
+        actions: [
+          TextButton(onPressed: () => Navigator.of(context).pop(), child: const Text('Cancel')),
+          FilledButton(onPressed: _save, child: const Text('Save')),
+        ],
+      );
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/browse_scope.dart

@@ -339,9 +339,9 @@ class BrowseScope extends InheritedWidget {
       case 2:
         queue!(item, next: true);
       case 3:
-        await copyToClipboard(jellyfinCopyTitle(item), done: 'Title copied');
+        if (context.mounted) await copyToClipboard(context, jellyfinCopyTitle(item), done: 'Title copied');
       case 4:
-        await openLink(jellyfinWebUrl(client.baseUrl, item.id, serverId: account.serverId));
+        if (context.mounted) await openLink(context, jellyfinWebUrl(client.baseUrl, item.id, serverId: account.serverId));
     }
   }
 

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/details_panel.dart

@@ -35,15 +35,15 @@ typedef _Data = ({
 
 /// The selected card's details, at the right of the library: banner,
 /// title, meta, "Put it up · S1E3" ("Play · S1E3" when watching
-/// [solo]), mark watched / unwatched, remove from Continue, overview and,
+/// [alone]), mark watched / unwatched, remove from Continue, overview and,
 /// for a series or an episode, the episode list (click picks which
 /// episode goes up, double-click puts it up). Reloads when the
 /// [controller]'s data version moves.
 class JellyfinDetailsPanel extends StatefulWidget {
   final BrowseController controller;
   final JellyfinSelection selection;
-  /// Nobody else watches (offline or solo): the button says Play.
+  /// Nobody else is in the server: the button says Play.
-  final bool solo;
+  final bool alone;
   /// Puts [item] (playable) up; returns an error text, or null when sent.
   final Future<String?> Function(JellyfinSelection item) onPutUp;
   /// Adds [item] to Up next (with next: right after what plays); null: no
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class JellyfinDetailsPanel extends StatefulWidget {
     required this.onPutUp,
     this.onAddToQueue,
     required this.onClose,
-    this.solo = false,
+    this.alone = false,
   });
 
   @override
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
     final client = _client;
     final pick = await showAppMenu<int>(context, items: [
       if (queue) ...[
-        AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: widget.solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
+        AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: widget.alone ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
         const AppMenuItem(value: 1, label: 'Add to queue'),
         const AppMenuItem(value: 2, label: 'Play next'),
       ],
@@ -171,9 +171,9 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
       case 2:
         await _queue(e, next: true);
       case 3:
-        await copyToClipboard(jellyfinCopyTitle(e), done: 'Title copied');
+        if (context.mounted) await copyToClipboard(context, jellyfinCopyTitle(e), done: 'Title copied');
       case 4:
-        await openLink(jellyfinWebUrl(client!.baseUrl, e.id, serverId: _serverId));
+        if (context.mounted) await openLink(context, jellyfinWebUrl(client!.baseUrl, e.id, serverId: _serverId));
     }
   }
 
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
       if (shown.communityRating != null) '★ ${shown.communityRating!.toStringAsFixed(1)}',
       if (!isSeries && shown.userData.played) 'Watched',
     ].join(' · ');
-    final verb = widget.solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up';
+    final verb = widget.alone ? 'Play' : 'Put it up';
     final label = playable != null && isSeries ? '$verb · ${playable.episodeLabel ?? playable.name}' : verb;
     final inContinue = playable != null &&
         (playable.userData.isResumable || _c.continueKeys.contains(continueKey(playable)));
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
                     IconButton(
                       key: const ValueKey('details-open-jellyfin'),
                       tooltip: ReuseText.openInJellyfin,
-                      onPressed: () => openLink(jellyfinWebUrl(client.baseUrl, shown.id, serverId: _serverId)),
+                      onPressed: () => openLink(context, jellyfinWebUrl(client.baseUrl, shown.id, serverId: _serverId)),
                       icon: const Icon(Icons.open_in_browser_rounded),
                     ),
                 ],

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/format.dart

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
+import '../library/media_refs.dart';
 import '../screens/home/picked_media.dart';
 import 'accounts.dart';
 
@@ -89,5 +90,6 @@ JellyfinMedia pickFor(JellyfinAccount account, JellyfinItem item) {
     title: item.name,
     subtitle: subtitle,
     runtime: item.runTime,
+    ref: jellyfinMediaRef(item),
   );
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/progress.dart

@@ -26,13 +26,14 @@ class PlayerSnapshot {
 /// (the session shows one quiet toast) and never touches playback. A 401
 /// calls [onUnauthorized] and ends reporting.
 ///
-/// Watched or not is [WatchSession]'s rule, not Jellyfin's position
+/// Watched or not is [WatchSession]'s rule (time In, D3), not Jellyfin's
-/// percentages (see ARCHITECTURE.md "Jellyfin in a session"): an item
+/// position percentages (see ARCHITECTURE.md "Watch tracking"): the
-/// played before ([playedBefore]) stays played (re-marked after Playing,
+/// session's watch tracker feeds [watch] and this reporter only reads its
-/// Progress without a position, Stopped without one, then marked played
+/// verdict. An item played before ([playedBefore]) stays played
-/// again); otherwise Progress leaves the position out past
+/// (re-marked after Playing, Progress without a position, Stopped without
-/// [_noPositionFrom] of the runtime so Jellyfin cannot mark it played on
+/// one, then marked played again); otherwise Progress leaves the position
-/// its own, and Stopped carries what the rule says.
+/// out past [_noPositionFrom] of the runtime so Jellyfin cannot mark it
+/// played on its own, and Stopped carries what the rule says.
 class JellyfinProgressReporter {
   final JellyfinClient client;
   final String itemId;
@@ -43,7 +44,8 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
   final void Function(Object error)? onError;
   final VoidCallback? onUnauthorized;
 
-  /// What this viewer watched of the item while it was open here.
+  /// What this viewer watched of the item while it was open here (fed by
+  /// the watch tracker, not by this reporter).
   final WatchSession watch;
 
   JellyfinProgressReporter({
@@ -57,12 +59,14 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
     this.onError,
     this.onUnauthorized,
     this.onStopped,
+    WatchSession? watch,
     DateTime Function()? clock,
   })  : _clock = clock ?? DateTime.now,
         _keepPlayed = playedBefore,
         _runtime = (source.runTimeTicks ?? 0) / jellyfinTicksPerSecond,
-        watch = WatchSession(
+        watch = (watch ?? WatchSession())
-            playedBefore: playedBefore, resumeBefore: resumeTicksBefore / jellyfinTicksPerSecond);
+          ..playedBefore = playedBefore
+          ..resumeBefore = resumeTicksBefore / jellyfinTicksPerSecond;
 
   /// Past this share of the runtime Progress carries no position: Jellyfin
   /// marks an item played past its "max resume" share (90 % by default).
@@ -126,7 +130,6 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
     if (_playing || _dead) return;
     _playing = true;
     _mark(s);
-    watch.sample(s.position, playing: !s.paused, at: _clock());
     _send('Playing', () => client.reportPlaybackStart(reportFor(s)));
     if (_keepPlayed) _send('played', () => client.markPlayed(itemId));
   }
@@ -136,7 +139,6 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
     if (!_playing || _dead) return;
     final last = _last, lastAt = _lastAt, sentAt = _lastSentAt;
     final now = _clock();
-    watch.sample(s.position, playing: !s.paused, at: now);
     var due = force || last == null || lastAt == null || sentAt == null;
     if (!due) {
       final elapsed = now.difference(lastAt).inMilliseconds / 1000;
@@ -163,11 +165,10 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
   Future<void> stop(PlayerSnapshot s) {
     if (!_playing || _dead) return _chain;
     _playing = false;
-    watch.sample(s.position, playing: !s.paused, at: _clock());
     final v = _keepPlayed
         ? const WatchVerdict(WatchOutcome.keepPlayed)
         : watch.verdict(runtime: _runtime, endingStart: _endingStart);
-    debugPrint('jellyfin $itemId: $v (covered ${watch.covered.round()} s of ${_runtime.round()} s)');
+    debugPrint('jellyfin $itemId: $v (${watch.credited.round()} s In of ${_runtime.round()} s)');
     final int? ticks;
     switch (v.outcome) {
       case WatchOutcome.played || WatchOutcome.keepPlayed:

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/session_media.dart

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../screens/home/picked_media.dart';
-import '../session/party.dart' show isPresent;
 import 'accounts.dart';
 import 'format.dart';
+import '../library/media_refs.dart';
 
 // Jellyfin media in a session: turning picks and pasted links into refs
 // (the wire carries only `{serverId, itemId, ...}`), the hosted server's
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ HelloMedia mediaForPick(JellyfinMedia m) => HelloMedia(
     name: m.title.isEmpty ? 'Jellyfin item' : m.title,
     size: 0,
     duration: 0,
-    jellyfin: refForPick(m));
+    jellyfin: refForPick(m),
+    ref: m.ref ?? jellyfinPickRef(m.title, m.subtitle));
 
 /// The pick a ref stands for on a linked server (for highlighting it in
 /// the browser); null when this install has no account there.
@@ -78,7 +79,8 @@ final _sourceId = RegExp(r'^[A-Za-z0-9-]{1,64}$');
 /// is one.
 Future<HelloMedia> mediaForLink(JellyfinAccounts accounts, String url,
     {Duration timeout = const Duration(seconds: 6)}) async {
-  final plain = HelloMedia(name: linkName(url), size: 0, duration: 0, url: url);
+  final name = linkName(url);
+  final plain = HelloMedia(name: name, size: 0, duration: 0, url: url, ref: linkMediaRef(name));
   final link = parseJellyfinLink(url);
   if (link == null) return plain;
   await accounts.ensureLoaded();
@@ -103,9 +105,11 @@ Future<HelloMedia> mediaForLink(JellyfinAccounts accounts, String url,
   );
   final account = accounts.account(serverId);
   final client = accounts.clientFor(serverId);
+  MediaRef? what;
   if (account != null && client != null) {
     try {
       final pick = pickFor(account, await client.item(link.itemId).timeout(timeout));
+      what = pick.ref;
       ref = refForPick(JellyfinMedia(
         serverId: serverId,
         baseUrl: account.baseUrl,
@@ -120,7 +124,11 @@ Future<HelloMedia> mediaForLink(JellyfinAccounts accounts, String url,
     }
   }
   return HelloMedia(
-      name: ref.title.isEmpty ? 'Jellyfin item' : ref.title, size: 0, duration: 0, jellyfin: ref);
+      name: ref.title.isEmpty ? 'Jellyfin item' : ref.title,
+      size: 0,
+      duration: 0,
+      jellyfin: ref,
+      ref: what ?? jellyfinPickRef(ref.title, ref.subtitle ?? ''));
 }
 
 /// Display name for a link: last path segment, decoded, never the query
@@ -139,27 +147,28 @@ String linkName(String url) {
   return uri.host.isNotEmpty ? uri.host : 'link';
 }
 
-/// The hosted server's relay login: the account for [serverId] (the
+/// The hosted server's relay logins: one per linked Jellyfin account
-/// hosted item's server), else the default account, when its token is not
+/// whose token is not known to be expired (the default account first),
-/// known to be expired. The device fields are exactly the ones this app
+/// so `/j` relays an item with its own server's login. The device fields
-/// sends with that token ([JellyfinAccounts.clientInfo]): Jellyfin rewrites
+/// are exactly the ones this app sends with those tokens
-/// a token's device from the request header, so the relay must not differ.
+/// ([JellyfinAccounts.clientInfo]): Jellyfin rewrites a token's device
-JellyfinCredential? relayCredentialFor(JellyfinAccounts accounts, {String? serverId}) {
+/// from the request header, so the relay must not differ.
-  bool usable(JellyfinAccount? a) =>
+List<JellyfinCredential> relayCredentialsFor(JellyfinAccounts accounts) {
-      a != null && accounts.statusOf(a.serverId) != JellyfinAccountStatus.expired;
-  var a = serverId == null ? null : accounts.account(serverId);
-  if (!usable(a)) a = accounts.defaultAccount;
-  if (!usable(a)) return null;
   final info = accounts.clientInfo;
-  return JellyfinCredential(
+  final first = accounts.defaultAccount;
-    baseUrl: a!.baseUrl,
+  return [
+    for (final a in [?first, ...accounts.accounts.where((a) => a.serverId != first?.serverId)])
+      if (accounts.statusOf(a.serverId) != JellyfinAccountStatus.expired)
+        JellyfinCredential(
+          baseUrl: a.baseUrl,
           serverId: a.serverId,
           token: a.token,
           client: info.client,
           device: info.device,
           deviceId: info.deviceId,
           version: info.version,
-  );
+        ),
+  ];
 }
 
 /// `/j/...` URL of the current Jellyfin media on the host this client
@@ -331,26 +340,3 @@ Duration nextPromptStart(JellyfinItem? item, Duration runtime, {Duration? ending
   const lead = Duration(minutes: 2);
   return runtime > lead ? runtime - lead : Duration.zero;
 }
-
-/// Who performs the auto-advance swap, so several counting clients do not
-/// swap twice: the lowest member id among members that play the item with
-/// their own account (`jf[serverId] == true`, present: `in` or joining). Only what every
-/// client sees in `state` decides (who put the item up is not in it: a
-/// late joiner never saw that swap), so all clients agree.
-String? autoAdvanceSwapper(List<MemberView> members, String serverId) {
-  final eligible = [
-    for (final m in members)
-      if (isPresent(m) && m.jf[serverId] == true) m
-  ];
-  if (eligible.isEmpty) return null;
-  eligible.sort((a, b) => compareMemberIds(a.id, b.id));
-  return eligible.first.id;
-}
-
-/// "m2" before "m10": numeric suffix order, then plain text.
-int compareMemberIds(String a, String b) {
-  final na = int.tryParse(a.replaceFirst(RegExp(r'^\D+'), ''));
-  final nb = int.tryParse(b.replaceFirst(RegExp(r'^\D+'), ''));
-  if (na != null && nb != null && na != nb) return na.compareTo(nb);
-  return a.compareTo(b);
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/library/library_store.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:hive_ce/hive.dart';
+
+// Where the library's matches live (device-owned, one Hive box): AniList
+// entries seen, automatic matches, the user's pins and episode offsets.
+// Plain JSON-ish values under string keys; reads are synchronous once
+// loaded, writes go through.
+
+const libraryBoxName = 'library';
+
+abstract interface class LibraryStore {
+  /// Loads the stored values (once).
+  Future<void> ensureLoaded();
+  Object? get(String key);
+  void put(String key, Object value);
+  void delete(String key);
+
+  /// Every key starting with [prefix].
+  Iterable<String> keys(String prefix);
+}
+
+/// For tests and as the fallback when Hive is not available.
+class MemoryLibraryStore implements LibraryStore {
+  final Map<String, Object> values;
+  MemoryLibraryStore([Map<String, Object>? values]) : values = values ?? {};
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> ensureLoaded() async {}
+  @override
+  Object? get(String key) => values[key];
+  @override
+  void put(String key, Object value) => values[key] = value;
+  @override
+  void delete(String key) => values.remove(key);
+  @override
+  Iterable<String> keys(String prefix) => values.keys.where((k) => k.startsWith(prefix)).toList();
+}
+
+/// The `library` box; until it opens (or when it cannot) it acts as an
+/// empty memory store, so matching still works for the run.
+class HiveLibraryStore implements LibraryStore {
+  Box? _box;
+  final _memory = MemoryLibraryStore();
+  Future<void>? _load;
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> ensureLoaded() => _load ??= () async {
+        try {
+          final box = _box = await Hive.openBox(libraryBoxName);
+          // Writes made before the box opened.
+          for (final e in _memory.values.entries) {
+            await box.put(e.key, e.value);
+          }
+          _memory.values.clear();
+        } catch (e, st) {
+          debugPrint('open library store failed: $e\n$st');
+        }
+      }();
+
+  @override
+  Object? get(String key) => _box?.get(key) ?? _memory.get(key);
+
+  @override
+  void put(String key, Object value) {
+    final box = _box;
+    if (box == null) return _memory.put(key, value);
+    box.put(key, value).catchError((Object e) => debugPrint('library store put $key: $e'));
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void delete(String key) {
+    _memory.delete(key);
+    _box?.delete(key).catchError((Object e) => debugPrint('library store delete $key: $e'));
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Iterable<String> keys(String prefix) => [
+        ...?_box?.keys.whereType<String>().where((k) => k.startsWith(prefix)),
+        ..._memory.keys(prefix),
+      ];
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/library/local_next.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../files/scanner.dart' show FolderScan;
+import 'show_matcher.dart';
+
+// The next episode of a local show (the library's `nextAfter`, numbers
+// skipped on the way included): what continues a file this app put up
+// (see ARCHITECTURE.md "What's next").
+
+/// [path]'s next episode: from the library the Files page saw this run
+/// ([ShowMatcher.showAt]), else from the file's own folder read now (one
+/// [scan], grouped by `groupLocal` with that folder's name as a hint). Null when there is none (the last
+/// episode, not an episode, an unreadable folder).
+class LocalNextFinder {
+  final ShowMatcher matcher;
+  final Future<FolderScan> Function(String dir) scan;
+  LocalNextFinder({required this.matcher, required this.scan});
+
+  Future<LocalNext?> nextAfter(String path) async {
+    var show = matcher.showAt(path);
+    if (show == null) {
+      final dir = File(path).parent.path;
+      final found = await scan(dir);
+      // The folder itself is a hint (a bare `01.mkv` in `Bleach`).
+      final lib = groupLocal(found.videos, roots: [Directory(dir).parent.path]);
+      show = lib.shows.where((s) => s.files.any((e) => e.path == path)).firstOrNull;
+    }
+    final at = show?.files.where((e) => e.path == path).firstOrNull;
+    if (show == null || at == null || at.kind != LocalKind.episode) return null;
+    return show.nextAfter(at.key);
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/library/media_refs.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+// `media.ref` (PROTOCOL.md "Media identity") for each source: what a media
+// is, independent of where its bytes come from. Local files get theirs
+// from the library (`ShowMatcher.refFor`, L1 + L2); these are the other
+// two: Jellyfin items by their provider ids, links best effort from their
+// name.
+
+/// A Jellyfin episode, movie or video: kind, series (or movie) title,
+/// season and episode as Jellyfin numbers them, and the AniList / TVDB ids
+/// its metadata plugins set ([series]' when given: an episode's own ids
+/// are the episode's, not the show's). Null for anything that is not
+/// played (series, seasons, folders).
+MediaRef? jellyfinMediaRef(JellyfinItem item, {JellyfinItem? series}) {
+  final kind = switch (item.kind) {
+    JellyfinItemKind.episode => 'episode',
+    JellyfinItemKind.movie || JellyfinItemKind.video => 'movie',
+    _ => null,
+  };
+  if (kind == null) return null;
+  final episode = kind == 'episode';
+  // An episode's Tvdb id names the episode; the show's comes from the
+  // series item. AniList ids are only ever set on shows and movies.
+  final owner = episode ? series : item;
+  final special = episode && item.parentIndexNumber == 0;
+  return MediaRef(
+    kind: special ? 'extra' : kind,
+    title: episode ? (item.seriesName ?? series?.name ?? item.name) : item.name,
+    anilistId: owner?.providerId('AniList'),
+    tvdbId: owner?.providerId('Tvdb'),
+    season: episode && !special ? item.parentIndexNumber : null,
+    ep: episode && !special ? item.indexNumber : null,
+  );
+}
+
+final _sxe = RegExp(r'S(\d{1,3})\s?E(\d{1,4})$', caseSensitive: false);
+
+/// A picked Jellyfin item from its card's lines alone ([title], and
+/// [subtitle] "Series · S1E6" for episodes, the year for movies): kind,
+/// title and numbers, no ids.
+MediaRef jellyfinPickRef(String title, String subtitle) {
+  final sub = subtitle.trim();
+  final cut = sub.lastIndexOf(' · ');
+  final label = cut < 0 ? sub : sub.substring(cut + 3).trim();
+  final m = _sxe.firstMatch(label);
+  if (m == null) return MediaRef(kind: 'movie', title: title);
+  final season = int.parse(m.group(1)!);
+  return MediaRef(
+    kind: season == 0 ? 'extra' : 'episode',
+    title: cut < 0 ? title : sub.substring(0, cut).trim(),
+    season: season == 0 ? null : season,
+    ep: season == 0 ? null : int.parse(m.group(2)!),
+  );
+}
+
+/// A link, best effort: its name read like a release name (`Show - 05`
+/// is an episode, `OP1` an extra); anything else a movie of that title.
+MediaRef linkMediaRef(String name) {
+  final p = parseReleaseName(name);
+  final title = p.series.trim().isEmpty ? name.trim() : p.series.trim();
+  return switch (p.kind) {
+    ReleaseKind.episode => MediaRef(
+        kind: 'episode',
+        title: title,
+        season: p.season,
+        ep: p.season == null ? null : p.episode,
+        absolute: p.season == null ? p.episode : null),
+    ReleaseKind.extra => MediaRef(kind: 'extra', title: title, season: p.season),
+    ReleaseKind.movie || ReleaseKind.other => MediaRef(kind: 'movie', title: title),
+  };
+}
+
+/// The episode line a ref gives (`S3 E13`, `E108`), or null (movies;
+/// extras keep the name's own marker).
+String? refEpisodeLine(MediaRef ref) {
+  if (ref.kind != 'episode') return null;
+  if (ref.season != null && ref.ep != null) return 'S${ref.season} E${ref.ep}';
+  final n = ref.absolute ?? ref.ep ?? ref.anilistEp;
+  return n == null ? null : 'E$n';
+}

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+import 'dart:async';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show debugPrint, visibleForTesting;
+import 'package:signals/signals.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../schedule/anilist.dart';
+import '../schedule/animeflow.dart';
+import 'library_store.dart';
+
+// L2 of the library (ARCHITECTURE.md "Media identity"): local shows (L1)
+// matched to AniList, device-owned and cached. A season of a show is
+// searched once (title and synonyms, the season's number or name as
+// hints) and the answer kept by show key, season and season name; its
+// episodes map onto AniList entries along the run (a season AniList
+// splits into cours continues on the SEQUEL entry), or onto AnimeFlow's
+// `anilist_map` when signed in. The user's pins (a show everywhere, or one
+// folder) and episode offsets override everything and survive rescans.
+// Requests are lazy (only for shows on screen), one at a time and spaced
+// out for AniList's rate limit; everything answers offline from the cache.
+
+/// Where AnimeFlow places an AniList entry: the TVDB season runs of its
+/// series ([AniListRun]) and the series' TVDB id.
+class FlowShow {
+  final List<AniListRun> runs;
+  final int? tvdbId;
+  const FlowShow(this.runs, {this.tvdbId});
+}
+
+/// AnimeFlow's knowledge of a show, when signed in.
+abstract interface class FlowLookup {
+  /// The series [anilistId] belongs to; null when AnimeFlow has none (or
+  /// cannot be asked).
+  Future<FlowShow?> forAniList(int anilistId);
+}
+
+/// [FlowLookup] over the AnimeFlow app API (`/library`, `/series`), read
+/// once per app run.
+class AnimeFlowLookup implements FlowLookup {
+  final AnimeFlowClient client;
+  AnimeFlowLookup(this.client);
+
+  Future<(List<AnimeFlowLibraryItem>, List<AnimeFlowSeries>)>? _load;
+
+  Future<(List<AnimeFlowLibraryItem>, List<AnimeFlowSeries>)> _fetch() async =>
+      (await client.library(), await client.series());
+
+  @override
+  Future<FlowShow?> forAniList(int anilistId) async {
+    final load = _load ??= _fetch();
+    final (List<AnimeFlowLibraryItem>, List<AnimeFlowSeries>) data;
+    try {
+      data = await load;
+    } catch (e) {
+      _load = null;
+      return null;
+    }
+    final (library, series) = data;
+    for (final item in library) {
+      final has = item.anilistMap.any((r) => r.anilistId == anilistId) || item.anilistIds.values.contains(anilistId);
+      if (!has) continue;
+      final s = series
+          .where((s) =>
+              (item.seriesId != null && s.seriesId == item.seriesId) ||
+              (s.jellyfinSeriesId != null && s.jellyfinSeriesId == item.jellyfinSeriesId))
+          .firstOrNull;
+      return FlowShow(item.anilistMap, tvdbId: s?.tvdbId);
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+/// What a pin covers.
+enum PinScope { show, folder }
+
+/// The AniList entry a season (or a movie, or an extra's show) is.
+class SeasonMatch {
+  final AniListEntry entry;
+
+  /// Set by the user ("Wrong show?"), not by the search.
+  final PinScope? pinned;
+  const SeasonMatch(this.entry, {this.pinned});
+}
+
+/// An episode on AniList.
+class EpisodeTarget {
+  final int anilistId;
+  final int? anilistEp;
+  const EpisodeTarget(this.anilistId, this.anilistEp);
+
+  @override
+  bool operator ==(Object other) => other is EpisodeTarget && other.anilistId == anilistId && other.anilistEp == anilistEp;
+  @override
+  int get hashCode => Object.hash(anilistId, anilistEp);
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'EpisodeTarget($anilistId, $anilistEp)';
+}
+
+/// The library's L2: see the file comment. Made by the composition root.
+class ShowMatcher {
+  ShowMatcher({
+    required this.store,
+    required this.aniList,
+    this.flow,
+    this.spacing = const Duration(milliseconds: 800),
+    this.retryNoneAfter = const Duration(days: 3),
+    DateTime Function()? now,
+    Future<void> Function(Duration)? delay,
+  })  : _now = now ?? DateTime.now,
+        _delay = delay ?? Future<void>.delayed;
+
+  final LibraryStore store;
+  final AniListLookup aniList;
+  final FlowLookup? flow;
+
+  /// Between two AniList requests.
+  final Duration spacing;
+
+  /// A search that found nothing is asked again after this.
+  final Duration retryNoneAfter;
+  final DateTime Function() _now;
+  final Future<void> Function(Duration) _delay;
+
+  /// Bumps whenever something new is known (a match, an entry, a pin).
+  final revision = signal(0);
+
+  /// Shows being matched right now, by show key.
+  final busy = signal<Set<String>>(const {});
+
+  // Files seen in scans this run, for refs of files put up.
+  final _byPath = <String, LocalEpisode>{};
+  final _showByPath = <String, LocalShow>{};
+  final _entries = <int, AniListEntry>{};
+  final _flows = <int, FlowShow?>{};
+  final _jobs = <String, Future<void> Function()>{};
+  final _failed = <String, DateTime>{};
+  bool _pumping = false;
+  DateTime? _lastRequest;
+  DateTime? _pausedUntil;
+
+  /// Loads the cache (once); reads before it finishes see nothing.
+  Future<void> ensureLoaded() => store.ensureLoaded().then((_) => _bump());
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------- keys
+
+  static String matchKey(String showKey, int? season, String? seasonName) =>
+      '$showKey|${season ?? ''}|${normalizeSeries(seasonName ?? '')}';
+
+  static String _movieKey(LocalEpisode e) => '${e.showKey}|movie|${e.movieNumber ?? ''}';
+
+  String _keyOf(LocalEpisode e) =>
+      e.kind == LocalKind.movie ? _movieKey(e) : matchKey(e.showKey, e.season, e.seasonName);
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------- reads
+
+  /// Remembers [library]'s files, so [refForPath] and [showAt] know
+  /// their show.
+  void remember(LocalLibrary library) {
+    for (final e in library.files) {
+      _byPath[e.path] = e;
+    }
+    for (final s in library.shows) {
+      for (final e in s.files) {
+        _showByPath[e.path] = s;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// The show the file at [path] belongs to, as seen in a scan this run.
+  LocalShow? showAt(String path) => _showByPath[path];
+
+  AniListEntry? entry(int id) {
+    final known = _entries[id];
+    if (known != null) return known;
+    final raw = store.get('entry:$id');
+    final e = raw is Map ? AniListEntry.fromJson(raw['e']) : null;
+    if (e != null) _entries[id] = e;
+    return e;
+  }
+
+  /// The user's pin for [showKey] (everywhere), if any.
+  int? showPin(String showKey) => _int(store.get('pin:show:$showKey'));
+
+  /// The pin of [folder] or the nearest folder above it, if any.
+  ({String folder, int id})? folderPin(String folder) {
+    var f = folder;
+    while (f.isNotEmpty) {
+      final id = _int(store.get('pin:folder:$f'));
+      if (id != null) return (folder: f, id: id);
+      final cut = f.lastIndexOf(RegExp(r'[/\\]'));
+      if (cut <= 0) break;
+      f = f.substring(0, cut);
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  /// "These files are episodes N..": added to every file's number of
+  /// [showKey]'s season [season].
+  int offset(String showKey, int? season) => _int(store.get('offset:$showKey|${season ?? ''}')) ?? 0;
+
+  /// The entry [e]'s season (or movie, or the show of an extra) is: a
+  /// folder pin, else the show's pin, else the search's answer.
+  SeasonMatch? seasonMatch(LocalEpisode e) {
+    if (e.kind == LocalKind.other) return null;
+    final fp = folderPin(e.folder);
+    if (fp != null) {
+      final en = entry(fp.id);
+      return en == null ? null : SeasonMatch(en, pinned: PinScope.folder);
+    }
+    final sp = showPin(e.showKey);
+    if (sp != null) {
+      final en = entry(sp);
+      return en == null ? null : SeasonMatch(en, pinned: PinScope.show);
+    }
+    final auto = store.get('auto:${_keyOf(e)}');
+    final id = auto is Map ? _int(auto['id']) : null;
+    if (id == null) {
+      // An extra of no matched season: the show's first one.
+      if (e.kind == LocalKind.extra && e.season != null) {
+        return seasonMatch(LocalEpisode(
+            file: e.file, parsed: e.parsed, kind: LocalKind.extra, showKey: e.showKey, title: e.title, extra: e.extra));
+      }
+      return null;
+    }
+    final en = entry(id);
+    return en == null ? null : SeasonMatch(en);
+  }
+
+  /// What the show is as a whole: its first season's match (else a
+  /// movie's or an extra's).
+  SeasonMatch? showMatch(LocalShow show) {
+    for (final e in [
+      for (final s in show.seasons) s.episodes.first,
+      ...show.movies,
+      ...show.extras,
+    ]) {
+      final m = seasonMatch(e);
+      if (m != null) return m;
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  /// The proper name of [show]: its match's title, else as found.
+  String titleOf(LocalShow show) => showMatch(show)?.entry.title ?? show.title;
+
+  /// The AniList entry and episode [e] is; for extras and movies only the
+  /// entry. Null before a match.
+  EpisodeTarget? target(LocalEpisode e) {
+    final m = seasonMatch(e);
+    if (m == null) return null;
+    if (e.kind != LocalKind.episode) return EpisodeTarget(m.entry.id, null);
+    final n = e.episode! + offset(e.showKey, e.season);
+    if (n < 1) return EpisodeTarget(m.entry.id, null);
+    final fs = _flowOf(m.entry.id);
+    if (fs != null && e.season != null) {
+      final runs = fs.runs.where((r) => r.season == e.season && r.firstEpisode <= n).toList()
+        ..sort((a, b) => b.firstEpisode.compareTo(a.firstEpisode));
+      if (runs.isNotEmpty) return EpisodeTarget(runs.first.anilistId, n - runs.first.offset);
+    }
+    // Along the run: past an entry's episodes, its sequel's.
+    var cur = m.entry;
+    var k = n;
+    for (var hop = 0; hop < 30; hop++) {
+      final count = cur.episodes;
+      final next = cur.sequel;
+      if (count == null || k <= count || next == null) break;
+      k -= count;
+      final nx = entry(next);
+      if (nx == null) {
+        _wantEntry(next);
+        return EpisodeTarget(next, k);
+      }
+      cur = nx;
+    }
+    return EpisodeTarget(cur.id, k);
+  }
+
+  /// AniList's title of [e]'s episode, when it knows one.
+  String? episodeTitle(LocalEpisode e) {
+    final t = target(e);
+    final ep = t?.anilistEp;
+    if (t == null || ep == null) return null;
+    return entry(t.anilistId)?.episodeTitles[ep];
+  }
+
+  /// What [e] is on the wire (`media.ref`): the match when there is one,
+  /// else what L1 read (kind, title, numbers).
+  MediaRef refFor(LocalEpisode e) {
+    final m = seasonMatch(e);
+    final t = target(e);
+    final n = e.episode == null ? null : e.episode! + offset(e.showKey, e.season);
+    final tvdb = m == null ? null : _flowOf(m.entry.id)?.tvdbId;
+    return MediaRef(
+      kind: switch (e.kind) {
+        LocalKind.episode => 'episode',
+        LocalKind.extra => 'extra',
+        LocalKind.movie || LocalKind.other => 'movie',
+      },
+      title: m?.entry.title ?? e.title,
+      anilistId: t?.anilistId ?? m?.entry.id,
+      anilistEp: t?.anilistEp,
+      tvdbId: tvdb,
+      season: e.kind == LocalKind.episode ? e.season : null,
+      ep: e.kind == LocalKind.episode && e.season != null ? n : null,
+      absolute: e.kind == LocalKind.episode && e.season == null ? n : null,
+    );
+  }
+
+  /// [refFor] the file at [path]: as seen in a scan this run, else read
+  /// from its name and folder alone.
+  MediaRef refForPath(String path) =>
+      refFor(_byPath[path] ?? readLocalFile(LocalFile(path, 0, DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(0))));
+
+  /// The library's reading of [path] (null: not seen in a scan this run).
+  LocalEpisode? episodeAt(String path) => _byPath[path];
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------- matching
+
+  /// Matches [show]'s seasons and movies that have no answer yet, in the
+  /// background (see the file comment).
+  void want(LocalShow show) {
+    final seen = <String>{};
+    for (final e in [
+      for (final s in show.seasons) s.episodes.first,
+      ...show.movies,
+      if (show.seasons.isEmpty) ...show.extras.take(1),
+    ]) {
+      final key = _keyOf(e);
+      if (!seen.add(key)) continue;
+      final pinned = folderPin(e.folder)?.id ?? showPin(e.showKey);
+      if (pinned != null) {
+        if (entry(pinned) == null) _wantEntry(pinned);
+        continue;
+      }
+      _wantMatch(key, show, e);
+    }
+    final m = showMatch(show);
+    if (m != null) _wantFlow(m.entry.id);
+  }
+
+  /// [want] for each standalone movie of [library] and each of [shows].
+  void wantMovie(LocalEpisode movie) {
+    if (movie.kind != LocalKind.movie) return;
+    _wantMatch(_movieKey(movie), null, movie);
+  }
+
+  void _wantMatch(String key, LocalShow? show, LocalEpisode e) {
+    final auto = store.get('auto:$key');
+    if (auto is Map) {
+      final id = _int(auto['id']);
+      if (id != null) {
+        if (entry(id) == null) _wantEntry(id);
+        return;
+      }
+      final at = _int(auto['at']) ?? 0;
+      if (_now().difference(DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(at)) < retryNoneAfter) return;
+    }
+    if (_recentlyFailed(key)) return;
+    _enqueue('match:$key', () => _match(key, show?.title ?? e.title, e));
+    _setBusy(e.showKey, true);
+  }
+
+  void _wantEntry(int id) {
+    if (_recentlyFailed('entry:$id')) return;
+    _enqueue('entry:$id', () async {
+      final en = await _ask(() => aniList.anime(id));
+      if (en != null) _keepEntry(en);
+    });
+  }
+
+  void _wantFlow(int id) {
+    final f = flow;
+    if (f == null || _flows.containsKey(id)) return;
+    final stored = store.get('flow:$id');
+    if (stored is Map) {
+      _flows[id] = _flowFromJson(stored);
+      final at = _int(stored['at']) ?? 0;
+      if (_now().difference(DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(at)) < const Duration(days: 1)) return;
+    } else {
+      _flows[id] = null;
+    }
+    unawaited(f.forAniList(id).then((fs) {
+      if (fs == null) return;
+      _flows[id] = fs;
+      store.put('flow:$id', {
+        'at': _now().millisecondsSinceEpoch,
+        'tvdb': fs.tvdbId,
+        'runs': [
+          for (final r in fs.runs) [r.season, r.anilistId, r.firstEpisode, r.offset]
+        ],
+      });
+      _bump();
+    }).catchError((Object e) => debugPrint('library: animeflow lookup $id: $e')));
+  }
+
+  FlowShow? _flowOf(int id) {
+    if (!_flows.containsKey(id)) {
+      final stored = store.get('flow:$id');
+      if (stored is Map) _flows[id] = _flowFromJson(stored);
+    }
+    return _flows[id];
+  }
+
+  static FlowShow? _flowFromJson(Map j) {
+    final runs = <AniListRun>[];
+    final raw = j['runs'];
+    if (raw is List) {
+      for (final r in raw) {
+        if (r is List && r.length == 4 && r.every((v) => v is int)) {
+          runs.add(AniListRun(
+              season: r[0] as int, anilistId: r[1] as int, firstEpisode: r[2] as int, offset: r[3] as int));
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return runs.isEmpty ? null : FlowShow(runs, tvdbId: _int(j['tvdb']));
+  }
+
+  /// One search for the season [e] stands for; keeps the best entry (or
+  /// "none") under [key].
+  Future<void> _match(String key, String title, LocalEpisode e) async {
+    try {
+      final plain = title.replaceAll(RegExp(r'[._]+'), ' ').replaceAll(RegExp(r'\s+'), ' ').trim();
+      final movie = e.kind == LocalKind.movie;
+      final season = movie ? null : e.season;
+      final name = movie ? null : e.seasonName;
+      final query = [
+        plain,
+        if (name != null) name else if (season != null && season > 1) 'season $season',
+      ].join(' ');
+      var hits = await _ask(() => aniList.searchAnime(query));
+      var best = pickMatch(hits, title: plain, season: season, seasonName: name, movie: movie);
+      if (best == null && query != plain) {
+        hits = await _ask(() => aniList.searchAnime(plain));
+        best = pickMatch(hits, title: plain, season: season, seasonName: name, movie: movie);
+        // Found the show but not the season: walk its sequels.
+        if (best != null && season != null && season > 1 && name == null && seasonMarker(best) != season) {
+          var cur = best;
+          for (var hop = 1; hop < season; hop++) {
+            final next = cur.sequel;
+            if (next == null) break;
+            final nx = entry(next) ?? await _ask(() => aniList.anime(next));
+            if (nx == null) break;
+            _keepEntry(nx);
+            cur = nx;
+          }
+          best = cur;
+        }
+      }
+      for (final h in hits) {
+        if (h.id == best?.id) _keepEntry(h);
+      }
+      store.put('auto:$key', {'id': best?.id, 'at': _now().millisecondsSinceEpoch});
+      if (best != null) _wantFlow(best.id);
+      _bump();
+    } finally {
+      _setBusy(e.showKey, false);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// "Wrong show?": AniList's answers for [query], best first.
+  Future<List<AniListEntry>> search(String query) async {
+    final hits = await _ask(() => aniList.searchAnime(query));
+    return hits;
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------- corrections
+
+  /// Pins [showKey] to [e] everywhere (every folder, every rescan).
+  void pinShow(String showKey, AniListEntry e) {
+    _keepEntry(e);
+    store.put('pin:show:$showKey', e.id);
+    _wantFlow(e.id);
+    _bump();
+  }
+
+  /// Pins every video in [folder] (and below) to [e].
+  void pinFolder(String folder, AniListEntry e) {
+    _keepEntry(e);
+    store.put('pin:folder:$folder', e.id);
+    _wantFlow(e.id);
+    _bump();
+  }
+
+  void unpinShow(String showKey) {
+    store.delete('pin:show:$showKey');
+    _bump();
+  }
+
+  void unpinFolder(String folder) {
+    store.delete('pin:folder:$folder');
+    _bump();
+  }
+
+  /// "These files are episodes N..": [offset] is added to the file
+  /// numbers of [showKey]'s season [season] (0 removes it).
+  void setOffset(String showKey, int? season, int offset) {
+    final key = 'offset:$showKey|${season ?? ''}';
+    offset == 0 ? store.delete(key) : store.put(key, offset);
+    _bump();
+  }
+
+  /// Forgets the automatic match of [show] so it is searched again.
+  void rematch(LocalShow show) {
+    for (final k in store.keys('auto:${show.key}|').toList()) {
+      store.delete(k);
+    }
+    want(show);
+    _bump();
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------- plumbing
+
+  void _keepEntry(AniListEntry e) {
+    _entries[e.id] = e;
+    store.put('entry:${e.id}', {'at': _now().millisecondsSinceEpoch, 'e': e.toJson()});
+    _bump();
+  }
+
+  void _bump() => revision.value++;
+
+  void _setBusy(String showKey, bool on) {
+    final now = {...busy.peek()};
+    if (on ? now.add(showKey) : now.remove(showKey)) busy.value = now;
+  }
+
+  bool _recentlyFailed(String key) {
+    final at = _failed[key];
+    return at != null && _now().difference(at) < const Duration(minutes: 5);
+  }
+
+  void _enqueue(String key, Future<void> Function() job) {
+    if (_jobs.containsKey(key)) return;
+    _jobs[key] = () => job().catchError((Object e) {
+          _failed[key] = _now();
+          debugPrint('library: $key failed: $e');
+          if (e is AniListException && e.isRateLimited) _pausedUntil = _now().add(const Duration(minutes: 1));
+        });
+    if (!_pumping) unawaited(_pump());
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _pump() async {
+    _pumping = true;
+    try {
+      while (_jobs.isNotEmpty) {
+        final key = _jobs.keys.first;
+        final job = _jobs[key]!;
+        await job();
+        _jobs.remove(key);
+      }
+    } finally {
+      _pumping = false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// One AniList request, spaced from the last one (and after a rate
+  /// limit's pause).
+  Future<T> _ask<T>(Future<T> Function() request) async {
+    final paused = _pausedUntil;
+    if (paused != null && paused.isAfter(_now())) await _delay(paused.difference(_now()));
+    final last = _lastRequest;
+    if (last != null) {
+      final wait = spacing - _now().difference(last);
+      if (wait > Duration.zero) await _delay(wait);
+    }
+    _lastRequest = _now();
+    return request();
+  }
+
+  @visibleForTesting
+  bool get idle => _jobs.isEmpty && !_pumping;
+
+  static int? _int(Object? v) => v is int ? v : null;
+}
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------ scoring
+
+/// The season number an entry's names carry (`Season 2`, `2nd Season`,
+/// `Part 2` is not one); null when none does.
+int? seasonMarker(AniListEntry e) {
+  for (final n in e.names) {
+    final s = _seasonOf(normalizeSeries(n));
+    if (s != null) return s;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+final _seasonWords = RegExp(r'\b(?:season (\d{1,2})|(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th) season|s(\d{1,2}))\b');
+final _roman = {'ii': 2, 'iii': 3, 'iv': 4, 'v': 5, 'vi': 6};
+
+int? _seasonOf(String normalized) {
+  final m = _seasonWords.firstMatch(normalized);
+  if (m != null) return int.parse(m.group(1) ?? m.group(2) ?? m.group(3)!);
+  final last = normalized.split(' ').last;
+  return _roman[last];
+}
+
+/// How alike two normalized titles are, 0..1.
+double titleSimilarity(String a, String b) {
+  if (a.isEmpty || b.isEmpty) return 0;
+  if (a == b) return 1;
+  final short = a.length <= b.length ? a : b;
+  final long = a.length <= b.length ? b : a;
+  final ratio = short.length / long.length;
+  if (long.startsWith('$short ')) return 0.8 + 0.2 * ratio;
+  if (long.contains(' $short ') || long.endsWith(' $short')) return 0.6 + 0.2 * ratio;
+  // Dice over letter pairs, spaces ignored.
+  Set<String> pairs(String s) {
+    final t = s.replaceAll(' ', '');
+    return {for (var i = 0; i + 1 < t.length; i++) t.substring(i, i + 2)};
+  }
+
+  final pa = pairs(a), pb = pairs(b);
+  if (pa.isEmpty || pb.isEmpty) return 0;
+  return 2 * pa.intersection(pb).length / (pa.length + pb.length);
+}
+
+/// Scores [e] as the answer for a show called [title] (its season
+/// [season] or its season named [seasonName]; a [movie]); [rank]: its
+/// place in AniList's own order.
+double scoreMatch(AniListEntry e,
+    {required String title, int? season, String? seasonName, bool movie = false, int rank = 0}) {
+  final q = normalizeSeries(title);
+  final full = seasonName == null ? q : normalizeSeries('$title $seasonName');
+  var best = 0.0;
+  for (final n in e.names) {
+    final nn = normalizeSeries(n);
+    final s = [titleSimilarity(nn, q), titleSimilarity(nn, full)].reduce((a, b) => a > b ? a : b);
+    if (s > best) best = s;
+  }
+  var score = best;
+  if (seasonName != null) {
+    final sub = normalizeSeries(seasonName);
+    if (e.names.any((n) => normalizeSeries(n).contains(sub))) score += 0.25;
+  } else if (!movie) {
+    final wanted = season ?? 1;
+    final marker = seasonMarker(e);
+    if (marker != null && marker == wanted) {
+      score += 0.2;
+    } else if (marker != null) {
+      score -= 0.25;
+    } else if (wanted > 1) {
+      score -= 0.1;
+    }
+  }
+  if (movie) {
+    score += e.isMovie ? 0.15 : -0.25;
+  } else {
+    score += e.isSeries ? 0.05 : (e.isMovie ? -0.3 : -0.1);
+  }
+  return score - rank * 0.02;
+}
+
+/// The best of [hits] for a show called [title], if any is good enough.
+AniListEntry? pickMatch(List<AniListEntry> hits,
+    {required String title, int? season, String? seasonName, bool movie = false}) {
+  AniListEntry? best;
+  var bestScore = 0.55;
+  for (var i = 0; i < hits.length; i++) {
+    final s = scoreMatch(hits[i], title: title, season: season, seasonName: seasonName, movie: movie, rank: i);
+    if (s > bestScore) {
+      best = hits[i];
+      bestScore = s;
+    }
+  }
+  return best;
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/app_log.dart

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../screens/home/ui.dart' show appName, displayVersion;
 import 'ports/app_dirs.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 
 // The app's log on disk (<app support>/logs/app-YYYY-MM-DD.log; core's
 // logging.dart writes, rotates and redacts it), debugPrint routed into it,
@@ -50,19 +50,19 @@ Future<void> startAppLogging(AppDirs dirs) async {
 /// the app log (its hosted server's records included), already redacted;
 /// with [sessionLog], the server's session log of the same hours after it
 /// (every member's shared lines and the server's, merged).
-Future<String> diagnosticsText({Duration since = const Duration(hours: 6), bool sessionLog = false}) async {
+Future<String> diagnosticsText(AppGraph graph, {Duration since = const Duration(hours: 6), bool sessionLog = false}) async {
   final b = StringBuffer()
     ..writeln('$appName ${displayVersion()}')
     ..writeln('OS: ${Platform.operatingSystem} ${Platform.operatingSystemVersion}')
     ..writeln('Dart: ${Platform.version.split(' ').first}');
   try {
-    final mpv = await SessionState.instance.coordinator.playback.mpvVersion().timeout(const Duration(seconds: 2));
+    final mpv = await graph.coordinator.playback.mpvVersion().timeout(const Duration(seconds: 2));
     b.writeln('mpv: ${mpv ?? 'no player yet'}');
   } catch (_) {
     b.writeln('mpv: unknown');
   }
   try {
-    final y = await SessionState.instance.ports.links.ytDlp.timeout(const Duration(seconds: 2));
+    final y = await graph.ports.links.ytDlp.timeout(const Duration(seconds: 2));
     final cookies = y.cookies.read(count: false);
     b.writeln('yt-dlp: ${y.version ?? 'not ready'}${y.lastError == null ? '' : ' (${y.lastError})'}, '
         'cookies: ${cookies == null ? 'none' : 'set'}');
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Future<String> diagnosticsText({Duration since = const Duration(hours: 6), bool
   b.writeln('--- last ${since.inHours} h of the log ---');
   b.write(files?.recent(since) ?? '');
   if (sessionLog) {
-    final server = await SessionState.instance.coordinator.sessionLog(hours: since.inHours);
+    final server = await graph.coordinator.sessionLog(hours: since.inHours);
     b
       ..writeln()
       ..writeln("--- last ${since.inHours} h of the server's session log ---")

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/app_shutdown.dart

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import 'dart:io';
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 
 import '../files/thumbnails.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 
 // The one way out of the app (close button, Alt+F4, Update and restart).
 // Order matters: every mpv player goes before the engine does (a live one
@@ -18,33 +18,45 @@ bool _shuttingDown = false;
 /// True once [shutDownApp] started.
 bool get shuttingDown => _shuttingDown;
 
+/// The systems the close stops; `main` hands them over once.
+AppGraph? _graph;
+
+/// Makes [graph] the one [shutDownApp] stops and returns the close
+/// request handler for the window.
+Future<void> Function() closeAppWith(AppGraph graph) {
+  _graph = graph;
+  return shutDownApp;
+}
+
 /// Hides the window, releases every player and the sound device, leaves
-/// (the `bye` goes out first, so others see "left" at once; a hosted
+/// (the `bye` goes out first, so others see "left" at once; then your
 /// server stops), runs [beforeQuit], then closes the window. [restart]
 /// (Update and restart) leaves without the `bye`: the member stays
 /// `gone`, and the restarted app, same client id, takes it back within
 /// the grace. Every step is bounded; a second call does nothing.
 Future<void> shutDownApp({Future<void> Function()? beforeQuit, bool restart = false}) async {
-  if (_shuttingDown) return;
+  final graph = _graph;
+  if (_shuttingDown || graph == null) return;
   _shuttingDown = true;
-  final session = SessionState.instance;
+  final shell = graph.ports.shell;
-  final shell = session.ports.shell;
   final total = Stopwatch()..start();
   await _step('window save', shell.saveWindow(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500));
   await _step('hide', shell.hide(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500));
   await Future.wait([
-    _step('players', session.coordinator.releasePlayers(), const Duration(seconds: 3)),
+    _step('players', graph.coordinator.releasePlayers(), const Duration(seconds: 3)),
     _step('thumbnails', cancelAllThumbnails(), const Duration(milliseconds: 1500)),
-    _step('sounds', session.sfx.dispose(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500)),
+    _step('sounds', graph.sfx.dispose(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500)),
   ]);
+  // The host owns the disposal order: anything still alive goes now.
+  await _step('all players', graph.ports.players.disposeAll(), const Duration(milliseconds: 1500));
   // Windows: media_kit_video frees a player's video output on a thread of
   // its own after dispose returns; it must be done before the engine
   // stops, or the plugin's teardown waits on it for good.
   if (Platform.isWindows) await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 300));
-  // Jellyfin stop report, last diagnostics, the bye (flushed), then the
+  // Jellyfin stop report, last diagnostics, the bye (flushed), then your
-  // hosted server: 3 s in all.
+  // server: 3 s in all.
-  await _step('leave', session.leave(bye: !restart), const Duration(milliseconds: 2500));
+  await _step('leave', graph.navigation.leave(bye: !restart), const Duration(milliseconds: 2500));
-  await _step('server stop', session.stopServer(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500));
+  await _step('server stop', graph.yourServer.stop(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500));
   if (beforeQuit != null) await _step('before quit', beforeQuit(), const Duration(seconds: 3));
   debugPrint('close: ready to quit after ${total.elapsedMilliseconds} ms');
   await shell.quit();

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/audio/sound_engine.dart

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
 import 'dart:typed_data';
 
 import 'package:flutter_soloud/flutter_soloud.dart';
@@ -50,6 +51,13 @@ class SoundEngine {
 
   Future<bool>? _ready;
   var _disposed = false;
+
+  /// A file that exists only while the audio device is opening (set by the
+  /// app). Found at the next start, the last open took the app down (a
+  /// native crash in the driver or miniaudio, seen on Windows): sounds stay
+  /// off rather than crash every start, until [retry] (Settings' preview).
+  String? crashMark;
+  var _skipped = false;
   /// Per slot: the loaded key and its sound (null: failed to load).
   final Map<String, (String, Future<Object?>)> _slots = {};
   /// Load names are unique: SoLoud hands back the old sound for a name it
@@ -61,15 +69,43 @@ class SoundEngine {
 
   Future<bool> _init() async {
     if (_disposed) return false;
+    final mark = crashMark == null ? null : File(crashMark!);
+    try {
+      if (mark != null && mark.existsSync()) {
+        _skipped = true;
+        _log.warning('no sounds: opening the audio device crashed the app last time '
+            '(${mark.path}); a sound preview in Settings tries again');
+        return false;
+      }
+      mark?.writeAsStringSync('opening the audio device');
+    } catch (_) {}
+    _log.info('opening the audio device');
     try {
       await _backend.init();
+      _log.info('audio device open');
       return true;
     } catch (e) {
       _log.warning('no sounds: audio init failed: $e');
       return false;
+    } finally {
+      try {
+        if (mark != null && mark.existsSync()) mark.deleteSync();
+      } catch (_) {}
     }
   }
 
+  /// Opens the device again after a crash mark kept sounds off (the user
+  /// asked for a sound). A real crash leaves the mark again.
+  void retry() {
+    if (!_skipped) return;
+    _skipped = false;
+    try {
+      final m = crashMark;
+      if (m != null) File(m).deleteSync();
+    } catch (_) {}
+    _ready = null;
+  }
+
   /// Plays the sound of [slot] at [volume] (linear gain). [key] names what
   /// [wav] renders: the same key reuses the loaded sound; another key, or
   /// [fresh], renders and loads it again.

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/desktop_notifications.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:flutter_local_notifications/flutter_local_notifications.dart';
+
+import '../desktop_entry.dart' show appId;
+import '../ports/system_notifications.dart';
+
+/// [SystemNotifications] on the desktop, through flutter_local_notifications'
+/// platform plugins (used directly, not through its facade, so the platform
+/// is picked by the OS and not by Flutter's target platform):
+/// - Linux: `org.freedesktop.Notifications` over D-Bus (pure Dart), with the
+///   app's icon (the bundled PNG, else the launcher entry's icon by name);
+///   a click is the notification's default action.
+/// - Windows: toast notifications (WinRT), the app's name and icon, a click
+///   activates the app while it runs (an unpackaged app has no history).
+/// Silent: the app plays its own sound for the same notice. Anything that
+/// fails (no notification daemon, no session bus) is logged and dropped.
+class DesktopNotifications implements SystemNotifications {
+  DesktopNotifications({this.appName = 'Starsync'});
+
+  final String appName;
+  void Function(String payload)? _onClick;
+  Future<bool>? _ready;
+  LinuxFlutterLocalNotificationsPlugin? _linux;
+  FlutterLocalNotificationsWindows? _windows;
+  // Tag -> id, so a notification with the same tag replaces the last one.
+  final _ids = <String, int>{};
+  int _next = 1;
+
+  @override
+  set onClick(void Function(String payload)? handler) => _onClick = handler;
+
+  void _clicked(NotificationResponse r) => _onClick?.call(r.payload ?? '');
+
+  /// The bundled 256 px icon next to the executable (a release or a
+  /// `flutter run` build), else the icon the launcher entry installed.
+  static LinuxNotificationIcon _linuxIcon() {
+    final exe = File(Platform.resolvedExecutable).parent.path;
+    final png = File('$exe/data/flutter_assets/assets/icon/icon_256.png');
+    return png.existsSync() ? FilePathLinuxIcon(png.path) : ThemeLinuxIcon(appId);
+  }
+
+  Future<bool> _init() => _ready ??= () async {
+        try {
+          if (Platform.isLinux) {
+            final p = _linux = LinuxFlutterLocalNotificationsPlugin();
+            return await p.initialize(
+                  settings: LinuxInitializationSettings(defaultActionName: 'Open', defaultIcon: _linuxIcon()),
+                  onDidReceiveNotificationResponse: _clicked,
+                ) ??
+                false;
+          }
+          if (Platform.isWindows) {
+            final exe = File(Platform.resolvedExecutable).parent.path;
+            final icon = File('$exe/data/flutter_assets/assets/icon/icon_256.png');
+            final p = _windows = FlutterLocalNotificationsWindows();
+            return await p.initialize(
+              settings: WindowsInitializationSettings(
+                appName: appName,
+                appUserModelId: 'Foxyz.Starsync',
+                guid: '6c0f4b4e-3e8a-4b8e-9d0c-5a7f2b1e9c31',
+                iconPath: icon.existsSync() ? icon.path : null,
+              ),
+              onDidReceiveNotificationResponse: _clicked,
+            );
+          }
+        } catch (e) {
+          debugPrint('system notifications unavailable: $e');
+        }
+        return false;
+      }();
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> show({required String title, required String body, String tag = '', String payload = ''}) async {
+    if (!await _init()) return;
+    final id = tag.isEmpty ? _next++ : _ids[tag] ??= _next++;
+    try {
+      if (_linux case final p?) {
+        await p.show(
+          id: id,
+          title: title,
+          body: body,
+          payload: payload,
+          notificationDetails: const LinuxNotificationDetails(suppressSound: true),
+        );
+      } else if (_windows case final p?) {
+        await p.show(
+          id: id,
+          title: title,
+          body: body,
+          payload: payload,
+          notificationDetails: WindowsNotificationDetails(audio: WindowsNotificationAudio.silent()),
+        );
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('system notification failed: $e');
+    }
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/desktop_ports.dart

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import '../../playback/yt_dlp_app.dart';
 import '../ports/ports.dart';
 import 'desktop_folders.dart';
+import 'desktop_notifications.dart';
 import 'desktop_shell.dart';
 import 'desktop_urls.dart';
+import 'media_kit_host.dart';
 
 /// The desktop's [Ports].
 Ports desktopPorts() {
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@ Ports desktopPorts() {
     urls: urls,
     folders: const DesktopFolders(urls),
     links: AppYtDlp.instance,
-    notifications: const NoSystemNotifications(),
+    notifications: DesktopNotifications(),
+    players: MediaKitHost(),
   );
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/desktop_shell.dart

@@ -97,6 +97,17 @@ class DesktopShell implements ShellPort {
     }
   }
 
+  @override
+  Future<void> focus() async {
+    try {
+      if (await windowManager.isMinimized()) await windowManager.restore();
+      if (!await windowManager.isVisible()) await windowManager.show();
+      await windowManager.focus();
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('window focus failed: $e');
+    }
+  }
+
   @override
   Future<void> requestAttention() => requestWindowAttention();
 

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/media_kit_host.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,513 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:ffi' show Int8;
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:ffi/ffi.dart' show StringUtf8Pointer, malloc;
+import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
+import 'package:media_kit/media_kit.dart';
+import 'package:media_kit_video/media_kit_video.dart';
+import 'package:signals/signals.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show LogThrottle, createLogger;
+
+import '../../state/settings.dart';
+import '../ports/player_host.dart';
+
+// The desktop's players: media_kit over libmpv. Everything mpv-specific
+// that is not about one media lives here: the cache and HTTP pins, hwdec,
+// mpv's log level (media_kit has no API for it: `mpv_request_log_messages`
+// on its handle), the render-mode probe and its diagnostics, mpv's log into
+// the app log, and the order players are torn down in.
+
+/// Read-ahead target: about two minutes rides out short outages and makes
+/// skipping an intro instant.
+const readAheadSecs = 150;
+
+/// Forward demuxer cache of a session player. Holds [readAheadSecs] up to
+/// ~14 Mbit/s (a 1.4 GB / 24 min file is ~8); higher bitrates get less
+/// time. In RAM: `cache-on-disk=no` (media_kit sets it on without a
+/// cache-dir, and mpv warned "Failed to create file cache." per open).
+const sessionAheadBytes = 256 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+/// Back buffer (media_kit sets it to bufferSize too): enough for a short
+/// seek back without holding another 256 MiB.
+const sessionBackBytes = 64 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+/// The preload's forward cache: its first seconds and the container's
+/// index, at little memory. Raised to [sessionAheadBytes] when promoted.
+const preloadAheadBytes = 48 * 1024 * 1024;
+const preloadBackBytes = 8 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+/// mpv's `volume-max` (its default is 130): the volume controls go this
+/// far, past 100 % amplified.
+const mpvMaxVolume = 150;
+
+/// mpv's log level for session players. media_kit drains mpv's log on the
+/// UI thread one line at a time, so a chatty level (ffmpeg retrying a
+/// refused request logs every attempt) can starve the UI: warnings and
+/// errors only, except during the render-mode probe, which needs mpv's
+/// verbose GL init lines.
+const sessionLogLevel = 'warn';
+
+/// ffmpeg's HTTP options (mpv `stream-lavf-o`, comma form): reconnect after
+/// a dropped connection, also on a streamed (growing) relay response, and a
+/// server error (5xx) while connecting; a refused request (4xx) fails at
+/// once. At most 3 tries per read, 4 s apart at most.
+const streamLavfOptions = 'reconnect_streamed=1,reconnect_on_http_error=5xx,'
+    'reconnect_delay_max=4,reconnect_max_retries=3';
+
+/// mpv echoes numbers in its own format (`150` reads back `150.000000`).
+bool pinMatches(String wanted, String got) {
+  if (wanted == got) return true;
+  final a = double.tryParse(wanted), b = double.tryParse(got);
+  return a != null && b != null && a == b;
+}
+
+/// The `VideoController` behind [video], for the `Video` widget (the only
+/// media_kit use outside this file).
+VideoController videoControllerOf(HostedVideo video) => (video as _MkVideo).controller;
+
+final _mpvLog = createLogger('mpv');
+
+class MediaKitHost implements PlayerHost {
+  /// The hwdec setting ([AppSettings.hwdec] by default).
+  final String? Function() _hwdecSetting;
+  MediaKitHost({String? Function()? hwdecSetting})
+      : _hwdecSetting = hwdecSetting ?? (() => AppSettings.instance.hwdec.peek());
+
+  final _live = <_MkPlayer>{};
+  final _renderMode = signal(RenderMode.unknown);
+  final _http = StreamController<String>.broadcast();
+  final _throttle = LogThrottle(burst: 5);
+  Future<void> _retiring = Future.value();
+  var _closing = false;
+
+  @override
+  final List<String> pinMismatches = [];
+
+  @override
+  void init() => MediaKit.ensureInitialized();
+
+  @override
+  ReadonlySignal<RenderMode> get renderMode => _renderMode;
+
+  @override
+  Stream<String> get httpErrors => _http.stream;
+
+  @override
+  int get live => _live.length;
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> get retiring => _retiring;
+
+  @override
+  String? get hwdec {
+    final env = Platform.environment['SYNC_RELAY_HWDEC'];
+    if (env != null && env.isNotEmpty) return env;
+    return _hwdecSetting();
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<HostedPlayer> create(PlayerRole role, {bool muted = false}) async {
+    if (_closing) throw StateError('closing: no new players');
+    final mk = _SyncPlayer(
+        configuration: switch (role) {
+      PlayerRole.session => PlayerConfiguration(
+          bufferSize: sessionAheadBytes,
+          libass: true,
+          vo: Platform.environment['SYNC_RELAY_VO'],
+          logLevel: MPVLogLevel.warn),
+      PlayerRole.preload => PlayerConfiguration(
+          bufferSize: preloadAheadBytes,
+          libass: true,
+          vo: Platform.environment['SYNC_RELAY_VO'],
+          logLevel: MPVLogLevel.error),
+      PlayerRole.thumbnail => const PlayerConfiguration(
+          vo: 'null', muted: true, osc: false, libass: false, title: 'thumbnail', bufferSize: 4 << 20),
+    });
+    final p = _MkPlayer(this, mk, role);
+    _live.add(p);
+    if (role != PlayerRole.thumbnail) {
+      p._logSub = p.logs.listen((l) => _route(p, l));
+      final mismatches = <String>[];
+      await _pinCache(p, role, mismatches);
+      if (await p.pin('volume-max', '$mpvMaxVolume') case final m?) mismatches.add(m);
+      if (muted || role == PlayerRole.preload) {
+        if (await p.pin('mute', 'yes') case final m?) mismatches.add(m);
+      }
+      if (role == PlayerRole.session) {
+        pinMismatches
+          ..clear()
+          ..addAll(mismatches);
+      }
+    }
+    return p;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> promote(HostedPlayer p) async {
+    final mk = p as _MkPlayer;
+    mk._role = PlayerRole.session;
+    mk.setLogLevel(sessionLogLevel);
+    final mismatches = <String>[];
+    if (await p.pin('mute', 'no') case final m?) mismatches.add(m);
+    await _pinCache(mk, PlayerRole.session, mismatches);
+    pinMismatches
+      ..clear()
+      ..addAll(mismatches);
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _pinCache(_MkPlayer p, PlayerRole role, List<String> out) async {
+    final session = role == PlayerRole.session;
+    for (final (k, v) in [
+      ('demuxer-readahead-secs', '$readAheadSecs'),
+      ('cache-secs', '$readAheadSecs'),
+      ('demuxer-max-bytes', '${session ? sessionAheadBytes : preloadAheadBytes}'),
+      ('demuxer-max-back-bytes', '${session ? sessionBackBytes : preloadBackBytes}'),
+      ('cache-on-disk', 'no'),
+      if (hwdec case final h?) ('hwdec', h),
+      ('stream-lavf-o', streamLavfOptions),
+      // Pages are resolved by the app's own yt-dlp (the media pipeline):
+      // mpv's Lua hook never runs one.
+      ('ytdl', 'no'),
+    ]) {
+      if (await p.pin(k, v) case final m?) out.add(m);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @override
+  HostedVideo video(HostedPlayer player, {bool probe = false}) {
+    final p = player as _MkPlayer;
+    if (probe) {
+      _logRenderEnv();
+      p.setLogLevel('v'); // back to the session level at the probe's end
+    }
+    // media_kit's video output sets hwdec itself on attach ('auto' unless
+    // configured), which used to override SYNC_RELAY_HWDEC.
+    final controller = VideoController(p.mk, configuration: VideoControllerConfiguration(hwdec: hwdec));
+    final v = _MkVideo(p, controller);
+    // mpv gets `vo=libmpv` before the output's render context exists; a
+    // media opened in between fails its video output ("No render context
+    // set") and plays black. Opens wait for the output (seen on X11, where
+    // the context comes up later, when joining with media already up).
+    p._videoReady = controller.platform.future
+        .then((_) {})
+        .timeout(const Duration(seconds: 5), onTimeout: () {})
+        .catchError((Object _) {});
+    if (probe) unawaited(_probeRender(p, v));
+    return v;
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------ the log
+
+  // mpv's warnings and errors to the app log, a few per kind at a time (a
+  // refused request makes ffmpeg retry and warn on every try); ffmpeg's
+  // HTTP status to [httpErrors]; the GL init lines while probing.
+  void _route(_MkPlayer p, PlayerLogLine log) {
+    if (log.prefix == 'ffmpeg') {
+      final http = RegExp(r'HTTP error \d{3}.*').firstMatch(log.text);
+      if (http != null) _http.add(http[0]!.trim());
+    }
+    if (log.prefix == 'libmpv_render') {
+      if (_glInfo.hasMatch(log.text)) _mpvLog.info('render: [libmpv_render] ${log.text.trim()}');
+      if (log.text.contains('suspected software renderer')) {
+        _probeMode = RenderMode.softwareGl;
+        _renderMode.value = RenderMode.softwareGl;
+      } else if (log.text.startsWith('GL_VERSION') && p._probing && _probeMode == RenderMode.unknown) {
+        _probeMode = RenderMode.gpu;
+        _renderMode.value = RenderMode.gpu;
+      }
+    }
+    final level = log.level;
+    if (level != 'warn' && !log.isError) return;
+    final text = log.text.trim();
+    if (text.isEmpty) return;
+    final who = p.role == PlayerRole.preload ? 'preload ' : '';
+    final pass = _throttle.allow('$who${log.prefix} $level ${text.length > 40 ? text.substring(0, 40) : text}');
+    if (pass == null) return;
+    final line = '$pass$who[${log.prefix}] $text';
+    level == 'warn' ? _mpvLog.info(line) : _mpvLog.warning(line);
+  }
+
+  // mpv's GL init lines (`GL_VENDOR='...'`, `Detected desktop OpenGL 4.6.`).
+  static final _glInfo =
+      RegExp(r'^\s*(GL_(VENDOR|RENDERER|VERSION|SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION)=|Detected (GLES|desktop OpenGL))');
+
+  // Once per app start: what decides how media_kit and mpv render (the
+  // display server, Flutter's and Mesa's overrides). Not secrets.
+  static bool _renderEnvLogged = false;
+  static void _logRenderEnv() {
+    if (_renderEnvLogged || !Platform.isLinux) return;
+    _renderEnvLogged = true;
+    const names = [
+      'XDG_SESSION_TYPE',
+      'WAYLAND_DISPLAY',
+      'DISPLAY',
+      'GDK_BACKEND',
+      'FLUTTER_LINUX_RENDERER',
+      'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE',
+      '__EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES',
+    ];
+    final env = Platform.environment;
+    _mpvLog.info('render env: ${[for (final n in names) '$n=${env[n] ?? '-'}'].join(' ')}');
+  }
+
+  RenderMode _probeMode = RenderMode.unknown;
+
+  // media_kit's Linux/Windows video output creates mpv's render context
+  // while the controller is created: OpenGL when it can, else the software
+  // renderer, which never logs GL init (and ignores shaders). No GL line
+  // within 1.5 s of the output being up means software.
+  Future<void> _probeRender(_MkPlayer p, _MkVideo v) async {
+    p._probing = true;
+    _probeMode = RenderMode.unknown;
+    try {
+      await v.controller.platform.future;
+      await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 1500));
+    } catch (_) {
+      return;
+    } finally {
+      p._probing = false;
+      if (!p.disposed) p.setLogLevel(sessionLogLevel);
+    }
+    if (p.disposed) return;
+    final mode = _probeMode;
+    if (mode != RenderMode.unknown) {
+      _renderMode.value = mode;
+      _mpvLog.info('render: ${mode.name} (${mode == RenderMode.gpu ? 'OpenGL on the GPU' : 'OpenGL on the CPU'})');
+      return;
+    }
+    _renderMode.value = RenderMode.software;
+    _mpvLog.info("render: software (no GL init logged: media_kit's own fallback; "
+        'its reason is on stderr, "media_kit: VideoOutput: ..." when run from a terminal)');
+  }
+
+  // Once per player, after its first frame: the decoder mpv picked; the
+  // first time per app start also mpv's and ffmpeg's versions.
+  static bool _versionsLogged = false;
+  Future<void> _logFirstFrame(_MkPlayer p) async {
+    try {
+      final current = await p.getProperty('hwdec-current');
+      final wanted = await p.getProperty('hwdec');
+      _mpvLog.info('render: first frame ${p.state.width}x${p.state.height}, '
+          'hwdec-current=${current.isEmpty ? 'no' : current} (hwdec=$wanted), mode ${_renderMode.peek().name}');
+      if (!_versionsLogged) {
+        _versionsLogged = true;
+        _mpvLog.info('render: ${await versions(p)}');
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('first frame info: $e');
+    }
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<String?> versions(HostedPlayer player) async {
+    try {
+      return '${await player.getProperty('mpv-version')}, ffmpeg ${await player.getProperty('ffmpeg-version')}';
+    } catch (_) {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // --------------------------------------------------------- tear-down
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> retire(HostedPlayer player) {
+    final p = player as _MkPlayer;
+    p._retired = true;
+    unawaited(p.mk.pause().catchError((_) {}));
+    return _retiring = () async {
+      await _settleUi();
+      await dispose(p);
+    }();
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> dispose(HostedPlayer player) async {
+    final p = player as _MkPlayer;
+    if (!_live.remove(p)) return;
+    p._retired = true;
+    await p._logSub?.cancel();
+    try {
+      await p.mk.dispose();
+    } catch (_) {}
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> disposeAll({Duration each = const Duration(milliseconds: 1500)}) async {
+    _closing = true;
+    await Future.wait([
+      for (final p in _live.toList()) dispose(p).timeout(each).catchError((Object _) {}),
+    ]);
+    _closing = false;
+  }
+
+  // Two frames: one may already be mid-build when the view drops the
+  // output. Then the length of a route pop (the fullscreen route holds its
+  // own `Video` and leaves animated). Bounded, since a hidden window
+  // renders no frames; headless tests have no binding and skip it all.
+  static Future<void> _settleUi() async {
+    try {
+      for (var i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+        await WidgetsBinding.instance.endOfFrame.timeout(const Duration(milliseconds: 300));
+      }
+      await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 350));
+    } catch (_) {}
+  }
+}
+
+/// A [Player] whose public [seek] belongs to the user. media_kit's controls
+/// call `player.seek`; with [onUserSeek] set those calls become explicit
+/// events for the sync layer instead of moving mpv behind its back.
+class _SyncPlayer extends Player {
+  _SyncPlayer({super.configuration});
+
+  void Function(Duration position)? onUserSeek;
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> seek(Duration duration) async {
+    final hook = onUserSeek;
+    if (hook == null) return super.seek(duration);
+    hook(duration);
+  }
+
+  Future<void> syncSeek(Duration duration) => super.seek(duration);
+}
+
+class _MkPlayer implements HostedPlayer {
+  final MediaKitHost host;
+  final _SyncPlayer mk;
+  PlayerRole _role;
+  _MkPlayer(this.host, this.mk, this._role) {
+    _firstFrame = mk.stream.width.listen((w) {
+      if (w == null || w <= 0 || _role == PlayerRole.thumbnail) return;
+      unawaited(_firstFrame?.cancel());
+      unawaited(host._logFirstFrame(this));
+    });
+  }
+
+  StreamSubscription<PlayerLogLine>? _logSub;
+  StreamSubscription<int?>? _firstFrame;
+  bool _probing = false;
+  bool _retired = false;
+  Future<void>? _videoReady; // set once a video output is attached
+
+  dynamic get _mpv => mk.platform;
+
+  @override
+  PlayerRole get role => _role;
+
+  @override
+  bool get disposed => _retired;
+
+  @override
+  HostedPlayerState get state {
+    final s = mk.state;
+    return HostedPlayerState(
+      position: s.position,
+      duration: s.duration,
+      buffer: s.buffer,
+      volume: s.volume,
+      playing: s.playing,
+      completed: s.completed,
+      width: s.width,
+      height: s.height,
+    );
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Stream<Duration> get positionStream => mk.stream.position;
+  @override
+  Stream<Duration> get durationStream => mk.stream.duration;
+  @override
+  Stream<Duration> get bufferStream => mk.stream.buffer;
+  @override
+  Stream<double> get volumeStream => mk.stream.volume;
+  @override
+  Stream<bool> get completedStream => mk.stream.completed;
+  @override
+  Stream<int?> get widthStream => mk.stream.width;
+  @override
+  Stream<PlayerLogLine> get logs => mk.stream.log.map((l) => PlayerLogLine(l.prefix, l.level, l.text));
+
+  @override
+  void Function(Duration position)? get onUserSeek => mk.onUserSeek;
+  @override
+  set onUserSeek(void Function(Duration position)? f) => mk.onUserSeek = f;
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> open(String url, {Map<String, String> headers = const {}, bool play = false}) async {
+    if (_videoReady case final ready?) await ready;
+    // An empty map, not null: media_kit caches headers per URI.
+    await mk.open(Media(url, httpHeaders: headers), play: play);
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> play() => mk.play();
+  @override
+  Future<void> pause() => mk.pause();
+  @override
+  Future<void> stop() => mk.stop();
+  @override
+  Future<void> seek(Duration position) => mk.seek(position);
+  @override
+  Future<void> syncSeek(Duration position) => mk.syncSeek(position);
+  @override
+  Future<void> setRate(double rate) => mk.setRate(rate);
+  @override
+  Future<void> setVolume(double volume) => mk.setVolume(volume);
+
+  // media_kit has no public property API: a guarded dynamic call on
+  // `player.platform` (its NativePlayer).
+  @override
+  Future<void> setProperty(String name, String value) async => await _mpv?.setProperty(name, value);
+
+  @override
+  Future<String> getProperty(String name) async => '${await _mpv?.getProperty(name)}';
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> observeProperty(String name, Future<void> Function(String value) onChange) async =>
+      await _mpv?.observeProperty(name, onChange);
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> command(List<String> args) async => await _mpv?.command(args);
+
+  @override
+  Future<String?> pin(String name, String value) async {
+    try {
+      await setProperty(name, value);
+      final got = await getProperty(name);
+      if (pinMatches(value, got)) return null;
+      debugPrint('pin $name=$value not applied, mpv has "$got"');
+      return '$name: $value -> $got';
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('pin $name=$value failed: $e');
+      return '$name: $value -> error $e';
+    }
+  }
+
+  // mpv_request_log_messages on media_kit's handle.
+  @override
+  void setLogLevel(String level) {
+    try {
+      final dynamic platform = mk.platform;
+      final name = level.toNativeUtf8();
+      try {
+        platform.mpv.mpv_request_log_messages(platform.ctx, name.cast<Int8>());
+      } finally {
+        malloc.free(name);
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('mpv log level $level not set: $e');
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+class _MkVideo implements HostedVideo {
+  @override
+  final _MkPlayer player;
+  final VideoController controller;
+  _MkVideo(this.player, this.controller);
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> get ready => controller.platform.future;
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/link_resolver.dart

@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ abstract interface class LinkResolver {
   /// Gets it ready in the background (download on first run, updates).
   void warmUp();
 
-  /// mpv's `ytdl-raw-options` (sub languages, cookies).
+  /// This device opens web pages itself (the media plan's `resolve`
-  Future<String> mpvRawOptions();
+  /// capability). Desktop: always (yt-dlp is downloaded when first
+  /// needed); a device without it gets pages passed on by someone else.
+  bool get resolvesLinks;
 
   /// What [url] is, remembered for a while ([keep]); [fresh] asks again.
   Future<LinkProbe> probe(String url, {Duration keep, bool fresh});

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/player_host.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+
+import 'package:signals/signals.dart';
+
+// The media players as the app sees them: mpv instances, their video
+// outputs, how the video is rendered, mpv's log and the order players are
+// torn down in. Desktop: media_kit over libmpv
+// (`platform/desktop/media_kit_host.dart`); nothing else in the app
+// touches media_kit except the `Video` widget glue.
+
+/// How the video output renders (shaders need [gpu]).
+enum RenderMode {
+  unknown,
+
+  /// OpenGL on a real GPU: shaders work.
+  gpu,
+
+  /// OpenGL on a software rasterizer (llvmpipe): shaders crawl.
+  softwareGl,
+
+  /// The video output's own software fallback: shaders are ignored.
+  software,
+}
+
+/// What a player is for: its cache, log level and log routing.
+enum PlayerRole {
+  /// The session's player (and a fresh one per media): full cache, mpv log
+  /// at `warn` into the app log.
+  session,
+
+  /// The hidden player holding what plays next: small cache, muted, log
+  /// at `error`.
+  preload,
+
+  /// A poster frame for Files: no audio or video output, no cache, no log.
+  thumbnail,
+}
+
+/// One line of mpv's log.
+class PlayerLogLine {
+  final String prefix;
+  final String level;
+  final String text;
+  const PlayerLogLine(this.prefix, this.level, this.text);
+
+  bool get isError => level == 'error' || level == 'fatal';
+}
+
+/// A snapshot of a player's state.
+class HostedPlayerState {
+  final Duration position;
+  final Duration duration;
+
+  /// End of the cached range (mpv `demuxer-cache-time`).
+  final Duration buffer;
+  final double volume;
+  final bool playing;
+
+  /// At the end of the file.
+  final bool completed;
+  final int? width;
+  final int? height;
+  const HostedPlayerState({
+    this.position = Duration.zero,
+    this.duration = Duration.zero,
+    this.buffer = Duration.zero,
+    this.volume = 100,
+    this.playing = false,
+    this.completed = false,
+    this.width,
+    this.height,
+  });
+}
+
+/// One mpv player. Each media gets its own (see ARCHITECTURE "Player
+/// lifecycle"); [PlayerHost.retire] / [PlayerHost.disposeAll] end it.
+abstract interface class HostedPlayer {
+  PlayerRole get role;
+  HostedPlayerState get state;
+  Stream<Duration> get positionStream;
+  Stream<Duration> get durationStream;
+  Stream<Duration> get bufferStream;
+  Stream<double> get volumeStream;
+  Stream<bool> get completedStream;
+  Stream<int?> get widthStream;
+
+  /// mpv's log lines at the player's level.
+  Stream<PlayerLogLine> get logs;
+
+  /// The player is gone (disposed or being disposed): commands do nothing.
+  bool get disposed;
+
+  /// Seeks from the video widget's own controls land here instead of in
+  /// mpv when set ([seek] goes through it too); [syncSeek] always moves
+  /// mpv.
+  void Function(Duration position)? onUserSeek;
+
+  /// Opens [url] (with [headers] on every request), paused unless [play].
+  Future<void> open(String url, {Map<String, String> headers = const {}, bool play = false});
+  Future<void> play();
+  Future<void> pause();
+  Future<void> stop();
+
+  /// A user seek: through [onUserSeek] when set, else [syncSeek].
+  Future<void> seek(Duration position);
+
+  /// Moves mpv (sync corrections, scrub preview).
+  Future<void> syncSeek(Duration position);
+  Future<void> setRate(double rate);
+  Future<void> setVolume(double volume);
+  Future<void> setProperty(String name, String value);
+  Future<String> getProperty(String name);
+  Future<void> observeProperty(String name, Future<void> Function(String value) onChange);
+  Future<void> command(List<String> args);
+
+  /// Sets [name] and reads it back: null when mpv took [value], else
+  /// `name: value -> got` (mpv ignores invalid values silently).
+  Future<String?> pin(String name, String value);
+
+  /// mpv's log level for this player (`warn`, `v`, ...).
+  void setLogLevel(String level);
+}
+
+/// A player's video output (a texture the `Video` widget shows).
+abstract interface class HostedVideo {
+  HostedPlayer get player;
+
+  /// Completes once the output is up (its texture registered).
+  Future<void> get ready;
+}
+
+/// Creates, owns and disposes the app's players. One per app (the
+/// composition root's `Ports`); tests make their own.
+abstract interface class PlayerHost {
+  /// Once at start, before any player.
+  void init();
+
+  /// A new player for [role], set up before it is returned to the caller's
+  /// first await: cache, pins ([pinMismatches]), hwdec, log level.
+  Future<HostedPlayer> create(PlayerRole role, {bool muted = false});
+
+  /// [player] (a preload) becomes a session player: unmuted, the full
+  /// cache pins, the session's log level.
+  Future<void> promote(HostedPlayer player);
+
+  /// [player]'s video output, with the hwdec policy. [probe]: listen to
+  /// mpv's render init to learn [renderMode] (the first output of an app
+  /// start).
+  HostedVideo video(HostedPlayer player, {bool probe = false});
+
+  /// How video renders, as last learned (kept after leaving).
+  ReadonlySignal<RenderMode> get renderMode;
+
+  /// mpv `hwdec` for new players: env `SYNC_RELAY_HWDEC` wins over the
+  /// setting (Windows' auto is `auto-copy`).
+  String? get hwdec;
+
+  /// Pins that did not take on the last session player created.
+  List<String> get pinMismatches;
+
+  /// ffmpeg's HTTP errors (`HTTP error 403 Forbidden`), from whichever
+  /// player ffmpeg logs through (one per process).
+  Stream<String> get httpErrors;
+
+  /// `mpv-version` and `ffmpeg-version` of [player], for diagnostics.
+  Future<String?> versions(HostedPlayer player);
+
+  /// Ends [player] once the view let go of its texture (two frames and a
+  /// route pop); at most one retiring player lingers, a new [create] of a
+  /// session player waits for it ([retiring]).
+  Future<void> retire(HostedPlayer player);
+
+  /// The last retire, until done.
+  Future<void> get retiring;
+
+  /// Disposes [player] at once (no view showed it).
+  Future<void> dispose(HostedPlayer player);
+
+  /// App close: every live player goes, each bounded by [each], before
+  /// the engine does (a live mpv calls back into a dead isolate).
+  Future<void> disposeAll({Duration each});
+
+  /// Live players, for tests and the close.
+  int get live;
+}
+
+/// [log] says the media could not be opened: before a [duration] is known,
+/// mpv's fatal "nothing to play" or a demuxer error.
+bool mpvLoadFailed(PlayerLogLine log, Duration duration) {
+  return duration == Duration.zero &&
+      ((log.prefix == 'cplayer' && log.level == 'fatal') || (log.prefix == 'demux' && log.level == 'error'));
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/ports.dart

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import 'folder_access.dart';
 import 'link_resolver.dart';
+import 'player_host.dart';
 import 'shell_port.dart';
 import 'system_notifications.dart';
 import 'url_opener.dart';
@@ -7,23 +8,27 @@ import 'url_opener.dart';
 export 'app_dirs.dart';
 export 'folder_access.dart';
 export 'link_resolver.dart';
+export 'player_host.dart';
 export 'shell_port.dart';
 export 'system_notifications.dart';
 export 'url_opener.dart';
 
 /// The platform as the app sees it: one set, made in the composition
-/// root ([SessionState]) and handed on from there.
+/// root ([AppGraph]) and handed on from there.
 class Ports {
   final ShellPort shell;
   final UrlOpener urls;
   final FolderAccess folders;
   final LinkResolver links;
   final SystemNotifications notifications;
+  /// The media players (mpv): created, rendered and disposed here.
+  final PlayerHost players;
   const Ports({
     required this.shell,
     required this.urls,
     required this.folders,
     required this.links,
     required this.notifications,
+    required this.players,
   });
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/shell_port.dart

@@ -1,20 +1,8 @@
 import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
 
-/// Where the app window stands, for auto sit-out
+import 'window_activity.dart';
-/// ([ShellPort.watchActivity]).
-enum WindowActivity {
-  /// The window has the keyboard focus.
-  focused,
 
-  /// Shown, but another window has the focus.
+export 'window_activity.dart';
-  unfocused,
-
-  /// Minimised to the taskbar.
-  minimised,
-
-  /// Hidden (closing, or a platform that hides instead of minimising).
-  hidden,
-}
 
 /// What the clipboard holds for a paste: its files, else its text.
 typedef Paste = ({List<String> files, String? text});
@@ -54,6 +42,10 @@ abstract interface class ShellPort {
   Future<void> hide();
   Future<void> quit();
 
+  /// Brings the window up and gives it the focus (restored when
+  /// minimised, shown when hidden): a click on a system notification.
+  Future<void> focus();
+
   /// Points the desktop at the window when it is not focused (taskbar
   /// flash, urgency hint); nothing when it is.
   Future<void> requestAttention();

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/system_notifications.dart

@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
 /// Notifications outside the window (the desktop's notification center,
-/// Android's shade). The policy that uses them comes with the Notifier.
+/// Android's shade). The Notifier decides what goes out here (see
+/// `noticeFor`); the port only shows them and reports clicks.
 abstract interface class SystemNotifications {
-  /// Shows [title] / [body]; replaces the one with the same [tag].
+  /// Shows [title] / [body] with the app's name and icon; one with the
-  Future<void> show({required String title, required String body, String tag = ''});
+  /// same [tag] replaces it. [payload] comes back to [onClick].
+  Future<void> show({required String title, required String body, String tag = '', String payload = ''});
+
+  /// Called with a notification's payload when the user clicks it (set
+  /// once, by the Notifier).
+  set onClick(void Function(String payload)? handler);
 }
 
-/// Shows nothing (desktop today).
+/// Shows nothing (tests, platforms without one).
 class NoSystemNotifications implements SystemNotifications {
   const NoSystemNotifications();
 
   @override
-  Future<void> show({required String title, required String body, String tag = ''}) async {}
+  Future<void> show({required String title, required String body, String tag = '', String payload = ''}) async {}
+
+  @override
+  set onClick(void Function(String payload)? handler) {}
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/window_activity.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/// Where the app window stands ([ShellPort.watchActivity]): auto sit-out
+/// and the Notifier (system notifications while it is not focused) read
+/// it. Pure Dart.
+enum WindowActivity {
+  /// The window has the keyboard focus.
+  focused,
+
+  /// Shown, but another window has the focus.
+  unfocused,
+
+  /// Minimised to the taskbar.
+  minimised,
+
+  /// Hidden (closing, or a platform that hides instead of minimising).
+  hidden;
+
+  /// Not in front of the user: notices go out as system notifications.
+  bool get background => this != focused;
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/smoke.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show debugPrint;
+
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
+import 'app_shutdown.dart';
+import 'ports/player_host.dart';
+
+// The close smoke run (CI, `tool/smoke_windows.ps1` / `tool/smoke_linux.sh`):
+// env `STARSYNC_SMOKE=<media file>` makes the app, once up, open that file
+// in a session player with a video output through the media pipeline,
+// play a second and close the normal way ([shutDownApp]). Progress goes to
+// `STARSYNC_SMOKE_OUT` (one line per step: `start`, `opened <ms> render=<mode>`,
+// `closing`, or `skip <why>` / `fail <why>`), so the script can tell a
+// runner that cannot show a window (skip) from a close that hangs or
+// leaves a process behind (fail).
+
+/// The smoke run's media, or null for a normal start.
+String? get smokeMedia {
+  final m = Platform.environment['STARSYNC_SMOKE'];
+  return m == null || m.isEmpty ? null : m;
+}
+
+Future<void> runSmoke(AppGraph graph, String media) async {
+  final outPath = Platform.environment['STARSYNC_SMOKE_OUT'];
+  void step(String line) {
+    debugPrint('smoke: $line'); // into the app log too
+    if (outPath == null || outPath.isEmpty) return;
+    try {
+      File(outPath).writeAsStringSync('$line\n', mode: FileMode.append, flush: true);
+    } catch (_) {}
+  }
+
+  step('start');
+  final sw = Stopwatch()..start();
+  final pipe = graph.coordinator.media;
+  try {
+    if (!await File(media).exists()) {
+      step('fail no media file at $media');
+    } else {
+      await pipe.start();
+      await pipe.playback.setVolume(0);
+      // The video output the session view would make: the render path
+      // (EGL / ANGLE) is what breaks on some machines.
+      final video = pipe.playback.video;
+      await video.ready.timeout(const Duration(seconds: 15));
+      final ok = await pipe.open(media);
+      final end = DateTime.now().add(const Duration(seconds: 20));
+      while (ok && pipe.playback.durationSecs <= 0 && DateTime.now().isBefore(end)) {
+        await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 100));
+      }
+      if (pipe.playback.durationSecs <= 0) {
+        step('fail the media did not open in 20 s');
+      } else {
+        await pipe.playback.player.play();
+        await Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 1));
+        final mode = graph.ports.players.renderMode.peek();
+        step('opened ${sw.elapsedMilliseconds} render=${mode.name}');
+        if (mode == RenderMode.unknown) await Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 2));
+      }
+    }
+  } on TimeoutException {
+    step('skip the video output did not come up (no display for this runner?)');
+  } catch (e) {
+    step('fail $e');
+  }
+  step('closing');
+  await shutDownApp();
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/playback/yt_dlp_app.dart

@@ -6,15 +6,6 @@ import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../platform/ports/link_resolver.dart';
 
-/// mpv's `ytdl-format` for links every player opens itself.
-const ytdlFormat = 'bv*[height<=1080]+ba/b';
-
-/// yt-dlp's `--sub-langs` for mpv's hook (its default is `all`), without
-/// Bilibili's danmaku: an XML comment feed served raw-deflate, which
-/// ffmpeg fails to inflate on every read (a warning each time) while the
-/// video waits on it.
-const ytdlSubLangs = 'all,-danmaku';
-
 /// The app's yt-dlp (see [YtDlp]): in the app-support folder, shared with
 /// the hosted server. [probe] remembers what pasted links are for a while,
 /// so the Link preview and the swap ask once.
@@ -36,20 +27,10 @@ class AppYtDlp implements LinkResolver {
   /// Gets yt-dlp ready in the background (download on first run, a daily
   /// update check afterwards).
   @override
-  void warmUp() => unawaited(ytDlp.then((y) => y.ensure()).catchError((_) => null));
+  bool get resolvesLinks => true;
 
-  /// mpv's `ytdl-raw-options`: [ytdlSubLangs] and the cookies in the
-  /// yt-dlp folder (see [YtDlpCookies]).
   @override
-  Future<String> mpvRawOptions() async {
+  void warmUp() => unawaited(ytDlp.then((y) => y.ensure()).catchError((_) => null));
-    const subs = 'sub-langs=%${ytdlSubLangs.length}%$ytdlSubLangs';
-    try {
-      final cookies = (await ytDlp).cookies.mpvRawOptions();
-      return cookies.isEmpty ? subs : '$subs,$cookies';
-    } catch (_) {
-      return subs;
-    }
-  }
 
   final _probes = <String, ({DateTime at, DateTime until, Future<LinkProbe> f})>{};
   static const _probeTtl = Duration(minutes: 10);

apps/desktop/lib/src/queue/queue_controller.dart

@@ -7,32 +7,36 @@ import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
-import '../files/name_parser.dart';
 import '../files/thumbnails.dart';
 import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
 import '../jellyfin/format.dart' show pickFor;
 import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
+import '../library/media_refs.dart';
 import '../screens/home/picked_media.dart';
 import '../session/app_events.dart' show AddedToUpNext;
 import '../session/media_art.dart';
 import '../session/session_coordinator.dart';
-import '../state/settings.dart';
 import '../sync/avatar_cache.dart';
-import 'queue_logic.dart';
 
-// Up next on this client (see ARCHITECTURE.md "Up next"): the server's
+// What's next on this app (see ARCHITECTURE.md "What's next" and "Up
-// queue as signals, adding to it (probed, with a picture), the end-of-media
+// next"): the server's queue as signals (Up next and its continuation),
-// countdown for its first item, putting an item up when this app is the
+// adding to it (probed, with a picture), the continuation of what this
-// one that can, and keeping that item ready.
+// app put up (the next Jellyfin episode, the next file of a local show),
+// the server's countdown as the end card shows it, putting an item up
+// when the server asks this app (`queuePlay`), and keeping the item that
+// plays next ready (the media pipeline prepares it).
 
-/// The end-of-media card for the first Up next item. [secondsLeft] null:
+/// The end-of-media card for the first item (Up next's, else the
-/// no countdown here (auto-advance off, cancelled, or another app puts
+/// continuation). [secondsLeft]: the server's countdown (`state.advance`);
-/// it up), the card offers Play now only.
+/// null when none runs (cancelled, or nothing counts down), then the card
+/// offers Play now only. [waitingFor]: the countdown ran out and the one
+/// who puts the item up is not here (its name).
 class UpNextCountdown {
   final int mediaId;
   final QueueItem item;
   final int? secondsLeft;
-  const UpNextCountdown({required this.mediaId, required this.item, this.secondsLeft});
+  final String? waitingFor;
+  const UpNextCountdown({required this.mediaId, required this.item, this.secondsLeft, this.waitingFor});
 }
 
 /// The first item's readiness on this app.
@@ -46,21 +50,33 @@ class QueueController {
   late final PictureCache thumbs = PictureCache(coord.connection.client,
       route: 'i', keep: RelayConstants.maxQueueItems + 8, live: (s) => [for (final q in s.queue) q.thumb]);
 
-  /// Up next, in order (empty when nothing is queued or not in a server).
+  /// Up next, in order, without the continuation (empty when nothing is
-  late final Computed<List<QueueItem>> items =
+  /// queued or not in a server).
-      computed(() => coord.serverState.value?.queue ?? const <QueueItem>[]);
+  late final Computed<List<QueueItem>> items = computed(
+      () => [for (final q in coord.serverState.value?.queue ?? const <QueueItem>[]) if (!q.auto) q]);
 
+  /// The continuation of what plays (`auto`: the next episode), shared by
+  /// everyone; null when none.
+  late final Computed<QueueItem?> continues =
+      computed(() => coord.serverState.value?.queue.where((q) => q.auto).firstOrNull);
+
+  /// What plays next: Up next's first item, else the continuation.
+  late final Computed<QueueItem?> head = computed(() => coord.serverState.value?.queue.firstOrNull);
+
+  /// The end card while the media has ended with something next (see
+  /// [UpNextCountdown]).
   final countdown = signal<UpNextCountdown?>(null);
 
   /// The first item's id and how ready it is here (null: nothing to get
   /// ready on this app).
   final warm = signal<({String id, WarmState state})?>(null);
 
-  /// The natural continuation of what plays: the next episodes of the
+  /// The next episodes of the Jellyfin series playing, on an app that
-  /// Jellyfin series (not queued; shown greyed under Up next).
+  /// plays it with its own account (the first one is what continues it;
+  /// the rest show greyed under "Continues with", "+" adds one).
   final continuation = signal<List<EpisodeLink>>(const []);
 
-  /// The mediaId whose continuation was cleared here.
+  /// The mediaId whose continuation was cleared (by anyone: `cancel`).
   final _hiddenFor = signal(-1);
 
   /// The queue popover is open: the Up next button holds the controls up.
@@ -70,10 +86,12 @@ class QueueController {
   // here, a file here). Never leaves this app.
   final Map<String, ({PickedMedia pick, DateTime at})> _local = {};
   final Map<String, DateTime> _performing = {};
-  final Set<String> _skipped = {};
-  int _cancelledFor = -1;
   Timer? _timer;
   bool _attached = false;
+  // The mediaId whose continuation this app added (or is adding).
+  int _continuedFor = -1;
+  // A restarted server waits for what played (that mediaId) to come back.
+  int _restoreFrom = -1;
   String _continuationFor = '';
   final _random = Random.secure();
 
@@ -83,15 +101,26 @@ class QueueController {
     if (_attached) return;
     _attached = true;
     coord.connection.states.listen(_onState);
+    // `cancel` from anyone: no continuation for that media any more.
+    coord.connection.feeds.listen((f) {
+      final id = coord.serverState.peek()?.mediaId;
+      if (f.action == 'advance-cancel' && id != null) _hiddenFor.value = id;
+    });
     effect(() {
       final next = coord.nextEpisode.value;
       final plan = coord.jellyfinPlan.value;
       unawaited(_loadContinuation(next, plan));
     });
-    // The continuation and the state decide what to get ready; the media
+    // What continues this media becomes known (the next episode found, a
-    // playing having started (or sitting out) lets the preload go.
+    // file of ours up): add it.
+    effect(() {
+      coord.nextEpisode.value;
+      coord.ownFile.value;
+      untracked(() => _continue(coord.serverState.peek()));
+    });
+    // The state decides what to get ready; the media playing having
+    // started (or sitting out) lets the preload go.
     effect(() {
-      shownContinuation.value;
       coord.settledMediaId.value;
       coord.selfAway.value;
       final r = coord.serverState.value;
@@ -164,15 +193,22 @@ class QueueController {
             if (bytes.length <= RelayConstants.maxPosterBytes) thumb = bytes;
           } catch (_) {}
         }
-        final ep = [
+        // The library's name for it when it knows the show (what friends
+        // see in Up next), else the release name's.
+        final what = coord.fileRef?.call(path);
+        final ep = what != null && what.kind == 'episode'
+            ? (refEpisodeLine(what) ?? '').replaceAll(' ', '')
+            : [
                 if (parsed.season != null) 'S${parsed.season}',
                 if (parsed.episode != null) 'E${parsed.episode}',
+                if (parsed.episode == null) ?parsed.extra,
               ].join();
+        final title = what != null && what.title.isNotEmpty ? what.title : parsed.series.trim();
         return (
           item: QueueItem(
-            media: HelloMedia(name: name, size: await file.length(), duration: 0),
+            media: HelloMedia(name: name, size: await file.length(), duration: 0, ref: what),
             how: QueueHow.file,
-            title: parsed.series.trim().isEmpty ? name : parsed.series.trim(),
+            title: title.isEmpty ? name : title,
             sub: ep,
             duration: (shot?.duration.inMilliseconds ?? 0) / 1000,
             key: _newKey(),
@@ -181,13 +217,13 @@ class QueueController {
         );
       case LinkMedia(:final url, :final anyway):
         // Alone, a link plays direct: there is nobody to pass it on to.
-        final relay = coord.solo ? LinkRelay.direct : pick.relay;
+        final relay = coord.alone.peek() ? LinkRelay.direct : pick.relay;
         final linked = await mediaForLink(coord.jellyfin, url);
         final ref = linked.jellyfin;
         if (ref != null) {
           return (
             item: QueueItem(
-                media: HelloMedia(name: linked.name, size: 0, duration: 0, jellyfin: ref),
+                media: linked,
                 how: QueueHow.jellyfin,
                 title: ref.title.isEmpty ? linked.name : ref.title,
                 sub: ref.subtitle ?? '',
@@ -234,7 +270,8 @@ class QueueController {
                 size: 0,
                 duration: 0,
                 url: how == QueueHow.through ? null : url,
-                relay: how == QueueHow.server ? const MediaRelay(fetch: true) : null),
+                relay: how == QueueHow.server ? const MediaRelay(fetch: true) : null,
+                ref: linkMediaRef(title)),
             how: how,
             title: title,
             sub: site,
@@ -311,62 +348,54 @@ class QueueController {
     }
   }
 
-  /// Plays the first Up next item now.
+  /// Plays what comes next now (Up next's first item, else the
+  /// continuation).
   void skip() {
-    final first = items.peek().firstOrNull;
+    final first = head.peek();
     if (first != null) playNow(first.id);
   }
 
-  /// Cancel on the end-of-media card: no countdown here for this media.
+  /// Cancel on the end card: the countdown stops for everyone, and the
+  /// continuation goes (`cancel`).
   void cancelCountdown() {
-    final c = countdown.peek();
+    coord.markInput();
-    _timer?.cancel();
+    coord.connection.sendQueue(const QueueIntent.cancel());
-    _timer = null;
-    if (c == null) return;
-    _cancelledFor = c.mediaId;
-    countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: c.mediaId, item: c.item);
   }
 
-  /// "Clear": hides the continuation of what plays now (and its next
+  /// "Clear" under "Continues with": the continuation of what plays goes
-  /// episode does not come up by itself).
+  /// for everyone (`cancel`) and does not come back for this media.
   void clearContinuation() {
     final id = coord.serverState.peek()?.mediaId;
     if (id != null) _hiddenFor.value = id;
-    if (coord.autoAdvance.peek() != null) coord.cancelAutoAdvance();
+    cancelCountdown();
   }
 
-  /// The continuation applies to [mediaId]: nothing is queued and it was
+  /// The further episodes of [continuation] (after the one that continues
-  /// not cleared.
+  /// what plays), unless it was cleared for the media playing.
-  bool continuationShown(int mediaId) =>
-      (coord.serverState.peek()?.queue.isEmpty ?? true) && _hiddenFor.peek() != mediaId;
-
-  /// [continuation] unless cleared for the media playing.
   late final Computed<List<EpisodeLink>> shownContinuation = computed(() {
     final id = coord.serverState.value?.mediaId;
-    return id != null && _hiddenFor.value == id ? const <EpisodeLink>[] : continuation.value;
+    if (id == null || _hiddenFor.value == id) return const <EpisodeLink>[];
+    final auto = continues.value?.media.jellyfin?.itemId;
+    return [for (final e in continuation.value) if (e.item.id != auto) e];
   });
 
   // --------------------------------------------------------- per state
 
   void _onState(StateBroadcast r) {
     _lastState = r;
+    // What played came back after a restart under a new mediaId: a
+    // continuation cleared for it stays cleared.
+    if (_restoreFrom != -1 && r.media != null && _hiddenFor.peek() == _restoreFrom) _hiddenFor.value = r.mediaId;
     _prune(r);
-    final queue = r.queue;
+    // The server asks for an item (a countdown ran out, Play now from
+    // another app, nothing up yet): the app that puts it up does.
     final play = r.queuePlay;
     if (play != null) {
-      final item = queue.where((q) => q.id == play).firstOrNull;
+      final item = r.queue.where((q) => q.id == play).firstOrNull;
-      if (item != null) _bringUp(item, r);
+      if (item != null && queuePerformer(item, r.members).id == _me) _perform(item);
-    }
-    final finished = r.transport == 'finished';
-    if (queue.isNotEmpty && r.media == null) {
-      // Nothing up yet: the first item goes up at once.
-      _bringUp(queue.first, r);
-    } else if (finished && queue.isNotEmpty) {
-      _atEnd(r);
-    } else {
-      if (countdown.peek() != null) _stopCountdown();
-      if (!finished) _cancelledFor = -1;
     }
+    _syncCountdown(r);
+    _continue(r);
     _warm(r);
   }
 
@@ -377,75 +406,133 @@ class QueueController {
     final now = DateTime.now();
     _performing.removeWhere((_, at) => now.difference(at) > const Duration(minutes: 1));
     final keys = {for (final q in r.queue) q.key};
+    // Kept while a restarted server waits for what played: Up next comes
+    // back with it.
+    if (_restoreFrom == -1) {
       _local.removeWhere((k, v) => !keys.contains(k) && now.difference(v.at) > const Duration(minutes: 1));
-    final ids = {for (final q in r.queue) q.id};
+    }
-    _skipped.removeWhere((id) => !ids.contains(id));
   }
 
-  /// [item] should go up now: by this app when it is the one that can;
+  /// The end card from the server's state: the media ended with something
-  /// nobody can: the lowest member takes it off with the reason.
+  /// next; the seconds of `state.advance` move on with a 1 s timer.
-  void _bringUp(QueueItem item, StateBroadcast r) {
+  void _syncCountdown(StateBroadcast r) {
-    final perf = queuePerformer(item, r.members);
-    if (perf.id == null) {
-      final why = perf.why;
-      if (why != null && queueJanitor(r.members) == _me && _skipped.add(item.id)) {
-        coord.connection.sendQueue(QueueIntent.remove(item.id, why: why));
-      }
-      return;
-    }
-    if (perf.id == _me) _perform(item);
-  }
-
-  /// The media finished with Up next waiting: the card, and with
-  /// auto-advance on the countdown, for its first item.
-  void _atEnd(StateBroadcast r) {
-    // Up next goes before the next episode, even one already counting.
-    if (coord.autoAdvance.peek() != null) coord.cancelAutoAdvance();
-    final head = r.queue.first;
-    final perf = queuePerformer(head, r.members);
-    if (perf.id == null && perf.why != null) {
-      // Taken off by [_bringUp]'s rule; the next state shows the next one.
-      _bringUp(head, r);
-      return;
-    }
-    final c = countdown.peek();
-    if (c != null && c.mediaId == r.mediaId) {
-      if (c.item.id != head.id || c.item.thumb != head.thumb) {
-        countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: c.mediaId, item: head, secondsLeft: c.secondsLeft);
-      }
-      return;
-    }
-    final auto = AppSettings.instance.autoAdvance.peek() && _cancelledFor != r.mediaId;
-    countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: r.mediaId, item: head, secondsLeft: auto ? autoAdvanceSecs : null);
-    _timer?.cancel();
-    _timer = auto ? Timer.periodic(const Duration(seconds: 1), (_) => _tick()) : null;
-  }
-
-  void _tick() {
-    final c = countdown.peek();
-    final r = coord.serverState.peek();
-    final left = c?.secondsLeft;
-    if (c == null || left == null || r == null || r.mediaId != c.mediaId || r.transport != 'finished') {
-      _stopCountdown();
-      return;
-    }
-    if (left > 1) {
-      countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: c.mediaId, item: c.item, secondsLeft: left - 1);
-      return;
-    }
-    _timer?.cancel();
-    _timer = null;
-    _cancelledFor = c.mediaId;
-    countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: c.mediaId, item: c.item);
-    // Decided on the latest state: only the app that can puts it up.
     final head = r.queue.firstOrNull;
-    if (head != null && queuePerformer(head, r.members).id == _me) _perform(head);
+    if (r.transport != 'finished' || head == null || r.media == null) {
-  }
-
-  void _stopCountdown() {
       _timer?.cancel();
       _timer = null;
-    countdown.value = null;
+      if (countdown.peek() != null) countdown.value = null;
+      return;
+    }
+    final a = r.advance != null && r.advance!.id == head.id ? r.advance : null;
+    int? left;
+    String? waiting;
+    if (a != null) {
+      left = advanceSecondsLeft(a, coord.connection.serverNow());
+      if (left == 0 && queuePerformer(head, r.members).id == null) {
+        waiting = r.members.where((m) => m.id == head.by).firstOrNull?.name ?? head.byName;
+      }
+    }
+    countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: r.mediaId, item: head, secondsLeft: left, waitingFor: waiting);
+    if (a == null) {
+      _timer?.cancel();
+      _timer = null;
+    } else {
+      _timer ??= Timer.periodic(const Duration(seconds: 1), (_) {
+        final now = coord.serverState.peek();
+        if (now != null) _syncCountdown(now);
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------ restart
+
+  /// The server restarted without media; what played ([mediaId]) is being
+  /// offered back (-1: that is over).
+  void restoreFrom(int mediaId) => _restoreFrom = mediaId;
+
+  /// What played is back after a server restart: Up next as [before] had
+  /// it comes back too. The app whose offer won ([winner]) adds the items
+  /// anyone can put up (links everyone opens, Jellyfin items); every app
+  /// its own links passed on and files (only it has them; [self] is its
+  /// member id then). A server-fetched link's address stayed with the old
+  /// server, so it is gone; the continuation comes back as usual.
+  void restoreAfterRestart(StateBroadcast before, String self, {required bool winner}) {
+    for (final q in before.queue) {
+      if (q.auto) continue;
+      final ok = switch (q.how) {
+        QueueHow.direct || QueueHow.jellyfin => winner,
+        QueueHow.through || QueueHow.file => self.isNotEmpty && q.by == self && _local.containsKey(q.key),
+        QueueHow.server => false,
+      };
+      if (!ok) continue;
+      final local = _local[q.key];
+      if (local != null) _local[q.key] = (pick: local.pick, at: DateTime.now());
+      final thumb = thumbs.bytesFor(q.thumb);
+      coord.connection.sendQueue(QueueIntent.add(
+          QueueItem(media: q.media, how: q.how, title: q.title, sub: q.sub, duration: q.duration, key: q.key),
+          thumb: thumb == null ? '' : base64Encode(thumb)));
+    }
+    _restoreFrom = -1;
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------- continuation
+
+  /// Adds what continues the media playing (`auto`, PROTOCOL.md "Queue")
+  /// when this app may ([mayAddContinuation]: it put it up, or that
+  /// member is not in and this is the first who is), knows what comes
+  /// next, and it is not there or cancelled yet; with the setting on. A
+  /// Jellyfin episode played with this app's account continues with the
+  /// series' next one, a file this app put up with the next episode of its
+  /// show in the library (numbers skipped on the way said in its line).
+  void _continue(StateBroadcast? r) {
+    if (r == null || r.media == null || !coord.settings.autoAdvance.peek()) return;
+    final id = r.mediaId;
+    if (_continuedFor == id || _hiddenFor.peek() == id) return;
+    if (r.queue.any((q) => q.auto && q.forMedia == id)) {
+      _continuedFor = id;
+      return;
+    }
+    final swapBy = r.media?['swapBy'];
+    if (!mayAddContinuation(_me, swapBy is String ? swapBy : null, r.members)) return;
+    final ref = refOfStateMedia(r.media);
+    final next = coord.nextEpisode.peek();
+    if (ref != null) {
+      if (next == null || !sameJellyfinItem(ref, coord.currentRef.peek())) return;
+      _continuedFor = id;
+      unawaited(_addContinuation(id, next.pick));
+      return;
+    }
+    final own = coord.ownFile.peek();
+    final finder = coord.nextFile;
+    if (own == null || own.$1 != id || finder == null) return;
+    _continuedFor = id;
+    unawaited(() async {
+      try {
+        final n = await finder(own.$2);
+        if (n == null) return;
+        final gap = n.skipped;
+        await _addContinuation(id, FileMedia(n.episode.path),
+            note: gap == null ? null : 'skips ${gap.label}');
+      } catch (e) {
+        debugPrint('queue: what continues ${own.$2}: $e');
+      }
+    }());
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _addContinuation(int mediaId, PickedMedia pick, {String? note}) async {
+    try {
+      final b = await _build(pick);
+      if (b is! ({QueueItem item, Uint8List? thumb})) return;
+      final r = coord.serverState.peek();
+      if (r == null || r.mediaId != mediaId || _hiddenFor.peek() == mediaId) return;
+      final sub = [b.item.sub, ?note].where((s) => s.isNotEmpty).join('  ·  ');
+      final item = b.item.copyWith(auto: true, forMedia: mediaId, sub: sub);
+      if (item.key.isNotEmpty) _local[item.key] = (pick: pick, at: DateTime.now());
+      final thumb = b.thumb;
+      coord.connection.sendQueue(QueueIntent.add(item, thumb: thumb == null ? '' : base64Encode(thumb)));
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('queue: adding what continues media $mediaId: $e');
+    }
   }
 
   /// Puts [item] up from here (once per item while it is in flight).
@@ -522,9 +609,8 @@ class QueueController {
   bool _ownAccount(String serverId) =>
       coord.jellyfin.account(serverId) != null && coord.jellyfin.statusOf(serverId) != JellyfinAccountStatus.expired;
 
-  /// What this app gets ready: Up next's first item, else (Up next empty)
+  /// What this app gets ready: the first item of the queue (Up next's,
-  /// the first continuation episode (only here when this app plays the
+  /// else the continuation). Every app does, each its own copy (see
-  /// series with its own account). Every app does, each its own copy (see
   /// [_WarmTarget]); while sitting out only the probe of a link this app
   /// puts up (its swap reads it). Null: nothing.
   _WarmTarget? _warmTarget(StateBroadcast? r) {
@@ -542,7 +628,7 @@ class QueueController {
       // The server's warm relay of the item, once bytes can flow: what
       // everyone without their own copy preloads.
       final relay = head.media.relay;
-      final warmUrl = relay != null && relay.live ? coord.warmRelayUrl(head, relay) : null;
+      final warmUrl = relay != null && relay.live ? coord.media.warmRelayUrl(head, relay) : null;
       switch (head.how) {
         case QueueHow.jellyfin:
           final ref = head.media.jellyfin;
@@ -571,9 +657,7 @@ class QueueController {
           return performer ? _WarmTarget(head.id) : null;
       }
     }
-    final next = shownContinuation.peek().firstOrNull;
+    return null;
-    if (next == null) return null;
-    return _WarmTarget('next:${next.item.id}', ref: mediaForPick(next.pick).jellyfin);
   }
 
   /// Keeps the one item that plays next ready on this app, so a skip or
@@ -581,7 +665,7 @@ class QueueController {
   /// puts it up (`AppYtDlp.probe`, kept while it stays first), a Jellyfin
   /// item resolved with this app's account
   /// ([SessionCoordinator.warmJellyfin]), and then opened in the hidden
-  /// preload player ([SessionCoordinator.preloadMedia]) once the media
+  /// preload player ([MediaPipeline.prepare]) once the media
   /// playing has started. Done as soon as it is first, again before that
   /// runs out, dropped when it is no longer first.
   void _warm(StateBroadcast? r) {
@@ -609,7 +693,7 @@ class QueueController {
   /// Feeds the server's warm relay of Up next's first item from here when
   /// it names this member as its source (a link passed on, a file), or a
   /// Jellyfin item this app puts up with its own account when the server
-  /// asks for a source; see [SessionCoordinator.feedWarm]. The server
+  /// asks for a source; see [RelayFeeder.feedWarm]. The server
   /// drops the relay (and with it the source) once the item is no longer
   /// first.
   void _feedWarm(StateBroadcast? r) {
@@ -625,7 +709,7 @@ class QueueController {
         final pick = _local[head.key]?.pick;
         if (pick is FileMedia) {
           _fedWarm = key;
-          coord.feedWarm(head.id, RelayMedia.single(FileRelayBytes(File(pick.path))));
+          coord.media.feeder.feedWarm(head.id, RelayMedia.single(FileRelayBytes(File(pick.path))));
         } else if (pick is LinkMedia) {
           _fedWarm = key;
           unawaited(() async {
@@ -634,7 +718,7 @@ class QueueController {
               final probe = await coord.ytDlp.probe(pick.url, keep: _warmKeep).timeout(const Duration(seconds: 60));
               final y = await coord.ytDlp.ytDlp;
               if (_fedWarm != key) return;
-              coord.feedWarm(head.id, LinkRelayMedia(Uri.parse(pick.url), ytDlp: y, probe: probe));
+              coord.media.feeder.feedWarm(head.id, LinkRelayMedia(Uri.parse(pick.url), ytDlp: y, probe: probe));
             } catch (e) {
               debugPrint('queue: feeding ${head.id}: $e');
             }
@@ -648,7 +732,7 @@ class QueueController {
         final w = coord.warmJellyfin;
         if (w == null || !sameJellyfinItem(w.ref, ref)) return;
         _fedWarm = key;
-        coord.feedWarm(
+        coord.media.feeder.feedWarm(
             head.id, RelayMedia.single(HttpRelayBytes(Uri.parse(w.plan.url), headers: w.plan.headers)));
       case QueueHow.direct:
       case QueueHow.server:
@@ -702,7 +786,7 @@ class QueueController {
       // A refresh opens a link again (a page's stream URLs expire); the
       // same Jellyfin stream stays as it is.
       _preloadFresh = fresh && ok && t.ref == null && open != null;
-      final waits = ok && open != null && coord.playback.preloadEnabled;
+      final waits = ok && open != null && coord.media.preloadEnabled;
       warm.value = (id: t.id, state: !ok ? WarmState.failed : (waits ? WarmState.warming : WarmState.ready));
       _syncPreload(coord.serverState.peek());
       _warmTimer = Timer(ok ? _warmRefresh : _warmRetry, () => _resolveWarm(t, fresh: true));
@@ -722,25 +806,25 @@ class QueueController {
     final out = coord.selfAway.peek();
     if (!out && r.media != null && coord.settledMediaId.peek() != r.mediaId) return;
     final want = out ? null : _preloadWant;
-    final playback = coord.playback;
+    final media = coord.media;
     if (want == null) {
       _preloadKey = '';
       _preloadGen++;
-      if (playback.preloadUrl != null) unawaited(playback.dropPreload());
+      if (media.preloadUrl != null) unawaited(media.dropPrepared());
       return;
     }
-    if (!playback.preloadEnabled) return;
+    if (!media.preloadEnabled) return;
     final key = '${want.url}|${want.headers}';
     final fresh = _preloadFresh;
     // Asked for already: in flight, there, or failed (tried again with the
     // next refresh). One that went away (Reload video) is asked again.
-    if (!fresh && key == _preloadKey && (_preloadBusy || !_preloadOk || playback.preloadUrl == want.url)) return;
+    if (!fresh && key == _preloadKey && (_preloadBusy || !_preloadOk || media.preloadUrl == want.url)) return;
     _preloadFresh = false;
     _preloadKey = key;
     _preloadBusy = true;
     final gen = ++_preloadGen;
     final id = warm.peek()?.id;
-    unawaited(coord.preloadMedia(want.url, headers: want.headers, fresh: fresh).then((ok) {
+    unawaited(coord.media.prepare(want.url, headers: want.headers, fresh: fresh).then((ok) {
       if (gen != _preloadGen) return;
       _preloadBusy = false;
       _preloadOk = ok;

apps/desktop/lib/src/queue/queue_logic.dart

@@ -1,66 +1,15 @@
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
-import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart' show compareMemberIds;
+// Up next's words for an item. Who puts an item up is core's
-import '../session/party.dart' show isPresent;
+// `queuePerformer` (whats_next.dart), read the same by the server and
-
+// every app.
-// Who puts an Up next item up. Pure: only what every client sees in
-// `state` decides, so all clients agree without a wire message (like the
-// Jellyfin auto-advance swapper).
-
-/// Who puts [item] up: [id] a member id; null with [why] when nobody here
-/// can (the item is skipped), null without [why] when nobody is around
-/// right now (nothing happens).
-typedef QueuePerformer = ({String? id, String? why});
-
-/// - A link passed on by its adder, or the adder's file: only the adder
-///   (their app has the file, the cookies). Gone (disconnected, in its
-///   grace): it waits for them; left for good: skipped.
-/// - Jellyfin: the adder when it plays that server with its own account,
-///   else the lowest member id that does (`jf[serverId] == true`,
-///   present: `in` or joining). Nobody: skipped.
-/// - A link everyone opens, or one the server fetches: the adder when
-///   present, else the lowest present member id.
-QueuePerformer queuePerformer(QueueItem item, List<MemberView> members) {
-  MemberView? adder;
-  for (final m in members) {
-    if (m.id == item.by) adder = m;
-  }
-  bool active(MemberView m) => isPresent(m);
-  if (item.how.adderOnly) {
-    if (adder == null) return (id: null, why: '${_name(item)} left');
-    if (adder.presence == Presence.gone) return (id: null, why: null);
-    return (id: adder.id, why: null);
-  }
-  final ref = item.media.jellyfin;
-  if (item.how == QueueHow.jellyfin && ref != null) {
-    bool can(MemberView m) => active(m) && m.jf[ref.serverId] == true;
-    if (adder != null && can(adder)) return (id: adder.id, why: null);
-    final id = autoAdvanceLowest(members.where(can));
-    return id == null ? (id: null, why: 'nobody here has that Jellyfin server') : (id: id, why: null);
-  }
-  if (adder != null && active(adder)) return (id: adder.id, why: null);
-  return (id: autoAdvanceLowest(members.where(active)), why: null);
-}
-
-String _name(QueueItem item) => item.byName.isEmpty ? 'who added it' : item.byName;
-
-/// The lowest member id of [members] ("m2" before "m10"), or null.
-String? autoAdvanceLowest(Iterable<MemberView> members) {
-  final ids = [for (final m in members) m.id]..sort(compareMemberIds);
-  return ids.isEmpty ? null : ids.first;
-}
-
-/// Who takes an item nobody can put up off the queue (`remove` with why):
-/// the lowest member id that is connected (not gone).
-String? queueJanitor(List<MemberView> members) =>
-    autoAdvanceLowest(members.where((m) => m.presence != Presence.gone));
 
 /// How [item] plays, in a few words for its row: "through Foxyz" (you:
 /// "through you"), "server fetches", "everyone fetches", "Jellyfin",
 /// "Foxyz's file".
 String queueHowLabel(QueueItem item, {required String selfId}) {
   final mine = item.by == selfId && selfId.isNotEmpty;
-  final who = mine ? 'you' : _name(item);
+  final who = mine ? 'you' : (item.byName.isEmpty ? 'who added it' : item.byName);
   return switch (item.how) {
     QueueHow.through => 'through $who',
     QueueHow.file => mine ? 'your file' : "$who's file",

apps/desktop/lib/src/queue/queue_ui.dart

@@ -9,16 +9,14 @@ import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../controls/controls_probe.dart' show ControlsHold;
 import '../controls/minimal/style.dart';
-import '../files/scanner.dart' show FileKind, kindOf;
 import '../jellyfin/images.dart';
 import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart' show EpisodeLink;
 import '../screens/home/picked_media.dart';
-import '../session/session_coordinator.dart' show autoAdvanceSecs;
 import '../shell/avatar.dart';
 import '../shell/handoff.dart' show handoffHolds;
 import '../shell/library_link.dart' show LinkPreview, cachedLinkPreview;
 import '../shell/motion.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../widgets/app_menu.dart' show AppGlass, AppMenuItem, AppMenuStyle, showAppMenu;
 import '../widgets/copy_open.dart';
 import '../widgets/text_focus.dart' show KeyboardClaim;
@@ -39,17 +37,14 @@ enum UpNextLook { standard, minimal }
 /// The next item's picture, "UP NEXT" over its title, a +n count and ⏭
 /// (play it now) in the player's top bar, one flat control among its
 /// buttons; the title opens the queue, resting on it shows a preview card.
-/// Without Up next, the continuation ("NEXT · S1 E8" over its name, ⏭
+/// Without Up next, the continuation ("NEXT · S1E8" over its name, ⏭
 /// plays it). Nothing when both are empty.
 class UpNextButton extends StatefulWidget {
   final QueueController queue;
-  /// Plays the continuation's first episode (the next episode).
-  final VoidCallback onPlayNextEpisode;
   final UpNextLook look;
   /// Held while the preview card is up, so the controls stay up with it.
   final ControlsHold? hold;
-  const UpNextButton(
+  const UpNextButton({super.key, required this.queue, required this.look, this.hold});
-      {super.key, required this.queue, required this.onPlayNextEpisode, required this.look, this.hold});
 
   @override
   State<UpNextButton> createState() => _UpNextButtonState();
@@ -144,9 +139,9 @@ class _UpNextButtonState extends State<UpNextButton> {
     final thumbRadius = _minimal ? MinimalStyle.radius - 4 : 6.0;
     return SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
       final items = _q.items.value;
-      final cont = _q.shownContinuation.value;
+      final auto = _q.continues.value;
       final open = _q.popoverOpen.value;
-      if (items.isEmpty && cont.isEmpty && !open) {
+      if (items.isEmpty && auto == null && !open) {
         // Gone with the preview up: let go of the controls.
         if (_preview.isShowing) {
           WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) {
@@ -156,21 +151,15 @@ class _UpNextButtonState extends State<UpNextButton> {
         return const SizedBox.shrink();
       }
       final queued = items.isNotEmpty;
-      final item = items.firstOrNull;
+      final item = items.firstOrNull ?? auto;
-      final episode = cont.firstOrNull;
       final more = items.length - 1;
       final String kicker;
       final String title;
       final Widget thumb;
       if (item != null) {
-        kicker = 'UP NEXT';
+        kicker = queued ? 'UP NEXT' : (item.sub.isEmpty ? 'NEXT' : 'NEXT  ·  ${item.sub}');
         title = item.title;
         thumb = QueueThumb(queue: _q, item: item, width: thumbWidth, radius: thumbRadius);
-      } else if (episode != null) {
-        final n = episodeNumbers(episode.item);
-        kicker = n == null ? 'NEXT' : 'NEXT  ·  $n';
-        title = episode.item.name;
-        thumb = _EpisodeThumb(queue: _q, episode: episode, width: thumbWidth, radius: thumbRadius);
       } else {
         kicker = 'UP NEXT';
         title = 'Nothing yet';
@@ -247,10 +236,8 @@ class _UpNextButtonState extends State<UpNextButton> {
           ),
         ),
       );
-      final playTip = queued
+      final playTip = 'Play ${item?.title ?? ''} now  ($playNextKeys)';
-          ? 'Play ${item!.title} now  ($playNextKeys)'
+      final VoidCallback? play = item == null ? null : _q.skip;
-          : 'Play ${episode == null ? '' : episode.label} now  ($playNextKeys)';
-      final VoidCallback? play = queued ? _q.skip : (episode != null ? widget.onPlayNextEpisode : null);
       final playButton = _minimal
           ? MinimalButton(key: const ValueKey('up-next-play'), icon: Icons.skip_next_rounded, tooltip: playTip, onPressed: play)
           : Tooltip(
@@ -338,60 +325,35 @@ class UpNextPreview extends StatelessWidget {
         child: Padding(
           padding: const EdgeInsets.all(_pad),
           child: SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-            final item = queue.items.value.firstOrNull;
+            final queued = queue.items.value.firstOrNull;
-            final episode = queue.shownContinuation.value.firstOrNull;
+            final item = queued ?? queue.continues.value;
             final warm = queue.warm.value;
             const picture = _width - 2 * _pad;
-            if (item != null) {
+            if (item == null) return const SizedBox.shrink();
             final r = queue.coord.serverState.value;
             final selfId = queue.coord.connection.memberId;
             final more = queue.items.value.length - 1;
             final ready = warm?.id == item.id ? warm!.state : null;
+            final kicker = queued == null
+                ? 'CONTINUES WITH'
+                : more > 0
+                    ? 'UP NEXT  ·  $more MORE AFTER IT'
+                    : 'UP NEXT';
             return Column(
               mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
               crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
               children: [
                 QueueThumb(queue: queue, item: item, width: picture, radius: 8),
                 const SizedBox(height: 10),
-                  Text(more > 0 ? 'UP NEXT  ·  $more MORE AFTER IT' : 'UP NEXT', style: _kicker),
+                Text(kicker, style: _kicker),
                 const SizedBox(height: 3),
                 Text(item.title, maxLines: 2, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis, style: _title),
-                  if (item.sub.isNotEmpty)
+                if (item.sub.isNotEmpty) Text(item.sub, maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis, style: _sub),
-                    Text(item.sub, maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis, style: _sub),
                 const SizedBox(height: 6),
                 _MetaLine(item: item, members: r?.members ?? const [], selfId: selfId, wrap: true),
                 _footer(ready, ready == null ? performerNote(queue, item, r) : null),
               ],
             );
-            }
-            if (episode == null) return const SizedBox.shrink();
-            final n = episodeNumbers(episode.item);
-            final runtime = episode.pick.runtime;
-            final sub = [episode.item.seriesName ?? '', if (runtime != null) queueClock(runtime.inSeconds.toDouble())]
-                .where((s) => s.isNotEmpty)
-                .join('  ·  ');
-            final overview = episode.item.overview?.trim() ?? '';
-            final ready = warm?.id == 'next:${episode.item.id}' ? warm!.state : null;
-            return Column(
-              mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
-              children: [
-                _EpisodeThumb(queue: queue, episode: episode, width: picture, radius: 8),
-                const SizedBox(height: 10),
-                Text(n == null ? 'NEXT EPISODE' : 'NEXT EPISODE  ·  $n', style: _kicker),
-                const SizedBox(height: 3),
-                Text(episode.item.name, maxLines: 2, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis, style: _title),
-                if (sub.isNotEmpty) Text(sub, maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis, style: _sub),
-                if (overview.isNotEmpty) ...[
-                  const SizedBox(height: 6),
-                  Text(overview,
-                      maxLines: 3,
-                      overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                      style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white54, fontSize: 12, height: 1.35)),
-                ],
-                _footer(ready, null),
-              ],
-            );
           }),
         ),
       ),
@@ -482,8 +444,7 @@ class _EpisodeThumb extends StatelessWidget {
   final QueueController queue;
   final EpisodeLink episode;
   final double width;
-  final double radius;
+  const _EpisodeThumb({required this.queue, required this.episode, required this.width});
-  const _EpisodeThumb({required this.queue, required this.episode, required this.width, this.radius = 6});
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
@@ -491,7 +452,7 @@ class _EpisodeThumb extends StatelessWidget {
     final client = queue.coord.jellyfin.clientFor(e.pick.serverId);
     final image = e.item.ownImage(JellyfinImageType.primary) ?? e.item.image(JellyfinImageType.thumb);
     return ClipRRect(
-      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(radius),
+      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
       child: SizedBox(
         width: width,
         height: width * 9 / 16,
@@ -641,7 +602,7 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
 
   /// Ctrl+V: the clipboard's video files, else the links in its text.
   Future<void> _paste() async {
-    final clip = await (widget.readClipboard ?? SessionState.instance.ports.shell.readPaste)();
+    final clip = await (widget.readClipboard ?? AppScope.of(context).ports.shell.readPaste)();
     final picks = _picksFrom([...clip.files, ...?clip.text?.split(RegExp(r'\s+'))]);
     if (!mounted) return;
     if (picks.isEmpty) {
@@ -682,7 +643,8 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
       final row = rows[i];
       if (p case LinkMedia(:final url)) {
         // Its title and picture while it resolves (at once when seen before).
-        unawaited((widget.preview ?? cachedLinkPreview)(url).then((v) {
+        final probe = AppScope.of(context).ports.links.probe;
+        unawaited((widget.preview ?? (u) => cachedLinkPreview(u, probe: probe))(url).then((v) {
           if (mounted) setState(() => row.preview = v);
         }, onError: (Object _) {}));
       }
@@ -768,13 +730,13 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
       case 'remove':
         _q.remove(item.id);
       case 'title':
-        await copyToClipboard(item.title, done: 'Title copied');
+        if (context.mounted) await copyToClipboard(context, item.title, done: 'Title copied');
       case 'link':
-        await copyToClipboard(link!, done: 'Link copied');
+        if (context.mounted) await copyToClipboard(context, link!, done: 'Link copied');
       case 'open':
-        await openLink(link!);
+        if (context.mounted) await openLink(context, link!);
       case 'jellyfin':
-        await openLink(page!);
+        if (context.mounted) await openLink(context, page!);
     }
   }
 
@@ -814,7 +776,7 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     final height = MediaQuery.sizeOf(context).height;
-    final drop = SessionState.instance.ports.shell.dropTarget(
+    final drop = AppScope.of(context).ports.shell.dropTarget(
       onEnter: () => setState(() => _dragging = true),
       onExit: () => setState(() => _dragging = false),
       onDrop: (paths, _) {
@@ -838,6 +800,7 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
                 ),
                 child: SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
                   final items = _ordered(_q.items.value);
+                  final auto = _q.continues.value;
                   final cont = _q.shownContinuation.value;
                   final warm = _q.warm.value;
                   final r = _q.coord.serverState.value;
@@ -848,7 +811,7 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
                     children: [
                       _header(items.length),
                       Flexible(
-                        child: items.isEmpty && cont.isEmpty && _adding.isEmpty
+                        child: items.isEmpty && auto == null && cont.isEmpty && _adding.isEmpty
                             ? _empty()
                             : ListView(
                                 shrinkWrap: true,
@@ -900,7 +863,9 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
                                       adding: a,
                                       onDismiss: () => setState(() => _adding.remove(a)),
                                     ),
-                                  if (cont.isNotEmpty) ..._continuation(cont, items.isEmpty && _adding.isEmpty),
+                                  if (auto != null || cont.isNotEmpty)
+                                    ..._continuation(auto, cont, items.isEmpty && _adding.isEmpty,
+                                        warm: auto != null && warm?.id == auto.id ? warm!.state : null),
                                 ],
                               ),
                       ),
@@ -956,7 +921,9 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
         ),
       );
 
-  List<Widget> _continuation(List<EpisodeLink> cont, bool alone) => [
+  /// "Continues with": the continuation everyone shares ([auto], Clear
+  /// drops it for everyone), then the series' further episodes known here.
+  List<Widget> _continuation(QueueItem? auto, List<EpisodeLink> cont, bool alone, {WarmState? warm}) => [
         Padding(
           padding: EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(12, alone ? 0 : 8, 2, 0),
           child: Row(
@@ -964,6 +931,7 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
               const Text('CONTINUES WITH',
                   style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white38, fontSize: 11, letterSpacing: 0.8, fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
               const Spacer(),
+              if (auto != null)
                 TextButton(
                   key: const ValueKey('queue-clear-continuation'),
                   style: TextButton.styleFrom(foregroundColor: Colors.white54, visualDensity: VisualDensity.compact),
@@ -973,6 +941,7 @@ class _QueuePanelState extends State<QueuePanel> {
             ],
           ),
         ),
+        if (auto != null) _ContinuesRow(item: auto, queue: _q, warm: warm),
         for (final e in cont) _ContinuationRow(episode: e, queue: _q),
       ];
 
@@ -1192,8 +1161,8 @@ IconData howIcon(QueueHow how) => switch (how) {
     };
 
 /// Who added it: their picture (still here) or initial, and name.
-AvatarInfo _adderAvatar(QueueItem item, List<MemberView> members) {
+AvatarInfo _adderAvatar(BuildContext context, QueueItem item, List<MemberView> members) {
-  final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+  final coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
   for (final m in members) {
     if (m.id == item.by) return memberAvatarInfo(m, coord.serverState.peek(), coord);
   }
@@ -1227,7 +1196,7 @@ class _MetaLine extends StatelessWidget {
         children: [
           if (dur.isNotEmpty) ...[Text(dur, style: style), dot],
           Text('added by ', style: style),
-          StatusAvatar(info: _adderAvatar(item, members), size: fontSize + 3, badges: false, ring: false),
+          StatusAvatar(info: _adderAvatar(context, item, members), size: fontSize + 3, badges: false, ring: false),
           const SizedBox(width: 4),
           Text(name, style: style),
           dot,
@@ -1243,7 +1212,7 @@ class _MetaLine extends StatelessWidget {
       children: [
         if (dur.isNotEmpty) ...[Text(dur, style: style), dot],
         Text('added by ', style: style),
-        StatusAvatar(info: _adderAvatar(item, members), size: fontSize + 3, badges: false, ring: false),
+        StatusAvatar(info: _adderAvatar(context, item, members), size: fontSize + 3, badges: false, ring: false),
         const SizedBox(width: 4),
         // Capped rather than flexible: two flexibles split the room in
         // half and would cut the end off even when it fits.
@@ -1479,6 +1448,76 @@ class _WarmDotState extends State<_WarmDot> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   }
 }
 
+/// The continuation's row (the `auto` item): greyed like what is not
+/// queued yet, its picture with how ready it is here, ▶ plays it now.
+class _ContinuesRow extends StatefulWidget {
+  final QueueItem item;
+  final QueueController queue;
+  final WarmState? warm;
+  const _ContinuesRow({required this.item, required this.queue, required this.warm});
+
+  @override
+  State<_ContinuesRow> createState() => _ContinuesRowState();
+}
+
+class _ContinuesRowState extends State<_ContinuesRow> {
+  bool _hover = false;
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final item = widget.item;
+    return MouseRegion(
+      onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _hover = true),
+      onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hover = false),
+      child: AnimatedOpacity(
+        duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 120),
+        opacity: _hover ? 0.95 : 0.7,
+        child: Container(
+          key: ValueKey('queue-continues-${item.id}'),
+          height: queueRowHeight,
+          padding: const EdgeInsets.only(left: _lead, right: 8),
+          decoration: BoxDecoration(
+            color: _hover ? AppMenuStyle.hover : Colors.transparent,
+            borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(AppMenuStyle.rowRadius),
+          ),
+          child: Row(
+            children: [
+              Stack(
+                children: [
+                  QueueThumb(queue: widget.queue, item: item, width: _thumb),
+                  if (widget.warm != null) Positioned(top: 3, right: 3, child: _WarmDot(state: widget.warm!)),
+                ],
+              ),
+              const SizedBox(width: 12),
+              Expanded(
+                child: Column(
+                  crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+                  mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
+                  children: [
+                    Text(item.title, maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis, style: _titleStyle),
+                    Text(
+                      [item.sub, queueClock(item.duration)].where((s) => s.isNotEmpty).join('  ·  '),
+                      maxLines: 1,
+                      overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                      style: _subStyle,
+                    ),
+                  ],
+                ),
+              ),
+              _RoundIcon(
+                key: ValueKey('queue-play-${item.id}'),
+                icon: Icons.play_arrow_rounded,
+                tooltip: 'Play now',
+                onPressed: () => widget.queue.playNow(item.id),
+              ),
+            ],
+          ),
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
 class _ContinuationRow extends StatefulWidget {
   final EpisodeLink episode;
   final QueueController queue;
@@ -1545,8 +1584,9 @@ class _ContinuationRowState extends State<_ContinuationRow> {
 
 // -------------------------------------------------------------- end card
 
-/// When the media ended with Up next waiting: its picture, title and who
+/// When the media ended with something next (Up next's first item, else
-/// added it, the countdown with Cancel, and Play now.
+/// the continuation): its picture, title and who added it, the server's
+/// countdown with Cancel (for everyone), and Play now.
 class UpNextCard extends StatelessWidget {
   final QueueController queue;
   final UpNextCountdown countdown;
@@ -1559,7 +1599,13 @@ class UpNextCard extends StatelessWidget {
     final left = c.secondsLeft;
     final r = queue.coord.serverState.value;
     final selfId = queue.coord.connection.memberId;
-    final waiting = left == null ? performerNote(queue, item, r) : null;
+    final waitingFor = c.waitingFor;
+    final waiting = waitingFor != null
+        ? 'Waiting for $waitingFor'
+        : left == null || left == 0
+            ? performerNote(queue, item, r)
+            : null;
+    final what = item.auto ? 'Next' : 'Up next';
     return AppGlass(
       key: const ValueKey('up-next-card'),
       child: SizedBox(
@@ -1579,7 +1625,7 @@ class UpNextCard extends StatelessWidget {
                     child: Column(
                       crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                       children: [
-                        Text(left == null ? 'Up next' : 'Up next in $left s',
+                        Text(left == null || left == 0 ? what : '$what in $left s',
                             style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white60, fontSize: 12)),
                         const SizedBox(height: 2),
                         Text(item.title,
@@ -1605,7 +1651,7 @@ class UpNextCard extends StatelessWidget {
                 ClipRRect(
                   borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(2),
                   child: TweenAnimationBuilder<double>(
-                    tween: Tween(end: left / autoAdvanceSecs),
+                    tween: Tween(end: left / RelayConstants.advanceSecs),
                     duration: const Duration(seconds: 1),
                     builder: (context, v, _) => LinearProgressIndicator(
                       value: v,

apps/desktop/lib/src/schedule/anilist.dart

@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 
 // AniList airing schedule (public GraphQL, no login): every episode airing
-// in a time range, with covers, banners and popularity; and a title search
+// in a time range, with covers, banners and popularity; a title search
-// (cover + banner of a show, for the media art of files and links).
+// (cover + banner of a show, for the media art of files and links); and
+// the library's lookups (search with synonyms and relations, one entry by
+// id; see ARCHITECTURE.md "Media identity").
 //
 // AniList allows ~90 requests/min (sometimes degraded to 30), so the raw
 // pages are cached: in memory for 10 min (tab switches) and on disk for an
@@ -105,6 +107,177 @@ class AniListMedia {
   }
 }
 
+/// An anime as the library matches it ([AniListClient.searchAnime],
+/// [AniListClient.anime]): titles and synonyms to match on, its format
+/// and length, art, and the next TV entry of its run ([sequel]) to number
+/// across split seasons and cours. JSON round-trips for the library's
+/// cache ([toJson]).
+class AniListEntry {
+  final int id;
+  final String romaji;
+  final String english;
+  final String native;
+  final List<String> synonyms;
+  /// `TV`, `TV_SHORT`, `MOVIE`, `OVA`, `ONA`, `SPECIAL`, `MUSIC`; '' unknown.
+  final String format;
+  /// Null while it airs with no announced count.
+  final int? episodes;
+  final int? year;
+  final String? cover;
+  final String? coverSmall;
+  final String? banner;
+  /// The next TV / TV_SHORT / ONA entry (`SEQUEL` relation).
+  final int? sequel;
+  final int? prequel;
+  /// Episode titles AniList knows (its streaming episodes), by number.
+  final Map<int, String> episodeTitles;
+
+  const AniListEntry({
+    required this.id,
+    this.romaji = '',
+    this.english = '',
+    this.native = '',
+    this.synonyms = const [],
+    this.format = '',
+    this.episodes,
+    this.year,
+    this.cover,
+    this.coverSmall,
+    this.banner,
+    this.sequel,
+    this.prequel,
+    this.episodeTitles = const {},
+  });
+
+  /// English title, else romaji.
+  String get title => english.isNotEmpty ? english : (romaji.isNotEmpty ? romaji : native);
+
+  /// Every name it goes by, for matching.
+  List<String> get names => [
+        for (final t in [english, romaji, native, ...synonyms])
+          if (t.trim().isNotEmpty) t,
+      ];
+
+  bool get isMovie => format == 'MOVIE';
+
+  /// A run of episodes a season or cour is made of.
+  bool get isSeries => format == 'TV' || format == 'TV_SHORT' || format == 'ONA';
+
+  static const graphQLFields = 'id title{romaji english native} synonyms format episodes seasonYear '
+      'coverImage{extraLarge large} bannerImage '
+      'relations{edges{relationType node{id format type}}} streamingEpisodes{title}';
+
+  static final _streamingTitle = RegExp(r'^\s*(?:Episode|Ep\.?)\s*(\d{1,4})\s*[-–:]\s*(.+)$', caseSensitive: false);
+
+  /// From an AniList `Media` object; null when it has no id.
+  static AniListEntry? fromGraphQL(Object? m) {
+    if (m is! Map || m['id'] is! int) return null;
+    String str(Object? v) => v is String ? v : '';
+    final t = m['title'] is Map ? m['title'] as Map : const {};
+    final cov = m['coverImage'] is Map ? m['coverImage'] as Map : const {};
+    final large = cov['large'] is String ? cov['large'] as String : null;
+    int? related(String type) {
+      final edges = m['relations'] is Map ? (m['relations'] as Map)['edges'] : null;
+      if (edges is! List) return null;
+      for (final e in edges) {
+        if (e is! Map || e['relationType'] != type) continue;
+        final node = e['node'];
+        if (node is Map && node['id'] is int && node['type'] != 'MANGA' &&
+            const {'TV', 'TV_SHORT', 'ONA'}.contains(node['format'])) {
+          return node['id'] as int;
+        }
+      }
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    final titles = <int, String>{};
+    final streaming = m['streamingEpisodes'];
+    if (streaming is List) {
+      for (final s in streaming) {
+        final match = s is Map && s['title'] is String ? _streamingTitle.firstMatch(s['title'] as String) : null;
+        if (match != null) titles.putIfAbsent(int.parse(match.group(1)!), () => match.group(2)!.trim());
+      }
+    }
+    return AniListEntry(
+      id: m['id'] as int,
+      romaji: str(t['romaji']),
+      english: str(t['english']),
+      native: str(t['native']),
+      synonyms: [
+        if (m['synonyms'] is List)
+          for (final s in m['synonyms'] as List)
+            if (s is String && s.trim().isNotEmpty) s.trim(),
+      ],
+      format: str(m['format']),
+      episodes: m['episodes'] is int ? m['episodes'] as int : null,
+      year: m['seasonYear'] is int ? m['seasonYear'] as int : null,
+      cover: cov['extraLarge'] is String ? cov['extraLarge'] as String : large,
+      coverSmall: large,
+      banner: m['bannerImage'] is String ? m['bannerImage'] as String : null,
+      sequel: related('SEQUEL'),
+      prequel: related('PREQUEL'),
+      episodeTitles: titles,
+    );
+  }
+
+  Map<String, Object?> toJson() => {
+        'id': id,
+        'romaji': romaji,
+        'english': english,
+        'native': native,
+        'synonyms': synonyms,
+        'format': format,
+        'episodes': episodes,
+        'year': year,
+        'cover': cover,
+        'coverSmall': coverSmall,
+        'banner': banner,
+        'sequel': sequel,
+        'prequel': prequel,
+        'episodeTitles': {for (final e in episodeTitles.entries) '${e.key}': e.value},
+      };
+
+  static AniListEntry? fromJson(Object? j) {
+    if (j is! Map || j['id'] is! int) return null;
+    String str(Object? v) => v is String ? v : '';
+    String? opt(Object? v) => v is String ? v : null;
+    int? n(Object? v) => v is int ? v : null;
+    final titles = j['episodeTitles'];
+    return AniListEntry(
+      id: j['id'] as int,
+      romaji: str(j['romaji']),
+      english: str(j['english']),
+      native: str(j['native']),
+      synonyms: [if (j['synonyms'] is List) ...(j['synonyms'] as List).whereType<String>()],
+      format: str(j['format']),
+      episodes: n(j['episodes']),
+      year: n(j['year']),
+      cover: opt(j['cover']),
+      coverSmall: opt(j['coverSmall']),
+      banner: opt(j['banner']),
+      sequel: n(j['sequel']),
+      prequel: n(j['prequel']),
+      episodeTitles: {
+        if (titles is Map)
+          for (final e in titles.entries)
+            if (int.tryParse('${e.key}') case final k? when e.value is String) k: e.value as String,
+      },
+    );
+  }
+
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'AniListEntry($id "$title" $format ${episodes ?? '?'} eps)';
+}
+
+/// What the library asks AniList ([AniListClient]; tests fake it).
+abstract interface class AniListLookup {
+  /// Anime matching [query], AniList's best first.
+  Future<List<AniListEntry>> searchAnime(String query);
+
+  /// One anime by id; null when AniList has none.
+  Future<AniListEntry?> anime(int id);
+}
+
 /// "#e4a15d" -> opaque [Color]; anything else -> null.
 Color? parseHexColor(Object? s) {
   if (s is! String || s.length != 7 || !s.startsWith('#')) return null;
@@ -142,7 +315,7 @@ class _Cached {
   const _Cached(this.fetched, this.from, this.to, this.raw);
 }
 
-class AniListClient {
+class AniListClient implements AniListLookup {
   AniListClient({
     String url = aniListDefaultUrl,
     HttpClient? http,
@@ -306,6 +479,49 @@ coverImage{extraLarge large} bannerImage}}''';
     }
   }
 
+  static final _listQuery = 'query(\$search:String){Page(perPage:8){media(search:\$search,type:ANIME,'
+      'isAdult:false,sort:SEARCH_MATCH){${AniListEntry.graphQLFields}}}}';
+  static final _byIdQuery = 'query(\$id:Int){Media(id:\$id,type:ANIME){${AniListEntry.graphQLFields}}}';
+
+  /// Up to 8 anime matching [query], AniList's best first (the library's
+  /// matching and its "Wrong show?" search). Not cached here: the library
+  /// keeps what it needs.
+  @override
+  Future<List<AniListEntry>> searchAnime(String query) async {
+    final q = query.trim();
+    if (q.isEmpty) return const [];
+    final (data, _, _) = await _graphql(_listQuery, {'search': q});
+    final page = data?['Page'];
+    final media = page is Map ? page['media'] : null;
+    return [if (media is List) for (final m in media) ?AniListEntry.fromGraphQL(m)];
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<AniListEntry?> anime(int id) async {
+    try {
+      final (data, _, _) = await _graphql(_byIdQuery, {'id': id});
+      return AniListEntry.fromGraphQL(data?['Media']);
+    } on AniListException catch (e) {
+      if (e.statusCode == 404) return null;
+      rethrow;
+    }
+  }
+
+  static const byIdArtQuery = r'''
+query($id:Int){Media(id:$id,type:ANIME){id title{romaji english} coverImage{extraLarge large} bannerImage}}''';
+
+  /// Cover and banner of AniList entry [id] (the media art of a file the
+  /// library matched); null when there is none.
+  Future<AniListMedia?> mediaById(int id) async {
+    try {
+      final (data, _, _) = await _graphql(byIdArtQuery, {'id': id});
+      return AniListMedia.fromJson(data?['Media']);
+    } on AniListException catch (e) {
+      if (e.statusCode == 404) return null;
+      rethrow;
+    }
+  }
+
   static String _errorText(Object? j) {
     final errs = j is Map ? j['errors'] : null;
     if (errs is! List || errs.isEmpty) return '';

apps/desktop/lib/src/schedule/ui/schedule_card.dart

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ enum CardAction {
   none,
   putUp,
 
-  /// Available, nobody else watching (offline or solo): plays it here.
+  /// Available, nobody else in the server: plays it here.
   play,
   request,
   requestSeries,

apps/desktop/lib/src/schedule/ui/schedule_page.dart

@@ -24,9 +24,8 @@ import 'schedule_card.dart';
 enum ScheduleFilter { jellyfin, all }
 
 class SchedulePage extends StatefulWidget {
-  /// Nobody else watches (offline or solo): available episodes say Play
+  /// Nobody else is in the server (D9): available episodes say Play.
-  /// (offline that starts a solo session).
+  final bool alone;
-  final bool solo;
 
   /// Puts a Jellyfin episode up in the server; returns an error to show.
   final Future<String?> Function(JellyfinMedia pick) onPutUp;
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ class SchedulePage extends StatefulWidget {
 
   const SchedulePage({
     super.key,
-    this.solo = false,
+    this.alone = false,
     required this.onPutUp,
     this.onAddToQueue,
     required this.onToast,
@@ -228,7 +227,7 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
 
   (CardAction, String?) _actionFor(ScheduleEntry e) {
     if (e.status == ScheduleStatus.available || e.status == ScheduleStatus.inLibrary) {
-      final put = widget.solo ? CardAction.play : CardAction.putUp;
+      final put = widget.alone ? CardAction.play : CardAction.putUp;
       if (e.jellyfinSeriesId == null) return (put, 'Not linked to a Jellyfin series yet');
       return (put, null);
     }
@@ -287,7 +286,7 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
     final add = widget.onAddToQueue;
     if (add == null) return;
     final pick = await showAppMenu<int>(context, items: [
-      AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: widget.solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
+      AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: widget.alone ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
       const AppMenuItem(value: 1, label: 'Add to queue'),
       const AppMenuItem(value: 2, label: 'Play next'),
     ]);

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/about_page.dart

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
 import '../../platform/app_log.dart';
 import '../../shell/mark_problem.dart';
-import '../../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../../state/settings.dart';
 import '../../update/update_controller.dart';
 import '../../widgets/app_menu.dart';
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ class AboutPanel extends StatelessWidget {
                   IconButton(
                     tooltip: ReuseText.copyLink,
                     icon: const Icon(Icons.copy, size: 18),
-                    onPressed: () => copyToClipboard(repoUrl, done: 'Link copied'),
+                    onPressed: () => copyToClipboard(context, repoUrl, done: 'Link copied'),
                   ),
                   FilledButton.tonalIcon(
-                    onPressed: () => openLink(repoUrl),
+                    onPressed: () => openLink(context, repoUrl),
                     icon: const Icon(Icons.open_in_new, size: 18),
                     label: const Text('Source'),
                   ),
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ class AboutPanel extends StatelessWidget {
                   ),
                   const MarkProblemButton(outlined: true),
                   OutlinedButton.icon(
-                    onPressed: appLogDir == null ? null : () => _openLogs(),
+                    onPressed: appLogDir == null ? null : () => _openLogs(context),
                     icon: const Icon(Icons.folder_open, size: 18),
                     label: const Text('Open logs folder'),
                   ),
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ class AboutPanel extends StatelessWidget {
   /// In a session it asks whether to add the server's session log.
   static Future<void> _copyDiagnostics(BuildContext context) async {
     var withServer = false;
-    if (SessionState.instance.route.peek() == AppRoute.session) {
+    final graph = AppScope.of(context);
+    if (graph.navigation.online.peek()) {
       final pick = await showAppMenu<bool>(context, items: const [
         AppMenuItem(value: false, label: "This app's log"),
         AppMenuItem(value: true, label: "This app's and the server's session log"),
@@ -110,17 +111,20 @@ class AboutPanel extends StatelessWidget {
       if (pick == null) return;
       withServer = pick;
     }
-    final text = await diagnosticsText(sessionLog: withServer);
+    final text = await diagnosticsText(graph, sessionLog: withServer);
     final saved = await saveDiagnostics(text);
-    await copyToClipboard(text,
+    if (!context.mounted) return;
+    await copyToClipboard(context, text,
         done: saved == null ? 'Diagnostics copied' : 'Diagnostics copied (also saved in the logs folder)');
   }
 
-  static Future<void> _openLogs() async {
+  static Future<void> _openLogs(BuildContext context) async {
     final dir = appLogDir;
     if (dir == null) return;
-    if (!await SessionState.instance.ports.folders.reveal(dir)) {
+    final folders = AppScope.of(context).ports.folders;
-      await copyToClipboard(dir, done: "Couldn't open it — folder path copied");
+    if (!await folders.reveal(dir)) {
+      if (!context.mounted) return;
+      await copyToClipboard(context, dir, done: "Couldn't open it — folder path copied");
     }
   }
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/connect_flow.dart

@@ -2,26 +2,35 @@ import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 
 import '../../session/connection.dart' show connectErrorText;
 import '../../session/identity.dart';
+import '../../session/navigation.dart';
 import '../../session/session_coordinator.dart';
-import '../../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../../state/connect_prefs.dart';
 import '../../sync/sync_client.dart' show HelloRefused;
+import 'health_probe.dart' show VersionGateRefused;
 
-/// What a card shows under its fields after a failed attempt.
+/// What the Join card shows under its fields after a failed attempt.
+/// [offerUpdate]: this app is the older one (the version gate), so the
+/// card offers the updater.
 class CardError {
   final String title;
   final String message;
-  const CardError(this.title, this.message);
+  final bool offerUpdate;
+  const CardError(this.title, this.message, {this.offerUpdate = false});
 }
 
-/// Host/Join submit state for the strip's two connect cards. One attempt at a time;
+/// The Join card's submit state, owned by the shell so an attempt and its
-/// [cancel] abandons it via [SessionState.cancelPending].
+/// error outlive the card. One attempt at a time; [cancel] abandons it
+/// ([Navigation.cancelPending]).
 class ConnectFlow extends ChangeNotifier {
-  ConnectFlow({SessionState? session}) : _session = session ?? SessionState.instance;
+  ConnectFlow({required this.navigation, required this.forms, this.profile});
-  final SessionState _session;
+  final Navigation navigation;
+  final ConnectStore forms;
+  /// Name and picture for the hello (default: the app's).
+  final Profile? profile;
 
-  ConnectMode? busy;
+  bool busy = false;
-  final errors = <ConnectMode, CardError?>{};
+  CardError? error;
-  final notices = <ConnectMode, String?>{};
+  String? notice;
   int _attempt = 0;
   bool _disposed = false;
 
@@ -35,116 +44,101 @@ class ConnectFlow extends ChangeNotifier {
     if (!_disposed) notifyListeners();
   }
 
-  void showError(ConnectMode mode, CardError error) {
+  void showError(CardError e) {
-    errors[mode] = error;
+    error = e;
-    notices[mode] = null;
+    notice = null;
     _notify();
   }
 
-  void clearError(ConnectMode mode) {
+  void clearError() {
-    if (errors[mode] == null && notices[mode] == null) return;
+    if (error == null && notice == null) return;
-    errors[mode] = null;
+    error = null;
-    notices[mode] = null;
+    notice = null;
     _notify();
   }
 
   /// Validates and builds the params; throws [FormatException] with a
   /// user-facing message. [avatar] is the base64 picture (the profile's).
-  /// Hosting puts nothing up: what to watch is picked in the library.
+  static ConnectParams buildParams(ConnectForm f, {String avatar = ''}) {
-  static ConnectParams buildParams(ConnectMode mode, ConnectForm f, {String avatar = ''}) {
+    final port = int.tryParse(f.port.trim());
-    final rawPort = mode == ConnectMode.host ? f.hostPort : f.port;
-    final port = int.tryParse(rawPort.trim());
     if (port == null || port <= 0 || port > 65535) {
       throw const FormatException('port must be 1–65535');
     }
     if (f.name.trim().isEmpty) {
       throw const FormatException('set your display name first (click your avatar at the top left)');
     }
-    if (mode == ConnectMode.join && f.host.trim().isEmpty) {
+    if (f.host.trim().isEmpty) {
       throw const FormatException('enter the server address');
     }
-    return ConnectParams(
+    return ConnectParams(host: f.host.trim(), port: port, secret: f.secret, name: f.name.trim(), avatar: avatar);
-      host: f.host.trim(),
-      port: port,
-      secret: mode == ConnectMode.host ? f.hostSecret : f.secret,
-      name: f.name.trim(),
-      avatar: avatar,
-    );
   }
 
-  /// [edit] fills the card's fields into a copy of the last form, so the
+  /// [edit] fills the card's fields into a copy of the form; the form is
-  /// other card's saved values survive.
+  /// saved whatever happens (a failed join is when the user wants it back).
-  Future<void> submit(ConnectMode mode, void Function(ConnectForm f) edit) async {
+  Future<void> submit(void Function(ConnectForm f) edit) async {
-    if (busy != null) return;
+    if (busy) return;
     final myAttempt = ++_attempt;
-    final form = _session.lastForm.copy();
+    final form = forms.form.copy();
     edit(form);
     form.name = form.name.trim();
     form.host = form.host.trim();
-    busy = mode;
+    busy = true;
-    errors[mode] = null;
+    error = null;
-    notices[mode] = null;
+    notice = null;
     _notify();
 
     ConnectParams params;
     try {
-      final profile = Profile.instance;
+      final profile = this.profile ?? Profile.instance;
       await profile.ensureLoaded();
-      params = buildParams(mode, form, avatar: profile.avatarBase64());
+      params = buildParams(form, avatar: profile.avatarBase64());
     } catch (e) {
       if (myAttempt != _attempt) return;
-      busy = null;
+      busy = false;
-      errors[mode] = CardError('Check the form',
+      error = CardError('Check the form', e is FormatException ? e.message : 'check the form and try again');
-          e is FormatException ? e.message : 'check the form and try again');
       _notify();
       return;
     }
-    final fromSolo = mode == ConnectMode.host && _session.solo.value;
+    forms.form
+      ..host = form.host
+      ..port = form.port
+      ..secret = form.secret;
     try {
-      if (mode == ConnectMode.host) {
+      await navigation.join(params);
-        await _session.host(params, form);
-      } else {
-        await _session.join(params, form);
-      }
     } catch (e) {
       if (myAttempt != _attempt) return;
-      busy = null;
+      busy = false;
-      // A refusal says why in plain words (an older host, a wrong password,
+      // In plain words: the version gate (who has to update), a refusal
-      // another window).
+      // (an older host, a wrong password, another window), offline.
-      errors[mode] = CardError('Could not connect', e is HelloRefused ? connectErrorText(e) : '$e');
+      error = switch (e) {
+        VersionGateRefused(:final message, :final youUpdate) =>
+          CardError("Versions don't match", message, offerUpdate: youUpdate),
+        HelloRefused() => CardError('Could not connect', connectErrorText(e)),
+        _ => CardError('Could not connect', '$e'),
+      };
       _notify();
+      await forms.saveQuietly();
       return;
     }
     if (myAttempt != _attempt) {
-      // Cancelled after it got through: back out (an Invite: back to solo).
+      // Cancelled after it got through: back home.
       try {
-        if (fromSolo) {
+        await navigation.goHome();
-          await _session.cancelInvite();
-        } else {
-          await _session.leave();
-          await _session.stopServer();
-        }
       } catch (_) {}
       return;
     }
-    busy = null;
+    busy = false;
     _notify();
-    await _session.rememberServer(RecentServer(
-      hosted: mode == ConnectMode.host,
-      host: mode == ConnectMode.host ? '' : form.host,
-      port: mode == ConnectMode.host ? form.hostPort.trim() : form.port.trim(),
-      secret: mode == ConnectMode.host ? form.hostSecret : form.secret,
-    ));
   }
 
   Future<void> cancel() async {
-    final mode = busy;
+    final was = busy;
     _attempt++;
     try {
-      await _session.cancelPending();
+      await navigation.cancelPending();
     } catch (_) {}
-    busy = null;
+    busy = false;
-    if (mode != null) notices[mode] = 'Cancelled';
+    if (was) notice = 'Cancelled';
     _notify();
   }
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/connect_status.dart

@@ -1,21 +1,20 @@
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 
-import '../../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../../update/update_controller.dart';
 import 'connect_flow.dart';
 import 'ui.dart';
+import 'update_indicator.dart' show runUpdateCheck;
 
-/// The submit button for one [ConnectMode], swapped for a progress bar and
+/// The Join button, swapped for a progress bar and Cancel while the
-/// Cancel while that attempt runs. Disabled while the other mode is busy.
+/// attempt runs.
 class ConnectButton extends StatelessWidget {
   final ConnectFlow flow;
-  final ConnectMode mode;
   final String label;
   final VoidCallback onSubmit;
   final bool expand;
   const ConnectButton({
     super.key,
     required this.flow,
-    required this.mode,
     required this.label,
     required this.onSubmit,
     this.expand = false,
@@ -23,8 +22,7 @@ class ConnectButton extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final busyHere = flow.busy == mode;
+    if (flow.busy) {
-    if (busyHere) {
       return SizedBox(
         width: expand ? null : 220,
         child: Column(
@@ -35,10 +33,7 @@ class ConnectButton extends StatelessWidget {
             const SizedBox(height: 4),
             Row(
               children: [
-                Expanded(
+                Expanded(child: Text('Connecting…', style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.bodySmall)),
-                  child: Text(mode == ConnectMode.host ? 'Starting server…' : 'Connecting…',
-                      style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.bodySmall),
-                ),
                 TextButton(onPressed: flow.cancel, child: const Text('Cancel')),
               ],
             ),
@@ -46,35 +41,48 @@ class ConnectButton extends StatelessWidget {
         ),
       );
     }
-    final button = FilledButton(
+    final button = FilledButton(onPressed: onSubmit, child: Text(label));
-      onPressed: flow.busy != null ? null : onSubmit,
-      child: Text(label),
-    );
     return expand ? SizedBox(width: double.infinity, child: button) : button;
   }
 }
 
-/// Last error or notice for [mode], or nothing.
+/// The last error or notice, or nothing. A version gate that says this
+/// app is the older one offers the update ([updates], default the app's
+/// [UpdateController]).
 class ConnectFeedback extends StatelessWidget {
   final ConnectFlow flow;
-  final ConnectMode mode;
+  final UpdateController? updates;
-  const ConnectFeedback({super.key, required this.flow, required this.mode});
+  const ConnectFeedback({super.key, required this.flow, this.updates});
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final error = flow.errors[mode];
+    final error = flow.error;
-    final notice = flow.notices[mode];
+    final notice = flow.notice;
     if (error != null) {
       return Padding(
         padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 12),
-        child: ErrorBox(title: error.title, message: error.message),
+        child: Column(
+          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
+          children: [
+            ErrorBox(title: error.title, message: error.message),
+            if (error.offerUpdate)
+              Align(
+                alignment: Alignment.centerLeft,
+                child: TextButton.icon(
+                  key: const ValueKey('join-update'),
+                  onPressed: () => runUpdateCheck(updates, true),
+                  icon: const Icon(Icons.system_update_alt, size: 16),
+                  label: const Text('Check for the update'),
+                ),
+              ),
+          ],
+        ),
       );
     }
     if (notice != null) {
       return Padding(
         padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 12),
-        child: Text(notice,
+        child: Text(notice, style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: Colors.grey)),
-            style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: Colors.grey)),
       );
     }
     return const SizedBox.shrink();

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/health_probe.dart

@@ -10,34 +10,76 @@ typedef HealthGetter = Future<String> Function(Uri uri);
 const healthPollEvery = Duration(seconds: 10);
 const _timeout = Duration(seconds: 4);
 
-/// What a recent-server tile shows: unknown until the first probe answers.
+/// Whether this app and a server have a wire version in common.
+enum VersionFit {
+  /// Their ranges meet: the join can go ahead.
+  ok,
+  /// The server's newest version is older than anything this app speaks.
+  theyUpdate,
+  /// The server's oldest version is newer than anything this app speaks.
+  youUpdate,
+}
+
+/// [VersionFit] of a server that speaks [min] .. [max] (`/health`
+/// `protoMin` / `protoMax`), against this build's
+/// [RelayConstants.protoMin] .. [RelayConstants.protoMax].
+VersionFit versionFit(int min, int max,
+    {int ownMin = RelayConstants.protoMin, int ownMax = RelayConstants.protoMax}) {
+  if (max < ownMin) return VersionFit.theyUpdate;
+  if (min > ownMax) return VersionFit.youUpdate;
+  return VersionFit.ok;
+}
+
+/// What a recent-server row and the version gate read from `/health`:
+/// unknown until the first probe answers.
 class ServerHealth {
   final bool online;
   final String name;
-  final int? proto;
+  /// The server's wire range (`protoMin` .. `protoMax`; a server too old
+  /// to say has only `proto`, used for both). Null when it says nothing.
+  final int? protoMin;
+  final int? protoMax;
   final int viewers;
+  /// Its Starsync version (`version`), '' from a server too old to say.
+  final String version;
   const ServerHealth.offline()
       : online = false,
         name = '',
-        proto = null,
+        protoMin = null,
-        viewers = 0;
+        protoMax = null,
-  const ServerHealth.online({required this.name, this.proto, this.viewers = 0})
+        viewers = 0,
+        version = '';
+  const ServerHealth.online({required this.name, this.protoMin, this.protoMax, this.viewers = 0, this.version = ''})
       : online = true;
 
-  /// True when the server speaks another protocol than this build.
+  /// Null while unknown (offline, or no version given).
-  bool get needsUpdate =>
+  VersionFit? get fit {
-      online && proto != null && proto != RelayConstants.protoVersion;
+    final min = protoMin, max = protoMax;
+    if (!online || min == null || max == null) return null;
+    return versionFit(min, max);
+  }
+
+  /// True when the server and this app have no version in common.
+  bool get needsUpdate => fit != null && fit != VersionFit.ok;
+
+  /// The server's own name for people ('' for the dedicated server's
+  /// default `server`).
+  String get label => name.isNotEmpty && name != 'server' ? name : '';
 
   /// Lenient parse of `GET /health`; anything unexpected reads as offline.
   static ServerHealth parse(String body) {
     try {
       final j = jsonDecode(body);
       if (j is! Map || j['ok'] != true) return const ServerHealth.offline();
-      final name = j['name'], proto = j['proto'], viewers = j['viewers'];
+      final name = j['name'], proto = j['proto'], viewers = j['viewers'], version = j['version'];
+      final min = j['protoMin'], max = j['protoMax'];
+      final p = proto is num ? proto.toInt() : null;
       return ServerHealth.online(
         name: name is String ? name.trim() : '',
-        proto: proto is num ? proto.toInt() : null,
+        protoMin: min is num ? min.toInt() : p,
+        protoMax: max is num ? max.toInt() : p,
         viewers: viewers is num ? viewers.toInt() : 0,
+        version: version is String ? version.trim() : '',
       );
     } catch (_) {
       return const ServerHealth.offline();
@@ -45,6 +87,26 @@ class ServerHealth {
   }
 }
 
+/// The version gate's message for a server that does not fit: who has
+/// to update, in plain words ("Bob's server runs Starsync 1.2.1 — they
+/// need to update").
+String versionGateText(ServerHealth h) {
+  final who = h.label.isNotEmpty ? h.label : 'The server';
+  final runs = h.version.isNotEmpty ? '$who runs Starsync ${h.version}' : '$who runs ${h.fit == VersionFit.youUpdate ? 'a newer' : 'an older'} Starsync';
+  return h.fit == VersionFit.youUpdate ? '$runs — you need to update' : '$runs — they need to update';
+}
+
+/// A join stopped before connecting: the server and this app have no
+/// version in common ([versionGateText]). [youUpdate]: this app is the
+/// older one, so the updater can help.
+class VersionGateRefused implements Exception {
+  final String message;
+  final bool youUpdate;
+  const VersionGateRefused(this.message, {required this.youUpdate});
+  @override
+  String toString() => message;
+}
+
 Uri healthUri(String host, String port) {
   final h = host.trim();
   // Bare IPv6 literals need brackets in a URL.

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/picked_media.dart

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show MediaRef;
+
 /// What the media picker selected. Null selection = nothing (hosting
 /// without media is allowed).
 sealed class PickedMedia {
@@ -72,6 +74,9 @@ final class JellyfinMedia extends PickedMedia {
   /// "Series · S1E6" for episodes, the year for movies; may be empty.
   final String subtitle;
   final Duration? runtime;
+  /// What it is (`media.ref`), when it was picked from the item itself
+  /// (with its provider ids); not stored, not part of equality.
+  final MediaRef? ref;
   const JellyfinMedia({
     required this.serverId,
     required this.baseUrl,
@@ -80,6 +85,7 @@ final class JellyfinMedia extends PickedMedia {
     required this.title,
     this.subtitle = '',
     this.runtime,
+    this.ref,
   });
 
   @override

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/settings_page.dart

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
-import '../../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../../state/settings.dart';
 import '../../update/update_controller.dart';
 import 'ui.dart';
@@ -88,10 +88,11 @@ class SettingsHintCard extends StatelessWidget {
 class CustomShaderFiles extends StatelessWidget {
   const CustomShaderFiles({super.key});
 
-  Future<void> _addFiles() async {
+  Future<void> _addFiles(BuildContext context) async {
+    final folders = AppScope.of(context).ports.folders;
     final List<String> files;
     try {
-      files = await SessionState.instance.ports.folders.pickFiles(
+      files = await folders.pickFiles(
         dialogTitle: 'Pick mpv GLSL shaders',
         extensions: const ['glsl', 'hook'],
       );
@@ -123,7 +124,7 @@ class CustomShaderFiles extends StatelessWidget {
                     style: muted),
               ),
               TextButton.icon(
-                onPressed: _addFiles,
+                onPressed: () => _addFiles(context),
                 icon: const Icon(Icons.add, size: 18),
                 label: const Text('Add .glsl files'),
               ),
@@ -219,8 +220,8 @@ class AutoAdvanceSetting extends StatelessWidget {
         key: const ValueKey('auto-advance'),
         contentPadding: EdgeInsets.zero,
         title: const Text('Play the next episode automatically'),
-        subtitle: const Text('When a Jellyfin episode ends, a 10 s countdown puts up the next one; '
+        subtitle: const Text('When you put up an episode (Jellyfin, or a file of a show in Files), the next one '
-            'anyone can cancel it'),
+            'continues it after a 10 s countdown everyone sees; anyone can cancel it'),
         value: s.autoAdvance.value,
         onChanged: s.setAutoAdvance,
       ),

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/session/jellyfin_widgets.dart

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 
 import '../../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
-import '../../session/session_coordinator.dart' show AutoAdvance, autoAdvanceSecs;
-import '../../widgets/app_menu.dart' show AppGlass;
 import 'player_controls.dart' show FloatingPill;
 
 // Jellyfin pieces of the session player. Plain widgets fed by the
@@ -24,80 +22,6 @@ class NextEpisodePill extends StatelessWidget {
       );
 }
 
-/// At the end of an episode: "Next: S1E7 title" with Play now, and while
-/// the auto-advance countdown runs, the seconds left and Cancel.
-class EndOfEpisodeCard extends StatelessWidget {
-  final EpisodeLink next;
-  final AutoAdvance? countdown;
-  final VoidCallback onPlayNow;
-  final VoidCallback onCancel;
-  const EndOfEpisodeCard({
-    super.key,
-    required this.next,
-    required this.countdown,
-    required this.onPlayNow,
-    required this.onCancel,
-  });
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final c = countdown;
-    // The same card as Up next's (`UpNextCard`): the app's glass, 400 wide.
-    return AppGlass(
-      key: const ValueKey('end-of-episode'),
-      child: SizedBox(
-        width: 400,
-        child: Padding(
-          padding: const EdgeInsets.all(12),
-          child: Column(
-            mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-            crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
-            children: [
-              Text(c == null ? 'Up next' : 'Next episode in ${c.secondsLeft} s',
-                  style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white60, fontSize: 12)),
-              const SizedBox(height: 2),
-              Text('Next: ${next.label}',
-                  maxLines: 2,
-                  overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                  style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 15, fontWeight: FontWeight.w600, height: 1.25)),
-              if (c != null) ...[
-                const SizedBox(height: 10),
-                ClipRRect(
-                  borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(2),
-                  child: TweenAnimationBuilder<double>(
-                    tween: Tween(end: c.secondsLeft / autoAdvanceSecs),
-                    duration: const Duration(seconds: 1),
-                    builder: (context, v, _) =>
-                        LinearProgressIndicator(value: v, minHeight: 3, backgroundColor: const Color(0x1FFFFFFF)),
-                  ),
-                ),
-              ],
-              const SizedBox(height: 10),
-              Row(
-                mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.end,
-                children: [
-                  if (c != null)
-                    TextButton(
-                        key: const ValueKey('auto-advance-cancel'),
-                        onPressed: onCancel,
-                        child: const Text('Cancel')),
-                  const SizedBox(width: 8),
-                  FilledButton.icon(
-                    key: const ValueKey('play-next'),
-                    onPressed: onPlayNow,
-                    icon: const Icon(Icons.skip_next_rounded, size: 18),
-                    label: Text(c == null ? 'Play next' : 'Play now'),
-                  ),
-                ],
-              ),
-            ],
-          ),
-        ),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
 /// This viewer cannot play the Jellyfin media: say why and offer to link
 /// an account (never a silent stall).
 class JellyfinBlockedCard extends StatelessWidget {

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/app_events.dart

@@ -15,65 +15,71 @@ sealed class AppEvent {
 /// in the activity log.
 sealed class FeedEvent extends AppEvent {
   final FeedMessage feed;
-  const FeedEvent(this.feed);
+  /// This member is the actor (its own chat, ready, queue add...).
+  final bool own;
+  const FeedEvent(this.feed, {this.own = false});
 
   String get actor => feed.actor;
 
   /// [feed] as its typed event. [selfId]: this member's id (people are
   /// matched by `actorId` / `targetId`, never by name); [readyCount]:
-  /// members ready in the latest state (the pitch of a `ready` sound).
+  /// members ready in the latest state (the pitch of a `ready` sound);
-  factory FeedEvent.of(FeedMessage f, {String selfId = '', int readyCount = 0}) {
+  /// [queueThumb]: the picture hash of the Up next item a `queue-add`
+  /// added (from the state that came with it), '' when none.
+  factory FeedEvent.of(FeedMessage f, {String selfId = '', int readyCount = 0, String queueThumb = ''}) {
     bool isSelf(String id) => selfId.isNotEmpty && id == selfId;
+    final own = isSelf(f.actorId);
     return switch (f.action) {
-      'join' => MemberJoined(f),
+      'join' => MemberJoined(f, own: own),
-      'leave' => MemberLeft(f),
+      'leave' => MemberLeft(f, own: own),
-      'gone' => MemberGone(f),
+      'gone' => MemberGone(f, own: own),
-      'return' => MemberReturned(f),
+      'return' => MemberReturned(f, own: own),
       'away' => MemberSatOut(f,
+          own: own,
           atYou: isSelf(f.targetId) && !isSelf(f.actorId),
           autoSelf: isSelf(f.actorId) && f.targetId.isEmpty && f.reason.isNotEmpty),
-      'in' => MemberBack(f),
+      'in' => MemberBack(f, own: own),
-      'ready' => ReadyChanged(f, ready: true, readyIndex: readyCount),
+      'ready' => ReadyChanged(f, own: own, ready: true, readyIndex: readyCount),
-      'unready' => ReadyChanged(f, ready: false),
+      'unready' => ReadyChanged(f, own: own, ready: false),
-      'force-ready' => ForcedReady(f, ready: true),
+      'force-ready' => ForcedReady(f, own: own, ready: true),
-      'force-unready' => ForcedReady(f, ready: false),
+      'force-unready' => ForcedReady(f, own: own, ready: false),
-      'force-play' => ForcedTransport(f, play: true),
+      'force-play' => ForcedTransport(f, own: own, play: true),
-      'force-hold' => ForcedTransport(f, play: false),
+      'force-hold' => ForcedTransport(f, own: own, play: false),
-      'swap' => MediaSwapped(f),
+      'swap' => MediaSwapped(f, own: own),
-      'seek' => Seeked(f),
+      'seek' => Seeked(f, own: own),
-      'pause' => Paused(f),
+      'pause' => Paused(f, own: own),
-      'resume' => Resumed(f),
+      'resume' => Resumed(f, own: own),
-      'finished' => Finished(f),
+      'finished' => Finished(f, own: own),
-      'chat' => ChatPosted(f, own: isSelf(f.actorId)),
+      'chat' => ChatPosted(f, own: own),
-      'rename' => MemberRenamed(f),
+      'rename' => MemberRenamed(f, own: own),
-      'avatar' => AvatarChanged(f),
+      'avatar' => AvatarChanged(f, own: own),
-      'queue-add' => QueueAdded(f),
+      'queue-add' => QueueAdded(f, own: own, thumb: queueThumb),
-      'queue-remove' => QueueRemoved(f),
+      'queue-remove' => QueueRemoved(f, own: own),
-      'queue-skip' => QueueSkipped(f),
+      'queue-skip' => QueueSkipped(f, own: own),
-      'fetch-fail' => FetchFailed(f),
+      'fetch-fail' => FetchFailed(f, own: own),
-      _ => OtherFeed(f),
+      _ => OtherFeed(f, own: own),
     };
   }
 }
 
 class MemberJoined extends FeedEvent {
-  const MemberJoined(super.feed);
+  const MemberJoined(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 /// Left for good (`reason` `bye`: the app closed or Leave; `grace`: gone
 /// too long).
 class MemberLeft extends FeedEvent {
-  const MemberLeft(super.feed);
+  const MemberLeft(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 /// Lost signal: gone for a while, kept in its grace period.
 class MemberGone extends FeedEvent {
-  const MemberGone(super.feed);
+  const MemberGone(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 /// Back within its grace after a [MemberGone].
 class MemberReturned extends FeedEvent {
-  const MemberReturned(super.feed);
+  const MemberReturned(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 /// Someone sat out (`away`: the actor itself, or `target` sat out by the
@@ -83,87 +89,89 @@ class MemberReturned extends FeedEvent {
 class MemberSatOut extends FeedEvent {
   final bool atYou;
   final bool autoSelf;
-  const MemberSatOut(super.feed, {this.atYou = false, this.autoSelf = false});
+  const MemberSatOut(super.feed, {super.own, this.atYou = false, this.autoSelf = false});
 }
 
 /// Back from sitting out (`in`).
 class MemberBack extends FeedEvent {
-  const MemberBack(super.feed);
+  const MemberBack(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 class ReadyChanged extends FeedEvent {
   final bool ready;
   /// Members ready when it came (pitch of the ready sound).
   final int readyIndex;
-  const ReadyChanged(super.feed, {required this.ready, this.readyIndex = 0});
+  const ReadyChanged(super.feed, {super.own, required this.ready, this.readyIndex = 0});
 }
 
 class ForcedReady extends FeedEvent {
   final bool ready;
-  const ForcedReady(super.feed, {required this.ready});
+  const ForcedReady(super.feed, {super.own, required this.ready});
 }
 
 /// Force play / hold.
 class ForcedTransport extends FeedEvent {
   final bool play;
-  const ForcedTransport(super.feed, {required this.play});
+  const ForcedTransport(super.feed, {super.own, required this.play});
 }
 
 class MediaSwapped extends FeedEvent {
-  const MediaSwapped(super.feed);
+  const MediaSwapped(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 class Seeked extends FeedEvent {
-  const Seeked(super.feed);
+  const Seeked(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 class Paused extends FeedEvent {
-  const Paused(super.feed);
+  const Paused(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 class Resumed extends FeedEvent {
-  const Resumed(super.feed);
+  const Resumed(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 class Finished extends FeedEvent {
-  const Finished(super.feed);
+  const Finished(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 /// A chat message (`reason` carries the text); [own]: this member sent it.
 class ChatPosted extends FeedEvent {
-  final bool own;
+  const ChatPosted(super.feed, {super.own});
-  const ChatPosted(super.feed, {this.own = false});
 }
 
 class MemberRenamed extends FeedEvent {
-  const MemberRenamed(super.feed);
+  const MemberRenamed(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 class AvatarChanged extends FeedEvent {
-  const AvatarChanged(super.feed);
+  const AvatarChanged(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
+/// Someone added an item to Up next (`target` its title); [thumb]: the
+/// item's picture hash ('' when none).
 class QueueAdded extends FeedEvent {
-  const QueueAdded(super.feed);
+  final String thumb;
+  const QueueAdded(super.feed, {super.own, this.thumb = ''});
 }
 
 class QueueRemoved extends FeedEvent {
-  const QueueRemoved(super.feed);
+  const QueueRemoved(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 /// Up next skipped an item (`target` its title, `reason` why).
 class QueueSkipped extends FeedEvent {
-  const QueueSkipped(super.feed);
+  const QueueSkipped(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 /// The server could not fetch the current media.
 class FetchFailed extends FeedEvent {
-  const FetchFailed(super.feed);
+  const FetchFailed(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 /// An action this app does not know (a newer server).
 class OtherFeed extends FeedEvent {
-  const OtherFeed(super.feed);
+  const OtherFeed(super.feed, {super.own});
 }
 
 // -------------------------------------------------------------- session
@@ -209,6 +217,38 @@ class ConnectionBack extends AppEvent {
   const ConnectionBack();
 }
 
+/// The server refused something this app sent (`err`: Up next is full, a
+/// forbidden action...).
+class ServerRefused extends AppEvent {
+  final String text;
+  const ServerRefused(this.text);
+}
+
+/// The member passing the current video on has been gone a few seconds
+/// ([left]: it left the server); viewers play what the server has.
+class RelaySourceDropped extends AppEvent {
+  final String name;
+  final bool left;
+  const RelaySourceDropped(this.name, {this.left = false});
+}
+
+/// The current media started playing for the first time ("starting
+/// now"; [title]: what plays, '' when unknown).
+class PlaybackStarted extends AppEvent {
+  final String title;
+  const PlaybackStarted(this.title);
+}
+
+/// A reconnect found the server restarted (another `welcome.instance`).
+class ServerRestarted extends AppEvent {
+  const ServerRestarted();
+}
+
+/// Another window of this install took the member over (`replaced`).
+class Replaced extends AppEvent {
+  const Replaced();
+}
+
 /// Jellyfin progress reports fail (once per media).
 class JellyfinProgressFailed extends AppEvent {
   final bool signInExpired;

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/auto_sit_out.dart

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ class AutoSitOut {
 
   /// Once a second. [self]: this member's presence in the latest state
   /// (null: not in one); [alone]: nobody else connected ([isAlone]);
-  /// [enabled]: the setting (and not a solo session).
+  /// [enabled]: the setting.
   AutoSitOutStep tick(DateTime now,
       {required Presence? self, required bool playing, required bool alone, required bool enabled}) {
     if (playing) _lastActive = now;

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/connection.dart

@@ -142,7 +142,8 @@ final class ConnReconnecting extends ConnState {
 }
 
 /// The server refused this app; nothing retries. [code]: `version` or
-/// `secret` when the server said so, else empty (offline, timeout,
+/// `secret` when the server said so, `closed` when the host stopped
+/// sharing (close 4016), else empty (offline, timeout,
 /// anything else on the first dial); [message]: in plain words
 /// ([connectErrorText]).
 final class ConnRefused extends ConnState {
@@ -166,6 +167,10 @@ final class ConnReplaced extends ConnState {
 /// [ConnReplaced] in plain words.
 const replacedText = 'Starsync was opened in another window';
 
+/// `ConnRefused('closed')`: the host closed their server to friends
+/// (close 4016).
+const stoppedSharingText = 'the host stopped sharing their server';
+
 /// A version refusal in plain words: [err] is the server's `err`
 /// `version` (its range in `min`/`max`), or a proto 15 server's codeless
 /// `proto mismatch`, which is always an older host.
@@ -386,7 +391,8 @@ class Connection {
   void sendReady(bool ready, {String source = 'manual'}) => client.sendReady(ready, source: source);
   void sendForce(String target, bool ready) => client.sendForce(target, ready);
   void sendSeek(double position, {int seq = 0}) => client.sendSeek(position, seq: seq);
-  void sendSwap(HelloMedia media, {String? queueId}) => client.sendSwap(media, queueId: queueId);
+  void sendSwap(HelloMedia media, {String? queueId, SwapRestore? restore}) =>
+      client.sendSwap(media, queueId: queueId, restore: restore);
   void sendQueue(QueueIntent intent) => client.sendQueue(intent);
   void sendReport({
     required double position,
@@ -518,6 +524,8 @@ class Connection {
         _end(ConnRefused('version', versionText(null)));
       case CloseCodes.secret:
         _end(const ConnRefused('secret', 'wrong server password (401)'));
+      case CloseCodes.closed:
+        _end(const ConnRefused('closed', stoppedSharingText));
       default:
         _dropped(now());
     }

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/delivery.dart

@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ import 'party.dart';
 // Who fetches the current media and how it spreads, from the state alone:
 // the members card's source line and each member's route and buffer.
 
+/// `media.relay` of a state, or null when the media is not relayed.
+MediaRelay? stateMediaRelay(StateBroadcast state) {
+  final r = state.media?['relay'];
+  return r is Map ? MediaRelay.fromJson(Map<String, Object?>.from(r)) : null;
+}
+
 /// "4.1 MB/s", "850 kB/s".
 String formatRate(int bytesPerSec) {
   if (bytesPerSec >= 1000000) {
@@ -50,6 +56,9 @@ enum SourceState {
   slow,
   /// Its channel is down (or the server has not read the link yet).
   waiting,
+  /// The source member's connection dropped (`gone`, within its grace):
+  /// viewers play what the server has.
+  gone,
   /// It left the server.
   left,
 }
@@ -114,6 +123,9 @@ class Delivery {
   final String sourceName;
   final bool sourceIsSelf;
   final SourceState state;
+  /// [SourceState.gone]: since when; and the time the line is read at.
+  final DateTime? goneSince;
+  final DateTime? at;
   /// `media.relay.rate` / `need` (0 unknown).
   final int rate, need;
   /// Members (not sitting out, not the source) reading from the server,
@@ -125,6 +137,8 @@ class Delivery {
     this.sourceName = '',
     this.sourceIsSelf = false,
     this.state = SourceState.ok,
+    this.goneSince,
+    this.at,
     this.rate = 0,
     this.need = 0,
     this.viaServer = 0,
@@ -155,7 +169,10 @@ class Delivery {
         };
       case DeliveryKind.memberRelay:
         return switch (state) {
-          SourceState.left => '$sourceName left: playing what the server has',
+          SourceState.left => '$sourceName left — playing what the server has',
+          SourceState.gone => sourceIsSelf
+              ? 'Reconnecting you to the server…'
+              : "$sourceName's connection dropped — playing what the server has${_for()}",
           SourceState.waiting => sourceIsSelf ? 'Reconnecting you to the server…' : 'Waiting for $who to reconnect',
           SourceState.slow => sourceIsSelf ? 'Your upload is slower than the video' : "$who's upload is slower than the video",
           SourceState.ok => sourceIsSelf ? 'You pass it on through the server' : '$who passes it on through the server',
@@ -163,6 +180,12 @@ class Delivery {
     }
   }
 
+  String _for() {
+    final since = goneSince, now = at;
+    if (since == null || now == null || now.difference(since).inMinutes < 1) return '';
+    return ' (${sinceText(since, now)})';
+  }
+
   /// "3 through the server · 4.1 MB/s, needs 2.3 MB/s"; empty when
   /// there is nothing to add.
   String get detail {
@@ -170,7 +193,7 @@ class Delivery {
       if (direct > 0 && (kind == DeliveryKind.jellyfin || kind == DeliveryKind.memberRelay))
         '$direct with their own account',
       if (viaServer > 0 && kind != DeliveryKind.link) '$viaServer through the server',
-      if (rate > 0 && state != SourceState.left) need > 0 ? '${formatRate(rate)}, needs ${formatRate(need)}' : formatRate(rate),
+      if (rate > 0 && state != SourceState.left && state != SourceState.gone) need > 0 ? '${formatRate(rate)}, needs ${formatRate(need)}' : formatRate(rate),
     ];
     return parts.join(' · ');
   }
@@ -193,8 +216,9 @@ class Delivery {
 }
 
 /// The current media's [Delivery]; null with nothing up or nobody else in
-/// the server. [names] remembers a source that left.
+/// the server. [names] remembers a source that left; [now] reads how long
-Delivery? deliveryOf(StateBroadcast r, {required String selfId, MemberNames? names}) {
+/// a gone source has been gone.
+Delivery? deliveryOf(StateBroadcast r, {required String selfId, MemberNames? names, DateTime? now}) {
   final media = r.media;
   if (media == null || r.members.length < 2) return null;
   final rel = media['relay'];
@@ -237,6 +261,8 @@ Delivery? deliveryOf(StateBroadcast r, {required String selfId, MemberNames? nam
       ? SourceState.ok
       : kind == DeliveryKind.memberRelay && source == null
           ? SourceState.left
+          : kind == DeliveryKind.memberRelay && (relay.sourceGone || source?.presence == Presence.gone)
+              ? SourceState.gone
           : !relay.live
               ? SourceState.waiting
               : relay.slow
@@ -248,6 +274,8 @@ Delivery? deliveryOf(StateBroadcast r, {required String selfId, MemberNames? nam
     sourceName: source?.name ?? names?[sourceId] ?? 'The member passing it on',
     sourceIsSelf: sourceId.isNotEmpty && sourceId == selfId,
     state: state,
+    goneSince: state == SourceState.gone ? relay?.sourceGoneSince ?? source?.goneSince : null,
+    at: now ?? DateTime.now().toUtc(),
     rate: relay?.rate ?? 0,
     need: relay?.need ?? 0,
     viaServer: via,

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/health.dart

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-enum HealthSeverity { ok, info, warn, error }
-
-class HealthStatus {
-  final HealthSeverity severity;
-  final String message;
-  const HealthStatus(this.severity, this.message);
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/identity.dart

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show validClientId;
 
 import '../state/connect_prefs.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
 import '../state/settings.dart' show settingsBoxName;
 import '../widgets/avatar_pipeline.dart';
 
@@ -96,17 +95,11 @@ const _keyColor = 'profileColor';
 /// avatar = removed). Swappable so tests can watch it.
 typedef ProfilePush = void Function({String? name, String? avatar});
 
-/// The one place a profile change reaches the server.
+/// Display name, picture and colour of this app's user. Backed by the
-void pushProfileToSession({String? name, String? avatar}) {
+/// connect form ([forms]: the name) and the connect-form box (the cropped
-  final session = SessionState.instance;
-  if (session.route.peek() != AppRoute.session) return;
-  session.coordinator.updateProfile(name: name, avatar: avatar);
-}
-
-/// Display name, picture and colour of this app's user. Backed by
-/// [SessionState.lastForm] (name) and the connect-form box (the cropped
 /// 256 px PNG and the colour); every change is persisted, and while in a
-/// server it is pushed through [push] so everyone sees it at once.
+/// server it is pushed through [push] so everyone sees it at once. The
+/// composition root sets both.
 class Profile {
   static final Profile instance = Profile._();
   Profile._();
@@ -116,7 +109,8 @@ class Profile {
   final picture = signal<Uint8List?>(null);
   final color = signal<Color>(profileColors.first);
   final error = signal<String?>(null);
-  ProfilePush push = pushProfileToSession;
+  ProfilePush push = ({String? name, String? avatar}) {};
+  ConnectStore forms = ConnectStore();
   bool _loaded = false;
   Timer? _nameTimer;
 
@@ -131,7 +125,7 @@ class Profile {
   }
 
   Future<void> _load() async {
-    final form = SessionState.instance.lastForm;
+    final form = forms.form;
     name.value = form.name;
     try {
       final box = connectFormBoxIfOpen() ?? await openConnectFormBox();
@@ -162,7 +156,7 @@ class Profile {
     final v = value.trim();
     if (v.isEmpty || v == name.peek()) return;
     name.value = v;
-    SessionState.instance.lastForm.name = v;
+    forms.form.name = v;
     unawaited(_save());
     // Typing renames once it settles, not on every key.
     _nameTimer?.cancel();
@@ -187,7 +181,7 @@ class Profile {
 
   Future<void> _save() async {
     try {
-      await SessionState.instance.saveForm();
+      await forms.save();
       final box = connectFormBoxIfOpen() ?? await openConnectFormBox();
       final png = picture.peek();
       await box.putAll({

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/invite.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show debugPrint;
+
+/// What a friend needs to join your server: where ([host], [port]), what
+/// it is called ([name]), whether it asks a password ([password]; the
+/// password itself is never in it) and which Starsync runs it
+/// ([version]). [fp]: reserved for a pinned certificate fingerprint
+/// (`wss://` with a self-signed certificate); always null for now.
+class Invite {
+  final String host;
+  final int port;
+  final String name;
+  final bool password;
+  final String version;
+  final String? fp;
+  const Invite({
+    required this.host,
+    required this.port,
+    this.name = '',
+    this.password = false,
+    this.version = '',
+    this.fp,
+  });
+
+  /// What goes in the Join card's address and port.
+  String get address => '${host.contains(':') ? '[$host]' : host}:$port';
+
+  /// The text Invite copies: the address, whether to ask for the password,
+  /// the version to match.
+  String get text => [
+        'Join me on Starsync: $address',
+        if (password) '(ask me for the password)',
+        if (version.isNotEmpty) '· Starsync $version',
+      ].join(' ');
+
+  @override
+  bool operator ==(Object other) =>
+      other is Invite &&
+      other.host == host &&
+      other.port == port &&
+      other.name == name &&
+      other.password == password &&
+      other.version == version &&
+      other.fp == fp;
+
+  @override
+  int get hashCode => Object.hash(host, port, name, password, version, fp);
+
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'Invite($address${password ? ', password' : ''})';
+}
+
+/// The `host:port` in a pasted invite (or a bare address); null when
+/// there is none.
+({String host, String port})? addressIn(String text) {
+  final m = RegExp(r'(\[[0-9a-fA-F:]+\]|[A-Za-z0-9.-]+):(\d{1,5})\b').firstMatch(text);
+  if (m == null) return null;
+  final host = m.group(1)!;
+  return (host: host.startsWith('[') ? host.substring(1, host.length - 1) : host, port: m.group(2)!);
+}
+
+/// Interface names of container and VM bridges, never a way in for a
+/// friend (Docker, Podman, libvirt, LXC, VirtualBox, VMware, WSL/Hyper-V).
+final _virtualName = RegExp(
+    r'^(docker|br-|veth|virbr|vmnet|vboxnet|cni|flannel|podman|lxcbr|lxdbr|vEthernet|VirtualBox|VMware)',
+    caseSensitive: false);
+
+/// The proxy fake-IP range (198.18.0.0/15, benchmarking space that TUN
+/// proxies like Clash hand out): this machine's address on it is useless
+/// to anyone else.
+bool isFakeIp(List<int> b) => b[0] == 198 && (b[1] == 18 || b[1] == 19);
+
+bool _isPrivate(List<int> b) =>
+    b[0] == 10 || (b[0] == 192 && b[1] == 168) || (b[0] == 172 && b[1] >= 16 && b[1] < 32);
+
+/// Shared address space (100.64.0.0/10): mesh VPNs like Tailscale.
+bool _isShared(List<int> b) => b[0] == 100 && b[1] >= 64 && b[1] < 128;
+
+/// The addresses of [interfaces] a friend could dial, best first: IPv4,
+/// no loopback, link-local or fake-IP address, no container or VM bridge;
+/// home networks (192.168, then 10, then 172.16/12) first, then a mesh
+/// VPN's, then anything else (a public address). No repeats.
+List<String> inviteAddresses(Iterable<({String name, InternetAddress address})> interfaces) {
+  int rank(List<int> b) => b[0] == 192 && b[1] == 168
+      ? 0
+      : _isPrivate(b)
+          ? 1
+          : _isShared(b)
+              ? 2
+              : 3;
+  final usable = [
+    for (final i in interfaces)
+      if (i.address.type == InternetAddressType.IPv4 &&
+          !i.address.isLoopback &&
+          !i.address.isLinkLocal &&
+          !(i.address.rawAddress[0] == 169 && i.address.rawAddress[1] == 254) &&
+          !isFakeIp(i.address.rawAddress) &&
+          !_virtualName.hasMatch(i.name))
+        i.address,
+  ];
+  final indexed = [for (var n = 0; n < usable.length; n++) (n, usable[n])];
+  indexed.sort((a, b) {
+    final r = rank(a.$2.rawAddress).compareTo(rank(b.$2.rawAddress));
+    return r != 0 ? r : a.$1.compareTo(b.$1);
+  });
+  return {for (final (_, a) in indexed) a.address}.toList();
+}
+
+/// This machine's interfaces as [inviteAddresses] takes them (empty when
+/// they can't be listed).
+Future<List<({String name, InternetAddress address})>> machineInterfaces() async {
+  try {
+    final list = await NetworkInterface.list(type: InternetAddressType.IPv4);
+    return [
+      for (final i in list)
+        for (final a in i.addresses) (name: i.name, address: a),
+    ];
+  } catch (e) {
+    debugPrint('list network interfaces failed: $e');
+    return const [];
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/media_art.dart

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:image/image.dart' as img;
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
-import '../files/name_parser.dart';
 import '../schedule/anilist.dart';
 
 // Art for media this client swapped in (`art`, see PROTOCOL.md "Media
@@ -58,6 +57,11 @@ Future<ArtBytes?> aniListArt(AniListClient aniList, String name,
   if (!RegExp(r'\p{L}', unicode: true).hasMatch(series)) return null;
   final match = await aniList.searchMedia(series);
   if (match == null) return null;
+  return _artOf(match, fetch);
+}
+
+Future<ArtBytes> _artOf(AniListMedia match,
+    Future<Uint8List?> Function(Uri url, Map<String, String> headers, int maxBytes) fetch) async {
   Future<Uint8List?> get(String? url, int maxBytes) async {
     final uri = url == null ? null : Uri.tryParse(url);
     return uri == null ? null : fetch(uri, const {}, maxBytes);
@@ -71,6 +75,14 @@ Future<ArtBytes?> aniListArt(AniListClient aniList, String name,
   return (poster: poster, banner: banner);
 }
 
+/// Cover and banner of AniList entry [id] (a file the library matched);
+/// null when AniList has none.
+Future<ArtBytes?> aniListArtById(AniListClient aniList, int id,
+    {Future<Uint8List?> Function(Uri url, Map<String, String> headers, int maxBytes) fetch = fetchImage}) async {
+  final match = await aniList.mediaById(id);
+  return match == null ? null : _artOf(match, fetch);
+}
+
 /// A web video's thumbnail at [url] as both cover and banner (the same
 /// bytes, so the same hash: what tells clients it is a thumbnail, see
 /// `NowPlaying.thumbnail`); shrunk to a JPEG under the cover cap when

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/media_pipeline.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,899 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show debugPrint, mapEquals, visibleForTesting;
+import 'package:signals/signals.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
+import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
+import '../platform/ports/link_resolver.dart';
+import '../platform/ports/player_host.dart';
+import '../playback/playback_controller.dart';
+import '../sync/state_diff.dart';
+import 'app_events.dart';
+import 'delivery.dart' show stateMediaRelay;
+import 'media_plan.dart';
+import 'relay_feeder.dart';
+import 'switch_trace.dart';
+
+export 'media_plan.dart';
+
+final _log = createLogger('session');
+
+// The one way to open media: plan → resolve → open → ready.
+//
+// - plan ([planMedia]): from the state, what this member serves and its
+//   capabilities, where this app reads the media from.
+// - resolve: a Jellyfin item through this app's account, the server's
+//   login or the member passing it on ([openJellyfin]); a web page through
+//   this app's yt-dlp ([LinkResolver]: its stream URLs, an EDL of video and
+//   audio, the CDN's headers, its subtitles; mpv's own yt-dlp hook is
+//   off); a relay waits until it is fed.
+// - open: a player through the [PlayerHost]: the prepared one (Up next's
+//   preload) promoted, else a fresh one per media; the same media again
+//   keeps its player.
+// - ready: the buffer the gate needs is reported at once (the
+//   coordinator's report).
+//
+// Being a relay source ([RelayFeeder]) and the viewer's side of a source
+// that drops ([recover]) live here too.
+
+/// What the coordinator does next after [MediaPipeline.switchTo]: a
+/// Jellyfin item resolves and opens through [MediaPipeline.openJellyfin]
+/// (the coordinator keeps its per-item work: progress, episodes, tracks).
+sealed class SwitchResult {
+  const SwitchResult();
+}
+
+final class SwitchDone extends SwitchResult {
+  const SwitchDone();
+}
+
+final class SwitchJellyfin extends SwitchResult {
+  final JellyfinSource source;
+  const SwitchJellyfin(this.source);
+}
+
+/// The session context the pipeline reads (the coordinator's connection
+/// and accounts).
+class MediaSession {
+  final ServerAddress Function() server;
+  final String Function() selfId;
+  final ClientCaps Function() caps;
+  final JellyfinAccounts jellyfin;
+  const MediaSession({required this.server, required this.selfId, required this.caps, required this.jellyfin});
+
+  static final none = MediaSession(
+      server: () => const ServerAddress('', 0, ''),
+      selfId: () => '',
+      caps: () => const ClientCaps(),
+      jellyfin: JellyfinAccounts(store: MemoryJellyfinStore()));
+}
+
+class MediaPipeline {
+  final PlayerHost host;
+  final LinkResolver? links;
+  final PlaybackController playback;
+  final SwitchTrace trace;
+  late final RelayFeeder feeder;
+  MediaSession session;
+
+  /// The player could not open the current media (raw words: the
+  /// coordinator turns them into `report.error`; [cookies]: which ones a
+  /// page's resolve used, D11).
+  void Function(String raw, {String? cookies}) onError = (_, {cookies}) {};
+  void Function(AppEvent event) notify = (_) {};
+
+  /// A media opened in the session player ([open]): the coordinator
+  /// reports at once (a promoted player already has its buffer).
+  void Function(int mediaId, String url) onOpened = (_, _) {};
+
+  MediaPipeline({
+    required this.host,
+    this.links,
+    PlaybackController? playback,
+    SwitchTrace? trace,
+    MediaSession? session,
+  })  : playback = playback ?? PlaybackController(host),
+        trace = trace ?? SwitchTrace(),
+        session = session ?? MediaSession.none {
+    feeder = RelayFeeder(server: () => this.session.server(), notify: (e) => notify(e));
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------ players
+
+  // The current player has had media opened in it (one fresh from
+  // [start] has not, so the first open after join or Reload video uses
+  // it).
+  bool _held = false;
+
+  /// A live session player exists.
+  bool get ready => playback.alive.peek();
+
+  /// The session's first player (on join); each new media gets its own.
+  Future<void> start() async {
+    if (playback.current != null) return;
+    final p = await host.create(PlayerRole.session);
+    _held = false;
+    playback.attach(p);
+  }
+
+  /// "Reload video": a fresh player and video output, the current media
+  /// opened again (the caller resyncs).
+  Future<void> reload() async {
+    final old = playback.detach();
+    if (old != null) await host.retire(old);
+    await start();
+    final url = _openUrl, headers = _openHeaders;
+    _openUrl = null;
+    // A page is resolved again: its stream URLs may have expired.
+    if (url != null) await open(url, headers: headers, fresh: true, resolve: _openResolve);
+  }
+
+  /// Leave: the prepared player and the session player go.
+  Future<void> release() async {
+    await dropPrepared();
+    final old = playback.detach();
+    _held = false;
+    if (old != null) await host.retire(old);
+  }
+
+  /// App close: every player goes now (no mpv may outlive the engine).
+  Future<void> disposeAll() async {
+    _pre = null;
+    playback.detach();
+    await host.disposeAll();
+  }
+
+  /// Replaces the current player with a fresh one (pins, hwdec, volume,
+  /// yt-dlp hook, shaders), its video output ready before the view swaps
+  /// to it when the view is up. True once it is the session player.
+  Future<bool> _freshPlayer() async {
+    await host.retiring;
+    final old = playback.current;
+    if (old == null) return false;
+    final HostedPlayer p;
+    try {
+      p = await host.create(PlayerRole.session);
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('fresh player: $e');
+      return false;
+    }
+    HostedVideo? video;
+    try {
+      // The view is up: the new output is created (and its texture
+      // registered) before the view swaps, so the old picture stays until
+      // then. Made by the view instead while the render mode is unknown,
+      // so the probe hears its GL init.
+      if (playback.hasVideo && host.renderMode.peek() != RenderMode.unknown) {
+        video = host.video(p);
+        await video.ready;
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('fresh player setup: $e');
+    }
+    // Released or reloaded meanwhile: that player stays.
+    if (!identical(old, playback.current)) {
+      await host.dispose(p);
+      return false;
+    }
+    final prev = playback.attach(p, video: video);
+    _held = true;
+    if (prev != null) unawaited(host.retire(prev));
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------ resolve
+
+  /// [url] is a web page this app resolves: http(s), not this server, not
+  /// named like a media file.
+  bool _isPage(String url) {
+    final uri = Uri.tryParse(url);
+    if (uri == null || !(uri.isScheme('http') || uri.isScheme('https'))) return false;
+    final s = session.server();
+    if (uri.host == s.host && uri.port == s.port) return false;
+    return !hasMediaExtension(uri);
+  }
+
+  /// The resolve step for a link: a page through this app's yt-dlp (the
+  /// probe, remembered a while; [fresh] asks again: stream URLs expire)
+  /// gives what a player opens; a media file is opened as is, and so is a
+  /// stream opened with headers (a Jellyfin item's, with its token). Throws
+  /// a [ResolveFailure] in plain words, with the cookies used (D11).
+  Future<_Target> _resolve(String url, Map<String, String>? headers, {bool fresh = false}) async {
+    if (!_isPage(url) || (headers != null && headers.isNotEmpty)) return _Target(url, headers ?? const {});
+    final l = links;
+    if (l == null) throw const ResolveFailure('no link resolver here');
+    final LinkProbe probe;
+    try {
+      probe = await l.probe(url, fresh: fresh).timeout(const Duration(seconds: 60));
+    } catch (e) {
+      throw ResolveFailure('$e');
+    }
+    if (!probe.isPage) return _Target(url, headers ?? const {});
+    final play = probe.info?.play;
+    if (play == null) {
+      throw ResolveFailure(probe.ytDlpError ?? (probe.info == null ? 'Not a video page yt-dlp knows' : 'no format a player opens'),
+          cookies: probe.cookies);
+    }
+    return _Target(play.mpvUrl, {...play.headers, ...?headers}, subtitles: play.subtitles);
+  }
+
+  /// The page's subtitles on [p] once its media is in (not selected: the
+  /// usual choice applies).
+  Future<void> _addSubtitles(HostedPlayer p, List<YtDlpSubtitle> subs) async {
+    if (subs.isEmpty) return;
+    final end = DateTime.now().add(const Duration(seconds: 30));
+    while (p.state.duration <= Duration.zero) {
+      if (p.disposed || DateTime.now().isAfter(end)) return;
+      await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 200));
+    }
+    for (final sub in subs) {
+      try {
+        await p.command(['sub-add', sub.url, 'auto', sub.name.isEmpty ? sub.lang : sub.name, sub.lang]);
+      } catch (e) {
+        debugPrint('subtitle ${sub.lang}: $e');
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // --------------------------------------------------------------- open
+
+  String? _openUrl;
+  Map<String, String>? _openHeaders;
+  // [_openUrl] went through the page resolve (not a Jellyfin stream).
+  bool _openResolve = true;
+  bool _opening = false;
+  int _opens = 0;
+
+  /// The URL open (or opening) in the player; null for none.
+  String? get openUrl => _openUrl;
+
+  /// An open is in flight: the player's duration may still be the
+  /// previous media's.
+  bool get opening => _opening;
+
+  /// How many times this session opened a media (a drop and return must
+  /// not add one).
+  int get opens => _opens;
+
+  /// The mediaId whose media the player holds (or is opening); -1 none.
+  int playerMediaId = -1;
+  // [playerMediaId] at the last open: the same media again (a reconnect,
+  // joining back) keeps the player, any other gets a fresh one.
+  int _openedFor = -1;
+  int _mediaId = -1;
+
+  /// The media of the latest state is open here (or has nothing to open,
+  /// could not, or waits for the server): its mediaId. Up next prepares
+  /// what comes next only then, so the two never compete.
+  final settledMediaId = signal(-1);
+
+  /// Opens [url] (with [headers] on every request) in the session player:
+  /// the prepared player when it holds the same, else a fresh one when the
+  /// player held other media. False on failure (the error went to
+  /// [onError]). [resolve]: a web page is resolved first (not for a
+  /// Jellyfin stream).
+  Future<bool> open(String url, {Map<String, String>? headers, bool fresh = false, bool resolve = true}) async {
+    if (url == _openUrl) return true;
+    _opens++;
+    final mediaId = _mediaId;
+    _log.info('media $mediaId: open ${_urlKind(url, headers)}: ${logUrl(url)}'
+        '${headers == null || headers.isEmpty ? '' : ' (headers: ${headers.keys.join(', ')})'}');
+    final keepPlayer = playerMediaId == _openedFor;
+    _openedFor = playerMediaId;
+    _openUrl = url;
+    _openHeaders = headers;
+    _openResolve = resolve;
+    _opening = true;
+    try {
+      trace.mark(mediaId, SwitchTrace.open);
+      final promoted = await _openInPlayer(url, headers,
+          keepPlayer: keepPlayer,
+          fresh: fresh,
+          resolve: resolve,
+          onFresh: () => trace.mark(mediaId, SwitchTrace.player));
+      trace.mark(mediaId, promoted ? SwitchTrace.preloaded : SwitchTrace.opened);
+      _opening = false;
+      onOpened(mediaId, url);
+      return true;
+    } on ResolveFailure catch (e) {
+      _log.warning('media $mediaId: cannot resolve ${logUrl(url)}: ${e.message}${e.cookies == null ? '' : ' (${e.cookies})'}');
+      onError(e.message, cookies: e.cookies);
+      return false;
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('open media failed: $e');
+      onError('$e');
+      return false;
+    } finally {
+      _opening = false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  Future<bool> _openInPlayer(String url, Map<String, String>? headers,
+      {required bool keepPlayer, bool fresh = false, bool resolve = true, void Function()? onFresh}) async {
+    if (playback.current == null) return false;
+    final pre = _pre;
+    if (pre != null && pre.matches(url, headers) && await _promote(pre)) return true;
+    final target = resolve ? await _resolve(url, headers, fresh: fresh) : _Target(url, headers ?? const {});
+    if (!identical(target.url, url)) trace.mark(_mediaId, SwitchTrace.resolved);
+    if (_held && !keepPlayer && await _freshPlayer()) onFresh?.call();
+    final p = playback.current;
+    if (p == null) return false;
+    _held = true;
+    playback.beginOpen();
+    await p.open(target.url, headers: target.headers);
+    unawaited(_addSubtitles(p, target.subtitles));
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  /// What [url] is, for the log.
+  String _urlKind(String url, Map<String, String>? headers) {
+    if (url.startsWith('edl://')) return 'relay (tracks)';
+    final u = Uri.tryParse(url);
+    if (u == null || !(u.isScheme('http') || u.isScheme('https'))) return 'local file';
+    final s = session.server();
+    if (u.host == s.host && u.port == s.port && u.pathSegments.isNotEmpty) {
+      return switch (u.pathSegments.first) {
+        'r' => 'relay',
+        'm' => "the host's file",
+        'j' => "Jellyfin through the server's login",
+        _ => 'server URL',
+      };
+    }
+    if (headers != null && headers.isNotEmpty) return 'Jellyfin, own sign-in';
+    return 'link, fetched here';
+  }
+
+  // ----------------------------------------------------- plan and switch
+
+  // What this member serves: set at its swap, claimed by the state that
+  // names it as the relay's source.
+  MediaOrigin? _pendingOrigin;
+  (int, MediaOrigin)? _activeOrigin;
+  // The relayed media this viewer opens once it is live.
+  int _awaitLiveFor = -1;
+
+  /// This member's swap is about to be relayed from [origin].
+  void expectOrigin(MediaOrigin origin) => _pendingOrigin = origin;
+
+  /// Where this app reads [r]'s media from (claims a pending origin when
+  /// the state names this member as the source).
+  SourcePlan plan(StateBroadcast r) {
+    final relay = stateMediaRelay(r);
+    final self = session.selfId();
+    if (relay != null && relay.source.isNotEmpty && relay.source == self) {
+      final pending = _pendingOrigin;
+      if (pending != null) {
+        _pendingOrigin = null;
+        _activeOrigin = (r.mediaId, pending);
+      }
+    }
+    final active = _activeOrigin;
+    return planMedia(PlanInput(
+      state: r,
+      selfId: self,
+      caps: session.caps(),
+      server: session.server(),
+      origin: active != null && active.$1 == r.mediaId ? active.$2 : null,
+      ownJellyfin: (id) =>
+          session.jellyfin.account(id) != null &&
+          session.jellyfin.statusOf(id) != JellyfinAccountStatus.expired,
+    ));
+  }
+
+  /// A new media [r.mediaId]: the previous one leaves the player at once
+  /// (nobody sees or hears it while the new one resolves, is fetched or
+  /// opens), then plan → resolve → open. A Jellyfin item comes back to
+  /// the coordinator ([SwitchJellyfin]).
+  Future<SwitchResult> switchTo(StateBroadcast r) async {
+    _mediaId = r.mediaId;
+    _awaitLiveFor = -1;
+    _recovery = null;
+    final source = plan(r);
+    if (feeder.mediaId != r.mediaId) feeder.stop();
+    _jellyfinFeed = null;
+    await leavePrevious(r.mediaId);
+    final name = (r.media?['name'] as String?) ?? '';
+    final queueId = stateMediaRelay(r)?.queueId ?? '';
+    final duration = (r.media?['duration'] as num?)?.toDouble() ?? 0;
+    switch (source) {
+      case JellyfinSource():
+        return SwitchJellyfin(source);
+      case OwnFile(:final path):
+        // The source first: viewers wait on it, not on this player.
+        feeder.serve(r.mediaId, RelayMedia.single(FileRelayBytes(File(path))),
+            announce: true, queueId: queueId, name: name, duration: duration);
+        await open(path);
+      case OwnLink(:final url, :final origin):
+        feeder.serve(r.mediaId, LinkRelayMedia(Uri.parse(url), ytDlp: origin.ytDlp, probe: origin.probe),
+            announce: true, queueId: queueId, name: name, duration: duration);
+        await open(url);
+      case RelayedSource(:final url, :final waiting, :final fetch, :final sourceId):
+        if (waiting) {
+          // The server is still getting it (yt-dlp takes seconds), or the
+          // member passing it on has not dialled in yet: mpv gives up on a
+          // silent request after 5 s, so open once it is live.
+          _openUrl = null;
+          _awaitLiveFor = r.mediaId;
+          final who = r.members.where((m) => m.id == sourceId).firstOrNull?.name;
+          _log.info('media ${r.mediaId}: waiting for ${fetch ? 'the server' : who} before opening the relay');
+        } else {
+          await open(url);
+        }
+      case Unresolvable(:final reason):
+        _openUrl = null;
+        onError(reason);
+      case ServerFile(:final url) || DirectLink(:final url):
+        await open(url);
+      case NoSource():
+        _openUrl = null;
+    }
+    return const SwitchDone();
+  }
+
+  /// The previous media leaves the player at once; a reconnect to the
+  /// media the player holds keeps it.
+  Future<void> leavePrevious(int mediaId) async {
+    final held = playerMediaId;
+    playerMediaId = mediaId;
+    // Opened from the welcome, before any state: that was this media.
+    if (held == -1 && _openedFor == -1 && _openUrl != null) _openedFor = mediaId;
+    if (held == -1 || held == mediaId) return;
+    _openUrl = null;
+    _openHeaders = null;
+    await playback.stop();
+  }
+
+  /// The same media came back as [r.mediaId] (a restarted server put back
+  /// what played, `swap.restore`) and the player keeps it open: what this
+  /// member passes on is served again (its file, its link, the Jellyfin
+  /// item played with its own account: [ownJellyfin]).
+  void resumeAs(StateBroadcast r, {({String url, Map<String, String> headers})? ownJellyfin}) {
+    renumber(r.mediaId);
+    settledMediaId.value = r.mediaId;
+    final source = plan(r);
+    final name = (r.media?['name'] as String?) ?? '';
+    final queueId = stateMediaRelay(r)?.queueId ?? '';
+    final duration = (r.media?['duration'] as num?)?.toDouble() ?? 0;
+    switch (source) {
+      case OwnFile(:final path):
+        feeder.serve(r.mediaId, RelayMedia.single(FileRelayBytes(File(path))),
+            queueId: queueId, name: name, duration: duration);
+      case OwnLink(:final url, :final origin):
+        feeder.serve(r.mediaId, LinkRelayMedia(Uri.parse(url), ytDlp: origin.ytDlp, probe: origin.probe),
+            queueId: queueId, name: name, duration: duration);
+      case JellyfinSource(:final ref, :final origin):
+        if (origin == null || ownJellyfin == null) return;
+        final media = RelayMedia.single(HttpRelayBytes(Uri.parse(ownJellyfin.url), headers: ownJellyfin.headers));
+        if (jellyfinRelayNeeded(r, ref, session.selfId())) {
+          feeder.serve(r.mediaId, media, queueId: queueId, name: name, duration: duration);
+        } else {
+          _jellyfinFeed = (mediaId: r.mediaId, ref: ref, media: media, queueId: queueId, name: name, duration: duration);
+        }
+      default:
+        break;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// The media was settled here (opened, failed, nothing to open).
+  void settled(int mediaId) {
+    if (_mediaId == mediaId) settledMediaId.value = mediaId;
+  }
+
+  /// Same media, a new state: a relay that became live opens, a relay
+  /// opened while its source was away and never loaded opens again now
+  /// that it is back (D6), a Jellyfin stream this member holds back starts
+  /// once someone needs it.
+  Future<void> onState(StateBroadcast r) async {
+    final rec = _recovery;
+    final relay = stateMediaRelay(r);
+    final url = _openUrl;
+    if (rec != null && rec.mediaId == r.mediaId && relay != null && relay.live && !relay.sourceGone &&
+        url != null && !_opening && playback.durationSecs <= 0) {
+      _recovery = null;
+      _log.info('media ${r.mediaId}: the relay has its source again; opening it again (it never loaded)');
+      _openUrl = null;
+      _openedFor = -2; // a fresh player: the old one may be stuck in a broken open
+      await open(url, headers: _openHeaders, resolve: _openResolve);
+    }
+    if (_awaitLiveFor == r.mediaId) {
+      final source = plan(r);
+      if (source is RelayedSource && !source.waiting) {
+        _awaitLiveFor = -1;
+        await open(source.url);
+      }
+    }
+    final feed = _jellyfinFeed;
+    if (feed != null && feed.mediaId == r.mediaId && jellyfinRelayNeeded(r, feed.ref, session.selfId())) {
+      _jellyfinFeed = null;
+      _log.info('media ${r.mediaId}: someone needs the Jellyfin item passed on, starting the relay');
+      feeder.serve(r.mediaId, feed.media, queueId: feed.queueId, name: feed.name, duration: feed.duration);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Sitting out: nothing open, nothing pulled. A relay this member serves
+  /// goes on (it does not use the player).
+  Future<void> unload() async {
+    _awaitLiveFor = -1;
+    if (_mediaId == -1 && _openUrl == null) return;
+    _mediaId = -1;
+    playerMediaId = -1;
+    _openUrl = null;
+    _openHeaders = null;
+    _recovery = null;
+    if (ready) await playback.stop();
+  }
+
+  /// The next state's media is new to this player: it opens again from
+  /// scratch (a relay this member served for the old one stops).
+  void forget() {
+    _mediaId = -1;
+    playerMediaId = -1;
+    _openUrl = null;
+    _openHeaders = null;
+    _awaitLiveFor = -1;
+    _recovery = null;
+    _activeOrigin = null;
+    _jellyfinFeed = null;
+    feeder.stopAll();
+  }
+
+  /// The same media under a restarted server's numbering: the player keeps
+  /// it.
+  void renumber(int mediaId) => _mediaId = playerMediaId = _openedFor = mediaId;
+
+  /// A new session (connect): nothing held, nothing served.
+  void reset() {
+    _mediaId = -1;
+    playerMediaId = -1;
+    _openedFor = -1;
+    _openUrl = null;
+    _openHeaders = null;
+    _awaitLiveFor = -1;
+    _recovery = null;
+    _pendingOrigin = null;
+    _activeOrigin = null;
+    _jellyfinFeed = null;
+    settledMediaId.value = -1;
+    feeder.stopAll();
+  }
+
+  // ----------------------------------------------------------- Jellyfin
+
+  // A Jellyfin stream this member holds back: nobody present needs it
+  // passed on yet.
+  ({int mediaId, JellyfinRef ref, RelayMedia media, String queueId, String name, double duration})? _jellyfinFeed;
+
+  /// The resolve step of a Jellyfin item: this app's account (or the
+  /// [warm] plan resolved ahead), else the server's login, else the member
+  /// passing it on, else blocked. This member's own item is passed on to
+  /// viewers without an account once someone needs it. Then it opens.
+  /// Null when [current] went false meanwhile.
+  Future<JellyfinPlan?> openJellyfin(JellyfinSource source, StateBroadcast r,
+      {OwnPlay? warm, required bool Function() current}) async {
+    // Until it resolves nothing is open: no syncing the previous media.
+    final prev = _openUrl;
+    _openUrl = null;
+    _opening = true;
+    if (ready) {
+      try {
+        await playback.player.pause();
+      } catch (_) {}
+    }
+    JellyfinPlan plan;
+    try {
+      plan = warm ??
+          await resolveJellyfinRef(session.jellyfin, source.ref,
+              relay: source.serverLogin != null, relayUrl: source.serverLogin, memberRelayUrl: source.memberRelay);
+    } finally {
+      if (current()) _opening = false;
+    }
+    if (!current()) return null;
+    trace.mark(r.mediaId, SwitchTrace.resolved);
+    final origin = source.origin;
+    if (origin != null) {
+      final name = (r.media?['name'] as String?) ?? '';
+      final duration = (r.media?['duration'] as num?)?.toDouble() ?? 0;
+      final queueId = stateMediaRelay(r)?.queueId ?? '';
+      RelayMedia? media;
+      if (plan is OwnPlay) {
+        media = RelayMedia.single(HttpRelayBytes(Uri.parse(plan.url), headers: plan.headers));
+      } else if (origin.link != null) {
+        plan = RelayPlay(origin.link!);
+        media = RelayMedia.single(HttpRelayBytes(Uri.parse(origin.link!)));
+      }
+      if (media != null) {
+        if (jellyfinRelayNeeded(r, source.ref, session.selfId())) {
+          feeder.serve(r.mediaId, media, queueId: queueId, name: name, duration: duration);
+        } else {
+          _jellyfinFeed =
+              (mediaId: r.mediaId, ref: source.ref, media: media, queueId: queueId, name: name, duration: duration);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    switch (plan) {
+      case BlockedPlay():
+        await playback.stop();
+      case RelayPlay(:final url):
+        // The same relay URL (a resumed member): the player still has it.
+        if (url == prev) {
+          _openUrl = url;
+        } else if (!await open(url, resolve: false)) {
+          return current() ? plan : null;
+        }
+      case OwnPlay(:final url, :final headers):
+        if (!await open(url, headers: headers, resolve: false)) return current() ? plan : null;
+    }
+    return current() ? plan : null;
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------ recovery (D6)
+
+  // The relay this viewer reads lost its source and the buffer ran dry:
+  // what it waits for.
+  _Recovery? _recovery;
+
+  /// This viewer reads the current media through a relay whose source is
+  /// gone, or left: it plays what the server has.
+  bool get sourceDown => _recovery != null;
+
+  /// The user sought to [to] (applied at once): while the source is down,
+  /// that is the one try.
+  void noteUserSeek(double to) {
+    final rec = _recovery;
+    if (rec == null) return;
+    rec.tried = true;
+    rec.tryTo = to;
+  }
+
+  /// While the source is down, this player cannot be where the server is
+  /// ([serverPosition]): a seek waits, or the player is stuck short of it.
+  /// The report then says nothing is buffered, so the server waits for the
+  /// source instead of playing on without this viewer.
+  bool starved(double serverPosition) {
+    final rec = _recovery;
+    if (rec == null) return false;
+    return rec.seekTo != null || (playback.positionSecs - serverPosition).abs() > 3;
+  }
+
+  /// Seeks while the source is down, not applied (tests: never a loop).
+  @visibleForTesting
+  int heldBackSeeks = 0;
+
+  /// The viewer's side of a source that drops (D6): while the relay this
+  /// app reads has no source, it plays what is buffered. A seek past it
+  /// (the server's buffer may still hold it) is tried once; any further
+  /// one waits (mpv would wait on bytes nobody sends, time out after 5 s
+  /// and be asked again: the seek loop), and the report says nothing is
+  /// buffered ([starved]), so the server holds everyone with the reason
+  /// `source` ("waiting for Bob"). When the source is back, one seek to
+  /// where the server is resumes the player. Returns the [actions] to
+  /// apply.
+  List<PlayerAction> recover(StateBroadcast r, List<PlayerAction> actions, {required double serverPosition}) {
+    final relay = stateMediaRelay(r);
+    final url = _openUrl;
+    final viaRelay = url != null && (url.startsWith('edl://') || Uri.tryParse(url)?.pathSegments.firstOrNull == 'r');
+    final down = relay != null &&
+        viaRelay &&
+        !relay.fetch &&
+        relay.source != session.selfId() &&
+        (relay.sourceGone || !relay.live);
+    final rec = _recovery;
+    if (down) {
+      final at = playback.positionSecs;
+      final reach = at + playback.bufferedSecsAhead;
+      final now = _recovery ??= _Recovery(r.mediaId);
+      if (rec == null) {
+        _log.info('media ${r.mediaId}: the relay has no source; playing what is buffered '
+            '(to ${reach.toStringAsFixed(1)} s)');
+      }
+      final out = <PlayerAction>[];
+      for (final a in actions) {
+        if (a is SeekAction && (a.position > reach + 0.5 || a.position < at - 30)) {
+          final last = now.tryTo;
+          if (!now.tried && (last == null || (a.position - last).abs() > 1.5)) {
+            now.tried = true;
+            now.tryTo = a.position;
+            out.add(a);
+            continue;
+          }
+          heldBackSeeks++;
+          now.seekTo = a.position;
+        } else {
+          out.add(a);
+        }
+      }
+      return out;
+    }
+    _recovery = null;
+    if (rec == null || rec.mediaId != r.mediaId) return actions;
+    final stuck = rec.seekTo != null ||
+        (playback.positionSecs - serverPosition).abs() > 1.0 ||
+        playback.bufferedSecsAhead < 1;
+    _log.info('media ${r.mediaId}: the relay has its source again'
+        '${stuck ? '; resuming at ${serverPosition.toStringAsFixed(1)} s' : ''}');
+    if (!stuck) return actions;
+    // One seek to where the server is: the demuxer reads from there again.
+    return [
+      for (final a in actions) if (a is! SeekAction) a,
+      SeekAction(serverPosition),
+    ];
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------ prepare
+
+  /// Preparing on (env `SYNC_RELAY_PRELOAD=0` turns it off; tests set it).
+  bool preloadEnabled = Platform.environment['SYNC_RELAY_PRELOAD'] != '0';
+
+  _Prepared? _pre;
+
+  /// The URL prepared now (null: none).
+  String? get preloadUrl => _pre?.url;
+
+  /// This viewer's URL of the warm relay of Up next's first [item]: the
+  /// same URL the media has once the item goes up, so the prepared player
+  /// is promoted.
+  String warmRelayUrl(QueueItem item, MediaRelay relay) =>
+      session.server().relayUrl(item.media.name.isEmpty ? item.title : item.media.name, item.id, relay.tracks);
+
+  /// Opens [url] early in a hidden player (paused at the start, muted, a
+  /// small cache, its own video output when the view is up), replacing any
+  /// other; completes once [need] seconds are buffered or the whole media
+  /// is: true, false when it failed (or was dropped or replaced
+  /// meanwhile). The same [url] and [headers] again is the same one unless
+  /// [fresh]. [open] for the same URL promotes it.
+  Future<bool> prepare(String url, {Map<String, String>? headers, double need = 4, bool fresh = false}) async {
+    if (!preloadEnabled || !ready) return false;
+    final had = _pre;
+    if (had != null && had.matches(url, headers) && !had.failed && !fresh) return had.ready.future;
+    // Set before any await: a second call for the same URL finds it.
+    _pre = null;
+    if (had != null) unawaited(_disposePrepared(had));
+    final pre = _pre = _Prepared(url, headers ?? const {});
+    try {
+      final target = await _resolve(url, headers, fresh: fresh);
+      if (!identical(_pre, pre)) {
+        pre.fail();
+        return false;
+      }
+      final p = pre.player = await host.create(PlayerRole.preload);
+      pre.logSub = p.logs.listen((log) {
+        if (mpvLoadFailed(log, p.state.duration)) pre.fail();
+      });
+      pre.subtitles = target.subtitles;
+      if (playback.hasVideo) {
+        pre.video = host.video(p);
+        await pre.video!.ready;
+      }
+      if (!identical(_pre, pre)) {
+        pre.fail();
+        await _disposePrepared(pre);
+        return false;
+      }
+      await p.open(target.url, headers: target.headers);
+      if (!pre.opened.isCompleted) pre.opened.complete();
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('preload failed: $e');
+      pre.fail();
+      if (identical(_pre, pre)) _pre = null;
+      await _disposePrepared(pre);
+      return false;
+    }
+    unawaited(_watchPrepared(pre, need));
+    return pre.ready.future;
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _watchPrepared(_Prepared pre, double need) async {
+    final end = DateTime.now().add(const Duration(seconds: 60));
+    while (identical(_pre, pre) && !pre.failed && DateTime.now().isBefore(end)) {
+      final st = pre.player!.state;
+      final secs = st.duration.inMilliseconds / 1000;
+      final buffered = (st.buffer - st.position).inMilliseconds / 1000;
+      if (secs > 0 && (buffered >= need || st.buffer.inMilliseconds / 1000 >= secs - 0.5)) {
+        if (!pre.ready.isCompleted) pre.ready.complete(true);
+        return;
+      }
+      await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 200));
+    }
+    if (!pre.ready.isCompleted) pre.ready.complete(false);
+  }
+
+  /// Drops the prepared player (nothing to get ready, or something else
+  /// is).
+  Future<void> dropPrepared() async {
+    final pre = _pre;
+    if (pre == null) return;
+    _pre = null;
+    await _disposePrepared(pre);
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _disposePrepared(_Prepared pre) async {
+    pre.fail();
+    await pre.logSub?.cancel();
+    final p = pre.player;
+    if (p != null) await host.dispose(p);
+  }
+
+  /// [pre] becomes the session player; its buffer comes along.
+  Future<bool> _promote(_Prepared pre) async {
+    await pre.opened.future;
+    final old = playback.current;
+    if (!identical(_pre, pre) || old == null) return false;
+    _pre = null;
+    final p = pre.player;
+    if (pre.failed || p == null) {
+      unawaited(_disposePrepared(pre));
+      return false;
+    }
+    await pre.logSub?.cancel();
+    if (!pre.ready.isCompleted) pre.ready.complete(true);
+    await host.promote(p);
+    final prev = playback.attach(p, video: pre.video, loaded: true);
+    _held = true;
+    unawaited(_addSubtitles(p, pre.subtitles));
+    if (prev != null) unawaited(host.retire(prev));
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  Future<void> dispose() async {
+    await release();
+    feeder.stopAll();
+    await playback.dispose();
+  }
+}
+
+class _Recovery {
+  final int mediaId;
+
+  /// The latest seek held back (where the server went meanwhile).
+  double? seekTo;
+
+  /// The one seek past the buffer was tried ([tryTo]: where to).
+  bool tried = false;
+  double? tryTo;
+  _Recovery(this.mediaId);
+}
+
+class _Prepared {
+  final String url;
+  final Map<String, String> headers;
+  HostedPlayer? player;
+  HostedVideo? video;
+  StreamSubscription<PlayerLogLine>? logSub;
+  List<YtDlpSubtitle> subtitles = const [];
+
+  /// Completes once the media is handed to mpv (or it failed).
+  final opened = Completer<void>();
+  bool failed = false;
+  final ready = Completer<bool>();
+  _Prepared(this.url, this.headers);
+
+  bool matches(String url, Map<String, String>? headers) =>
+      url == this.url && mapEquals(headers ?? const {}, this.headers);
+
+  void fail() {
+    failed = true;
+    if (!ready.isCompleted) ready.complete(false);
+    if (!opened.isCompleted) opened.complete();
+  }
+}
+
+/// What a player opens for a link (the resolve step).
+class _Target {
+  final String url;
+  final Map<String, String> headers;
+  final List<YtDlpSubtitle> subtitles;
+  const _Target(this.url, this.headers, {this.subtitles = const []});
+}
+
+/// A page could not be resolved: why ([message], yt-dlp's words) and which
+/// cookies that used ([cookies], D11).
+class ResolveFailure implements Exception {
+  final String message;
+  final String? cookies;
+  const ResolveFailure(this.message, {this.cookies});
+  @override
+  String toString() => message;
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/media_plan.dart

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+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart' show refOfStateMedia, relayUrlFor;
+import 'delivery.dart' show stateMediaRelay;
+import 'party.dart' show isPresent;
+
+// The plan step of the media pipeline: from the server's state, what this
+// member serves, its own capabilities and who is present, where this app
+// reads the current media from. One switch, pure: `media_plan_test` holds
+// the table.
+
+/// What this member serves for the media it put up (set at its swap,
+/// claimed by the state that names it as the relay's source).
+sealed class MediaOrigin {
+  const MediaOrigin();
+}
+
+/// A file on this computer, passed on through the relay.
+final class FileOrigin extends MediaOrigin {
+  final String path;
+  const FileOrigin(this.path);
+}
+
+/// A link this computer reads and passes on ("through me").
+final class LinkOrigin extends MediaOrigin {
+  final String url;
+
+  /// What the link is (a page goes through [ytDlp]).
+  final LinkProbe probe;
+  final YtDlp ytDlp;
+  const LinkOrigin(this.url, this.probe, this.ytDlp);
+}
+
+/// A Jellyfin item: served with this install's account, else with the
+/// pasted [link] (its api_key stays on this machine).
+final class JellyfinOrigin extends MediaOrigin {
+  final String? link;
+  const JellyfinOrigin(this.link);
+}
+
+/// Where this app's server is, as this member dialled it.
+class ServerAddress {
+  final String host;
+  final int port;
+  final String token;
+  const ServerAddress(this.host, this.port, this.token);
+
+  /// This viewer's `/m` URL of your server's file [name].
+  String fileUrl(String name) => 'http://$host:$port/m/default/$token/${Uri.encodeComponent(name)}';
+
+  /// This viewer's `/r` URL of a relay ([key]: the media id, or the queue
+  /// id of one started in Up next); with tracks, a pieces playlist or an
+  /// mpv EDL of every track.
+  String relayUrl(String name, String key, [List<RelayTrackSpec> tracks = const []]) =>
+      relayViewerUrl('http://$host:$port/r/default/$token/$key', name, tracks: tracks);
+
+  /// This member's `/j` URL of [ref] (the server's Jellyfin login).
+  String jellyfinUrl(JellyfinRef ref) => relayUrlFor(host, port, token, ref.itemId);
+
+  /// The relay channel this member feeds ([queueId]: the warm relay of
+  /// that Up next item).
+  Uri sourceChannel([String queueId = '']) => Uri.parse('ws://$host:$port/r/default/$token/source'
+      '${queueId.isEmpty ? '' : '?q=${Uri.encodeQueryComponent(queueId)}'}');
+}
+
+/// Where this app reads the current media from.
+sealed class SourcePlan {
+  const SourcePlan();
+
+  /// The URL a player opens; null when there is nothing to open yet.
+  String? get url => null;
+}
+
+/// No media, or nothing this app can open (yet).
+final class NoSource extends SourcePlan {
+  const NoSource();
+}
+
+/// This member passes its file on: the player plays the file itself, the
+/// relay source feeds the server.
+final class OwnFile extends SourcePlan {
+  final String path;
+  const OwnFile(this.path);
+  @override
+  String get url => path;
+}
+
+/// This member passes a link on: it plays the link itself (a page through
+/// its yt-dlp), the relay source reads it for the server.
+final class OwnLink extends SourcePlan {
+  @override
+  final String url;
+  final LinkOrigin origin;
+  const OwnLink(this.url, this.origin);
+}
+
+/// Your server's own file (`/m`).
+final class ServerFile extends SourcePlan {
+  @override
+  final String url;
+  const ServerFile(this.url);
+}
+
+/// A link everyone opens itself; [page]: a web page, resolved by this
+/// app's yt-dlp (the pipeline's resolve step).
+final class DirectLink extends SourcePlan {
+  @override
+  final String url;
+  final bool page;
+  const DirectLink(this.url, {required this.page});
+}
+
+/// The server's relay (`/r`): a member passing it on ([sourceId]) or the
+/// server's own fetch ([fetch]). [waiting]: nobody feeds it yet, so it opens
+/// once `relay.live` (mpv gives up on a silent request after 5 s).
+final class RelayedSource extends SourcePlan {
+  @override
+  final String url;
+  final bool fetch;
+  final String sourceId;
+  final bool waiting;
+  const RelayedSource(this.url, {required this.fetch, required this.sourceId, required this.waiting});
+}
+
+/// A Jellyfin item: this app's own account first ([ownAccount]), then the
+/// server's login ([serverLogin], `/j`), then the member who put it up
+/// ([memberRelay], `/r`); the resolve step decides. [origin]: this member
+/// put it up (it passes it on to viewers without an account).
+final class JellyfinSource extends SourcePlan {
+  final JellyfinRef ref;
+  final bool ownAccount;
+  final String? serverLogin;
+  final String? memberRelay;
+  final JellyfinOrigin? origin;
+  const JellyfinSource(this.ref, {required this.ownAccount, this.serverLogin, this.memberRelay, this.origin});
+}
+
+/// A page link this app cannot resolve (no yt-dlp here: `caps.resolve`
+/// false): [via] names who can pass it on.
+final class Unresolvable extends SourcePlan {
+  final String link;
+  final String via;
+  const Unresolvable(this.link, this.via);
+
+  String get reason => "This device can't open web pages; ${via.isEmpty ? 'ask someone' : via} to pass it on (Through me)";
+}
+
+/// What [planMedia] reads.
+class PlanInput {
+  final StateBroadcast state;
+  final String selfId;
+  final ClientCaps caps;
+  final ServerAddress server;
+
+  /// What this member serves for [StateBroadcast.mediaId] (null: nothing).
+  final MediaOrigin? origin;
+
+  /// This app plays Jellyfin [serverId] with its own account.
+  final bool Function(String serverId) ownJellyfin;
+  const PlanInput({
+    required this.state,
+    required this.selfId,
+    required this.caps,
+    required this.server,
+    this.origin,
+    required this.ownJellyfin,
+  });
+}
+
+/// A relay nobody feeds yet: the server's fetch before it is read, or a
+/// member's before its channel is up while that member is still here
+/// (once it is gone or left, the server's buffer is all there is: open
+/// that).
+bool relayWaitsForSource(StateBroadcast r, MediaRelay relay) =>
+    !relay.live && !relay.sourceGone && (relay.fetch || r.members.any((m) => m.id == relay.source));
+
+/// The members that can resolve a page link (`caps.resolve`), present
+/// ones, lowest id first.
+List<MemberView> linkResolvers(StateBroadcast r, {String except = ''}) =>
+    [for (final m in r.members) if (m.caps.resolve && isPresent(m) && m.id != except) m];
+
+/// Where this app reads [input]'s media from.
+SourcePlan planMedia(PlanInput input) {
+  final r = input.state;
+  final media = r.media;
+  if (media == null) return const NoSource();
+  final name = (media['name'] as String?) ?? '';
+  final relay = stateMediaRelay(r);
+  final mine = relay != null && relay.source.isNotEmpty && relay.source == input.selfId;
+  final origin = mine ? input.origin : null;
+  final key = relay == null || relay.queueId.isEmpty ? '${r.mediaId}' : relay.queueId;
+
+  final ref = refOfStateMedia(media);
+  if (ref != null) {
+    return JellyfinSource(
+      ref,
+      ownAccount: input.ownJellyfin(ref.serverId),
+      serverLogin: r.relay && input.server.token.isNotEmpty ? input.server.jellyfinUrl(ref) : null,
+      memberRelay: relay != null && !mine ? input.server.relayUrl(name, key) : null,
+      origin: origin is JellyfinOrigin ? origin : (mine ? const JellyfinOrigin(null) : null),
+    );
+  }
+  switch (origin) {
+    case FileOrigin(:final path):
+      return OwnFile(path);
+    case LinkOrigin(:final url):
+      return OwnLink(url, origin);
+    case JellyfinOrigin() || null:
+      break;
+  }
+  if (relay != null) {
+    // Another member's relay or the server's fetch; this member's own
+    // relay without its origin (a restarted app) reads the server's buffer.
+    return RelayedSource(input.server.relayUrl(name, key, relay.tracks),
+        fetch: relay.fetch, sourceId: relay.source, waiting: !mine && relayWaitsForSource(r, relay));
+  }
+  final url = media['url'];
+  if (url is String && url.isNotEmpty) {
+    final uri = Uri.tryParse(url);
+    final web = uri != null && (uri.isScheme('http') || uri.isScheme('https'));
+    final page = web && !hasMediaExtension(uri);
+    if (page && !input.caps.resolve) {
+      final who = linkResolvers(r, except: input.selfId).firstOrNull;
+      return Unresolvable(url, who == null ? '' : 'ask ${who.name}');
+    }
+    return DirectLink(url, page: page);
+  }
+  if (name.isNotEmpty && input.server.token.isNotEmpty) return ServerFile(input.server.fileUrl(name));
+  return const NoSource();
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/navigation.dart

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+import 'dart:async';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show debugPrint;
+import 'package:signals/signals.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../screens/home/health_probe.dart';
+import '../state/connect_prefs.dart';
+import 'app_events.dart' show ActionFailed, ServerRefused;
+import 'connection.dart';
+import 'identity.dart' show Profile;
+import 'session_coordinator.dart';
+import 'your_server.dart';
+
+/// Which server this app is in.
+enum Place {
+  /// None yet (starting, or between two servers).
+  none,
+
+  /// Your own server ([YourServer]): home.
+  yours,
+
+  /// A friend's (joined from the Join card).
+  friend,
+}
+
+/// A join that did not get as far as connecting, in plain words.
+class JoinFailed implements Exception {
+  final String message;
+  const JoinFailed(this.message);
+  @override
+  String toString() => message;
+}
+
+/// Where this app is: home on your own server, or in a friend's. It
+/// starts the app at home, switches to a friend's server on a join (after
+/// the version gate) and back home when you leave theirs, a join fails or
+/// they stop sharing. Your server stays up all the while; you leave it
+/// (with `bye`) while you are away. Made by the composition root.
+class Navigation {
+  Navigation({
+    required this.coordinator,
+    required this.yourServer,
+    required this.forms,
+    this.profile,
+    this.healthGet = defaultHealthGet,
+  }) {
+    yourServer.onCrash = () {
+      if (place.peek() != Place.friend) unawaited(goHome());
+    };
+    // A friend closed their server to friends: back home, and say so.
+    _stops.add(effect(() {
+      final s = coordinator.connection.state.value;
+      if (s is ConnRefused && s.code == 'closed' && untracked(() => place.value) == Place.friend) {
+        // Said once home (a connect clears the toasts).
+        scheduleMicrotask(() => unawaited(goHome().then(
+            (_) => coordinator.notify(const ServerRefused('The host stopped sharing their server')))));
+      }
+    }));
+  }
+
+  final SessionCoordinator coordinator;
+  final YourServer yourServer;
+  final ConnectStore forms;
+  /// Name and picture for your own connection (default: the app's).
+  final Profile? profile;
+  final HealthGetter healthGet;
+  final _stops = <void Function()>[];
+
+  Profile get _me => profile ?? Profile.instance;
+
+  final place = signal(Place.none);
+
+  /// In a server (yours or a friend's).
+  late final Computed<bool> online = computed(() => place.value != Place.none);
+
+  /// On your own server.
+  late final Computed<bool> home = computed(() => place.value == Place.yours);
+
+  /// A friend's server's own name (`/health`), '' for yours, until known
+  /// or when it only has the default name.
+  final serverLabel = signal('');
+
+  /// The server's Starsync version: yours is this app's; a friend's
+  /// comes from its `/health`; '' until known.
+  final serverVersion = signal('');
+
+  /// The address dialled for a friend's server ("host:port"), '' at home.
+  final address = signal('');
+
+  // Bumped by every move; a superseded one stops at its next step.
+  int _op = 0;
+
+  /// The app starts: home, on your own server.
+  Future<void> start() => goHome();
+
+  /// To your own server (started if it is not running). False when it
+  /// could not start or the move was superseded; the reason is a notice.
+  Future<bool> goHome() async {
+    final op = ++_op;
+    _arrive(Place.none);
+    try {
+      await _me.ensureLoaded();
+      final name = _me.name.peek().trim();
+      final port = await yourServer.start(name: name);
+      if (op != _op) return false;
+      coordinator.hostFile = yourServer.setFile;
+      await coordinator.connect(ConnectParams(
+        host: '127.0.0.1',
+        port: port,
+        secret: '',
+        name: name.isEmpty ? 'Me' : name,
+        avatar: _me.avatarBase64(),
+        hostKey: yourServer.hostKey,
+      ));
+      if (op != _op) return false;
+      serverVersion.value = appVersion;
+      _arrive(Place.yours);
+      return true;
+    } on ConnectCancelled {
+      return false;
+    } catch (e, st) {
+      debugPrint('your server: $e\n$st');
+      if (op == _op) coordinator.notify(ActionFailed("couldn't start your server: $e"));
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  void _arrive(Place p) {
+    if (p != Place.yours) coordinator.hostFile = null;
+    if (p == Place.none) {
+      serverLabel.value = '';
+      serverVersion.value = '';
+      address.value = '';
+    }
+    place.value = p;
+  }
+
+  /// Joins a friend's server. The version gate first (`/health`): an
+  /// unreachable server or one without a version in common stops here,
+  /// still at home ([JoinFailed], [VersionGateRefused]). Then you leave
+  /// your server and connect; when that fails you are back home and the
+  /// error is rethrown (a refusal: [HelloRefused]).
+  Future<void> join(ConnectParams params) async {
+    final op = ++_op;
+    final health = await probeHealth(params.host, '${params.port}', healthGet);
+    if (op != _op) throw const ConnectCancelled();
+    if (!health.online) throw const JoinFailed('host offline — check address and port');
+    final fit = health.fit;
+    if (fit != null && fit != VersionFit.ok) {
+      throw VersionGateRefused(versionGateText(health), youUpdate: fit == VersionFit.youUpdate);
+    }
+    _arrive(Place.none);
+    try {
+      await coordinator.connect(params);
+      if (op != _op) throw const ConnectCancelled();
+    } catch (_) {
+      if (op == _op) unawaited(goHome());
+      rethrow;
+    }
+    serverLabel.value = health.label;
+    serverVersion.value = health.version;
+    address.value = '${params.host}:${params.port}';
+    _arrive(Place.friend);
+    await forms.remember(RecentServer(host: params.host, port: '${params.port}', secret: params.secret));
+  }
+
+  /// The Join card's Cancel: stops a join under way; when it had already
+  /// left home, back home.
+  Future<void> cancelPending() async {
+    _op++;
+    try {
+      await coordinator.cancelConnect();
+    } catch (_) {}
+    if (place.peek() != Place.yours) await goHome();
+  }
+
+  /// Out of a friend's server (Leave): back home.
+  Future<bool> leaveFriend() => goHome();
+
+  /// The app closes: out of whichever server ([bye] false: Update and
+  /// restart, the member stays `gone` for the restarted app).
+  Future<void> leave({bool bye = true}) async {
+    _op++;
+    await coordinator.leave(bye: bye);
+    _arrive(Place.none);
+  }
+
+  void dispose() {
+    for (final stop in _stops) {
+      stop();
+    }
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/notice_prefs.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// The user's notification choices (Settings → Notifications & sounds), as
+// the Notifier's policy reads them. Pure Dart; [AppSettings] stores them.
+
+/// When chat messages pop up as toasts (they always reach the chat).
+enum ChatPopups {
+  all('All'),
+  paused('Only when paused'),
+  off('Off');
+
+  final String label;
+  const ChatPopups(this.label);
+
+  /// Whether a chat message pops up now ([playing]: the video plays).
+  bool shows({required bool playing}) => switch (this) {
+        ChatPopups.all => true,
+        ChatPopups.paused => !playing,
+        ChatPopups.off => false,
+      };
+}
+
+/// What the user picked: chat pop-ups, and whether joins and leaves also
+/// reach them while they sit out or the window is in the background
+/// ([people]; off by default: then only chat, nudges, "starting now" and
+/// Up next do).
+class NotifyPrefs {
+  final ChatPopups chat;
+  final bool people;
+  const NotifyPrefs({this.chat = ChatPopups.all, this.people = false});
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/notifier.dart

@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 import 'dart:async';
 
 import 'package:signals/signals_core.dart';
-import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show FeedMessage;
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show FeedMessage, Presence;
 
+import '../platform/ports/system_notifications.dart';
+import '../platform/ports/window_activity.dart';
 import '../sfx/sfx.dart';
 import 'app_events.dart';
+import 'notice_prefs.dart';
 
 export 'app_events.dart';
+export 'notice_prefs.dart';
 
 class ToastItem {
   final int id;
@@ -17,67 +21,249 @@ class ToastItem {
   final String? actor;
   /// [actor]'s member id (feed and chat toasts); '' when unknown.
   final String actorId;
-  const ToastItem({required this.id, required this.text, required this.at, this.actor, this.actorId = ''});
+  /// A chat message: a click opens the chat.
+  final bool chat;
+  /// A picture hash to show (an Up next item's), '' when none.
+  final String thumb;
+  const ToastItem(
+      {required this.id,
+      required this.text,
+      required this.at,
+      this.actor,
+      this.actorId = '',
+      this.chat = false,
+      this.thumb = ''});
+}
+
+/// What a notice is about; the policy filters by it ([noticeFor]).
+enum NoticeCategory {
+  /// Chat messages.
+  chat,
+
+  /// Someone poked this member.
+  nudge,
+
+  /// The media starts playing for the first time ("starting now").
+  start,
+
+  /// Up next and the video changing (adds, skips, swaps).
+  upNext,
+
+  /// Joins, leaves, lost signal and returns.
+  people,
+
+  /// The rest of what the party does (ready, seeks, pauses, someone sat
+  /// out, renames): the activity log and a few sounds.
+  party,
+
+  /// Something keeps the watch from going smoothly (someone cannot play
+  /// it, the source dropped, the server could not fetch it).
+  problem,
+
+  /// About this member itself (sat out, auto sit-out, the relay it
+  /// serves, its connection, another window took over).
+  self,
+
+  /// The app's own notices (copied, shaders, update, errors): never
+  /// filtered.
+  app;
+
+  /// What reaches you while you sit out or the window is in the
+  /// background (D1): chat, nudges, "starting now" and Up next, plus joins
+  /// and leaves when [NotifyPrefs.people] is on.
+  bool reachesAway(NotifyPrefs prefs) => switch (this) {
+        chat || nudge || start || upNext || self || app => true,
+        people => prefs.people,
+        party || problem => false,
+      };
+
+  /// Social: nothing of it plays or pops up while you watch alone (D9).
+  bool get social => this == chat || this == start || this == people || this == party;
+
+  /// May go out as a system notification while the window is in the
+  /// background.
+  bool get system => this == chat || this == nudge || this == start || this == upNext || this == people;
+}
+
+/// The session as the policy sees it.
+typedef NoticeSession = ({Presence? self, bool alone, bool playing});
+
+/// Where the user stands when a notice comes: their presence ([self],
+/// null outside a session), whether anyone else is there ([alone]), the
+/// window ([window]), whether the video plays ([playing]) and their
+/// choices ([prefs]). A replayed feed line says so itself.
+class NoticeContext {
+  final Presence? self;
+  final bool alone;
+  final WindowActivity window;
+  final bool playing;
+  final NotifyPrefs prefs;
+  const NoticeContext({
+    this.self,
+    this.alone = false,
+    this.window = WindowActivity.focused,
+    this.playing = false,
+    this.prefs = const NotifyPrefs(),
+  });
+
+  bool get away => self == Presence.away;
+}
+
+/// A notification outside the window ([SystemNotifications]).
+class SystemNote {
+  final String title;
+  final String body;
+  final String tag;
+  /// [payloadChat]: a click opens the chat.
+  final String payload;
+  const SystemNote({required this.title, required this.body, this.tag = '', this.payload = ''});
+
+  static const payloadChat = 'chat';
 }
 
 /// What one [AppEvent] does: a toast ([toast], about [actor]), a sound,
-/// the window asking for attention, an activity-log line.
+/// the window asking for attention, a system notification, an
+/// activity-log line.
 class Notice {
+  final NoticeCategory category;
   final String? toast;
   final String? actor;
+  /// The toast is a chat message (a click opens the chat).
+  final bool chat;
+  /// A picture hash for the toast (an Up next item's).
+  final String thumb;
   final SfxCue? sound;
   final bool attention;
+  final SystemNote? system;
   /// The feed line it goes into the activity log as.
   final FeedMessage? log;
-  const Notice({this.toast, this.actor, this.sound, this.attention = false, this.log});
+  const Notice({
+    this.category = NoticeCategory.app,
+    this.toast,
+    this.actor,
+    this.chat = false,
+    this.thumb = '',
+    this.sound,
+    this.attention = false,
+    this.system,
+    this.log,
+  });
 
   static const none = Notice();
+
+  Notice _with({bool toast = true, bool sound = true, SystemNote? system}) => Notice(
+        category: category,
+        toast: toast ? this.toast : null,
+        actor: toast ? actor : null,
+        chat: toast && chat,
+        thumb: toast ? thumb : '',
+        sound: sound ? this.sound : null,
+        attention: attention,
+        system: system,
+        log: log,
+      );
 }
 
-/// The policy: what each event does.
+String _title(String t) => t.isEmpty ? 'the video' : t;
-Notice noticeFor(AppEvent e) => switch (e) {
+
-      // Lines a reconnect replayed (`welcome.feed`): the log only.
+/// The event alone: its category, toast, sound and log line.
-      FeedEvent(:final feed) when feed.replayed => Notice(log: feed),
+Notice _plain(AppEvent e) => switch (e) {
-      // The feed: everything is logged; joins, leaves, swaps and chat
+      // The feed: everything is logged.
-      // pop up; the social actions have a sound.
       MemberJoined(:final feed) => Notice(
-          log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} joined', actor: feed.actor, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.join)),
+          category: NoticeCategory.people,
+          log: feed,
+          toast: '${feed.actor} joined',
+          actor: feed.actor,
+          sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.join)),
       MemberLeft(:final feed) => Notice(
-          log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} left', actor: feed.actor, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.leave)),
+          category: NoticeCategory.people,
+          log: feed,
+          toast: '${feed.actor} left',
+          actor: feed.actor,
+          sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.leave)),
+      // After the server's delayed `gone` line (a quick reconnect says
+      // nothing), and back after it.
+      MemberGone(:final feed) => Notice(
+          category: NoticeCategory.people, log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} lost connection', actor: feed.actor),
+      MemberReturned(:final feed) =>
+        Notice(category: NoticeCategory.people, log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} is back', actor: feed.actor),
+      // Put back after a server restart: news, but not a change.
+      MediaSwapped(:final feed) when feed.reason == 'restore' => Notice(
+          category: NoticeCategory.upNext,
+          log: feed,
+          toast: '${feed.actor} put back what was playing',
+          actor: feed.actor),
       MediaSwapped(:final feed) => Notice(
-          log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} changed media', actor: feed.actor, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.swap)),
+          category: NoticeCategory.upNext,
-      ChatPosted(:final feed, :final own) => Notice(
+          log: feed,
+          toast: '${feed.actor} changed media',
+          actor: feed.actor,
+          sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.swap)),
+      QueueAdded(:final feed, :final thumb) => Notice(
+          category: NoticeCategory.upNext,
+          log: feed,
+          toast: '${feed.actor} added ${_title(feed.target ?? '')} to Up next',
+          actor: feed.actor,
+          thumb: thumb),
+      QueueSkipped(:final feed) => Notice(
+          category: NoticeCategory.upNext,
+          log: feed,
+          toast: 'Skipped ${feed.target ?? 'an item'}${feed.reason.isEmpty ? '' : ': ${feed.reason}'}'),
+      QueueRemoved(:final feed) => Notice(category: NoticeCategory.upNext, log: feed),
+      ChatPosted(:final feed) => Notice(
+          category: NoticeCategory.chat,
           log: feed,
           toast: '${feed.actor}: ${feed.reason}',
           actor: feed.actor,
-          // Your own message needs no sound.
+          chat: true,
-          sound: own ? null : const SfxCue(SfxKind.chat)),
+          sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.chat)),
       MemberSatOut(:final feed, atYou: true) => Notice(
-          log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} sat you out', actor: feed.actor, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.kick)),
+          category: NoticeCategory.self,
+          log: feed,
+          toast: '${feed.actor} sat you out',
+          actor: feed.actor,
+          sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.kick)),
       MemberSatOut(:final feed, autoSelf: true) => Notice(
+          category: NoticeCategory.self,
           log: feed,
           toast: 'You sit out (${feed.reason == 'minimised' ? 'minimised' : 'idle'}); you are back as soon as you return',
           sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.warn)),
       ReadyChanged(:final feed, ready: true, :final readyIndex) =>
-        Notice(log: feed, sound: SfxCue(SfxKind.ready, readyIndex: readyIndex)),
+        Notice(category: NoticeCategory.party, log: feed, sound: SfxCue(SfxKind.ready, readyIndex: readyIndex)),
-      ReadyChanged(:final feed, ready: false) => Notice(log: feed, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.unready)),
+      ReadyChanged(:final feed, ready: false) =>
-      ForcedReady(:final feed, ready: true) => Notice(log: feed, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.forceReady)),
+        Notice(category: NoticeCategory.party, log: feed, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.unready)),
-      QueueSkipped(:final feed) => Notice(
+      ForcedReady(:final feed, ready: true) =>
-          log: feed, toast: 'Skipped ${feed.target ?? 'an item'}${feed.reason.isEmpty ? '' : ': ${feed.reason}'}'),
+        Notice(category: NoticeCategory.party, log: feed, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.forceReady)),
-      FeedEvent(:final feed) => Notice(log: feed),
+      FetchFailed(:final feed) => Notice(category: NoticeCategory.problem, log: feed),
+      FeedEvent(:final feed) => Notice(category: NoticeCategory.party, log: feed),
       // The session.
       Nudged(:final name) => Notice(
+          category: NoticeCategory.nudge,
           toast: '${name.isEmpty ? 'Someone' : name} nudged you',
           actor: name.isEmpty ? null : name,
           sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.nudge),
           attention: true),
-      MemberCantPlay(:final name, :final error) => Notice(toast: "$name can't play this: $error", actor: name),
+      PlaybackStarted(:final title) =>
-      SlowSource(:final text) => Notice(toast: text),
+        Notice(category: NoticeCategory.start, toast: title.isEmpty ? 'Starting now' : 'Starting now: $title'),
-      RelayStarted() =>
+      MemberCantPlay(:final name, :final error) =>
-        const Notice(toast: 'Passing the video on through the server. Keep the app open while it plays.'),
+        Notice(category: NoticeCategory.problem, toast: "$name can't play this: $error", actor: name),
-      RelayFailed(:final error) => Notice(toast: 'Cannot pass the video on: $error'),
+      RelaySourceDropped(:final name, :final left) => Notice(
-      ConnectionLost() => const Notice(sound: SfxCue(SfxKind.lost)),
+          category: NoticeCategory.problem,
-      ConnectionBack() => const Notice(sound: SfxCue(SfxKind.back)),
+          toast: left
+              ? '$name left: playing what the server has'
+              : "$name's connection dropped: playing what the server has",
+          actor: name),
+      SlowSource(:final text) => Notice(category: NoticeCategory.self, toast: text),
+      RelayStarted() => const Notice(
+          category: NoticeCategory.self,
+          toast: 'Passing the video on through the server. Keep the app open while it plays.'),
+      RelayFailed(:final error) => Notice(category: NoticeCategory.self, toast: 'Cannot pass the video on: $error'),
+      ConnectionLost() => const Notice(category: NoticeCategory.self, sound: SfxCue(SfxKind.lost)),
+      ConnectionBack() => const Notice(category: NoticeCategory.self, sound: SfxCue(SfxKind.back)),
+      ServerRestarted() =>
+        const Notice(category: NoticeCategory.self, toast: 'The server restarted; you are back in'),
+      Replaced() => const Notice(category: NoticeCategory.self, toast: 'Starsync was opened in another window'),
+      ServerRefused(:final text) => Notice(category: NoticeCategory.self, toast: text),
       JellyfinProgressFailed(:final signInExpired) =>
         Notice(toast: 'Jellyfin progress not saved: ${signInExpired ? 'sign-in expired' : 'server unreachable'}'),
       // The app.
@@ -89,29 +275,115 @@ Notice noticeFor(AppEvent e) => switch (e) {
         Notice(toast: inSession ? 'Marked in the session log' : "Marked in this app's log"),
       Copied(:final text) => Notice(toast: text),
       CopyFailed() => const Notice(toast: "Couldn't copy"),
-      // The update band shows it.
+      // The update band shows it (D8: a clear prompt, never over playback).
       UpdateAvailable() => Notice.none,
     };
 
+/// The policy: what [e] does for a user in [c].
+/// - Lines a reconnect replayed (`welcome.feed`): the activity log only.
+/// - Your own joins, leaves, swaps and Up next adds: logged, no pop-up or
+///   sound (the app already said so); your own chat pops up, silently.
+/// - Alone (D9): no social sounds or pop-ups (nobody is there); the app's
+///   notices, problems and your own still show.
+/// - Sitting out (D1): only chat, nudges, "starting now", Up next, your
+///   own and the app's, plus joins and leaves when chosen
+///   ([NotifyPrefs.people]); the rest is logged only.
+/// - "Starting now" pops up only while you sit out or the window is in
+///   the background (otherwise you see it start).
+/// - Chat pop-ups follow [NotifyPrefs.chat]; the chat sound has its own
+///   switch (Settings → Sounds).
+/// - The window in the background: what reaches you there also goes out
+///   as a system notification (chat, nudges, "starting now", Up next;
+///   joins and leaves when chosen).
+Notice noticeFor(AppEvent e, [NoticeContext c = const NoticeContext()]) {
+  if (e is FeedEvent && e.feed.replayed) return Notice(category: _plain(e).category, log: e.feed);
+  final n = _plain(e);
+  final cat = n.category;
+  final own = e is FeedEvent && e.own;
+  var toast = n.toast != null;
+  var sound = n.sound != null;
+  if (own && (cat == NoticeCategory.people || cat == NoticeCategory.upNext)) {
+    toast = false;
+    sound = false;
+  }
+  if (own && cat == NoticeCategory.chat) sound = false;
+  if (c.alone && cat.social) {
+    toast = false;
+    sound = false;
+  }
+  if (c.away && !cat.reachesAway(c.prefs)) {
+    toast = false;
+    sound = false;
+  }
+  if (cat == NoticeCategory.start && !c.away && !c.window.background) toast = false;
+  if (cat == NoticeCategory.chat && !c.prefs.chat.shows(playing: c.playing)) toast = false;
+  SystemNote? system;
+  if (toast && !own && c.window.background && cat.system && cat.reachesAway(c.prefs)) {
+    final actor = n.actor;
+    final text = n.toast!;
+    final body = actor != null && text.startsWith(actor) ? text.substring(actor.length).replaceFirst(RegExp(r'^:? '), '') : text;
+    system = SystemNote(
+      title: actor ?? 'Starsync',
+      body: actor == null ? text : body,
+      tag: cat == NoticeCategory.chat ? '' : cat.name,
+      payload: cat == NoticeCategory.chat ? SystemNote.payloadChat : '',
+    );
+  }
+  return n._with(toast: toast, sound: sound, system: system);
+}
+
 /// The one way news reaches the user: [notify] turns an [AppEvent] into
-/// toasts ([toasts]), sounds, an attention request and the activity log
+/// toasts ([toasts], each dropped after [toastLife] by the Notifier's
-/// ([feedLog]) per [noticeFor].
+/// own timer), sounds, an attention request, a system notification and
+/// the activity log ([feedLog]) per [noticeFor], in the context the
+/// session ([session]), the window ([window]) and the user's choices
+/// ([prefs]) give.
 class Notifier {
   final SfxService sfx;
   final Future<void> Function() attention;
-  Notifier({this.sfx = const NoopSfxService(), Future<void> Function()? attention})
+  final SystemNotifications system;
-      : attention = attention ?? _noAttention;
+  /// Brings the window up (a click on a system notification).
+  final Future<void> Function() focusWindow;
+  final Duration toastLife;
+  /// The session's part of the context; set by the coordinator.
+  NoticeSession Function() session = () => (self: null, alone: false, playing: false);
+  NotifyPrefs Function() prefs;
+  /// The window's activity ([ShellPort.watchActivity], wired in `main`).
+  WindowActivity window = WindowActivity.focused;
 
-  static Future<void> _noAttention() async {}
+  Notifier({
+    this.sfx = const NoopSfxService(),
+    Future<void> Function()? attention,
+    this.system = const NoSystemNotifications(),
+    Future<void> Function()? focusWindow,
+    this.toastLife = const Duration(seconds: 5),
+    NotifyPrefs Function()? prefs,
+  })  : attention = attention ?? _nothing,
+        focusWindow = focusWindow ?? _nothing,
+        prefs = prefs ?? _defaultPrefs {
+    system.onClick = _clicked;
+  }
 
-  /// Toasts on screen (the shell shows them; [expire] drops old ones).
+  static Future<void> _nothing() async {}
+  static NotifyPrefs _defaultPrefs() => const NotifyPrefs();
+
+  /// Toasts on screen (the shell shows them).
   final toasts = signal<List<ToastItem>>([]);
   /// The activity log: the last 100 feed lines.
   final feedLog = signal<List<FeedMessage>>([]);
+  /// Bumped when a click on a chat notification asks for the chat (the
+  /// shell opens it).
+  final chatRequests = signal(0);
   int _toastId = 0;
+  final _timers = <int, Timer>{};
+
+  NoticeContext get context {
+    final s = session();
+    return NoticeContext(self: s.self, alone: s.alone, window: window, playing: s.playing, prefs: prefs());
+  }
 
   void notify(AppEvent e) {
-    final n = noticeFor(e);
+    final n = noticeFor(e, context);
     final log = n.log;
     if (log != null) {
       final all = [...feedLog.peek(), log];
@@ -119,29 +391,47 @@ class Notifier {
     }
     final text = n.toast;
     if (text != null) {
-      _toastId++;
+      final id = ++_toastId;
       toasts.value = [
         ...toasts.peek(),
         ToastItem(
-            id: _toastId,
+            id: id,
             text: text,
             at: DateTime.now().toUtc(),
             actor: n.actor,
-            actorId: n.actor == null ? '' : n.log?.actorId ?? ''),
+            actorId: n.actor == null ? '' : n.log?.actorId ?? '',
+            chat: n.chat,
+            thumb: n.thumb),
       ];
+      _timers[id] = Timer(toastLife, () => dismiss(id));
     }
     final sound = n.sound;
     if (sound != null) unawaited(sfx.play(sound));
     if (n.attention) unawaited(attention());
+    final note = n.system;
+    if (note != null) {
+      unawaited(system.show(title: note.title, body: note.body, tag: note.tag, payload: note.payload));
+    }
   }
 
-  /// Drops toasts 4 s old or older.
+  void _clicked(String payload) {
-  void expire(DateTime now) {
+    unawaited(focusWindow());
-    toasts.value = toasts.peek().where((t) => now.difference(t.at).inSeconds < 4).toList();
+    if (payload == SystemNote.payloadChat) chatRequests.value++;
+  }
+
+  /// Takes toast [id] off the screen (its time is up, or it was clicked).
+  void dismiss(int id) {
+    _timers.remove(id)?.cancel();
+    final now = toasts.peek();
+    if (now.any((t) => t.id == id)) toasts.value = [for (final t in now) if (t.id != id) t];
   }
 
   /// A new session: no toasts, an empty log.
   void clear() {
+    for (final t in _timers.values) {
+      t.cancel();
+    }
+    _timers.clear();
     feedLog.value = [];
     toasts.value = [];
   }

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/now_playing_info.dart

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show hasMediaExtension;
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show MediaRef, hasMediaExtension, parseReleaseName;
 
-import '../files/name_parser.dart';
+import '../library/media_refs.dart' show refEpisodeLine;
 import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
 import 'now_playing.dart';
 
@@ -26,12 +26,29 @@ NowPlaying? nowPlayingOf(Map<String, Object?>? media) {
   if (web) {
     return NowPlaying(title: name, posterHash: poster, bannerHash: banner, thumbnail: true);
   }
+  final what = _mediaRef(media['ref']);
   final (title, episode) = ref != null
       ? jellyfinTitle(ref.title.isNotEmpty ? ref.title : name, ref.subtitle)
+      : what != null && what.title.isNotEmpty
+          ? refTitle(what, name)
           : fileTitle(name);
   return NowPlaying(title: title, episode: episode, posterHash: poster, bannerHash: banner);
 }
 
+MediaRef? _mediaRef(Object? j) {
+  try {
+    return MediaRef.fromJson(j);
+  } catch (_) {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+/// Files and links that say what they are (`media.ref`, from the
+/// sender's library): its proper title and `S3 E13` / `E108`; an extra
+/// keeps the name's own marker (OP1, NCED2).
+(String, String?) refTitle(MediaRef ref, String name) =>
+    (ref.title, refEpisodeLine(ref) ?? (ref.kind == 'extra' ? fileTitle(name).$2 : null));
+
 /// [media] (`state.media`, not Jellyfin) is a web page's video, whose art
 /// will be its thumbnail: a shared http(s) link that is no media file (the
 /// everyone-opens-it mode), or a relayed one (passed on by a member or

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/party.dart

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ const presencePolicy = PresencePolicy();
 bool countsForReady(MemberView m) => m.error.isEmpty && presencePolicy.countsFor(m.presence, Purpose.readyCounter);
 
 /// Connected and watching (`in` or `joining`): can do things for the
-/// party now (put up an Up next item, the auto-advance swap).
+/// party now (put up an Up next item; core's [isPresentMember]).
-bool isPresent(MemberView m) => m.presence == Presence.watching || m.presence == Presence.joining;
+bool isPresent(MemberView m) => isPresentMember(m);
 
 /// Nobody but [selfId] is connected in [members] (D9, core's [isAlone]).
 bool aloneIn(List<MemberView> members, String selfId) =>

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/relay_feeder.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show debugPrint;
+import 'package:signals/signals.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import 'app_events.dart';
+import 'media_plan.dart' show ServerAddress;
+import 'party.dart' show isPresent;
+
+/// This member as a relay source: the current media's bytes (its file, a
+/// link it passes on, its Jellyfin stream) on `/r/.../source`, and Up next's
+/// first item on the warm relay (`?q=<queueId>`), which the swap that puts
+/// the item up carries on as the media's. A source re-dials by itself
+/// through a drop of this app (the server keeps the relay through the
+/// grace; the same `info` continues it).
+class RelayFeeder {
+  final ServerAddress Function() server;
+  final void Function(AppEvent event) notify;
+  RelayFeeder({required this.server, required this.notify});
+
+  RelaySource? _source;
+  int _mediaId = -1;
+  ({String queueId, RelaySource src})? _warm;
+
+  /// This member serves the current media's bytes through the server.
+  final relaying = signal(false);
+
+  /// The media id this member serves (-1: none).
+  int get mediaId => _mediaId;
+
+  /// The tracks of Up next item [queueId] when this member feeds its warm
+  /// relay and has opened them (empty otherwise).
+  List<RelayTrack> warmTracks(String queueId) => _warm?.queueId == queueId ? _warm!.src.tracks : const [];
+
+  /// Serves [media] for media [mediaId] on this member's relay channel.
+  /// The server only pulls while someone watches through it. When the
+  /// media came from Up next item [queueId] whose warm relay this member
+  /// feeds, that source carries on instead. [name] and [duration] go in
+  /// the `info`, the same on every dial, so the server knows a re-dial
+  /// after a drop as the same media.
+  void serve(int mediaId, RelayMedia media,
+      {bool announce = false, String queueId = '', String name = '', double duration = 0}) {
+    // Already serving this media (it re-dials by itself through a drop).
+    if (_source != null && _mediaId == mediaId) {
+      unawaited(media.close());
+      return;
+    }
+    stop();
+    final warm = _warm;
+    if (queueId.isNotEmpty && warm != null && warm.queueId == queueId) {
+      _warm = null;
+      unawaited(media.close());
+      _adopt(mediaId, warm.src, announce: announce, started: true);
+      return;
+    }
+    final src = RelaySource(server().sourceChannel(), media, name: name, duration: duration);
+    _adopt(mediaId, src, announce: announce, started: false);
+  }
+
+  void _adopt(int mediaId, RelaySource src, {required bool announce, required bool started}) {
+    _source = src;
+    _mediaId = mediaId;
+    relaying.value = true;
+    if (announce) notify(const RelayStarted());
+    unawaited(() async {
+      if (!started) {
+        try {
+          await src.start();
+        } catch (e) {
+          debugPrint('relay source failed: $e');
+          if (identical(_source, src)) {
+            _clear();
+            notify(RelayFailed('$e'));
+          }
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+      await src.done;
+      if (identical(_source, src)) _clear();
+    }());
+  }
+
+  void _clear() {
+    _source = null;
+    _mediaId = -1;
+    relaying.value = false;
+  }
+
+  /// Stops serving the current media.
+  void stop() {
+    final src = _source;
+    _clear();
+    if (src != null) unawaited(src.close());
+  }
+
+  /// Feeds the warm relay of Up next item [queueId] from here with [media];
+  /// one already feeding it is kept. The server pulls only while someone
+  /// preloads it, and closes the channel once the item is no longer first
+  /// (the source then stops).
+  void feedWarm(String queueId, RelayMedia media) {
+    if (_warm?.queueId == queueId) {
+      unawaited(media.close());
+      return;
+    }
+    stopWarm();
+    final src = RelaySource(server().sourceChannel(queueId), media);
+    _warm = (queueId: queueId, src: src);
+    unawaited(() async {
+      try {
+        await src.start();
+      } catch (e) {
+        debugPrint('warm relay source of $queueId failed: $e');
+        if (identical(_warm?.src, src)) _warm = null;
+        return;
+      }
+      await src.done;
+      if (identical(_warm?.src, src)) _warm = null;
+    }());
+  }
+
+  void stopWarm() {
+    final w = _warm;
+    _warm = null;
+    if (w != null) unawaited(w.src.close());
+  }
+
+  /// Leave, or a media this member no longer serves.
+  void stopAll() {
+    stop();
+    stopWarm();
+  }
+}
+
+/// Someone present needs this member's relay of Jellyfin [ref]: the
+/// server's own login does not pass it on (`state.relay`) and a present
+/// member other than [selfId] does not play that server with its own
+/// account. A member whose account list is not reported yet (`caps` say it
+/// has Jellyfin, `jf` still empty) is asked again with the next state.
+/// Without anyone needing it, no relay channel is opened.
+bool jellyfinRelayNeeded(StateBroadcast r, JellyfinRef ref, String selfId) {
+  if (r.relay) return false;
+  for (final m in r.members) {
+    if (m.id == selfId || !isPresent(m)) continue;
+    if (m.jf[ref.serverId] == true) continue;
+    if (m.caps.jellyfin && m.jf.isEmpty) continue;
+    return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/status.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,344 @@
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import 'app_events.dart';
+import 'connection.dart';
+import 'delivery.dart';
+import 'now_playing_info.dart';
+import 'party.dart';
+
+// The session's one computed status: what the player's status pill, the
+// party strip's server line and the members card's source line say, from
+// facts only (the connection, the server's state with its hold reason and
+// relay, this player's open/error facts). Nothing writes a status; the
+// coordinator computes it ([statusOf]) and [StatusWatch] turns the
+// transitions worth a notice into [AppEvent]s for the Notifier (Status →
+// Notifier, never back).
+
+/// How bad it is: [ok] and [info] never colour anything, [warn] amber,
+/// [error] red.
+enum StatusLevel { ok, info, warn, error }
+
+/// What the player's status pill says, most pressing first.
+enum StatusKind { reconnecting, problem, connecting, fetching, finished, loading, you, cannotPlay, waiting }
+
+/// The pill's button: stop reconnecting, retry (reconnect), reload the
+/// video (your player could not open it), or mark yourself ready (the
+/// whole pill).
+enum StatusAction { cancel, retry, reload, ready }
+
+/// One status line: [text], a muted [detail], its [level], the members it
+/// is about ([who]; [self] for you) and a loading [progress] (0..1).
+class StatusLine {
+  final StatusKind kind;
+  final String text;
+  final String? detail;
+  final StatusLevel level;
+  final List<MemberView> who;
+  final bool self;
+  final double? progress;
+  final StatusAction? action;
+  /// The mini player's shorter line.
+  final String short;
+  const StatusLine(
+    this.kind,
+    this.text, {
+    this.detail,
+    this.level = StatusLevel.info,
+    this.who = const [],
+    this.self = false,
+    this.progress,
+    this.action,
+    String? short,
+  }) : short = short ?? text;
+
+  /// Coloured: a problem.
+  bool get problem => level == StatusLevel.warn || level == StatusLevel.error;
+}
+
+/// The facts a status is computed from.
+class StatusFacts {
+  final ConnState conn;
+  /// The server's latest state (kept through a drop).
+  final StateBroadcast? state;
+  /// This member's id ('' before the welcome).
+  final String selfId;
+  /// Why this player cannot open the current media ([playErrorText]).
+  final String playerError;
+  /// The player itself failed (a reload that failed); '' when fine.
+  final String playerFault;
+  /// This viewer plays the current Jellyfin item with its own account:
+  /// the relay's troubles are not its own.
+  final bool ownPlan;
+  /// The mediaId the server said it could not fetch (`fetch-fail`), -1.
+  final int fetchFailedFor;
+  /// Names of members that left (a relay source that left).
+  final MemberNames? names;
+  /// A reconnect found the server restarted this many times.
+  final int restarts;
+  final DateTime now;
+  const StatusFacts({
+    this.conn = const ConnClosed(),
+    this.state,
+    this.selfId = '',
+    this.playerError = '',
+    this.playerFault = '',
+    this.ownPlan = false,
+    this.fetchFailedFor = -1,
+    this.names,
+    this.restarts = 0,
+    required this.now,
+  });
+}
+
+/// The relay source's trouble, as the transitions watch it.
+class SourceTrouble {
+  final int mediaId;
+  final String sourceId;
+  final String name;
+  /// Gone since (the source member is `gone`); null when it left.
+  final DateTime? since;
+  bool get left => since == null;
+  const SourceTrouble({required this.mediaId, required this.sourceId, required this.name, this.since});
+}
+
+class Status {
+  /// The player's pill; null when there is nothing to say (playing,
+  /// connected, everyone ready).
+  final StatusLine? line;
+  /// The party strip's line under the server name: "connecting…",
+  /// "reconnecting…", "ready 2/3".
+  final String party;
+  /// Where the current media comes from (the members card's source line);
+  /// null with nothing up or nobody else there.
+  final Delivery? delivery;
+  /// The relay source this viewer depends on is gone or left.
+  final SourceTrouble? source;
+  final ConnState conn;
+  final StateBroadcast? state;
+  final int restarts;
+  const Status({
+    this.line,
+    this.party = '',
+    this.delivery,
+    this.source,
+    this.conn = const ConnClosed(),
+    this.state,
+    this.restarts = 0,
+  });
+}
+
+/// "Bob", "Bob and Mika", "Bob, Mika and Cleo", "Bob, Mika and 3 others".
+String nameList(List<String> names) {
+  if (names.length <= 1) return names.join();
+  if (names.length <= 3) return '${names.sublist(0, names.length - 1).join(', ')} and ${names.last}';
+  return '${names[0]}, ${names[1]} and ${names.length - 2} others';
+}
+
+String _sentence(String s) => s.isEmpty ? s : s[0].toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
+
+/// "(2 min)" from a minute on, nothing before.
+String _forHow(DateTime since, DateTime now) =>
+    now.difference(since).inMinutes >= 1 ? ' (${sinceText(since, now)})' : '';
+
+/// "Bob's connection dropped — playing what the server has (2 min)",
+/// "Bob left — playing what the server has".
+String sourceTroubleText(SourceTrouble t, DateTime now) => t.left
+    ? '${t.name} left — playing what the server has'
+    : "${t.name}'s connection dropped — playing what the server has${_forHow(t.since!, now)}";
+
+/// The relayed media's source this viewer reads from is gone or left.
+SourceTrouble? sourceTroubleOf(StateBroadcast r, String selfId, MemberNames? names) {
+  final relay = stateMediaRelay(r);
+  if (relay == null || relay.fetch || relay.source.isEmpty || relay.source == selfId) return null;
+  final m = r.members.where((m) => m.id == relay.source).firstOrNull;
+  final name = m?.name ?? names?[relay.source] ?? 'The member passing it on';
+  if (m == null) return SourceTrouble(mediaId: r.mediaId, sourceId: relay.source, name: name);
+  if (!relay.sourceGone && m.presence != Presence.gone) return null;
+  return SourceTrouble(
+      mediaId: r.mediaId,
+      sourceId: relay.source,
+      name: name,
+      since: relay.sourceGoneSince ?? m.goneSince ?? r.serverTime);
+}
+
+/// The status from [f].
+Status statusOf(StatusFacts f) {
+  final r = f.state;
+  final stale = r != null && (f.conn.retrying || f.conn is ConnReplaced || f.conn is ConnRefused);
+  final counted = (r?.members ?? const <MemberView>[]).where(countsForReady).toList();
+  final party = r == null
+      ? 'connecting…'
+      : stale
+          ? 'reconnecting…'
+          : 'ready ${counted.where((m) => m.ready).length}/${counted.length}';
+  final self = r == null || f.selfId.isEmpty ? null : r.members.where((m) => m.id == f.selfId).firstOrNull;
+  final source = r == null || f.ownPlan ? null : sourceTroubleOf(r, f.selfId, f.names);
+  return Status(
+    line: _line(f, r, self, source),
+    party: party,
+    delivery: r == null ? null : deliveryOf(r, selfId: f.selfId, names: f.names, now: f.now),
+    source: source,
+    conn: f.conn,
+    state: r,
+    restarts: f.restarts,
+  );
+}
+
+StatusLine? _line(StatusFacts f, StateBroadcast? r, MemberView? self, SourceTrouble? source) {
+  switch (f.conn) {
+    case ConnLost() || ConnReconnecting():
+      return const StatusLine(StatusKind.reconnecting, 'Reconnecting…',
+          level: StatusLevel.warn, action: StatusAction.cancel);
+    case ConnUnstable():
+      return const StatusLine(StatusKind.reconnecting, 'Connection unstable…', level: StatusLevel.warn);
+    case ConnReplaced(:final message) || ConnRefused(:final message):
+      return StatusLine(StatusKind.problem, _sentence(message), level: StatusLevel.error, action: StatusAction.retry);
+    case ConnConnecting():
+      return const StatusLine(StatusKind.connecting, 'Connecting…');
+    case ConnOnline() || ConnClosed():
+      break;
+  }
+  final away = self?.presence == Presence.away;
+  if (r == null || r.media == null) return null;
+  // Sitting out: the join-back card says it; nobody waits for you.
+  if (away) return null;
+  if (f.playerFault.isNotEmpty) {
+    return StatusLine(StatusKind.problem, _sentence(f.playerFault),
+        level: StatusLevel.error, action: StatusAction.reload, short: "Can't play this");
+  }
+  if (f.playerError.isNotEmpty) {
+    return StatusLine(StatusKind.problem, "Can't play this: ${f.playerError}",
+        level: StatusLevel.error, action: StatusAction.reload, short: "Can't play this");
+  }
+  // The server holds everyone for the relay's source (D6): a viewer's
+  // buffer ran dry while it is gone.
+  if (r.transport == 'held' && r.hold?.reason == HoldReason.source) {
+    final relayed = stateMediaRelay(r);
+    final id = relayed?.source ?? '';
+    final name = source?.name ??
+        r.members.where((m) => m.id == id).firstOrNull?.name ??
+        f.names?[id] ??
+        'the member passing it on';
+    return StatusLine(StatusKind.waiting, 'Waiting for $name',
+        detail: "$name's connection dropped; what the server had has played",
+        level: StatusLevel.warn,
+        short: 'Waiting for $name');
+  }
+  // The relay: what everyone reads comes through the server.
+  final relay = f.ownPlan ? null : stateMediaRelay(r);
+  if (relay != null && relay.source != f.selfId) {
+    if (relay.fetch && !relay.live) {
+      if (f.fetchFailedFor == r.mediaId) {
+        return const StatusLine(StatusKind.problem, "The server couldn't fetch this video", level: StatusLevel.error);
+      }
+      return const StatusLine(StatusKind.fetching, 'The server is getting the video…');
+    }
+    if (source != null) {
+      return StatusLine(StatusKind.problem, sourceTroubleText(source, f.now),
+          level: StatusLevel.warn,
+          short: source.left ? '${source.name} left' : "${source.name}'s connection dropped");
+    }
+    if (!relay.fetch && !relay.live) {
+      final who = r.members.where((m) => m.id == relay.source).firstOrNull?.name ?? 'the member who put it up';
+      return StatusLine(StatusKind.problem, 'Waiting for $who to pass the video on', level: StatusLevel.warn);
+    }
+  }
+  if (r.transport == 'playing') return null;
+  if (r.transport == 'finished') {
+    return const StatusLine(StatusKind.finished, 'Finished · seek back or pick the next video', short: 'Finished');
+  }
+  // Members whose player cannot open it: the server does not wait for
+  // them; say why instead of "waiting for".
+  final failed = [
+    for (final m in r.members)
+      if (m.error.isNotEmpty && isPresent(m) && (self == null || m.id != self.id)) m,
+  ];
+  // As the server holds playback: someone in the ready set short of the
+  // minimum buffer.
+  final need = r.bufferNeed;
+  for (final m in r.members) {
+    if (m.inSet && m.buffered < need) {
+      final you = self != null && m.id == self.id;
+      final p = (m.buffered / need).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+      return StatusLine(StatusKind.loading, you ? 'Loading the video…' : '${m.name} is loading…',
+          who: [m], self: you, progress: p, detail: '${(p * 100).round()}%');
+    }
+  }
+  if (failed.isNotEmpty) {
+    final first = failed.first;
+    final who = nameList([for (final m in failed) m.name]);
+    final unready = self != null && !self.ready;
+    return StatusLine(StatusKind.cannotPlay, "$who can't play this: ${first.error}",
+        who: failed,
+        short: "$who can't play this",
+        detail: unready ? "Press Space when you're ready" : null,
+        action: unready ? StatusAction.ready : null);
+  }
+  if (self != null && !self.ready) {
+    return StatusLine(StatusKind.you, "Press Space when you're ready",
+        who: [self], self: true, action: StatusAction.ready, detail: 'or click here', short: 'Press Space when ready');
+  }
+  // Members sitting out or gone are never waited for nor counted.
+  final active = [for (final m in r.members) if (countsForReady(m)) m];
+  final others = [
+    for (final m in active)
+      if ((self == null || m.id != self.id) && !(m.inSet && m.ready)) m,
+  ];
+  if (others.isEmpty) return null;
+  final ready = active.where((m) => m.ready).length;
+  return StatusLine(StatusKind.waiting, 'Waiting for ${nameList([for (final m in others) m.name])}',
+      who: others, detail: '$ready/${active.length} ready');
+}
+
+/// How long the relay's source must be gone before it is worth a notice
+/// (a quick reconnect says nothing).
+const sourceDropNotice = Duration(seconds: 5);
+
+/// Turns status transitions worth a notice into events: the source this
+/// viewer reads from gone for [sourceDropNotice] (or left), another window
+/// took over, the server restarted, the media starting for the first time.
+/// Idempotent: [step] may run on every status change and every second.
+class StatusWatch {
+  final _dropped = <String>{};
+  final _seenHeld = <int>{};
+  final _started = <int>{};
+  bool _replaced = false;
+  int _restarts = 0;
+  bool _first = true;
+
+  List<AppEvent> step(Status s, DateTime now) {
+    final out = <AppEvent>[];
+    final src = s.source;
+    if (src != null) {
+      final key = '${src.mediaId}/${src.sourceId}/${src.left ? 'left' : src.since!.toIso8601String()}';
+      final due = src.left || now.difference(src.since!) >= sourceDropNotice;
+      // Once per drop, and once when it left.
+      if (due && _dropped.add(key)) out.add(RelaySourceDropped(src.name, left: src.left));
+    }
+    final replaced = s.conn is ConnReplaced;
+    if (replaced && !_replaced) out.add(const Replaced());
+    _replaced = replaced;
+    if (!_first && s.restarts > _restarts) out.add(const ServerRestarted());
+    _restarts = s.restarts;
+    _first = false;
+    final r = s.state;
+    if (r != null && r.media != null) {
+      if (r.transport == 'held') _seenHeld.add(r.mediaId);
+      if (r.transport == 'playing' && _seenHeld.contains(r.mediaId) && _started.add(r.mediaId)) {
+        final now = nowPlayingOf(r.media);
+        out.add(PlaybackStarted([?now?.title, ?now?.episode].join(' · ')));
+      }
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  /// A new session.
+  void reset() {
+    _dropped.clear();
+    _seenHeld.clear();
+    _started.clear();
+    _replaced = false;
+    _restarts = 0;
+    _first = true;
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/your_server.dart

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+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:convert';
+import 'dart:io' show InternetAddress;
+import 'dart:math';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show debugPrint, visibleForTesting;
+import 'package:signals/signals.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
+import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart' show relayCredentialsFor;
+import '../state/connect_prefs.dart';
+import '../state/server_isolate.dart';
+import 'invite.dart';
+
+/// A fresh key per app run: this app's own client sends it in hello to be
+/// recognised as the host (`members[].host`; it also stands in for the
+/// password).
+String newHostKey() {
+  final r = Random.secure();
+  return base64Url.encode([for (var i = 0; i < 24; i++) r.nextInt(256)]);
+}
+
+/// Starts the server isolate (tests may pass their own).
+typedef ServerStarter = Future<ServerIsolate> Function(
+  AppConfig config, {
+  bool loopbackOnly,
+  String? logDir,
+  required void Function(String line) onLog,
+  required void Function(String error) onCrash,
+});
+
+Future<ServerIsolate> _startIsolate(
+  AppConfig config, {
+  bool loopbackOnly = false,
+  String? logDir,
+  required void Function(String line) onLog,
+  required void Function(String error) onCrash,
+}) =>
+    ServerIsolate.start(config, loopbackOnly: loopbackOnly, logDir: logDir, onLog: onLog, onCrash: onCrash);
+
+/// "Your server": the one server this app runs for its whole life (a
+/// [ServerIsolate] running `serve`). It starts on 127.0.0.1 and a free
+/// port, so only this app reaches it; [invite] attaches a second
+/// listener on every interface at the configured port (Settings → Party
+/// & network: port and password) and [stopSharing] detaches it. Members,
+/// what plays and Up next never restart or reconnect for either. Made
+/// by the composition root.
+class YourServer {
+  YourServer({
+    required this.forms,
+    this.jellyfin,
+    Future<String> Function()? ytDlpDir,
+    String? Function()? logDir,
+    ServerStarter? starter,
+    Future<List<({String name, InternetAddress address})>> Function()? interfaces,
+  })  : _ytDlpDir = ytDlpDir ?? (() async => ''),
+        _logDir = logDir ?? (() => null),
+        _starter = starter ?? _startIsolate,
+        _interfaces = interfaces ?? machineInterfaces;
+
+  final ConnectStore forms;
+  /// Linked Jellyfin servers (default: the app's): the relay logins.
+  final JellyfinAccounts? jellyfin;
+  final Future<String> Function() _ytDlpDir;
+  final String? Function() _logDir;
+  final ServerStarter _starter;
+  final Future<List<({String name, InternetAddress address})>> Function() _interfaces;
+
+  /// Sent by this app's own client (see [newHostKey]).
+  final String hostKey = newHostKey();
+
+  /// The loopback port while it runs; null before [start] and after
+  /// [stop] or a crash.
+  final port = signal<int?>(null);
+
+  /// The invite while shared (the listener attached); null when only this
+  /// app can reach it.
+  final shared = signal<Invite?>(null);
+
+  /// An [invite] or [stopSharing] is under way.
+  final busy = signal(false);
+
+  /// Set when the server died without being stopped; the shell says so
+  /// and clears it. The next [start] makes a new one.
+  final crash = signal<String?>(null);
+
+  /// Called after a crash (the navigation reconnects home).
+  void Function()? onCrash;
+
+  ServerIsolate? _server;
+  Future<int>? _starting;
+
+  @visibleForTesting
+  ServerIsolate? get server => _server;
+
+  JellyfinAccounts get _accounts => jellyfin ?? JellyfinAccounts.instance;
+
+  /// Starts it once (later calls get the same port); a new one after a
+  /// crash. [name]: what `/health` calls it ("Bob's server").
+  Future<int> start({String name = ''}) {
+    final running = _server;
+    if (running != null && running.isRunning) return Future.value(running.port);
+    return _starting ??= _start(name).whenComplete(() => _starting = null);
+  }
+
+  Future<int> _start(String name) async {
+    final who = name.trim();
+    late final ServerIsolate server;
+    server = await _starter(
+      AppConfig(
+        port: 0,
+        secret: '',
+        name: who.isEmpty ? 'server' : "$who's server",
+        hostKey: hostKey,
+        ytDlpDir: await _ytDlpDir(),
+      ),
+      loopbackOnly: true,
+      // Its session log (every member's shared diagnostics and its own
+      // records) goes next to the app's.
+      logDir: _logDir(),
+      // Its records join the app's log as `server.<logger>`.
+      onLog: (line) => relogLine('server', line),
+      onCrash: (cause) => _onCrash(server, cause),
+    );
+    _server = server;
+    port.value = server.port;
+    return server.port;
+  }
+
+  void _onCrash(ServerIsolate server, String cause) {
+    if (!identical(_server, server)) return;
+    _server = null;
+    port.value = null;
+    shared.value = null;
+    final message = 'server crashed: $cause';
+    debugPrint('[server] $message');
+    crash.value = message;
+    onCrash?.call();
+  }
+
+  /// Opens it to friends (attaching the network listener if it is not
+  /// yet) and returns the invite to hand out. Throws when the port can't
+  /// be opened (in use) or the server is not running.
+  Future<Invite> invite() async {
+    final server = _server;
+    if (server == null || !server.isRunning) throw StateError('your server is not running');
+    final current = shared.peek();
+    if (current != null) return current;
+    busy.value = true;
+    try {
+      final form = forms.form;
+      final want = int.tryParse(form.hostPort.trim()) ?? 8080;
+      await _accounts.ensureLoaded(validate: false);
+      final bound = await server.share(
+        port: want,
+        secret: form.hostSecret,
+        // Guests without an account watch Jellyfin items through the
+        // server, with this app's own sign-in on the item's server.
+        jellyfin: relayCredentialsFor(_accounts),
+      );
+      final invite = await inviteFor(bound, password: form.hostSecret.isNotEmpty);
+      shared.value = invite;
+      return invite;
+    } finally {
+      busy.value = false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// The invite for [port] from this machine's best address (see
+  /// [inviteAddresses]); 127.0.0.1 when there is none.
+  Future<Invite> inviteFor(int port, {required bool password}) async {
+    final addresses = inviteAddresses(await _interfaces());
+    return Invite(
+      host: addresses.isEmpty ? '127.0.0.1' : addresses.first,
+      port: port,
+      password: password,
+      version: appVersion,
+    );
+  }
+
+  /// Closes it to friends again: everyone but you leaves (told, so their
+  /// apps do not retry); you, what plays and Up next stay.
+  Future<void> stopSharing() async {
+    final server = _server;
+    if (server == null || shared.peek() == null) return;
+    busy.value = true;
+    try {
+      await server.unshare();
+      shared.value = null;
+    } finally {
+      busy.value = false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Makes [path] the hosted file (a File put up here; `/m` serves it).
+  Future<({String name, int size})?> setFile(String path) async => _server?.setFile(path);
+
+  /// The app closes: the server stops (sockets closed, port freed).
+  Future<void> stop() async {
+    final server = _server;
+    _server = null;
+    port.value = null;
+    shared.value = null;
+    await server?.stop();
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/sfx/synth_sfx.dart

@@ -37,8 +37,11 @@ class SynthSfx implements SfxService {
 
   /// Plays [kind] even when it is switched off (Settings' preview), always
   /// freshly rendered: an edited spec plays after a hot reload.
-  Future<void> preview(SfxKind kind, {int readyIndex = 1, SoundPreset? preset}) =>
+  Future<void> preview(SfxKind kind, {int readyIndex = 1, SoundPreset? preset}) {
-      _play(kind, readyIndex, preset ?? presetFor(kind), fresh: true);
+    // Asked for: try the device again even after a crash kept it closed.
+    engine.retry();
+    return _play(kind, readyIndex, preset ?? presetFor(kind), fresh: true);
+  }
 
   /// One slot per sound and ready step: a new preset replaces it.
   Future<void> _play(SfxKind kind, int readyIndex, SoundPreset preset, {bool fresh = false}) {

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/app_shell.dart

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
 import '../controls/frame.dart' show DoubleClickListener;
+import '../controls/session_controls.dart' show controlsBottomHeight;
 import '../files/folder_store.dart';
 import '../files/ui/files_page.dart' show showFilesFolder;
 import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
@@ -13,18 +14,18 @@ import '../jellyfin/browse_scope.dart' show BrowseStart;
 import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
 import '../screens/home/connect_flow.dart';
 import '../session/app_events.dart' show ActionFailed, ScheduleResult;
-import '../session/session_coordinator.dart' show ConnectParams;
 import '../screens/home/health_probe.dart';
 import '../screens/home/media_picker.dart';
 import '../session/identity.dart';
 import '../screens/home/update_indicator.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
+import '../session/navigation.dart' show Place;
 import '../state/settings.dart';
 import '../update/update_controller.dart';
 import 'chat_panel.dart';
 import 'connect_cards.dart';
 import 'handoff.dart';
-import 'library_link.dart' show LinkProber, defaultLinkProber;
+import 'library_link.dart' show LinkProber;
 import 'library_tab.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
 import 'party_strip.dart';
@@ -37,7 +38,8 @@ import 'welcome.dart';
 
 /// The one window: the party strip over a body that fades through between
 /// the tabs and the full player, the floating mini player, the chat panel
-/// and the toasts. Online/offline follows [SessionState.route].
+/// and the toasts. Where the app is (your server, a friend's) follows
+/// [Navigation.place].
 ///
 /// The player ([SessionPlayer], the only `Video`) lives in one layer of
 /// the body: full it fills the body (fullscreen: the window, strip
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ class AppShell extends StatefulWidget {
   final VideoViewBuilder? videoBuilder;
   /// What the Library's Link page asks about a link (tests: a fake, so no
   /// network or yt-dlp runs).
-  final LinkProber linkProbe;
+  final LinkProber? linkProbe;
   const AppShell({
     super.key,
     this.updates,
@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ class AppShell extends StatefulWidget {
     this.healthGet = defaultHealthGet,
     this.jellyfin,
     this.videoBuilder,
-    this.linkProbe = defaultLinkProber,
+    this.linkProbe,
   });
 
   @override
@@ -98,6 +100,9 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   final _chat = TextEditingController();
   final _chatFocus = FocusNode();
   final _playerKey = GlobalKey();
+  /// Whether the full player's controls are up (the player's frame
+  /// reports it): the toasts sit above them.
+  final _controlsShown = ValueNotifier(true);
 
   Alignment _corner = Alignment.bottomRight;
   Offset? _drag; // mini top-left while dragging
@@ -108,9 +113,9 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   bool _dragging = false;
   bool _handoffOpen = false;
 
-  final _flow = ConnectFlow();
+  late final AppGraph _graph = AppScope.of(context);
-  late final _join = JoinFields(SessionState.instance.lastForm);
+  late final _flow = ConnectFlow(navigation: _graph.navigation, forms: _graph.forms);
-  late final _host = HostFields(SessionState.instance.lastForm);
+  late final _join = JoinFields(_graph.forms.form);
   late final JellyfinAccounts _jellyfin = widget.jellyfin ?? JellyfinAccounts.instance;
   late MediaPickerController _picker = _newPicker();
   BrowseStart? _libraryStart;
@@ -122,22 +127,17 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   bool _dialogOpen = false;
   final _stops = <void Function()>[];
   // Rebuild the shell on these flips, not on every state broadcast.
-  final _online = computed(() => SessionState.instance.route.value == AppRoute.session);
+  late final _online = computed(() => _graph.navigation.online.value);
-  /// Nobody else watches: offline, solo, or solo becoming a server.
+  /// Nobody else is in the server (D9): a plain player.
-  final _alone = computed(() {
+  late final _alone = computed(() => !_graph.navigation.online.value || _graph.coordinator.alone.value);
-    final s = SessionState.instance;
+  late final _hasMedia =
-    return s.route.value != AppRoute.session || s.solo.value || s.switching.value;
+      computed(() => _graph.navigation.online.value && _graph.coordinator.serverState.value?.media != null);
-  });
-  final _hasMedia = computed(() =>
-      SessionState.instance.route.value == AppRoute.session &&
-      SessionState.instance.coordinator.serverState.value?.media != null);
 
   /// A video is on in the session (not finished): the update bar stays
   /// off the full player.
-  final _watching = computed(() {
+  late final _watching = computed(() {
-    final s = SessionState.instance;
+    final r = _graph.coordinator.serverState.value;
-    final r = s.coordinator.serverState.value;
+    return _graph.navigation.online.value && r?.media != null && r?.transport != 'finished';
-    return s.route.value == AppRoute.session && r?.media != null && r?.transport != 'finished';
   });
 
   PlayerMode get mode => _mode;
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   bool get fullscreen => _fullscreen;
 
   MediaPickerController _newPicker({JellyfinMedia? jellyfin, MediaKind? source}) {
-    final f = SessionState.instance.lastForm;
+    final f = _graph.forms.form;
     final c = MediaPickerController(mediaPath: f.mediaPath, linkUrl: f.linkUrl, jellyfin: jellyfin, source: source);
     if (jellyfin == null) unawaited(restoreLastPick(c, _jellyfin, () => mounted && identical(c, _picker)));
     return c;
@@ -159,14 +159,16 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     _jellyfin.ensureLoaded();
     if (widget.autoUpdateCheck) _autoCheck();
     HardwareKeyboard.instance.addHandler(_onKey);
-    final session = SessionState.instance;
+    final nav = _graph.navigation;
-    final coord = session.coordinator;
+    final coord = _graph.coordinator;
     _feedSeen = coord.feedLog.peek().length;
     _stops.add(effect(() {
-      final online = session.route.value == AppRoute.session;
+      final place = nav.place.value;
+      final online = place != Place.none;
       // Set now, not later: the media effect below may run first in this
-      // same flush, and its scheduled show reads these.
+      // same flush, and its scheduled show reads these. A friend's video
-      _autoFull = online;
+      // opens full; back home, yours waits in the mini player.
+      _autoFull = place == Place.friend;
       if (!online) _lastMediaId = -1;
       untracked(() => _later(() => online ? _wentOnline() : _wentOffline()));
     }));
@@ -174,7 +176,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     // after joining or a put-up of ours, else as the mini player).
     _stops.add(effect(() {
       final r = coord.serverState.value;
-      final online = session.route.value == AppRoute.session;
+      final online = nav.online.value;
       if (!online || r == null || r.media == null) return;
       if (r.mediaId == _lastMediaId) return;
       _lastMediaId = r.mediaId;
@@ -187,6 +189,17 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
         _autoFull = false;
       });
     }));
+    // A click on a chat system notification: the window is up, open the
+    // chat.
+    var chatAsks = coord.notifier.chatRequests.peek();
+    _stops.add(effect(() {
+      final asks = coord.notifier.chatRequests.value;
+      if (asks == chatAsks) return;
+      chatAsks = asks;
+      _later(() {
+        if (!_chatOpen && _online.peek()) _toggleChat();
+      });
+    }));
     // Chat that arrives while the panel is closed.
     _stops.add(effect(() {
       final log = coord.feedLog.value;
@@ -203,31 +216,21 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     var wasOut = false;
     _stops.add(effect(() {
       final out = coord.selfAway.value;
-      if (wasOut && !out && session.route.peek() == AppRoute.session) {
+      if (wasOut && !out && nav.online.peek()) {
         _later(() {
           if (_mode == PlayerMode.none) _show(PlayerMode.mini);
         });
       }
       wasOut = out;
     }));
-    // Solo becoming a hosted server: the player closes while the media
+    // Your server died (the navigation starts a new one): say so.
-    // moves over and comes back the way it was once it is up again.
+    final yours = _graph.yourServer;
     _stops.add(effect(() {
-      if (!session.switching.value) return;
+      final crash = yours.crash.value;
-      _later(() {
-        _lastMediaId = -1;
-        _autoFull = _mode == PlayerMode.full;
-        if (_fullscreen) _toggleFullscreen();
-        _show(PlayerMode.none);
-      });
-    }));
-    // The hosted server died mid-session (SessionState leaves): say so.
-    _stops.add(effect(() {
-      final crash = session.serverCrash.value;
       if (crash == null) return;
       _later(() {
-        session.serverCrash.value = null;
+        yours.crash.value = null;
-        _alert('Server crashed', crash);
+        _alert('Your server crashed', '$crash\n\nA new one starts; anyone who was in it joins again.');
       });
     }));
   }
@@ -246,10 +249,10 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     _watching.dispose();
     _flow.dispose();
     _join.dispose();
-    _host.dispose();
     _picker.dispose();
     _chat.dispose();
     _chatFocus.dispose();
+    _controlsShown.dispose();
     if (_fullscreen) _setWindowFullscreen(false);
     super.dispose();
   }
@@ -275,8 +278,8 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
 
   void _wentOnline() {
     _unread = 0;
-    _feedSeen = SessionState.instance.coordinator.feedLog.peek().length;
+    _feedSeen = _graph.coordinator.feedLog.peek().length;
-    // Hosting starts with nothing up: the library is where to pick it.
+    // A new server: the library is where to pick something.
     setState(() => _tab = ShellTab.library);
   }
 
@@ -322,7 +325,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   /// The player's ×: sit out (stay in the server, nothing loaded; the
   /// player shows the join-back card). Once out, × closes the player.
   void _closePlayer() {
-    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+    final coord = _graph.coordinator;
     if (coord.selfAway.peek()) {
       _show(PlayerMode.none);
     } else {
@@ -333,7 +336,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   Future<void> _setWindowFullscreen(bool on) async {
     if (!widget.windowControls) return;
     try {
-      await SessionState.instance.ports.shell.setFullScreen(on);
+      await _graph.ports.shell.setFullScreen(on);
     } catch (_) {
       // No window manager.
     }
@@ -368,7 +371,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   /// "Change video": the library, opened on the series of the episode
   /// playing (season selected, episode highlighted), else where it was.
   void _changeVideo() {
-    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+    final coord = _graph.coordinator;
     coord.markInput();
     final ref = coord.currentRef.peek();
     final pick = ref == null ? null : pickForRef(_jellyfin, ref);
@@ -385,10 +388,10 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     _selectTab(ShellTab.library);
   }
 
-  /// Library → "Put it up for everyone"; the player opens full. Offline
+  /// Library → "Put it up for everyone" (alone: Play); the player opens
-  /// it starts a solo session first (just you, on this computer).
+  /// full. Before your server is up (starting) it waits for it.
   Future<String?> _putUp(PickedMedia media) async {
-    final session = SessionState.instance;
+    final coord = _graph.coordinator;
     if (media is JellyfinMedia) {
       try {
         putUpJellyfinMedia(_jellyfin, media);
@@ -398,47 +401,28 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
       unawaited(_jellyfin.rememberPick(media));
     }
     if (!_online.peek()) {
-      final error = await _startSolo();
+      if (!await _graph.navigation.goHome()) return "couldn't start your server";
-      if (error != null || !mounted) return error;
+      if (!mounted) return null;
     }
     // Alone, a link plays direct: there is nobody to pass it on to.
-    if (media is LinkMedia && session.solo.peek()) {
+    if (media is LinkMedia && coord.alone.peek()) {
       media = LinkMedia(media.url, relay: LinkRelay.direct, anyway: media.anyway);
     }
-    final error = await session.coordinator.swapPicked(media);
+    final error = await coord.swapPicked(media);
     if (error != null || !mounted) return error;
-    final f = session.lastForm;
+    final f = _graph.forms.form;
     f
       ..linkUrl = media is LinkMedia ? media.url : f.linkUrl
       ..mediaPath = media is FileMedia ? media.path : f.mediaPath;
-    unawaited(session.saveForm().catchError((Object _) {}));
+    unawaited(_graph.forms.save().catchError((Object _) {}));
     _autoFull = true;
     _show(PlayerMode.full);
     return null;
   }
 
-  /// Starts a solo session; returns an error text, or null.
+  /// The welcome band's "Watch on your own": somewhere to pick from
-  Future<String?> _startSolo() async {
+  /// (Jellyfin when linked, else Files).
-    final profile = Profile.instance;
+  void _watchAlone() => _openLibrary(_jellyfin.isEmpty ? MediaKind.file : MediaKind.jellyfin);
-    try {
-      await profile.ensureLoaded();
-      final name = profile.name.peek().trim();
-      await SessionState.instance.startSolo(ConnectParams(
-        host: '127.0.0.1',
-        port: 0,
-        secret: '',
-        name: name.isEmpty ? 'Me' : name,
-        avatar: profile.avatarBase64(),
-      ));
-      return null;
-    } catch (e) {
-      return "couldn't start playing: $e";
-    }
-  }
-
-  /// Library's "Watch solo": somewhere to pick from (Jellyfin when linked,
-  /// else Files).
-  void _watchSolo() => _openLibrary(_jellyfin.isEmpty ? MediaKind.file : MediaKind.jellyfin);
 
   // --------------------------------------------------------------- handoff
 
@@ -448,7 +432,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   /// Ctrl+V outside a text field (a focused field pastes on its own).
   bool _onKey(KeyEvent e) {
     // Any key is activity (auto sit-out).
-    SessionState.instance.coordinator.markInput();
+    _graph.coordinator.markInput();
     if (e is! KeyDownEvent || e.logicalKey != LogicalKeyboardKey.keyV) return false;
     final keys = HardwareKeyboard.instance;
     if (!(keys.isControlPressed || keys.isMetaPressed) || keys.isShiftPressed || keys.isAltPressed) return false;
@@ -463,7 +447,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   /// Clipboard files first, then text (a link or absolute paths). A pasted
   /// image has no taker yet, so the clipboard's image data is not read.
   Future<void> _paste() async {
-    final clip = await SessionState.instance.ports.shell.readPaste();
+    final clip = await _graph.ports.shell.readPaste();
     await _handOff(classifyHandoff(paths: clip.files, text: clip.text), _pointer);
   }
 
@@ -477,7 +461,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     final HandoffAction? action;
     try {
       action = await showPopover<HandoffAction>(context,
-          at: align, child: HandoffCard(item: item, solo: _alone.peek(), queue: _online.peek()));
+          at: align, child: HandoffCard(item: item, alone: _alone.peek(), queue: _online.peek()));
     } finally {
       _handoffOpen = false;
     }
@@ -486,7 +470,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
       case (HandoffVideos(:final paths), HandoffAction.putUp):
         final error = await _putUp(FileMedia(paths.first));
         if (error != null) {
-          SessionState.instance.coordinator.notify(ActionFailed(error));
+          _graph.coordinator.notify(ActionFailed(error));
         } else {
           await FolderStore.instance.ensureLoaded();
           FolderStore.instance.addRecent(paths.first);
@@ -495,15 +479,15 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
         // In order: with Play next, the last one added goes first.
         final next = action == HandoffAction.playNext;
         for (final p in next ? paths.reversed : paths) {
-          final error = await SessionState.instance.coordinator.queue.add(FileMedia(p), next: next);
+          final error = await _graph.coordinator.queue.add(FileMedia(p), next: next);
           if (error != null) {
-            SessionState.instance.coordinator.notify(ActionFailed(error));
+            _graph.coordinator.notify(ActionFailed(error));
             break;
           }
         }
       case (HandoffLink(:final url), HandoffAction.queue || HandoffAction.playNext):
         // In the Link page's mode, probed and refused like there.
-        final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+        final coord = _graph.coordinator;
         final error = await coord.queue
             .add(LinkMedia(url, relay: _picker.linkRelay), next: action == HandoffAction.playNext);
         if (error != null) coord.notify(ActionFailed(error));
@@ -537,7 +521,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   }
 
   // Off on Settings: its own drop targets (cookies) take the files there.
-  Widget _dropTarget(Widget child) => SessionState.instance.ports.shell.dropTarget(
+  Widget _dropTarget(Widget child) => _graph.ports.shell.dropTarget(
         enable: _tab != ShellTab.settings,
         onEnter: () => setState(() => _dragging = _onTop),
         onExit: () => setState(() => _dragging = false),
@@ -565,18 +549,19 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
 
   // --------------------------------------------------------------- dialogs
 
-  /// Leave asks first; a solo session just stops.
+  /// A friend's server: Leave asks first, then you are back on yours.
+  /// Yours has nothing to leave: the player closes ([_closePlayer]).
   Future<void> _confirmLeave() async {
-    final session = SessionState.instance;
+    final nav = _graph.navigation;
-    if (session.solo.peek()) {
+    if (nav.place.peek() != Place.friend) {
-      await session.leave();
+      _closePlayer();
       return;
     }
     final ok = await showDialog<bool>(
       context: context,
       builder: (context) => AlertDialog(
         title: const Text('Leave server?'),
-        content: const Text('You can rejoin right away.'),
+        content: const Text('You go back to your own server. You can rejoin right away.'),
         actions: [
           TextButton(onPressed: () => Navigator.pop(context, false), child: const Text('Cancel')),
           TextButton(
@@ -587,7 +572,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
         ],
       ),
     );
-    if (ok == true) await SessionState.instance.leave();
+    if (ok == true) await nav.leaveFriend();
   }
 
   Future<void> _alert(String title, String text) async {
@@ -607,15 +592,16 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     }
   }
 
-  void _connect(ConnectMode mode) => showConnectCard(
+  void _joinFriend() => showJoinCard(
         context,
-        mode: mode,
         flow: _flow,
         join: _join,
-        host: _host,
         healthGet: widget.healthGet,
+        updates: widget.updates,
       );
 
+  void _invite() => unawaited(inviteFriends(context));
+
   // ----------------------------------------------------------------- build
 
   @override
@@ -642,10 +628,9 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
                   chatOpen: _chatOpen,
                   unread: _unread,
                   onChat: _toggleChat,
-                  onJoin: () => _connect(ConnectMode.join),
+                  onJoin: _joinFriend,
-                  onHost: () => _connect(ConnectMode.host),
                   onLeave: _confirmLeave,
-                  onInvite: () => _connect(ConnectMode.host),
+                  onInvite: _invite,
                   onProfile: () => showProfileCard(context, onOpenSettings: _openSettings, updates: widget.updates),
                   onShowPlayer: hasMedia && _mode == PlayerMode.none ? () => _show(PlayerMode.mini) : null,
                   windowControls: widget.windowControls,
@@ -678,7 +663,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
       ),
     );
     // Any pointer use anywhere is activity (auto sit-out).
-    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+    final coord = _graph.coordinator;
     return Listener(
       onPointerHover: (e) {
         _pointer = e.localPosition;
@@ -693,41 +678,41 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     );
   }
 
-  /// No Jellyfin account, no server joined or hosted yet, band not
+  /// No Jellyfin account, no friend's server joined yet, band not
   /// dismissed: the welcome band explains the three ways in.
   bool get _newcomer =>
-      !AppSettings.instance.welcomeDismissed.value &&
+      !AppSettings.instance.welcomeDismissed.value && _jellyfin.isEmpty && _graph.forms.recents.value.isEmpty;
-      _jellyfin.isEmpty &&
-      SessionState.instance.recents.value.isEmpty;
 
   Widget _body(bool online, bool alone) {
-    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+    final coord = _graph.coordinator;
+    final friend = _graph.navigation.place.value == Place.friend;
     final tabBody = switch (_tab) {
       ShellTab.library => LibraryTab(
           key: ValueKey('library-$_libraryGen'),
           controller: _picker,
           accounts: _jellyfin,
-          solo: alone,
+          alone: alone,
-          // Offline, a put-up starts a solo session, which hosts.
+          // Your server serves your files itself; a friend's relays them.
-          isHost: !online || coord.hostFile != null,
+          isHost: !friend,
-          // Only for newcomers: the strip has Join and Host for everyone else.
+          // Only for newcomers alone at home: the strip has Join and Invite
-          banner: online || !_newcomer
+          // for everyone else.
+          banner: !alone || friend || !_newcomer
               ? null
               : WelcomeBand(
-                  onJoin: () => _connect(ConnectMode.join),
+                  onJoin: _joinFriend,
-                  onHost: () => _connect(ConnectMode.host),
+                  onInvite: _invite,
-                  onSolo: _watchSolo,
+                  onWatch: _watchAlone,
                   onDismiss: () => setState(AppSettings.instance.dismissWelcome),
                 ),
           jellyfinStart: _libraryStart,
           onPutUp: _putUp,
-          // Up next needs a server (a solo session has one).
+          // Up next needs a server (yours, once it is up).
           onAddToQueue: online ? coord.queue.add : null,
           onOpenIntegrations: () => _openSettings(SettingsSection.integrations),
           probe: widget.linkProbe,
         ),
       ShellTab.schedule => SchedulePage(
-          solo: alone,
+          alone: alone,
           onPutUp: _putUp,
           onAddToQueue: online ? coord.queue.add : null,
           onToast: (text) => coord.notify(ScheduleResult(text)),
@@ -771,16 +756,44 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
             ),
           ),
           if (online && _shown != PlayerMode.none) _playerLayer(area),
-          Positioned(left: 16, bottom: _fullscreen ? 90 : 16, child: PartyToasts(
+          _toasts(full && online),
-            onOpenChat: () {
-              if (!_chatOpen) _toggleChat();
-            },
-          )),
         ],
       );
     });
   }
 
+  /// The toasts, bottom left; over the full player above its control
+  /// bar (the bar's height in the skin and size in use), moving up while
+  /// the controls show and down while they are hidden, so they never
+  /// cover the controls (both skins).
+  Widget _toasts(bool overPlayer) {
+    final toasts = PartyToasts(
+      onOpenChat: () {
+        if (!_chatOpen) _toggleChat();
+      },
+    );
+    return ValueListenableBuilder<bool>(
+      valueListenable: _controlsShown,
+      builder: (context, shown, child) => SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
+        final s = AppSettings.instance;
+        final bar = controlsBottomHeight(s.controlsSkin.value, s.controlsSize.value);
+        return AnimatedPositioned(
+          key: const ValueKey('toasts'),
+          duration: easeTime,
+          curve: ease,
+          left: toastInset,
+          bottom: overPlayer && shown ? bar + toastInset : toastInset,
+          child: child!,
+        );
+      }),
+      child: toasts,
+    );
+  }
+
+  /// The toasts' distance from the body's left and bottom edges (and from
+  /// the player's control bar).
+  static const toastInset = 16.0;
+
   Offset _cornerPos(Size area, Alignment a, Size size) => Offset(
         a.x < 0 ? _miniMargin : (area.width - size.width - _miniMargin).clamp(0, double.infinity),
         a.y < 0 ? _miniMargin : (area.height - size.height - _miniMargin).clamp(0, double.infinity),
@@ -852,6 +865,7 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
                   onLeave: _confirmLeave,
                   videoBuilder: widget.videoBuilder,
                   windowControls: widget.windowControls,
+                  controlsShown: _controlsShown,
                 ),
               ),
             ),

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/avatar.dart

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import '../session/identity.dart';
 import '../session/delivery.dart';
 import '../session/party.dart';
 import '../session/session_coordinator.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
 
 /// What an avatar shows: who, their picture or initial on [color], and
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ class AvatarInfo {
   /// How it gets the media and its buffer ([MemberDelivery.detail]), for
   /// the hover; empty when unknown.
   final String delivery;
+  /// Their Starsync version (`members[].app`), for the hover; '' unknown.
+  final String app;
   const AvatarInfo({
     this.id = '',
     required this.name,
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ class AvatarInfo {
     this.self = false,
     this.error = '',
     this.delivery = '',
+    this.app = '',
   });
 
   /// Sitting out.
@@ -136,12 +139,12 @@ AvatarInfo memberAvatarInfo(MemberView m, StateBroadcast? r, SessionCoordinator
     self: self,
     error: m.error,
     delivery: delivery == null ? '' : memberDeliveryOf(m, r!, delivery).detail,
+    app: m.app,
   );
 }
 
 /// Everyone in the server, from the latest state.
-List<AvatarInfo> partyAvatars([SessionCoordinator? coord]) {
+List<AvatarInfo> partyAvatars(SessionCoordinator c) {
-  final c = coord ?? SessionState.instance.coordinator;
   final r = c.serverState.value;
   return [for (final m in r?.members ?? const <MemberView>[]) memberAvatarInfo(m, r, c)];
 }
@@ -154,7 +157,7 @@ class PartyWatch extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) => ListenableBuilder(
-        listenable: SessionState.instance.coordinator.avatars,
+        listenable: AppScope.of(context).coordinator.avatars,
         builder: (context, _) => SignalBuilder(builder: (context) => builder(context)),
       );
 }
@@ -332,6 +335,7 @@ class _AvatarStackState extends State<AvatarStack> {
                           ? visible[i].name
                           : "${visible[i].name} can't play this: ${visible[i].error}",
                       if (visible[i].delivery.isNotEmpty) visible[i].delivery,
+                      if (visible[i].app.isNotEmpty) 'Starsync ${visible[i].app}',
                     ].join('\n'),
                     child: StatusAvatar(info: visible[i], size: size),
                   ),
@@ -375,8 +379,7 @@ class Pill extends StatelessWidget {
 /// Someone in a feed line or toast: by member [id] when it has one, else
 /// by display [name]; from the latest state when still there, else their
 /// initial on a stable colour.
-AvatarInfo avatarForName(String name, [SessionCoordinator? coord, String id = '']) {
+AvatarInfo avatarForName(String name, SessionCoordinator c, [String id = '']) {
-  final c = coord ?? SessionState.instance.coordinator;
   final r = c.serverState.value;
   final members = r?.members ?? const <MemberView>[];
   // By id when the line has one (names change and repeat), else by name.

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/chat_panel.dart

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
 import '../widgets/copy_open.dart';
 import '../widgets/text_focus.dart';
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class _ChatPanelState extends State<ChatPanel> {
   }
 
   void _send() {
-    SessionState.instance.coordinator.sendChat(widget.chat.text);
+    AppScope.of(context).coordinator.sendChat(widget.chat.text);
     widget.chat.clear();
     widget.chatFocus.requestFocus();
   }
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class _ChatPanelState extends State<ChatPanel> {
             child: ValueListenableBuilder<bool>(
               valueListenable: showActivity,
               builder: (context, activity, _) => PartyWatch(builder: (context) {
-                final all = SessionState.instance.coordinator.feedLog.value;
+                final all = AppScope.of(context).coordinator.feedLog.value;
                 final log = activity ? all : [for (final f in all) if (f.action == 'chat') f];
                 if (log.isEmpty) {
                   return Center(
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ class ActivityRow extends StatelessWidget {
           anchors: state.contextMenuAnchors,
           buttonItems: [
             ...state.contextMenuButtonItems,
-            for (final (label, action) in _messageActions(item.reason, link))
+            for (final (label, action) in _messageActions(context, item.reason, link))
               ContextMenuButtonItem(
                 label: label,
                 onPressed: () {
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ class ActivityRow extends StatelessWidget {
             child: Row(
               crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
               children: [
-                StatusAvatar(info: avatarForName(item.actor, null, item.actorId), size: 34, badges: false),
+                StatusAvatar(info: avatarForName(item.actor, AppScope.of(context).coordinator, item.actorId), size: 34, badges: false),
                 const SizedBox(width: 10),
                 Expanded(
                   child: Column(
@@ -238,17 +238,17 @@ String? firstLinkIn(String text) => RegExp(r'https?://[^\s<>"]+', caseSensitive:
 
 /// What a chat message offers: Copy message, and its link's Copy link and
 /// Open in browser.
-List<(String, VoidCallback)> _messageActions(String text, String? link) => [
+List<(String, VoidCallback)> _messageActions(BuildContext context, String text, String? link) => [
-      (ReuseText.copyMessage, () => copyToClipboard(text, done: 'Message copied')),
+      (ReuseText.copyMessage, () => copyToClipboard(context, text, done: 'Message copied')),
       if (link != null) ...[
-        (ReuseText.copyLink, () => copyToClipboard(link, done: 'Link copied')),
+        (ReuseText.copyLink, () => copyToClipboard(context, link, done: 'Link copied')),
-        (ReuseText.openInBrowser, () => openLink(link)),
+        (ReuseText.openInBrowser, () => openLink(context, link)),
       ],
     ];
 
 /// Right-click beside a chat message: [_messageActions] in the app's menu.
 Future<void> _messageMenu(BuildContext context, String text, String? link) async {
-  final actions = _messageActions(text, link);
+  final actions = _messageActions(context, text, link);
   final pick = await showAppMenu<int>(context, items: [
     for (final (i, (label, _)) in actions.indexed) AppMenuItem(value: i, label: label),
   ]);
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ Future<void> _messageMenu(BuildContext context, String text, String? link) async
     case 'seek':
       return (Icons.fast_forward, scheme.primary, 'seeked');
     case 'swap':
-      return (Icons.swap_horiz, scheme.primary, 'changed the media');
+      return (Icons.swap_horiz, scheme.primary, f.reason == 'restore' ? 'put back what was playing' : 'changed the media');
     case 'gone':
       return (Icons.cloud_off, Colors.orange, 'lost signal');
     case 'return':
@@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ Future<void> _messageMenu(BuildContext context, String text, String? link) async
     case 'queue-skip':
       final why = f.reason.isEmpty ? '' : ' · ${f.reason}';
       return (Icons.redo_rounded, Colors.orange, 'skipped ${f.target ?? ''}$why');
+    case 'advance-cancel':
+      final what = f.target == null || f.target!.isEmpty ? '' : ' (${f.target} is off Up next)';
+      return (Icons.cancel_outlined, Colors.grey, 'cancelled what plays next$what');
     case 'fetch-fail':
       return (Icons.cloud_off, Colors.red, "couldn't fetch ${f.target ?? 'the video'}");
     default:
@@ -304,9 +307,16 @@ Future<void> _messageMenu(BuildContext context, String text, String? link) async
   }
 }
 
-/// The server's own lines (pause / resume).
+/// The server's own lines (pause / resume, the end, an Up next item
+/// nobody here can put up).
 (IconData, Color, String) serverFeedStyle(FeedMessage f) => switch (f.action) {
       'resume' => (Icons.play_arrow, Colors.green, 'Playback resumed'),
+      'finished' => (Icons.stop_circle_outlined, Colors.grey, 'Finished'),
+      'queue-skip' => (
+          Icons.redo_rounded,
+          Colors.orange,
+          'Skipped ${f.target ?? ''}${f.reason.isEmpty ? '' : ' · ${f.reason}'}'
+        ),
       _ => (Icons.pause, Colors.orange, 'Playback paused · waiting for readiness'),
     };
 

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/connect_cards.dart

@@ -2,12 +2,15 @@ import 'dart:async';
 
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
-import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show RelayConstants;
 
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../screens/home/connect_flow.dart';
 import '../screens/home/connect_status.dart';
 import '../screens/home/health_probe.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../session/invite.dart' show addressIn;
+import '../session/navigation.dart' show Place;
+import '../state/connect_prefs.dart';
+import '../update/update_controller.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
 
 /// Join card text, owned by the shell so it survives the card closing.
@@ -27,60 +30,45 @@ class JoinFields {
   }
 }
 
-/// Host card text, owned by the shell so it survives the card closing.
+/// The strip's Join a friend: a card over the window. It closes itself
-class HostFields {
+/// once the join got in; a failed one shows its error inside.
-  HostFields(ConnectForm f)
+Future<void> showJoinCard(
-      : port = TextEditingController(text: f.hostPort),
-        secret = TextEditingController(text: f.hostSecret);
-  final TextEditingController port;
-  final TextEditingController secret;
-
-  void dispose() {
-    port.dispose();
-    secret.dispose();
-  }
-}
-
-/// The strip's Join / Host buttons (and solo's Invite friends, the Host
-/// card): a card over the window. It closes itself once the attempt got
-/// in; a failed one shows its error inside.
-Future<void> showConnectCard(
   BuildContext context, {
-  required ConnectMode mode,
   required ConnectFlow flow,
   required JoinFields join,
-  required HostFields host,
   HealthGetter healthGet = defaultHealthGet,
+  UpdateController? updates,
 }) =>
     showPopover<void>(
       context,
       dim: true,
       at: const Alignment(0.8, -0.75),
-      child: _CloseWhenOnline(
+      child: _CloseInFriends(
-        child: mode == ConnectMode.host
+        child: JoinCard(flow: flow, fields: join, healthGet: healthGet, updates: updates),
-            ? HostCard(flow: flow, fields: host)
-            : JoinCard(flow: flow, fields: join, healthGet: healthGet),
       ),
     );
 
-class _CloseWhenOnline extends StatefulWidget {
+class _CloseInFriends extends StatefulWidget {
   final Widget child;
-  const _CloseWhenOnline({required this.child});
+  const _CloseInFriends({required this.child});
 
   @override
-  State<_CloseWhenOnline> createState() => _CloseWhenOnlineState();
+  State<_CloseInFriends> createState() => _CloseInFriendsState();
 }
 
-class _CloseWhenOnlineState extends State<_CloseWhenOnline> {
+class _CloseInFriendsState extends State<_CloseInFriends> {
   late final void Function() _stop;
 
   @override
   void initState() {
     super.initState();
+    final navigation = AppScope.of(context).navigation;
+    var was = navigation.place.peek();
     _stop = effect(() {
-      final s = SessionState.instance;
+      final place = navigation.place.value;
-      // Solo is in a session too: wait until it is a hosted server.
+      final arrived = place == Place.friend && was != Place.friend;
-      if (s.route.value != AppRoute.session || s.solo.value || s.switching.value) return;
+      was = place;
+      if (!arrived) return;
       WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) {
         if (mounted) Navigator.of(context).maybePop();
       });
@@ -97,7 +85,7 @@ class _CloseWhenOnlineState extends State<_CloseWhenOnline> {
   Widget build(BuildContext context) => widget.child;
 }
 
-/// Card frame shared by Join and Host.
+/// The card frame.
 class _Card extends StatelessWidget {
   final String title;
   final List<Widget> children;
@@ -128,14 +116,15 @@ class _Card extends StatelessWidget {
 const _dense = InputDecoration(isDense: true);
 
 /// Recent servers as one-click rows (with live status), then address and
-/// password.
+/// password. Pasting an invite into the address fills the port too.
 class JoinCard extends StatelessWidget {
   final ConnectFlow flow;
   final JoinFields fields;
   final HealthGetter healthGet;
-  const JoinCard({super.key, required this.flow, required this.fields, this.healthGet = defaultHealthGet});
+  final UpdateController? updates;
+  const JoinCard({super.key, required this.flow, required this.fields, this.healthGet = defaultHealthGet, this.updates});
 
-  void _join() => flow.submit(ConnectMode.join, (f) {
+  void _join() => flow.submit((f) {
         f
           ..host = fields.host.text
           ..port = fields.port.text.trim()
@@ -149,20 +138,27 @@ class JoinCard extends StatelessWidget {
     _join();
   }
 
+  /// An invite or "host:port" pasted into the address: split it.
+  void _onAddress(String v) {
+    flow.clearError();
+    final a = addressIn(v);
+    if (a == null || v.trim() == a.host) return;
+    fields.host.text = a.host;
+    fields.port.text = a.port;
+  }
+
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final forms = AppScope.of(context).forms;
     return ListenableBuilder(
       listenable: flow,
       builder: (context, _) {
-        final busy = flow.busy == ConnectMode.join;
+        final busy = flow.busy;
         return _Card(
           title: 'Join a friend',
           children: [
             SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-              final list = [
+              final list = forms.recents.value;
-                for (final r in SessionState.instance.recents.value)
-                  if (!r.hosted) r
-              ];
               if (list.isEmpty) return const SizedBox.shrink();
               return Column(
                 crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
@@ -170,10 +166,10 @@ class JoinCard extends StatelessWidget {
                   const Text('Recent', style: TextStyle(color: Colors.grey)),
                   RecentServerRows(
                     servers: list,
-                    enabled: flow.busy == null,
+                    enabled: !busy,
                     healthGet: healthGet,
                     onJoin: _joinRecent,
-                    onForget: SessionState.instance.forgetServer,
+                    onForget: forms.forget,
                   ),
                   const Divider(),
                 ],
@@ -192,8 +188,8 @@ class JoinCard extends StatelessWidget {
                           key: const ValueKey('join-address'),
                           controller: fields.host,
                           autofocus: true,
-                          decoration: _dense.copyWith(labelText: 'Address', hintText: 'IP or hostname'),
+                          decoration: _dense.copyWith(labelText: 'Address', hintText: 'IP, hostname or invite'),
-                          onChanged: (_) => flow.clearError(ConnectMode.join),
+                          onChanged: _onAddress,
                           onSubmitted: (_) => _join(),
                         ),
                       ),
@@ -222,12 +218,13 @@ class JoinCard extends StatelessWidget {
               ),
             ),
             const SizedBox(height: 16),
-            ConnectButton(flow: flow, mode: ConnectMode.join, label: 'Join', onSubmit: _join, expand: true),
+            ConnectButton(flow: flow, label: 'Join', onSubmit: _join, expand: true),
-            ConnectFeedback(flow: flow, mode: ConnectMode.join),
+            ConnectFeedback(flow: flow, updates: updates),
             const Padding(
               padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 8),
               child: Text(
-                'Your friend gives you the address and password. No account or Jellyfin needed.',
+                'Your friend gives you their invite (the address) and the password, if any. '
+                'No account or Jellyfin needed. Your own server stays as it is.',
                 style: TextStyle(color: Colors.grey, fontSize: 12),
               ),
             ),
@@ -238,122 +235,6 @@ class JoinCard extends StatelessWidget {
   }
 }
 
-/// Port and password; what to watch is picked afterwards, in the library.
-class HostCard extends StatelessWidget {
-  final ConnectFlow flow;
-  final HostFields fields;
-  const HostCard({super.key, required this.flow, required this.fields});
-
-  void _host() => flow.submit(
-        ConnectMode.host,
-        (f) => f
-          ..hostPort = fields.port.text.trim()
-          ..hostSecret = fields.secret.text,
-      );
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    // From a solo session this is "Invite friends": same server settings,
-    // and what plays carries over.
-    final solo = SessionState.instance.solo.peek();
-    return ListenableBuilder(
-      listenable: flow,
-      builder: (context, _) => _Card(
-        title: solo ? 'Invite friends' : 'Host a server',
-        children: [
-          AbsorbPointer(
-            absorbing: flow.busy == ConnectMode.host,
-            child: Column(
-              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
-              children: [
-                TextField(
-                  key: const ValueKey('host-port'),
-                  controller: fields.port,
-                  autofocus: true,
-                  decoration: _dense.copyWith(labelText: 'Port', hintText: '8080'),
-                  keyboardType: TextInputType.number,
-                  onChanged: (_) => flow.clearError(ConnectMode.host),
-                  onSubmitted: (_) => _host(),
-                ),
-                const SizedBox(height: 8),
-                ListenableBuilder(
-                  listenable: fields.secret,
-                  builder: (context, _) => TextField(
-                    key: const ValueKey('host-password'),
-                    controller: fields.secret,
-                    obscureText: true,
-                    decoration: _dense.copyWith(
-                      labelText: 'Password (optional)',
-                      helperText: fields.secret.text.isEmpty ? 'No password — anyone can join' : null,
-                    ),
-                    onSubmitted: (_) => _host(),
-                  ),
-                ),
-                _HostedRecents(fields: fields, enabled: flow.busy == null),
-              ],
-            ),
-          ),
-          const SizedBox(height: 16),
-          ConnectButton(
-              flow: flow, mode: ConnectMode.host, label: solo ? 'Start hosting' : 'Host', onSubmit: _host, expand: true),
-          ConnectFeedback(flow: flow, mode: ConnectMode.host),
-          Padding(
-            padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 8),
-            child: Text(
-              solo
-                  ? 'Your video keeps playing from where it is; friends join with your address.'
-                  : 'You pick what to watch afterwards, in the library.',
-              style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.grey, fontSize: 12),
-            ),
-          ),
-        ],
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Ports hosted before: one click refills port and password.
-class _HostedRecents extends StatelessWidget {
-  final HostFields fields;
-  final bool enabled;
-  const _HostedRecents({required this.fields, required this.enabled});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-      final list = [
-        for (final r in SessionState.instance.recents.value)
-          if (r.hosted) r
-      ];
-      if (list.isEmpty) return const SizedBox.shrink();
-      return Padding(
-        padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 12),
-        child: Wrap(
-          spacing: 8,
-          runSpacing: 8,
-          children: [
-            for (final r in list)
-              InputChip(
-                key: ValueKey('recent-${r.key}'),
-                avatar: Icon(r.secret.isEmpty ? Icons.history : Icons.lock_outline, size: 16),
-                label: Text('Port ${r.port}'),
-                tooltip: 'Use port ${r.port} again',
-                isEnabled: enabled,
-                shape: RoundedRectangleBorder(borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8)),
-                onPressed: () {
-                  fields.port.text = r.port;
-                  fields.secret.text = r.secret;
-                },
-                deleteButtonTooltipMessage: 'Forget',
-                onDeleted: () => SessionState.instance.forgetServer(r),
-              ),
-          ],
-        ),
-      );
-    });
-  }
-}
-
 /// Recent servers as rows; polls each one's `/health` every
 /// [healthPollEvery] while mounted (i.e. while the Join card is open).
 class RecentServerRows extends StatefulWidget {
@@ -476,8 +357,7 @@ class _RecentRow extends StatelessWidget {
           Text(status, key: const ValueKey('recent-status'), style: TextStyle(color: statusColor)),
           if (h != null && h.needsUpdate)
             Tooltip(
-              message: 'Server protocol ${h.proto}, this app '
+              message: versionGateText(h),
-                  '${RelayConstants.protoVersion} — update so both match',
               child: Container(
                 padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 6, vertical: 1),
                 decoration: BoxDecoration(color: scheme.errorContainer, borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6)),

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/delivery_line.dart

@@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ import 'motion.dart';
 
 Color _tone(SourceState s, ColorScheme scheme) => switch (s) {
       SourceState.ok => scheme.primary,
-      SourceState.slow || SourceState.waiting => Colors.amber,
+      SourceState.slow || SourceState.waiting || SourceState.gone => Colors.amber,
       SourceState.left => Colors.redAccent.shade200,
     };
 
 IconData _icon(Delivery d) => switch (d.state) {
       SourceState.left => Icons.link_off_rounded,
       SourceState.waiting => Icons.hourglass_top_rounded,
+      SourceState.gone => Icons.wifi_off_rounded,
       _ => switch (d.kind) {
           DeliveryKind.memberRelay => Icons.cell_tower,
           DeliveryKind.serverFetch => Icons.cloud_download_outlined,
@@ -28,8 +29,8 @@ IconData _icon(Delivery d) => switch (d.state) {
 /// Where the current media comes from and how it reaches the others:
 /// "Foxyz passes it on through the server", "3 through the server ·
 /// 4.1 MB/s, needs 2.3 MB/s" and a bar of the source's speed against the
-/// video's (past the mark: keeping up). Amber when slow or waiting, red
+/// video's (past the mark: keeping up). Amber when slow, waiting or the
-/// when the source left.
+/// source's connection dropped, red when the source left.
 class SourceLine extends StatelessWidget {
   final Delivery delivery;
   const SourceLine({super.key, required this.delivery});
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ class SourceLine extends StatelessWidget {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
     final tone = _tone(d.state, scheme);
     final detail = d.detail;
-    final headroom = d.state == SourceState.left ? null : d.headroom;
+    final headroom = d.state == SourceState.left || d.state == SourceState.gone ? null : d.headroom;
     return Tooltip(
       message: d.explain,
       waitDuration: const Duration(milliseconds: 400),

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/handoff.dart

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Handoff classifyHandoff({
 
 /// What the card's buttons ask the shell to do.
 enum HandoffAction {
-  /// Put the (first) video up (offline: watch it solo).
+  /// Put the (first) video up.
   putUp,
   /// Add the video's folder (or the folder) to Files and open it.
   addFolder,
@@ -115,11 +115,11 @@ enum HandoffAction {
 /// pops the [HandoffAction] chosen.
 class HandoffCard extends StatelessWidget {
   final Handoff item;
-  /// Nobody else watches (offline or solo): videos play, no relay talk.
+  /// Nobody else is in the server: videos play, no relay talk.
-  final bool solo;
+  final bool alone;
   /// In a server: videos and links can go to Up next.
   final bool queue;
-  const HandoffCard({super.key, required this.item, required this.solo, this.queue = false});
+  const HandoffCard({super.key, required this.item, required this.alone, this.queue = false});
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class HandoffCard extends StatelessWidget {
           baseName(paths.first),
           paths.length > 1 ? 'and ${paths.length - 1} more · the first one goes up' : 'A video on this computer',
           [
-            button(HandoffAction.putUp, Icons.play_arrow, solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up', primary: true),
+            button(HandoffAction.putUp, Icons.play_arrow, alone ? 'Play' : 'Put it up', primary: true),
             ...queueButtons,
             button(HandoffAction.addFolder, Icons.create_new_folder_outlined, 'Add its folder to Files'),
           ],
@@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ class HandoffCard extends StatelessWidget {
       HandoffLink(:final url) => (
           Icons.link,
           url,
-          solo ? 'Opens it on the Link page' : 'Pick how the others get it on the Link page',
+          alone ? 'Opens it on the Link page' : 'Pick how the others get it on the Link page',
           [
-            button(HandoffAction.openLink, Icons.link, solo ? 'Open in Link' : 'Put it up as a link…',
+            button(HandoffAction.openLink, Icons.link, alone ? 'Open in Link' : 'Put it up as a link…',
                 primary: true),
             ...queueButtons,
           ],

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/library_link.dart

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import '../screens/home/media_picker.dart';
 import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
 import '../widgets/copy_open.dart';
 import '../state/connect_prefs.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
 
 // The Library's Link source: a big paste field, a preview of what the link
@@ -239,7 +239,6 @@ class LinkPreviewStore {
 /// What a link is (see [LinkResolver.probe]).
 typedef LinkProber = Future<LinkProbe> Function(String url);
 
-Future<LinkProbe> defaultLinkProber(String url) => SessionState.instance.ports.links.probe(url);
 
 String _host(Uri uri) => uri.host.startsWith('www.') ? uri.host.substring(4) : uri.host;
 
@@ -254,7 +253,7 @@ String clockText(double seconds) {
 /// duration and thumbnail; a media file its file name and host; a link
 /// that does not open, why ([LinkPreview.problem]). Null for text that is
 /// not an http(s) link.
-Future<LinkPreview?> previewLink(String url, {LinkProber probe = defaultLinkProber}) async {
+Future<LinkPreview?> previewLink(String url, {required LinkProber probe}) async {
   final uri = Uri.tryParse(url.trim());
   if (uri == null || !(uri.scheme == 'http' || uri.scheme == 'https') || uri.host.isEmpty) return null;
   final host = _host(uri);
@@ -290,7 +289,7 @@ Future<LinkPreview?> previewLink(String url, {LinkProber probe = defaultLinkProb
 /// [url]'s preview at once when it was kept before ([LinkPreviewStore]),
 /// else probed and kept (the Up next popover's paste; the Link page has
 /// its own refresh rules).
-Future<LinkPreview?> cachedLinkPreview(String url, {RecentLinks? recents, LinkProber probe = defaultLinkProber}) async {
+Future<LinkPreview?> cachedLinkPreview(String url, {RecentLinks? recents, required LinkProber probe}) async {
   final store = (recents ?? RecentLinks.instance).previews;
   await store.ensureLoaded();
   final kept = store.lookup(url);
@@ -344,27 +343,28 @@ String linkRelayHelp(LinkRelay r) => switch (r) {
     };
 
 /// Under Play when nobody else watches.
-const soloPlayHint = 'Plays just for you. Invite friends any time; it keeps playing.';
+const alonePlayHint = 'Plays just for you. Invite friends any time; it keeps playing.';
 
-/// The Link source. [solo]: nobody else watches (offline or solo), so the
+/// The Link source. [alone]: nobody else is in the server, so the
 /// button says Play and there are no relay modes (the link plays direct).
 class LibraryLinkSource extends StatefulWidget {
   final MediaPickerController controller;
-  final bool solo;
+  final bool alone;
   /// Puts the link up; returns an error text, or null when sent.
   final Future<String?> Function(LinkMedia media) onPutUp;
   /// Adds the link to Up next in the chosen mode; null: no server.
   final AddToQueue? onAddToQueue;
   final RecentLinks recents;
-  final LinkProber probe;
+  /// What a link is; defaults to the app's [LinkResolver.probe].
+  final LinkProber? probe;
   const LibraryLinkSource({
     super.key,
     required this.controller,
     required this.onPutUp,
     this.onAddToQueue,
     required this.recents,
-    this.solo = false,
+    this.alone = false,
-    this.probe = defaultLinkProber,
+    this.probe,
   });
 
   @override
@@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ class LibraryLinkSource extends StatefulWidget {
 }
 
 class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
+  LinkProber get _probe => widget.probe ?? AppScope.of(context).ports.links.probe;
+
   MediaPickerController get _c => widget.controller;
   final _previews = <String, LinkPreview?>{};
   String _previewUrl = '';
@@ -450,7 +452,7 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
       if (DateTime.now().difference(known.at) > linkPreviewFreshFor) unawaited(_refresh(url));
       return;
     }
-    final p = await previewLink(url, probe: widget.probe);
+    final p = await previewLink(url, probe: _probe);
     _previews[url] = p;
     _keep(url, p);
     if (mounted) setState(() {});
@@ -459,7 +461,7 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
   /// Probes [url] again behind what is shown; a site out of reach keeps
   /// what was found before. Returns the preview shown afterwards.
   Future<LinkPreview?> _refresh(String url) async {
-    final p = await previewLink(url, probe: widget.probe);
+    final p = await previewLink(url, probe: _probe);
     if (p == null || p.problem == unreachableText) return _previews[url];
     _previews[url] = p;
     _keep(url, p);
@@ -491,12 +493,12 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
     });
     // What the probe found refuses it here, with "Put it up anyway": the
     // server or a friend (with cookies) may still open it.
-    final problem = anyway ? null : (_previews[url] ?? await previewLink(url, probe: widget.probe))?.problem;
+    final problem = anyway ? null : (_previews[url] ?? await previewLink(url, probe: _probe))?.problem;
     String? error = problem;
     if (problem == null) {
       try {
         error = await widget.onPutUp(
-            LinkMedia(url, relay: widget.solo ? LinkRelay.direct : _c.linkRelay, anyway: anyway));
+            LinkMedia(url, relay: widget.alone ? LinkRelay.direct : _c.linkRelay, anyway: anyway));
       } catch (e) {
         error = '$e';
       }
@@ -510,7 +512,7 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
     if (error == null) {
       var p = _previews[url];
       if (p == null) {
-        p = _previews[url] = await previewLink(url, probe: widget.probe);
+        p = _previews[url] = await previewLink(url, probe: _probe);
         _keep(url, p);
       }
       unawaited(widget.recents.add(RecentLink(
@@ -542,7 +544,7 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
     });
     String? error;
     try {
-      error = await add(LinkMedia(link, relay: widget.solo ? LinkRelay.direct : _c.linkRelay), next: next);
+      error = await add(LinkMedia(link, relay: widget.alone ? LinkRelay.direct : _c.linkRelay), next: next);
     } catch (e) {
       error = '$e';
     }
@@ -556,7 +558,7 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
   /// Right-click on a recent link: put it up or queue it, copy or open it.
   Future<void> _recentMenu(BuildContext context, RecentLink l) async {
     final pick = await showAppMenu<String>(context, items: [
-      AppMenuItem(value: 'up', label: widget.solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
+      AppMenuItem(value: 'up', label: widget.alone ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
       if (widget.onAddToQueue != null) ...const [
         AppMenuItem(value: 'queue', label: 'Add to queue'),
         AppMenuItem(value: 'next', label: 'Play next'),
@@ -565,14 +567,14 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
       const AppMenuItem(value: 'title', label: ReuseText.copyTitle),
       const AppMenuItem(value: 'open', label: ReuseText.openInBrowser),
     ]);
-    if (pick == null || !mounted) return;
+    if (pick == null || !mounted || !context.mounted) return;
     switch (pick) {
       case 'copy':
-        return copyToClipboard(l.url, done: 'Link copied');
+        return copyToClipboard(context, l.url, done: 'Link copied');
       case 'title':
-        return copyToClipboard(l.title, done: 'Title copied');
+        return copyToClipboard(context, l.title, done: 'Title copied');
       case 'open':
-        return openLink(l.url);
+        return openLink(context, l.url);
     }
     _c.link.text = l.url;
     switch (pick) {
@@ -592,11 +594,11 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
     ]);
     switch (pick) {
       case 'copy':
-        await copyToClipboard(url, done: 'Link copied');
+        if (context.mounted) await copyToClipboard(context, url, done: 'Link copied');
       case 'title':
-        await copyToClipboard(p!.title, done: 'Title copied');
+        if (context.mounted) await copyToClipboard(context, p!.title, done: 'Title copied');
       case 'open':
-        await openLink(url);
+        if (context.mounted) await openLink(context, url);
     }
   }
 
@@ -614,7 +616,7 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
     final t = Theme.of(context).textTheme;
-    final solo = widget.solo;
+    final alone = widget.alone;
     final url = _c.link.text.trim();
     final preview = url.isEmpty ? null : _previews[url];
     final loading = url.isNotEmpty && !_previews.containsKey(url);
@@ -638,7 +640,7 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
       icon: _busy
           ? const SizedBox.square(dimension: 16, child: CircularProgressIndicator(strokeWidth: 2))
           : const Icon(Icons.play_arrow),
-      label: Text(solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
+      label: Text(alone ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
       style: FilledButton.styleFrom(
         minimumSize: const Size(0, 56),
         shape: RoundedRectangleBorder(borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(16)),
@@ -705,10 +707,10 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
                         if (queue != null) ...[const SizedBox(width: 8), queue],
                       ]),
               ),
-              if (solo || _error != null) ...[
+              if (alone || _error != null) ...[
                 const SizedBox(height: 8),
                 Text(
-                  _error ?? soloPlayHint,
+                  _error ?? alonePlayHint,
                   key: const ValueKey('link-hint'),
                   textAlign: TextAlign.center,
                   style: t.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: _error != null ? scheme.error : Colors.grey),
@@ -718,7 +720,7 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
                     child: TextButton(
                       key: const ValueKey('link-put-up-anyway'),
                       onPressed: _busy ? null : () => _go(anyway: true),
-                      child: Text(solo ? 'Play it anyway' : 'Put it up anyway'),
+                      child: Text(alone ? 'Play it anyway' : 'Put it up anyway'),
                     ),
                   ),
               ],
@@ -737,7 +739,7 @@ class _LibraryLinkSourceState extends State<LibraryLinkSource> {
                         ),
                       ),
               ),
-              if (!solo) ...[
+              if (!alone) ...[
                 const SizedBox(height: 28),
                 Text('How the others get it', style: t.titleSmall),
                 const SizedBox(height: 10),

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/library_tab.dart

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ import '../jellyfin/home_page.dart' show libraryIcon, isVideoLibrary;
 import '../jellyfin/picker_source.dart';
 import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
 import '../screens/home/media_picker.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../session/app_events.dart' show ActionFailed;
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import 'library_link.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
 import 'welcome.dart';
@@ -67,12 +68,11 @@ const detailsDockFrom = 1000.0;
 /// Jellyfin cards select on click and open their details in a panel at
 /// the right (docked from [detailsDockFrom], floating over the library
 /// below it); a double-click or the panel's button puts it up. With
-/// nobody else watching ([solo]: offline or a solo session) the buttons
+/// nobody else in the server ([alone], D9) the buttons say Play.
-/// say Play and putting something up starts (or uses) a solo session.
 class LibraryTab extends StatefulWidget {
   final MediaPickerController controller;
   final JellyfinAccounts accounts;
-  final bool solo;
+  final bool alone;
   /// This app hosts the server: its files stream from here directly.
   final bool isHost;
   final BrowseStart? jellyfinStart;
@@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ class LibraryTab extends StatefulWidget {
   final VoidCallback? onOpenIntegrations;
   /// Defaults to [RecentLinks.instance].
   final RecentLinks? recentLinks;
-  final LinkProber probe;
+  /// What a link is; defaults to the app's.
+  final LinkProber? probe;
   /// The Files source (tests inject one); defaults to [FilesPage].
-  final Widget Function(BuildContext context, {required bool solo, required bool relayed,
+  final Widget Function(BuildContext context, {required bool alone, required bool relayed,
       required Future<String?> Function(String path) onPlay, String? nowPlayingPath})? filesBuilder;
   /// Clock for the Jellyfin Continue row (tests pin it).
   final DateTime Function() now;
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ class LibraryTab extends StatefulWidget {
     super.key,
     required this.controller,
     required this.accounts,
-    required this.solo,
+    required this.alone,
     required this.isHost,
     required this.onPutUp,
     this.onAddToQueue,
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ class LibraryTab extends StatefulWidget {
     this.jellyfinStart,
     this.onOpenIntegrations,
     this.recentLinks,
-    this.probe = defaultLinkProber,
+    this.probe,
     this.filesBuilder,
     this.now = DateTime.now,
     this.banner,
@@ -196,21 +197,17 @@ class _LibraryTabState extends State<LibraryTab> {
     return pick is JellyfinMedia ? add(pick, next: next) : pick as String;
   }
 
-  /// A card's menu: errors as a snack bar.
+  /// A card's menu: errors as a toast (the Notifier's).
   Future<void> _cardQueue(JellyfinSelection sel, {bool next = false}) async {
     final error = await _queueJellyfin(sel, next: next);
-    if (error != null && mounted) {
+    if (error != null && mounted) AppScope.of(context).notifier.notify(ActionFailed(error));
-      ScaffoldMessenger.maybeOf(context)?.showSnackBar(SnackBar(content: Text(error)));
-    }
   }
 
-  /// Double-click on a card: put it up, errors as a snack bar.
+  /// Double-click on a card: put it up, errors as a toast.
   Future<void> _doublePutUp(JellyfinSelection sel) async {
     _c.select(sel);
     final error = await _putUpJellyfin(sel);
-    if (error != null && mounted) {
+    if (error != null && mounted) AppScope.of(context).notifier.notify(ActionFailed(error));
-      ScaffoldMessenger.maybeOf(context)?.showSnackBar(SnackBar(content: Text(error)));
-    }
   }
 
   // -------------------------------------------------------------- build
@@ -274,7 +271,7 @@ class _LibraryTabState extends State<LibraryTab> {
         ),
       MediaKind.link => LibraryLinkSource(
           controller: _c,
-          solo: widget.solo,
+          alone: widget.alone,
           recents: widget.recentLinks ?? RecentLinks.instance,
           probe: widget.probe,
           onPutUp: _put,
@@ -308,7 +305,7 @@ class _LibraryTabState extends State<LibraryTab> {
             child: JellyfinDetailsPanel(
               controller: _browse,
               selection: shown,
-              solo: widget.solo,
+              alone: widget.alone,
               onPutUp: _putUpJellyfin,
               onAddToQueue: widget.onAddToQueue == null ? null : _queueJellyfin,
               onClose: () => _c.select(null),
@@ -369,17 +366,17 @@ class _LibraryTabState extends State<LibraryTab> {
     final relayed = !widget.isHost;
     Future<String?> play(String path) => _put(FileMedia(path));
     return SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-      final session = SessionState.instance;
+      final graph = AppScope.of(context);
-      final now = session.route.value == AppRoute.session
+      final now = graph.navigation.online.value
-          ? nowPlayingFile(session.coordinator.serverState.value?.media, session.lastForm.mediaPath)
+          ? nowPlayingFile(graph.coordinator.serverState.value?.media, graph.forms.form.mediaPath)
           : null;
       final b = widget.filesBuilder;
       if (b != null) {
-        return b(context, solo: widget.solo, relayed: relayed, onPlay: play, nowPlayingPath: now);
+        return b(context, alone: widget.alone, relayed: relayed, onPlay: play, nowPlayingPath: now);
       }
       final add = widget.onAddToQueue;
       return FilesPage(
-          solo: widget.solo,
+          alone: widget.alone,
           relayed: relayed,
           onPlay: play,
           onAddToQueue: add == null ? null : (path, {next = false}) => add(FileMedia(path), next: next),

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/mark_problem.dart

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show RelayConstants;
 
 import '../session/app_events.dart' show ProblemMarked;
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../widgets/app_menu.dart' show AppGlass;
 import 'motion.dart';
 
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ const markProblemKey = SingleActivator(LogicalKeyboardKey.keyB, control: true, s
 /// Asks for the note, then marks; the toast says where it went.
 Future<void> showMarkProblem(BuildContext context) async {
   final note = await showPopover<String>(context, at: Alignment.center, child: const MarkProblemCard());
-  if (note == null) return;
+  if (note == null || !context.mounted) return;
-  final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+  final coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
   final inSession = await coord.markProblem(note);
   coord.notify(ProblemMarked(inSession: inSession));
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/now_playing_title.dart

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
 import '../session/now_playing.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
 import '../widgets/copy_open.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
@@ -15,22 +15,22 @@ Uint8List? Function(String hash)? debugArtBytes;
 /// The one lookup for media art (cover, banner) by content hash: null
 /// when there is none or it has not arrived yet (listeners of
 /// [artChanges] hear when it lands).
-Uint8List? artBytes(String hash) {
+Uint8List? artBytes(BuildContext context, String hash) {
   if (hash.isEmpty) return null;
   final debug = debugArtBytes;
   if (debug != null) return debug(hash);
-  return SessionState.instance.coordinator.art.bytesFor(hash);
+  return AppScope.of(context).coordinator.art.bytesFor(hash);
 }
 
 /// Notifies when art arrives.
-Listenable artChanges() => SessionState.instance.coordinator.art;
+Listenable artChanges(BuildContext context) => AppScope.of(context).coordinator.art;
 
 final _images = <String, MemoryImage>{};
 
 /// [hash]'s art as an image, the same provider while the bytes are the
 /// same (so a rebuild never decodes again).
-ImageProvider? artImage(String hash) {
+ImageProvider? artImage(BuildContext context, String hash) {
-  final bytes = artBytes(hash);
+  final bytes = artBytes(context, hash);
   if (bytes == null) return null;
   final hit = _images[hash];
   if (hit != null && identical(hit.bytes, bytes)) return hit;
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class ArtCover extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final image = artImage(hash);
+    final image = artImage(context, hash);
     final r = BorderRadius.circular(width >= 80 ? 10 : 6);
     return Container(
       width: wide ? width * 1.5 * 16 / 9 : width,
@@ -166,10 +166,10 @@ class NowPlayingTitle extends StatelessWidget {
   Widget build(BuildContext context) => GestureDetector(
         onSecondaryTap: () => nowPlayingMenu(context),
         child: ListenableBuilder(
-          listenable: artChanges(),
+          listenable: artChanges(context),
           builder: (context, _) => SignalBuilder(
             builder: (context) => NowPlayingBlock(
-              now: SessionState.instance.coordinator.nowPlaying.value,
+              now: AppScope.of(context).coordinator.nowPlaying.value,
               cover: cover,
               compact: compact,
             ),
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ class NowPlayingTitle extends StatelessWidget {
 /// Copy link and Open in browser; a Jellyfin item on a server linked here,
 /// Open in Jellyfin. [context]: where the menu opens.
 Future<void> nowPlayingMenu(BuildContext context) async {
-  final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+  final coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
   final now = coord.nowPlaying.peek();
   if (now == null) return;
   final link = coord.currentLink();
@@ -200,12 +200,12 @@ Future<void> nowPlayingMenu(BuildContext context) async {
   ]);
   switch (pick) {
     case 'title':
-      await copyToClipboard(title, done: 'Title copied');
+      if (context.mounted) await copyToClipboard(context, title, done: 'Title copied');
     case 'link':
-      await copyToClipboard(link!, done: 'Link copied');
+      if (context.mounted) await copyToClipboard(context, link!, done: 'Link copied');
     case 'open':
-      await openLink(link!);
+      if (context.mounted) await openLink(context, link!);
     case 'jellyfin':
-      await openLink(page!);
+      if (context.mounted) await openLink(context, page!);
   }
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/party_strip.dart

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import 'dart:io';
-
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
@@ -7,7 +5,10 @@ import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 import '../screens/home/ui.dart' show appName, displayVersion, shortVersion;
 import '../session/delivery.dart';
 import '../session/party.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
+import '../session/app_events.dart' show ActionFailed;
+import '../session/invite.dart';
+import '../session/navigation.dart' show Place;
 import '../widgets/app_keys.dart';
 import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
 import '../widgets/copy_open.dart';
@@ -36,9 +37,11 @@ const stripAvatarSize = 42.0;
 const stripCompactBelow = 1100.0;
 
 /// The 60 px strip over everything: your avatar (profile), the tabs, and
-/// the party: offline Join a friend / Host, solo a "Solo" chip, Invite
+/// the party. Alone on your own server it is a plain player's: Join a
-/// friends and Stop, online the avatars (members card), server and
+/// friend and Invite (a "Sharing" chip while your server is open to
-/// readiness, chat and Leave. Empty space drags the window.
+/// friends); with others there the avatars (members card), server and
+/// readiness, chat, and Invite (yours) or Leave (a friend's). Empty space
+/// drags the window.
 class PartyStrip extends StatelessWidget {
   final ShellTab tab;
   final ValueChanged<ShellTab> onTab;
@@ -46,11 +49,11 @@ class PartyStrip extends StatelessWidget {
   final int unread;
   final VoidCallback onChat;
   final VoidCallback onJoin;
-  final VoidCallback onHost;
   final VoidCallback onLeave;
   final VoidCallback onProfile;
-  /// Solo: host from here, keeping what plays.
+  /// Opens your server to friends (if it is not yet) and copies the
-  final VoidCallback? onInvite;
+  /// invite.
+  final VoidCallback onInvite;
 
   /// Online with something up but the player closed: brings it back.
   final VoidCallback? onShowPlayer;
@@ -65,10 +68,9 @@ class PartyStrip extends StatelessWidget {
     required this.unread,
     required this.onChat,
     required this.onJoin,
-    required this.onHost,
     required this.onLeave,
     required this.onProfile,
-    this.onInvite,
+    required this.onInvite,
     this.onShowPlayer,
     this.windowControls = true,
   });
@@ -79,11 +81,18 @@ class PartyStrip extends StatelessWidget {
     final compact = MediaQuery.sizeOf(context).width < stripCompactBelow;
     final row = SignalBuilder(
       builder: (context) {
-        final session = SessionState.instance;
+        final graph = AppScope.of(context);
-        final coord = session.coordinator;
+        final coord = graph.coordinator;
-        final online = session.route.value == AppRoute.session;
+        final nav = graph.navigation;
-        final solo = online && (session.solo.value || session.switching.value);
+        final online = nav.online.value;
-        final self = online ? coord.selfMember.value : null;
+        final home = nav.home.value;
+        final friend = nav.place.value == Place.friend;
+        // Others there (or a friend's server): the party; else a plain
+        // player (D9).
+        final social = friend || (online && !coord.alone.value);
+        final shared = graph.yourServer.shared.value;
+        final canInvite = graph.yourServer.port.value != null && !graph.yourServer.busy.value;
+        final self = social ? coord.selfMember.value : null;
         return Row(
           children: [
             const SizedBox(width: 16),
@@ -97,11 +106,11 @@ class PartyStrip extends StatelessWidget {
                 child: StatusAvatar(
                   info: selfAvatarInfo(
                     ready: self?.ready ?? false,
-                    host: online && !solo && coord.hostFile != null,
+                    host: social && home,
                     error: online ? coord.playerError.value : '',
                   ),
                   size: stripAvatarSize,
-                  ring: online,
+                  ring: social,
                 ),
               ),
             ),
@@ -121,10 +130,9 @@ class PartyStrip extends StatelessWidget {
                             label: t.label,
                             selected: t == tab,
                             compact: compact,
-                            // The version: always in sight under Settings,
+                            // The version a rest of the mouse away (also at
-                            // the full one a rest of the mouse away.
+                            // the bottom of Settings and in About).
                             tooltip: t == ShellTab.settings ? '$appName ${displayVersion()}' : null,
-                            caption: t == ShellTab.settings ? shortVersion() : null,
                             onTap: () => onTab(t),
                           ),
                       ],
@@ -141,29 +149,7 @@ class PartyStrip extends StatelessWidget {
                 onPressed: onShowPlayer,
                 icon: const Icon(Icons.smart_display_outlined, size: 20),
               ),
-            if (solo) ...[
+            if (social) ...[
-              _SoloChip(compact: compact, busy: session.switching.value),
-              const SizedBox(width: 10),
-              if (compact)
-                FilledButton(
-                  key: const ValueKey('strip-invite'),
-                  onPressed: session.switching.value ? null : onInvite,
-                  child: const Text('Invite'),
-                )
-              else
-                FilledButton.icon(
-                  key: const ValueKey('strip-invite'),
-                  onPressed: session.switching.value ? null : onInvite,
-                  icon: const Icon(Icons.group_add_outlined, size: 18),
-                  label: const Text('Invite friends'),
-                ),
-              const SizedBox(width: 8),
-              OutlinedButton(
-                key: const ValueKey('strip-leave'),
-                onPressed: session.switching.value ? null : onLeave,
-                child: const Text('Stop'),
-              ),
-            ] else if (online) ...[
               PartyWatch(
                 builder: (context) => AvatarStack(
                   key: const ValueKey('party-avatars'),
@@ -197,41 +183,30 @@ class PartyStrip extends StatelessWidget {
                 ),
               ),
               const SizedBox(width: 4),
+              if (friend)
                 OutlinedButton(
                   key: const ValueKey('strip-leave'),
                   onPressed: onLeave,
                   child: const Text('Leave'),
-              ),
+                )
+              else
+                _InviteButton(compact: compact, onInvite: canInvite ? onInvite : null),
             ] else ...[
-              if (!compact) ...[
+              if (shared != null) ...[
-                Container(
+                _SharingChip(compact: compact, port: shared.port),
-                  width: 7,
-                  height: 7,
-                  decoration: BoxDecoration(color: scheme.outline, shape: BoxShape.circle),
-                ),
-                const SizedBox(width: 6),
-                Text('Offline', style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant)),
-                const SizedBox(width: 12),
-              ],
-              if (compact) ...[
-                FilledButton(key: const ValueKey('strip-join'), onPressed: onJoin, child: const Text('Join')),
                 const SizedBox(width: 8),
-                FilledButton.tonal(key: const ValueKey('strip-host'), onPressed: onHost, child: const Text('Host')),
+              ],
-              ] else ...[
+              if (compact)
-                FilledButton.icon(
+                FilledButton.tonal(key: const ValueKey('strip-join'), onPressed: onJoin, child: const Text('Join'))
+              else
+                FilledButton.tonalIcon(
                   key: const ValueKey('strip-join'),
                   onPressed: onJoin,
                   icon: const Icon(Icons.login_rounded, size: 18),
                   label: const Text('Join a friend'),
                 ),
               const SizedBox(width: 8),
-                FilledButton.tonalIcon(
+              _InviteButton(compact: compact, onInvite: canInvite ? onInvite : null),
-                  key: const ValueKey('strip-host'),
-                  onPressed: onHost,
-                  icon: const Icon(Icons.podcasts_rounded, size: 18),
-                  label: const Text('Host'),
-                ),
-              ],
             ],
             const SizedBox(width: 8),
             if (windowControls) ...[
@@ -281,28 +256,21 @@ class _ServerLabel extends StatelessWidget {
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) => SignalBuilder(
     builder: (context) {
-      final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+      // "connecting…", "reconnecting…", "ready 2/3" (the ready counter
-      final r = coord.serverState.value;
+      // counts who the presence policy counts), from the one status.
-      // The ready counter counts who the presence policy counts (not away,
+      final graph = AppScope.of(context);
-      // not gone, able to play it).
+      final line = graph.coordinator.status.value.party;
-      final counted = (r?.members ?? const <MemberView>[]).where(countsForReady).toList();
-      final ready = counted.where((m) => m.ready).length;
-      final stale = coord.stateStale.value;
       return Column(
         key: const ValueKey('server-label'),
         mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
         crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
         children: [
           Text(
-            serverName(),
+            serverName(graph),
             style: const TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600, height: 1.1),
           ),
           Text(
-            r == null
+            line,
-                ? 'connecting…'
-                : stale
-                    ? 'reconnecting…'
-                    : 'ready $ready/${counted.length}',
             style: TextStyle(
               color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant,
               fontSize: 12,
@@ -315,52 +283,76 @@ class _ServerLabel extends StatelessWidget {
   );
 }
 
-/// "Solo" alone, "Your server" when hosting, else the joined server's
+/// "Your server" at home, else the joined server's name (its `--name`),
-/// name (its `--name`), or its address while unknown.
+/// or its address while unknown.
-String serverName() {
+String serverName(AppGraph graph) {
-  final session = SessionState.instance;
+  final nav = graph.navigation;
-  if (session.solo.value) return 'Solo';
+  if (nav.home.value) return 'Your server';
-  if (session.coordinator.hostFile != null) return 'Your server';
+  final label = nav.serverLabel.value;
-  final label = session.serverLabel.value;
+  return label.isNotEmpty ? label : nav.address.value;
-  return label.isNotEmpty ? label : session.lastForm.host;
 }
 
-/// Solo: just you, on your own; a spinner while it becomes a server.
+/// Invite: opens your server to friends (if it is not yet) and copies
-class _SoloChip extends StatelessWidget {
+/// the invite.
+class _InviteButton extends StatelessWidget {
   final bool compact;
-  final bool busy;
+  final VoidCallback? onInvite;
-  const _SoloChip({required this.compact, required this.busy});
+  const _InviteButton({required this.compact, required this.onInvite});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    const tip = 'Copy an invite friends can join with (opens your server to them)';
+    if (compact) {
+      return Tooltip(
+        message: tip,
+        child: FilledButton(key: const ValueKey('strip-invite'), onPressed: onInvite, child: const Text('Invite')),
+      );
+    }
+    return Tooltip(
+      message: tip,
+      child: FilledButton.icon(
+        key: const ValueKey('strip-invite'),
+        onPressed: onInvite,
+        icon: const Icon(Icons.group_add_outlined, size: 18),
+        label: const Text('Invite'),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// Your server is open to friends and nobody came yet: the port; a click
+/// opens the members card (the invite, Stop sharing).
+class _SharingChip extends StatelessWidget {
+  final bool compact;
+  final int port;
+  const _SharingChip({required this.compact, required this.port});
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
     return Tooltip(
-      message: busy
+      message: 'Friends can join with your invite. Click for the invite or to stop sharing.',
-          ? 'Starting your server…'
+      child: InkWell(
-          : 'Watching on your own. Nobody can join until you invite friends.',
+        key: const ValueKey('sharing-chip'),
-      child: Container(
-        key: const ValueKey('solo-chip'),
-        padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 10, vertical: 6),
-        decoration: BoxDecoration(
-          color: scheme.surfaceContainerHigh,
         borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(20),
-        ),
+        onTap: () => showMembersCard(context),
+        child: Container(
+          padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 10, vertical: 6),
+          decoration: BoxDecoration(color: scheme.surfaceContainerHigh, borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(20)),
           child: Row(
             mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
             children: [
-            if (busy)
+              Icon(Icons.podcasts_rounded, size: 16, color: scheme.primary),
-              const SizedBox.square(dimension: 14, child: CircularProgressIndicator(strokeWidth: 2))
-            else
-              Icon(Icons.person_outline_rounded, size: 16, color: scheme.primary),
               const SizedBox(width: 6),
-            Text(busy ? 'Inviting…' : 'Solo', style: const TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
+              const Text('Sharing', style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
-            if (!compact && !busy) ...[
+              if (!compact) ...[
                 const SizedBox(width: 6),
-              Text('only you', style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12)),
+                Text('port $port', style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12)),
               ],
             ],
           ),
         ),
+      ),
     );
   }
 }
@@ -373,8 +365,6 @@ class StripTab extends StatelessWidget {
   final VoidCallback onTap;
   /// Shown after resting on the tab.
   final String? tooltip;
-  /// Small text under the tab (the version under Settings).
-  final String? caption;
   const StripTab({
     super.key,
     required this.label,
@@ -382,7 +372,6 @@ class StripTab extends StatelessWidget {
     required this.onTap,
     this.compact = false,
     this.tooltip,
-    this.caption,
   });
 
   @override
@@ -399,7 +388,6 @@ class StripTab extends StatelessWidget {
           child: SizedBox(
             height: partyStripHeight,
             child: Stack(
-              clipBehavior: Clip.none,
               alignment: Alignment.center,
               children: [
                 Column(
@@ -426,27 +414,6 @@ class StripTab extends StatelessWidget {
                     ),
                   ],
                 ),
-                if (caption case final c?)
-                  Positioned(
-                    left: 0,
-                    right: 0,
-                    bottom: 2,
-                    height: 13,
-                    child: OverflowBox(
-                      maxWidth: 160,
-                      child: Text(
-                        c,
-                        key: const ValueKey('strip-version'),
-                        maxLines: 1,
-                        softWrap: false,
-                        style: TextStyle(
-                          fontSize: 10,
-                          height: 1.2,
-                          color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant.withValues(alpha: 0.7),
-                        ),
-                      ),
-                    ),
-                  ),
               ],
             ),
           ),
@@ -459,50 +426,16 @@ class StripTab extends StatelessWidget {
 }
 
 /// Who is in the server, from the avatars: status, host / relay pills,
-/// per member force ready, nudge and sit out, and the address to invite
+/// per member force ready, nudge and sit out, and the invite (yours) or
-/// friends.
+/// the address (a friend's).
 Future<void> showMembersCard(BuildContext context) => showPopover<void>(
   context,
   at: const Alignment(0.7, -0.84),
   child: const MembersCard(),
 );
 
-/// "ip:port" for each of [addresses] friends could dial: IPv4, neither
-/// loopback nor link-local, private (LAN) ranges first, no repeats.
-List<String> inviteAddresses(Iterable<InternetAddress> addresses, String port) {
-  bool private(List<int> b) =>
-      b[0] == 10 || (b[0] == 192 && b[1] == 168) || (b[0] == 172 && b[1] >= 16 && b[1] < 32);
-  final usable = [
-    for (final a in addresses)
-      if (a.type == InternetAddressType.IPv4 &&
-          !a.isLoopback &&
-          !a.isLinkLocal &&
-          !(a.rawAddress[0] == 169 && a.rawAddress[1] == 254))
-        a,
-  ];
-  final ordered = [
-    ...usable.where((a) => private(a.rawAddress)),
-    ...usable.where((a) => !private(a.rawAddress)),
-  ];
-  return {for (final a in ordered) '${a.address}:$port'}.toList();
-}
-
-/// This machine's [inviteAddresses] (empty when the interfaces can't be
-/// listed).
-Future<List<String>> lanInviteAddresses(String port) async {
-  try {
-    final interfaces = await NetworkInterface.list(type: InternetAddressType.IPv4);
-    return inviteAddresses([for (final i in interfaces) ...i.addresses], port);
-  } catch (e) {
-    debugPrint('list network interfaces failed: $e');
-    return const [];
-  }
-}
-
 class MembersCard extends StatelessWidget {
-  /// This machine's invite addresses for a port (tests pass fixed ones).
+  const MembersCard({super.key});
-  final Future<List<String>> Function(String port) lanAddresses;
-  const MembersCard({super.key, this.lanAddresses = lanInviteAddresses});
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
@@ -515,26 +448,38 @@ class MembersCard extends StatelessWidget {
         width: 340,
         child: PartyWatch(
           builder: (context) {
-            final session = SessionState.instance;
+            final graph = AppScope.of(context);
-            final coord = session.coordinator;
+            final coord = graph.coordinator;
+            final nav = graph.navigation;
             final r = coord.serverState.value;
-            final hosting = coord.hostFile != null;
+            final home = nav.home.value;
-            final address = hosting
+            final address = home ? null : nav.address.value;
-                ? null
+            final delivery = coord.status.value.delivery;
-                : '${session.lastForm.host}:${session.lastForm.port}';
+            final server = nav.serverVersion.value;
-            final delivery = r == null
-                ? null
-                : deliveryOf(r, selfId: coord.connection.memberId, names: coord.memberNames);
             return Column(
               mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
               crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
               children: [
                 Padding(
                   padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(20, 16, 20, 8),
-                  child: Text(
+                  child: Column(
-                    ['In the server', ?address].join(' · '),
+                    crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+                    children: [
+                      Text(
+                        home ? 'Your server' : ['In the server', ?address].join(' · '),
                         style: const TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600),
                       ),
+                      if (server.isNotEmpty)
+                        Padding(
+                          padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 2),
+                          child: VersionText(
+                            key: const ValueKey('server-version'),
+                            label: 'Server',
+                            version: server,
+                          ),
+                        ),
+                    ],
+                  ),
                 ),
                 if (delivery != null) SourceLine(delivery: delivery),
                 for (final m in r?.members ?? const <MemberView>[])
@@ -552,23 +497,20 @@ class MembersCard extends StatelessWidget {
                     ),
                   ),
                 const Divider(),
-                if (address != null)
+                if (home)
+                  const YourInvite()
+                else if (address != null && address.isNotEmpty)
                   Padding(
                     padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(12, 0, 12, 8),
                     child: Align(
                       alignment: Alignment.centerLeft,
                       child: TextButton.icon(
                         key: const ValueKey('copy-invite'),
-                        onPressed: () => copyToClipboard(address, done: 'Invite address copied'),
+                        onPressed: () => copyToClipboard(context, address, done: 'Invite address copied'),
                         icon: const Icon(Icons.copy, size: 16),
                         label: const Text('Copy invite address'),
                       ),
                     ),
-                  )
-                else
-                  _HostInvite(
-                    port: session.lastForm.hostPort,
-                    lanAddresses: lanAddresses,
                   ),
               ],
             );
@@ -592,7 +534,7 @@ class _MemberTile extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+    final coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
     final m = member;
     final since = m.goneSince;
     final status = m.presence == Presence.gone
@@ -618,6 +560,7 @@ class _MemberTile extends StatelessWidget {
         crossAxisAlignment: WrapCrossAlignment.center,
         children: [
           Text(info.self ? '${m.name} (you)' : m.name),
+          if (m.app.isNotEmpty) VersionText(key: ValueKey('version-${m.id}'), version: m.app),
           if (info.host) const Pill('host', Colors.amber),
           if (info.relaying)
             const Pill('passing the video on', Colors.lightBlueAccent),
@@ -651,76 +594,119 @@ class _MemberTile extends StatelessWidget {
   }
 }
 
-/// Hosting: the addresses friends on this network can join, the first
+/// A Starsync version, quiet ("1.3.0"), amber with a hint when it is not
-/// one behind "Copy invite address", and what friends elsewhere need.
+/// the one this app runs; [label] before it ("Server 1.3.0").
-class _HostInvite extends StatefulWidget {
+class VersionText extends StatelessWidget {
-  final String port;
+  final String version;
-  final Future<List<String>> Function(String port) lanAddresses;
+  final String? label;
-  const _HostInvite({required this.port, required this.lanAddresses});
+  const VersionText({super.key, required this.version, this.label});
 
   @override
-  State<_HostInvite> createState() => _HostInviteState();
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
+    final differs = versionDiffers(version);
+    final text = Text(
+      [?label, version].join(' '),
+      style: TextStyle(
+        fontSize: 11,
+        color: differs ? Colors.amber.shade300 : scheme.onSurfaceVariant.withValues(alpha: 0.8),
+        fontWeight: differs ? FontWeight.w600 : FontWeight.w400,
+      ),
+    );
+    if (!differs) return text;
+    return Tooltip(message: 'You run ${shortVersion()}', child: text);
+  }
 }
 
-class _HostInviteState extends State<_HostInvite> {
+/// [version] is not the one this app runs (a dev run matches anything:
-  late final Future<List<String>> _addresses = widget.lanAddresses(widget.port);
+/// it has no version of its own).
+bool versionDiffers(String version, {String own = appVersion}) =>
+    version.isNotEmpty && own != '0.0.0-dev' && version != '0.0.0-dev' && version != own;
+
+/// Your server in the members card: shared, the invite's address
+/// (Copy invite), a hint for friends outside the network and Stop
+/// sharing; not shared, Invite (opens it and copies the invite).
+class YourInvite extends StatelessWidget {
+  const YourInvite({super.key});
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     final muted = Theme.of(context).colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant;
-    return FutureBuilder<List<String>>(
+    final graph = AppScope.of(context);
-      future: _addresses,
+    final yours = graph.yourServer;
-      builder: (context, snap) {
+    return SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-        final list = snap.data ?? const <String>[];
+      final invite = yours.shared.value;
-        void copy(String a) => copyToClipboard(a, done: 'Invite address copied');
+      final busy = yours.busy.value || yours.port.value == null;
       return Padding(
         padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(12, 0, 12, 12),
         child: Column(
-            key: const ValueKey('host-invite'),
+          key: const ValueKey('your-invite'),
           crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+          children: [
+            if (invite == null) ...[
+              Padding(
+                padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(8, 0, 8, 6),
+                child: Text('Only you can reach it. Invite opens it to friends; nothing you watch stops.',
+                    style: TextStyle(color: muted, fontSize: 12)),
+              ),
+              TextButton.icon(
+                key: const ValueKey('copy-invite'),
+                onPressed: busy ? null : () => inviteFriends(context),
+                icon: const Icon(Icons.group_add_outlined, size: 16),
+                label: const Text('Invite'),
+              ),
+            ] else ...[
+              Padding(
+                padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 8),
+                child: Text(invite.address,
+                    key: const ValueKey('invite-address'), style: const TextStyle(fontFamily: 'monospace')),
+              ),
+              Wrap(
+                spacing: 4,
                 children: [
                   TextButton.icon(
                     key: const ValueKey('copy-invite'),
-                onPressed: list.isEmpty ? null : () => copy(list.first),
+                    onPressed: () => copyToClipboard(context, invite.text, done: 'Invite copied'),
                     icon: const Icon(Icons.copy, size: 16),
-                label: const Text('Copy invite address'),
+                    label: const Text('Copy invite'),
+                  ),
+                  TextButton(
+                    key: const ValueKey('stop-sharing'),
+                    onPressed: busy ? null : () => yours.stopSharing(),
+                    child: const Text('Stop sharing'),
                   ),
-              if (snap.connectionState != ConnectionState.done)
-                const SizedBox.shrink()
-              else if (list.isEmpty)
-                Padding(
-                  padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 8),
-                  child: Text('No network address found', style: TextStyle(color: muted)),
-                )
-              else
-                for (final a in list)
-                  InkWell(
-                    key: ValueKey('invite-$a'),
-                    borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8),
-                    onTap: () => copy(a),
-                    child: Padding(
-                      padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 8, vertical: 4),
-                      child: Row(
-                        children: [
-                          Expanded(child: Text(a, style: const TextStyle(fontFamily: 'monospace'))),
-                          Icon(Icons.copy, size: 14, color: muted),
                 ],
               ),
-                    ),
-                  ),
               Padding(
-                padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(8, 6, 8, 0),
+                padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(8, 2, 8, 0),
                 child: Text(
-                  'Works for friends on your network. Friends elsewhere need port '
+                  'Works for friends on your network. Friends elsewhere need port ${invite.port} '
-                  '${widget.port} forwarded on your router, or a server they can '
+                  'forwarded on your router, or a server they can all reach (like a VPS). '
-                  'all reach (like a VPS).',
+                  'Stop sharing sends everyone else out; you and Up next stay.',
                   style: TextStyle(color: muted, fontSize: 12),
                 ),
               ),
             ],
+          ],
         ),
       );
-      },
+    });
-    );
   }
 }
+
+/// Invite: opens your server to friends if it is not yet and copies the
+/// invite ("Invite copied"); a port that can't be opened is a notice.
+Future<void> inviteFriends(BuildContext context) async {
+  final graph = AppScope.of(context);
+  final Invite invite;
+  try {
+    invite = await graph.yourServer.invite();
+  } catch (e) {
+    final port = graph.forms.form.hostPort;
+    graph.notifier.notify(ActionFailed(
+        "couldn't open your server on port $port: $e — pick another port in Settings → Party & network"));
+    return;
+  }
+  if (!context.mounted) return;
+  await copyToClipboard(context, invite.text, done: 'Invite copied · ${invite.address}');
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/player_status.dart

@@ -1,154 +1,22 @@
 import 'dart:async';
 
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
-import '../session/health.dart';
-import '../session/party.dart';
 import '../session/session_coordinator.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../widgets/app_menu.dart' show AppGlass;
 import 'avatar.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
 
-/// What the player's status pill says, most pressing first.
+export '../session/status.dart' show StatusAction, StatusKind, StatusLevel, StatusLine, nameList;
-enum StatusKind { reconnecting, problem, connecting, finished, loading, you, cannotPlay, waiting }
 
-/// The pill's button: stop reconnecting, retry (reconnect), reload the
+/// The pill's line from the session's [SessionCoordinator.status]
-/// video (your player could not open it), or mark yourself ready (the
+/// (tracked: call inside a builder); "Connecting…" only once it has taken
-/// whole pill).
+/// [PlayerStatus.connectGrace] ([slowConnect]).
-enum StatusAction { cancel, retry, reload, ready }
+StatusLine? playerStatusNow(SessionCoordinator coord, {bool slowConnect = false}) {
-
+  final line = coord.status.value.line;
-/// One status line: [text], a muted [detail], a coloured [tone] for
+  if (line?.kind == StatusKind.connecting && !slowConnect) return null;
-/// problems (warn, error), the members it is about ([who]; [self] for you)
+  return line;
-/// and a loading [progress] (0..1).
-class StatusView {
-  final StatusKind kind;
-  final String text;
-  final String? detail;
-  final HealthSeverity? tone;
-  final List<MemberView> who;
-  final bool self;
-  final double? progress;
-  final StatusAction? action;
-  /// The mini player's shorter line.
-  final String short;
-  const StatusView(
-    this.kind,
-    this.text, {
-    this.detail,
-    this.tone,
-    this.who = const [],
-    this.self = false,
-    this.progress,
-    this.action,
-    String? short,
-  }) : short = short ?? text;
-}
-
-/// "Bob", "Bob and Mika", "Bob, Mika and Cleo", "Bob, Mika and 3 others".
-String nameList(List<String> names) {
-  if (names.length <= 1) return names.join();
-  if (names.length <= 3) return '${names.sublist(0, names.length - 1).join(', ')} and ${names.last}';
-  return '${names[0]}, ${names[1]} and ${names.length - 2} others';
-}
-
-String _sentence(String s) => s.isEmpty ? s : s[0].toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
-
-/// The player's status from the session's signals; null when there is
-/// nothing to say (playing, connected, everyone ready). [slowConnect]:
-/// connecting has taken over 2 s. [playerError]: why your player cannot
-/// open the media (the coordinator's `playerError`).
-StatusView? playerStatusFor({
-  required HealthStatus health,
-  bool reconnecting = false,
-  bool unstable = false,
-  StateBroadcast? state,
-  MemberView? self,
-  bool slowConnect = false,
-  String playerError = '',
-}) {
-  if (reconnecting) {
-    return const StatusView(StatusKind.reconnecting, 'Reconnecting…',
-        tone: HealthSeverity.warn, action: StatusAction.cancel);
-  }
-  if (unstable) {
-    return const StatusView(StatusKind.reconnecting, 'Connection unstable…', tone: HealthSeverity.warn);
-  }
-  final away = self?.presence == Presence.away;
-  if (playerError.isNotEmpty && state?.media != null && !away) {
-    return StatusView(StatusKind.problem, "Can't play this: $playerError",
-        tone: HealthSeverity.error, action: StatusAction.reload, short: "Can't play this");
-  }
-  if (health.severity == HealthSeverity.warn || health.severity == HealthSeverity.error) {
-    return StatusView(StatusKind.problem, _sentence(health.message),
-        tone: health.severity, action: StatusAction.retry);
-  }
-  if (slowConnect && health.severity == HealthSeverity.info && health.message.startsWith('connecting')) {
-    return const StatusView(StatusKind.connecting, 'Connecting…');
-  }
-  final r = state;
-  if (r == null || r.media == null || r.transport == 'playing') return null;
-  // Sitting out: the join-back card says it; nobody waits for you.
-  if (away) return null;
-  if (r.transport == 'finished') {
-    return const StatusView(StatusKind.finished, 'Finished · seek back or pick the next video', short: 'Finished');
-  }
-  // Members whose player cannot open it: the server does not wait for
-  // them; say why instead of "waiting for".
-  final failed = [
-    for (final m in r.members)
-      if (m.error.isNotEmpty && isPresent(m) && (self == null || m.id != self.id)) m,
-  ];
-  // As the server holds playback: someone in the ready set short of the
-  // minimum buffer.
-  final need = r.bufferNeed;
-  for (final m in r.members) {
-    if (m.inSet && m.buffered < need) {
-      final you = self != null && m.id == self.id;
-      final p = (m.buffered / need).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-      return StatusView(StatusKind.loading, you ? 'Loading the video…' : '${m.name} is loading…',
-          who: [m], self: you, progress: p, detail: '${(p * 100).round()}%');
-    }
-  }
-  if (failed.isNotEmpty) {
-    final f = failed.first;
-    final who = nameList([for (final m in failed) m.name]);
-    final unready = self != null && !self.ready;
-    return StatusView(StatusKind.cannotPlay, "$who can't play this: ${f.error}",
-        who: failed,
-        short: "$who can't play this",
-        detail: unready ? "Press Space when you're ready" : null,
-        action: unready ? StatusAction.ready : null);
-  }
-  if (self != null && !self.ready) {
-    return StatusView(StatusKind.you, "Press Space when you're ready",
-        who: [self], self: true, action: StatusAction.ready, detail: 'or click here', short: 'Press Space when ready');
-  }
-  // Members sitting out or gone are never waited for nor counted.
-  final active = [for (final m in r.members) if (countsForReady(m)) m];
-  final others = [
-    for (final m in active)
-      if ((self == null || m.id != self.id) && !(m.inSet && m.ready)) m,
-  ];
-  if (others.isEmpty) return null;
-  final ready = active.where((m) => m.ready).length;
-  return StatusView(StatusKind.waiting, 'Waiting for ${nameList([for (final m in others) m.name])}',
-      who: others, detail: '$ready/${active.length} ready');
-}
-
-/// [playerStatusFor] from the session (tracked: call inside a builder).
-StatusView? playerStatusNow({bool slowConnect = false}) {
-  final c = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
-  return playerStatusFor(
-    health: c.health.value,
-    reconnecting: c.reconnecting.value,
-    unstable: c.unstable.value,
-    state: c.serverState.value,
-    self: c.selfMember.value,
-    slowConnect: slowConnect,
-    playerError: c.playerError.value,
-  );
 }
 
 /// The player's one status pill (bottom centre): frosted dark glass with
@@ -167,7 +35,7 @@ class PlayerStatus extends StatefulWidget {
 class _PlayerStatusState extends State<PlayerStatus> {
   Timer? _connectTimer;
   bool _slow = false;
-  StatusView? _last;
+  StatusLine? _last;
 
   @override
   void dispose() {
@@ -176,8 +44,8 @@ class _PlayerStatusState extends State<PlayerStatus> {
   }
 
   // "Connecting…" only once it takes a while.
-  void _trackConnecting(HealthStatus h) {
+  void _trackConnecting(StatusLine? line) {
-    final connecting = h.severity == HealthSeverity.info && h.message.startsWith('connecting');
+    final connecting = line?.kind == StatusKind.connecting;
     if (!connecting) {
       _connectTimer?.cancel();
       _connectTimer = null;
@@ -205,9 +73,9 @@ class _PlayerStatusState extends State<PlayerStatus> {
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     return PartyWatch(builder: (context) {
-      final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+      final coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
-      _trackConnecting(coord.health.value);
+      _trackConnecting(coord.status.value.line);
-      final view = playerStatusNow(slowConnect: _slow);
+      final view = playerStatusNow(coord, slowConnect: _slow);
       if (view != null) _last = view;
       final shown = _last;
       final ready = view?.action == StatusAction.ready;
@@ -262,7 +130,7 @@ class PlayerGlass extends StatelessWidget {
 }
 
 class _StatusLine extends StatelessWidget {
-  final StatusView view;
+  final StatusLine view;
   final SessionCoordinator coord;
   final ValueChanged<StatusAction> onAction;
   const _StatusLine({super.key, required this.view, required this.coord, required this.onAction});
@@ -273,12 +141,13 @@ class _StatusLine extends StatelessWidget {
     final v = view;
     switch (v.kind) {
       case StatusKind.problem:
-        final error = v.tone == HealthSeverity.error;
+        final error = v.level == StatusLevel.error;
         return Icon(error ? Icons.error_outline_rounded : Icons.warning_amber_rounded,
             size: 20, color: error ? Colors.redAccent.shade100 : Colors.amber);
       case StatusKind.reconnecting:
         return const _Spinner(color: Colors.amber);
       case StatusKind.connecting:
+      case StatusKind.fetching:
         return const _Spinner(color: Colors.white70);
       case StatusKind.finished:
         return null;

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/profile_card.dart

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show Presence;
 
 import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
 import '../session/identity.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../update/update_controller.dart';
 import 'avatar.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
@@ -74,11 +74,12 @@ class _ProfileCardState extends State<ProfileCard> {
       child: SizedBox(
         width: 360,
         child: SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-          final session = SessionState.instance;
+          final graph = AppScope.of(context);
-          final coord = session.coordinator;
+          final coord = graph.coordinator;
-          final online = session.route.value == AppRoute.session;
+          // Alone it is a plain player: no ring, no crown.
+          final online = graph.navigation.online.value && !coord.alone.value;
           final self = online ? coord.selfMember.value : null;
-          final hosting = online && !session.solo.value && coord.hostFile != null;
+          final hosting = online && graph.navigation.home.value;
           final color = _p.color.value;
           final png = _p.picture.value;
           final out = self?.presence == Presence.away;
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ class _ProfileCardState extends State<ProfileCard> {
                             runSpacing: 4,
                             children: [
                               if (hosting) const Pill('host', Colors.amber),
-                              Pill(online ? 'in a server' : 'offline',
+                              Pill(online ? 'with others' : 'just you',
                                   online ? Colors.greenAccent : Colors.grey),
                               if (online)
                                 Pill(out ? 'sitting out' : (self?.ready ?? false) ? 'ready' : 'not ready',
@@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ class _ProfileCardState extends State<ProfileCard> {
                 child: Text(
                   online
                       ? 'Name and picture update for everyone in the server right away. Colour is yours only.'
-                      : 'Others see your name and picture when you join. Colour is yours only.',
+                      : 'Others see your name and picture when they join you or you join them. Colour is yours only.',
                   style: small,
                 ),
               ),
@@ -331,7 +332,7 @@ class _CropPickerState extends State<CropPicker> {
   Future<void> _pick() async {
     final List<String> files;
     try {
-      files = await SessionState.instance.ports.folders.pickFiles(
+      files = await AppScope.of(context).ports.folders.pickFiles(
         dialogTitle: 'Pick a picture',
         extensions: const ['png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'webp', 'gif', 'bmp'],
       );

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/session_player.dart

@@ -8,9 +8,12 @@ import 'package:media_kit_video/media_kit_video.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
 import '../controls/controls_probe.dart';
+import '../controls/minimal/style.dart';
+import '../controls/model/controls_layout.dart';
 import '../controls/model/controls_model.dart';
 import '../controls/session_controls.dart';
 import '../controls/volume.dart';
+import '../platform/desktop/media_kit_host.dart' show videoControllerOf;
 import '../queue/queue_ui.dart';
 import '../playback/media_marks.dart' show SkipKind, SkipOffer, formatClock;
 import '../screens/session/jellyfin_widgets.dart';
@@ -18,7 +21,7 @@ import '../screens/session/player_controls.dart';
 import '../session/app_events.dart' show ShaderMessage;
 import '../session/session_coordinator.dart';
 import '../shaders/shader_presets.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../state/settings.dart';
 import '../widgets/app_keys.dart';
 import '../widgets/text_focus.dart';
@@ -63,6 +66,9 @@ class SessionPlayer extends StatefulWidget {
   /// Window buttons in the fullscreen top bar (off in tests: they need
   /// window_manager).
   final bool windowControls;
+  /// Follows whether the full player's controls are up (the shell lifts
+  /// its toasts above them); the player keeps its own when null.
+  final ValueNotifier<bool>? controlsShown;
   const SessionPlayer({
     super.key,
     required this.mode,
@@ -79,6 +85,7 @@ class SessionPlayer extends StatefulWidget {
     this.unread = 0,
     this.videoBuilder,
     this.windowControls = true,
+    this.controlsShown,
   });
 
   @override
@@ -96,7 +103,8 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
   int _shaderNoticeSeen = 0;
   bool _miniHover = false;
   // Whether the controls are up (their frame reports it).
-  final _controlsShown = ValueNotifier(true);
+  final _ownShown = ValueNotifier(true);
+  ValueNotifier<bool> get _controlsShown => widget.controlsShown ?? _ownShown;
   // The mouse on a floating element, or the Up next popover open, keeps
   // the controls up.
   final _hold = ControlsHold();
@@ -117,12 +125,14 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
     onLeave: () => widget.onLeave(),
   );
 
-  SessionCoordinator get _coord => SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+  late final SessionCoordinator _coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
   bool get _full => widget.mode == PlayerMode.full;
 
   @override
   void initState() {
     super.initState();
+    // The model reads it in dispose too, when the tree is no longer there.
+    _model;
     _coord.jellyfin.ensureLoaded();
     HardwareKeyboard.instance.addHandler(_globalKey);
     // Tab (AppKeys) reaches the chat through here in fullscreen.
@@ -155,7 +165,7 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
     _stopShaderWatch();
     _stopPopoverWatch();
     _noFocus.dispose();
-    _controlsShown.dispose();
+    _ownShown.dispose();
     _hold.dispose();
     _model.dispose();
     super.dispose();
@@ -168,8 +178,9 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
   /// app-wide ([AppKeys]).
   bool _globalKey(KeyEvent event) {
     if (event is! KeyDownEvent || !mounted) return false;
-    if (SessionState.instance.route.peek() != AppRoute.session) return false;
+    if (!AppScope.of(context).navigation.online.peek()) return false;
-    // Mini: Esc is the last step out, asking to leave the server.
+    // Mini: Esc is the last step out (a friend's server: asking to leave
+    // it; yours: the player closes).
     if (!_full) {
       if (event.logicalKey != LogicalKeyboardKey.escape) return false;
       if (ModalRoute.of(context)?.isCurrent == false || textInputFocused()) return false;
@@ -282,7 +293,9 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
             _videoGen = gen;
             _videoKey = GlobalKey<VideoState>();
           }
-          final VideoControlsBuilder? controls = _full ? _sessionControls : null;
+          // Never null for the mini: media_kit keeps the last controls
+          // when given null, so the full player's would stay under it.
+          final VideoControlsBuilder controls = _full ? _sessionControls : _noControls;
           final video = widget.videoBuilder?.call(context, controls) ?? _video(controls);
           // The wheel anywhere on the full player steps the volume
           // (lists, menus and popovers under the mouse scroll instead).
@@ -296,7 +309,7 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
                 if (_full) ...[
                   _blockedCard(),
                   _actionArea(),
-                  if (widget.fullscreen) ...[if (!SessionState.instance.solo.value) _pausedParty(), _unreadChip()],
+                  if (widget.fullscreen) ...[if (!_coord.alone.value) _pausedParty(), _unreadChip()],
                   _volumeReadout(),
                 ] else
                   _miniOverlay(),
@@ -313,7 +326,7 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
 
   Widget _video(VideoControlsBuilder? controls) => Video(
         key: _videoKey,
-        controller: _coord.playback.video,
+        controller: videoControllerOf(_coord.playback.video),
         subtitleViewConfiguration: const SubtitleViewConfiguration(visible: false),
         controls: controls,
       );
@@ -410,16 +423,14 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
     });
   }
 
-  /// The action area's right end: the end-of-media card (Up next, else the
+  /// The action area's right end: the end-of-media card (Up next, else
-  /// next episode; it stays up), else the pills, shown only with the
+  /// the continuation; it stays up), else the pills, shown only with the
   /// controls ([PillGate]).
   Widget _actionSide() {
     final coord = _coord;
     return SignalBuilder(
       builder: (context) {
         final next = coord.nextEpisode.value;
-        final countdown = coord.autoAdvance.value;
-        // Up next goes before the next episode.
         final upNext = coord.queue.countdown.value;
         final finished = coord.serverState.value?.transport == 'finished';
         final pill = coord.nextPromptVisible.value;
@@ -428,18 +439,6 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
         if (upNext != null && finished) {
           return ControlsHoldRegion(hold: _hold, child: UpNextCard(queue: coord.queue, countdown: upNext));
         }
-        // "Clear" in Up next hides the next episode for this media.
-        if (next != null && (finished || countdown != null) && coord.queue.shownContinuation.value.isNotEmpty) {
-          return ControlsHoldRegion(
-            hold: _hold,
-            child: EndOfEpisodeCard(
-              next: next,
-              countdown: countdown,
-              onPlayNow: coord.playNextEpisode,
-              onCancel: coord.cancelAutoAdvance,
-            ),
-          );
-        }
         if (!showNext && skip == null) return const SizedBox.shrink();
         return Column(
           mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
@@ -573,11 +572,13 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
         ),
       );
 
-  /// Mini: title, expand and close on hover; ready, time and a seekable
+  /// Mini: title, expand and close on hover; the status, play (the full
-  /// bar at the bottom. A thin progress line stays while not hovered.
+  /// player's play button: ready in a server) and the time, and a bar that
+  /// seeks. A thin progress line stays while not hovered.
   Widget _miniOverlay() {
     final coord = _coord;
     final playback = coord.playback;
+    const scale = 0.8;
     return MouseRegion(
       onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _miniHover = true),
       onExit: (_) => setState(() => _miniHover = false),
@@ -594,58 +595,76 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
                   gradient: LinearGradient(
                     begin: Alignment.topCenter,
                     end: Alignment.bottomCenter,
-                    colors: [Colors.black54, Colors.transparent, Colors.black87],
+                    stops: [0, 0.35, 0.55, 1],
+                    colors: [Color(0x99000000), Color(0x00000000), Color(0x00000000), Color(0xCC000000)],
                   ),
                 ),
                 child: Column(
                   children: [
-                    Row(
+                    Padding(
+                      padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(12, 6, 6, 0),
+                      child: Row(
+                        crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                         children: [
-                        const SizedBox(width: 10),
+                          const Expanded(
-                        const Expanded(child: NowPlayingTitle(cover: false, compact: true)),
+                            child: Padding(
-                        IconButton(
+                              padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 4),
-                          focusNode: _noFocus,
+                              child: NowPlayingTitle(cover: false, compact: true),
-                          onPressed: widget.onExpand,
+                            ),
+                          ),
+                          MinimalButton(
+                              icon: Icons.open_in_full_rounded,
                               tooltip: 'Expand',
-                          icon: const Icon(Icons.open_in_full, color: Colors.white, size: 18),
+                              scale: scale,
-                        ),
+                              onPressed: widget.onExpand),
-                        IconButton(
+                          MinimalButton(
-                          focusNode: _noFocus,
+                              icon: Icons.close_rounded,
-                          onPressed: widget.onClose,
                               tooltip: 'Sit out (stay in the server)',
-                          icon: const Icon(Icons.close, color: Colors.white, size: 18),
+                              scale: scale,
-                        ),
+                              onPressed: widget.onClose),
                         ],
                       ),
+                    ),
                     const Spacer(),
                     SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-                      final ready = coord.selfMember.value?.ready ?? false;
+                      final snap = _model.snapshot.value;
                       final pos = playback.position.value, dur = playback.duration.value;
-                      return Row(
+                      final status = playerStatusNow(coord)?.short;
+                      return Padding(
+                        padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(8, 0, 12, 2),
+                        child: Column(
+                          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                           children: [
-                          IconButton(
+                            if (status != null && status.isNotEmpty)
-                            focusNode: _noFocus,
+                              Padding(
-                            tooltip: ready ? 'Ready (click: not ready)' : 'Not ready (click: ready)',
+                                padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(4, 0, 0, 2),
-                            onPressed: coord.toggleReady,
+                                child: Text(status,
-                            icon: Icon(
-                              ready ? Icons.check_circle : Icons.radio_button_unchecked,
-                              color: ready ? Colors.greenAccent : Colors.white,
-                            ),
-                          ),
-                          Text('${formatClock(pos)} / ${formatClock(dur)}',
-                              style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white70, fontSize: 12)),
-                          const Spacer(),
-                          Flexible(
-                            child: Text(playerStatusNow()?.short ?? '',
                                     maxLines: 1,
                                     overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                                style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.amber, fontSize: 12)),
+                                    style: const TextStyle(color: Color(0xFFFFC857), fontSize: 12)),
                               ),
-                          const SizedBox(width: 10),
+                            Row(
+                              children: [
+                                MinimalButton(
+                                  icon: controlIcon(BarControl.playPause, snap),
+                                  tooltip: controlTooltip(BarControl.playPause, snap),
+                                  accent: true,
+                                  scale: scale,
+                                  onPressed: _model.togglePlay,
+                                ),
+                                const SizedBox(width: 8),
+                                Text('${formatClock(pos)} / ${formatClock(dur)}',
+                                    style: const TextStyle(
+                                        color: MinimalStyle.dim,
+                                        fontSize: 12,
+                                        fontFeatures: [FontFeature.tabularFigures()])),
                               ],
+                            ),
+                          ],
+                        ),
                       );
                     }),
-                    _MiniSeekBar(onSeek: (d) => playback.player.seek(d)),
+                    _MiniSeekBar(onSeek: playback.userSeek),
                   ],
                 ),
               ),
@@ -659,6 +678,9 @@ class _SessionPlayerState extends State<SessionPlayer> {
   }
 }
 
+/// The mini player's empty controls slot (see [SessionPlayer]'s video).
+Widget _noControls(VideoState state) => const SizedBox.shrink();
+
 /// A floating pill's visibility: only while the controls are up (the
 /// mouse moved) or the mouse is on it. With [announce] it is also up for
 /// [firstShown] whenever [kind] changes (a new offer: Skip OP, Skip 1:30).
@@ -773,7 +795,9 @@ const _shaderKeys = [
   LogicalKeyboardKey.digit6,
 ];
 
-/// Mini player progress: a 2 px line, or (hovered) a 4 px bar that seeks.
+/// Mini player progress across the bottom edge: a 3 px line, or (hovered)
+/// a 4 px bar with its track and the cached part that seeks (taller to
+/// hit). Plain rectangles: the player's rounded clip shapes the ends.
 class _MiniSeekBar extends StatelessWidget {
   final bool thin;
   final ValueChanged<Duration>? onSeek;
@@ -781,27 +805,60 @@ class _MiniSeekBar extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final playback = SessionState.instance.coordinator.playback;
+    final playback = AppScope.of(context).coordinator.playback;
+    final accent = Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary;
     return SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
       final d = playback.duration.value;
-      final p = playback.position.value;
+      double f(Duration x) => d.inMilliseconds == 0 ? 0.0 : (x.inMilliseconds / d.inMilliseconds).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-      final v = d.inMilliseconds == 0 ? 0.0 : (p.inMilliseconds / d.inMilliseconds).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+      final bar = SizedBox(
-      final bar = LinearProgressIndicator(
+        height: thin ? 3 : 4,
-        value: v,
+        width: double.infinity,
-        minHeight: thin ? 2 : 4,
+        child: CustomPaint(
-        backgroundColor: thin ? Colors.transparent : Colors.white24,
+          painter: _MiniBarPainter(
+            played: f(playback.position.value),
+            cached: thin ? null : f(playback.buffered.value),
+            accent: accent,
+          ),
+        ),
       );
       if (thin || onSeek == null || d == Duration.zero) return bar;
       void seekAt(double x, double width) => onSeek!(d * (x / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0));
       return LayoutBuilder(
-        builder: (context, box) => GestureDetector(
+        builder: (context, box) => MouseRegion(
+          cursor: SystemMouseCursors.click,
+          child: GestureDetector(
             behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
             onTapDown: (e) => seekAt(e.localPosition.dx, box.maxWidth),
-          onHorizontalDragEnd: null,
             onHorizontalDragUpdate: (e) => seekAt(e.localPosition.dx, box.maxWidth),
-          child: Padding(padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 6), child: bar),
+            child: Padding(padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 8), child: bar),
+          ),
         ),
       );
     });
   }
 }
+
+class _MiniBarPainter extends CustomPainter {
+  final double played;
+
+  /// End of the cache ahead (a track is drawn only with it).
+  final double? cached;
+  final Color accent;
+  const _MiniBarPainter({required this.played, required this.cached, required this.accent});
+
+  @override
+  void paint(Canvas canvas, Size size) {
+    final w = size.width, h = size.height;
+    final c = cached;
+    if (c != null) {
+      canvas.drawRect(Offset.zero & size, Paint()..color = Colors.white.withValues(alpha: 0.18));
+      if (c > played) {
+        canvas.drawRect(Rect.fromLTRB(w * played, 0, w * c, h), Paint()..color = Colors.white.withValues(alpha: 0.3));
+      }
+    }
+    canvas.drawRect(Rect.fromLTRB(0, 0, w * played, h), Paint()..color = accent);
+  }
+
+  @override
+  bool shouldRepaint(_MiniBarPainter old) => old.played != played || old.cached != cached || old.accent != accent;
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/settings_tab.dart

@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ import '../jellyfin/accounts_panel.dart';
 import '../schedule/animeflow.dart';
 import '../screens/home/about_page.dart';
 import '../screens/home/settings_page.dart';
+import '../screens/home/ui.dart' show appName, displayVersion;
 import '../session/auto_sit_out.dart' show AutoSitOutTimes;
 import '../sfx/sfx.dart';
 import '../sfx/sound_bank.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../state/settings.dart';
 import '../update/update_controller.dart';
 import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ class SettingsTab extends StatelessWidget {
         ];
       case SettingsSection.network:
         return [
-          const HostDefaultsPanel(),
+          const YourServerPanel(),
           const RecentServersPanel(),
           SettingsPanel(
             title: 'Watching',
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ class SettingsTab extends StatelessWidget {
                   }
                 },
           ),
-          const SettingsPanel(title: 'Jellyfin playback', child: AutoAdvanceSetting()),
+          const SettingsPanel(title: 'Episodes', child: AutoAdvanceSetting()),
           const SettingsPanel(title: 'Jellyfin library', child: HideReReleasesSetting()),
         ];
       case SettingsSection.notifications:
@@ -228,6 +229,19 @@ class SettingsTab extends StatelessWidget {
                         Text(section.label, style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.headlineSmall),
                         const SizedBox(height: 14),
                         ..._page(context),
+                        // The version, quietly (also the Settings tab's
+                        // tooltip and About).
+                        Padding(
+                          padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 8),
+                          child: SelectableText(
+                            '$appName ${displayVersion()}',
+                            key: const ValueKey('settings-version'),
+                            style: TextStyle(
+                              fontSize: 11,
+                              color: Theme.of(context).colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant.withValues(alpha: 0.7),
+                            ),
+                          ),
+                        ),
                       ],
                     ),
                   ),
@@ -244,16 +258,18 @@ class SettingsTab extends StatelessWidget {
   }
 }
 
-/// Party & network: what the Host card starts with.
+/// Party & network: your server's port and password, used when you
-class HostDefaultsPanel extends StatefulWidget {
+/// Invite (the next time sharing starts).
-  const HostDefaultsPanel({super.key});
+class YourServerPanel extends StatefulWidget {
+  const YourServerPanel({super.key});
 
   @override
-  State<HostDefaultsPanel> createState() => _HostDefaultsPanelState();
+  State<YourServerPanel> createState() => _YourServerPanelState();
 }
 
-class _HostDefaultsPanelState extends State<HostDefaultsPanel> {
+class _YourServerPanelState extends State<YourServerPanel> {
-  final _form = SessionState.instance.lastForm;
+  late final _forms = AppScope.of(context).forms;
+  late final _form = _forms.form;
   late final _port = TextEditingController(text: _form.hostPort);
   late final _secret = TextEditingController(text: _form.hostSecret);
   bool _show = false;
@@ -272,22 +288,22 @@ class _HostDefaultsPanelState extends State<HostDefaultsPanel> {
 
   Future<void> _save() async {
     try {
-      await SessionState.instance.saveForm();
+      await _forms.save();
     } catch (e) {
-      debugPrint('save host defaults failed: $e');
+      debugPrint('save your server settings failed: $e');
     }
   }
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     return SettingsPanel(
-      title: 'Hosting',
+      title: 'Your server',
       child: Column(
         crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
         children: [
           SettingRow(
-            label: 'Default port',
+            label: 'Port',
-            help: 'Where your server listens when you host; friends dial it',
+            help: 'Where friends reach your server once you Invite (the next time you start sharing)',
             control: SizedBox(
               width: 120,
               child: TextField(
@@ -306,7 +322,8 @@ class _HostDefaultsPanelState extends State<HostDefaultsPanel> {
           ),
           SettingRow(
             label: 'Password',
-            help: 'Asked of everyone joining your server; blank lets in anyone who reaches the port',
+            help: 'Asked of every friend joining your server; blank lets in anyone who reaches the port '
+                '(the next time you start sharing)',
             control: SizedBox(
               width: 220,
               child: TextField(
@@ -341,16 +358,16 @@ class RecentServersPanel extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final session = SessionState.instance;
+    final forms = AppScope.of(context).forms;
     final muted = Theme.of(context).colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant;
     return SettingsPanel(
       title: 'Recent servers',
       child: SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-        final list = session.recents.value;
+        final list = forms.recents.value;
         return Column(
           crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
           children: [
-            Text('Join and Host offer these in one click; remove the ones you no longer use',
+            Text('Join offers these in one click; remove the ones you no longer use',
                 style: TextStyle(color: muted, fontSize: 12)),
             if (list.isEmpty)
               Padding(
@@ -361,13 +378,13 @@ class RecentServersPanel extends StatelessWidget {
               ListTile(
                 key: ValueKey('recent-${r.key}'),
                 contentPadding: EdgeInsets.zero,
-                leading: Icon(r.hosted ? Icons.cast_outlined : Icons.dns_outlined),
+                leading: const Icon(Icons.dns_outlined),
-                title: Text(r.hosted ? 'Hosted on port ${r.port}' : '${r.host}:${r.port}'),
+                title: Text('${r.host}:${r.port}'),
                 subtitle: r.secret.isEmpty ? null : const Text('password saved'),
                 trailing: IconButton(
                   tooltip: 'Remove',
                   icon: const Icon(Icons.close, size: 18),
-                  onPressed: () => session.forgetServer(r),
+                  onPressed: () => forms.forget(r),
                 ),
               ),
           ],
@@ -389,7 +406,7 @@ class YtDlpSettings extends StatefulWidget {
 }
 
 class _YtDlpSettingsState extends State<YtDlpSettings> {
-  late final Future<YtDlp> _y = widget.ytDlp ?? SessionState.instance.ports.links.ytDlp;
+  late final Future<YtDlp> _y = widget.ytDlp ?? AppScope.of(context).ports.links.ytDlp;
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
@@ -474,7 +491,7 @@ class _YtDlpCookieSettingsState extends State<YtDlpCookieSettings> {
   Future<void> _pickFile() async {
     final List<String> files;
     try {
-      files = await SessionState.instance.ports.folders.pickFiles(
+      files = await AppScope.of(context).ports.folders.pickFiles(
         dialogTitle: 'Pick a cookies.txt or a JSON cookie export',
         extensions: const ['txt', 'json'],
       );
@@ -534,7 +551,7 @@ class _YtDlpCookieSettingsState extends State<YtDlpCookieSettings> {
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
-    return SessionState.instance.ports.shell.dropTarget(
+    return AppScope.of(context).ports.shell.dropTarget(
       onEnter: () => setState(() => _dragging = true),
       onExit: () => setState(() => _dragging = false),
       onDrop: (paths, _) {
@@ -730,8 +747,9 @@ class _AnimeFlowCardState extends State<AnimeFlowCard> {
   }
 }
 
-/// What pops up (chat pop-ups: [AppSettings.chatPopups]) and what makes
+/// What pops up (chat pop-ups: [AppSettings.chatPopups]), what reaches
-/// a sound.
+/// you while you sit out or the window is in the background
+/// ([AppSettings.notifyPeople]), and what makes a sound.
 class NotificationsInfo extends StatelessWidget {
   const NotificationsInfo({super.key});
 
@@ -753,8 +771,9 @@ class NotificationsInfo extends StatelessWidget {
           child: Column(
             crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
             children: [
-              line('Joins, leaves and video changes',
+              line('Joins, leaves, lost connections and video changes',
-                  'Pop up bottom left for 5 s, with the person\'s picture'),
+                  "Pop up bottom left for 5 s with the person's picture, above the player's controls"),
+              line('Added to Up next', 'With the title, its picture and who added it'),
               Padding(
                 padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 6),
                 child: Row(
@@ -781,7 +800,30 @@ class NotificationsInfo extends StatelessWidget {
               ),
               line('Sat out or nudged by someone', 'Only on your end, with their picture'),
               line('Ready, seeks and pauses', 'Only in Chat & activity (Tab), never as a pop-up'),
-              line('App notices', 'Shader changes, auto sit-out setting you away'),
+              line('Watching alone', 'No pop-ups or sounds about the party: there is nobody else'),
+              line('App notices', 'Shader changes, copies, errors, auto sit-out setting you away'),
+            ],
+          ),
+        ),
+        SettingsPanel(
+          title: 'Sitting out and in the background',
+          child: Column(
+            crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
+            children: [
+              line('What still reaches you',
+                  'While you sit out, only chat, nudges, "starting now" and Up next pop up. With the window '
+                  'in the background or minimised they also go out as system notifications; a click brings '
+                  'the window up (a chat one opens the chat)'),
+              SignalBuilder(
+                builder: (context) => SwitchListTile(
+                  key: const ValueKey('notify-people'),
+                  contentPadding: EdgeInsets.zero,
+                  title: const Text('Joins and leaves too'),
+                  subtitle: Text('Who joins, leaves, loses connection or comes back', style: muted),
+                  value: AppSettings.instance.notifyPeople.value,
+                  onChanged: AppSettings.instance.setNotifyPeople,
+                ),
+              ),
             ],
           ),
         ),
@@ -796,7 +838,8 @@ class NotificationsInfo extends StatelessWidget {
 class SoundSettings extends StatelessWidget {
   const SoundSettings({super.key});
 
-  void _preview(SfxKind kind) => unawaited(SessionState.instance.sfx.preview(kind, readyIndex: 2));
+  void _preview(BuildContext context, SfxKind kind) =>
+      unawaited(AppScope.of(context).sfx.preview(kind, readyIndex: 2));
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
@@ -820,7 +863,7 @@ class SoundSettings extends StatelessWidget {
                   key: const ValueKey('sound-volume'),
                   value: volume,
                   onChanged: s.setSoundVolume,
-                  onChangeEnd: (_) => _preview(SfxKind.ready),
+                  onChangeEnd: (_) => _preview(context, SfxKind.ready),
                 ),
               ),
               SizedBox(width: 44, child: Text('${(volume * 100).round()}%', textAlign: TextAlign.end)),
@@ -837,7 +880,7 @@ class SoundSettings extends StatelessWidget {
                 value: overall,
                 onChanged: (v) {
                   s.setSoundPreset(v);
-                  _preview(SfxKind.ready);
+                  _preview(context, SfxKind.ready);
                 },
                 items: [
                   for (final MapEntry(key: p, value: (name, _)) in presetInfo.entries) (p.name, name),
@@ -855,7 +898,7 @@ class SoundSettings extends StatelessWidget {
                   IconButton(
                     key: ValueKey('sound-play-${kind.name}'),
                     tooltip: 'Play',
-                    onPressed: volume == 0 ? null : () => _preview(kind),
+                    onPressed: volume == 0 ? null : () => _preview(context, kind),
                     icon: const Icon(Icons.play_arrow_rounded),
                   ),
                   const SizedBox(width: 4),
@@ -871,7 +914,7 @@ class SoundSettings extends StatelessWidget {
                     style: muted,
                     onChanged: (v) {
                       s.setSoundPresetFor(kind.name, v);
-                      if (volume > 0) _preview(kind);
+                      if (volume > 0) _preview(context, kind);
                     },
                     items: [
                       (null, 'Same as set'),

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/sit_out_card.dart

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
 import '../playback/media_marks.dart' show formatClock;
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import '../sync/state_diff.dart' show serverPositionAt;
 import 'now_playing_title.dart';
 import 'start_banner.dart';
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ class _SitOutCardState extends State<SitOutCard> {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+    final coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
     final small = widget.compact;
     return ListenableBuilder(
-      listenable: artChanges(),
+      listenable: artChanges(context),
       builder: (context, _) => SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
         final r = coord.serverState.value;
         final now = coord.nowPlaying.value;

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/start_banner.dart

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
 import '../session/now_playing.dart';
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
 import 'now_playing_title.dart';
 
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ class StartCard extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final banner = artImage(now.bannerHash);
+    final banner = artImage(context, now.bannerHash);
-    final cover = banner == null ? artImage(now.posterHash) : null;
+    final cover = banner == null ? artImage(context, now.posterHash) : null;
     final episode = now.episode;
     return LayoutBuilder(builder: (context, box) {
       final h = box.maxHeight;
@@ -145,10 +145,10 @@ class _StartBannerState extends State<StartBanner> {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+    final coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
     return IgnorePointer(
       child: ListenableBuilder(
-        listenable: artChanges(),
+        listenable: artChanges(context),
         builder: (context, _) => SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
           final r = coord.serverState.value;
           final now = coord.nowPlaying.value;

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/toasts.dart

@@ -4,30 +4,30 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
 import '../session/session_coordinator.dart' show ToastItem;
-import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../app/app_graph.dart';
-import '../state/settings.dart';
 import 'avatar.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
 
-/// One toast on screen: who (null = the app itself), what, and whether it
+/// One toast on screen: who (null = the app itself), what, a picture
-/// is on its way out.
+/// (an Up next item's), and whether it is on its way out.
 class ShellToast {
   final int id;
   final AvatarInfo? who;
   final IconData? icon;
   final String text;
   final bool chat;
+  final String thumb;
   bool leaving = false;
-  ShellToast({required this.id, required this.text, this.who, this.icon, this.chat = false});
+  ShellToast({required this.id, required this.text, this.who, this.icon, this.chat = false, this.thumb = ''});
 }
 
-/// Splits a coordinator toast into who and what: feed and chat toasts
+/// Splits a Notifier toast into who and what: feed and chat toasts name
-/// name their [ToastItem.actor] and start with it ("Bob joined", "Bob:
+/// their [ToastItem.actor] and start with it ("Bob joined", "Bob: hi");
-/// hi"); the rest are the app's.
+/// the rest are the app's.
 ShellToast shellToastFor(ToastItem t, AvatarInfo Function(String name) avatar) {
   final n = t.actor;
-  if (n == null || n.isEmpty) return ShellToast(id: t.id, text: t.text, icon: Icons.info_outline);
+  if (n == null || n.isEmpty) return ShellToast(id: t.id, text: t.text, icon: Icons.info_outline, thumb: t.thumb);
-  if (t.text.startsWith('$n: ')) {
+  if (t.chat && t.text.startsWith('$n: ')) {
     return ShellToast(id: t.id, who: avatar(n), text: t.text.substring(n.length + 2), chat: true);
   }
   final rest = t.text.startsWith('$n ') ? t.text.substring(n.length + 1) : t.text;
@@ -35,24 +35,30 @@ ShellToast shellToastFor(ToastItem t, AvatarInfo Function(String name) avatar) {
       ? Icons.login
       : rest.startsWith('left')
           ? Icons.logout
+          : rest.startsWith('lost connection')
+              ? Icons.wifi_off_rounded
+              : rest.startsWith('is back')
+                  ? Icons.wifi_rounded
                   : rest.startsWith('sat you out')
                       ? Icons.bedtime
                       : rest.startsWith('nudged')
                           ? Icons.notifications_active_outlined
                           : rest.startsWith('changed')
                               ? Icons.swap_horiz
+                              : rest.startsWith('added')
+                                  ? Icons.playlist_add_rounded
                                   : Icons.info_outline;
-  return ShellToast(id: t.id, who: avatar(n), text: rest, icon: icon);
+  return ShellToast(id: t.id, who: avatar(n), text: rest, icon: icon, thumb: t.thumb);
 }
 
-/// The coordinator's toasts as cards with avatars, bottom-left: each
+/// The Notifier's toasts as cards with avatars, bottom-left: each slides
-/// slides in, stays [life], then slides out and collapses its gap. A click
+/// in, stays while the Notifier keeps it (it drops it after its time),
-/// on a chat toast opens the chat ([onOpenChat]); the rest let clicks
+/// then slides out and collapses its gap. A click on a chat toast opens
-/// through. Chat toasts follow [AppSettings.chatPopups].
+/// the chat ([onOpenChat]); the rest let clicks through. What pops up at
+/// all (chat pop-ups, sitting out, alone) is the Notifier's policy.
 class PartyToasts extends StatefulWidget {
-  final Duration life;
   final VoidCallback? onOpenChat;
-  const PartyToasts({super.key, this.life = const Duration(seconds: 5), this.onOpenChat});
+  const PartyToasts({super.key, this.onOpenChat});
 
   @override
   State<PartyToasts> createState() => _PartyToastsState();
@@ -67,38 +73,45 @@ class _PartyToastsState extends State<PartyToasts> {
   @override
   void initState() {
     super.initState();
-    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+    final coord = AppScope.of(context).coordinator;
     // What was there before this mounted is old news.
     _seen = {for (final t in coord.toasts.peek()) t.id};
     _stop = effect(() {
       final items = coord.toasts.value;
+      final ids = {for (final t in items) t.id};
       final fresh = [for (final t in items) if (!_seen.contains(t.id)) t];
-      _seen = {for (final t in items) t.id};
+      final gone = _seen.difference(ids);
-      if (fresh.isEmpty) return;
+      _seen = ids;
+      if (fresh.isEmpty && gone.isEmpty) return;
       // Only new toasts re-run this, not the party they mention.
       untracked(() {
-        final playing = coord.serverState.value?.transport == 'playing';
-        final popups = AppSettings.instance.chatPopups.value;
         for (final t in fresh) {
-          final toast = shellToastFor(t, (n) => avatarForName(n, coord, t.actorId));
+          _add(shellToastFor(t, (n) => avatarForName(n, coord, t.actorId)));
-          // Chat per Settings → Notifications (it is in the chat either way).
-          if (toast.chat && !popups.shows(playing: playing)) continue;
-          _add(toast);
         }
+        if (gone.isNotEmpty) _leave(gone);
       });
     });
   }
 
   void _add(ShellToast t) {
     // Not from inside the effect's build-time notification.
+    scheduleMicrotask(() {
+      if (mounted) setState(() => _shown.add(t));
+    });
+  }
+
+  void _leave(Set<int> ids) {
     scheduleMicrotask(() {
       if (!mounted) return;
-      setState(() => _shown.add(t));
+      final leaving = [for (final t in _shown) if (ids.contains(t.id) && !t.leaving) t];
-      _timers.add(Timer(widget.life, () {
+      if (leaving.isEmpty) return;
-        if (mounted) setState(() => t.leaving = true);
+      setState(() {
-      }));
+        for (final t in leaving) {
-      _timers.add(Timer(widget.life + easeTime, () {
+          t.leaving = true;
-        if (mounted) setState(() => _shown.remove(t));
+        }
+      });
+      _timers.add(Timer(easeTime, () {
+        if (mounted) setState(() => _shown.removeWhere(leaving.contains));
       }));
     });
   }
@@ -114,7 +127,7 @@ class _PartyToastsState extends State<PartyToasts> {
 
   void _open(ShellToast t) {
     widget.onOpenChat?.call();
-    setState(() => t.leaving = true);
+    AppScope.of(context).notifier.dismiss(t.id);
   }
 
   @override
@@ -206,6 +219,8 @@ class ToastCard extends StatelessWidget {
             children: [
               if (who != null)
                 StatusAvatar(info: who, size: 38, badges: false)
+              else if (toast.thumb.isNotEmpty)
+                _Thumb(hash: toast.thumb)
               else
                 CircleAvatar(
                   radius: 19,
@@ -237,6 +252,8 @@ class ToastCard extends StatelessWidget {
                     ],
                     Text(
                       toast.text,
+                      maxLines: 3,
+                      overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
                       style: TextStyle(
                         fontSize: toast.chat ? 15 : 14,
                         color: toast.chat || who == null ? scheme.onSurface : scheme.onSurfaceVariant,
@@ -245,6 +262,10 @@ class ToastCard extends StatelessWidget {
                   ],
                 ),
               ),
+              if (who != null && toast.thumb.isNotEmpty) ...[
+                const SizedBox(width: 12),
+                _Thumb(hash: toast.thumb),
+              ],
             ],
           ),
         ),
@@ -252,3 +273,31 @@ class ToastCard extends StatelessWidget {
     );
   }
 }
+
+/// An Up next item's picture (16:9, from the queue's picture cache);
+/// a blank until it is fetched.
+class _Thumb extends StatelessWidget {
+  final String hash;
+  const _Thumb({required this.hash});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final thumbs = AppScope.of(context).coordinator.queue.thumbs;
+    return ClipRRect(
+      key: const ValueKey('toast-thumb'),
+      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
+      child: SizedBox(
+        width: 68,
+        height: 38,
+        child: ListenableBuilder(
+          listenable: thumbs,
+          builder: (context, _) {
+            final bytes = thumbs.bytesFor(hash);
+            if (bytes == null) return ColoredBox(color: Theme.of(context).colorScheme.surfaceContainerHighest);
+            return Image.memory(bytes, fit: BoxFit.cover, gaplessPlayback: true);
+          },
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/welcome.dart

@@ -12,15 +12,16 @@ const appTagline = 'Watch together, in sync';
 /// the app name (else under it).
 const welcomeWideFrom = 980.0;
 
-/// Top of the Library while not in a server: the app's name and the three
+/// Top of the Library for newcomers alone on their own server: the app's
-/// ways in, Join a friend first (what most people came for), then Host and
+/// name and the three ways in, Join a friend first (what most people came
-/// Watch solo. None of them needs Jellyfin.
+/// for), then Invite friends and Watch on your own. None of them needs
+/// Jellyfin.
 class WelcomeBand extends StatelessWidget {
   final VoidCallback onJoin;
-  final VoidCallback onHost;
+  final VoidCallback onInvite;
-  final VoidCallback onSolo;
+  final VoidCallback onWatch;
   final VoidCallback? onDismiss;
-  const WelcomeBand({super.key, required this.onJoin, required this.onHost, required this.onSolo, this.onDismiss});
+  const WelcomeBand({super.key, required this.onJoin, required this.onInvite, required this.onWatch, this.onDismiss});
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
@@ -63,23 +64,23 @@ class WelcomeBand extends StatelessWidget {
         key: const ValueKey('way-join'),
         icon: Icons.login_rounded,
         title: 'Join a friend',
-        caption: 'Got an address from a friend? Join with it. Nothing to set up.',
+        caption: 'Got an invite from a friend? Join with it. Nothing to set up.',
         primary: true,
         onTap: onJoin,
       ),
       WayCard(
-        key: const ValueKey('way-host'),
+        key: const ValueKey('way-invite'),
-        icon: Icons.podcasts_rounded,
+        icon: Icons.group_add_outlined,
-        title: 'Host',
+        title: 'Invite friends',
-        caption: 'You have the video. Friends join you and watch it with you.',
+        caption: 'You have the video. Copy an invite; friends join you and watch it with you.',
-        onTap: onHost,
+        onTap: onInvite,
       ),
       WayCard(
-        key: const ValueKey('way-solo'),
+        key: const ValueKey('way-watch'),
         icon: Icons.person_outline_rounded,
-        title: 'Watch solo',
+        title: 'Watch on your own',
         caption: 'Just you: play anything below. Invite friends any time.',
-        onTap: onSolo,
+        onTap: onWatch,
       ),
     ];
     Widget row(List<Widget> cards) => IntrinsicHeight(

apps/desktop/lib/src/state/connect_prefs.dart

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
+import 'dart:convert';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show debugPrint;
 import 'package:hive_ce/hive.dart';
+import 'package:signals/signals.dart';
 
 const connectFormBoxName = 'connect_form';
 
@@ -19,3 +23,165 @@ String readString(Box box, String key, String fallback) {
   final v = box.get(key);
   return v is String ? v : fallback;
 }
+
+const connectKeyHostPort = 'hostPort';
+const connectKeyHostSecret = 'hostSecret';
+const connectKeyRecents = 'recents';
+const maxRecentServers = 6;
+
+/// The connect form: the Join card's address ([host]/[port]/[secret]),
+/// your server's port and password when shared ([hostPort]/[hostSecret]),
+/// the profile name and the last media picked.
+class ConnectForm {
+  String host;
+  String port;
+  String secret;
+  String hostPort;
+  String hostSecret;
+  String name;
+  String avatarPath;
+  String mediaPath;
+  String linkUrl;
+  ConnectForm({
+    this.host = '127.0.0.1',
+    this.port = '8080',
+    this.secret = '',
+    this.hostPort = '8080',
+    this.hostSecret = '',
+    this.name = '',
+    this.avatarPath = '',
+    this.mediaPath = '',
+    this.linkUrl = '',
+  });
+
+  ConnectForm copy() => ConnectForm(
+        host: host,
+        port: port,
+        secret: secret,
+        hostPort: hostPort,
+        hostSecret: hostSecret,
+        name: name,
+        avatarPath: avatarPath,
+        mediaPath: mediaPath,
+        linkUrl: linkUrl,
+      );
+}
+
+/// A friend's server the user got into, shown as a Recent row on the
+/// Join card (one click joins).
+class RecentServer {
+  final String host;
+  final String port;
+  final String secret;
+  const RecentServer({required this.host, required this.port, this.secret = ''});
+
+  String get key => '${host.toLowerCase()}:$port';
+
+  Map<String, Object> toJson() => {'host': host, 'port': port, 'secret': secret};
+
+  /// Null for anything unreadable and for the hosted entries older
+  /// versions kept (your server has no recents).
+  static RecentServer? fromJson(Object? j) {
+    if (j is! Map || j['hosted'] == true) return null;
+    final host = j['host'], port = j['port'], secret = j['secret'];
+    if (host is! String || port is! String) return null;
+    return RecentServer(host: host, port: port, secret: secret is String ? secret : '');
+  }
+}
+
+/// Newest first, one entry per server, capped at [maxRecentServers].
+List<RecentServer> pushRecent(List<RecentServer> list, RecentServer s) => [
+      s,
+      ...list.where((r) => r.key != s.key),
+    ].take(maxRecentServers).toList();
+
+String encodeRecents(List<RecentServer> list) => jsonEncode([for (final r in list) r.toJson()]);
+
+List<RecentServer> decodeRecents(Object? raw) {
+  if (raw is! String) return const [];
+  try {
+    final list = jsonDecode(raw);
+    if (list is! List) return const [];
+    return [
+      for (final j in list) ?RecentServer.fromJson(j),
+    ].take(maxRecentServers).toList();
+  } catch (_) {
+    return const [];
+  }
+}
+
+/// Before recents existed only the last form was stored: a saved remote
+/// address becomes the first Recent row.
+List<RecentServer> migrateRecents(
+    {required bool hadForm, required String host, required String port, required String secret}) {
+  final h = host.trim().toLowerCase();
+  if (!hadForm || h.isEmpty || h == '127.0.0.1' || h == 'localhost') return const [];
+  return [RecentServer(host: host.trim(), port: port, secret: secret)];
+}
+
+/// The connect form and the recent servers, kept in the `connect_form`
+/// box. Made by the composition root; the Join card, your server (its
+/// port and password), the profile and the library read and write it.
+class ConnectStore {
+  final form = ConnectForm();
+  final recents = signal<List<RecentServer>>(const []);
+
+  Future<void> load() async {
+    final box = await openConnectFormBox();
+    form
+      ..host = readString(box, connectKeyHost, '127.0.0.1')
+      ..port = readString(box, connectKeyPort, '8080')
+      ..secret = readString(box, connectKeySecret, '');
+    // Old installs had one port/password for both modes.
+    form
+      ..hostPort = readString(box, connectKeyHostPort, form.port)
+      ..hostSecret = readString(box, connectKeyHostSecret, form.secret)
+      ..name = readString(box, connectKeyName, '')
+      ..avatarPath = readString(box, connectKeyAvatarPath, '')
+      ..mediaPath = readString(box, connectKeyMediaPath, '')
+      ..linkUrl = readString(box, connectKeyLinkUrl, '');
+    recents.value = box.containsKey(connectKeyRecents)
+        ? decodeRecents(box.get(connectKeyRecents))
+        : migrateRecents(
+            hadForm: box.containsKey(connectKeyHost), host: form.host, port: form.port, secret: form.secret);
+  }
+
+  Future<void> save() async {
+    final box = connectFormBoxIfOpen() ?? await openConnectFormBox();
+    await box.putAll({
+      connectKeyHost: form.host,
+      connectKeyPort: form.port,
+      connectKeySecret: form.secret,
+      connectKeyHostPort: form.hostPort,
+      connectKeyHostSecret: form.hostSecret,
+      connectKeyName: form.name,
+      connectKeyAvatarPath: form.avatarPath,
+      connectKeyMediaPath: form.mediaPath,
+      connectKeyLinkUrl: form.linkUrl,
+      connectKeyRecents: encodeRecents(recents.peek()),
+    });
+  }
+
+  /// [save] whatever happens (a failed join is exactly when the user
+  /// wants the form back); a failure is only logged.
+  Future<void> saveQuietly() async {
+    try {
+      await save();
+    } catch (e, st) {
+      debugPrint('save connect form failed: $e\n$st');
+    }
+  }
+
+  Future<void> remember(RecentServer server) async {
+    recents.value = pushRecent(recents.peek(), server);
+    await saveQuietly();
+  }
+
+  Future<void> forget(RecentServer server) async {
+    recents.value = [
+      for (final r in recents.peek())
+        if (r.key != server.key) r,
+    ];
+    await saveQuietly();
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/state/server_isolate.dart

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import 'package:sync_relay_server/server.dart';
 Future<void> _serverMain((Map<String, Object?>, SendPort) args) =>
     serve(args.$1, events: args.$2);
 
-/// The hosted server, running [serve] on its own isolate. Its log lines
+/// This app's own server ("your server"), running [serve] on its own
+/// isolate for the whole app run. Its log lines
 /// go to [onLog]; if the isolate dies without being asked to stop,
 /// [onCrash] gets the cause once.
 class ServerIsolate {
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ class ServerIsolate {
 
   /// Spawns the server and waits until it listens. Throws a
   /// [StateError] with the server's message if it cannot start.
-  /// [loopbackOnly]: 127.0.0.1 only (the solo session). [logDir]: where
+  /// [loopbackOnly]: 127.0.0.1 only until [share]. [logDir]: where
   /// the server writes its session log (none when null).
   static Future<ServerIsolate> start(
     AppConfig config, {
@@ -156,6 +157,47 @@ class ServerIsolate {
     }
   }
 
+  /// Opens the server to the network ([SyncServer.share]): a listener on
+  /// every interface at [port], the password [secret], the Jellyfin relay
+  /// logins [jellyfin] (one per Jellyfin server). Returns the bound port;
+  /// throws a [StateError] with
+  /// the server's reason (a port in use) when it cannot.
+  Future<int> share({required int port, required String secret, List<JellyfinCredential>? jellyfin,
+      Duration timeout = const Duration(seconds: 10)}) async {
+    if (_exited.isCompleted) throw StateError('the server is not running');
+    final reply = ReceivePort('server share');
+    try {
+      _stop.send({
+        't': 'share',
+        'port': port,
+        'secret': secret,
+        if (jellyfin != null) 'jellyfin': [for (final c in jellyfin) c.toMap()],
+        'reply': reply.sendPort,
+      });
+      final msg = await reply.first.timeout(timeout);
+      if (msg is Map && msg['ok'] == true) return msg['port'] as int;
+      throw StateError(msg is Map ? '${msg['message']}' : 'the server did not answer');
+    } on TimeoutException {
+      throw StateError('the server did not answer');
+    } finally {
+      reply.close();
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Closes the network listener again ([SyncServer.unshare]): everyone
+  /// but this app's own member leaves; nothing else changes.
+  Future<void> unshare({Duration timeout = const Duration(seconds: 5)}) async {
+    if (_exited.isCompleted) return;
+    final reply = ReceivePort('server unshare');
+    try {
+      _stop.send({'t': 'unshare', 'reply': reply.sendPort});
+      await reply.first.timeout(timeout);
+    } catch (_) {
+    } finally {
+      reply.close();
+    }
+  }
+
   /// Asks the server to close its sockets and exit; kills the isolate if it
   /// has not exited within [timeout].
   Future<void> stop({Duration timeout = const Duration(seconds: 3)}) async {

apps/desktop/lib/src/state/session_state.dart

@@ -1,538 +0,0 @@
-import 'dart:async';
-import 'dart:convert';
-import 'dart:math';
-
-import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
-import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
-import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
-
-import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
-import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
-import '../screens/home/health_probe.dart';
-import '../screens/home/picked_media.dart';
-import '../platform/app_log.dart' show appLogDir;
-import '../platform/desktop/desktop_ports.dart';
-import '../platform/ports/ports.dart';
-import '../sfx/sfx.dart';
-import '../sfx/sound_bank.dart';
-import '../sfx/synth_sfx.dart';
-import '../session/health.dart';
-import '../session/notifier.dart';
-import '../session/connection.dart' show Connection;
-import '../session/identity.dart' show ClientIdentity;
-import '../session/session_coordinator.dart';
-import '../widgets/avatar_pipeline.dart';
-import 'connect_prefs.dart';
-import 'server_isolate.dart';
-import 'settings.dart';
-
-enum AppRoute {
-  home,
-  session,
-}
-
-enum ConnectMode { host, join }
-
-/// Both Home cards prefill from this. [host]/[port]/[secret] belong to
-/// the Join card, [hostPort]/[hostSecret] to the Host card.
-class ConnectForm {
-  String host;
-  String port;
-  String secret;
-  String hostPort;
-  String hostSecret;
-  String name;
-  String avatarPath;
-  String mediaPath;
-  String linkUrl;
-  ConnectForm({
-    this.host = '127.0.0.1',
-    this.port = '8080',
-    this.secret = '',
-    this.hostPort = '8080',
-    this.hostSecret = '',
-    this.name = '',
-    this.avatarPath = '',
-    this.mediaPath = '',
-    this.linkUrl = '',
-  });
-
-  ConnectForm copy() => ConnectForm(
-        host: host,
-        port: port,
-        secret: secret,
-        hostPort: hostPort,
-        hostSecret: hostSecret,
-        name: name,
-        avatarPath: avatarPath,
-        mediaPath: mediaPath,
-        linkUrl: linkUrl,
-      );
-}
-
-const connectKeyHostPort = 'hostPort';
-const connectKeyHostSecret = 'hostSecret';
-const connectKeyRecents = 'recents';
-const maxRecentServers = 6;
-
-/// A server the user got into, shown as a Recent chip on Home. Hosted
-/// entries refill the Host card; joined ones join in one click.
-class RecentServer {
-  final bool hosted;
-  final String host;
-  final String port;
-  final String secret;
-  const RecentServer(
-      {required this.hosted,
-      required this.host,
-      required this.port,
-      this.secret = ''});
-
-  String get key => hosted ? 'host:$port' : '${host.toLowerCase()}:$port';
-
-  Map<String, Object> toJson() =>
-      {'hosted': hosted, 'host': host, 'port': port, 'secret': secret};
-
-  static RecentServer? fromJson(Object? j) {
-    if (j is! Map) return null;
-    final host = j['host'], port = j['port'], secret = j['secret'];
-    if (host is! String || port is! String) return null;
-    return RecentServer(
-      hosted: j['hosted'] == true,
-      host: host,
-      port: port,
-      secret: secret is String ? secret : '',
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Newest first, one entry per server, capped at [maxRecentServers].
-List<RecentServer> pushRecent(List<RecentServer> list, RecentServer s) => [
-      s,
-      ...list.where((r) => r.key != s.key),
-    ].take(maxRecentServers).toList();
-
-String encodeRecents(List<RecentServer> list) =>
-    jsonEncode([for (final r in list) r.toJson()]);
-
-List<RecentServer> decodeRecents(Object? raw) {
-  if (raw is! String) return const [];
-  try {
-    final list = jsonDecode(raw);
-    if (list is! List) return const [];
-    return [
-      for (final j in list) ?RecentServer.fromJson(j),
-    ].take(maxRecentServers).toList();
-  } catch (_) {
-    return const [];
-  }
-}
-
-/// Before recents existed only the last form was stored: a saved remote
-/// address becomes the first Recent chip.
-List<RecentServer> migrateRecents(
-    {required bool hadForm,
-    required String host,
-    required String port,
-    required String secret}) {
-  final h = host.trim().toLowerCase();
-  if (!hadForm || h.isEmpty || h == '127.0.0.1' || h == 'localhost') {
-    return const [];
-  }
-  return [RecentServer(hosted: false, host: host.trim(), port: port, secret: secret)];
-}
-
-/// The hosted server died during setup; shown on the Host card.
-class ServerCrashed implements Exception {
-  final String cause;
-  const ServerCrashed(this.cause);
-  @override
-  String toString() => 'server crashed: $cause';
-}
-
-/// A fresh per-hosting key: the app's own client sends it in hello to be
-/// recognised as the host (`members[].host`).
-String newHostKey() {
-  final r = Random.secure();
-  return base64Url.encode([for (var i = 0; i < 24; i++) r.nextInt(256)]);
-}
-
-class SessionState {
-  static final SessionState instance = SessionState._();
-  SessionState._();
-
-  final route = signal(AppRoute.home);
-  final recents = signal<List<RecentServer>>(const []);
-  final status = signal(const HealthStatus(HealthSeverity.info, 'idle'));
-  /// Owns the app's audio device ([SynthSfx.dispose] on close).
-  final SynthSfx sfx = SynthSfx(
-    volume: () => AppSettings.instance.soundVolume.peek(),
-    // A nudge is an explicit poke: it ignores its switch (not the volume).
-    enabled: (k) => k == SfxKind.nudge || !AppSettings.instance.soundsOff.peek().contains(k.name),
-    presetFor: soundPresetFor,
-  );
-  /// The platform (window, links, folders, yt-dlp, notifications).
-  final Ports ports = desktopPorts();
-  /// Every toast, sound and activity-log line goes through it.
-  late final Notifier notifier = Notifier(sfx: sfx, attention: ports.shell.requestAttention);
-  /// The link to the server; lost/back go to the notifier.
-  /// The link to the server, with this install's stored identity
-  /// (`hello.client` / `seq`); lost/back go to the notifier.
-  late final Connection connection = Connection(notify: notifier.notify, identity: ClientIdentity.stored());
-  late final SessionCoordinator coordinator =
-      SessionCoordinator(notifier: notifier, connection: connection, ytDlp: ports.links);
-  final lastForm = ConnectForm();
-  JellyfinAccounts get jellyfin => JellyfinAccounts.instance;
-  /// Set when the hosted server died mid-session; Home shows it on the
-  /// Host card and clears it.
-  final serverCrash = signal<String?>(null);
-  /// In a solo session: this app's own server on 127.0.0.1, only you in
-  /// it. Hosting from it ([host]) keeps what plays and where.
-  final solo = signal(false);
-  /// The joined server's own name (`/health`), '' until known or when it
-  /// only has the default name.
-  final serverLabel = signal('');
-  /// A solo session is becoming a hosted one: the player has nothing open
-  /// until the media is up again on the new server.
-  final switching = signal(false);
-  ConnectParams? _soloParams;
-
-  /// The app's yt-dlp folder for the hosted server; '' (the server's own
-  /// default) when the app-support folder is not available.
-  static Future<String> _sharedYtDlpDir() async {
-    try {
-      return (await instance.ports.links.ytDlp).dir;
-    } catch (_) {
-      return '';
-    }
-  }
-  ServerIsolate? _server;
-  String? _setupCrash;
-
-  @visibleForTesting
-  ServerIsolate? get hostedServer => _server;
-  // Bumped by host/join/cancelPending: a cancelled setup notices at its
-  // next step and unwinds instead of connecting.
-  int _op = 0;
-
-  Future<void> loadForm() async {
-    final box = await openConnectFormBox();
-    lastForm
-      ..host = readString(box, connectKeyHost, '127.0.0.1')
-      ..port = readString(box, connectKeyPort, '8080')
-      ..secret = readString(box, connectKeySecret, '');
-    // Old installs had one port/password for both modes.
-    lastForm
-      ..hostPort = readString(box, connectKeyHostPort, lastForm.port)
-      ..hostSecret = readString(box, connectKeyHostSecret, lastForm.secret)
-      ..name = readString(box, connectKeyName, '')
-      ..avatarPath = readString(box, connectKeyAvatarPath, '')
-      ..mediaPath = readString(box, connectKeyMediaPath, '')
-      ..linkUrl = readString(box, connectKeyLinkUrl, '');
-    recents.value = box.containsKey(connectKeyRecents)
-        ? decodeRecents(box.get(connectKeyRecents))
-        : migrateRecents(
-            hadForm: box.containsKey(connectKeyHost),
-            host: lastForm.host,
-            port: lastForm.port,
-            secret: lastForm.secret);
-  }
-
-  Future<void> saveForm() async {
-    final box = connectFormBoxIfOpen() ?? await openConnectFormBox();
-    await box.putAll({
-      connectKeyHost: lastForm.host,
-      connectKeyPort: lastForm.port,
-      connectKeySecret: lastForm.secret,
-      connectKeyHostPort: lastForm.hostPort,
-      connectKeyHostSecret: lastForm.hostSecret,
-      connectKeyName: lastForm.name,
-      connectKeyAvatarPath: lastForm.avatarPath,
-      connectKeyMediaPath: lastForm.mediaPath,
-      connectKeyLinkUrl: lastForm.linkUrl,
-      connectKeyRecents: encodeRecents(recents.peek()),
-    });
-  }
-
-  Future<String> loadAvatar(String path) => encodeAvatar(path);
-
-  /// Called by Home after a host/join got through.
-  Future<void> rememberServer(RecentServer server) async {
-    recents.value = pushRecent(recents.peek(), server);
-    await _saveFormQuietly();
-  }
-
-  Future<void> forgetServer(RecentServer server) async {
-    recents.value = [
-      for (final r in recents.peek())
-        if (r.key != server.key) r,
-    ];
-    await _saveFormQuietly();
-  }
-
-  /// Hosts a server friends can join. From a solo session it keeps the
-  /// media and position: the solo server goes, the new one gets the same
-  /// pick, seeked to where it was; if hosting fails, solo comes back.
-  Future<void> host(ConnectParams params, ConnectForm form) async {
-    if (!solo.peek()) return _host(params, form: form);
-    final carry = _invited = _carry();
-    switching.value = true;
-    try {
-      await coordinator.leave();
-      await stopServer();
-      solo.value = false;
-      coordinator.solo = false;
-      try {
-        await _host(params, form: form);
-      } catch (_) {
-        // Not hosted (failed or cancelled): back to solo, same media.
-        try {
-          await _host(_soloParams ?? params, soloSession: true);
-          if (carry != null) await _resume(carry);
-        } catch (e) {
-          debugPrint('back to solo failed: $e');
-          await leave();
-        }
-        rethrow;
-      }
-      try {
-        if (carry != null) await _resume(carry);
-      } catch (e) {
-        coordinator.notify(ActionFailed("couldn't put it up again: $e"));
-      }
-    } finally {
-      switching.value = false;
-    }
-  }
-
-  /// What an Invite from solo carried over, for [cancelInvite].
-  ({PickedMedia pick, double position})? _invited;
-
-  /// Invite cancelled after the hosted server already came up: back to
-  /// solo with the same media, not out of the session.
-  Future<void> cancelInvite() async {
-    final carry = _invited;
-    switching.value = true;
-    try {
-      await coordinator.leave();
-      await stopServer();
-      await _host(_soloParams!, soloSession: true);
-      if (carry != null) await _resume(carry);
-    } catch (e) {
-      debugPrint('back to solo failed: $e');
-      await leave();
-    } finally {
-      switching.value = false;
-    }
-  }
-
-  /// Watch alone: the same hosted path, on 127.0.0.1 and a free port, no
-  /// password, nothing put up yet. Nobody else can reach it.
-  Future<void> startSolo(ConnectParams params) async {
-    if (route.peek() == AppRoute.session) return;
-    _soloParams = params;
-    await _host(params, soloSession: true);
-  }
-
-  ({PickedMedia pick, double position})? _carry() {
-    final pick = coordinator.lastPick;
-    if (pick == null || coordinator.serverState.peek()?.media == null) return null;
-    final pos = coordinator.playback.positionSecs;
-    return (pick: pick, position: pos.isFinite && pos > 0 ? pos : 0.0);
-  }
-
-  /// Puts [carry] up on the server just joined and seeks to its position
-  /// once the swap shows in a state.
-  Future<void> _resume(({PickedMedia pick, double position}) carry) async {
-    final before = coordinator.serverState.peek()?.mediaId ?? 0;
-    final error = await coordinator.swapPicked(carry.pick);
-    if (error != null) throw StateError(error);
-    if (carry.position < 1) return;
-    final landed = Completer<void>();
-    final stop = effect(() {
-      final r = coordinator.serverState.value;
-      if (r != null && r.media != null && r.mediaId > before && !landed.isCompleted) landed.complete();
-    });
-    try {
-      await landed.future.timeout(const Duration(seconds: 20));
-      coordinator.connection.sendSeek(carry.position);
-    } on TimeoutException {
-      debugPrint('resume: the media did not come up; not seeking');
-    } finally {
-      stop();
-    }
-  }
-
-  Future<void> _host(ConnectParams params, {ConnectForm? form, bool soloSession = false}) async {
-    final op = ++_op;
-    if (form != null) _rememberForm(form);
-    try {
-      status.value =
-          const HealthStatus(HealthSeverity.info, 'starting server…');
-      await stopServer();
-      if (op != _op) throw const ConnectCancelled();
-      final hostKey = newHostKey();
-      _setupCrash = null;
-      // A pasted Jellyfin link goes up as a ref like a browser pick.
-      final media = params.media ??
-          (params.linkUrl.isEmpty ? null : await mediaForLink(jellyfin, params.linkUrl));
-      if (op != _op) throw const ConnectCancelled();
-      // Guests without an account watch through the server, with the
-      // host's own sign-in (the hosted item's server, else the default).
-      await jellyfin.ensureLoaded(validate: false);
-      final relay = relayCredentialFor(jellyfin, serverId: media?.jellyfin?.serverId);
-      late final ServerIsolate server;
-      try {
-        server = await ServerIsolate.start(
-          AppConfig(
-            port: soloSession ? 0 : params.port,
-            secret: soloSession ? '' : params.secret,
-            name: 'server',
-            mediaPath: params.mediaPath,
-            hostKey: hostKey,
-            jellyfin: relay,
-            ytDlpDir: await _sharedYtDlpDir(),
-          ),
-          loopbackOnly: soloSession,
-          // Its session log (every member's shared diagnostics and its own
-          // records) goes next to the app's; not for a solo session.
-          logDir: soloSession ? null : appLogDir,
-          // Its records join the app's log as `server.<logger>`.
-          onLog: (line) => relogLine('server', line),
-          onCrash: (cause) => _onServerCrash(server, cause),
-        );
-      } catch (e, st) {
-        debugPrint('server start failed: $e\n$st');
-        status.value = HealthStatus(
-            HealthSeverity.error, 'cannot start server on port ${params.port}: $e');
-        rethrow;
-      }
-      if (op != _op) {
-        await server.stop();
-        throw const ConnectCancelled();
-      }
-      _server = server;
-      coordinator.hostFile = (path) async =>
-          identical(_server, server) ? server.setFile(path) : null;
-      status.value = HealthStatus(
-          HealthSeverity.ok, soloSession ? 'watching solo' : 'hosting on port ${server.port}');
-      try {
-        await coordinator.connect(ConnectParams(
-          host: '127.0.0.1',
-          port: server.port,
-          secret: soloSession ? '' : params.secret,
-          name: params.name,
-          avatar: params.avatar,
-          hostKey: hostKey,
-          media: media,
-        ));
-        if (op != _op) throw const ConnectCancelled();
-      } catch (e) {
-        // Own join failed or was cancelled: don't leave the port open.
-        if (identical(_server, server)) await stopServer();
-        final crash = _setupCrash;
-        if (crash != null && e is! ConnectCancelled) throw ServerCrashed(crash);
-        rethrow;
-      }
-      solo.value = soloSession;
-      coordinator.solo = soloSession;
-      route.value = AppRoute.session;
-    } finally {
-      if (form != null) await _saveFormQuietly();
-    }
-  }
-
-  /// The server isolate died without being stopped. In a session: show it
-  /// and leave. During setup the own join fails and [host] reports it.
-  void _onServerCrash(ServerIsolate server, String cause) {
-    if (!identical(_server, server)) return;
-    final message = 'server crashed: $cause';
-    debugPrint('[server] $message');
-    if (route.peek() != AppRoute.session) {
-      _setupCrash = cause;
-      return;
-    }
-    coordinator.health.value = HealthStatus(HealthSeverity.error, message);
-    serverCrash.value = message;
-    unawaited(leave().catchError((Object e) => debugPrint('leave after crash failed: $e')));
-  }
-
-  Future<void> join(ConnectParams params, ConnectForm form) async {
-    final op = ++_op;
-    _rememberForm(form);
-    try {
-      await coordinator.connect(params);
-      if (op != _op) throw const ConnectCancelled();
-      route.value = AppRoute.session;
-      serverLabel.value = '';
-      unawaited(probeHealth(params.host, '${params.port}', defaultHealthGet).then((h) {
-        // 'server' is the dedicated server's default --name: not a name.
-        if (op == _op && h.online && h.name.isNotEmpty && h.name != 'server') serverLabel.value = h.name;
-      }).catchError((Object _) {}));
-    } finally {
-      await _saveFormQuietly();
-    }
-  }
-
-  /// Cancel button during setup: abort whichever step is running (server
-  /// start, player init, socket dial) without connecting.
-  Future<void> cancelPending() async {
-    _op++;
-    try {
-      await coordinator.cancelConnect();
-    } catch (_) {}
-    // Solo becoming hosted: [host] stops what it started and goes back
-    // to solo itself.
-    if (!switching.peek()) await stopServer();
-  }
-
-  /// Saved whatever the outcome: a failed join is exactly when the user
-  /// wants the form back.
-  Future<void> _saveFormQuietly() async {
-    try {
-      await saveForm();
-    } catch (e, st) {
-      debugPrint('save connect form failed: $e\n$st');
-    }
-  }
-
-  void _rememberForm(ConnectForm form) {
-    lastForm
-      ..host = form.host
-      ..port = form.port
-      ..secret = form.secret
-      ..hostPort = form.hostPort
-      ..hostSecret = form.hostSecret
-      ..name = form.name
-      ..avatarPath = form.avatarPath
-      ..mediaPath = form.mediaPath
-      ..linkUrl = form.linkUrl;
-  }
-
-  Future<void> stopServer() async {
-    coordinator.hostFile = null;
-    final server = _server;
-    _server = null;
-    await server?.stop();
-  }
-
-  /// Out of the session (Leave, the app closing). [bye] false: Update
-  /// and restart, the restarted app takes the member back within its grace.
-  Future<void> leave({bool bye = true}) async {
-    await coordinator.leave(bye: bye);
-    await stopServer();
-    solo.value = false;
-    coordinator.solo = false;
-    serverLabel.value = '';
-    status.value = const HealthStatus(HealthSeverity.info, 'idle');
-    route.value = AppRoute.home;
-  }
-}
-
-/// The sound set [kind] plays from: its own pick in Settings, else the
-/// overall one.
-SoundPreset soundPresetFor(SfxKind kind) {
-  final s = AppSettings.instance;
-  final name = s.soundPresetFor.peek()[kind.name] ?? s.soundPreset.peek();
-  return SoundPreset.values.where((p) => p.name == name).firstOrNull ?? defaultPreset;
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/state/settings.dart

@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
 import '../controls/model/controls_prefs.dart';
 import '../shaders/shader_presets.dart';
+import '../session/notice_prefs.dart';
 import 'settings_schema.dart';
 
+export '../session/notice_prefs.dart' show ChatPopups, NotifyPrefs;
+
 // App preferences (Settings page), one Hive box. Signals start at their
 // defaults and take the stored values once [AppSettings.ensureLoaded]
 // finishes; setters write through.
@@ -39,6 +42,7 @@ const _keySoundPresetFor = 'soundPresetFor';
 const _keyUnreadyOnSwap = 'unreadyOnSwap';
 const keyAutoSitOut = 'autoSitOut';
 const _keyChatPopups = 'chatPopups';
+const _keyNotifyPeople = 'notifyPeople';
 const _keyShareDiagnostics = 'shareDiagnostics';
 
 enum HwdecMode { auto, off, custom }
@@ -49,30 +53,15 @@ enum HwdecMode { auto, off, custom }
 /// surface there ("Failed to create EGL surface"). Elsewhere 'auto'.
 String get autoHwdec => Platform.isWindows ? 'auto-copy' : 'auto';
 
-/// When chat messages pop up as toasts (they always reach the chat).
-enum ChatPopups {
-  all('All'),
-  paused('Only when paused'),
-  off('Off');
-
-  final String label;
-  const ChatPopups(this.label);
-
-  /// Whether a chat message pops up now ([playing]: the video plays).
-  bool shows({required bool playing}) => switch (this) {
-        ChatPopups.all => true,
-        ChatPopups.paused => !playing,
-        ChatPopups.off => false,
-      };
-}
-
 class AppSettings {
   static final AppSettings instance = AppSettings();
 
   final hwdecMode = signal(HwdecMode.auto);
   final hwdecCustom = signal('');
   final autoCheckUpdates = signal(true);
-  /// Jellyfin episodes: at the end, count down 10 s and put up the next.
+  /// An episode this app puts up (Jellyfin, a file of a local show) is
+  /// continued by the next one (Up next's `auto` item, the server's
+  /// countdown at its end).
   final autoAdvance = signal(true);
   /// Session: send ready=false when the video changes (a swap keeps the
   /// server's ready flags).
@@ -100,6 +89,12 @@ class AppSettings {
   final shareDiagnostics = signal(true);
   /// Chat message toasts (default: all). Applies live.
   final chatPopups = signal(ChatPopups.all);
+  /// Joins and leaves also notify while sitting out or with the window in
+  /// the background (default off). Applies live.
+  final notifyPeople = signal(false);
+
+  /// The notification choices as the Notifier reads them.
+  NotifyPrefs get notifyPrefs => NotifyPrefs(chat: chatPopups.peek(), people: notifyPeople.peek());
   /// App sounds (`sfx/`): 0..1, 0 = silent.
   final soundVolume = signal(1.0);
   /// `SfxKind` names switched off one by one.
@@ -174,6 +169,8 @@ class AppSettings {
       if (share is bool) shareDiagnostics.value = share;
       final popups = box.get(_keyChatPopups);
       chatPopups.value = ChatPopups.values.where((m) => m.name == popups).firstOrNull ?? ChatPopups.all;
+      final people = box.get(_keyNotifyPeople);
+      if (people is bool) notifyPeople.value = people;
       final vol = box.get(_keySoundVolume);
       if (vol is num) soundVolume.value = vol.toDouble().clamp(0, 1);
       final off = box.get(_keySoundsOff);
@@ -278,6 +275,11 @@ class AppSettings {
     _put(_keyChatPopups, mode.name);
   }
 
+  void setNotifyPeople(bool on) {
+    notifyPeople.value = on;
+    _put(_keyNotifyPeople, on);
+  }
+
   void setSoundVolume(double v) {
     soundVolume.value = v.clamp(0, 1);
     _put(_keySoundVolume, soundVolume.value);

apps/desktop/lib/src/sync/sync_client.dart

@@ -288,8 +288,8 @@ class SyncClient {
     _send(PingMessage(clientMs: _clock().millisecondsSinceEpoch).toJson());
   }
 
-  void sendSwap(HelloMedia media, {String? queueId}) {
+  void sendSwap(HelloMedia media, {String? queueId, SwapRestore? restore}) {
-    _send(SwapIntent(media: media, queueId: queueId).toJson());
+    _send(SwapIntent(media: media, queueId: queueId, restore: restore).toJson());
   }
 
   /// One change to Up next (see [QueueIntent]).

apps/desktop/lib/src/sync/user_seek.dart

@@ -1,26 +1,5 @@
-import 'package:media_kit/media_kit.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
-/// A [Player] whose public [seek] belongs to the user. media_kit's seek bar
-/// (and anything else in the video controls) calls `player.seek`; with
-/// [onUserSeek] set those calls become explicit events for the sync layer
-/// instead of moving mpv behind its back. Sync-driven seeks use [syncSeek].
-class SyncPlayer extends Player {
-  SyncPlayer({super.configuration});
-
-  void Function(Duration position)? onUserSeek;
-
-  @override
-  Future<void> seek(Duration duration) async {
-    final hook = onUserSeek;
-    if (hook == null) return super.seek(duration);
-    hook(duration);
-  }
-
-  /// Seek mpv directly (preview while scrubbing, server corrections).
-  Future<void> syncSeek(Duration duration) => super.seek(duration);
-}
-
 /// Turns a burst of user seeks (a seek bar drag fires one per pointer move,
 /// arrow keys one per press) into one `seek` intent, and tells the
 /// coordinator when server seeks must not touch the player: