Replace the early prototype UI with a darker Aonsoku-inspired shell featuring a compact top bar, library sidebar, command palette, settings overlay, dense track list, artists table, albums grid, and a bottom player bar. Add a supporting albums browse endpoint so the frontend can render the same navigation shape without faking data.
Add a dedicated artwork cache directory and save embedded album art from audio tags during library scans. Prefer embedded artwork for album cover resolution while keeping sidecar image files as the fallback path.
Expose internal browse endpoints for artists, albums, tracks, and search using the SQLite-backed library service. Add Subsonic-compatible getArtist, getAlbum, getSong, and stream.view handlers by mapping the same persistence layer into lightweight response envelopes.
Track scanner status for the web API and Subsonic-compatible scan endpoints, add authenticated cover art serving, and wire album artwork into the web UI. Keep Subsonic auth limited to legacy password mode for now so behavior stays honest with the current bcrypt-based user storage.
Add a filesystem scanner that ingests supported audio files from MEDIA_ROOT into SQLite using embedded tags with filename fallbacks. Wire startup scanning, manual rescan, and authenticated audio streaming into the backend, then connect the web player to the real stream endpoint.
Bootstrap SQLite on server startup with embedded migrations and development seed data. Replace placeholder auth and library responses with database-backed services, bearer sessions, and repository-driven API handlers.
