Evilander/newamp

[2.0.0] - 2026-07-08

Reference Grade — the design-led major. The app that always looked like
hardware now feels machined like it: one token layer, one header voice, truth
in every readout, and a screenshot harness to keep it that way.

Added

• A real design system. The 5,500-line index.css monolith is now ordered
  modules (tokens / chrome / shells / decks / per-view files) with
  type/motion/shadow/radius/row-height ramps, a Tailwind var() bridge, one
  THEME_REGISTRY, and global keyboard focus-visible treatment.
• Shared primitives, everywhere. ViewHeader (one header voice — eyebrow,
  title, count chip, status slot, actions), Chip, EmptyState,
  ViewSkeleton shimmer placeholders wired to real loading states,
  StatusToast (a module-level toast queue replacing scattered inline status
  text), ConfirmAction two-step arm-then-fire on destructive actions, and an
  SVG icon set that retires the wobbly ★/☆ text glyphs.
• Now Playing is a stage. ON AIR lamp, truth-in-the-chrome readouts,
  resonance spotlight, and an attract mode when nothing is playing.
• Restrained Resonance set. Playing-row accent bar, transport art
  breathing ring, and scrub glow — all gated on data-amp-reactive and
  prefers-reduced-motion, all compositor-only.
• Library queueing grammar. Track rows are keyboard-focusable: Enter
  plays, Q queues, Shift+Q plays next (with toast feedback), and arrow
  keys walk the rows — no mouse required in a 60,000-track table.
• Deck Snapshot. A quiet camera button (or Ctrl+Shift+S) on every
  compact deck captures a skin-true polaroid of the deck — straight to
  clipboard and disk.
• Shift+S skin surf. Cycle the built-in skins live from anywhere;
  zero-hitch theming means the visualizer doesn't stutter when you land.
• Ctrl+K resume row. The Quick Play palette opens with your last listen
  ready to resume before you type a single character.
• Music-first first launch. The tutorial now starts with your music —
  the API-key screen is gone from the front of the funnel.
• Craft regression matrix. npm run craft:matrix captures 104 shots
  (4 shells × 6 skins × 4 views, plus all 8 deck skins) by driving the real
  Settings UI, then pixel-diffs against a local baseline.
• Self-hosted fonts. Inter, JetBrains Mono, and VT323 ship as woff2 —
  the Google Fonts origins are gone from the CSP entirely.
• Bit-Perfect Exclusive lanes for macOS and Linux (experimental).
  CoreAudio hog mode and ALSA-direct output join the Windows
  WASAPI-exclusive native engine in the same honesty framework.

Changed

• Settings reorganized into registry cards with a jump-to-section chip TOC.
• Catalog views (Albums / Artists / Folders) share one header, skeleton,
  empty-state, and pagination language; the AlphabetRail is generalized.
• Mixes builds once per request and surfaces a "Seed changed — rebuild" chip
  instead of yanking all eight mixes out from under a mid-scroll user.
• Home loads honestly: skeletons ride real async state, and the hero absorbs
  active-station state (ON AIR + STOP) from the old side panel.
• README rewritten human-first, with the deep technical story in a
  "For the nerds" section at the bottom.

Fixed

• Light-skin legibility: form controls on recessed display surfaces now read
  in display ink on Steel/Terminal/Ice/Miami.
• First-launch tutorial completion persists before dismissal and can no
  longer soft-lock on a failed settings write.
• EmptyLibrary's suggested-folder buttons render styled (their CSS had been
  missing since v1.1).

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Evilander/newamp/compare/v1.17.0...v2.0.0