All search, metadata, and download providers are now exclusively
supplied by extensions. The built-in provider registry that previously
exposed Deezer/Tidal/Qobuz as hardcoded providers is fully removed.
Removed across Go, Dart, Kotlin, and Swift:
- BuiltInProviderSpec class, registry, and all accessor helpers
- SearchProviderAllJSON, GetBuiltInProvidersJSON, ParseProviderURLJSON,
ParseDeezerURLExport Go exports and their platform channel bindings
- Built-in provider items in search dropdown, service picker, and
provider priority UI lists
- provider_ui_utils.dart helper file
Deezer metadata enrichment (ISRC lookup, extended metadata, cover
upgrade) remains fully functional through direct DeezerClient calls
in the download pipeline — these are not part of the provider
registry and are unaffected.
Mark deezer as a retired built-in metadata provider so stale user
priority lists are cleaned up on next launch.
Introduce a service-owned download worker that offloads the full
download-and-finalize pipeline to DownloadService on Android, keeping
downloads alive independently of the Flutter UI process.
Key changes:
- Extract SAF download logic from MainActivity into SafDownloadHandler
- Add NativeDownloadFinalizer for Kotlin-side decryption, format
conversion, metadata embedding, ReplayGain, post-processing, and
history persistence
- Extend DownloadService with native queue management (start, pause,
resume, cancel) using coroutine-based worker with AtomicFile snapshots
- Add Dart-side orchestration: snapshot polling, run-id correlation,
adoption on app restart, and fallback to Dart queue
- Forward embedReplayGain, tidalHighFormat, and postProcessingEnabled
through Go backend DownloadRequest struct
- Add nativeDownloadWorkerEnabled setting with UI toggle
- Make DownloadQueueLookup collections unmodifiable
- Add CollectionArtistEntry model with toJson/fromJson and artistCollectionKey helper
- Create favorite_artists table in SQLite with DB migration v1→v2
- Implement toggleFavoriteArtist/removeFavoriteArtist in LibraryCollectionsNotifier
- Add FavoriteArtistsScreen with list view, empty state, and artist navigation
- Add heart toggle button on ArtistScreen header (reactive via Riverpod selector)
- Integrate favorite artists folder in queue_tab collection grid/list views
- Add 8 new localization strings across all 13 locale files
- Add stopProviderFallback manifest field with backward compat for skipBuiltInFallback
- Expose stop_provider_fallback in extension JSON API
- Unify service and search provider chips into 4-per-row grid layout
- Enable Ask Before Download for extensions with quality options
- Force useExtensionProviders always-on (built-in providers retired)
- Update localization: Built-in -> Legacy, remove obsolete description text
- Clear hardcoded donor names list
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