feat: Genius artist integration — bio, alt names, now-playing waveform

[JoePittsy]

What Lurks Beneath the Surface

Something stirs in the artist panel. Where once there was only silence — a grey void where knowledge should have lived — now breathes a dark intelligence. We have made contact with Genius.

The Summoning

A new IPC ritual was inscribed into the preload: geniusArtist. When an artist panel is opened, the daemon awakens, crawls the Genius API, and returns with things it was not supposed to know. Artist biographies. Alternate names. Social handles. The secrets were always there. We simply learned to ask.

Build-time secrets are now baked into dist/build-env.json at compile time — the packaged app can finally speak the forbidden words even without a .env to sustain it.

What It Brings Back

The right column of the artist panel has been... changed. Where the Latest Release card once stood alone in the dark, it now shares its space with things that crawled up from below:

• The Bio — Genius's full artist description, scrollable, rendered in pale italic text as though the words themselves are afraid to be read too loudly. All paragraphs. No truncation. The truth, unabridged.
• Alternate Names — The artist's other faces, their masks, displayed in faint uppercase letters beneath the artist name. South Atlanta Baby. Young Carti. King Vamp. They have always had many names.
• Social Icons — The Instagram eye. The X. No labels. No handles. Just icons in the dark, watching.

The Waveform

When a top song is currently playing, its track number disappears. In its place: three bars, rising and falling, rising and falling. An animated waveform — proof that something is alive in there. When playback pauses, the bars freeze mid-motion, suspended, waiting.

The matching runs on track name rather than object ID. The IDs, we discovered, are not what they seem. They were never the same format. We do not speak of this further.

Corrections

One idea was pursued and then abandoned. A blurred Genius header image was briefly used as a background texture behind the artist header. It did not look miles better. It was removed. Some doors, once opened, are better closed.

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