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Problem

Songs deleted from a playlist in YouTube Music reappear at the end of that playlist in Metrolist after auto-sync, instead of disappearing.

Cause

In executeSyncPlaylist (SyncUtils.kt), every local song absent from the remote fetch was unconditionally re-appended at the tail (preservedSongs, position = songs.size + index) after clearing and repopulating from remote. That set is exactly the songs deleted on YouTube, so remote deletions never propagated and the sync never converged (full rewrite on every cycle).

Solution

  • Only preserve local additions never confirmed on YouTube (setVideoId == null, e.g. added offline in Metrolist). Songs with a known setVideoId that are missing from remote are treated as intentionally deleted and dropped.
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Testing

  • ./gradlew :app:assembleFossDebug: BUILD SUCCESSFUL
  • ./gradlew :app:testFossDebugUnitTest --tests "com.metrolist.music.db.*" --tests "com.metrolist.music.utils.PlaylistSyncTest": BUILD SUCCESSFUL
  • Manual QA on emulator: (A) delete a song in YT Music → sync → song is gone locally (previously reappeared at the tail); (B) add a song offline → sync → song is kept locally.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Playlist synchronization now distinguishes genuinely empty remote playlists from temporarily incomplete or unavailable playlist data.
    • Locally retained songs with an associated video ID are no longer automatically re-added when absent from the remote playlist.
    • This prevents valid remote playlist content from being skipped and avoids unintended entries returning to local playlists during synchronization.

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Playlist synchronization now validates empty remote playlist results using the advertised song count. It also excludes local songs with a non-null setVideoId from preservation.

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Playlist sync

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validate empty playlist results
app/src/main/kotlin/com/metrolist/music/utils/SyncUtils.kt, app/src/test/kotlin/com/metrolist/music/utils/PlaylistSyncTest.kt
executeSyncPlaylist skips only incomplete empty fetches. isGenuineEmptyPlaylist accepts pages with no songs and an advertised count of zero. Tests cover missing, non-zero, and zero counts, plus non-empty pages.
Filter preserved songs
app/src/main/kotlin/com/metrolist/music/utils/SyncUtils.kt
preservedSongs now retains only songs with a null setVideoId before local playlist re-append.

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Suggested reviewers: nyxiereal, mostafaalagamy, kairosci

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Confirmed deletion of the final remote playlist song now synchronizes locally, while incomplete empty fetches remain protected from destructive cleanup.

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app/src/main/kotlin/com/metrolist/music/utils/SyncUtils.kt (1)

1440-1442: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not skip synchronization for an empty remote playlist.

When the successful response contains no songs, this return runs before database.clearPlaylist(playlistId). After the final remote song is deleted, its remote-backed local entry remains. Let the empty result reach the rebuild transaction so it removes remote-backed entries and preserves entries with setVideoId == null.

Proposed fix
-                    if (songs.isEmpty()) {
-                        Timber.w("syncPlaylist: Remote playlist is empty, skipping sync")
-                        return@onSuccess
-                    }
+                    if (songs.isEmpty()) {
+                        Timber.d("syncPlaylist: Remote playlist is empty")
+                    }
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In `@app/src/main/kotlin/com/metrolist/music/utils/SyncUtils.kt` around lines 1440
- 1442, Remove the early return and warning in the songs.isEmpty() branch of the
syncPlaylist success flow so empty remote results reach
database.clearPlaylist(playlistId) and the rebuild transaction. Preserve the
transaction’s behavior of removing remote-backed entries while retaining entries
whose setVideoId is null.
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In `@app/src/main/kotlin/com/metrolist/music/utils/SyncUtils.kt`:
- Around line 1440-1442: Remove the early return and warning in the
songs.isEmpty() branch of the syncPlaylist success flow so empty remote results
reach database.clearPlaylist(playlistId) and the rebuild transaction. Preserve
the transaction’s behavior of removing remote-backed entries while retaining
entries whose setVideoId is null.

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Added isGenuineEmptyPlaylist(page), which only treats the empty fetch as trustworthy when songCountText explicitly confirms "0 songs" (same regex pattern already used elsewhere in the codebase). When songCountText is null, meaning there's no way to confirm whether it's a genuine empty playlist or an incomplete/failed fetch, the guard stays in place and the sync is skipped, same as before.

Went with the conservative branch here on purpose: an ambiguous empty result staying unsynced for one cycle is a much cheaper mistake than wiping out a whole playlist based on a read we can't actually verify. Added 4 unit tests covering the combinations (confirmed non-zero count, confirmed zero count, missing count, non-empty fetch).

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