muse drives a download client and writes to the media library, so exposing it
publicly needs more than a login form.
It fails closed. Auth is on unless MUSE_AUTH=off is set explicitly, and when
it is on with incomplete config the app refuses to start rather than serving
open. The mode worth engineering against is not a broken login page, it is a
misconfigured deploy quietly publishing an unauthenticated download client.
Sessions are server-side: the cookie carries a 256-bit random token and
nothing else, and only its SHA-256 is stored. There is no signed payload to
get subtly wrong, a stolen database yields no usable cookies, and logout
revokes for real. The allowlist is re-checked on every request so removing a
user takes effect immediately rather than at session expiry.
OAuth state is compared with secrets.compare_digest, so a callback the user
did not initiate is rejected. MUSE_BASE_URL comes from config rather than
X-Forwarded-* because those headers are attacker-controllable and this one is
a redirect target.
CSP is default-src 'self' with no unsafe-inline, which is why the stylesheet
and script moved out of index.html into static files -- an injected <script>
now cannot execute. Also frame-ancestors 'none', base-uri 'none', nosniff,
DENY, no-referrer and HSTS. FastAPI's /docs, /redoc and /openapi.json are
disabled so the login page does not hand out a map of every endpoint.
/healthz is the only unauthenticated route and returns a bare ok, so the
container healthcheck works without leaking anything.
Verified: misconfigured auth refuses to boot; unauthenticated / redirects and
/api/* returns 401; a forged state is rejected 400; a junk cookie is 401; a
valid session for a non-allowlisted user is 401; all headers present; and the
UI renders with no CSP violations in the console.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lidarr's smallest unit is a MusicBrainz release, so asking for one track
means monitoring a whole discography. Soulseek trades individual files but
has no concept of a request. muse bridges the two: search, click, and the
song lands in the library correctly tagged.
The design point is that the user picks the exact track before anything
downloads, so muse holds artist, album, year and track number as ground
truth and tags deterministically rather than inferring them afterwards from
whatever a stranger named the file.
Search is Deezer rather than MusicBrainz, decided on measurement:
MusicBrainz put eight covers above the real recording for "radiohead creep"
and never surfaced Queen for "bohemian rhapsody" across 90 results, because
its index matches a word in a cover's title as readily as in the artist
field. Re-ranking cannot rescue a result set missing the right row.
Imports are os.link(), so downloads keep seeding from the Soulseek share
while the library gets a second name for the same bytes.
aryansinghandClaude Opus 5