A catalog that keeps itself honest.

Works through the catalog most-valuable-first, re-verifying every piece's data, correcting what's wrong, filling what's missing, and removing what should never have been there. It runs with no human review step, which is the whole reason its safeguards look the way they do.

Principle

Quality over quantity — a smaller correct catalog beats a larger careless one. Being obscure is never a reason to remove a piece; being wrong is.

Safeguard

Two strikes before anything is deleted, and thirty days to undo it. Every change is logged, and an entire run can be reverted in one step.

Never

Touches a piece someone has actually rated. Real user data outranks the bot's judgement, always.

Care

A collection wrongly filed as a single piece is split into its members before the grouping is removed, so the content survives and only the bad record dies.

Grows the catalog. It walks the public-domain library looking for pieces that aren't in the catalog yet, screening candidates cheapest-check-first so nothing expensive is ever spent on something a cheap test could have rejected.

Principle

Reject at the entrance rather than clean up afterwards. Anything that isn't a single solo piano piece never gets written in the first place.

Safeguard

Every rejection is remembered, so a title is never judged twice — and the reasoning behind a rejection stays available if it turns out to be wrong.

Resumable

Progress is recorded on the records themselves rather than a cursor, so a run that stops halfway picks up exactly where it left off and nothing can get skipped.

Lets someone who searched for a piece and found nothing ask for it, with me in the middle. Approved titles go through every stage of the normal pipeline — an approval moves a request into the queue, it doesn't bypass the quality checks.

Principle

A request is a wish, and a meaningful share of wishes are typos, works that aren't in the public domain, or pieces that simply don't exist there. Review is what turns a list of wishes into a catalog decision.

Safeguard

A declined request keeps its row and keeps counting votes, so a piece twenty more people ask for comes back to my attention instead of being quietly re-declined forever.

Attaches a recording to each piece. Rather than taking the first search result, it pulls several candidates and validates each one — length against the piece's own duration, whether it can actually be embedded, and whether the title describes the right work by the right composer.

Principle

An empty slot is better than a wrong video. If nothing passes, the piece keeps no recording at all and is retried later.

Safeguard

A runner-up is kept alongside the pick, so the player has somewhere to fall back to when a video is later deleted or made private.

Loop

The curator clears recordings that no longer match on its next pass, and this refills the gap the following morning. Attach and verify are two halves of one cycle.