feat(downloads): a bare link is titled once, a missing picture shows a glyph

A job with no name yet is titled by its short link, as the link itself;
the channel line no longer falls back to the ref and the link line does
not repeat it. No picture at all draws a film (or note) glyph instead of
an empty box.

frontend/src/components/downloadRow.dom.test.tsx

@@ -213,3 +213,46 @@ describe("DownloadRow · narrow", () => {
     expect(texts).not.toContain("0");
   });
 });
+
+// A link queued (or failed) before its details: the title, the channel line and the link line all
+// fell back to the same URL (the owner, 2026-09-27). Now the title IS the short link, once.
+describe("DownloadRow · a link with no details yet", () => {
+  const bare: DownloadJob = {
+    ...baseJob,
+    status: "error",
+    source_kind: "url",
+    source_ref: "https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=12345",
+    source_url: "https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=12345",
+    display_name: null,
+    asset: null,
+  };
+
+  it("shows the short link once, as the title's link, with no channel line", () => {
+    const { container } = render(<DownloadRow job={bare} />);
+    const links = [...container.querySelectorAll("a")].filter((a) => a.href === bare.source_url);
+    expect(links.map((a) => a.textContent)).toEqual(["www.facebook.com/watch?v=12345"]);
+    expect(container.textContent).not.toContain("https://");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the named row as it was: title text, and the link on its own line", () => {
+    const named = { ...bare, display_name: "A clip" };
+    const { container } = render(<DownloadRow job={named} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText("A clip").closest("a")).toBeNull();
+    const links = [...container.querySelectorAll("a")].filter((a) => a.href === bare.source_url);
+    expect(links.map((a) => a.textContent)).toEqual(["www.facebook.com/watch?v=12345"]);
+  });
+});
+
+// No picture at all: a quiet glyph of what it is instead of an empty box (the owner, 2026-09-27).
+describe("DownloadRow · no picture", () => {
+  it("draws a film glyph for a video, a note for audio", () => {
+    const { container, unmount } = render(<DownloadRow job={withAsset("mp4")} />);
+    expect(container.querySelector("img")).toBeNull();
+    expect(container.querySelector("svg.lucide-film")).not.toBeNull();
+    unmount();
+    const { container: audio } = render(
+      <DownloadRow job={withAsset("m4a", { media_kind: "audio" })} />,
+    );
+    expect(audio.querySelector("svg.lucide-music")).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/downloadRow.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { useState, type ReactNode } from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
-import { CalendarClock, File, Link2, Scissors } from "lucide-react";
+import { CalendarClock, File, Film, Link2, Music, Scissors } from "lucide-react";
 import clsx from "clsx";
 import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
 import { useLiveQuery } from "../lib/useLiveQuery";
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import {
 } from "../lib/format";
 import { navItemAttrs } from "../lib/listNav";
 import { failCopyKeys } from "../lib/downloadFailure";
-import { jobTitle } from "./downloadTitle";
+import { displayUrl, hasOwnTitle, jobTitle } from "./downloadTitle";
 import { IconButton } from "./ui/IconButton";
 import { Pressable } from "./ui/Pressable";
 import { SURFACE } from "./ui/surfaces";
@@ -113,19 +113,30 @@ function Thumb({ job }: { job: DownloadJob }) {
           loading="lazy"
           className="w-full h-full object-cover"
           onError={() => {
-            if (remote && src !== remote) setFailedPrimary(primary);
+            if (src !== remote) setFailedPrimary(primary);
           }}
         />
-      ) : null}
+      ) : (
+        // No picture at all (a link that failed before its details, a poster that never came): a
+        // quiet glyph of what it is, like the file glyph above — an empty box read as "still loading".
+        <div className="flex h-full items-center justify-center text-muted">
+          {job.asset?.media_kind === "audio" ? (
+            <Music className="w-7 h-7" aria-hidden="true" />
+          ) : (
+            <Film className="w-7 h-7" aria-hidden="true" />
+          )}
+        </div>
+      )}
     </div>
   );
 }
 
 // The channel to show under the title: a user override wins over the auto-extracted asset value.
-// `url` is null for sources without a channel link (e.g. reddit) — then it renders as plain text.
+// `url` is null for sources without a channel link (e.g. reddit) — then it renders as plain text. No
-function jobChannel(job: DownloadJob): { name: string; url: string | null } {
+// channel known yet → no line: the ref it once fell back to repeated the title (the owner, 2026-09-27).
+function jobChannel(job: DownloadJob): { name: string | null; url: string | null } {
   return {
-    name: job.display_uploader || job.asset?.uploader || job.source_ref,
+    name: job.display_uploader || job.asset?.uploader || null,
     url: job.display_uploader_url || job.asset?.uploader_url || null,
   };
 }
@@ -157,16 +168,6 @@ export function IconBtn({
   );
 }
 
-// Compact display of a URL: drop the protocol + trailing slash so "youtube.com/watch?v=…" fits.
-function displayUrl(url: string): string {
-  try {
-    const u = new URL(url);
-    return (u.host + u.pathname + u.search).replace(/\/$/, "");
-  } catch {
-    return url;
-  }
-}
-
 // A link inside the row keeps the BROWSER's own right-click menu (open in a new tab, copy the
 // address): the row's menu answers everywhere else on it (E28 C1).
 const nativeMenu = { onContextMenu: (e: React.MouseEvent) => e.stopPropagation() };
@@ -195,6 +196,7 @@ function SourceRef({ url }: { url: string }) {
 // Channel under the title — a clickable link when a channel URL is known, plain text otherwise.
 function ChannelLine({ job }: { job: DownloadJob }) {
   const { name, url } = jobChannel(job);
+  if (!name) return null;
   if (url) {
     return (
       <div className="text-sm mt-0.5 truncate">
@@ -234,6 +236,8 @@ export function DownloadRow({
 }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const running = job.status === "running";
+  const linkTitle = !hasOwnTitle(job) && !!job.source_url;
+  const sourceLink = linkTitle ? null : job.source_url;
   return (
     <div
       {...(navIndex !== undefined && navItemAttrs(navIndex, jobTitle(job)))}
@@ -255,7 +259,22 @@ export function DownloadRow({
                 <Scissors className="w-3 h-3" /> {t("downloads.clipBadge")}
               </span>
             )}
+            {linkTitle ? (
+              // No name yet: the title IS the link, so the link line below leaves it out (it said the
+              // same URL a third time).
+              <a
+                href={job.source_url!}
+                target="_blank"
+                rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                title={`${t("downloads.source.open")} — ${job.source_url}`}
+                className="hover:text-accent hover:underline"
+                {...nativeMenu}
+              >
                 {jobTitle(job)}
+              </a>
+            ) : (
+              jobTitle(job)
+            )}
           </div>
           <ChannelLine job={job} />
         </div>
@@ -303,9 +322,9 @@ export function DownloadRow({
             (at 375). On touch each is a 44px box, so separate lines stacked 44px gaps (the owner,
             2026-09-27: "what are those huge empty parts?"). */}
         <div className="contents @max-[40rem]/dlrow:[grid-area:foot] @max-[40rem]/dlrow:flex @max-[40rem]/dlrow:flex-wrap @max-[40rem]/dlrow:items-center @max-[40rem]/dlrow:gap-x-2">
-          {(!!job.source_url || !!job.extra_links?.length) && (
+          {(!!sourceLink || !!job.extra_links?.length) && (
             <div className="[grid-area:src] min-w-0 @max-[40rem]/dlrow:min-w-32 @max-[40rem]/dlrow:flex-1">
-              {job.source_url && <SourceRef url={job.source_url} />}
+              {sourceLink && <SourceRef url={sourceLink} />}
               {job.extra_links?.map((url) => (
                 <SourceRef key={url} url={url} />
               ))}

frontend/src/components/downloadTitle.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,27 @@ import type { DownloadJob } from "../lib/api";
 
 // A download job's display title (a user rename wins over the extracted asset title), shared by the
 // row, the admin list and the library player. Its own module so downloadRow exports only components.
+// With no name yet — a link queued before its details arrive, or one that failed first — it is the
+// link itself, shortened the way the row shows a link, never the raw ref (a URL, or a bare video id).
 export function jobTitle(job: DownloadJob): string {
-  return job.display_name || job.asset?.title || job.source_ref;
+  return (
+    job.display_name ||
+    job.asset?.title ||
+    (job.source_url ? displayUrl(job.source_url) : job.source_ref)
+  );
+}
+
+/** The job has a name of its own (a rename or an extracted title), not the link standing in for one. */
+export function hasOwnTitle(job: DownloadJob): boolean {
+  return !!(job.display_name || job.asset?.title);
+}
+
+// Compact display of a URL: drop the protocol + trailing slash so "youtube.com/watch?v=…" fits.
+export function displayUrl(url: string): string {
+  try {
+    const u = new URL(url);
+    return (u.host + u.pathname + u.search).replace(/\/$/, "");
+  } catch {
+    return url;
+  }
 }