diff --git a/src-tauri/src/commands.rs b/src-tauri/src/commands.rs
index c3fa121..7de60d5 100644
--- a/src-tauri/src/commands.rs
+++ b/src-tauri/src/commands.rs
@@ -766,7 +766,11 @@ const ARTIST_HERO_CACHE_MAX_ENTRY_BYTES: u64 = 41 * 1024 * 1024;
 // holding a logo-less manifest this build would now fill. Safe to bump: a
 // stale-recipe manifest is kept as a floor and only replaced by a better
 // lookup, so nobody goes blank while the new one resolves.
-const ARTIST_ART_MANIFEST_RECIPE: &str = "artist-art-tier-v5-mb-duplicate-identity";
+// v6: manifests written while Fanart.tv's CDN was refusing connections
+// (2026-07-27) hold Bing-tier heroes and would have kept them for a month under
+// the flat TTL below. Bumping re-resolves every artist once against the
+// providers that are up TODAY; the tier-aware TTL keeps it from happening again.
+const ARTIST_ART_MANIFEST_RECIPE: &str = "artist-art-tier-v6-fallback-ttl";
 // A resolved hero is expensive to find and does not go stale the way metadata
 // does -- a press photo is still the artist's press photo a month later. The
 // old 24h expiry meant every artist was re-discovered daily through a tier that
@@ -775,6 +779,35 @@ const ARTIST_ART_MANIFEST_RECIPE: &str = "artist-art-tier-v5-mb-duplicate-identi
 // Pond, Weezer, Daft Punk...) went to 3. Match the cover-resolution horizon.
 const ARTIST_ART_MANIFEST_TTL: std::time::Duration =
     std::time::Duration::from_secs(30 * 24 * 60 * 60);
+// ...but only for art that came from the TOP of the chain. Everything below it
+// was a fallback taken because the better provider was unreachable at that
+// moment -- `image_host_alive` deliberately reports a dead CDN as "returned
+// nothing", which is what lets the chain degrade gracefully -- and a month is
+// far too long to live with the consequences of one bad afternoon. Re-checked
+// daily instead, so an artist stops wearing a Bing hero the day after Fanart.tv
+// comes back.
+const ARTIST_ART_FALLBACK_TTL: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(24 * 60 * 60);
+
+/// Did the top provider tier supply the banner this manifest will actually
+/// show? The manifest never recorded which provider won, so the tier is read
+/// back off the URL's host.
+///
+/// Banners only, deliberately: logos routinely and legitimately come from
+/// TheAudioDB even when Fanart.tv covered the artist, and treating that as a
+/// fallback would put every artist on a daily re-check. An artist Fanart.tv
+/// simply does not cover is re-checked daily forever, which is the price of
+/// noticing the day they add one.
+fn manifest_from_top_tier(art: &metadata::CatalogArtistArt) -> bool {
+    art.banners.iter().any(|url| {
+        // Every stored URL is validated as `https://...` before it gets here,
+        // so the authority is simply what sits between the scheme and the
+        // first slash (minus any port).
+        url.strip_prefix("https://")
+            .and_then(|rest| rest.split('/').next())
+            .map(|authority| authority.split(':').next().unwrap_or(authority))
+            .is_some_and(|host| host == "fanart.tv" || host.ends_with(".fanart.tv"))
+    })
+}
 const ARTIST_ART_MANIFEST_MAX_BYTES: u64 = 64 * 1024;
 // Identity is part of the key because two Deezer artists can share the same
 // display name (and, occasionally, the same release title/reference artwork).
@@ -993,11 +1026,13 @@ async fn read_artist_art_manifest(
         let _ = tokio::fs::remove_file(path).await;
         return None;
     }
-    let fresh = metadata
+    // Age is taken here but judged below: how long this manifest counts as
+    // fresh depends on which provider tier produced it, which is only knowable
+    // once it has been parsed.
+    let age = metadata
         .modified()
         .ok()
-        .and_then(|modified| modified.elapsed().ok())
-        .is_some_and(|age| age < ARTIST_ART_MANIFEST_TTL);
+        .and_then(|modified| modified.elapsed().ok());
     let bytes = tokio::fs::read(&path).await.ok()?;
     let Ok(manifest) = serde_json::from_slice::<CachedArtistArtManifest>(&bytes) else {
         let _ = tokio::fs::remove_file(path).await;
@@ -1020,6 +1055,12 @@ async fn read_artist_art_manifest(
     {
         return None;
     }
+    let ttl = if manifest_from_top_tier(&art) {
+        ARTIST_ART_MANIFEST_TTL
+    } else {
+        ARTIST_ART_FALLBACK_TTL
+    };
+    let fresh = age.is_some_and(|age| age < ttl);
     let current = fresh && manifest.recipe == ARTIST_ART_MANIFEST_RECIPE;
     Some(StoredArtistArt { art, current })
 }
@@ -3527,6 +3568,23 @@ pub async fn play_stream(
         if size > 0 && md.len() == size {
             playback::touch(&cache);
             crate::diagnostics::clear_stream(&app);
+            // This track never becomes a transfer: there is no StreamProgress
+            // and no download task, so the update loop below that emits
+            // `soulseek:stream` never runs for it. Say it once, or the UI keeps
+            // the provisional counts it set when it asked to play and shows a
+            // download pinned at 0% — or, coming out of a gapless advance, an
+            // indeterminate "Streaming from <peer>" — on a file that is already
+            // complete. `done` also lets the frontend take its completed-track
+            // path (final waveform, pre-buffer the next).
+            let _ = app.emit(
+                "soulseek:stream",
+                serde_json::json!({
+                    "received": size,
+                    "total": size,
+                    "done": true,
+                    "failed": Option::<String>::None,
+                }),
+            );
             let app2 = app.clone();
             let cache2 = cache.clone();
             crate::loudness::on_track_started(