updates

lib/shell/app_shell.dart

@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ import '../screens/connect_sheet.dart';
 import '../screens/home_screen.dart';
 import '../screens/now_playing_screen.dart';
 import '../screens/settings_screen.dart';
+import '../settings/settings_store.dart';
 import '../state/providers.dart';
 import '../theme/tokens.dart';
 import '../widgets/mini_player.dart';
 
-/// Top-level shell: the three Ratune tabs (Home / Browse / Now Playing) with a
+/// Top-level shell: the three Timbre tabs (Home / Browse / Now Playing) with a
 /// bottom tab bar and a status bar, mirroring the terminal layout.
 class AppShell extends ConsumerStatefulWidget {
   const AppShell({super.key});
@@ -29,12 +30,39 @@ class _AppShellState extends ConsumerState<AppShell> {
   final _homeNavKey = GlobalKey<NavigatorState>();
   final _browseNavKey = GlobalKey<NavigatorState>();
 
+  // Seed the Browse view from the persisted default exactly once, when settings
+  // finish loading. Guarded so a later change to the default (or a manual browse
+  // selection) is never overridden mid-session.
+  bool _browseSeeded = false;
+
+  @override
+  void initState() {
+    super.initState();
+    ref.listenManual<AppSettings>(settingsProvider, (prev, next) {
+      if (_browseSeeded) return;
+      _browseSeeded = true;
+      ref.read(browseModeProvider.notifier).state = next.defaultBrowseMode;
+    });
+  }
+
   GlobalKey<NavigatorState>? _navKeyForTab(int tab) => switch (tab) {
         0 => _homeNavKey,
         1 => _browseNavKey,
         _ => null,
       };
 
+  /// Tap on the bottom tab bar. Selecting a different tab just switches; tapping
+  /// the already-active tab resets it to its root — popping the nested detail
+  /// stack (e.g. Album → Browse home) so the tab button doubles as "go back to
+  /// the top", instead of being a no-op.
+  void _selectTab(int tapped, int current) {
+    if (tapped == current) {
+      _navKeyForTab(tapped)?.currentState?.popUntil((r) => r.isFirst);
+    } else {
+      ref.read(selectedTabProvider.notifier).state = tapped;
+    }
+  }
+
   /// Android system-back: pop the active tab's nested stack first, then fall
   /// back to Home, and only exit the app from the Home root.
   void _handleBack(int tab) {
@@ -88,8 +116,7 @@ class _AppShellState extends ConsumerState<AppShell> {
               _TabBar(
                 tabs: _tabs,
                 index: index,
-                onSelect: (i) =>
-                    ref.read(selectedTabProvider.notifier).state = i,
+                onSelect: (i) => _selectTab(i, index),
               ),
               const _StatusBar(),
             ],
@@ -201,10 +228,10 @@ class _StatusBar extends ConsumerWidget {
       color: TimbreColors.surface,
       child: Row(
         children: [
-          // Left: connection status — tap to open the connect sheet.
+          // Left: connection status — tap to open the server switcher.
           Expanded(
             child: InkWell(
-              onTap: () => showConnectSheet(context),
+              onTap: () => showServerSheet(context),
               child: Padding(
                 padding:
                     const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: TimbreSpacing.lg),