Account and Settings

Account & Settings

Account (#/account) is reached from the avatar in the top-right of the top bar. It centralises workspace-wide defaults and non-secret server overrides — things that seed new books, not per-book choices; once you pick a model for a specific book, that book's choice sticks regardless of what's set here.

At the top, the Application updates card shows your installed app + sidecar version, whether you're up to date, a See what's new link, and Apply a package manually… for sideloading a release .zip. Below it is the same side-nav accordion pattern as Model Manager and Advanced Settings, with these sections:

• Profile — your display name, shown in the top bar and the change log.
• Cast analysis — the minor-cast line-count threshold: characters with fewer attributed sentences than this get folded into the generic Unknown male / Unknown female buckets rather than earning their own voice profile. Set to 0 to disable the fold entirely.
• Covers — which tab (Search OpenLibrary or Upload local) opens first when picking a book's cover image.
• Appearance — the default theme (System / Light / Dark) any new device or session inherits. The sun/moon toggle in the top bar is a per-device override that always wins until cleared — when one is set, a pill appears here explaining which device is overridden and offers Use account default to clear it.
• Backups — automatic snapshots of a book's state.json (cast, chapters, metadata), with a cadence (daily/weekly) and a retention count (1–365 snapshots), plus a Restore from backup picker: choose a book, see its snapshots, take one on demand with Back up now, or roll back to an earlier snapshot (confirm-gated, since it overwrites the current state).
• Workspace — an override for where this machine keeps your library on disk (leave empty to use WORKSPACE_DIR from server/.env); changing it needs a server restart, flagged inline the instant the field diverges from the saved value. The active workspace root and its source are shown read-only underneath.
• Device-local (this browser only) — everything here applies instantly, per-browser, with no Save button: rebindable keyboard shortcuts for play/pause and skip-back/skip-forward, the skip amounts in seconds, auto-advance to the next chapter, a high-contrast theme, a text-size scale (Normal/Large/Larger), and the autosave debounce (how long edits to cast/manuscript/notes wait before writing to disk).
• Models & engines and Advanced configuration — thin pointer cards into Model Manager and Advanced Settings respectively; model setup and low-level tuning both live on those dedicated pages now, not here.
• Help & troubleshooting, Listening stats, and First-run setup — further pointer cards, to Help, to your hours-listened/streak/per-book stats, and to re-running the first-run setup wizard.

Changes in the account-level sections (everything above Device-local) are staged locally and only take effect once you click Save changes at the bottom of the page; device-local settings and the pointer cards apply immediately since there's nothing to stage.

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