The car groups shows by category, and a silent show says so

Two things, both about finding something rather than playing it.

Android Auto lists category folders under Podcasts instead of forty-five shows
in a row -- a car screen holds six to eight, so anything not near the top was
several flicks away. The categories already existed and already had an order,
so this costs no new data. With only one category present the folders would
separate nothing, so the shows are listed directly and the level disappears.

A show that has not published in a year says so above its drip control:
"No new episodes in 3 years". That is the whole of the special treatment a
finished show gets -- no flag, no automatic behaviour, no guessing that a show
is over. A run of silence is a fact and "finished" is not. A year, because
shorter fires on everything merely between seasons, and a line that appears on
everything says nothing. It costs no extra query: the sheet already reads every
episode for the detection readout.

The browse id format moved out of LibraryTree into BrowseIds, because that
object went past its function limit and the split is along a real line. The
format is the seam that has actually broken -- an id that does not survive the
round trip to the browser is what made Up Next show something other than the
queue -- and it could not be tested off a device before, because LibraryTree
builds Media3 items. It has six tests now, including that an episode id and a
show id carrying the same raw string are never confused for one another.

Verified over the real session protocol on the emulator: the folders appear,
the News folder holds the news show and not the fiction one. 8 browse tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018AwnALZL6bD4VBtATDVv3B

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