From 669231e8a68df4337e4516cd9ed3ba2c9d068e71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: oddbyte <git@oddbyte.dev>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:57:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] actually load from cache

---
 index.js | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index c9fa8eb..cbbf791 100755
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ async function updateSongs() {
 		// For each song that youtube moosic has yelled back at us, give them individually to populateThumbnails()
 		await Promise.all(playlistSongs.map(async song => await populateThumbnails(song)));
 		// Write all of this to cache
-		fs.writeFileSync(path.join(baseDir + 'ytmusic_cache'), JSON.stringify({playlistSongs, thumbnails}));
+		fs.writeFileSync(path.join(baseDir + '/ytmusic_cache'), JSON.stringify({playlistSongs, thumbnails}));
 	}
 	else {
 		// like legit this shouldnt even be possible
@@ -298,15 +298,25 @@ async function customConsole() {
 	}
 }
 
-// Wrap in a async function to wait for youtube music response before starting http server
-// (to prevent a race condition where people can view the moosic page be4 it is ready)
 async function main() {
 
-	// Init the moosics stuff (black magic)
-	await ytmusic.initialize();
+	// Load from cache
+	await (async () => {
+		let cachefile;
+		cachefile = fs.readFileSync(path.join(baseDir, '/ytmusic_cache'));
+		let parsed_cachefile = JSON.parse(cachefile);
+		playlistSongs = parsed_cachefile.playlistSongs;
+		thumbnails = parsed_cachefile.thumbnails;
+	});
 
-	// Populate playlistSongs and thumbnails
-	await updateSongs();
+	// Wrap in async but don't await as to not delay server boot, we can load from cache faster then we can load from yt music
+	(async () => {
+		// Init the moosics stuff
+		await ytmusic.initialize(); 
+
+		// Populate playlistSongs and thumbnails
+		await updateSongs();
+	});
 	
 	// Populate the blog index
 	await generateBlogIndex();
@@ -319,11 +329,11 @@ async function main() {
 
 			// Start hourly loop to update playlist
 			loopHourly(async () => await updateSongs());
+	
+			// Start console
+			customConsole();
 		});
 	})();
-	
-	// Start console
-	customConsole();
 }
 
 // Handle a few signals