fix: refresh stale browse cache on track edits and allow deleting empty releases

- Add CmsTrackBrowserViewModel.Invalidate(); called from TrackEdit/BatchEdit on save or delete so album/genre cache is invalidated and re-fetches on next mode switch
- CmsAlbumBrowser now handles 0-track releases: confirm dialog + DeleteReleaseAsync instead of early return; partial-failure path also fires OnReleasesChanged to trigger cache invalidation
- TrackList.OnAlbumsChanged now calls VM.Invalidate() so genres stay fresh after any album delete
- UnifiedTrackService.DeleteAsync cascades release soft-delete when last live track is removed (non-fatal; logs on failure)
- New DELETE api/track/release/{id} endpoint (ApiKeyAuthorize) for direct release soft-delete
- EF migration SoftDeleteOrphanedReleases backfills existing orphaned release rows via raw SQL (data-only, no schema change)

DeepDrftAPI/Controllers/TrackController.cs

@@ -431,6 +431,22 @@ public class TrackController : ControllerBase
         return StatusCode(500, error);
     }
 
+    // DELETE api/track/release/{id} ([ApiKeyAuthorize])
+    // Soft-delete a release row directly. Used by the albums browser to remove an orphaned release
+    // (one with no live tracks). "release" is a literal segment, declared here in the literal-route
+    // block so it never resolves to the parameterized "{trackId}" GET.
+    [ApiKeyAuthorize]
+    [HttpDelete("release/{id:long}")]
+    public async Task<ActionResult> DeleteRelease(long id, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+    {
+        var result = await _sqlTrackService.DeleteRelease(id, cancellationToken);
+        if (result.Success) return Ok();
+
+        var error = result.Messages.FirstOrDefault()?.Message ?? "unknown error";
+        _logger.LogError("DeleteRelease failed for id {Id}: {Error}", id, error);
+        return StatusCode(500, error);
+    }
+
     // --- Parameterized routes ---
 
     [HttpGet("{trackId}")]

DeepDrftAPI/Services/UnifiedTrackService.cs

@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ public class UnifiedTrackService
         }
 
         var entryKey = lookup.Value.EntryKey;
+        var releaseId = lookup.Value.ReleaseId;
 
         var sqlDelete = await _sqlTrackService.Delete(id);
         if (!sqlDelete.Success)
@@ -164,6 +165,14 @@ public class UnifiedTrackService
             return Result.CreateFailResult("Failed to delete track.");
         }
 
+        // Cascade: if this was the last live track on its release, soft-delete the release too so it
+        // does not linger as a 0-track orphan in the albums browser. Non-fatal — the track delete
+        // already succeeded, so any failure here is logged and swallowed, not surfaced to the caller.
+        if (releaseId is { } rid)
+        {
+            await TrySoftDeleteEmptyReleaseAsync(rid, ct);
+        }
+
         // Tri-state per FileDatabase's error-swallow contract: null = vault missing/error,
         // false = entry not present, true = removed. Anything but a clean removal is an orphan.
         var removed = await _fileDatabase.RemoveResourceAsync(VaultConstants.Tracks, entryKey);
@@ -176,4 +185,30 @@ public class UnifiedTrackService
 
         return Result.CreatePassResult();
     }
+
+    // Soft-delete the release only when no live tracks remain on it. Best-effort: a count or delete
+    // failure here never fails the track delete that triggered it — it is logged so an orphaned
+    // release can be cleaned up later (the migration backfill also catches pre-existing orphans).
+    private async Task TrySoftDeleteEmptyReleaseAsync(long releaseId, CancellationToken ct)
+    {
+        var countResult = await _sqlTrackService.CountLiveTracksByRelease(releaseId, ct);
+        if (!countResult.Success)
+        {
+            var error = countResult.Messages.FirstOrDefault()?.Message ?? "unknown error";
+            _logger.LogWarning("DeleteAsync: live-track count failed for release {ReleaseId}: {Error}", releaseId, error);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (countResult.Value > 0)
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        var releaseDelete = await _sqlTrackService.DeleteRelease(releaseId, ct);
+        if (!releaseDelete.Success)
+        {
+            var error = releaseDelete.Messages.FirstOrDefault()?.Message ?? "unknown error";
+            _logger.LogWarning("DeleteAsync: release soft-delete failed for {ReleaseId}: {Error}", releaseId, error);
+        }
+    }
 }