SpotipyFree has no album-name search (search_albums returned []), and
SpotifyClient.search_albums had no Free branch at all — so when Spotify Free was
the active source (no-auth / rate-limit ban / spent budget), album matching
couldn't use Spotify and dropped straight to the iTunes/Deezer fallback. The
enrichment worker's per-album matching was effectively blind on Free.
Fix — work the gap using ONLY the free source:
- spotify_free_metadata: new search_albums_via_artist(artist, album) resolves the
best-matching artist, scans their discography (get_artist_albums_list — which
Free DOES support), and ranks by album-name similarity. Pure rank_albums_by_name
helper is unit-testable; the network method composes it.
- SpotifyClient.search_albums: add a Free branch mirroring search_artists/tracks
(official → Free-if-active → iTunes/Deezer), plus optional artist/album params
so the Free path has the names it needs. Bare-query callers skip it unchanged.
- spotify_worker: _process_album_individual passes artist+album so the bridge can
match albums on Free.
Tests: rank ordering + limit, via-artist picks the right artist and ranks,
empty on missing artist/album/no-match, and SpotifyClient.search_albums returns
Free albums (not the iTunes fallback) when free is active. 210 Spotify tests pass.
#798 follow-up. The worker's 500/day budget is a REAL-API ban shield, but
when it was hit the worker paused outright — even for a Spotify-Free user
with the uncapped free source available. So "I'm on Spotify Free" still
got capped overnight. The intuition is right: if it's ever using Spotify
Free, the budget shouldn't apply.
Fix: spent budget now becomes a third "use free" trigger (alongside
no-auth and rate-limited). When the real-API budget is exhausted and the
free source is available, the worker switches to free (uncapped) for the
rest of the day instead of pausing, then reverts to real-first on the
daily reset.
- should_use_free_fallback gains a budget_exhausted arg (free activates on
no-auth OR rate-limited OR spent-budget).
- the worker sets _budget_exhausted_use_free on ITS OWN client (a separate
instance from the search client — verified, so user searches still use
real auth), and clears it when the budget resets; _free_active() honors
the flag.
- get_stats() using_free reports the budget-bridge too, and the dashboard
bubble shows "Running (Spotify Free)" instead of "Daily Limit Reached"
(budgetStuck = exhausted AND not bridging).
A no-free user still pauses on the budget (nothing to bridge to). A pure
free-only worker never increments the budget at all. New gate test pins
the budget_exhausted trigger. Full suite clean.
#798 follow-up. The enrichment worker's own loop already bridges to the
no-creds Spotify Free source during a rate-limit ban (its guard checks
is_spotify_metadata_available()). But the resume button's pre-check
(_spotify_resume_pre_check) blocked resume on ANY rate-limit with no
awareness of Free — so a Free-opted-in user who got rate-limited was
locked out of restarting the worker, unable to fall through to the free
API.
Fix: the resume guard now mirrors the worker. Block only when
rate-limited AND nothing can serve (plain auth, no Free) — where resuming
would just sleep out the ban. When Free is available it serves during the
ban (is_spotify_authenticated() is False while banned, so
is_spotify_metadata_available() reports the free source), so resume is
allowed and the worker bridges via Free, then returns to real auth once
the ban lifts. Stays real-API-first; Free is only the bridge.
The rule is pinned in a pure helper should_block_rate_limited_resume()
next to the other gate functions, with 3 tests. Full suite clean (only
pre-existing soundcloud /app env failures remain).
Adds an opt-in no-creds Spotify metadata path: SpotifyClient serves SpotipyFree
data (real Spotify IDs) when metadata.spotify_free is enabled AND SpotipyFree is
installed AND there's no real Spotify auth. The data lands in the SAME spotify_*
columns, so the enrichment worker, search, and #775 lookups work UNCHANGED —
they just receive free-sourced data. The worker's only change is its availability
gate.
- core/spotify_free_metadata.py: SpotifyFreeMetadataClient + normalize_artist +
pure gate fns (should_use_free_fallback / should_offer_spotify_metadata /
spotify_free_installed).
- SpotifyClient: _free_enabled (opt-in, default OFF) / _free_available /
is_spotify_metadata_available / _free_active + in-client routing for
search_artists/tracks + get_album/artist/track_details/album_tracks/artist_albums.
- 3 scoped availability gates use is_spotify_metadata_available(): enrichment
worker loop, search resolve_client, watchlist. The ~40 discovery/user-library
sites stay auth-only (no sprawl, no user-data risk).
Authed users are untouched (gate closed when auth healthy). UI surfacing comes
next. Pure gates + normalizer tested; orchestrator resolve test added.
