Some Monochrome instances only have 30-second Tidal DOWNLOAD access: the HLS
variant playlist for a 220s track comes back as ~30s of segments + ENDLIST
(verified live on us-west.monochrome.tf — lossless=30s, hires=403). The client
downloaded that 30s file, which then got quarantined by the new audio guard.
Detect it at manifest time: sum the playlist's EXTINF runtime and compare to
the track's real duration (get_track_info). When the playlist is < 85% of the
track, decline the manifest and rotate the instance, so the download falls
through to a real source (Soulseek/Qobuz/Tidal/Deezer) instead of fetching a
preview. Best-effort — unknown duration disables the check (the post-download
audio guard remains the safety net).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
