Watchlist scans add announced albums on purpose (so singles download the day
they drop), but the future-dated tracks leaked into two hot paths:
- Fresh Tape / Release Radar: future albums got NEGATIVE days_old, and the
recency score (100 - days*7) has no upper clamp — prereleases weren't just
slipping into the radar, they were mathematically FAVORED above every
released track. That's the "50% prerelease" report. The builder now skips
confidently-future albums (and clamps days_old to 0 as a belt).
- Wishlist processing: every auto cycle burned a full Soulseek search +
timeout per unreleased track (~60 tracks/cycle for the reporter). Both the
auto and manual flows now skip future-dated tracks with a counted log line.
They STAY in the wishlist and join the cycle automatically the day their
release date passes — no state, the date check is per-cycle. An explicit
manual track selection overrides the gate (the user asked for those).
The gate (core/metadata/release_dates.py, pure + tested) is conservative by
design: Spotify dates come as YYYY / YYYY-MM / YYYY-MM-DD, and a track only
gates when its date is CONFIDENTLY future at its stated precision. Release
day counts as released; garbage or missing dates never block anything
(including out-of-range months/days, which fall back a precision level).
Tests: 6 covering all precisions, the release-day boundary, garbage
tolerance, dict shapes, and ordered partitioning. 403 wishlist/watchlist
tests pass.
