Boulder noticed his recently added watchlist artists (June 4 batch) have no
iTunes match while Spotify/Deezer/MusicBrainz matched fine. The rotated log
has the receipt: "Cannot match to iTunes - MetadataService not available" ×8
→ "Backfilled 0/8 artists with itunes IDs", every scan.
_match_to_itunes was the only matcher with no fallback: it read the PRIVATE
_metadata_service attr, which is None whenever the scanner is constructed
from a spotify_client — the normal web_server wiring — and gave up, while a
lazy-loading metadata_service property sat right next to it and the deezer/
discogs/musicbrainz matchers all fall back to their registry clients. Bonus
landmine: even when set, metadata_service.itunes is the FALLBACK-client slot
and may actually be a DeezerClient (per _match_to_deezer's own comment), so
"iTunes" matching could have stored a Deezer artist ID as itunes_artist_id.
Now mirrors the other matchers: canonical registry get_itunes_client().
Self-healing — missing IDs are re-attempted every scan, so existing
watchlists backfill on the next run with no migration needed.
Tests: match works with _metadata_service=None (the exact production
condition), unconfident result returns None, missing client degrades
gracefully. 103 watchlist tests pass.