#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).
Per the cleaner model: the free source only runs for users who explicitly picked
'Spotify Free' — not for every connected user. _free_wanted() is now just
_free_selected() (dropped the has-credentials auto-trigger). So:
- Plain 'Spotify' user, rate-limited -> waits out the ban as before (no surprise
background scraping, no ToS exposure for people who never chose free).
- 'Spotify Free' user, no auth -> free serves.
- 'Spotify Free' user who also connects an account -> official when healthy,
free bridges only during a rate-limit, then switches back.
Rewrote the metadata-source help text as a plain per-source list with a clear
note on how Spotify Free + a connected account interact. Gate tests updated to
pin the opt-in behavior (plain-Spotify ratelimit = no bridge; Spotify-Free
ratelimit = bridge).
Consistency fix: Spotify Free is now its own entry in the metadata-source
dropdown (alongside Spotify / iTunes / Deezer / MusicBrainz) instead of a
side-toggle. Stored as fallback_source='spotify' + spotify_free=true so all
downstream 'spotify' routing and the spotify_* columns are unchanged.
Refined gate model (no toggle):
- Connected user (has credentials) -> official; bridges to free AUTOMATICALLY
during a rate-limit ban (no opt-in needed).
- No-auth user -> must pick 'Spotify Free' in the dropdown; then free serves.
- Never opted into Spotify (no creds, didn't pick it) -> free never runs, so no
surprise scraping. _free_wanted() = has_credentials OR picked-spotify-free is
the guard.
- AUTHED + healthy -> official always; free never opens.
UI: dropdown gains 'Spotify Free (no credentials)' (selectable when the package
is installed — surfaced via status.free_installed, since selecting it is the
opt-in and can't depend on having selected it); load/save map the dropdown value
to the (fallback_source, spotify_free) pair; old checkbox removed.
Gate model pinned by 6 scenario tests (connected/healthy, connected/ratelimited
bridge, no-auth picked, no-auth not-opted-in, package-missing). 117 tests green.
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.
