New download mode alongside Soulseek, YouTube, Tidal, and Qobuz. Uses
community-run REST API instances (no auth required) that serve Tidal CDN
FLAC streams. Features quality fallback chain (hires→lossless→high→low),
automatic instance rotation on failure, and full hybrid mode support.
Also fixes 6 missing streaming source checks for HiFi and Qobuz in the
frontend that were blocking playback with "format not supported" errors.
Scrapes Spotify's embed endpoint to extract track data from any public
playlist or album URL. Full discovery flow with Deezer parity: parse →
card → discovery modal → live progress → sync → download missing.
- New scraper: core/spotify_public_scraper.py (embed endpoint parsing)
- 12 API endpoints mirroring Deezer's discovery/sync/download flow
- WebSocket live discovery updates via spotify_public_discovery_states
- Green-branded tab, cards, and input styling (#1DB954)
- Album vs playlist detection with distinct card icons (💿/🎵)
- Download persistence: card click reopens download modal after close
- Card phase reset on cancel/completion (closeDownloadMissingModal)
- Backend download linking for spotify_public_ and deezer_ prefixes
- Completion handlers (V2 + no-missing-tracks) for both platforms
- Source URLs stored on mirrored playlists for future auto-refresh
Southern hemisphere users now see correct seasons (e.g. March = Autumn,
December = Summer). Holidays (Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's) stay
calendar-fixed regardless of hemisphere.
- Hemisphere dropdown in Discovery Pool Settings
- GET/POST /api/discovery/hemisphere endpoints
- Season detection offsets months by 6 for southern hemisphere
- Stored in metadata table, defaults to northern
- All 9 repair jobs now emit report_progress() for real-time card updates
(phase, log lines, per-item activity) via WebSocket repair:progress events
- Enrich finding details with album/artist thumb URLs across all repair jobs
(dead_file, duplicate, metadata_gap, album_completeness, missing_cover_art,
acoustid_scanner, track_number_repair, fake_lossless, orphan_file)
- Track number repair: return match_score from fuzzy matching, add suffix-based
DB lookup for album/artist art (handles cross-environment path mismatches)
- Fix Plex/Jellyfin relative thumb URLs in findings endpoint via fix_artist_image_url
- Labeled media cards in finding detail panels (album title + artist name under images)
- Dashboard tooltip shows current job name + per-job progress instead of stale stats
Automatically mirrors every parsed playlist (Spotify, Tidal, YouTube, Beatport) to a local database so they're always accessible — even if a service subscription lapses or the browser closes.
- New "Mirrored" tab on the Sync page with source-branded cards showing discovery/download status
- Auto-mirrors on successful parse (upsert — re-parsing updates the existing mirror, no duplicates)
- Click any mirrored playlist to browse its full track list, then run it through the discovery pipeline
- Cards dynamically reflect live state: Discovering → Discovered → Downloading → Downloaded
- Download modal rehydrates after page refresh — click a "Downloading..." card to resume viewing progress
- All phase transitions (start, complete, cancel, error, modal close) keep card and backend state in sync
- Profile-scoped via profile_id, consistent with other features
Allow multiple users to share a single SoulSync instance with isolated personal data. Each profile gets its own watchlist, wishlist, discovery pool, similar artists, and bubble snapshots — while sharing the same music library, database, and service credentials.
- Netflix-style profile picker on startup when multiple profiles exist
- Optional PIN protection per profile; admin PIN required when >1 profiles
- Admin-only profile management (create, edit, rename, delete)
- Profile avatar images via URL with colored-initial fallback
- Zero-downtime SQLite migration — all existing data maps to auto-created
admin profile
- Single-user installs see no changes — profile system is invisible until
a second profile is created
- WebSocket count emitters scoped to profile rooms (watchlist/wishlist)
- Background scanners (watchlist, wishlist, discovery) iterate all profiles
Migrates 38 HTTP polling loops to WebSocket push events across 6 phases: service status, dashboard stats, enrichment workers, tool progress, sync/discovery progress, and scan status. All original HTTP polling is preserved as automatic fallback — if WebSocket is unavailable or disconnects, the app seamlessly reverts to its previous behavior. Includes 162 tests verifying event delivery, data shape, and HTTP parity. Also fixes a copy-paste bug in Beatport sync error cleanup.
Incremental database updates now detect when artists or albums have been removed from your media server (Plex, Jellyfin, or Navidrome) and automatically clean them up from SoulSync's database. Previously, deleted content would persist as ghost entries until you ran a full refresh. Removal counts are reported in the scan results. Includes safety checks to prevent accidental mass deletion if the server is unreachable or returns incomplete data.
Adds a full public REST API at /api/v1/ with 32 endpoints covering library, search, downloads, wishlist, watchlist, playlists, system status, and settings. Includes API key authentication (Bearer token), per-endpoint rate limiting, and consistent JSON response format. API keys can be generated and managed from the Settings page. No changes to existing functionality — the API delegates to the same backend services the web UI uses.
Adds Tidal as a third download source alongside Soulseek and YouTube. Uses the tidalapi library with device-flow authentication to search and download tracks in configurable quality (Low/High/Lossless/HiRes) with automatic fallback. Integrates into the download orchestrator for all modes (Tidal Only, Hybrid with fallback chain), the transfer monitor, post-processing pipeline, and file finder. Frontend includes download settings with quality selector, device auth flow, and dynamic sidebar/dashboard labels that reflect the active download source. No breaking changes for existing users.
Filled all missing Hydrabase fallthrough gates across 6 endpoints (artist album tracks, iTunes album, discover album, Spotify track, both similar artists), added track_number/disc_number to Track dataclass, fixed get_album_tracks to send soul_id instead of text query, mapped soul_id field from Hydrabase responses across all search methods, updated 7 frontend call sites to pass album name/artist params, and fixed M3U export defaulting to enabled when users never turned it on.
Fix short artist names (e.g. "ano") getting buried by wildcard matches. Re-ranks Spotify and iTunes results so exact name matches appear first, without changing what's returned.
SoulSync was importing from all Navidrome libraries regardless of user access restrictions. Added a "Music Library" dropdown in Navidrome settings that lets users scope imports to a specific music folder. Uses the Subsonic musicFolderId parameter on artist, album, and search API calls. Selecting "All Libraries" reverts to the previous behavior.
Sync status was being saved to storage/sync_status.json on disk, which fails in Docker with permission denied errors. Moved to the existing database preference system so it works in all environments.
Introduce batch removal support for wishlist tracks. Adds a new POST endpoint /api/wishlist/remove-batch that validates input, removes multiple tracks via the wishlist service, logs the result and returns a removed count. Updates the frontend (webui/static/script.js) to provide per-track and per-album checkboxes, a Select All button, a batch action bar with selection count and a Remove Selected action (with confirmation), and logic to refresh the view and wishlist count after removal. Styles (webui/static/style.css) are extended to support unified watchlist/wishlist batch bars, checkbox styling, and a Select All button. Preserves existing single-item removal behavior.
Increase the minimum confidence cutoff to 0.9 in multiple discovery/search routines to reduce false positives. Affected functions: _search_spotify_for_tidal_track, _run_youtube_discovery_worker, _run_listenbrainz_discovery_worker, and _run_beatport_discovery_worker. This tightens matching criteria (previously 0.6/0.7/0.75) to favor higher-confidence matches, potentially reducing incorrect matches at the cost of fewer total matches.
Add server endpoint to trigger a manual download for a user-selected candidate from the candidates modal (/api/downloads/task/<id>/download-candidate). The endpoint validates input, resets task and batch state (status, error, used_sources, active_count, permanently_failed_tracks), reconstructs Track/TrackResult objects and dispatches a background download attempt via missing_download_executor. Update the frontend candidates modal to show a download button per candidate, wire it to POST the candidate to the new API, and add CSS for table layout and download button styling. Enables restarting failed/not_found tasks by choosing a specific source without blocking the UI.
Expose cached search results for failed downloads and add a UI to review them. Implements a new GET /api/downloads/task/<task_id>/candidates endpoint that serializes any cached_candidates and track_info for a task and returns an error message and candidate count. The download worker now collects top raw search results (all_raw_results) and stores them in download_tasks[task_id]['cached_candidates'] when no match is found so users can inspect what Soulseek returned. The batch status payload includes has_candidates to mark "not_found" tasks as reviewable. On the frontend, new script functions (_ensureCandidatesClickListener, showCandidatesModal, _renderCandidatesModal, closeCandidatesModal) fetch and render a modal table of candidates; existing status rendering is updated to attach click handlers and error tooltips. Styles for the modal and a clickable .has-candidates state are added to style.css.
Add a POST /api/quarantine/clear endpoint to delete all files and folders inside the ss_quarantine directory (uses docker_resolve_path and reports removed item count). Implement _sweep_empty_download_directories() to walk the downloads folder bottom-up and remove empty directories (preserves root download dir, skips hidden entries, robust against locked/non-empty dirs). Wire the sweeper into existing cleanup flows: clear_finished_downloads(), the periodic _simple_monitor_task(), and the failed-tracks post-cleanup path so leftover empty folders are removed. Also add a Clear Quarantine button in the web UI and a clearQuarantine() client function to call the new API and show feedback.
Add limit=50 to spotify_client.get_artist_albums so up to 50 albums/singles/compilations are returned per request, reducing the need for extra pagination and ensuring more complete discography results from a single call.
Store album artists in the Spotify track data structure (handles both dict and object album forms) so downstream processing has access to album-level artist metadata. Also update missing-track processing to fall back to source_info['watchlist_artist_name'] when artist_name is absent, ensuring artist context is preserved for legacy/watchlist-sourced entries.
In web_server.py, increase the minimum artist similarity from 0.4 to 0.5 in both cache validation and candidate scoring. Add a title similarity floor (min_title_similarity = 0.5) to _discovery_score_candidates: compute cleaned/core titles, allow a core-title exact match to bypass the floor, otherwise require title similarity >= 0.5. Only candidates that pass both artist and title floors proceed to full weighted scoring. This reduces false positives where a strong artist match could previously mask a poor title match.
Introduce a generic score_track_match(...) in core/matching_engine.py and make calculate_match_confidence(...) delegate to it. The new scorer is source-agnostic, consolidates artist/title/duration logic (core-title fast path, cleaned similarity, weighted 60/30/10 scoring) and improves artist matching.
In web_server.py add cache-validation (_validate_discovery_cache_artist) and a reusable _discovery_score_candidates(...) helper that calls the new scorer. Propagate per-match confidence through discovery flows (Tidal, YouTube, ListenBrainz, Beatport), increase Spotify/iTunes search limits, add an extended high-limit search strategy, tighten per-source thresholds, and save match confidence to the discovery cache. Overall this centralizes and standardizes matching logic and improves accuracy/validation for cached discovery results.
Add album.artists to the album data when adding wishlist tracks and change the missing-tracks processing to prefer album-level artists for constructing artist context. The code now uses spotify_data.get('album') or {} and picks artist_ctx from album.artists first, falls back to source_info.artist_name (with safe JSON parsing if source_info is a string), then to track-level artists, and finally to a generic Unknown Artist. This ensures tracks from compilations or albums where the album artist differs from track artists are grouped consistently.
Expand track title normalization and refine album grouping logic.
- core/acoustid_verification.py: Broadened the parenthetical-suffix regex to strip year-based remasters and additional variants (e.g. "2025 Remaster", "single edit", "album edit") while still removing common extras like (Live), (Deluxe), (Radio Edit), and featuring tags.
- web_server.py: Restrict the smart album grouping to only run for singles/auto-detected albums; explicit album downloads now preserve the original Spotify album name to avoid mangling names (e.g. reworked/remastered vs deluxe). Added explicit logging for both smart grouping and skipped grouping paths. The verification post-processing worker now checks an is_album_download flag in context and skips re-grouping when true, with fallback logging on errors.
These changes prevent unintended renaming of explicit album downloads and improve normalization of common title suffixes.
- matching_engine.py: Add 'single edit' and 'album edit' tokens and clarify radio edit comment so edit/cut variants are recognized as different cuts rather than being silently normalized away.
- database/music_database.py: Fix SQL param ordering by appending server_source to params; add a pre-step to strip "(with ...)" / "[with ...]" only when used inside brackets (so titles like "Stay With Me" are preserved); stop removing edit/version tokens in the generic cleanup and document that radio/single/album edits are treated as distinct by the similarity scorer to avoid incorrect matches.
- web_server.py: Increase DB match confidence threshold from 0.70 to 0.80 and update the runtime check accordingly.
These changes prevent edit/cut variants from being conflated with original recordings, improve title normalization for "with" featuring syntax in brackets, and fix a params ordering bug and a too-low match threshold.
Introduce a global watchlist override feature and UI to control release/content filters across all watchlist artists. Backend: add /api/watchlist/global-config (GET/POST) for reading/updating global settings, validation to require at least one release type when override is enabled, and _apply_watchlist_global_overrides() to apply settings to WatchlistArtist objects. Scanners (manual and automatic) now call _apply_watchlist_global_overrides() and perform additional checks (_should_include_release, _should_include_track) to skip releases/tracks according to config. Frontend: add a Global Watchlist Settings modal, controls (release types, content filters, include-all shortcut), save/validation logic, banners/notices when global override is active, and integration into the watchlist modal and per-artist config. Styles: add supporting CSS for the modal and banners. Small cleanup/whitespace adjustments included.
Add support for cycling hero/featured similar artists by introducing a last_featured timestamp and using it to prefer least-recently-featured artists. Changes include:
- DB migration: add _add_similar_artists_last_featured_column and call it during migrations to add a last_featured TIMESTAMP column (non-fatal on error).
- Query changes: get_top_similar_artists now excludes watchlist artists via a LEFT JOIN and wa.id IS NULL and orders results by last_featured (nulls first), then by last_featured asc, occurrence_count desc, and similarity_rank asc. The query aliasing was also added for clarity.
- New helper: mark_artists_featured updates similar_artists.last_featured = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP for shown artists.
- Web server: increase fetch limit to 50, remove random shuffle and instead take the top 10 (already ordered by cycling logic), and call mark_artists_featured to rotate featured artists.
These changes aim to provide deterministic, least-recently-shown cycling of hero artists while keeping watchlist artists out of recommendations.
Improve Hydrabase response handling and add discography/album track helpers. core/hydrabase_client.py: extract peer counts from stats.connectedPeers, handle new "response" key and stats-only or unexpected response shapes (return empty instead of wrapping), and add search_discography() and get_album_tracks() to map Hydrabase results into Album/Track objects. web_server.py: avoid redundant Hydrabase round-trips by passing precomputed hydrabase_counts into the background comparison worker; prefer Hydrabase for artist discography and album track import when active (with Spotify fallback); and route album-context searches to Hydrabase when configured. These changes reduce duplicate network calls and improve robustness against varied Hydrabase payloads.
Introduce an in-memory, locked cache (_mb_release_cache and _mb_release_cache_lock) for MusicBrainz release lookups to ensure concurrent post-processing threads use a consistent release MBID and avoid splitting albums in players. Use the track artist (first artist in multi-artist fields) for artist MBID matching. Remove usage of AudioDB's per-track strMusicBrainzAlbumID as a fallback for MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASE_ID and add a comment explaining why (AudioDB links tracks to original albums which can differ per track and split albums). Includes safeguards around match_release calls and stores empty results in the cache to avoid repeated failed lookups.
Prefer an album's stored track count when owned_tracks meets or exceeds it (avoids marking a complete standard edition as incomplete when an external source reports a larger deluxe count). Add more robust edition-detection regexes and generic catch-alls (parenthesized/bracketed text containing "edition") in music_database.py and web_server.py, and include silver/gold/platinum edition variants. Also tidy related regex handling and comments to improve matching for varied edition naming (e.g. "MMXI Special Edition").
Add robust checks and stabilization before treating transfers as finished. The patch verifies bytesTransferred vs expected size in multiple places (monitor, API polling, YouTube handling, and batch status building) to avoid acting on premature "Completed/Succeeded" states. It adds per-poll file-claiming to prevent two contexts from grabbing the same file, introduces file-stability loops and retries when locating/moving files, replaces a blind 1s wait with repeated size checks, and fsyncs destination files after copy. Also introduces an _incomplete_warned flag to reduce log spam and ensures post-processing is triggered reliably once files are truly stable.
Add Hydrabase support as an optional/dev metadata source and comparison tool.
- Add core/hydrabase_client.py: synchronous Hydrabase WebSocket client that normalizes results to Track/Artist/Album types and exposes raw access.
- Update config/settings.py: add hydrabase settings (url, api_key, auto_connect) and getter.
- Update web_server.py: integrate HydrabaseClient, initialize client alongside the existing HydrabaseWorker, add auto-reconnect using saved config, persist credentials on connect/disconnect, add endpoints for status and stored comparisons, background comparison runner (Hydrabase vs Spotify vs iTunes), and adapt multiple search endpoints to optionally use Hydrabase as the primary metadata source with fallbacks.
- Update web UI (webui/index.html, webui/static/script.js, webui/static/style.css): add network stats and source comparison UI, pre-fill saved credentials, show peer count, load/display comparisons, update disconnect behavior to disable dev mode, and add Hydrabase badge styling.
Behavioral notes: when dev mode + Hydrabase are active, searches can be served from Hydrabase and comparisons to Spotify/iTunes are run in background; when Hydrabase fails the code falls back to Spotify/iTunes. Saved Hydrabase credentials are persisted for auto-reconnect; disconnect disables dev mode and auto_connect.
Files touched: config/settings.py, core/hydrabase_client.py, web_server.py, webui/index.html, webui/static/script.js, webui/static/style.css.
Increase Spotify client rate limit and reduce API contention during watchlist scans. Changes:
- core/spotify_client.py: Bumped MIN_API_INTERVAL from 0.2s to 0.35s (~171 calls/min) to stay safely under Spotify's ~180/min limit.
- web_server.py: In start_watchlist_scan and automatic scan flow, pause spotify_enrichment_worker and itunes_enrichment_worker before scanning (tracking with _enrichment_was_running/_itunes_enrichment_was_running) and resume them in finally blocks; added console prints for pause/resume. This prevents enrichment workers from contending for API quota during long scans.
- webui/static/script.js: Improved enrichment status tooltip logic to prioritize explicit currentType and then fall back to completion-based inference with explicit branches for artists, albums, and tracks for clearer progress text.
These changes aim to avoid API rate violations and make scan progress display more predictable.
Introduce a new Retag tool to track and re-tag previously downloaded albums/singles. Changes include:
- Database: add migration hook and create retag_groups and retag_tracks tables, indexes, and many helper methods (add/find/update/delete groups & tracks, stats, trimming).
- Backend (web_server): capture completed album/single downloads into the retag tables, implement retag execution logic (_execute_retag) to fetch album metadata, match tracks, update tags, move files, download cover art, and update DB. Add thread-safe globals, executor, and REST endpoints for stats, listing groups, group tracks, album search, execute, status, and delete.
- Frontend (webui): add Retag Tool card, modals, search UI, JS to list groups/tracks, search albums, start retag operations, poll status, and update UI; include help content. Add CSS for modals and components.
The migration is invoked during DB init to ensure existing installations create the new tables. The tool caps stored groups (default 100) and avoids duplicate track entries.
When clearing the wishlist or changing the discovery lookback period, reset watchlist_artists.last_scan_timestamp to NULL so subsequent scans can re-discover older releases that were previously filtered by an earlier scan timestamp. clear_wishlist now deletes wishlist_tracks, updates last_scan_timestamp for all watchlist artists, and logs the number of tracks cleared and artists reset. set_discovery_lookback_period also resets last_scan_timestamp and reports how many artists were reset. Minor whitespace cleanups in watchlist_scanner and web_server included.
Add a release_date field to the Track dataclass for both iTunes and Spotify clients (iTunes: parsed from releaseDate, Spotify: from album.release_date). Propagate release_date into enhanced search results in web_server and into the client-side script so album objects include release_date when available. Also broaden playlistId matching in the missing-tracks process to include 'enhanced_search_track_'. Removed SQLite SHM/WAL files from the repo (cleanup of DB temporary files). These changes enable showing and using track release dates across the app.
Add per-track selection checkboxes, select-all control and a selection count to download modals (missing/YouTube/Tidal/artist-album). Implement JS helpers (toggleAllTrackSelections, updateTrackSelectionCount) to manage checkbox state, row dimming, button disabling, and to filter/stamp selected tracks with _original_index before sending to the backend. Update start/add-to-wishlist flows to use only selectedTracks and disable controls once analysis starts. Backend _run_full_missing_tracks_process now reads _original_index to preserve original table indices in analysis results. CSS updates (mobile.css and style.css) add styling for checkbox columns, responsive hiding logic for headers/columns, selection visuals (.track-deselected), and small layout/width tweaks.
Introduce M3U export feature with UI control and server-side saving. Adds a new m3u_export config option (enabled flag) and a checkbox in the settings UI. The web endpoint /api/save-playlist-m3u now checks the m3u_export setting (unless force=true), builds the target folder using a new _compute_m3u_folder() helper (leveraging existing template logic with sensible fallbacks), sanitizes filenames, and writes .m3u files into the computed folder. Frontend JS loads/saves the new setting, supplies album/artist metadata when auto-saving, and both autoSave and manual export now POST M3U data to the server (manual export uses force=true). Also changed browser download filename extension to .m3u and added minor logging/response behavior.
Introduce deferred album repair scanning and robust tracklist resolution plus UI/presentation tweaks.
- core/repair_worker.py: Add lazy MusicBrainz and AudioDB client accessors, per-batch folder queues, and register_folder/process_batch to defer folder scans until a batch completes. Implement cascading tracklist resolution (_resolve_album_tracklist) using Spotify/iTunes IDs, Spotify track→album lookup, album search, MusicBrainz release lookup, and AudioDB→MusicBrainz fallback. Add helpers to read Spotify track IDs, MusicBrainz album IDs, album/artist tags from files, MB/AudioDB fetchers, placeholder-ID filtering, and rename associated .lrc files when renaming audio files. Cache/locking and background-threaded scanning included. Improves resilience to missing/placeholder IDs and avoids circular imports.
- web_server.py: Register album folders for repair in post-processing and trigger repair_worker.process_batch when batches complete (multiple completion paths) so scans run after downloads finish.
- webui/static/script.js: Reduce unnecessary background work by skipping many fetches when the tab is hidden, and refresh dashboard-specific data on visibility change to ensure UI updates after OAuth or tab switch.
- webui/static/style.css: Replace glassmorphic backdrop-filters with opaque dark gradients for sidebar and main content to improve GPU rendering and visual consistency.
Overall: Adds reliable post-download album repair scanning using multiple metadata sources and reduces unnecessary client polling and heavy CSS effects for better performance and robustness.
Introduce an optional "Blasphemy Mode" that deletes the original FLAC after a verified MP3 copy is created.
- config: add lossy_copy.delete_original (default: false).
- webui/index.html & static script: add checkbox and warning in settings UI and persist the setting.
- web_server.py: make _create_lossy_copy return the MP3 path when it deletes the FLAC (otherwise None); validate the MP3 using mutagen before removing the FLAC; rename associated .lrc files if present; update post-processing to use the final processed path in logs and wishlist checks and to consider .mp3 variants when FLAC may have been removed.
Behavior is off by default and includes safety checks and logging to avoid accidental deletion of originals.
Add full-featured SpotifyWorker and iTunesWorker background workers to enrich artists, albums, and tracks with external metadata using batch cascading searches, fuzzy name matching, ID validation, and DB backfills. Update RepairWorker to re-read the transfer path from the database each scan, resolve host paths when running in Docker, and trigger immediate rescans when the transfer path changes; remove the static config_manager dependency. Also include supporting changes to the database layer and web UI/server (stats, controls, and styles) to integrate the new workers and reflect updated worker status.
Add _get_playlist_items_page to call the new playlists/{id}/items endpoint (Feb 2026 API migration) and fall back to spotipy.playlist_items (old /tracks) on 403/404. Update _get_playlist_tracks and web_server.get_playlist_tracks to use the new helper to avoid 403 errors for Development Mode apps while preserving compatibility with Extended Quota Mode.
Tighten fuzzy matching in post-processing when no exact context is found: acquire matched_context_lock for thread-safe access and limit candidate keys to those starting with the current username prefix ("{task_username}::") while still matching the file basename. This prevents cross-album/username metadata contamination during mass downloads (e.g., multiple albums with identical track basenames) and reduces erroneous fuzzy matches.
Use MusicBrainz IDs returned by AudioDB as fallbacks when MB lookup is missing. The patch maps strMusicBrainzID/strMusicBrainzAlbumID/strMusicBrainzArtistID to MUSICBRAINZ_RECORDING_ID, MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASE_ID, and MUSICBRAINZ_ARTIST_ID respectively (only if those tags are not already present), sets recording_mbid and artist_mbid where applicable, and adds informational prints for debugging.
Request recording 'releases' from MusicBrainz and, when available, capture the first release MBID into id_tags['MUSICBRAINZ_RELEASE_ID']. Persist this release (album) MBID across tag formats by adding TXXX ('MusicBrainz Album Id'), a generic tag 'MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID', and an iTunes MP4 freeform key. This allows tracks to be associated with their MusicBrainz release/album.
Stop recomputing expected file paths during verification and instead use the exact path computed/moved during post-processing (context['_final_processed_path']). If that context value is missing, assume success to avoid false failures and mark the task completed.
Also store the computed final path into context in _post_process_matched_download so verification uses the exact same path. Add logic to handle cases where the source vanished but a variant (quality-tagged) file exists in the destination — treat that as success, set the final path, download art and generate LRC.
In the post-processing worker: skip verification when the task is already completed or marked as stream_processed, check for stream_processed status while searching, increase file search retries from 3 to 5 with longer sleeps, and re-check stream_processed before marking a task failed. Improve log messages and error text to reduce false negatives caused by independent recomputation or concurrent stream processing.
Add a recovery step during wishlist processing that scans in-memory download_tasks (under tasks_lock) for tasks marked 'failed' or 'not_found' but not present in permanently_failed_tracks, and appends normalized track entries (including retry_count, failure_reason, spotify_track, and cached candidates). This prevents tasks that were force-marked failed by stuck-detection logic from being silently skipped in wishlist sync. Also fix post-processing context lookup by rebuilding the context key with _make_context_key(task_username, task_filename) so it matches how context keys are stored.
Introduce a RepairWorker to scan the transfer folder and automatically detect/repair broken album track numbers (e.g. the "all tracks = 01" bug). The worker uses mutagen to read/write tags, fuzzy-matches titles against an album tracklist (Spotify/iTunes via a SpotifyClient), updates filenames and the tracks DB file_path when renamed, and caches album tracklists. It also adds DB schema support (repair_status, repair_last_checked, and an index).
Integrates the worker into the web server: initializes and starts the worker, and exposes /api/repair/status, /api/repair/pause and /api/repair/resume endpoints. Adds UI elements (button, tooltip), client-side JS to poll and control the worker, CSS for visuals/animations, and a new image asset (whisoul.png).
Introduce a Hydrabase P2P mirror worker and integrate it into the web UI and server flows. Adds core/hydrabase_worker.py: a background thread with a capped queue (1000), enqueue API, rate limiting, basic stats (sent/dropped/errors), and logic to send JSON requests over a provided WebSocket (responses received and discarded). Integrates the worker into web_server.py (import, startup init, status/pause/resume endpoints, and enqueues queries from multiple search endpoints when dev mode is enabled). Adds UI elements, JavaScript polling/toggle logic, and CSS styling for a Hydrabase status button in webui (index.html, static/script.js, static/style.css) to display and control worker state.
Introduce a developer-only Hydrabase testing UI and backend WebSocket integration. Adds a simple dev-mode toggle (password 'hydratest') and new API endpoints (/api/dev-mode, /api/hydrabase/connect, /api/hydrabase/disconnect, /api/hydrabase/status, /api/hydrabase/send) that use websocket-client to connect/send raw JSON to a Hydrabase instance. Frontend changes include a Hydrabase nav/page, payload editors, response panel, dev-mode UI in Settings, associated JS handlers, CSS styling, and an icon asset. Also add websocket-client to requirements.
Introduce $artistletter and $disc template variables across config, UI, and backend to support artist-first-letter tokens and multi-disc albums. Update web_server.py to include disc_number in template context, prefer user-controlled $disc in templates, and create configurable disc subfolders using a new file_organization.disc_label setting. Update example and active config, web UI to expose the new variable and disc label selector, and script.js to validate, load, and save the new settings and substitutions.
Introduce a configurable "lossy_copy" feature that creates an MP3 copy alongside downloaded FLAC files. Adds default config (example and runtime) and UI controls for enabling the feature and selecting an MP3 bitrate. Implements _create_lossy_copy in web_server.py which checks the FLAC extension, respects the configured bitrate (default 320 kbps), locates ffmpeg (including a local tools/ffmpeg fallback), performs conversion, and attempts to update the QUALITY tag via mutagen. The feature is invoked after post-processing/moving downloads. Logs and graceful failures (missing ffmpeg, timeouts, tag errors) are included.
Introduce a new $quality template variable that is only substituted into filenames to avoid splitting album folders when tracks of mixed qualities are present. Updates include:
- web_server.py: populate template contexts with 'quality' (from context['_audio_quality']), strip $quality from folder components, substitute it only in the filename, and clean up empty brackets/parentheses/dashes when the variable is empty.
- config/config.example.json and config/config.json: document the new variable in the file_organization template variables string.
- webui/index.html and webui/static/script.js: update UI help text and client-side template validation to include $quality.
This prevents folder fragmentation for albums with mixed-quality files while still allowing quality information in filenames.
Add Deezer as a third metadata enrichment source. Enriches tracks with BPM and explicit flags, albums with
record labels, explicit flags, and type classification (album/single/EP), and backfills artwork and genres across
all entities. Includes background worker with priority queue, rate-limited API client, database migration, server
endpoints, and UI button with purple-themed status tooltip.
Integrated TheAudioDB as a metadata enrichment source. A background worker scans the library in priority order (artists → albums → tracks), matching entities via fuzzy name comparison and storing style, mood, and AudioDB IDs. Includes rate limiting, 30-day retry for not-found items, and a UI tooltip showing phase-based scan progress.
Add a UI button to disconnect Spotify and fall back to iTunes/Apple Music without restarting. Cache is_spotify_authenticated() with a 60s TTL to reduce redundant API calls (~46 call sites were each
triggering a live sp.current_user() call). Fix status endpoint calling the auth check twice per poll,
and ensure both OAuth callback handlers (port 8008 Flask route and port 8888 dedicated server)
invalidate the status cache so the UI updates immediately after authentication.
Spotify's @rate_limited decorator now retries on 429/5xx with exponential backoff (up to 5 retries) instead of sleeping once and raising. Watchlist scan delays scale dynamically based on lookback setting and artist count to prevent sustained API pressure. A circuit breaker pauses the scan after consecutive rate-limit failures.
When a download fails in the Download Missing Tracks modal, hovering over the "Failed" status now shows a tooltip explaining why. The backend already tracked error_message on tasks internally but never sent it to the frontend. This surfaces those reasons and enriches them with detailed context — search diagnostics break down what happened per query (no results, filtered out, search error), retry failures include source counts and likely cause, and timeout/stuck messages name the state and duration. The tooltip uses a fixed-position popup to avoid clipping by the modal's scroll container, with scroll and visibility-aware dismissal.
The Soulseek "Test Connection" button could report success while the dashboard status remained "Disconnected" because the status endpoint only checked if slskd was configured (is_configured()), not actually
reachable (check_connection()). Switched to a real connection check with TTL caching (matching the existing
Spotify/media server pattern), update the status cache after successful tests, and refresh the UI immediately on success.
Multi-disc albums (e.g., deluxe editions, double albums) now automatically organize
tracks into Disc 1/, Disc 2/ subfolders within the album folder. Detection uses the
disc_number field from Spotify's API — when an album has total_discs > 1, subfolders
are created. Single-disc albums are completely unaffected.
- Plumb disc_number through all download paths (enhanced, non-enhanced, download
missing modal, wishlist)
- Compute total_discs from album tracklist and store on album context
- Modify path builder to insert Disc N/ subfolder for multi-disc albums
- Preserve disc_number when tracks fail and get re-added to wishlist
- Preserve disc_number when adding tracks to wishlist from library page
- Add visual disc separators in Soulseek search result track lists
