GitHub issue #476 (gabistek, Docker on Arch host): "Auto-Fill" / "Fix
Selected" on the Album Completeness findings page returned
"Could not determine album folder from existing tracks" for every album.
Reproduces on any setup where the media-server library lives outside the
SoulSync transfer/download folders — Docker is the headline case but
native installs that point Plex at a NAS via SMB hit it too.
Root cause: `core/repair_worker.py:_resolve_file_path` only probed the
transfer + download folders. Docker users have their Plex/Jellyfin
library bind-mounted at /music (or similar) — neither configured in
SoulSync. Every existing track got silently treated as missing, so
`album_folder` stayed None and the fix workflow bailed.
The same incomplete logic was duplicated four more times in the
repair_jobs/ modules, all with the same bug. Album Completeness was
just the most user-visible — the same setups were also producing false
"missing file" findings from Dead File Cleaner, silent skips in
MBID Mismatch Detector, etc.
The web server already had the correct logic at
`web_server.py:_resolve_library_file_path` (probes transfer + download
+ Plex-reported library locations + user-configured library.music_paths).
The repair workers had never been updated to match.
Fix:
- New `core/library/path_resolver.py` extracts the union logic into a
single shared function `resolve_library_file_path()`. Probes (in
order, deduped): explicit transfer/download kwargs, config-derived
soulseek.transfer_path/download_path, Plex-reported library
locations (when a plex_client is passed), user-configured
library.music_paths. Each defensive: malformed config or a flaky
Plex client degrades to the dirs that did succeed.
- `core/repair_worker.py:_resolve_file_path` becomes a delegating
wrapper preserving the legacy signature, with a new `config_manager`
kwarg. All 15 in-tree call sites updated to thread
`self._config_manager` through.
- `core/repair_jobs/dead_file_cleaner.py`,
`mbid_mismatch_detector.py`, and `lossy_converter.py` get the same
treatment: duplicate function replaced with a thin wrapper, call
sites pass `context.config_manager`.
- `core/repair_jobs/acoustid_scanner.py` and
`unknown_artist_fixer.py` (which used to import from repair_worker)
now call the shared resolver directly with `context.config_manager`.
Side benefit: every other repair job (Dead File Cleaner, MBID
Mismatch Detector, Lossy Converter, AcoustID Scanner, Unknown Artist
Fixer) also stops missing files in the media-server library mount.
Single fix unblocks five user-visible features.
Tests: `tests/library/test_path_resolver.py` — 20 cases covering all
four base-dir sources, suffix-walk algorithm, dedup, defensive paths
(None plex client, malformed config entries, raising config_manager.get,
broken plex attribute access), Docker path translation. Full suite
1677 passed locally.
WHATS_NEW entry under '2.4.2' dev cycle.
Smoke-testing the just-merged provenance PR against live logs revealed
the new ID-match block was silently no-opping: no [ExtID Match] /
[Provenance Match] log lines despite the code path being live. Tracing
revealed two related gaps in extract_external_ids' source detection:
1. **Underscore-prefixed key.** Deezer / Discogs / Hydrabase clients
tag normalized track dicts with ``_source`` (underscore prefix —
convention used in 8+ places across core/). The extractor only
looked for ``provider`` and ``source``, so Deezer-sourced tracks
silently returned no IDs.
2. **No provider field at all.** Spotify and iTunes raw API responses
carry ``id`` but no provider/source key of any kind. The extractor
couldn't disambiguate the native ``id``, so Spotify-primary scans
would have hit the same silent miss once the user switched primary
sources.
Two-part fix:
- ``extract_external_ids`` now recognizes ``_source`` as another
candidate provider field.
- New optional ``source_hint`` parameter lets the caller supply the
configured primary source as a fallback when the track dict has no
provider field of its own. Track-side provider field still wins
when present (defensive against a wrong hint).
Watchlist scanner now passes ``get_primary_source()`` as the hint so
both naming conventions (Deezer-style _source, Spotify-style no-tag)
get handled uniformly.
6 new regression tests cover:
- _source recognized for Deezer
- _source recognized for Hydrabase (cross-provider mapping)
- _source recognized for Discogs (no library column — verifies
graceful no-crash)
- source_hint disambiguates raw tracks for spotify/itunes/deezer
- track-side provider takes precedence over hint
- None hint defaults safely
Full pytest 1630 passed; ruff clean. After this lands and the server
restarts, watchlist scans should produce [ExtID Match] /
[Provenance Match] log lines for tracks already on disk regardless of
which metadata source the user has configured as primary.
Followup to fix/watchlist-external-id-match. The companion PR closed
the demand side — the watchlist scanner asks for tracks by external IDs
before falling back to fuzzy. But for users on Plex / Jellyfin /
Navidrome the supply side was still broken: tracks.spotify_track_id
(and the other ID columns) only got populated by the asynchronous
enrichment workers, sometimes hours after the file was actually
written. During that window the ID match fell through to fuzzy and
the bug returned.
We were already collecting every ID during post-processing — they
live in the `pp` dict in core/metadata/source.py:embed_source_ids and
get embedded into file tags. We just dropped the in-memory copy
afterwards.
This PR persists them and uses them:
- Schema migration adds spotify_track_id / itunes_track_id /
deezer_track_id / tidal_track_id / qobuz_track_id /
musicbrainz_recording_id / audiodb_id / soul_id / isrc columns +
indexes to the existing track_downloads table (already keyed by
file_path).
- core/metadata/source.py:embed_source_ids exposes pp["id_tags"] and
the resolved ISRC back to the import context as _embedded_id_tags
/ _isrc.
- core/imports/side_effects.py:record_download_provenance reads those
context fields and passes them to db.record_track_download, which
now accepts the new ID kwargs and persists them.
- New db.get_provenance_by_file_path with exact + basename-suffix
fallback (handles container mount-root differences between
download-time path and media-server-reported path).
- New db.backfill_track_external_ids_from_provenance copies IDs
from track_downloads onto a tracks row idempotently — COALESCE on
every column preserves any value the enrichment worker already
wrote (enrichment is more authoritative for late binding).
- database/music_database.py:insert_or_update_media_track (the
single insertion point used by every Plex / Jellyfin / Navidrome
sync) calls the backfill immediately after each INSERT/UPDATE.
- New core/library/track_identity.py:find_provenance_by_external_id
used as a second-tier fallback in watchlist_scanner.is_track_missing
_from_library — catches the window between download and media-server
sync. Caller checks os.path.exists on the provenance file_path
before treating it as "already in library" so a deleted file
doesn't prevent re-download.
Effect: freshly downloaded files become ID-recognizable to the
watchlist on the very next scan, no enrichment-wait window.
19 regression tests in tests/test_provenance_id_persistence.py:
- Schema migration adds expected columns + indexes
- record_track_download persists every ID kwarg
- record_track_download backward-compat (old kwargs still work)
- get_provenance_by_file_path: exact match, basename fallback for
mount-root differences, multi-record latest-wins, defensive None
- backfill: copies all IDs, preserves existing via COALESCE,
no-op when no provenance exists
- find_provenance_by_external_id: per-ID lookup, ISRC cross-bridge,
OR semantics, latest-wins on multiple matches
Out of scope: backfilling provenance for files downloaded BEFORE
this PR (their track_downloads rows don't carry the new IDs). Those
continue to wait for enrichment. Acceptable — only affects historical
files; new downloads benefit immediately.
Full pytest 1625 passed; ruff clean.
Reported case (CAL): a track already on disk got re-downloaded by the
watchlist scanner on every scan. Library DB had stale album metadata
for the file (track tagged on album "Left Alone") while the metadata
source reported it on a different album ("NPC" single). The
title+artist+album fuzzy block correctly said the album names didn't
match and declared the track missing — but the file's stable external
IDs (Spotify ID, ISRC, etc.) unambiguously identified it as the same
recording.
The earlier compilation-album fix (PR #461) handled qualifier drift
("OST" vs "Music From The Motion Picture"). This case is two
genuinely different album names referring to the same song.
Fix: provider-neutral external-ID short-circuit before the fuzzy
block in `is_track_missing_from_library`. Pulls every recognized ID
off the source track (Spotify / iTunes / Deezer / Tidal / Qobuz /
MusicBrainz / AudioDB / Hydrabase / ISRC), runs a single SELECT
against the indexed external-ID columns on the `tracks` table, and
treats any hit as "track exists in library — don't re-download".
If no IDs are available (older imports without enrichment, library
scans that didn't populate external IDs), falls through to the
existing fuzzy logic so the safety net stays intact.
New `core/library/track_identity.py` module with two helpers:
- `extract_external_ids(track)`: handles dict and object-style track
shapes, direct-field aliases (spotify_id / spotify_track_id /
SPOTIFY_TRACK_ID), and provider-disambiguated native `id` fields
(when track has `provider='deezer'` and `id='X'`, treats X as a
Deezer ID).
- `find_library_track_by_external_id(db, external_ids,
server_source)`: builds an OR of indexed column matches with
IS NOT NULL guards, optional server_source filter that also
passes legacy NULL rows, single-row LIMIT.
ISRC bridges across providers — a library track imported via Deezer
can be matched against a Spotify scan when both sides carry the
same ISRC.
43 regression tests in `tests/test_library_track_identity.py`:
- 9 ID-extraction tests for direct fields (Spotify / iTunes / Deezer /
ISRC / MBID / AudioDB / Hydrabase)
- 8 ID-extraction tests via the provider field (8 providers + source
alias + missing-provider-ignored)
- 7 mixed/defensive tests (multiple IDs, object-style, empty strings,
None track, numeric coercion)
- 8 lookup tests (per-provider + ISRC cross-bridge)
- 3 OR-semantics tests
- 4 server_source filter tests
- 2 ID-column-map sanity tests
Full pytest 1606 passed; ruff clean.
Body byte-identical to the original. Spotify proxy via registry,
iTunes/Deezer client shims wrap registry helpers,
_resolve_library_file_path, _attempt_download_with_candidates, and
missing_download_executor are injected via init() right after
_init_wishlist_failed where all three deps are already defined.
web_server.py: 35239 → 35063 (-176 lines).
Body byte-identical to the original. The shared state dict, lock,
docker_resolve_path helper, and automation engine are injected via
init() at the lift point, where all four originals are already defined.
web_server.py: 37015 → 36833 (-182 lines).
Lifts _search_service and its _detect_provider helper. Both bodies are
byte-identical to the originals. The nine enrichment worker handles
(spotify/itunes/mb/lastfm/genius/tidal/qobuz/discogs/audiodb) are
injected via init() right after qobuz is constructed, which is the
last worker to come up — and well before Flask starts accepting
requests, so the route handlers never see unbound workers.
web_server.py: 37245 → 37015 (-230 lines).
Pulls the 258-line retag worker out of `web_server.py` into a new
`core/library/` package. Pure 1:1 lift — wrapper keeps the original
entry-point name so the retag-trigger endpoint continues to work
without changes.
What `execute_retag` does:
1. Fetch album + track metadata for the new `album_id` (Spotify or
iTunes — the Spotify client transparently falls back).
2. Load existing files in the retag group from the DB.
3. Match each existing track to a new Spotify track:
- Priority 1: same disc + track number.
- Priority 2: title similarity >= 0.6 (SequenceMatcher).
4. For each matched pair:
- Re-write metadata tags via `_enhance_file_metadata`.
- Compute the new path via `_build_final_path_for_track` and move
the audio file (plus .lrc / .txt sidecars) if the path changes.
- Drop an orphaned cover.jpg if it's left in an empty directory.
- Clean up empty parent directories left behind.
- Download the new cover art into the new album dir.
5. Update the retag group record with new artist / album / image /
total_tracks / release_date and the appropriate Spotify-or-iTunes
album ID (numeric → iTunes, alphanumeric → Spotify).
6. Mark the retag state 'finished' (or 'error' on exception).
Strict 1:1 byte parity:
The original mutated `retag_state` as a module global (the function
declared `global retag_state` even though it only mutates in place).
Here `retag_state` is exposed through the `RetagDeps` proxy as a Python
property so the lifted body keeps `name[key] = value` /
`name.update(...)` syntax. The property setter rebinds the
web_server.py reference if the function ever reassigns it (currently
it doesn't, but the setter is wired for parity with the watchlist lift).
Diff vs original after `deps.X` → global X normalization is **zero
differences** apart from the dropped `global retag_state` decl and the
inline `from database.music_database import get_database` (replaced by
deps.get_database()). 258 lines orig = 258 lines lifted, byte-identical
body otherwise.
Dependencies injected via `RetagDeps` (13 fields) — config_manager,
retag_lock, spotify_client, plus 8 callable helpers
(get_audio_quality_string, enhance_file_metadata,
build_final_path_for_track, safe_move_file, cleanup_empty_directories,
download_cover_art, docker_resolve_path, get_database) and 2 property
delegates (_get_retag_state / _set_retag_state).
Tests: 11 new under tests/library/test_retag.py covering setup error
paths (no album data, no album tracks, no existing tracks),
track-number priority match, title-similarity fallback, no-match skip,
missing file skip, file move when path changes, group record update
(spotify vs iTunes ID branching by alphanumeric vs numeric album_id),
multi-disc total_discs computation.
Full suite: 1330 passing (was 1319). Ruff clean.
