User report: SoulSync was only pulling MusicBrainz genres from the
recording (track-level) endpoint. Most MB recordings don't carry genres
at the track level — they live on the release (album) or artist. So
the MB tier was contributing nothing to the genre merge for the
overwhelming majority of tracks.
Fix:
- Added `'genres'` to the release-detail `includes` (was missing).
- After release-detail processing, if pp['mb_genres'] is still empty,
populate from release_detail['genres'] (sorted by count desc).
- If still empty AND artist_mbid is set, fetch artist with
`includes=['genres']` and use those.
No extra API call when the recording (or release) already had genres —
the artist fetch only fires when both upstream tiers came back empty.
The downstream genre merge in _embed_metadata_genres is unchanged; this
just makes the MB feed into it richer.
Tests: 4 new (recording present, recording empty → release, recording
+ release empty → artist, all empty → []). Full suite 873 passing.
Ruff clean.
Reported by @kcaoyef421 in Discord.
- Normalize album import track display handling so queue labels and match rows stay consistent
- Bound MusicBrainz caches and avoid caching transient lookup failures
- Stop swallowing programmer errors in source enrichment helpers
- Restore import config test seams without reintroducing lazy imports
- Guard task completion calls and fix the Windows path test expectation
- Keep file lock tracking from growing without bound
- Relocate the shared metadata helper module from core/metadata_common.py into core/metadata/common.py.
- Update the new metadata package, the import pipeline, and the web entrypoint to use the package-scoped helper.
- Keep the shared config, mutagen, file-lock, and tag-writing helpers centralized without touching unrelated files.
- Pass the live runtime bundle into the shared metadata facade so worker-backed source enrichment can actually run.
- Forward runtime from the import pipeline and web-server wrapper into embed_source_ids.
- Add a regression test that verifies the runtime object reaches the source-ID embedding path.
- Keep existing metadata_cache and metadata_service at the top level for now
- Move the new branch-local metadata helpers under core/metadata
- Share MusicBrainz release cache state from core.metadata.source and update import sites
