Detect JSON decode-like exceptions from Tidal's token endpoint and return a safer, more actionable error message. Adds a _looks_like_json_decode_error helper and special-cases that error in check_device_auth to log the non-JSON response and advise disabling VPN/proxy/network filtering and restarting SoulSync. A test was added to ensure the user-facing message does not leak the raw exception text while still returning an error status. Other errors continue to fall back to the existing behavior.
Two findings from JohnBaumb on the engine refactor.
(1) Every download client returned None when self._engine was None,
just logging an error. The orchestrator's download_with_fallback
treated None as "source declined", so the user got no feedback —
download silently disappeared. Now each client raises a RuntimeError
on the engine-not-wired path. download_with_fallback already catches
plugin exceptions, logs a warning, and tries the next source — so
the visible behavior is "real error in logs + fallback to next
source" instead of "silent drop". Six clients touched (deezer, hifi,
qobuz, soundcloud, tidal, youtube). Pinning tests updated to expect
raise.
(2) Monitor's engine.get_all_downloads() walked every plugin
including soulseek, but the same monitor loop already pulled slskd
transfers via the transfers/downloads endpoint a few lines earlier —
soulseek's records were being fetched twice per tick. Same issue in
web_server.py's get_cached_transfer_data path. Added an exclude
parameter to engine.get_all_downloads(); both call sites now pass
('soulseek',). New test pins the exclude semantic.
Also fixed a stray 8-space over-indent on the for-loop body in
get_cached_transfer_data (cosmetic, JohnBaumb flagged the same
pattern in monitor.py earlier).
Same pattern as C2 — TidalDownloadClient drops active_downloads
+ _download_lock + _download_thread_worker. download() delegates
to engine.worker.dispatch with _download_sync as the impl.
Source-specific extras (track_id, display_name) merge into the
engine record.
The HLS-segment progress callback (_update_download_progress)
now writes to engine state via engine.update_record instead of
mutating the per-client dict in-place.
Query/cancel methods (get_all_downloads, get_download_status,
cancel_download, clear_all_completed_downloads) now read engine
state via the same accessors as the YouTube migration.
Pinning tests updated to assert engine state. Suite still green
(313 download tests). Behavior preserved end-to-end.
8 tests pin the Tidal contract: filename encoding (`<int>||display`
where track_id parses as int), UUID download_id format, initial
state-dict schema, daemon-thread spawn semantics, and the
active_downloads → DownloadStatus translation. is_authenticated
false on no-session AND on tidalapi.check_login() exceptions
(orchestrator skip behavior depends on this).
