Keep React-owned pages out of the legacy page activator during initial bootstrap, and switch the visible React host before paint when the shell mounts.
That removes the refresh flash on /issues while preserving the legacy-page behavior and browser-history stability.
Verified with the router tests and the issues smoke suite.
- re-render the React shell when legacy profile bootstrap selects or refreshes a profile
- keep the initial page fallback so direct loads still activate the legacy shell chrome
- preserve the smoke coverage for direct loads and browser history
- normalize old downloads and artists page ids back to search
- keep home-page and access checks aligned with the current route ids
- let profile edit forms save modern ids while still reading old rows
- reuse the create-form page controls when rendering edit forms
- preserve existing home_page and allowed_pages IDs that the old whitelist hid
- keep mandatory pages checked so saves do not drop them
- send / through the configured profile home page
- keep the router regression test in sync with the redirect
- preserve the legacy shell fallback for non-router bootstrap
Remove the Flask route-to-page helpers and stop passing initial active-page flags into the shell template.
The web UI now renders static page and nav markup, while the client-side shell remains responsible for establishing active page state after load. This keeps the hybrid Flask + Vite asset setup intact while reducing duplicated route/page ownership logic in the backend template layer.
Also added a previously missing /stream path to the spa exclusions
- Add @tanstack/react-form to the web UI dependencies
- Move the report issue composer fields and submit validation onto TanStack Form
- Route submit and server errors through form error state while keeping React Query for mutation execution
- Extend issue route coverage for preserving custom report titles across category changes
- Mount a React-owned issue domain host and bridge report issue actions through it
- Add typed issue creation helpers, report payload types, and shared album workflow launchers
- Expand issue detail UI parity with metadata, links, track details, and admin actions
- Remove legacy static issue modal/list/detail code and update tests for the React bridge
- File-based routing with tanstack router
- Persist top-level navigation state in url, even for most legacy pages
- Striving for an intuitive and simple folder structure where
route-related code is colocated, but the amount of files is still
kept to a minimum
- Replace native fetch with `ky`
- Familiar api, but more polished
Closes#572 (rhwc).
Navidrome has no API for setting an artist image — it reads
`artist.jpg` (or `folder.jpg`) from the artist folder during
library scans. SoulSync's `update_artist_poster` for Navidrome
was a no-op, so users only ever saw album-art-derived thumbnails
as the artist photo.
- new "Write Artist Image" button on artist detail page
- POST /api/artist/<id>/write-image-to-disk derives the artist
folder from any track's resolved file_path (reuses
_resolve_library_file_path so docker mount translation +
library.music_paths probes from #558 apply), fetches the photo
from the configured metadata source priority chain, downloads
with content-type validation, writes atomically via
`<filename>.tmp + os.replace`
- when active server is Navidrome, triggers a library scan
immediately so the file is picked up
- respects existing artist.jpg (frontend prompts before
overwriting) so user-supplied photos aren't clobbered
- works for plex / jellyfin too as a fallback layer — both
servers also read artist.jpg from disk
26 tests pin the pure helpers in core/library/artist_image.py:
folder derivation (trailing sep / empty / non-string), URL
picking (missing attr / whitespace / non-string), download
(non-image content-type / 404 / timeout / empty body), atomic
write (replace / temp-cleanup-on-failure / overwrite guard /
missing folder).
- new "Audit" button on each download row in the library history
modal opens a second modal visualizing the download lifecycle as
an interactive horizontal stepper (request → source → match →
verify → process → place) with click-to-expand detail cards
- hero header with album art + track title + meta line + status
pills (source / quality / acoustid result)
- three tabs: Lifecycle / Tags / Lyrics
- Tags tab reads the audio file live via mutagen at audit-open
time via new GET /api/library/history/<id>/file-tags endpoint;
file is the single source of truth so background enrichment
writes (audiodb / lastfm / genius / replaygain / lyrics fetch)
show up too. flat key/value rows stacked vertically (label-above-
value) so long MBIDs / URLs / joined genre lists wrap cleanly.
source IDs grouped per-service into 2-col sub-card grid.
- Lyrics tab renders the full transcript with dimmed timecodes.
- post-processing step infers observable changes from source-vs-
final state (format conversion, file rename via tag template,
folder template).
- "Download History" button also added to the Downloads page batch
panel header so it's reachable outside the dashboard.
- mobile responsive: tabs + stepper scroll horizontally, modal
goes full-screen, hero stacks below 480px.
19 helper tests pin the mutagen reader: id3 (TIT2/TPE1/TALB + TXXX
+ USLT + APIC), vorbis (FLAC dict + _id/_url passthrough), file
metadata (format / bitrate / duration), defensive paths (empty /
missing file / mutagen returns None / mutagen raises), stringify
edge cases (list / tuple / int / frame-with-text / whitespace).
- legacy duck-typed builder only checked the `album_type` key; deezer
uses `record_type`, tidal uses `type` (uppercase), some flattened
musicbrainz shapes use `primary-type` — all defaulted to album, so
EPs and singles ended up filed under Album/ in user templates that
reference $albumtype
- widen lookup to album_type / record_type / type / primary-type and
route through new pure `_normalize_album_type` helper that
case-folds + validates against the canonical token set
(album / single / ep / compilation), unknown → album
- typed-converter path (spotify / deezer / itunes / discogs / mb /
hydrabase / qobuz) unchanged — those were already correct
Discord report (CAL).
- new soulseek.search_min_delay_seconds knob forces a gap between
consecutive searches; smooths the burst pattern that trips ISP
anti-abuse (Reddit report: Bell Canada cuts the WAN after rapid
peer-connection spikes) even when the existing 35/220 sliding-window
cap isn't hit
- throttle math lifted to a pure compute_search_wait_seconds helper so
the gate logic is testable independent of asyncio.sleep + the
singleton client
- new field on settings → connections → soulseek; default 0 = disabled
so existing users see no change
15 helper-boundary tests pin defaults / no-throttle, sliding-window
cap (legacy), min-delay (the new burst-smoother), max-of-both gates,
and defensive paths.
- music_source / spotify_connected / spotify_rate_limited were reading
a non-existent 'spotify' key on _status_cache and silently falling
through to the missing-value default (always 'unknown' / False).
Routed through the canonical accessors get_primary_source +
get_spotify_status now.
- added hydrabase_connected, youtube_available, hifi_instance_count,
and always_available_metadata_sources so the debug dump reflects
the full service surface
- removed a local re-import of get_spotify_status that was making
python 3.12 treat the name as function-scoped, breaking the new
lambda above it (NameError on free variable) — module-level import
already exists
11 endpoint-level tests pin music_source / spotify_* / hydrabase_* /
youtube_available / always_available_metadata_sources / hifi_instance_count
and the defensive fall-through paths when each lookup raises.
- new track_already_owned helper wraps db.check_track_exists at
the same confidence threshold the discography backfill repair job
uses (0.7) — name+artist+album, format-agnostic so blasphemy-mode
libraries (flac → mp3 + delete original) match correctly
- endpoint runs the check after the artist + content-type filters and
before add_to_wishlist, so a second discography click on the same
artist no longer re-queues every track that already downloaded
- per-album response carries a new tracks_skipped_owned counter
alongside the existing artist/content/wishlist skip categories
Discord report (Skowl).
- drop tracks where the requested artist isn't named in track.artists
(keeps features, drops compilation / appears_on contamination)
- honor watchlist.global_include_live/remixes/acoustic/instrumentals
the same way the discography backfill repair job already does
- surface per-album skip counts in the ndjson stream (artist mismatch
+ content filter) so the ui can show what was filtered
Closes#559.
GitHub issue #558: clicking Auto-Fill / Fix Selected on the Album
Completeness findings page returned a flat "Could not determine album
folder from existing tracks" error with no diagnostic. Reporter is on
Navidrome on Docker — the path resolver in
`core/library/path_resolver.py` couldn't find any of the album's tracks
on disk because Navidrome's Subsonic API doesn't expose filesystem
library paths the way Plex's API does (probed in #476). Default
settings → `library.music_paths` empty → no base directories to probe →
silent None. User had no signal about what to configure.
Not a regression of #476 — that fix targeted Plex auto-discovery and
worked correctly for it. Navidrome was never covered because the
protocol gives the resolver nothing to probe.
Fix scoped to the diagnostic surface, not auto-magic discovery:
- Added `resolve_library_file_path_with_diagnostic` returning
`(resolved, ResolveAttempt)`. ResolveAttempt records what the resolver
tried — `raw_path_existed`, `base_dirs_tried`, `had_config_manager`,
`had_plex_client`. Pure data, no rendering opinions.
- Legacy `resolve_library_file_path` becomes a thin wrapper that
drops the attempt; every existing call site is unchanged.
- `RepairWorker._fix_incomplete_album` now uses the diagnostic helper
and renders a multi-part error via `_build_unresolvable_album_folder_error`:
names the active media server, shows one sample DB-recorded path,
lists every base directory the resolver actually probed, and points
the user at Settings → Library → Music Paths as the actionable fix.
- Distinguishes empty-base-dirs vs tried-and-failed cases so the user
knows whether to add a mount or fix the existing one.
- No auto-probing of common Docker conventions (`/music`, `/media`, etc).
Speculative — could resolve to wrong dirs on the suffix-walk if a
conventional path happens to contain a partial collision. User stays
in control.
12 new tests:
- 7 in `tests/library/test_path_resolver.py`: tuple-shape contract,
raw-path-existed short-circuit, base-dirs listed even on walk
failure, had-flags reflect caller inputs, no-base-dirs returns
None with empty attempt, legacy `resolve_library_file_path`
delegates correctly across happy / suffix-walk / failure paths.
- 8 in `tests/test_repair_worker_unresolvable_folder_error.py`:
active server name in error, sample DB path verbatim, base dirs
listed, empty-base-dirs phrased differently, Settings hint always
present, defensive against None attempt / missing sample / missing
config_manager.
Full pytest sweep: 2774 passed.
Reported: Clear History button on the Import page left zombie rows
behind. Every survivor showed "⧗ Processing" status from 2-9 days ago.
Trace: `_record_in_progress` inserts a `status='processing'` row up-front
so the UI can render the in-flight import while it runs; `_finalize_result`
updates it to `completed`/`failed` when the import finishes. When the
worker is killed mid-import (server restart, crash), the row never gets
finalized — stays at `processing` forever. The clear-history endpoint's
SQL `DELETE ... WHERE status IN (...)` listed every terminal status but
omitted `processing`, so zombies survived every click.
Fix: add `processing` to the delete list, but guard against nuking
genuinely-live imports by intersecting against the worker's
`_snapshot_active()` map — any folder hash currently registered in
`_active_imports` is excluded from the delete via an `AND folder_hash
NOT IN (...)` clause. `pending_review` deliberately left out so user
still has to approve/reject those explicitly.
One endpoint touched (`/api/auto-import/clear-completed` in
web_server.py). No worker changes — guard reuses the existing
`_snapshot_active()` method that the UI poller already calls.
5 new tests in `tests/imports/test_auto_import_clear_completed_endpoint.py`:
- Zombie `processing` rows swept, live `processing` row preserved
(folder_hash currently in `_active_imports` survives)
- Response count matches actual delete count
- Empty active-set branch (unparameterized DELETE) — pinned because
an empty SQL `IN ()` would be a syntax error
- Worker-unavailable returns 500 (pre-existing guard not regressed)
- `pending_review` rows always survive — never auto-swept
Full pytest sweep: 2758 passed (one pre-existing flaky timing test
on `test_import_singles_parallel.py` failed under full-suite CPU load,
passes in isolation in 2.95s — unrelated to this change).
Discord report: 16 Bandcamp indie albums sat in staging because
auto-import couldn't identify them, but the manual search bar at the
bottom of the Import Music tab found the same albums fine. Trace:
`_search_metadata_source` only queried `get_primary_source()` — single
source, no fallback. Meanwhile `search_import_albums` (manual search bar)
already iterated `get_source_priority(get_primary_source())` and broke
on the first source with results. Asymmetric behavior, same album: manual
worked, auto-import didn't.
Fix: lift `_search_metadata_source` to use the same source-chain pattern.
Try primary first; if it returns nothing OR scores below the 0.4
threshold, fall through to the next source in priority order. First
source producing a strong-enough match wins. Result dict carries the
`source` that actually matched (not the primary name) so downstream
`_match_tracks` calls the right client. Defensive per-source try/except
so a rate-limited or auth-failed source doesn't abort the chain.
Unconfigured sources (client=None) silently skipped.
Cin-shape lift: scoring math extracted to pure `_score_album_search_result`
helper so the weight tweaks (album 50% / artist 20% / track-count 30%)
are pinned at the function boundary, independent of the orchestrator
(per-source iteration, exception containment, threshold check). Weight
constants exposed at module level (`_ALBUM_NAME_WEIGHT`,
`_ARTIST_NAME_WEIGHT`, `_TRACK_COUNT_WEIGHT`) — greppable, bumpable in
one place. Pre-extraction these were magic numbers inline.
27 new tests:
- 9 integration tests in `test_auto_import_multi_source_fallback.py`:
primary-success path unchanged (no fallback fires, only primary client
called), primary-empty falls through, primary-weak-score falls through,
first fallback success stops the chain (no wasted API calls on
remaining sources), all-sources-fail returns None, per-source
exception contained, unconfigured-source skipped, result `source`
field reflects winning source, `identification_confidence` from
winning source.
- 18 helper tests in `test_album_search_scoring.py`: weights sum to
1.0, album weight dominant (invariant pin), perfect-match returns 1.0,
per-component contribution (album / artist / track-count), Bandcamp
vs streaming track-count mismatch (7-files vs 4-tracks case still
scores ~0.87 above threshold), zero-track-count and zero-file
guards, huge-mismatch non-negative guard, list-of-strings artist
shape, missing `.name` / `.artists` / `None` total_tracks edge cases.
Backwards compatible: single-source users see no change — chain just
has one entry. Existing test `test_search_metadata_source_extracts_artist_id_from_dict_artist`
needed one extra patch line for `get_source_priority`.
Full pytest sweep: 2754 passed.
Two follow-ups to the multi-artist tag settings PR:
1. Deezer contributors upgrade — closes the "known limitation"
flagged in the prior commit. Deezer's `/search` endpoint only
returns the primary artist for each track; the full contributors
array (feat., remix collaborators, producers credited as artists)
lives on `/track/<id>` and gets parsed by `_build_enhanced_track`.
Without the upgrade Deezer-sourced tracks never got multi-artist
tags even with the right settings on.
Fix in `core/metadata/source.py`: when source==deezer AND the
search response had a single artist AND a track_id is available,
fetch full track details via `get_deezer_client().get_track_details`
and replace `all_artists` with the upgraded list.
- One extra API call per affected Deezer track
- Skipped when search already returned multiple (no-op fast path)
- Skipped for non-Deezer sources (Spotify/Tidal/iTunes search
responses already include all artists)
- Skipped when no track_id is available
- Defensive try/except: on /track/<id> failure (network error,
deezer client unavailable), fall through to the search-result
list — never lose the data we already had
2. Double-append guard hardened with a word-boundary regex.
Prior commit checked for `"feat." not in title.lower() and "(ft."
not in title.lower()` — too narrow. Source platforms produce
wildly different feat-marker conventions: "(feat. X)", "(Feat X)",
"(FEAT X)", "(Featuring X)", "[feat. X]", "ft. X" (no parens),
"FT. X", etc. Any of these as the SOURCE title would cause a
double-append: `"Track (Feat X) (feat. Y)"`.
Replaced with `re.search(r'\b(?:feat|feat\.|featuring|ft|ft\.)\b',
title, IGNORECASE)`. Word-boundary regex catches every common
variant. Substring matches like "Aftermath" containing `ft`
correctly fall through to the append path (pinned by a regression
test).
16 new tests (29 total in the file):
- 9 parametrized variants of the double-append guard
- 1 substring guard ("Aftermath")
- 6 Deezer upgrade scenarios (fires when expected, doesn't fire
for non-Deezer / multi-artist search / no track_id, defensive
fall-through on failure, no false-positive when /track/<id>
confirms single artist)
Full pytest 2727 passed.
Three settings on Settings → Metadata → Tags were partially or
completely unimplemented. Reporter (Netti93) traced each one.
(1) `write_multi_artist` only "worked" because of a never-populated
`_artists_list` field. `core/metadata/source.py` built
`metadata["artist"]` as a hardcoded ", "-joined string but never
assigned `metadata["_artists_list"]`. `core/metadata/enrichment.py`
line 107 reads that field and gates the multi-value tag write
on `len(_artists_list) > 1` — always saw an empty list, silently
no-op'd the write.
(2) `artist_separator` (default ", ") was referenced in the UI +
settings.js save path but ZERO Python code read the value. Every
multi-artist track ended up with hardcoded ", " regardless of
what the user picked.
(3) `feat_in_title` (when true: pull featured artists into the title
as " (feat. X, Y)" and leave only primary in the ARTIST tag —
Picard convention) had no implementation at all.
Fix in source.py:
* Populate `_artists_list` from the search response's artists array
* Read `feat_in_title` and `artist_separator` configs
* When `feat_in_title=True` and >1 artist: ARTIST = primary only,
append "(feat. X, Y)" to title with double-append guard
* Else: ARTIST = artists joined with `artist_separator`
* Single-artist case unaffected by either setting
Double-append guard uses a word-boundary regex catching all common
"feat" variants source platforms produce — `feat`, `feat.`,
`featuring`, `ft`, `ft.` — case-insensitive. Substring matches
(e.g. "Aftermath" containing "ft") correctly fall through to the
append path.
Fix in enrichment.py ID3 branch:
* TPE1 stays as the display string (with separator or primary-only
per the user's settings)
* Multi-value list goes to a separate `TXXX:Artists` frame (Picard
convention) when `write_multi_artist` is on
* Pre-fix the ID3 path wrote TPE1 twice — single-string then list
— and the second `add` overwrote the first, clobbering both the
configured separator AND the feat_in_title semantics. Vorbis path
was already correct (separate "artist" + "artists" keys).
Known limitation (flagged in WHATS_NEW): Deezer's `/search` endpoint
only returns the primary artist. The full contributors array lives
on `/track/<id>`. Enrichment uses search-result data so Deezer-
sourced tracks may still get only the primary artist until a follow-
up commit wires the per-track contributors fetch into the enrichment
flow. Spotify, Tidal, and iTunes search responses include all
artists so they work now.
23 new tests in `tests/metadata/test_multi_artist_tag_settings.py`:
* `_artists_list` populated for multi/single/no-artist cases
* `artist_separator` drives ARTIST string (default ", " + custom
";" + custom "; " + " & ")
* Single-artist case unaffected by either setting
* `feat_in_title=True` pulls featured to title, leaves primary in
ARTIST
* `feat_in_title` no-op for single artist
* Double-append guard recognizes 9 source-title variants ("(feat.
X)", "(Feat. X)", "(FEAT X)", "(feat X)", "(Featuring X)",
"[feat. X]", "ft. X", "(ft X)", "FT. X")
* Substring guard test pins "Aftermath" doesn't false-positive
* Combined-settings precedence: feat_in_title wins ARTIST string
but `_artists_list` carries everyone for multi-value tag
Full pytest 2711 passed.
Track enrichment was stuck in a constant retry loop. Logs showed
nothing but `Read timed out. (read timeout=10)` from
`lookup_track_by_id` repeating against the same track ID. AudioDB
itself was being hammered nonstop with no progress.
Cause: when an entity already has `audiodb_id` populated (from a
manual match or earlier scan) but `audiodb_match_status` is still
NULL — an inconsistent state some import paths can leave behind —
the worker tries a direct ID lookup. If that lookup fails (returns
None on timeout, which AudioDB's `track.php` endpoint hits
frequently because it's slow), the prior code logged "preserving
manual match" and returned WITHOUT marking status. Row stayed NULL
→ queue's NULL-status filter picked it up next tick → tried direct
lookup → timed out → returned → infinite loop.
The "preserve manual match" intent was correct: don't fall through
to the name-search path because that could overwrite a manually-set
`audiodb_id` with a wrong guess. Bug was the missing `_mark_status`
call before the early return.
Fix:
* `_process_item` direct-lookup-failure branch now calls
`_mark_status(item_type, item_id, 'error')` before returning. The
existing `audiodb_id` is preserved (column not touched). Queue's
NULL-status filter no longer re-picks the row.
* `_get_next_item` retry-cutoff queue priorities (4/5/6) extended
from `audiodb_match_status = 'not_found'` to
`audiodb_match_status IN ('not_found', 'error')`. Same `retry_days`
window. Transient AudioDB outages still recover automatically;
permanently-broken IDs eventually get re-attempted once a month
rather than staying errored forever.
5 new tests in `tests/test_audiodb_worker_stuck_track.py` use a real
SQLite DB (not mocks) so the SQL queries are actually exercised:
- lookup-returns-None marks status='error' (no infinite loop)
- lookup-raises-exception marks status='error' (defensive)
- lookup-success preserves the existing match-success path
- error-status row past retry-cutoff gets picked up again
- error-status row within cutoff stays skipped (loop prevention
works)
Only triggers for entities in the inconsistent `audiodb_id` set +
`match_status` NULL state. Happy path and already-matched /
already-not-found rows unchanged. Full pytest 2698 passed.
Closes#553.
Discord report: container refused to start after pulling latest.
Logs showed `mkdir: cannot create directory '/app/Staging':
Permission denied`. `set -e` in entrypoint.sh then aborted the script
and the container restart-looped.
Root cause traced to commit 70e1750 (2026-05-08, image-bloat fix):
the Dockerfile chown was changed from `chown -R /app` to a scoped
chown on specific subdirs to avoid a redundant layer that was
duplicating the entire /app tree. Side effects:
1. `/app` itself went from soulsync:soulsync (via the recursive walk)
to root:root (Docker WORKDIR default — never re-chowned).
2. `/app/Staging` was the only runtime mount-point dir NOT pre-baked
into the image — every other bind-mountable dir (config, logs,
downloads, Transfer, MusicVideos, scripts) was in the Dockerfile's
`mkdir -p` + `chown` list. Staging was left to the entrypoint.
On rootless Docker / Podman where in-container "root" maps to a host
UID, the entrypoint mkdir on `/app/Staging` could fail with EACCES
depending on the bind-mount path's host ownership.
Fix has three parts:
1. **Dockerfile** — added `/app/Staging` to the runtime mkdir +
scoped chown list. Closes the asymmetry with the other bind-
mountable dirs. Image now ships with the directory pre-baked
owned soulsync:soulsync so the entrypoint mkdir is a guaranteed
no-op even when bind-mount perms are weird.
2. **entrypoint.sh mkdir + chown** — both now have `|| true` so any
future bind-mount permission quirk surfaces as a log line, not
a `set -e` crash + restart loop. Previously only the chown had
the `|| true` suffix; mkdir was bare.
3. **entrypoint.sh writability audit** — new loop at the end of
the setup phase runs `gosu soulsync test -w "$dir"` against
every bind-mountable dir. When a dir isn't writable by the
soulsync user, logs a loud warning with the exact host-side
`chown` command needed to fix it. Catches the underlying bind-
mount perm issue that the restart-loop fix would otherwise mask
(container starts but auto-import / downloads write into
unwritable dirs and fail silently). This is the diagnostic that
would have surfaced the root cause without needing the user to
share a container-restart screenshot.
Zero behavior change for users whose containers were already
starting fine. Defensive against the rootless/podman config that
broke after the image-bloat refactor.
Verified shell syntax with `bash -n entrypoint.sh`. Full pytest
2693 passed (no Python touched).
Two-part fix to the Your Albums "Download Missing" flow on Discover.
Part A — UX redesign
The prior `downloadMissingYourAlbums()` ran a per-album loop that
fired direct-download tasks via `openDownloadMissingModalForYouTube`.
Reported as silently failing — "Queuing 2/2" toast with no actual
transfer activity. Even when downloads worked, bypassing the
wishlist meant no retry / dedup / rate-limit / source-fallback
handling.
Replaced with a selectable-grid modal mirroring the Download
Discography pattern from the library page. Click the download
button → opens a checkbox grid showing every missing album (cover,
title, artist, year, track count, source) → user picks what they
actually want → click "Add to Wishlist" → each album's tracks get
resolved + queued through the existing wishlist auto-download
processor. NDJSON progress stream renders ✓/✗ per album.
New JS helpers:
- `_openYourAlbumsBatchModal(missingAlbums)` — builds the modal
- `_renderYourAlbumsBatchCard(row, index)` — per-album card
- `_yourAlbumsBatchSelectAll(select)` — bulk toggle
- `_updateYourAlbumsBatchFooterCount()` — live count + button text
- `_closeYourAlbumsBatchModal()` — overlay teardown
- `_startYourAlbumsBatchAddToWishlist()` — submit handler, NDJSON
progress consumer
- `_yourAlbumsPickSource(album)` — picks the single best source-id
per row (priority: spotify → deezer → tidal → discogs)
Reuses the `.discog-*` CSS classes from the library Download
Discography modal — no new CSS. Reuses the existing
`/api/artist/<id>/download-discography` endpoint. The endpoint's URL
artist_id param is functionally unused (per-album payload carries
everything — verified by reading the endpoint body), so the modal
posts with placeholder `your-albums` and gets multi-artist
resolution for free without backend changes.
Part B — Tidal album resolution
Reported as the original bug: clicking download on Tidal-only albums
did nothing because `/api/discover/album/<source>/<album_id>` had no
`tidal` branch and `tidal_client` had no `get_album_tracks` method.
`core/tidal_client.py`: new `get_album_tracks(album_id, limit=None)`
method. Two-phase: cursor-walk
`/v2/albums/<id>/relationships/items?include=items` for track refs +
position metadata (`meta.trackNumber` + `meta.volumeNumber`),
batch-hydrate via existing `_get_tracks_batch` for artist/album
names. Returns `Track` objects with `track_number` and `disc_number`
attached. Sort by (disc, track) so multi-disc compilations render in
album order.
`web_server.py`: new `'tidal'` source branch in
`/api/discover/album/<source>/<album_id>`. Resolves album metadata
via `get_album`, tracks via `get_album_tracks`, cover art via inline
`?include=coverArt` lookup. Same response shape as Spotify/Deezer
branches.
`webui/static/discover.js`:
- `tidal_album_id` added to `trySources` for the single-album click
flow (`openYourAlbumDownload`)
- Same source picker drives the new batch modal
- Virtual-id generation includes `tidal_album_id` so Tidal-only
albums get stable identifiers across discover-album-* / your-
albums-* contexts
10 new tests in `tests/test_tidal_album_tracks.py` pin:
- Single-page walk + hydration
- Multi-page cursor chain
- Multi-disc sort order (disc 1 → 2 in track order each)
- `limit` short-circuit at page boundary
- No-token short-circuit (no API call)
- HTTP error returns empty
- 429 raises (propagates to `rate_limited` decorator for retry)
- Forward-compat type filter (skips non-track entries)
- Partial-batch hydration failure containment
- Empty-album short-circuit (no batch call)
Full pytest: 2693 passed.
Follow-up to the prior compilation-album scanner fix. That patch
made the scanner read `tracks.track_artist` (per-track artist
column) via COALESCE so compilation tracks would compare against
the right value. But tracks downloaded BEFORE the `track_artist`
column existed have track_artist=NULL — COALESCE falls back to
album artist (the curator) and the wrong-comparison case returns.
Fix: explicit 3-tier resolution in `_scan_file`:
1. DB `tracks.track_artist` if populated → trust it. Respects
manual edits from the enhanced library view (user who curated
the DB value but didn't re-tag the file gets their edit
respected, not overridden by stale file tag).
2. File's ARTIST tag via mutagen if present → use it. Tidal /
Spotify / Deezer all write the per-track artist into the
audio file at download time regardless of SoulSync's DB
schema, so it's ground truth even when the DB column is
stale or NULL. File is already open for fingerprinting so
mutagen tag-read is essentially free.
3. Album artist → final fallback for files without proper ARTIST
tags AND no DB track_artist. Existing pre-fix behavior.
`_load_db_tracks` SELECT now surfaces `track_artist` (raw, may be
empty/NULL via NULLIF) and `album_artist` separately in addition
to the COALESCE'd `artist` field — so `_scan_file` can tell the
difference between 'DB has a curated value' and 'DB fell back to
album artist'. Without this distinction, the file-tag fallback
would create false positives when DB is curated but file is stale.
5 new tests (11 total in the file) pin:
- File-tag-trumps-DB resolves the legacy NULL case (DB says
'Andromedik' (album curator), file says 'Eclypse', AcoustID
says 'Eclypse' → no flag)
- Tag-missing falls back to album artist (preserves existing
genuine-mismatch contract — file without tag + AcoustID
mismatch still flags)
- Mutagen exception swallowed (debug log, fall-through)
- File-tag matches DB → no behavioral change
- DB curated value trumps stale file tag (false-positive guard
— user edited DB without re-tagging file shouldn't get flagged)
Two existing test fixtures (`_make_context` callers) updated to
the new 10-column row shape.
SQL behavior verified empirically against real SQLite: NULL and
empty-string both flow through NULLIF → None in Python →
file-tag-fallback path. Modern populated values trump file tag.
Discord: Discover → Your Albums (and Your Artists) was returning
nothing for Tidal users regardless of how many albums/artists they'd
favorited. Audit found `get_favorite_albums` and `get_favorite_artists`
called the deprecated `/v2/favorites?filter[type]=ALBUMS|ARTISTS`
endpoint — that endpoint returns 404 for personal favorites because
it's scoped to collections the third-party app created itself. The
V1 fallback (`/v1/users/<id>/favorites/...`) is also dead because
modern OAuth tokens carry `collection.read` instead of the legacy
`r_usr` scope V1 demands (returns 403).
Same root cause as the favorited-tracks fix from #502.
Fix: rewire to the working V2 user-collection endpoints —
`/v2/userCollectionAlbums/me/relationships/items` and
`/v2/userCollectionArtists/me/relationships/items` — using the
same cursor-paginated pattern shipped for tracks.
Architecture:
* ID enumeration lifted into a generic
`_iter_collection_resource_ids(path, expected_type, max_ids)`
helper so tracks / albums / artists all share one walker. Three
thin wrappers preserve the per-resource public surface
(`_iter_collection_track_ids`, `_iter_collection_album_ids`,
`_iter_collection_artist_ids`). Net deduped ~80 lines that would
otherwise be three near-identical copies.
* Batch hydration via `/v2/{albums|artists}?filter[id]=...&include=...`
with extended JSON:API include semantics. One request returns up
to 20 albums + their artists + cover artworks all in `included[]`
(or 20 artists + their profile artworks). Three static helpers
parse the response:
- `_build_included_maps(included)` → indexes the array by type
so per-resource lookup is O(1) per relationship ref
- `_first_artist_name(rels, artists_map)` → resolves primary
artist from relationships block; '' on missing/unknown
- `_first_artwork_url(rel, artworks_map)` → picks `files[0]`
(Tidal returns artwork files largest-first, so this gets the
highest-resolution variant — typically 1280×1280)
* Public methods (`get_favorite_albums`, `get_favorite_artists`)
preserve the prior return shape — list of dicts matching what
`database.upsert_liked_album` / `upsert_liked_artist` consume —
so the discover aggregator path in `web_server.py` stays
byte-identical. No caller changes needed.
* Deleted ~240 lines of dead code: the V2-favorites paths AND the
V1 fallback paths from the old method bodies. Both are dead
against modern OAuth tokens.
24 new tests in `tests/test_tidal_favorite_albums_artists.py` pin:
* Cursor-walker dispatch (album/artist iters pass correct path +
expected_type to the generic walker)
* Included-map building (groups by type, skips items missing id)
* Artist + artwork relationship resolution (full + missing rels +
unknown id + no files cases)
* Batch hydration parse for albums (full attributes, missing
relationships fall through to defaults, type-filter excludes
non-album entries, `filter[id]` param is comma-joined)
* Batch hydration parse for artists (same shape coverage)
* End-to-end orchestrator behavior (walk → batch → return,
empty-input short-circuits without API call, BATCH_SIZE chunking
on 41 IDs → 20/20/1, exception-from-iter returns [])
Endpoint paths empirically verified against live Tidal API:
`userCollectionArtists/me/relationships/items` returned 200 + 5
real artist refs for the test account. `userCollectionAlbums/...`
returned 200 + empty (account has 0 album favorites currently)
but the response shape is correct. The deprecated
`/v2/favorites?filter[type]=ALBUMS` returned 404. The V1
`/v1/users/<id>/favorites/albums` returned 403 with explicit
"Token is missing required scope. Required scopes: r_usr" message.
WHATS_NEW entry under existing '2.5.1' block.
Full pytest: 2678 passed.
Discord report (CJFC, 2026-04-26): syncing a Spotify playlist to the
server overwrote anything manually added to the server-side playlist.
The fix adds a per-sync mode picker next to the Sync button on the
playlist details modal — Replace (default, current delete-recreate
behavior) or Append only (preserves existing tracks, only adds new
ones). Useful when the source platform caps playlist size and the
user is manually building beyond it on the server.
Implementation:
* New `append_to_playlist(name, tracks)` method on Plex / Jellyfin /
Navidrome clients. Each uses the server's NATIVE append API:
- Plex: `existing_playlist.addItems(new_tracks)`
- Jellyfin: `POST /Playlists/<id>/Items?Ids=...&UserId=...`
- Navidrome: Subsonic `updatePlaylist?songIdToAdd=...`
Falls back to `create_playlist` when the playlist doesn't exist
yet (first sync). No delete-recreate, no backup playlist created
(preserves playlist creation date + metadata + non-soulsync-managed
tracks).
* Dedup-by-server-native-id (ratingKey for Plex, GUID for Jellyfin,
song-id for Navidrome) — never re-adds a track already on the
playlist. Server-native identity, not fuzzy title+artist match,
so it can't false-collide.
* `sync_service.sync_playlist` accepts `sync_mode='replace'|'append'`
kwarg. Single if/else branch dispatches to `append_to_playlist` or
`update_playlist`. Threaded through `core/discovery/sync.run_sync_task`
and the `/api/sync/start` HTTP handler. Validation on the API rejects
unknown mode strings (defaults to 'replace').
* Frontend: per-playlist `<select id="sync-mode-${id}">` rendered next
to the Sync button in both modal renderers (sync-spotify.js for
Spotify playlists, sync-services.js for Deezer ARL playlists).
`startPlaylistSync` reads the select at click time; missing select
(other callers like discover.js) defaults to 'replace' so backward
compat preserved without per-call-site updates.
* SoulSync standalone has no playlist methods at all and the modal
hides the Sync button entirely on it via `_isSoulsyncStandalone` —
dispatch never reaches that path, no defensive fallback needed.
15 new tests pin per-server append behavior:
- missing playlist → create_playlist delegation
- dedup filtering (existing IDs skipped, only new tracks added)
- empty new-track set short-circuits without API call
- failure paths return False without raising
- contract listing (KNOWN_PER_SERVER_METHODS includes
'append_to_playlist'; Plex / Jellyfin / Navidrome all implement)
Plus tests/discovery/test_discovery_sync.py fake `sync_playlist`
fixture got `sync_mode='replace'` default to match the new signature
(was breaking after the kwarg add; now passing).
WHATS_NEW entry under new '2.6.0' block (hidden by
`_getLatestWhatsNewVersion` until next release bump).
Closes CJFC discord request.
Adds the user's Tidal favorited tracks ("My Collection" in the Tidal
app) as a virtual playlist alongside their real playlists, mirroring
how Spotify's "Liked Songs" is treated.
Reporter (yug1900) located the working endpoint after the prior
`/v2/favorites?filter[type]=TRACKS` attempt returned empty data —
that endpoint is scoped to collections the third-party app created
itself, not personal favorites. Real endpoint:
GET /v2/userCollectionTracks/me/relationships/items
?countryCode=US&locale=en-US&include=items
Cursor-paginated (20 per page, follow `links.next` with
`page[cursor]=...` until exhausted). Response only carries
track-level attributes — artist + album NAMES come back as
relationship-link stubs, not embedded data.
Implementation:
* Two-phase fetch — `_iter_collection_track_ids` walks the cursor
chain to enumerate every track id (cheap, IDs only), then
`get_collection_tracks` batch-hydrates 20 IDs at a time through
the existing `_get_tracks_batch` helper which already knows how
to `include=artists,albums`. No duplication of the JSON:API
artist/album parse, no new dataclass shape.
* Virtual playlist `tidal-favorites` appended to the end of
`/api/tidal/playlists`. ID intentionally has no colon —
sync-services.js renderer interpolates IDs into CSS selectors
via template literals (`#tidal-card-${p.id} .foo`) and a `:`
would parse as a CSS pseudo-class operator.
* `tidal_client.get_playlist("tidal-favorites")` recognizes the
virtual id and dispatches to the collection path internally, so
every per-id consumer gets it for free: detail endpoint, mirror
auto-refresh automation, "build Spotify discovery from Tidal
playlist" flow.
OAuth scope expansion:
* Added `collection.read` to both OAuth flows (the
`core/tidal_client.py::authenticate` standalone path AND the
`web_server.py::auth_tidal` web flow — they were independent
scope strings that both needed updating).
* Added `prompt=consent` to both flows — without it Tidal silently
returns a token carrying only the ORIGINAL scope set even after
re-authentication, because Tidal treats the existing
authorization as still valid.
* New `disconnect()` method + `POST /api/tidal/disconnect`
endpoint + Disconnect button next to Authenticate in Settings →
Connections → Tidal — required for users whose existing token
predates the scope expansion (forces a clean grant).
Reconnect-needed UI hint:
* `_collection_needs_reconnect` flag set on 401/403 from the
collection endpoint, cleared on next successful walk, NOT set
on 5xx (transient server errors must not falsely tell the user
to reconnect).
* Listing endpoint reads the flag and surfaces a placeholder card
titled "Favorite Tracks (reconnect Tidal to enable)" with a
description pointing at Settings, so the user has something
visible to act on instead of a silently missing row.
Diagnostic logging — collection request URL + response status +
first 300 bytes of body now logged at info level so future "why
is my collection empty" reports can be diagnosed from app.log
without needing live reproduction.
22 new tests pin: cursor walk (full chain, max-ids cap mid-page +
at page boundary), auth gates (no token / 401 / 403 all bail
clean), reconnect-flag lifecycle (set on 401/403, cleared on next
successful walk, NOT set on 5xx), forward-compat type filter
(non-track entries skipped), count helper, batch hydration
delegation + chunking at the 20-per-batch cap, partial-batch
failure containment, virtual-id dispatch (real playlist ids still
flow through the normal path).
Closes#502.
Phase B of foxxify discord report. Pre-#524 manual-import bug left
some albums in the library with `artist=Unknown Artist` and `album.title
= <numeric album_id>`. Reorganize couldn't place them (no usable
metadata source ID) and emitted a generic "run enrichment first" hint
that doesn't apply — enrichment can't fix these rows. The right tool
is the existing `Fix Unknown Artists` repair job (reads file tags,
re-resolves metadata, re-tags + moves files).
Discoverability gap, not a logic gap. Reorganize now detects the bad-
metadata shape (Unknown Artist OR album.title that's a 6+ digit
numeric id) and emits a clear "run the Fix Unknown Artists repair
job" hint at both reason-emit sites (planner + executor). No
duplication of fixer logic.
WHATS_NEW entry covers both Phase A (orphan-format sibling handling,
already committed in d944a16) and Phase B since they ship in the same
PR for the same reporter.
20 new tests pin helpers + reason routing.
Discord report (Skowl): downloaded a compilation album ("High Tea
Music: Vol 1") where every track has a different artist (Eclypse,
Andromedik, T & Sugah, Gourski, etc.) and the AcoustID scanner
flagged every single track as Wrong Song. The file tags had the
correct per-track artist (e.g. "Eclypse" for "City Lights"), but
the scanner compared against the album-level artist ("Andromedik",
the curator). Raw similarity 12% → Wrong Song flag.
# Why the prior multi-value fix didn't help
Foxxify's case (just-merged PR): AcoustID returned multi-value
credit "Okayracer, aldrch & poptropicaslutz!" — primary IS in the
credit. Splitting found it.
Skowl's case: both sides single-value but DIFFERENT artists.
Splitter has nothing to find — Eclypse simply isn't in "Andromedik".
Different bug.
# Cause
Scanner SQL at `core/repair_jobs/acoustid_scanner.py:281` joined
the `artists` table via `tracks.artist_id` which points at the
ALBUM artist (the curator/label-name applied to every row in a
compilation). The `tracks.track_artist` column already holds the
correct per-track artist for compilations — populated by every
server-scan path (Plex `originalTitle`, Jellyfin `ArtistItems`,
Navidrome per-track `artist`) AND the auto-import / direct-download
post-process flow (`record_soulsync_library_entry` writes it when
different from album artist). Scanner just wasn't reading it.
# Fix
```sql
SELECT t.id, t.title,
COALESCE(NULLIF(t.track_artist, ''), ar.name) AS artist,
...
```
Prefers per-track artist when populated, falls back to album artist
for legacy rows / single-artist albums where `track_artist` is NULL.
`NULLIF(t.track_artist, '')` handles the empty-string-instead-of-null
case some legacy rows might have.
# Composes with Foxxify's multi-value fix
For the rare compilation track where AcoustID ALSO returns a
multi-value credit (e.g. compilation track has multiple credited
performers), both paths work together — `track_artist` gives the
correct expected primary, then the helper splits the credit and
finds it.
# Tests added (2)
- `test_load_db_tracks_prefers_track_artist_for_compilation` —
reporter's exact case: track with `track_artist='Eclypse'` AND
`artist_id` pointing at album artist 'Andromedik' resolves to
'Eclypse'. Second track with NULL `track_artist` falls back to
album artist 'Andromedik' (single-artist + legacy compat).
- `test_load_db_tracks_falls_back_when_track_artist_empty_string`
— empty string in `track_artist` (some legacy rows) → NULLIF
returns NULL → COALESCE falls back to album artist.
Both use a real SQLite DB so the COALESCE/NULLIF logic + JOIN
runs against actual schema (SimpleNamespace fakes can't simulate
JOINs).
# Verification
- 6/6 scanner tests pass (2 new + 4 existing)
- 2586 full suite passes (+2 from prior commit)
- Ruff clean
Discord report (Foxxify): the AcoustID scanner repair job flagged
multi-artist tracks as Wrong Song because AcoustID returns the
FULL credit ("Okayracer, aldrch & poptropicaslutz!") while the
library DB carries only the primary artist ("Okayracer"). Raw
SequenceMatcher similarity scored ~43% — well below the 60%
threshold — so the scanner created a finding even though the
audio was correct. User couldn't fix without lowering the global
artist threshold to ~30% (which would let real mismatches through).
# Fix
Extended the shared `core/matching/artist_aliases.py::artist_names_match`
helper (originally lifted for #441) with credit-token splitting.
When the actual artist string contains common separators —
- punctuation: `,` `&` `;` `/` `+`
- keywords (whitespace-bounded): `feat.` `ft.` `featuring` `with`
`vs.` `x`
— the helper splits into individual contributors and checks each
against the expected artist. Primary-in-credit cases now resolve
at 100% instead of 43%.
Two pattern groups because punctuation separators don't need
surrounding whitespace, but keyword separators MUST be
whitespace-bounded — otherwise we'd split artists with `x` /
`with` etc. in their names ("JAY-X" → "JAY-" / "" issue).
Composes with the existing alias path: cross-script multi-artist
credits ("Hiroyuki Sawano" expected, "澤野弘之, FeaturedJp"
actual) work via alias-token-against-credit-token compare.
# Wire-in
Scanner at `core/repair_jobs/acoustid_scanner.py:202` replaces
the raw `SequenceMatcher` call with `artist_names_match`. Pass
RAW artist strings (not pre-normalised by `_normalize`) so the
splitter can recognise separators — `_normalize` strips ALL
punctuation, which destroyed the very tokens the splitter needs.
The AcoustID post-download verifier (`core/acoustid_verification.py`)
already routes through `_alias_aware_artist_sim` which calls the
same helper — gets the multi-value benefit automatically without
a separate wire-in.
# New `split_artist_credit` exported helper
Pure-function helper for callers who want token-level access to
the credit list (debugging, UI, future per-token enrichment). Same
splitter logic, exposed as a top-level function.
# Tests added (14)
`tests/matching/test_artist_aliases.py` (+11):
- `TestSplitArtistCredit` — parametrised across 12 credit-string
formats (comma, ampersand, semicolon, slash, plus, feat./ft./
featuring, with, vs., x, single-token, empty), drops empty
tokens, strips per-token whitespace
- `TestMultiValueCreditMatching` — reporter's exact case
(Okayracer in 3-artist credit → 100%), primary in middle/end of
credit, genuine-mismatch still fails, single-token actual falls
through to direct compare, multi-value composes with aliases,
threshold still respected
`tests/test_acoustid_scanner.py` (+3):
- Reporter's case end-to-end through `_scan_file` — fingerprint
99% / title 100% / multi-artist credit → no finding created
- Genuine artist mismatch still creates finding (no false
suppression of real mismatches)
- `JobResultStub` minimal scaffold for the integration tests
# Verification
- 14 new tests pass (49 helper + 5 scanner total in their files)
- 110 matching + scanner tests pass total
- 2584 full suite passes (+25 from baseline 2559)
- Ruff clean
- Reporter's exact case (Okayracer in `Okayracer, aldrch &
poptropicaslutz!`) now scores 100% match → no Wrong Song flag
Discord report (Tim): downloaded cover art via Deezer metadata
source came out visibly blurry in Navidrome / on phones — large
displays exposed the limited resolution.
# Cause
Deezer's API returns `cover_xl` URLs at 1000×1000. The underlying
CDN actually serves up to 1900×1900 by rewriting the size segment
in the URL path (same trick the iTunes mzstatic + Spotify scdn
upgrades already use). SoulSync wasn't doing the rewrite — every
Deezer-sourced cover got embedded at 1000×1000 regardless of how
much higher resolution the CDN had available.
# Verified empirically
```
$ for size in 1000 1400 1800 1900 2000; do curl -I "...{size}x{size}-..."; done
1000: 200 OK 106 KB
1400: 200 OK 198 KB
1800: 200 OK 331 KB
1900: 200 OK 371 KB
2000: 403 Forbidden
```
1900 is the safe ceiling. Above that the CDN returns 403. CDN
serves source-native bytes when source < target (smaller-source
albums get same bytes whether we ask for 1000 or 1900), so asking
for 1900 universally is safe.
# Fix
New `_upgrade_deezer_cover_url(url, target_size=1900)` helper in
`core/deezer_client.py`. Pure function, mirrors the
`_upgrade_spotify_image_url` pattern that already lives in
`core/spotify_client.py`. Defensive on every input shape:
- Empty / None → returned as-is
- Non-Deezer URL (no `dzcdn`) → returned as-is
- No size segment in URL → returned as-is
- Already at/above target → returned as-is (idempotent, never
downgrades)
Applied at both cover-download sites:
- `core/metadata/artwork.py::download_cover_art` — auto post-process
flow. Mirrors the existing iTunes mzstatic upgrade right above it.
- `core/tag_writer.py::download_cover_art` — enhanced library view's
"Write Tags to File" feature.
# Scope discipline
- Helper applied at the DOWNLOAD boundary, not the source extraction
point in `deezer_client.py`. Means cached entries in the metadata
cache + DB row `image_url` columns keep the original 1000×1000 URL
Deezer's API returned. Future CDN behavior changes only affect the
download path, not stored data.
- Pre-existing `prefer_caa_art` toggle (Settings → Library →
Post-Processing) untouched — orthogonal workaround for users who
want even higher quality (MusicBrainz Cover Art Archive, often
3000×3000+).
- iTunes / Spotify upgrade paths untouched — they already worked.
# Tests added (16)
`tests/metadata/test_deezer_cover_url_upgrade.py`:
- Standard upgrade: default target 1900 on cover URL, alternate
dzcdn host (`e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net` vs `cdn-images.dzcdn.net`),
artist picture URLs (same path pattern), 500×500 source upgrades
too
- Custom target size: smaller target = no-op (never downgrade),
larger target works
- Idempotent: already at/above target returned unchanged
- Defensive on non-Deezer URLs: parametrised across 5 hosts
(Spotify scdn, iTunes mzstatic, MB CAA, Last.fm, random) — all
returned untouched
- Defensive on malformed Deezer URL (no size segment) → returned
as-is
- Empty / None handling
# Verification
- 16/16 helper tests pass
- 560/560 metadata + imports tests pass (no regression)
- 2559 full suite passes
- Ruff clean
# Bug
Plex servers with the music library named anything other than "Music"
(Música, Musique, Musik, Musica, 音乐, موسيقى, etc.) hit this error
after every import cycle:
soulsync.plex_client - ERROR - Failed to trigger library scan
for 'Music': Invalid library section: Music
soulsync.web_scan_manager - ERROR - Failed to initiate PLEX
library scan via web
Side effect: `wishlist.processing` kept reporting "Missing from
media server after sync" for tracks that DID import correctly, so
they got perpetually re-added to the wishlist.
# Root cause
`_find_music_library` correctly auto-detects the music section by
`section.type == 'artist'` and stores it on `self.music_library` —
works for any locale because the type is language-neutral. Read
methods (`get_artists`, etc.) route through `_get_music_sections`
which returns `[self.music_library]`, so they never had the bug.
But `trigger_library_scan` and `is_library_scanning` ignored
`self.music_library` and called
`self.server.library.section(library_name)` directly with the
hardcoded `"Music"` default. `server.library.section('Music')`
raises `NotFound` on any server whose section isn't literally
named "Music".
# Fix
Both methods now prefer `self.music_library` first, fall back to
literal `library_name` lookup only when auto-detection hasn't
populated the cached reference (test fixtures, edge cases).
`is_library_scanning`'s activity-feed match also corrected to
filter by the resolved section's actual title — the prior code
matched `library_name.lower() in activity_title.lower()` which
defaults to "music" and would never match activities for
non-English sections.
`trigger_library_scan`'s success log line now surfaces the actual
section title (`Música`) instead of the unused `library_name`
default ("Music") — confusing when debugging on non-English servers.
# Tests added (13)
`tests/media_server/test_plex_non_english_section_name.py`:
- `test_uses_auto_detected_section_regardless_of_locale` — parametrised
across 6 locale variants (Música, Musique, Musik, Musica, 音乐, موسيقى).
Each verifies trigger_library_scan calls the auto-detected
section's `update()`, NOT a literal-name fallback. Stub raises
AssertionError on `server.library.section()` so a regression that
re-introduces the fallback fails loudly.
- `test_falls_back_to_literal_lookup_when_no_auto_detection` —
backward compat: music_library=None → literal lookup as before.
- `test_explicit_library_name_arg_used_only_when_no_auto_detection` —
auto-detected wins over explicit kwarg when both available.
- `test_logs_correct_section_label_on_success` — log line surfaces
resolved section title.
- 4 symmetric tests for is_library_scanning covering refreshing-attr
check, activity-feed title match, no-match for unrelated sections,
fallback path.
# Verification
- 13 new tests pass
- 84/84 media_server tests pass (no regression in the existing
Plex / Jellyfin / Navidrome suite)
- 2458 full suite passes (+13 from baseline)
- Ruff clean
Live-API verification revealed advanced-syntax queries hurt more
than they help on this endpoint. Switching the import-modal Deezer
search back to free-text + local rerank.
# What live testing showed
Hit Deezer's public API with both query forms for the issue #534
case (`Dirty White Boy` + `Foreigner`):
**Free-text (`q=Dirty White Boy Foreigner`):**
- Returns 21 results
- Real Foreigner Head Games studio cut at #1
- Live versions at #2-10
- Karaoke / cover variants at #11-15
**Advanced (`q=track:"Dirty White Boy" artist:"Foreigner"`):**
- Returns 12 results
- "(2008 Remaster)" at #1 — canonical Head Games cut MISSING from
top 8 entirely
- Live + alt-album versions follow
Advanced syntax DOES filter karaoke at the API level (none in the
12-result set vs. 5 at positions 11-15 in free-text), but it has
its own ranking bias that surfaces remasters / "Best Of" cuts
ahead of the canonical recording. Net regression for the user-
facing goal.
# Fix
1. Endpoint reverts to free-text query with local rerank applied.
2. Local rerank gains "remaster" / "remastered" / "reissue"
patterns under VARIANT_TAG_PATTERNS (soft 0.4× penalty — user
may want them but they shouldn't outrank the original).
3. Client kwarg support (`track=` / `artist=` / `album=`) preserved
for future opt-in callers (e.g. exact-match flows where API-
level filtering matters more than ranking).
# Verified end-to-end against live Deezer API
Re-ran the exact #534 case through the live API + new rerank.
Top 15 results post-rerank:
1. Dirty White Boy — Foreigner — Head Games ← REAL CUT AT TOP
2-10. Various Live versions
11-15. Karaoke / cover / tribute variants ← BURIED
Real Foreigner Head Games studio cut at #1, exactly the user's
ask.
# Tests
- `test_relevance.py` — variant tag patterns extended; existing
tests still pass (50 tests).
- `test_search_match_endpoints.py::test_joins_track_and_artist_into_free_text_query`
— replaces `test_passes_track_and_artist_as_kwargs`; verifies
endpoint sends free-text join, NOT field-scoped kwargs (the
prior test asserted the wrong direction now).
- Karaoke-burying assertion at the endpoint still pins the
user-visible behaviour.
- Client kwarg path tests untouched (still pin advanced-syntax
construction for future opt-in callers).
# Verification
- 75 relevance + endpoint + query tests pass
- 2445 full suite passes
- Ruff clean
- Live Deezer API shows real cut at #1 post-rerank
Defensive followup to the relevance fix. Deezer's advanced search
syntax (`artist:"X"`) is documented as substring match, but in
practice it's brittle on artist name variants ("Foreigner [US]",
"The Foreigner") and on tracks indexed under non-canonical title
spellings. When the advanced query returns nothing, we'd previously
land at "No matches" — a regression vs. pre-fix behaviour where
free-text would have returned a less-relevant but non-empty set.
Fix: when the advanced query returns 0 results AND the caller used
field-scoped kwargs, fall back to a free-text join of the same
kwargs and re-query. Caller-side rerank still tightens whatever the
fallback returns, so the worst-case post-fix behaviour is the
pre-fix behaviour — never strictly worse.
Pulled the cache + parse + store dance into a private helper
(`_search_tracks_with_query`) so the orchestration can call it
twice (advanced → fallback) without code duplication. Single API
call when the advanced query has results — no wasted requests.
Diagnostic logger.debug fires when the fallback triggers so we can
see in production whether it's happening (and to which queries).
# Tests added (4)
- `test_falls_back_to_free_text_when_advanced_empty` — advanced
query returns 0, free-text returns hits; client returns the
free-text hits + both API calls fire.
- `test_no_fallback_when_advanced_query_has_results` — single hit
on advanced query → no second API call.
- `test_no_fallback_when_legacy_free_text_call` — legacy callers
already exhausted the only path; empty result is final.
- `test_no_fallback_when_query_unchanged` — empty kwargs path
doesn't trigger the fallback branch (used_advanced=False).
# Existing tests updated
The 4 prior `TestSearchTracksQueryWiring` + `TestSearchTracksCacheKey`
tests were stubbing `_api_get` to return empty `{'data': []}` and
asserting `assert_called_once`. With the new fallback, those stubs
trigger a second API call and the assertions break — even though
the FIRST call construction is what the tests cared about. Updated
the stubs to return one fake hit so the fallback doesn't fire, and
switched to `call_args_list[0]` for first-call inspection.
# Verification
- 18/18 deezer query tests pass (14 prior + 4 new)
- 2445 full suite passes (+4 from prior commit)
- Ruff clean
# Background
User reported (#534) that the import-modal "Search for Match" dialog
returned irrelevant results when Deezer was the metadata source.
Searching `Dirty White Boy` + `Foreigner` returned 5+ karaoke /
"originally performed by" / "in the style of" / "re-recorded" /
tribute-band results ranked above the actual Foreigner studio cut
from Head Games. User had to scroll past the junk every time, or
fall back to iTunes search which is much slower.
# Root cause — two layers
1. **Endpoint joined `track + artist` into free-text query.**
`/api/deezer/search_tracks` was passing `q=Dirty White Boy Foreigner`
to Deezer's `/search/track` API. Deezer fuzzy-matches that
string across title / lyrics / artist / album / contributors and
orders by global popularity — anything that appears across many
compilations outranks the canonical recording.
2. **No local rerank.** None of the search-modal endpoints applied
any post-filtering. Deezer's API order shipped straight to the
user.
# Fix — same architectural shape Cin would build
## Layer 1: field-scoped query at the client boundary
`core/deezer_client.py::search_tracks()` now accepts optional
`track`, `artist`, `album` kwargs. When provided, builds Deezer's
advanced search syntax: `q=track:"X" artist:"Y" album:"Z"`. Massive
relevance improvement because each term matches the right field
instead of fuzzy-matching everywhere.
Backward compat preserved: legacy free-text `query=` callers still
work unchanged. Field-scoped path takes precedence when both are
provided. Empty input fast-fails without an API call. Embedded
double-quotes stripped (Deezer's syntax has no escape mechanism).
## Layer 2: provider-neutral relevance reranker
New `core/metadata/relevance.py` module — pure-function rerank over
the canonical `Track` dataclass. Composable scoring:
- **Cover/karaoke patterns** (multiplier 0.05, effectively buries):
matches "karaoke", "originally performed by", "in the style of",
"made famous by", "tribute", "vocal version", "backing track",
"cover version", "re-recorded", "cover by", etc. across title,
album, AND artist fields. Catches the screenshot's exact junk:
artist credits like "Pop Music Workshop" / "The Karaoke Channel"
/ "Foreigner Tribute Band".
- **Variant tags** (multiplier 0.4): live / acoustic / demo /
instrumental / remix / radio edit / club mix etc. — softer
penalty since the user MAY want them. Skipped entirely when the
expected_title contains the same tag (so searching
"Track (Live)" still ranks Live versions first).
- **Exact artist boost** (multiplier 1.5): primary artist exactly
matches expected_artist after normalisation. Single strongest
signal for "this is the canonical recording".
- **Title + artist similarity** via SequenceMatcher (parentheticals
+ punctuation stripped before comparison).
- **Album-type weighting**: album=1.0 > single/ep=0.85 > compilation=0.7.
Compilations are more likely tribute / karaoke repackages.
Each component is a standalone function so tests pin them
individually without standing up the full pipeline.
## Wired at three search-modal endpoints
- `/api/deezer/search_tracks` — uses both layers (field-scoped
query + rerank).
- `/api/itunes/search_tracks` — uses rerank only (iTunes API has
no advanced-syntax search, but karaoke / cover variants still
leak through and need the local penalty).
- `/api/spotify/search_tracks` — already builds field-scoped
`track:X artist:Y` query; rerank added as the consistency safety
net so all three sources behave the same from the user's
perspective.
Other Deezer call sites (matching engine, watchlist scanner,
auto-import single-track ID) deliberately not touched in this PR
— they have their own elaborate scoring pipelines tuned to their
specific contexts and aren't surfacing the user-reported issue.
Per Cin: "don't refactor beyond what the task requires."
# Tests
71 new tests across 3 files:
- `tests/metadata/test_relevance.py` (50 tests) — every scoring
component pinned individually + the issue #534 screenshot
reproduced as a regression test (real Foreigner cut wins after
rerank, karaoke variants drop to bottom).
- `tests/metadata/test_deezer_search_query.py` (14 tests) —
advanced-syntax query construction, field-scoped wiring at the
client boundary, free-text path unchanged, kwargs win when
ambiguous, limit clamping, cache key consistency.
- `tests/imports/test_search_match_endpoints.py` (7 tests) —
end-to-end through Flask test client: Deezer endpoint passes
kwargs not joined query; karaoke buried at bottom for all three
sources; legacy query param still works without rerank.
# Verification
- 2441 full suite passes (+71 from baseline 2370)
- 0 failures (the prior watchdog flake fix held)
- Ruff clean across all changed files
- JS parses clean (`node -c webui/static/helper.js`)
# Architectural standards followed
- **Logic at the right boundary.** Query construction lives in the
client (every caller benefits from one change). Rerank lives in
a neutral module (`core/metadata/relevance.py`) over the
canonical `Track` dataclass — works for any source, not Deezer-
specific.
- **Explicit > implicit.** Every scoring rule has its own named
function. Pattern tables are module-level constants tests can
introspect.
- **Scope discipline.** Audited every Deezer search call site;
fixed the user-reported one + the consistent siblings. Did NOT
speculatively normalise every Deezer call across the codebase.
- **Backward compat.** Free-text `query=` callers untouched. Kwargs
added to existing client method signature with safe defaults.
- **Tests pin contract at correct boundary.** Pure-function rerank
tests don't mock anything; client-query tests stub at `_api_get`;
endpoint tests run through the real Flask app.
Two pre-existing parity gaps in `record_soulsync_library_entry` that
the prior parity commits left untouched. Both close real holes
between auto-import writes and what the soulsync_client deep scan
would have produced.
# Gap 1: Album duration was the first-imported track's duration
`record_soulsync_library_entry` is called once per track. The album
INSERT only fires for the FIRST track of a new album (subsequent
tracks find the album row already exists). The INSERT was passing
`duration_ms` — `track_info["duration_ms"]` — as the album's
`duration` column. That's the duration of one track, not the album
total. Compare to `SoulSyncAlbum.duration` in soulsync_client which
is `sum(t.duration for t in self._tracks)`.
Fix:
- Worker computes `album_total_duration_ms = sum(...)` across every
matched track and threads it onto context as
`album.duration_ms`.
- side_effects reads that value (or falls back to the per-track
duration for legacy non-auto-import callers) and writes it as the
album row's `duration`.
# Gap 2: Re-imports of the same artist/album were insert-only
When the SELECT-by-id or SELECT-by-name found an existing soulsync
artist or album row, the function skipped completely — no UPDATE
path. Meant: artist genres / thumb / source-id reflected ONLY
whatever the FIRST imported album supplied, never refreshing as
more albums by that artist landed. Ten more imports later, the
artist row still held whatever the first random import wrote.
Conservative fix: when an existing row matches, run an UPDATE that
fills only the columns whose current value is NULL or empty. Never
overwrites populated values — protects manual edits +
enrichment-worker writes the same way the scanner UPDATE path
preserves enrichment columns.
Implementation note: the empty-check happens in Python, NOT SQL.
Initial pass tried `COALESCE(NULLIF(col, ''), NULLIF(col, 0), ?)`
but SQLite's `NULLIF(text_col, 0)` returns the original text value
instead of NULL — different types, no coercion. So the SQL-only
conditional was unreliable on text columns. New helper does
`SELECT cols FROM table WHERE id`, compares each column in Python,
and emits UPDATE clauses only for the ones that need filling.
Allowlist defense: f-string column names go through
`_SOULSYNC_FILLABLE_COLUMNS` validation before interpolation.
Misuse adding new columns without an allowlist update fails closed
(logger.debug + skip).
# Tests added (4)
- `test_album_duration_uses_album_total_not_single_track` —
album with single-track context carrying explicit
`album.duration_ms = 2_500_000` writes 2_500_000 to the album row,
not the per-track 200_000 fallback.
- `test_re_import_fills_empty_artist_fields` — first import lands
artist with empty thumb + empty genres; second import for same
artist with thumb + genres present updates the existing row.
- `test_re_import_does_not_clobber_populated_artist_fields` —
first import writes rich genres + thumb; second import with
worse / different metadata leaves the existing row untouched.
- `test_re_import_fills_empty_source_id_when_missing` — first
import had no source artist ID; second import does — fills the
empty `spotify_artist_id` column on the existing row.
# Verification
- 10/10 side-effects tests pass (including 4 new + 4 from prior
parity commit + 2 history/provenance)
- 217 imports tests pass (no regression)
- 2369 full suite passes (+4 from prior, +22 PR-total from baseline 2347)
- 1 pre-existing flake (`test_watchdog_warns_about_stuck_workers`,
passes in isolation, unrelated)
- Ruff clean
Cin pre-review followup. Two small parity gaps the prior commits left
open:
# 1. Genre tags land on the standalone artists row
`soulsync_client._scan_transfer` aggregates the GENRE tag across every
track in an album and surfaces it on `SoulSyncAlbum.genres` (which the
DatabaseUpdateWorker writes to the artists+albums row). Auto-import
was hardcoding `'spotify_artist': {'genres': []}` so the imported
artists row landed with empty genres — felt hollow compared to a
Plex/Jellyfin scan, which both pull genres from their respective APIs.
Fix:
- `_read_file_tags` now reads the GENRE tag (mutagen easy mode handles
MP3/FLAC/M4A consistently; some files carry multiple genres so it's
always returned as a list).
- `_process_matches` aggregates genres from each matched file's tags
into a deduped insertion-order list. Dedup is case-insensitive but
preserves original casing — so "Hip-Hop, Rap, Trap" reads naturally
in the JSON column instead of "hip-hop, rap, trap".
- Worker context's `spotify_artist['genres']` carries the aggregated
list, which `record_soulsync_library_entry` already filters via
`core.genre_filter.filter_genres` and writes to the artists row.
# 2. Defensive str() cast for ISRC + MBID
`_build_album_track_entry` already coerces ISRC + MBID to string today
(via `str(isrc) if isrc else ''`). But if a future metadata-source
client returns int / None for either ID, the worker would propagate
the wrong type and side_effects.py's `.strip()` would AttributeError.
Cheap insurance: explicit `str()` cast in the worker before assignment
to track_info. Future-proofs against client drift.
# Tests added (3, in test_auto_import_context_shape.py):
- `test_context_aggregates_genres_from_track_tags` — multi-file
album with overlapping genre lists produces deduped, insertion-
ordered, original-case-preserved result. Stubs `_read_file_tags`
with monkeypatch so we don't need real audio.
- `test_context_genres_empty_when_no_tags` — files without GENRE
tag → empty list. Standalone library write handles gracefully
(genres column stays empty / NULL).
- `test_context_isrc_mbid_coerced_to_string` — hostile types
(int 12345678, None, int 999) coerced to safe strings before
reaching track_info.
# Verification
- 14/14 context-shape tests pass (11 prior + 3 new)
- 213 imports tests pass (no regression)
- 2365 full suite passes (+3 from prior, +18 PR-total)
- 1 pre-existing flake (`test_watchdog_warns_about_stuck_workers`,
passes in isolation)
- Ruff clean
Cin pre-review followup to the standalone library parity commit. The
prior commit fixed `spotify_artist['id']` from the wrong copy-paste
value (`identification['album_id']`) to read from
`identification['artist_id']`, but the identification dict produced
by `_search_metadata_source` and `_search_single_track` never set
`artist_id` — both extracted artist NAME from the search response
and discarded the source ID sitting right next to it. Net effect of
the prior commit: artists row source-id stayed NULL, just for a more
honest reason than before.
Now properly extracted:
- `_search_metadata_source` reads `best_result.artists[0]['id']`
alongside the artist name and returns it on the identification dict
as `artist_id`.
- `_search_single_track` does the same for single-track identification.
- `_identify_single`'s tag-based-confidence path forwards
`result.get('artist_id')` so the artist source-id propagates even
when high-confidence local tags override the search result's name.
Result: identification dict now carries `artist_id` whenever the
metadata source returned an artist with an ID. The worker context
already plumbs it onto `spotify_artist['id']` and
`spotify_album['artists'][0]['id']`, so the standalone library write
finally populates `<source>_artist_id` on the artists row.
Tests added (3, in `test_auto_import_context_shape.py`):
- `test_context_artist_id_uses_identification_artist_id` — when the
identification dict carries `artist_id`, context propagates it
onto `spotify_artist['id']` AND
`spotify_album['artists'][0]['id']`. Pins that the prior copy-
paste bug (artist['id'] = album_id) doesn't return.
- `test_context_artist_id_is_empty_when_identification_missing_it` —
fallback case (filename-only identification): context gets empty
string, NOT album_id. Honest failure mode.
- `test_search_metadata_source_extracts_artist_id_from_dict_artist`
— black-box test of `_search_metadata_source`: feed it a
spotify-shaped result with `artists[0]['id']` and verify
identification dict carries it forward.
Verification:
- 11/11 context-shape tests pass (8 prior + 3 new)
- 210 imports tests pass (no regression)
- 2362 full suite passes (+3 from prior commit, +15 PR-total)
- 1 pre-existing flake (`test_watchdog_warns_about_stuck_workers`,
passes in isolation)
- Ruff clean
# Background
SoulSync standalone is meant to be a full replacement for Plex /
Jellyfin / Navidrome — files imported via auto-import (or any other
import path) should land in the database with the same field richness
a media-server scan would write. They weren't.
# Gaps fixed
The auto-import worker built a context dict for each track and handed
it to `_post_process_matched_download` (the same callback the regular
download flow uses). That dict was missing three things downstream
needed:
1. **No `source` field anywhere.** `record_soulsync_library_entry`
reads `get_import_source(context)` to pick the source-aware ID
columns (`spotify_track_id` / `deezer_id` / `itunes_track_id` /
etc.) on the artists / albums / tracks rows. With no source, the
resolver returned an empty string → `get_library_source_id_columns("")`
returned an empty dict → the `UPDATE tracks SET <source>_id = ?`
blocks were silently skipped. Result: every auto-imported track
landed with NULL on every source-id column. Watchlist scans
(which match by stable source IDs to detect "this track is already
in library") couldn't recognise these rows and would re-download
them on the next pass.
2. **No `_download_username='auto_import'`.** Both
`record_library_history_download` and `record_download_provenance`
default to "Soulseek" when no `username` is in the context. Every
staging-folder import was being labelled as a Soulseek download
in library history + provenance — false signal in the UI.
3. **No per-recording IDs (`isrc`, `musicbrainz_recording_id`) on
track_info.** The Navidrome scanner already writes
`musicbrainz_recording_id` directly to the tracks row when present.
Picard-tagged libraries always carry MBID; metadata sources
(Spotify via MusicBrainz enrichment, Deezer, etc.) carry ISRC.
Auto-import had access to both via the metadata-source response
but didn't propagate them — so the soulsync row went in with
NULL on both columns.
# Changes
**`core/auto_import_worker.py` — `_process_matches`:**
- Top-level `'source': source` (from `identification['source']`)
- `'_download_username': 'auto_import'`
- `track_info['isrc']`, `track_info['musicbrainz_recording_id']` —
pulled from the per-track payload returned by the metadata source
- `track_info['album_id']` — back-reference so source-aware ID
resolution works on sources whose API nests album under
`track.album.id` rather than `track.album_id`
- `spotify_artist['id']` now correctly carries the artist's source ID
(was `identification['album_id']`, a copy-paste bug from the
original implementation that made artist-id resolution fall back
to fuzzy matching)
- `spotify_album['artists'][0]['id']` carries artist source ID for
the same resolution path
**`core/imports/side_effects.py`:**
- `record_library_history_download` source_map: add
`"auto_import": "Auto-Import"` — tags imported tracks correctly
- `record_download_provenance` source_service: add
`"auto_import": "auto_import"` — provenance shows real source
- `record_soulsync_library_entry` track INSERT: now includes
`musicbrainz_recording_id` + `isrc` columns (matches
`insert_or_update_media_track`'s shape for Navidrome /
Plex / Jellyfin scans). Both default to NULL when not present.
# Behavior preserved
- Files still land in the same library template path (no path-build
change)
- Other media-server flows (Plex / Jellyfin / Navidrome users)
unaffected — `record_soulsync_library_entry` still gates on
`get_active_media_server() == "soulsync"`. Auto-import on those
servers continues to drop the file in the library folder + emits
`batch_complete` for the scan-trigger automation, same as before.
- Direct downloads (search → Download button) unaffected — they
already passed `source` + `username` correctly.
# Tests added
`tests/imports/test_auto_import_context_shape.py` (8 tests, new file):
- Worker context carries `source` for every metadata source
(parametrised across spotify / deezer / itunes / discogs)
- `_download_username='auto_import'` set unconditionally
- ISRC + MBID propagate from track payload to track_info when present
- ISRC + MBID default to empty string when absent (downstream
normalises to NULL at write time)
- track_info includes album-id back-reference
`tests/imports/test_import_side_effects.py` (4 new tests + 2 schema
column adds):
- `record_soulsync_library_entry` writes mbid + isrc columns when
present in track_info
- Deezer source maps to deezer_id column (regression case for
source-aware column resolver)
- `record_library_history_download` labels `_download_username=
'auto_import'` as "Auto-Import" not "Soulseek"
- `record_download_provenance` registers source_service as
"auto_import" not "soulseek"
# Verification
- 8/8 new context-shape tests pass
- 6/6 side-effects tests pass (4 new + 2 existing)
- 207 imports tests pass
- 2359 full suite passes (+12 from baseline 2347, no regressions)
- 1 pre-existing flake (`test_watchdog_warns_about_stuck_workers`,
passes in isolation, unrelated to this change)
- Ruff clean
