Adds an opt-in search strategy toggle in the Quality Profile:
- priority (default): unchanged — first source in the hybrid chain that
meets a quality target wins.
- best_quality: pool candidates from EVERY source per query and download
them best→worst by actual audio quality; source order only breaks ties.
Implementation reuses existing plumbing so the retry system is untouched:
- engine.search_all_sources pools raw tracks across all configured,
non-exhausted sources (no first-source short-circuit).
- candidates.order_candidates: new quality_first sort path — profile
quality rank dominates, confidence/peer signals break ties. Priority
path is byte-for-byte unchanged (regression-locked by tests).
- task_worker passes quality_first + targets through; skips the redundant
hybrid-fallback block in best-quality mode (pool already covered it).
- Per-source retry budgets unchanged: a source that spends its budget is
added to exhausted_download_sources and thus dropped from the whole
pool. Independent of post_processing.retry_exhaustive.
- Query generator NOT touched.
Also clarifies the "Allow fallback" setting wording: it accepts OFF-LIST
quality as a last resort (not "walk down my list"), and notes that
lossy_copy.downsample_hires also bypasses the quality gate — the cause of
16-bit/MP3 files slipping through a 24-bit-only profile.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove the per-source download-quality dropdowns (Tidal/HiFi/Qobuz/Deezer/
Amazon) — with the global ranked-targets system they were redundant and
conflicting. Add quality_tier_for_source(): picks the LOWEST source tier
that satisfies the user's top target (respects the quality ceiling, saves
bandwidth) or the source's max as best effort. Every source's search +
download + retry path now derives its tier from the global profile instead
of config_manager.get('<source>_download.quality').
Settings keep the per-source allow_fallback toggles; the quality selects are
replaced with a note pointing at Quality Profile.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Quality guard: rejects with a 'file is X, wanted Y' reason (the string the
track-detail modal surfaces), accepts when a target is met or fallback is on,
skips when unprobeable.
force_import isolation: the 'quality' bypass must not skip the AcoustID check
and vice-versa; a quality reject persists trigger='quality' (not 'acoustid')
in the sidecar — so a quality mismatch never routes through the force_import
path (reserved for AcoustID version-mismatch).
Model: lossy matches a MINIMUM bitrate (>=, a range); lossless matches on bit
depth + sample rate, never exact bitrate, so a FLAC's varying bitrate (mono /
compression) can't falsely reject it. v2->v3 migration preserves order.
47 passing across the quality + guard suites.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add core/quality/selection.py: rank_with_targets() returns (ranked,
satisfied) where satisfied = a candidate meets a real target (strict).
load_profile_targets()/rank_for_profile() are the DB-backed wrappers.
search_with_fallback now skips a source that can deliver no target-meeting
quality and escalates to the next (source priority still wins among
satisfying sources; first source's results kept as fallback unless the
profile disables it). Returns RAW tracks — the satisfied check is a coarse
source gate; match-filtering + final ranking stay in the orchestrator so
the correct track is never pruned. Ranking is fail-open: a ranking error
never drops a source's real results.
Tested: rank_with_targets satisfied/fallback matrix + engine escalation,
stop-on-first, raw-not-pruned, fallback on/off. Amazon field test updated
for the corrected format token.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add core/quality/source_map.py centralising each source's tier->AudioQuality
mapping (Tidal/HiFi tiers, Qobuz real kHz/bit-depth, Deezer codes, Amazon
codec/tier). Add TrackResult.set_quality() to merge a mapped AudioQuality
onto a result. Wire HiFi, Qobuz, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon search results to
stamp real sample_rate/bit_depth so the global ranker no longer relies on
crude kbps heuristics for streaming sources. Fixes Qobuz/Amazon display
labels ('FLAC 24-bit/192kHz', 'Lossless') breaking format derivation.
Tested: 22 passing (mappers + set_quality merge semantics).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
