This is the user-visible commit. The reporter's exact two cases
(Japanese kanji, Russian Cyrillic) now pass verification instead of
being quarantined.
# What changed
Verifier's three artist-similarity sites now route through the
shared `core.matching.artist_aliases.artist_names_match` helper
instead of raw `_similarity`:
- `_find_best_title_artist_match` (per-recording scoring at the
best-match stage)
- Secondary scan when title matches but best-match's artist doesn't
(line ~355 pre-fix)
- Final fallback scan over all recordings (line ~403 pre-fix)
Aliases for the expected artist are resolved ONCE at the top of
`verify_audio_file` via `_resolve_expected_artist_aliases`, which
calls the new `MusicBrainzService.lookup_artist_aliases` chain
(library DB → cache → live MB). Single resolution per verification
regardless of how many AcoustID recordings come back — pinned by
test.
New helper `_alias_aware_artist_sim(expected, actual, aliases)`
wraps the pure helper with the verifier's normaliser
(`_similarity`) and threshold (`ARTIST_MATCH_THRESHOLD`). Returns a
single float so existing threshold-comparison code paths keep their
shape — minimal diff.
# Reporter's cases — verified
Case 1 (issue #442 verbatim):
File: YAMANAIAME by 澤野弘之
Expected: YAMANAIAME by Hiroyuki Sawano
Pre-fix: Quarantined (artist=0%)
Post-fix: PASS (alias '澤野弘之' resolved from MB)
Case 2 (issue #442 verbatim):
File: On the Other Side by Sergey Lazarev
Expected: On the other side by Сергей Лазарев
Pre-fix: Quarantined (artist=7%)
Post-fix: PASS (alias 'Sergey Lazarev' resolved from MB)
Both reproduced as regression tests with stubbed MB service.
# Backward compat
Three test cases pin that no-aliases / failure paths preserve
pre-fix behaviour exactly:
- Clear artist mismatch (different artist, same script) still
FAILs — aliases bridge synonyms, not unrelated artists.
- Exact title + artist match still PASSes regardless of aliases.
- MB service raise → verifier completes with direct similarity
(treats failure as "no aliases available" — same as pre-fix).
Also covers manual import: the import-modal "Search for Match"
flow goes through the same verifier, so the reporter's complaint
that "manual import simply throws them back in quarantine again"
is fixed by the same change.
# Tests added (11)
`tests/matching/test_acoustid_verification_aliases.py`:
- `_alias_aware_artist_sim`: alias bridges score ↑, no-aliases
falls back, aliases don't mask genuine mismatches
- `_find_best_title_artist_match` accepts + uses aliases
- Reporter's case 1 (Japanese) end-to-end
- Reporter's case 2 (Russian) end-to-end
- Backward compat: no-aliases mismatch still fails, exact match
still passes, MB-service-raise doesn't break verification
- Performance: alias lookup fires ONCE per verification regardless
of recording count
# Verification
- 11 new verifier tests pass
- 31 prior service tests pass
- 28 prior helper tests pass
- 294 matching + imports tests pass total (no regression)
- Ruff clean
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