Investigation surfaced that Lidarr was wired into the orchestrator but
the actual download flow had blockers:
1. **Wrong file misfiled.** Lidarr grabs whole albums; SoulSync's
matched-context post-processing wants the SPECIFIC track the user
requested. Old code copied every track in the album and reported
`imported_files[0]` as `file_path` — almost always pointing to
track 1, not the user's actual track. Post-processing then tagged
track 1 with the requested track's metadata. Misfiling on every
real download.
Fix: parse the wanted track title out of the dispatch display name
(which `_search_sync` already builds as
`f"{artist} - {album} - {track_title}"`), look it up against
Lidarr's `track` API, resolve the matching `trackFileId` to a path,
and copy ONLY that file. Punctuation-tolerant fuzzy match handles
the common "m.A.A.d city" vs "maad city" case. Album-level
dispatches (no track in the display) preserve the old first-file
fallback so existing album-grab UX is unchanged.
2. **Hardcoded `metadataProfileId=1`.** Required by Lidarr's
artist-add API. On installs where the user deleted/recreated
metadata profiles, that id no longer exists and the call fails
with HTTP 400 — which silently breaks every download flow that
needs to add an artist. Real-world Lidarr installs do this all
the time.
Fix: `_get_metadata_profile_id()` calls Lidarr's `metadataprofile`
API and returns the first available id. Falls back to 1 only when
the API call fails entirely (preserves previous behavior so this
change can't make things worse).
3. **Polling never broke the outer loop on completion.** The inner
`for item in queue['records']` had `break` statements at status
transitions, but those only escaped the queue iteration — the
outer `for poll in range(max_polls)` kept spinning until the
600-poll timeout even after the album was clearly imported.
`for/else` semantics didn't apply because completion was detected
inside the inner loop, not by it running to exhaustion.
Fix: replaced with an explicit `download_complete` flag set when
`album/{id}` reports `trackFileCount > 0` (the authoritative
completion signal — works even when the queue record disappeared
between polls). Outer loop breaks immediately once the flag flips.
Helper functions added: `_extract_wanted_track_title` (staticmethod,
splits the display name; >=3 parts → track dispatch, 2 parts → album
dispatch), `_normalize_for_match` (lowercase + strip punctuation +
collapse whitespace for fuzzy compare), `_title_similarity` (cheap
score: equal=1.0, substring=0.85, token-overlap-ratio otherwise),
`_pick_track_file_for_wanted` (orchestrates the API calls).
Settings tooltip updated to be honest about Lidarr's natural shape:
album-grabber, no-op for playlist sync, hybrid mode falls through to
other sources for track searches. Sets correct expectations.
Tests: `tests/test_lidarr_download_client.py` — 21 isolated tests
covering pure helpers (title extraction, normalization, similarity)
and the file-picker integration paths (matching path, punctuation
tolerance, below-threshold fallback, missing trackFileId, missing
file on disk, API failures, malformed responses). No live Lidarr
needed — `_api_get` mocked at the client boundary.
Isolation: ONLY touches `core/lidarr_download_client.py`, the Lidarr
settings tooltip in `webui/index.html`, the Lidarr WHATS_NEW entry
in `webui/static/helper.js`, and the new test file. No changes to
the orchestrator, other download clients, the import pipeline,
side_effects, web_server.py, settings.js, or any shared validation /
monitor / task_worker code. Other download sources are not affected
in any way.
Verified: 1753 tests pass (21 new), ruff clean.