feat: a held album below the quality you settle for, or holding a video rip, stays wanted for a better copy, and the import replaces the old tracks with their likes and plays carried over (M502 #5524)

- acquisition_settings.upgrade_until (default High quality lossy, Lidarr's
  cutoff, note #5527; "" is off), an "Upgrade until" row under Searching.
- The wanted worker judges held albums hourly: tier per format from size per
  second (the scanner records no bitrate), the album's worst. Below the
  cutoff it is wanted for quality; a video rip among its tracks always.
- The schedule searches upgrades weekly, after open wants; a release no
  better than the copy held is refused ("not_better").
- The import matches each file to the track it would replace (recording,
  then disc/track) and replaces it when it is a rip or the file is a better
  tier: over the same path in one rename, or filed beside it and the old
  track folded in (library.ReplaceTrack: file first, then foldTrackInto).
  Nothing better: the release is set aside.
- Collection › Upgrades (Lidarr's Cutoff Unmet); Suspect sources says when a
  clean copy was looked for instead of Lidarr's search.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

web/src/lib/api/admin.suspect-sources.test.ts

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ function track(id: string): AdminSuspectTrack {
     markers: [],
     verdict: null,
     verdict_at: null,
+    replacing: false,
     searched_at: null
   };
 }

web/src/lib/api/types.ts

@@ -443,7 +443,9 @@ export type AdminSuspectTrack = {
   // back. null: the resolver hasn't looked yet (M498 #5439).
   verdict: SuspectVerdict | null;
   verdict_at: string | null;
-  // When Lidarr was last asked to search the album for a better copy (#5447).
+  // The album is on the wanted list for a clean copy, and when one was last
+  // searched for (#5524).
+  replacing: boolean;
   searched_at: string | null;
 };
 
@@ -572,7 +574,11 @@ export type ResolvedDuplicatesResponse = {
 // library: in the library when the list began (#5567).
 export type WantReason = 'request' | 'follow' | 'missing' | 'library';
 // all: one artist's page, every album of theirs on the list (#5572).
-export type WantState = 'wanted' | 'missing' | 'held' | 'all';
+// upgrade: held albums wanted for a better copy (#5524).
+export type WantState = 'wanted' | 'missing' | 'upgrade' | 'held' | 'all';
+// Why a held album is wanted again: its copy is below the quality settled
+// for, or one of its tracks is a video rip (#5524).
+export type WantUpgrade = 'quality' | 'rip';
 
 // One release group on the wanted list. held_at is set once the library
 // holds it; artist_id and album_id link into the library when it has them.
@@ -592,6 +598,10 @@ export type Want = {
   wanted_at: string;
   held_at: string | null;
   image_url: string;
+  // A held album wanted for a better copy, and what the copy it has is
+  // ("MP3, about 192 kbps") (#5524).
+  upgrade?: WantUpgrade;
+  held_quality?: string;
   // The search schedule's last look, and the download running (#5521).
   search?: WantSearch | null;
   grab?: WantGrab | null;
@@ -720,6 +730,8 @@ export type SearchSettings = {
   seed_ratio: number;
   seed_days: number;
   stall_hours: number;
+  // The tier a held album is upgraded to; "" is no quality upgrades (#5524).
+  upgrade_until: string;
 };
 
 export type WantCounts = {
@@ -728,6 +740,8 @@ export type WantCounts = {
   wanted: number;
   missing: number;
   held: number;
+  // Held albums wanted for a better copy (#5524).
+  upgrades: number;
   following: number;
   // Downloads running, those of them waiting on a person, releases set aside.
   activity: number;

web/src/lib/api/wanted.ts

@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ export async function putSearchSettings(body: {
   seed_ratio: number;
   seed_days: number;
   stall_hours: number;
+  upgrade_until: string;
 }): Promise<SearchSettings> {
   return api.put<SearchSettings>('/api/admin/acquisition/settings', body);
 }

web/src/lib/components/SearchSettingsCard.svelte

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
   // keeps to each indexer's searches-per-hour. A finished download is
   // checked and filed into one of the library's folders (#5522); it then
   // seeds until the ratio or the days below, and a download nobody shares
-  // is given up after the hours below (#5523).
+  // is given up after the hours below (#5523). A held album below "Upgrade
+  // until" is searched for weekly and replaced by a better copy (#5524).
 
   const client = useQueryClient();
   const button =
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@
     seed_ratio: number;
     seed_days: number;
     stall_hours: number;
+    upgrade_until: string;
   };
 
   // The form is the server's settings until edited; saved holds what a save
@@ -50,7 +52,8 @@
       import_root: s.import_root,
       seed_ratio: s.seed_ratio,
       seed_days: s.seed_days,
-      stall_hours: s.stall_hours
+      stall_hours: s.stall_hours,
+      upgrade_until: s.upgrade_until
     };
   }
 
@@ -76,7 +79,8 @@
         import_root: form.import_root,
         seed_ratio: Number(form.seed_ratio),
         seed_days: Number(form.seed_days),
-        stall_hours: Number(form.stall_hours)
+        stall_hours: Number(form.stall_hours),
+        upgrade_until: form.upgrade_until
       });
       edited = null;
       await client.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.searchSettings() });
@@ -155,6 +159,24 @@
         </SettingRow>
       </div>
     {/each}
+    <SettingRow
+      label="Upgrade until"
+      for="upgrade-until"
+      hint="An album you have below this is searched for weekly and replaced by a better copy. A video rip is always replaced."
+    >
+      <select
+        id="upgrade-until"
+        value={form.upgrade_until}
+        onchange={(e) => edit({ upgrade_until: e.currentTarget.value })}
+        class="rounded-md border border-border bg-background px-2 py-1.5 text-sm"
+      >
+        <option value="">Don't upgrade</option>
+        {#each data.tiers.filter((t) => t.tier !== 'unknown') as t (t.tier)}
+          <option value={t.tier}>{t.label}</option>
+        {/each}
+      </select>
+      <a href="/collection/upgrades" class="text-sm text-accent-fg hover:underline">Upgrades</a>
+    </SettingRow>
     {#if data.scan_paths.length > 1}
       <SettingRow label="File new music into" for="search-root" hint="As Artist/Album (Year), tagged with its MusicBrainz ids.">
         <select

web/src/lib/components/SearchSettingsCard.test.ts

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ const settings: SearchSettings = {
   scan_paths: ['/music', '/music2'],
   seed_ratio: 2,
   seed_days: 14,
-  stall_hours: 6
+  stall_hours: 6,
+  upgrade_until: 'lossy_high'
 };
 
 afterEach(() => vi.clearAllMocks());
@@ -66,7 +67,8 @@ describe('SearchSettingsCard', () => {
         import_root: '',
         seed_ratio: 2,
         seed_days: 14,
-        stall_hours: 6
+        stall_hours: 6,
+        upgrade_until: 'lossy_high'
       })
     );
   });
@@ -102,6 +104,22 @@ describe('SearchSettingsCard', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  test('upgrades go up to the chosen quality, or are switched off', async () => {
+    setup();
+    const until = screen.getByLabelText(/upgrade until/i) as HTMLSelectElement;
+    expect(until.value).toBe('lossy_high');
+    expect([...until.options].map((o) => o.textContent)).toEqual([
+      "Don't upgrade",
+      'Lossless',
+      'High quality lossy'
+    ]);
+    await fireEvent.change(until, { target: { value: '' } });
+    await fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: /^save$/i }));
+    await waitFor(() =>
+      expect(putSearchSettings).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ upgrade_until: '' }))
+    );
+  });
+
   test('before the first pass it says so', () => {
     setup({ ...settings, last_pass_at: null, last_pass: {} });
     expect(screen.getByTestId('last-pass').textContent).toMatch(/hasn’t run yet/);

web/src/lib/components/wanted/CatalogueGrid.test.ts

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function setup(
     total: items.length,
     limit: 96,
     offset: 0,
-    counts: { artists: items.length, wanted: 1, missing: 0, held: 16, following: 1, activity: 1, attention: 0, blocked: 0, unmatched: 0 },
+    counts: { artists: items.length, wanted: 1, missing: 0, held: 16, upgrades: 0, following: 1, activity: 1, attention: 0, blocked: 0, unmatched: 0 },
     library
   };
   vi.mocked(createWantArtistsQuery).mockReturnValue(

web/src/lib/components/wanted/CollectionRail.svelte

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
   // catalogue of artists first, then the sections that show state. Activity
   // carries a second, accented count when downloads are waiting on a person.
   // Unmatched, like Lidarr's Unmapped Files, holds the library albums no
-  // MusicBrainz album matched (#5579).
+  // MusicBrainz album matched (#5579). Upgrades, Lidarr's Cutoff Unmet,
+  // holds the albums held but wanted for a better copy (#5524).
 
   let { counts }: { counts?: WantCounts } = $props();
 
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@
     { href: '/collection', label: 'Catalogue', count: counts?.artists, exact: true, also: ['/collection/artist/'] },
     { href: '/collection/wanted', label: 'Wanted', count: counts?.wanted },
     { href: '/collection/missing', label: 'Missing files', count: counts?.missing },
+    { href: '/collection/upgrades', label: 'Upgrades', count: counts?.upgrades },
     { href: '/collection/activity', label: 'Activity', count: counts?.activity, attention: counts?.attention },
     { href: '/collection/following', label: 'Following', count: counts?.following },
     { href: '/collection/blocked', label: 'Blocked', count: counts?.blocked },

web/src/lib/components/wanted/WantList.svelte

@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
   // runs one now. Taking a held album off leaves its files and stops it
   // being fetched back if they go.
   //
+  // Upgrades (#5524) are held albums wanted for a better copy: below the
+  // quality set under Acquisition, or holding a video rip. They search and
+  // download like an open want, and say what copy they have.
+  //
   // The list reads like the library (#5572): artists A–Z, each with its
   // albums oldest first, and each album's tracks a click away. The filter
   // narrows it to an artist or album by name, on the server, so it finds
@@ -166,6 +170,15 @@
     return `Imported ${n} ${relativeTime(g.imported_at)} from ${g.name}`;
   }
 
+  // A want the schedule still searches for: open, or held but wanted for a
+  // better copy.
+  const searchable = (w: Want) => !w.held_at || !!w.upgrade;
+
+  function upgradeLine(w: Want): string {
+    if (w.upgrade === 'rip') return 'A track is a video rip; looking for a clean copy';
+    return w.held_quality ? `You have ${w.held_quality}; looking for better` : 'Looking for a better copy';
+  }
+
   const attention = (w: Want) => w.grab?.live && (w.grab.import_state === 'review' || w.grab.import_state === 'failed');
 
   function why(w: Want): string {
@@ -231,11 +244,16 @@
     <p class="mt-3 text-text-primary">
       {#if artist}None of this artist's albums are in the catalogue.
       {:else if list === 'missing'}No missing albums are wanted back.
+      {:else if list === 'upgrade'}No album is wanted for a better copy.
       {:else}Nothing is wanted.{/if}
     </p>
     <p class="mt-1 text-sm text-text-secondary">
       {#if list === 'missing'}
         An album whose files stay missing past the grace window on the Missing files page lands here.
+      {:else if list === 'upgrade'}
+        An album you have below the quality set under
+        <a href="/admin/acquisition" class="text-accent-fg hover:underline">Acquisition</a>, or with a video
+        rip among its tracks, lands here.
       {:else}
         A request you approve, a new release from a followed artist, or an album whose files went
         missing lands here.
@@ -278,7 +296,10 @@
                   <div class="text-xs text-text-muted" data-testid="want-why">
                     {why(w)} · {w.held_at ? `held ${relativeTime(w.held_at)}` : `wanted ${relativeTime(w.wanted_at)}`}
                   </div>
-                  {#if !w.held_at}
+                  {#if w.held_at && w.upgrade}
+                    <div class="truncate text-xs text-text-secondary" data-testid="want-upgrade">{upgradeLine(w)}</div>
+                  {/if}
+                  {#if searchable(w)}
                     <div
                       class="text-xs {attention(w) ? 'text-text-primary' : 'truncate text-text-secondary'}"
                       data-testid="want-search"
@@ -303,7 +324,7 @@
                     <ListMusic size={12} strokeWidth={2} /> Tracks
                     <ChevronDown size={12} strokeWidth={2} class={shown === w.id ? 'rotate-180' : ''} />
                   </button>
-                  {#if !w.held_at}
+                  {#if searchable(w)}
                     <button
                       type="button"
                       onclick={() => onSearch(w)}
@@ -339,7 +360,7 @@
                   <WantTracks wantId={w.id} />
                 </div>
               {/if}
-              {#if open === w.id && !w.held_at}
+              {#if open === w.id && searchable(w)}
                 <div class="sm:pl-[4.25rem]">
                   <WantCandidates wantId={w.id} title={w.title} />
                 </div>

web/src/lib/components/wanted/WantList.test.ts

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ function page(
       total: items.length,
       limit: 50,
       offset: 0,
-      counts: { artists: 2, wanted: 2, missing: 1, held: 4, following: 1, activity: 1, attention: 0, blocked: 0, unmatched: 0 },
+      counts: { artists: 2, wanted: 2, missing: 1, held: 4, upgrades: 0, following: 1, activity: 1, attention: 0, blocked: 0, unmatched: 0 },
       library
   };
 }
@@ -314,4 +314,32 @@ describe('WantList', () => {
     expect(screen.getAllByTestId('want-row')).toHaveLength(2);
     expect(screen.queryByRole('link', { name: 'Blur' })).toBeNull();
   });
+
+  test('an upgrade is a held album searched for a better copy', async () => {
+    setup(
+      [
+        want('u1', { held_at: ago(DAY), reason: 'library', upgrade: 'quality', held_quality: 'MP3, about 192 kbps' }),
+        want('u2', { held_at: ago(DAY), reason: 'library', upgrade: 'rip', title: 'Humanz' })
+      ],
+      'upgrade'
+    );
+    expect(createWantsQuery).toHaveBeenCalledWith('upgrade', '');
+    const lines = screen.getAllByTestId('want-upgrade').map((e) => e.textContent ?? '');
+    expect(lines[0]).toMatch(/you have mp3, about 192 kbps; looking for better/i);
+    expect(lines[1]).toMatch(/video rip; looking for a clean copy/i);
+    expect(screen.getAllByTestId('want-search')[0].textContent).toMatch(/not searched yet/i);
+    await fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: /search for humanz now/i }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(searchWant).toHaveBeenCalledWith('u2'));
+  });
+
+  test('a held album not wanted for a better copy has no search', () => {
+    setup([want('h1', { held_at: ago(DAY), reason: 'library' })], 'held');
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId('want-upgrade')).toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('button', { name: /search for/i })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  test('with no upgrades it says what would land here', () => {
+    setup([], 'upgrade');
+    expect(screen.getByText(/no album is wanted for a better copy/i)).toBeTruthy();
+  });
 });

web/src/lib/styles/error-copy.json

@@ -75,8 +75,9 @@
   "bad_quality": "Choose at least one quality to take.",
   "candidate_not_found": "That release is no longer in the list. Search again.",
   "no_infohash": "That release can't be set aside: its indexer gave no infohash to know it by.",
-  "want_held": "The library already holds that album.",
+  "want_held": "The library already holds that album, and it isn't wanted for a better copy.",
   "block_not_found": "That release isn't set aside any more.",
   "not_running": "That download isn't running any more. Refresh the list.",
-  "bad_lifecycle": "Seed ratio is 0 to 100, seed days 0 to 365, and stall hours 0 to 720."
+  "bad_lifecycle": "Seed ratio is 0 to 100, seed days 0 to 365, and stall hours 0 to 720.",
+  "bad_upgrade_until": "Upgrade until has to be one of the qualities listed."
 }

web/src/routes/admin/suspect-sources/+page.svelte

@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@
   // folder, with junk disc numbers and a reaction video filed as a song.
   //
   // The duplicate resolver holds each one back from radio and the mixes, and
-  // merges it away where Lidarr keeps a clean copy (M498 #5439). A marker is a
-  // reason to look, not proof, so each row says what was done and offers the
-  // undo: "This one is fine" lets the track back for good. A rip that is the
-  // only copy of its song has its album searched in Lidarr (#5447).
+  // merges it away where the library has a clean copy (M498 #5439). A marker
+  // is a reason to look, not proof, so each row says what was done and offers
+  // the undo: "This one is fine" lets the track back for good. A rip's album
+  // stays wanted for a clean copy, searched for weekly and filed over the rip
+  // when it comes (#5524, which took over #5447's Lidarr search).
 
   const queryStore = createSuspectSourcesQuery();
   const query = $derived($queryStore);
@@ -101,9 +102,10 @@
       such as "(Official Video)", "[Audio]" or "Visualizer". These usually came from
       a video site, and can be the wrong audio: a live take, a music-video edit, or
       something else entirely. Each one is kept out of radio and the mixes, though it still
-      plays when you choose it, and it is removed where Lidarr keeps a clean copy of the same
-      song. Where it is the only copy, Lidarr is asked once a week to search the album for a
-      better release. If one is fine, say so and it goes back in.
+      plays when you choose it, and it is merged away where the library has a clean copy of the
+      same song. Where it is the only copy, its album is searched for a clean copy once a week,
+      under <a href="/collection/upgrades" class="text-accent-fg hover:underline">Upgrades</a>. If one
+      is fine, say so and it goes back in.
     </p>
   </header>
 
@@ -183,10 +185,12 @@
                     <span class="text-xs text-text-secondary" data-testid="suspect-verdict">
                       Held back{#if t.verdict_at && !changed[t.track_id]}&nbsp;{relativeTime(t.verdict_at)}{/if}
                     </span>
-                    {#if t.searched_at}
-                      <span class="text-xs text-text-muted" data-testid="suspect-searched">
-                        Lidarr searched for a better copy {relativeTime(t.searched_at)}
-                      </span>
+                    {#if t.replacing}
+                      <a href="/collection/upgrades" class="text-xs text-text-muted hover:underline" data-testid="suspect-searched">
+                        {t.searched_at
+                          ? `Looked for a clean copy ${relativeTime(t.searched_at)}`
+                          : 'A clean copy is wanted'}
+                      </a>
                     {/if}
                     <button
                       type="button"

web/src/routes/admin/suspect-sources/suspect-sources.test.ts

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ function track(title: string, file: string, markers: string[], disc: number | nu
     markers,
     verdict: 'suspect',
     verdict_at: new Date(Date.now() - 3_600_000).toISOString(),
+    replacing: false,
     searched_at: null
   };
 }
@@ -138,13 +139,16 @@ describe('Suspect sources page', () => {
     expect(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Hold back again' })).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
-  // #5447: a rip with no clean copy has its album searched in Lidarr, and the
-  // row says when.
-  test('shows when Lidarr searched for a better copy', () => {
+  // #5524: a rip's album is wanted for a clean copy, and the row says when
+  // one was last looked for.
+  test('shows that a clean copy is wanted, and when it was looked for', () => {
     const t = track('Strobelite', 'Gorillaz - Strobelite (Official Video).mp3', ['music video']);
+    t.replacing = true;
     t.searched_at = new Date(Date.now() - 7_200_000).toISOString();
     mocked.mockReturnValue(infinite([page(0, 1, [{ directory: HUMANZ, tracks: [t] }])]));
     render(SuspectSourcesPage);
-    expect(screen.getByTestId('suspect-searched')).toHaveTextContent(/Lidarr searched for a better copy/);
+    const line = screen.getByTestId('suspect-searched');
+    expect(line).toHaveTextContent(/Looked for a clean copy/);
+    expect(line).toHaveAttribute('href', '/collection/upgrades');
   });
 });

web/src/routes/collection/collection.test.ts

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ vi.mock('#lib/api/wanted.js', () => ({ createWantArtistsQuery: vi.fn() }));
 import WantedLayout from './+layout.svelte';
 import { createWantArtistsQuery } from '#lib/api/wanted.js';
 
-const counts: WantCounts = { artists: 7, wanted: 5, missing: 1, held: 9, following: 2, activity: 3, attention: 0, blocked: 4, unmatched: 3 };
+const counts: WantCounts = { artists: 7, wanted: 5, missing: 1, held: 9, upgrades: 6, following: 2, activity: 3, attention: 0, blocked: 4, unmatched: 3 };
 const children = createRawSnippet(() => ({ render: () => `<p data-testid="tab-body">body</p>` }));
 
 afterEach(() => vi.clearAllMocks());
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ describe('/collection layout', () => {
       ['/collection', 'Catalogue 7'],
       ['/collection/wanted', 'Wanted 5'],
       ['/collection/missing', 'Missing files 1'],
+      ['/collection/upgrades', 'Upgrades 6'],
       ['/collection/activity', 'Activity 3'],
       ['/collection/following', 'Following 2'],
       ['/collection/blocked', 'Blocked 4'],

web/src/routes/collection/upgrades/+page.svelte

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+  import { pageTitle } from '#lib/branding.js';
+  import WantList from '#lib/components/wanted/WantList.svelte';
+</script>
+
+<svelte:head><title>{pageTitle('Collection · Upgrades')}</title></svelte:head>
+
+<WantList list="upgrade" />