A finished download is checked against MusicBrainz before anything is
filed: the files are paired with an edition's tracks by position or path,
and AcoustID, tag ids, lengths and titles say whether it is the album.
What is the album is copied into the library as
Artist/Album (Year)/Artist - Album - NN - Title, tagged with Picard's
MusicBrainz ids, and scanned; the download keeps seeding. What is not is
refused: set aside, removed from the client, and the album searched for
again. A download the check cannot settle waits for a person, who imports
it anyway or refuses it. Tracks the library already holds are skipped.
The wanted list leaves Admin for a top-level Wanted view, admin-only and
web-only, with tabs for Wanted, Activity (downloads and their imports,
the ones needing a person first), Missing files, Held, Following (with the
release-type profiles, moved off Integrations) and Blocked. The search
settings gain "File new music into" when the library has several folders.
The search pass logs why each failed search failed.
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- internal/release: reads a release name (format, bitrate, bit depth and
sample rate, source, year, video, discography) and judges it against the
album wanted: the artist and title must be in it; video rips,
discographies, other versions (drumless, instrumental, karaoke, remix,
live unless the album is live…) and singles or EPs for an album are
refused. Quality tiers on Lidarr's ladder; a .torrent's file list is read
for format, video files and a track count short of the album.
- internal/acquire: fan-out across every search source with a narrowed
search kept, a process-wide pacer per source, every candidate judged and
kept with its reasons, and the grab: one live grab per want, tie-broken
(a person's grab beats the schedule's; a better release replaces a worse
one unless it is nearly done). Each download lands in its own folder
under the client's downloads folder.
- internal/wanted: the search schedule, every ten minutes, never-searched
first, then requests, missing files and followed artists, taking the
best release when auto-grab is on (the default).
- Migration 0082: acquisition_settings (auto-grab, interval, allowed
qualities seeded from Lidarr's "Any"), want search columns,
want_candidates, grabs, release_blocks.
- Web: the Wanted page shows each want's last search, a Search button and
every release found with its verdict (Grab, Grab anyway, Never this one,
Allow again). Integrations gains "Searching and grabbing".
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