The Soulseek server silently drops searches containing certain blocklisted terms
(major-label artists / album titles — Adele, Rihanna, Beyoncé, "Lemonade", …),
returning 0 responses ("TimedOut"). The blocked term poisons the whole query even
though the OTHER field usually isn't blocked and the content is on the network
(e.g. searching "Beyoncé …" → 0, but "I Am… Sasha Fierce" alone → 250 with 136
real Beyoncé folders).
When the primary "{artist} {album}" search returns nothing, retry with each field
alone (normalized to fold accents/punctuation) and keep only results whose file
path still matches the dropped field (_keep_matching), so a same-titled album by a
different artist is never grabbed. Recovers blocklisted albums with a distinctive
title; safely yields nothing when the title is too generic (e.g. Adele "21") rather
than mis-grabbing. Fallback only fires on a 0-response primary, so the happy path is
unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jonathan
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