fix: cut long names from the middle, not the end
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The shortening fitted the path and destroyed its meaning. Lidarr writes
"Artist - Album - 07 - Flamethrower.mp3" inside a directory already named for
that artist and album, so a long album title occurs three times in one path and
everything that distinguishes one track from another sits at the very end.
Cutting from the end removed precisely that:

  King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eter~c526.mp3

All seven tracks on that record reduced to the same string bar the hash. The
path fitted; the result was seven files nobody could tell apart on the device,
which is a worse outcome than the failure it replaced.

Cut from the middle instead, giving two thirds of the remaining room to the
tail because the head is generally a restatement of the directory the file
already sits in:

  King Gizzard & the Lizard~c526~ginning of Merciless Damnation - 07 - Flamethrower.mp3

The eight real paths that prompted this are now regression tests: every track
on that album keeps its number and title, all seven names stay distinct, and
The Beatles' "The Long One" -- whose length is the title itself rather than a
repeated album name -- keeps both ends.
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Emma Thorpe
2026-08-25 11:50:42 +01:00
parent d5f67c6de5
commit 46435feebd
3 changed files with 100 additions and 10 deletions
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@@ -705,3 +705,62 @@ def test_a_path_that_cannot_be_made_to_fit_is_reported(tmp_path, make_flac, capl
run(source, mirror, "--fat32-safe", "--max-path", "80")
assert "too" in caplog.text and "nested" in caplog.text
# Lidarr writes "Artist - Album - NN - Title.mp3" inside a directory already
# named for that artist and album, so a long album title appears three times in
# one path. These are real paths from a real library.
GIZZARD_ALBUM = (
"PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night - An Annihilation of"
" Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation"
)
GIZZARD_TRACKS = (
"01 - Motor Spirit",
"02 - Supercell",
"03 - Converge",
"04 - Witchcraft",
"05 - Gila Monster",
"06 - Dragon",
"07 - Flamethrower",
)
def gizzard_path(track):
return Path(
"King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard",
f"{GIZZARD_ALBUM} (2023)",
f"King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - {GIZZARD_ALBUM} - {track}.mp3",
)
def test_shortening_keeps_the_part_that_tells_tracks_apart():
"""Cutting from the end discards the track number and title, which is all
that distinguishes one track on the record from another."""
for track in GIZZARD_TRACKS:
fitted = music_mirror.fit_path(gizzard_path(track), 253)
assert len(str(fitted)) <= 253
assert fitted.name.endswith(f"{track}.mp3"), fitted.name
def test_every_track_on_a_long_album_keeps_a_distinct_name():
fitted = {music_mirror.fit_path(gizzard_path(t), 253).name for t in GIZZARD_TRACKS}
assert len(fitted) == len(GIZZARD_TRACKS)
def test_a_long_title_keeps_both_ends():
"""The Beatles' 'The Long One' is one track whose title is the long part."""
path = Path(
"The Beatles",
"Abbey Road (1969)",
"Digital Media 03",
"The Beatles - Abbey Road - 09 - The Long One - You Never Give Me Your Money"
" + Sun King + Mean Mr Mustard + Her Majesty + Polythene Pam + She Came In"
" Through the Bathroom Window+ Golden Slumbers + Carry That Weight + The End.mp3",
)
fitted = music_mirror.fit_path(path, 253)
assert len(str(fitted)) <= 253
assert fitted.name.startswith("The Beatles - Abbey Road - 09 - The Long One")
assert fitted.name.endswith("The End.mp3")