lidarr_missing_art.sh's album-directory-map loop (both the cache-hit and
live-fallback branches) and arr_profile_enforcer.sh's _is_kids_path()
called dirname/basename once per item -- 127K+ tracks and ~4000
series/movies respectively, each call forking a subprocess. Measured:
0.39s vs 72.2s for 20K calls, ~185x. Verified identical output against
real paths (including unicode/space/paren edge cases) before switching.
Comment-only. Headers on the scripts touched during today's caching work
(cache-first fetches, write-through per-item cache, single-walk
consolidation, movieFile-embedded fix) still described pre-change
behavior. Also brought common.sh's top-level cache doc block current --
it was written for the single-consumer 2026-07-16 state and didn't
mention the tmpfs move, the write guard, or the 15+ consumers that now
go through it.
lidarr_cleanup.sh and sonarr_cleanup.sh already walk every artist/series
individually (trackFile/episodefile) for their own cleanup decisions --
that walk now also writes the raw per-item data through to a short-lived
tmpfs cache (arr_item_cache_write, 4h freshness, no persistent backup
since every consumer already has its own live fallback). lidarr_missing_art.sh
runs later in the same nightly window and now reads that cache first,
skipping its own redundant per-artist walk entirely on a hit. Sonarr side
is write-through only for now -- no second consumer exists yet, but the
data's there for whenever one does. Future consumers: arr_get_cached_items()
first, live per-item fetch as fallback, same pattern as these two.
Every script that fetches the full Lidarr/Sonarr/Radarr tracked-library
list now goes through arr_get_tracked_data() instead of hitting the API
directly -- cache-first when fresh, live fetch as fallback when stale,
waits out an active rescan before either. Per-item file data (trackFile/
episodefile/moviefile) stays live-only everywhere, since that's the
actual disk-truth these scripts' decisions depend on and was never part
of what's cached.
Also adds arr_cache_prefill.sh to CRITICAL_MAINTENANCE_SCRIPTS (30min
tier) with a short 1min wait ceiling, so the cache stays consistently
fresh instead of only refreshing whenever some other script happens to
write through. A full cache refresh for all three arrs measured at ~12s
total live -- nothing like the multi-hour cost of an actual rescan.
Shared cache/rescan-duration logic in common.sh now takes an arr_type
param instead of being Lidarr-specific, so Sonarr and Radarr cleanup
scripts get the same cache-first fetch + rescan-aware retry Lidarr had.
Avoids redundant full-library API calls across scripts run back to back,
and stops false failures when a fetch lands mid-rescan.
Shared cache (lidarr_get_tracked_data() in common.sh) so scripts stop
hitting Lidarr's live API for tracked counts every run, and stop
treating a mid-rescan dip as a genuine problem — a whole-library
RescanFolders legitimately makes trackFileCount read far below normal
while it re-verifies every file (confirmed 2026-07-16: 22% of normal
mid-scan). Cache reads fresh-if-recent, waits out an active rescan
(calibrated to that command's own historical duration, tracked per
command name since RescanFolders and DownloadedAlbumsScan take wildly
different amounts of time), then falls back to a stale cache rather
than hard-failing after a few strikes.
lidarr_cleanup.sh: no longer stacks a fresh DownloadedAlbumsScan on
top of one already running, and the tracked-count floor check now
waits out a genuine rescan instead of aborting on every overlap.
lidarr_duplicate_artist_cleanup.sh (new): finds case-insensitive
duplicate artist entries — same display name, different MusicBrainz
ID, added when a search/list-sync matches the wrong same-named artist.
Deletes the empty phantom side and blocks it from Import List
Exclusions, leaves genuinely-different-real-artists alone (checked by
album title overlap, deduped per-artist first so a legitimate reissue
under an artist's own catalog doesn't false-flag as cross-artist
overlap), and only notifies for the rare case where both sides have
real, overlapping content.
lidarr_cache_prefill.sh (new): warms the cache at array start so nothing
reads it cold after boot.
lidarr_missing_art.sh, lidarr_release_fixer.sh: write-through the cache
as a side effect of fetches they already needed for their own purposes.
Media/ now holds only media-level scripts (cleaner, permissions, play_state_sync).
All arr management scripts (cleanup, discovery, sync, webhooks, release fixer) live in Arrs_Stack/.
Gmer4Lfe