Detecting and replacing unavailable tracks

[dennisklad]

Hi, thanks so much for this API!!

I had a question: Is there a way to detect the unavailable tracks? This has been annoying me and wanted to check if there is a way to replace them with the API.

Thanks in advance.

[dennisklad]

Sorry, just tested it and there is indeed the boolean available that is inhereted from Media.
https:/tamland/python-tidal/blob/c0a6aef57e7eac8232cf491b0316f6c8d0f5da87/tidalapi/media.py#L192C1-L192C27

[tehkillerbee]

@dennisklad
Sure, as you have now found out! you can use the .available attribute.

Also, albums, tracks etc that are not available will throw an exception when fetched directly:

from pathlib import Path

import tidalapi
from tidalapi import exceptions

session_file1 = Path("tidal-session-oauth.json")

session = tidalapi.Session()
# Load session from file; create a new OAuth session if necessary
session.login_session_file(session_file1)

tracks = ["381616195", "5587976"]  # Track #2 is not available
# Check if tGet user tracks and check if track is available
for track_id in tracks:
    try:
        track = session.track(track_id=track_id)
    except exceptions.ObjectNotFound:
        print(f"Track {track_id} not available")

[dennisklad]

Perfect! Also, I noticed that it is not possible to directly add the track again to the favorites as it has a new ID and it throws a 404.

From this convo I see that it is also not possible with the isrc, right?
I would have to do a full text search on the track and add it this way?

EDIT: Oh, it says that this was feature was added in the v0.7.7! How would one use this?
EDIT2: I can only install up to v0.7.6 from pip :/

[dennisklad]

For anyone that is interested this is my code:

session = oauth_login.get_tidalapi_session()
favorites = tidalapi.Favorites(session, session.user.id)

limit = 500
offset = 0

tracks = favorites.tracks(limit=limit, offset=offset)

while len(tracks):
    
    print("Ckecking until", limit + offset)


    for track in tracks:

        if not track.available:
            print(f"Searching for {track.full_name} by {track.artist.name}...")
            search = session.search(f"{track.full_name} {track.artist.name}", [tidalapi.Track])
            top_hit = search['top_hit']
            
            if not top_hit:
                print("\tNo results found :(")
                continue
            
            i = 0

            # The search result should have the same IRSC
            while top_hit.isrc != track.isrc and i < len(search["tracks"]):
                top_hit = search["tracks"][i]
                i += 1

            if top_hit.isrc == track.isrc:
                print("Removed old track:", favorites.remove_track(track.id))
                print("Added new track:", favorites.add_track(top_hit.id))
            else:
                print("\tNo maching track found :(")

    offset += limit
    tracks = favorites.tracks(limit=limit, offset=offset)