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Broque Thomas	235ada7e0f	Add pure artist-name comparison helper with alias awareness ... Issue #442 — files tagged with one spelling of an artist's name (Japanese kanji `澤野弘之`) get quarantined when SoulSync expects the romanized spelling (`Hiroyuki Sawano`). Raw similarity comparison scored 0% across scripts. MusicBrainz exposes alternate-spelling aliases on every artist record but the verifier never consulted them. This commit adds the pure helper that does the alias-aware comparison. No I/O, no DB access, no network. Caller supplies the aliases (looked up from library DB or live MB by later commits in this PR). Default threshold matches the verifier's existing `ARTIST_MATCH_THRESHOLD` (0.6) so wiring this in preserves current pass/fail semantics on the no-alias path. # API ``` artist_names_match(expected, actual, *, aliases=None, threshold=0.6, similarity=None) -> (matched: bool, best_score: float) ``` - Direct compare first (fast path + baseline score) - If below threshold, score each alias against `actual` - First alias to clear threshold → match - Returns the best score across all candidates so callers can log the score they made the decision on ``` best_alias_match(expected, actual, aliases=None, *, similarity=None) -> (winner: Optional[str], best_score: float) ``` Companion helper for callers that want to surface WHICH alias triggered the match (debug logs, UI explanations). No threshold — purely informative. # Architectural choices - **Pure function**: no I/O. Caller (verifier, future matching-engine consumers) owns alias lookup strategy + threshold tuning. - **Custom similarity callable**: lets the verifier pass its parenthetical-stripping normaliser without this module having to know about it. Defaults to lowercase + SequenceMatcher (matches the verifier's existing behaviour). - **Defensive coercion**: aliases input handles None entries, empty strings, non-string types, sets, tuples, lists — caller may feed raw MB response data without cleaning first. - **Backward compat**: `aliases=None` or empty → behaves identically to a plain similarity check. Paths not yet wired up to alias lookup see no behaviour change. # Tests (28) - Direct compare (no aliases): exact / case / whitespace / fuzzy / different - Cross-script with aliases: Japanese ↔ romanized (reporter's case 1), Cyrillic ↔ Latin (reporter's case 2), symmetric direction, no-match fallthrough so aliases don't mask genuine mismatches - Aliases input handling: None, empty, set, tuple, None-entries, non-string entries - Threshold: default matches verifier's 0.6, custom stricter, custom looser - Custom similarity: applies to both direct + alias compare - Best-alias-match introspection - Backward compat parametrised across 5 cases # What this commit does NOT do This is the helper module + tests only. Subsequent commits in this PR populate aliases (MB worker), provide live MB lookup with cache for un-enriched artists, and wire the helper into the AcoustID verifier where the quarantine decision actually fires.	2 weeks ago