diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6cdf1e7..9d3b040 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ Optional, add these later if you want them:
 Pull the prebuilt image onto your Docker host:
 
 ```bash
-docker pull git.kretzer.club/andrew/alembic:0.6.13
+docker pull git.kretzer.club/andrew/alembic:0.6.14
 ```
 
-That is the whole install. You do not need to download the source or build anything. The `0.6.13` is the version; you can pin to it so nothing changes under you, or use `latest` to always get the newest.
+That is the whole install. You do not need to download the source or build anything. The `0.6.14` is the version; you can pin to it so nothing changes under you, or use `latest` to always get the newest.
 
 (If you would rather build it yourself from source, you can, but you do not need to.)
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Create a file called `docker-compose.yml` on your server (put it wherever you ke
 ```yaml
 services:
   alembic:
-    image: git.kretzer.club/andrew/alembic:0.6.13
+    image: git.kretzer.club/andrew/alembic:0.6.14
     container_name: alembic
     ports:
       - "8420:8420"
diff --git a/pipeline/bin/import-track.sh b/pipeline/bin/import-track.sh
index ccc6f62..16742e5 100755
--- a/pipeline/bin/import-track.sh
+++ b/pipeline/bin/import-track.sh
@@ -242,6 +242,30 @@ BEETS_EXIT=0
 beet import -q -s "$DEST_DIR" >> "$LOG" 2>&1 || BEETS_EXIT=$?
 log "beets import finished with exit code $BEETS_EXIT"
 
+# ==== Safety net: clean up stragglers + exact duplicates ====
+# With duplicate_action=keep, beets always imports rather than rejecting a
+# real conflict (see beets/config.yaml) -- any file whose (albumartist,
+# album, title) already exists in the library gets imported anyway as a
+# `.1.ext` sibling. That's true whether this run came from the web UI, an
+# SMB drop, or sync-bandcamp.sh, so the cleanup has to run here rather than
+# per-caller (a 2026-07-23 incident: a Bandcamp sync's own call into this
+# script failed and silently stranded ~150 already-owned files in import-me/
+# for two weeks; a later unrelated manual import swept them back in and
+# duplicated them, and nothing had deduped since).
+log "Running replace-with-better safety pass on /downloads stragglers"
+if ${PIPELINE_DIR:-/app/pipeline}/lib/replace-with-better.sh --apply >> "$LOG" 2>&1; then
+  log "replace-with-better OK"
+else
+  log "WARN: replace-with-better.sh exited non-zero (exit $?)"
+fi
+
+log "Running dedup pass (exact-match duplicates only; FLAC > MP3, then largest file)"
+if ${PIPELINE_DIR:-/app/pipeline}/lib/dedup-library.sh --apply >> "$LOG" 2>&1; then
+  log "dedup OK"
+else
+  log "WARN: dedup-library.sh exited non-zero (exit $?)"
+fi
+
 # ==== Regenerate M3U if playlist was specified ====
 if [[ -n "$PLAYLIST_NAME" ]]; then
   log "Regenerating M3U for $PLAYLIST_NAME"
diff --git a/pipeline/lib/notify-telegram.sh b/pipeline/lib/notify-telegram.sh
index 6f553d8..4844db6 100755
--- a/pipeline/lib/notify-telegram.sh
+++ b/pipeline/lib/notify-telegram.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@
 # Returns exit 0 on send-OK, non-zero otherwise.
 
 set -euo pipefail
-PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
+# /opt/venv/bin leads PATH for consistency with the other pipeline scripts,
+# even though this one only shells out to curl.
+PATH=/opt/venv/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
 
 PARSE_MODE=""
 if [[ "${1:-}" == "--html" ]]; then
diff --git a/pipeline/lib/sync-bandcamp.sh b/pipeline/lib/sync-bandcamp.sh
index 9e82899..677f4f3 100755
--- a/pipeline/lib/sync-bandcamp.sh
+++ b/pipeline/lib/sync-bandcamp.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,15 @@
 # Run as root (cron). Logs to ${ALEMBIC_CONFIG_DIR:-/config}/logs/bandcamp-YYYYMMDD.log.
 
 set -euo pipefail
-PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
+# /opt/venv/bin must lead PATH -- that's where `beet` lives (the app's own
+# subprocess env puts it there too, see pipeline_runner._subprocess_env()).
+# This script used to run as a bare root cron job (pre-2026-07-08 cutover to
+# the app scheduler) where a minimal hardened PATH made sense; omitting the
+# venv here silently broke every downstream `beet import` call inside
+# import-track.sh once this started running through the app instead --
+# import-track.sh swallows that failure and still reports OK, so a purchase
+# would sit unimported until someone noticed it missing from Navidrome.
+PATH=/opt/venv/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
 export PATH
 
 CONFIG="${ALEMBIC_CONFIG_DIR:-/config}/pipeline/bandcamp/config.env"
@@ -87,7 +95,10 @@ shopt -u dotglob nullglob
 
 # Hand off to the standard manual-import pipeline. No playlist tag — Bandcamp
 # purchases aren't part of any Spotify playlist. The import-track.sh guard,
-# albumartist fallback, beets import, and Navidrome scan all kick in normally.
+# albumartist fallback, beets import, straggler/dedup safety net, and
+# Navidrome scan all kick in normally (import-track.sh runs the
+# replace-with-better + dedup-library safety net itself now, for every
+# caller, not just this one).
 log "Calling import-track.sh"
 if ${PIPELINE_DIR:-/app/pipeline}/bin/import-track.sh >> "$LOG" 2>&1; then
   log "import-track.sh OK"
@@ -95,28 +106,5 @@ else
   log "WARN: import-track.sh exited non-zero (exit $?)"
 fi
 
-# Safety net: if anything is stranded in ${MUSIC_DATA_DIR:-/data/music}/downloads (rare with
-# duplicate_action=keep set in beets config, but possible for files beets
-# couldn't process), find each one's library counterpart and replace if the
-# new file is higher quality, OR import as new if there's no counterpart.
-log "Running replace-with-better safety pass on /downloads stragglers"
-if ${PIPELINE_DIR:-/app/pipeline}/lib/replace-with-better.sh --apply >> "$LOG" 2>&1; then
-  log "replace-with-better OK"
-else
-  log "WARN: replace-with-better.sh exited non-zero (exit $?)"
-fi
-
-# Now dedupe across the library. With duplicate_action=keep beets imported
-# every Bandcamp file even when it conflicts with an existing track at the
-# same path (it creates `.1.ext` siblings). dedup-library.sh's policy is
-# "FLAC > MP3, then largest file" — Bandcamp version wins, soulseek version
-# is removed from both the beets DB and disk.
-log "Running dedup pass (Bandcamp FLAC wins over older Soulseek copies)"
-if ${PIPELINE_DIR:-/app/pipeline}/lib/dedup-library.sh --apply >> "$LOG" 2>&1; then
-  log "dedup OK"
-else
-  log "WARN: dedup-library.sh exited non-zero (exit $?)"
-fi
-
 log "=== Bandcamp sync done ==="
 exit 0
diff --git a/pipeline/lib/upgrade-mp3-to-flac.sh b/pipeline/lib/upgrade-mp3-to-flac.sh
index abe6f3f..bae74a2 100755
--- a/pipeline/lib/upgrade-mp3-to-flac.sh
+++ b/pipeline/lib/upgrade-mp3-to-flac.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
 #   upgrade-mp3-to-flac.sh --csv-only  # just write the CSV; don't run sldl
 
 set -euo pipefail
-PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
+# /opt/venv/bin must lead PATH -- `beet` (used heavily below) lives there.
+PATH=/opt/venv/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
 export PATH
 
 # These helpers are the same ones import-track.sh sources and runs under its