diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index 5b578a1..78c36a9 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -706,6 +706,20 @@ def parse_search_results(content, source, search_type):
     return ParsedSearch(results, None)
 
 
+def _rip_runner_env():
+    """Environment for a spawned `rip`, forcing a wide terminal width.
+
+    streamrip logs through rich's RichHandler, which wraps to the console width;
+    when `rip` runs as a subprocess with a piped (non-tty) stdout that width
+    defaults to 80 columns. At 80 cols the single line skip detection keys on —
+    "...Marked as downloaded in the database." — wraps mid phrase, and rich drops
+    its right-aligned source location into the gap, so SKIP_LINE_RE never matches
+    and an already-downloaded album is misclassified as a fresh completion (its
+    "already downloaded" state is lost). A wide COLUMNS keeps each log line whole;
+    the per-line strip in the runner removes the resulting trailing padding."""
+    return {**os.environ, "COLUMNS": "1000"}
+
+
 def _default_runner(cmd):
     """Run `rip` as a subprocess (ADR-0001), yielding stripped stdout lines and
     finally returning the exit code. This is the seam tests replace with a fake
@@ -718,6 +732,7 @@ def _default_runner(cmd):
         encoding="utf-8",
         errors="replace",
         bufsize=1,
+        env=_rip_runner_env(),
     )
     try:
         for line in process.stdout:
@@ -749,6 +764,7 @@ def _default_search_runner(cmd):
         encoding="utf-8",
         errors="replace",
         timeout=30,
+        env=_rip_runner_env(),
     )
 
 
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index b3b2b3c..b8e750b 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
 pytest==9.0.3
+# Used by tests/test_rip_runner_env.py to reproduce streamrip's RichHandler
+# log wrapping; in production rich arrives transitively with streamrip.
+rich
diff --git a/tests/test_rip_runner_env.py b/tests/test_rip_runner_env.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64f8727
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_rip_runner_env.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+"""The real `rip` runner forces a wide console so streamrip's RichHandler does
+not wrap the skip log line.
+
+The fake-runner tests feed clean single-line strings, so they never exercise
+the wrapping that broke skip detection in production: at the piped (non-tty)
+default of 80 columns, "...Marked as downloaded in the database." wraps
+mid-phrase (with rich's right-aligned source location dropped into the gap),
+so SKIP_LINE_RE misses and an already-downloaded album is misclassified as a
+fresh completion. These tests drive the actual subprocess runner through a
+real RichHandler to lock that fix in.
+"""
+import sys
+import textwrap
+
+import pytest
+
+import app as app_module
+from app import classify_download
+
+# A child that logs exactly as streamrip does: basicConfig at INFO with a
+# RichHandler, then the per-track "skip" line. RichHandler sizes itself from the
+# COLUMNS the runner injects, so this wraps iff that width is narrow.
+_RICH_SKIP_PROGRAM = textwrap.dedent(
+    """
+    import logging
+    from rich.logging import RichHandler
+    logging.basicConfig(level="INFO", format="%(message)s", datefmt="[%X]",
+                        handlers=[RichHandler()])
+    log = logging.getLogger("streamrip")
+    log.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+    log.info("Skipping track 1234567890. Marked as downloaded in the database.")
+    """
+)
+
+
+def test_runner_env_forces_wide_columns():
+    env = app_module._rip_runner_env()
+    assert int(env["COLUMNS"]) >= 200
+    # Base environment is preserved (PATH must survive so `rip` is found).
+    assert "PATH" in env
+
+
+def test_skip_line_survives_rich_handler_unwrapped():
+    pytest.importorskip("rich")
+    lines = list(app_module._default_runner([sys.executable, "-c", _RICH_SKIP_PROGRAM]))
+    output = "\n".join(lines)
+    # The skip phrase stays contiguous on one line, so detection classifies the
+    # run as skipped rather than completed.
+    assert app_module.SKIP_LINE_RE.search(output), output
+    assert classify_download(0, output) == "skipped"