Everything the import grew over the last week, landing in one go — the
window, the picker, the audition pen, apply, and the review that stands
between them.
The fold is the new part. A release filed as a container of parts arrived
as N albums, because the scan groups audio by its immediate parent and the
container holds none of its own: Analord's eleven volumes were eleven
records, and six more releases split the same way. Records now fold into
the release above them, and apply is handed an explicit part list — never a
recursive walk, which is what let one stray file swallow 288 descendants
and duplicate 9 GB.
Where releases live is read off the collection rather than assumed, so a
genre-nested library moves the answer instead of breaking; below a dominant
majority at one depth the pass refuses entirely, because no folding beats
wrong folding. Three vetoes independent of depth catch a misread level.
Every fold is listed in the review with a way out.
research/import/fold-audit.mjs imports the shipping module, so the audited
code is the running code: 9 folds, 0 swallows across four library shapes,
and none of the 148 artist folders touched. It was that harness that killed
the tempting version of this rule — matching a part against its container
folded 40 artist folders, Mac Demarco's 8 albums into one, because album
folders carry the artist's name.
The regression test found a live bug on the way: parts number from 01 each,
so flattening two discs collided, and "same name, same size" read the
second file as already-imported and dropped it while still counting it.
That reuse now also requires that this run has not already written the
path.
Also here: the picker's accent crossfades between records instead of
cutting through the app's blue (ownership moved to the window, which
survives the per-record re-key), the fullscreen viewer wears the album's
accent instead of the one it left behind in the portal, Skip defers a
record without deciding it, and Keep mine is gone — with the cards picked
field by field it was Next under another name.
The source chips are gone — the rail already tells that story — and with
them the measured slot, its effects, and the bar's only container query.
The now-playing cluster hugs the song name with no cap, giving ground only
once the scrubber hits its 260px floor; the artist's 55% ceiling applies
only when an album sits beside it, so a lone loading artist no longer
renders as two letters in a twelve-pixel box.
The waveform is rebuilt on honesty. WAVE_BUCKETS rises 400 → 2000 (~128ms
per bucket — at 400, every display bar was ~2s of audio averaged twice),
and one shared shaping in waveshape.js replaces both lanes' gain-into-clamp
rule, which flat-topped 53.8% of the bars on a real decode and was propped
up by per-bar noise in the rail — deleted; the lane shows the record, not a
hash of the bar index. Bars fold with a mean+peak blend and stretch across
the track's own p05–p97, so a loud master stops pinning to the ceiling and
a quiet one stops vanishing.
The playbar copies the rail's fade verbatim: whole bars blend accent→grey
with cuts landing in the 4px gap, and the one bar under the playhead
crossfades toward whatever its neighbours are — the wash while hovering,
the muted grey otherwise. The redraw gate watches that blend instead of a
0.75px playhead move, so both lanes now step on every position event.
Loading is drawn, not implied: the solid fallback bar is gone and the lane
is always the bars, always seekable. Empty, it rests as the rail's dots; a
swell crosses them while a waveform is computed (2s sweep, 0.5s rest); a
streaming track's bars stand up left→right on a 40ms cadence, each rising
over 2s. The rise frontier is the waveform's OWN coverage, reported by
stream_waveform beside the peaks — the old contract zero-padded partial
peaks to full length and let the UI fold them against a fresher byte
count, which stretched the whole shape between refreshes. Where the bars
end is how much of the track has actually loaded; cached and local tracks
arrive at coverage 1 and pop in complete. The first partial is also
requested eagerly (fresh refresh clock per track, 700ms retries until
peaks exist), closing most of the audio-before-lane gap.
0.1.0-alpha.2 bumped three version strings with a tool that writes UTF-8
WITH a BOM, and committed it. Neither build survives that:
package.json vitefu JSON.parses the raw string, so `npm run dev`
exited instantly — "Unable to read package.json"
tauri.conf.json the Tauri build script failed with "expected value at
line 1 column 1"; cargo exit 101
Cargo.toml tolerated, but wrong
`require()` hides this. Node strips a BOM on require and JSON.parse does
not, so reading package.json from a REPL reports a perfectly good file
while both builds refuse it. Only the raw bytes show it: EF BB BF.
All 191 tracked files scanned. These three were the only ones affected,
and they are exactly the three 5682dfc touched. Stripped with Node rather
than PowerShell, whose default Out-File/Set-Content encoding is what wrote
them in the first place — the files are byte-identical but for the three
leading bytes.
Cargo.lock carries the 0.1.0-alpha.1 -> alpha.2 propagation the release
commit left behind in the working tree.
Preview modal audio, five rounds:
- True track-change crossfade: scheduleSettle no longer silences the
outgoing clip at t=0; preview_load's equal-power fade owns both ramps,
gated on the incoming voice's first Playing event (audible_marks), with
failure/overstay fallbacks. CROSSFADE_MS = 340 — locked to the reel's
card-slide so audio and visuals land together.
- Two-neighbour lease prefetch + a 15-min on-disk clip byte-cache
(recent_clips): steps in BOTH directions crossfade in ~15 ms; revisits
never re-download.
- Adaptive settle (isolated steps fire immediately, bursts coalesce) and
anticipatory auto-advance (step at clip end minus 400 ms) so auto-play
crossfades over the tail instead of gapping.
- Session resume memory: revisited tracks continue where they left off
(decoder-level start offset via play_local_from/resume_at); finished
tracks restart from the top.
- Open/close crossfades with the MAIN player: fade-pause with the
desired-paused latch landing at ramp end, fade-resume from the paused
position; MAIN_FADE_GEN guards; focus handshake relaxation documented
in focusBridge.
Volume normalization (Settings > Playback, default on):
- Dependency-free BS.1770/EBU R128 meter in the player crate (K-weighting,
400 ms gated blocks, incremental) + analyzer that reads the same growing
file playback streams from — first plays are measured at download speed.
- Gain layered under user volume; audible start GATED on a preliminary
measurement (10 s of audio or 800 ms budget) so the level is right from
the first sample and never changes mid-track; prelim boosts capped 3 dB,
peak-aware clipping guard, persistent loudness-cache.json.
- Gapless boundaries get their own sample-accurate gain via
SetNextNormGainDb, fed by preload analysis.
Debug overlay (Ctrl+Shift+D): process-tree CPU / PDH GPU / working-set +
private-commit RAM / network rates / FPS / current-track download progress
read from the backend's own StreamProgress / live normalization state /
preview session phase. Polls only while visible.
131 JS + player + app tests green; every path verified live over CDP.
Rust (2A):
- metadata: deezer_track_uncached (fresh mint, cache-updating, paced) and
fetch_preview_media — dedicated client whose custom redirect policy
re-validates every hop against the media allowlist; bounded body read
(cap enforced on received bytes, not Content-Length's promise); Date
header captured for provider-clock lease math. httpdate dep added.
- src-tauri/preview.rs: second Player instance + soulstream:preview event
channel; preview_resolve (fresh mint → host gate → MIME gate → ID3v2
shell strip → MPEG sync check → clip file + opaque lease id → safe_for_ms
mirroring lease.js); preview_load with start_paused via the
desired-paused latch; preview_control/dispose; player_pause_acked
exposing the Phase 0.4 ack on the MAIN player. 9 unit tests.
JS (2B):
- api.js: preview command surface (opaque lease ids only).
- nativeTransport.js: stamps {sessionId, generation, sessionKey} onto
backend events; cleared context makes stragglers dispatch nothing.
- productionResolver.js: DTO → MediaLease, failure classes preserved.
- focusBridge.js: production coordinator binding with the documented
renderer-side generation invariant (buffering counter + gateway).
- service.js: the orchestrator — settle window, resolve→load→play under
focus, single capped retry, one forward lease prefetch with safe-window
expiry, stale re-checks before every transport command, close/handoff.
The service constructs its transport around its own dispatch — the
factory signature exists because a pre-built transport silently loses
the event wiring (caught by test).
70 JS tests passing (npm test); metadata 46 + app preview 9 in cargo.
The previous .git directory was found gutted (only info/ remained), so
history is unrecoverable locally. This commit restores version control
with the tree exactly as it stands: the working app, the preview-tracks
launcher on the artist hero, the scrollable-track-previews design bundle
(docs + approved mockups), and the Phase 0 validation artifacts.
KeelrLeek