Probe exact mixer element identities, retain stable device routes, and fail closed for ambiguous or switch-only controls. Synchronize player volume through ALSA events without changing direct PCM configuration.
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rusqlite 0.40 removed ToSql/FromSql for u64 (SQLite integers are i64):
every u64 column now reads/writes through an explicit i64 cast. It also
rejects a multi-statement execute() instead of silently running only the
first statement — which is what catalog.rs's editions/logical_albums
prune had been doing all along; it is an execute_batch now, so the
logical_albums prune finally runs.
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The render thread and the handle. COM objects are !Send, so one thread owns
every one of them for the life of the stream and this struct is a bounded
channel plus atomics - the same back-pressure snd_pcm_writei gives the ALSA
path for free.
Opens by ENDPOINT ID, never by friendly name: Windows gives several
endpoints the same name, which is what hid this DAC from the picker until
249adc77b. Walks the format ladder, pre-aligns the period to 128 bytes,
keeps the documented NOT_ALIGNED recovery for the devices that still need
it, joins MMCSS Pro Audio, and refuses S_FALSE loudly - a "closest match" is
by definition not the format we asked for.
Verified against the owner's Cambridge Audio USB Audio 2.0 with the new
example, and it matches the spike exactly:
rate 96000, S24In32 (24/32), period 30000 hns, buffer 288 frames,
realigned false, timing Events, mode DirectHardware,
960000 frames, 0 underruns, 0 event timeouts
Three faults were found on the way, and all three were in the MEASUREMENT
rather than the audio - worth recording because each looked like a hardware
problem:
- 339 "underruns" were event timeouts counted in the same counter. Split
them; they are different faults and were hiding each other.
- 337 event timeouts came from a 2x-period deadline. At a 3 ms period that
expired on 10% of wakeups because Windows scheduling is not that
punctual. The deadline exists to stop the thread hanging on a dead
device, not to detect glitches, and the spike waited 1000 ms and saw
none in ten minutes. It is generous now.
- The last 2 were a drain's trailing silence. A drain emitting silence is
the drain working.
The stub for every other platform mirrors alsa_direct's: constructors refuse,
teardown succeeds, so a caller written against this compiles and unwinds
everywhere. `cargo tree` shows exactly one windows v0.62.2 - no second
windows tree entered the graph.
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Foundation for the ImmersiveView Slint port. Authored by Codex and accepted by
the owner after live visual iteration; committed here so the panel work builds
on top of it. The Album Reactive foreground was intentionally left out (a prior
attempt was rejected) so it can be rebuilt cleanly on this base.
Audio-transport lift (slice 1):
- qbz-audio: VizFrame/VizSink trait + spawn_visualizer_thread; FFT producer
lifted off tauri::AppHandle. Protected audio path untouched (seam =
RingBuffer.snapshot).
- src-tauri: fft_processor gutted to a thin TauriVizSink emitting byte-identical
viz:* events.
- qbz-app: AppRuntime::with_visualizer + visualizer_tap accessor.
- qbz-slint: SlintVizSink + install() publishing VisualizerState
bars/spectral/energy/waveform/transient at 30fps, zero IPC.
Immersive base (slice 2a):
- immersive.rs: host-side atmosphere generation from decoded artwork
(8x8 sample -> upscale -> blur -> saturate/contrast/normalize -> vignette),
mirroring Tauri texture-loader.ts::generateAtmosphere; plus glow_color.
- ImmersiveAtmosphere.slint: reusable animated atmosphere (4 counter-drifting
copies via animation-tick); usable static for Album/Artist headers later.
- ImmersiveView.slint: base overlay (atmosphere + auto-hide Tauri-shaped compact
player only). Foreground panels are rebuilt on this base.
- AppShell mounts the overlay; ViewMode menu opens Immersive in PlayerBar/Small.
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Completes the JACK output on top of the foundation (fbc03f41):
- StreamType::Jack + the player dispatch (backend==Jack -> JackStream).
- PlaybackEngine::Jack: a feeder thread (mirrors AlsaDirect) that resamples each
source to the JACK graph rate (UniformSourceIterator, stereo) and writes it to
a lock-free f32 SPSC ring (ringbuf); wired at the 4 engine-creation sites.
- jack_backend.rs: f32-native ring (fixes a byte-alignment white-noise bug) plus
auto-connect of qbz:out_FL/FR to the physical playback on activation, so audio
reaches the hardware without a patchbay (a user may re-patch freely).
- Re-enabled the available_backends push (JACK is now offered in the selector).
Verified on hardware: select JACK -> QBZ registers as client 'qbz' with stable
ports qbz:out_FL/FR (client.api=jack) -> music plays through the DAC, resampled
to the graph rate (NOT bit-perfect; BitPerfectMode::Disabled, as designed). The
ALSA-exclusive / DAC-passthrough bit-perfect paths are untouched.
Slice 3.2 (pending, separate): JACK<->passthrough/exclusive mutual-exclusion UI,
the bit-perfect-OFF note, runtime graph-rate-change callback, mono/multichannel.
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Backend-side foundation for a native JACK output. The hard, RT-sensitive part
is done and compiles: jack_backend.rs holds a JackStream that opens a JACK client
'qbz' with stable ports qbz:out_FL/FR, a lock-free SPSC ring buffer, and an
allocation-free process callback (de-interleaves stereo f32 to the ports). The
feeder pushes interleaved f32 via write_f32().
Also: jack 0.13 dep (linux), AudioBackendType::Jack + its factory arm + the
qbz-slint label/bit-perfect match arms. NOT yet offered in the selector
(available_backends push commented) because the player wiring is still pending:
StreamType::Jack + the dispatch branch (backend==Jack -> JackStream) + a
PlaybackEngine::Jack feeder thread that resamples each track to the JACK graph
rate. JACK mode will be opt-in and NOT bit-perfect (one fixed graph rate); the
ALSA-exclusive / DAC-passthrough bit-perfect paths are untouched.
TODO(distribution): feature-gate jack for Flatpak/distro builds without libjack.
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cpal 0.17.3 requires alsa 0.11, which in turn pulls alsa-sys 0.4. The
`links = "alsa"` constraint permits only one alsa-sys in the dependency
graph, so qbz-audio's direct alsa stack is raised in lockstep:
alsa 0.10 -> 0.11 and alsa-sys 0.3 -> 0.4. Both workspace lockfiles
(crates/ and src-tauri/) are updated to cpal 0.17.3 / alsa 0.11.0 /
alsa-sys 0.4.0.
No source changes required: alsa_direct.rs uses only the stable
high-level alsa API (pcm, HwParams, Format, Direction, ValueOr, mixer),
and the snd_lib_error_set_handler FFI in alsa_error_handler.rs is
unchanged in alsa-sys 0.4. Both workspaces pass cargo check.
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Adds CoreAudio Hog Mode integration on macOS so Exclusive Mode actually
takes the device exclusively (previously the macOS path used the
Linux-shaped logic without any kernel-level lock). Pins the CoreAudio
device id through Hog Mode acquisition, sample-rate switching, and
stream creation so System Default doesn't drift mid-session. Linux
behaviour is unchanged.
Review asks (all four resolved by Vudgekek + afonsojramos):
- set_coreaudio_hardware_volume falls back to software volume on Err
rather than reporting success, so knob-only DACs keep a working
volume slider via engine.set_volume().
- CoreAudioExclusiveGuard snapshots the device's hardware volume on
acquire and restores it before releasing Hog Mode, so leaving
Exclusive Mode returns the DAC to the user's pre-Exclusive level.
Guard is constructed before the FFI call so partial-acquire failures
still trigger Drop and release.
- Linux unused-variable warnings on stream_opt and exclusive_guard
cleaned up via cfg_attr(allow(unused_variables)) on the macOS-only
guard plumbing. cargo check is clean.
- Silent shared-mode regression on macOS when backend init fails:
init_device now sets_current_device(None) and returns None on
exclusive_mode==true so the user sees an error instead of
unknowingly playing in shared mode.
Bonus: 5f10b4ba adds real CoreAudio device-rate detection for macOS
Shared Mode, +90 lines in backend.rs.
Conflict resolution: single textual collision in
crates/qbz-audio/src/lib.rs (both branches added a pub use line).
Resolved by keeping both, alphabetical order — coreaudio_direct
re-export from pr-391, device_reservation re-export from pre-release.
All other auto-merges verified line-by-line: AlsaDirectStream's
DeviceReservation::acquire flow (alsa_direct.rs:60-97), the macOS
exclusive_mode guard (player/mod.rs:1077-1085 in qbz-player and the
mirror in src-tauri:1024), and CoreAudioExclusiveGuard's volume
snapshot/restore (coreaudio_direct.rs:351,369,373,388) all coexist
correctly because each branch touched different functions.
cargo check clean across all four crates. 9 device_reservation +
3 reserve_dac + 214 src-tauri unit tests pass.
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Adds the new module that will host the org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1
D-Bus client. This commit only ships the public surface, the parser
helpers (hw:N -> Audio<N> bus name, hw:CARD=name resolution) and unit
tests for them. acquire() currently returns a degraded guard; D-Bus
implementation lands in the next commit.
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libasound's default error handler prints directly to stderr. During
device enumeration probes, PCMs that wrap dmix or surround routes emit
benign errors ("unable to open slave", "no matching channel map") that
cluttered the app log without indicating a real problem.
Install a process-wide snd_lib_error_set_handler shim from
AudioBackendFactory::create_backend (idempotent via std::sync::Once)
that forwards the file/line/function/err/fmt tuple to log::debug. The
messages stay available with RUST_LOG=debug and disappear during
normal runs.
Adds alsa-sys 0.3 as a direct Linux-only dependency on qbz-audio
(previously transitive via alsa/cpal). The handler is declared
non-variadic and transmuted into libasound's variadic function pointer;
ignoring the unused varargs is ABI-compatible on every platform we
support.
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Remove dead alsa dependency from src-tauri/Cargo.toml (code lives in
qbz-audio since V2 migration) and bump qbz-audio to alsa 0.10.
Eliminates duplicate alsa versions in Cargo.lock.
Breaking changes in 0.10 (Format/ChmapPosition reorder) do not affect
QBZ — we use catch-all matches and never rely on PartialOrd.
Closes#260
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Add coreaudio_direct module using coreaudio-rs safe wrappers for:
- Device capability probing (supported sample rates, transport type)
- Automatic sample rate switching per-track
- Device lookup by name for CoreAudio↔CPAL bridging
Uses a fork branch of coreaudio-rs that adds get_available_sample_rates
and get_device_transport_type helpers (PR RustAudio/coreaudio-rs#149).
Remove vendored rodio and cpal from src-tauri/vendor/ since rodio 0.22
now includes upstream f32 decoder support (our vendored modification).
Update all Cargo.toml files to use rodio 0.22 from crates.io and remove
the [patch.crates-io] section.
- add Spectral Ribbon analyzer/render path and immersive panel
- tune ribbon density/interpolation and bars edge-bin rendering
- apply artist blacklist filtering to discover index home containers
- include supporting i18n/settings/player wiring changes
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Extract player/mod.rs, playback_engine.rs, and streaming_source.rs to
qbz-player crate. Also adds settings.rs and visualizer module to
qbz-audio (Tauri-specific code removed, core functionality retained).
Changes:
- Add settings.rs to qbz-audio with AudioSettings, AudioSettingsStore
- Add visualizer/ to qbz-audio with RingBuffer, TappedSource, VisualizerTap
- Add player module files to qbz-player
- Update all imports from crate::audio to qbz_audio
- Add serde_json dependency to qbz-audio
Full workspace compiles with cargo check.
Create the foundational workspace structure for the multi-crate
architecture refactor. This phase establishes placeholder crates
that will be populated in subsequent phases.
Crates created:
- qbz-models: Shared types, events, and traits (Tier 0)
- qbz-audio: Audio backend system (Tier 1)
- qbz-player: Playback engine and queue (Tier 1)
- qbz-qobuz: Qobuz API client (Tier 1)
- qbz-core: Orchestrator (Tier 3)
All crates compile successfully with placeholder implementations.
The workspace uses shared dependencies via workspace.dependencies.
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