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feat(player): gapless playback and crossfade between tracks - #311
Songs now flow into each other without the silent gap between tracks. Gapless playback is always on, and a new Crossfade slider in Settings → Playback (Off to 12s, off by default) blends the end of a song into the next one. Consecutive tracks from the same album always stay gapless, and skipping a song fades it out over 300ms instead of cutting it.
Why
Closes#299. When a track ended, the player reloaded the next one on the same audio element. It waited for it to buffer, then faded it in, so there was always an audible gap.
How
playerRuntime.ts: a second <audio> element sits on standby with the next track loaded (from the audio cache, or the file for local tracks). Shortly before the current track ends, it starts and takes over playback. The lead time is the crossfade length, or about 40ms for gapless. The engine's loadAndPlay for that track then does nothing. A manual skip uses the same handoff, so skipping to the queued track starts instantly. The playing element always carries the liner-audio id, so the touch bar, fullscreen player and media controls keep working unchanged.
pitchShifter.ts: every element feeds one shared input bus, so EQ, pitch and reverb apply to both tracks during a crossfade.
crossfade.ts: the fade-length rule (off = gapless, never between tracks of the same album, never more than half of either track).
playerEngine.ts: tells the runtime which track an automatic advance would play (computeNextIndex(true)), so repeat-one and an empty radio queue never hand off to the wrong track.
playerStore.ts / PlaybackTab.tsx: persisted crossfadeSeconds setting and its slider, using the shared Slider. Strings are English-only for now; other locales fall back to English.
Known limits: HTML audio can't join two files sample-accurately. The ~40ms head start is a single constant (GAPLESS_HEAD_START_MS) to tune if a gap or a click shows up. Repeat-one, a radio refill at the end of the queue, and streams that couldn't be cached still use the old reload path.
Testing
pnpm exec tsc -b: clean
pnpm lint, pnpm build: clean
pnpm format:check: clean for every file in this PR. It also includes a one-line Prettier fix to an existing lyrics line in playerEngine.ts, which is unformatted on main and currently fails the format step of CI on main.
pnpm test: 815 passed. The 2 failures in src/shared/api/track.test.ts (ResizeObserver is not defined) fail the same way on unmodified main.
New tests: crossfade.test.ts (fade-length rule) and playerRuntime.transition.test.ts. The second covers the gapless handoff, crossfade overlap timing, the next-track guard, pausing mid-crossfade, and a manual skip to the standby track.
In the running app (pnpm dev)
Three 8s FLAC tone tracks were imported as local files and played through the real engine. Both audio elements were sampled every ~2ms over CDP:
Case
Result
Gapless (crossfade off)
handed off near the end; the next track's audio started 8ms before the old one's last frame (no silence)
Crossfade 3s
old 0.10 → 0.076 → 0.025 → 0 and new 0 → 0.024 → 0.075 → 0.10 over ~3s
Same album, crossfade 3s, EQ on
joined gapless (no fade), 32ms overlap; both elements on the shared effects bus, AudioContext running, no effects errors
Manual skip to the queued track
new audio advancing 2.6ms after the skip; old track faded out over 304ms
After each handoff the next track loaded onto the standby element on its own. Nobody has listened yet. A screenshot of the slider still has to come from a signed-in session.
Found while testing: local tracks don't carry album info (localRecordToTrack drops the album tag), so the same-album rule doesn't apply to local files. With crossfade on, two tracks from a local album rip still crossfade. Gapless is unaffected. Left out of this PR because it changes how local tracks map to albums.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added a Crossfade setting in Playback settings, adjustable from Off to 12 seconds. Your selection is saved between sessions.
When enabled, tracks can overlap during transitions; tracks from the same album remain gapless.
Improvements
Playback transitions adapt the fade to the time remaining in a track, including when seeking near its end.
Every audio element's MediaElementSource now connects to one GainNode
bus instead of being the graph's input itself, so two elements can play
through the same EQ / pitch / reverb chain at once (needed for
crossfade and gapless handoff, tryliner#299).
…#299)
The runtime keeps a second audio element on standby with the next
track loaded (from the audio cache, or the file for local tracks).
Shortly before the current track ends it starts the standby element
and hands playback over, so the next track begins with no gap instead
of after a reload:
- gapless by default: the next track starts ~40ms early and the old
tail fades over that window
- optional crossfade (crossfadeSeconds, 0-12s, off by default) overlaps
the two tracks; consecutive tracks of one album never fade, and a
fade never exceeds half of either track
- a manual skip fades the old track out over 300ms instead of cutting
it, and starts instantly when the skipped-to track is on standby
- EQ / pitch / reverb apply to both tracks through the shared bus
- the active element always carries the liner-audio id, so existing
lookups keep working
Repeat-one, radio refills and uncached streams fall back to the
existing ended -> load path.
Adds runtime tests for the gapless handoff, crossfade overlap timing,
the next-track guard, pausing mid-crossfade and a manual skip to the
standby track.
Also re-arms the transition timer right after a seek / rate change
instead of waiting for the next timeupdate, which could arrive after
the track already ended in the short gapless window.
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Review comments at @src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.crossfade.test.ts:
- Around line 13-14: Add a browser-level handoff test alongside the crossfade
tests in “PlayerRuntime — crossfade and skip fades,” using two short audio
fixtures and native media elements instead of the mocked media fixture. Cover
crossfade enabled and disabled with EQ or reverb active, and assert that the
incoming element reaches full volume, the outgoing element pauses, and both
sources use the shared effects bus.
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Walkthrough
The player adds persisted crossfade settings and transition timing. It prepares a standby audio element and hands off playback during gapless or crossfade transitions. The audio effects graph now accepts audio from both playback elements.
Adds crossfade duration clamping and transition timing calculations. The store persists the setting, and Playback settings expose a slider from zero to twelve seconds.
Adds active and standby element helpers, volume ramps, and standby-source resolution and cleanup. The effects graph uses a shared gain-node input bus and accepts AudioNode sources.
Standby preparation and handoff src/features/player/engine/playerEngine.ts, src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts, src/features/player/engine/transitionTestFixture.ts, src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.crossfade.test.ts, src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.gapless.test.ts
The runtime prepares standby audio, schedules transitions, and handles automatic and manual handoffs, including fades and resource cleanup. Tests cover gapless playback, crossfade timing, pause behavior, preload handling, and standby reuse.
tryliner/desktop#322: Changes stream resolution and playback loading, which this change also uses to prepare standby sources.
Suggested reviewers:feralbureau, veyyonn
Merge Risk: Low · up to c776e
The transition tests do not yet exercise native audio and effects together. A browser-level test would improve confidence, but no playback failure was established; the change is mergeable with that follow-up understood.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to c776e
The inspected playback paths reuse existing source-selection controls. A bounded lifecycle issue remains: stopping playback can leave the next track prepared or allow preparation to finish afterward. No new credential or cross-user exposure was established, but security coverage is incomplete.
Retained concerns
Low · reliability · observed: Stop-and-clear does not terminate standby ownership. Cancellation clears the transition timer and resets the active element, but leaves an existing standby source intact and does not invalidate asynchronous preload or preparation work. A completion can therefore attach a source after reset, retaining a blob URL or media source beyond the playback lifecycle. Normal replacement and handoff cleanup limit the consequence; unauthorized playback or unbounded accumulation was not established.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated cleanup defect is bounded to media resources owned by the browser playback runtime, including its single standby slot. The inspected failure does not establish cross-user access, additional privileges, or an independently reachable remote attack path.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The added standby consumer reuses existing saved/local source selection rather than introducing a separate URL authority. Online cache-ahead resolution remains a separate path that already existed before this PR; its continued operation after cancellation must not be attributed to the new standby feature as a newly introduced network exposure.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — The lifecycle concern is an ownership and cancellation-containment gap, not evidence of media-source authorization failure. Normal replacement releases the previous standby source, and outgoing completion releases captured active resources. Those controls constrain the issue but do not make stop-and-clear a complete cleanup boundary.
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[#299] requests gapless playback and improved song transitions. The PR adds standby audio handoff, always-on gapless timing, optional crossfade settings, and same-album gapless rules. The PR adds auto…
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[#299] requests gapless playback and improved song transitions. The PR adds standby audio handoff, always-on gapless timing, optional crossfade settings, and same-album gapless rules. The PR adds automated tests for transition rules and runtime handoff behavior. The disclosed local-track album metadata limitation does not prevent the reported gapless behavior. The current playerEngine.ts change also supplies the automatic next track to the runtime.
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Review comments at @src/features/player/engine/crossfade.ts:
- Around line 5-6: Remove the two explanatory line comments immediately
preceding transitionMs, leaving the function and its behavior unchanged.
Review comments at @src/features/player/engine/pitchShifter.ts:
- Line 567: Remove the added comment inside attach in pitchShifter.ts; leave the
buildGraph call and surrounding behavior unchanged.
Review comments at @src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.transition.test.ts:
- Line 28: Remove the three `//` comments from the test file, including the
comment near `playingWithNextOnStandby` and those at the other cited locations;
leave the helper and test titles unchanged.
Review comments at @src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts:
- Around line 891-892: Update preloadTrack to assign each invocation a
monotonically increasing ticket before awaiting cacheAhead, then check that the
ticket is still current before calling prepareStandby. This prevents stale
preload work from clearing standby state for a newer track.
- Around line 686-687: Cap the transition duration returned for fadeMs in the
player runtime transition flow at remainingMs, so the crossfade cannot outlast
the outgoing track; preserve the existing startInMs fallback behavior.
- Around line 767-769: Replace the untyped `window as any` cast in the `win`
assignment with an explicit window type that declares `__liner_audio` and
`__liner_audio_standby` as optional `HTMLAudioElement` properties, preserving
both assignments.
- Around line 26-28: The diff does not show a code defect or behavior issue to
address; leave the implementation unchanged.
- Around line 31-66: Split playerRuntime responsibilities into focused modules
so every TypeScript file stays within the 150-line limit; extract
createAudioElement and rampVolume, then separate the standby, handoff, and
remaining runtime logic as needed. Keep each module’s behavior and dependencies
intact while reducing playerRuntime and its new modules to at most 150 lines.
Review comments at @src/features/player/store/playerStore.ts:
- Line 74: Remove the explanatory comment above the crossfadeSeconds property in
the player store, leaving the property declaration unchanged.
- Around line 371-376: Update the hydration normalization of
state.crossfadeSeconds to replace non-finite or non-number values with 0 and
clamp valid persisted values to the supported range, rounding them as required
by the existing setting behavior.
Review comments at @src/features/settings/ui/tabs/PlaybackTab.tsx:
- Line 4: Update PlaybackTab’s import of MAX_CROSSFADE_SECONDS to use the player
slice public API, and export the constant from the player slice index.ts if it
is not already exported.
- Around line 58-78: Extract the crossfade controls from PlaybackTab into a
CrossfadeSetting component with typed props, moving the relevant store selectors
and SettingRow with its Slider logic together; keep PlaybackTab within the
150-line limit.
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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Remove the // comments from the test file.
Lines 28, 130 and 144 contain comments. The path instruction forbids comments in .ts files. The helper name playingWithNextOnStandby and the test titles already carry the intent.
As per path instructions: "No comments of any kind in code (no //, /* */, JSDoc). Flag every one."
Also applies to: 130-130, 144-144
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at line 28:
Remove the three `//` comments from the test file, including the comment near
`playingWithNextOnStandby` and those at the other cited locations; leave the
helper and test titles unchanged.
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set -e
printf'%s\n''--- instruction files ---'
find .. -name AGENTS.md -print
printf'%s\n''--- applicable instruction contents ---'forfin$(find .. -name AGENTS.md -print);doprintf'\n### %s\n'"$f"
cat "$f"doneprintf'%s\n''--- head helper and transition declarations ---'
nl -ba src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts | sed -n '1,240p'printf'%s\n''--- head usages and exports ---'
rg -n -F -e 'createAudioElement' -e 'rampVolume' -e 'prepareStandby' -e 'scheduleTransition' -e 'startTransition' -e 'handOff' -e 'retireActive' src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts
printf'%s\n''--- base-to-head diff summary and helper diff ---'
git diff --unified=20 30a2f0ba54a67460a886969a75d66866a83456cb d7da73b616c2a369e481e878e6c5d68cda9a7b68 -- src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts | sed -n '1,520p'
Repository: tryliner/desktop
Length of output: 32985
Split playerRuntime.ts into modules that stay within the 150-line limit.
The applicable TypeScript rule is: “No file over 150 lines. Suggest splitting into components, hooks or utilities.”
playerRuntime.ts is 1,457 lines at the reviewed head, up from 1,200 lines at the merge base. This PR adds 257 net lines. Moving only createAudioElement and rampVolume removes about 36 lines and leaves the file at about 1,421 lines, so it does not resolve the violation.
These helpers are standalone, but they are not pure: createAudioElement mutates the document, and rampVolume mutates audio state and schedules timers. Extracting them is a useful first step. The standby, handoff, and existing runtime responsibilities must also be split until every TypeScript file meets the limit. This requires a broader refactor than the proposed low-effort staged change.
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Review comment at @src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts around lines 31 -
66:
Split playerRuntime responsibilities into focused modules so every TypeScript
file stays within the 150-line limit; extract createAudioElement and rampVolume,
then separate the standby, handoff, and remaining runtime logic as needed. Keep
each module’s behavior and dependencies intact while reducing playerRuntime and
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Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
sed -n '250,272p;356,385p;405,430p' src/features/player/store/playerStore.ts
sed -n '1,25p' src/features/player/engine/crossfade.ts
sed -n '665,785p' src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts
printf'%s\n''--- rampVolume ---'
sed -n '35,72p' src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts
printf'%s\n''--- scheduleTransition and handOff ---'
sed -n '675,742p' src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts
printf'%s\n''--- hydration and setter ---'
sed -n '1,30p;258,274p;360,382p' src/features/player/store/playerStore.ts
printf'%s\n''--- transition function ---'
sed -n '1,24p' src/features/player/engine/crossfade.ts
Repository: tryliner/desktop
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Clamp persisted crossfadeSeconds during hydration.
A finite media duration can still reach transitionMs when track metadata has a zero duration. A large persisted value can then produce an excessively long fade. The outgoing track can remain audible at a decreasing volume for a long, bounded interval.
An unknown media duration does not reach this path because scheduleTransition returns when audio.duration is not finite. The hydration clamp remains the correct fix for the zero-duration metadata case.
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Suggested change
if(
typeofstate.crossfadeSeconds!=="number"||
isNaN(state.crossfadeSeconds)
){
state.crossfadeSeconds=0;
}
state.crossfadeSeconds=
typeofstate.crossfadeSeconds==="number"&&
Number.isFinite(state.crossfadeSeconds)
? Math.max(
0,
Math.min(
MAX_CROSSFADE_SECONDS,
Math.round(state.crossfadeSeconds),
),
)
: 0;
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Review comment at @src/features/player/store/playerStore.ts around lines 371 -
376:
Update the hydration normalization of state.crossfadeSeconds to replace
non-finite or non-number values with 0 and clamp valid persisted values to the
supported range, rounding them as required by the existing setting behavior.
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Import MAX_CROSSFADE_SECONDS through the player slice index.ts.
Line 4 imports from the internal path @/features/player/engine/crossfade. This bypasses the slice public API. Export the constant from the player index.ts and import it from there.
Proposed fix
--- "a/src/features/settings/ui/tabs/PlaybackTab.tsx"+++ "b/src/features/settings/ui/tabs/PlaybackTab.tsx"@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
import { useState, useEffect } from "react";
import { useTranslation } from "@/languages";
import { usePlayerStore } from "@/features/player";
-import { MAX_CROSSFADE_SECONDS } from "@/features/player/engine/crossfade";+import { MAX_CROSSFADE_SECONDS } from "@/features/player";
import { Slider, ToggleSwitch } from "@/shared/ui";
import { SettingRow, SettingSection, SegmentedControl } from "../controls";
As per path instructions: "Feature-Sliced Design: imports only point down (app → widgets → features → entities → shared), and other slices are imported only through their index.ts."
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Update PlaybackTab’s import of MAX_CROSSFADE_SECONDS to use the player slice
public API, and export the constant from the player slice index.ts if it is not
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Minor · Reconnect all registered audio sources when migrating the graph. · pitchShifter.ts:563-577
src/features/player/engine/pitchShifter.ts:563-577 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Reconnect all registered audio sources when migrating the graph.
The merge-base graph uses version 2, while this code requires version 3. During HMR, window.__liner_pitch_graph can still contain the version-2 graph. If the next attach is for the standby element, disposeStaleGraph disconnects the active element's old source from its graph, but the current code reconnects only the standby source. The active element can therefore become silent during the handoff.
Suggested fix
if (!isCompleteGraph(graph)) {
if (graph) disposeStaleGraph(graph);
// one shared input bus: during a crossfade both audio elements feed the same effects
graph = buildGraph(ctx, ctx.createGain());
win.__liner_pitch_graph = graph;
+ for (const element of [win.__liner_audio, win.__liner_audio_standby]) {+ const elementSource = element?.__liner_source_node as+ | AudioNode+ | undefined;+ if (!element || !elementSource) continue;+ try {+ elementSource.disconnect();+ } catch {}+ elementSource.connect(graph.sourceNode);+ element.__liner_effects_bus = graph.sourceNode;+ }
}
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Review comment at @src/features/player/engine/pitchShifter.ts around lines 563 -
577:
When pitchShifter migrates an incomplete graph, reconnect every registered audio
element’s existing source node to the new graph’s sourceNode and update each
element’s effects-bus reference; do not rely on the currently attaching audioObj
alone, so both active and standby elements remain connected.
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Review comments at @src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.transition.test.ts:
- Line 31: Remove the `any` casts in the player runtime transition tests. Type
the `window` value with the optional audio element properties, instantiate
`PlayerRuntime` without a cast and access its private members using bracket
notation, and type the mock at line 64 with the record type returned by
`linerDb.getAudio`.
- Around line 94-217: No change is required for this optional follow-up: the
repository has no browser test runner or audio test harness. If browser test
infrastructure is introduced, add a test using two compatible short audio
sources that verifies standby readiness, handoff timing, and overlapping
playback during crossfade.
- Around line 204-218: Split the fixtures and transition cases in the player
runtime transition tests into focused test files, keeping each TypeScript file
under the 150-line limit. Preserve the existing test behavior and locate the
cases by their `playingWithNextOnStandby` fixture and transition test
descriptions.
Review comments at @src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts:
- Line 771: Update finish so that when the outgoing fade completes, it uses
pendingStandby or falls back to peekAutoNext, clears pendingStandby, and calls
prepareStandby for a track if one is available. This restores standby
preparation after reloads that keep the current track unchanged.
---
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- Around line 563-577: When pitchShifter migrates an incomplete graph, reconnect
every registered audio element’s existing source node to the new graph’s
sourceNode and update each element’s effects-bus reference; do not rely on the
currently attaching audioObj alone, so both active and standby elements remain
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Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Remove the any casts.
The path instruction says "No any, no as unknown as". Lines 31, 36 and 64 use as any.
Line 31: type window as Window & { __liner_audio?: HTMLAudioElement; __liner_audio_standby?: HTMLAudioElement }.
Line 36: use new PlayerRuntime() without a cast. TypeScript allows bracket access to private members, so write rt["audio"], rt["standby"], rt["currentTrackId"] and rt["attachedTrackId"].
Line 64: build the mock value with the real record type that linerDb.getAudio returns.
Proposed change for lines 31 and 36
- const win = window as any;+ const win: Window & {+ __liner_audio?: HTMLAudioElement;+ __liner_audio_standby?: HTMLAudioElement;+ } = window;
...
- const rt = new PlayerRuntime() as any;+ const rt = new PlayerRuntime();
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at line 31:
Remove the `any` casts in the player runtime transition tests. Type the `window`
value with the optional audio element properties, instantiate `PlayerRuntime`
without a cast and access its private members using bracket notation, and type
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- package and configs ---'
sed -n '1,240p' package.json
forfin vitest.config.* playwright.config.*;doif [ -f"$f" ];thenprintf'\n--- %s ---\n'"$f"
sed -n '1,240p'"$f"fidoneprintf'%s\n''--- changed files ---'
git diff --name-only c1777fcce592af763263d733053e6dd1befc9d8a 1598278d5dc40f88cd716853eafd6eaa2e56808b
printf'%s\n''--- runtime diff ---'
git diff --unified=35 c1777fcce592af763263d733053e6dd1befc9d8a 1598278d5dc40f88cd716853eafd6eaa2e56808b -- src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.transition.test.ts
printf'%s\n''--- browser and media test references ---'
rg -n -i --glob '!node_modules/**' --glob '!dist/**' -e 'playwright|puppeteer|vitest/browser|browser mode|browser\.enabled|test:browser|audio blob|HTMLAudioElement|MediaElement|AudioContext|real browser|headless|chromium|firefox|webkit'.||test"$?" -eq 1
printf'%s\n''--- test files and scripts ---'
rg --files -g '*test*' -g '*spec*'| sort
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- runtime native media operations ---'
rg -n -C 12 -e 'readyState >= 3' -e '\.play\(' -e 'rampVolume' -e 'timeupdate' -e 'transitionTimer' src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts
printf'%s\n''--- exact transition blocks ---'
sed -n '300,430p' src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts
sed -n '650,820p' src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts
Repository: tryliner/desktop
Length of output: 24706
Add browser-media coverage as an optional follow-up.
These tests validate runtime logic only. They mock play(), load(), and pause(), override media state, and use fake timers. A browser-specific failure in standby readiness, play(), or simultaneous audio output can pass.
If browser test infrastructure is introduced, add one test with two compatible short audio sources. Check standby readiness, handoff timing, and overlap during crossfade. The repository does not currently require or support this setup: Vitest runs only in jsdom, with no browser runner or audio test harness.
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around lines 94 - 217:
No change is required for this optional follow-up: the repository has no browser
test runner or audio test harness. If browser test infrastructure is introduced,
add a test using two compatible short audio sources that verifies standby
readiness, handoff timing, and overlapping playback during crossfade.
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…ryliner#299)
Fixes:
- cap a crossfade at the time left, so a late seek can't fade the old
track out past its end (transitionTiming)
- drop a superseded preload before it touches the standby (ticket), so
a stale call can't wipe the standby of the real next track
- refill the standby from peekAutoNext once the old track has faded,
so a same-track reload (error recovery, seek) keeps the next
transition gapless
- clamp a persisted crossfadeSeconds to 0-12 on hydration
Maintainability:
- move the audio-element helpers to audioElements.ts (typed window,
no any) and the standby source lookup to standbySource.ts; the
runtime keeps one standbySlot instead of three loose fields
- split the transition tests into a shared fixture plus gapless and
crossfade files, with regression tests for the fixes above
- extract the crossfade row into CrossfadeSetting and import
MAX_CROSSFADE_SECONDS through the player slice index
- remove the code comments this PR had added
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Review comments at @src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.crossfade.test.ts:
- Around line 13-14: Add a browser-level handoff test alongside the crossfade
tests in “PlayerRuntime — crossfade and skip fades,” using two short audio
fixtures and native media elements instead of the mocked media fixture. Cover
crossfade enabled and disabled with EQ or reverb active, and assert that the
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set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- exact PlayerRuntime handoff ---'
nl -ba src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.ts | sed -n '635,780p'printf'%s\n''--- exact effects controller attach/update ---'
nl -ba src/features/player/engine/pitchShifter.ts | sed -n '470,610p;660,760p'printf'%s\n''--- exact crossfade helper and fixture/test lines ---'
nl -ba src/features/player/engine/crossfade.ts
nl -ba src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.crossfade.test.ts
nl -ba src/features/player/engine/transitionTestFixture.ts | sed -n '1,115p'printf'%s\n''--- exact configured test environment ---'
nl -ba vitest.config.ts
nl -ba package.json | sed -n '1,25p;130,175p'
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Add a browser-level handoff test for native media and effects.
The current tests cover transition timing and volume state only. Their fixture mocks media methods and properties, and Vitest runs them in jsdom. Add a browser-level test with two short audio fixtures. Cover crossfade enabled and disabled with EQ or reverb active. Assert that the incoming element reaches full volume, the outgoing element pauses, and both media sources use the shared effects bus.
This is a recommended integration improvement, not evidence of a current runtime failure.
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Review comment at @src/features/player/engine/playerRuntime.crossfade.test.ts
around lines 13 - 14:
Add a browser-level handoff test alongside the crossfade tests in “PlayerRuntime
— crossfade and skip fades,” using two short audio fixtures and native media
elements instead of the mocked media fixture. Cover crossfade enabled and
disabled with EQ or reverb active, and assert that the incoming element reaches
full volume, the outgoing element pauses, and both sources use the shared
effects bus.
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What
Songs now flow into each other without the silent gap between tracks. Gapless playback is always on, and a new Crossfade slider in Settings → Playback (Off to 12s, off by default) blends the end of a song into the next one. Consecutive tracks from the same album always stay gapless, and skipping a song fades it out over 300ms instead of cutting it.
Why
Closes #299. When a track ended, the player reloaded the next one on the same audio element. It waited for it to buffer, then faded it in, so there was always an audible gap.
How
playerRuntime.ts: a second<audio>element sits on standby with the next track loaded (from the audio cache, or the file for local tracks). Shortly before the current track ends, it starts and takes over playback. The lead time is the crossfade length, or about 40ms for gapless. The engine'sloadAndPlayfor that track then does nothing. A manual skip uses the same handoff, so skipping to the queued track starts instantly. The playing element always carries theliner-audioid, so the touch bar, fullscreen player and media controls keep working unchanged.pitchShifter.ts: every element feeds one shared input bus, so EQ, pitch and reverb apply to both tracks during a crossfade.crossfade.ts: the fade-length rule (off = gapless, never between tracks of the same album, never more than half of either track).playerEngine.ts: tells the runtime which track an automatic advance would play (computeNextIndex(true)), so repeat-one and an empty radio queue never hand off to the wrong track.playerStore.ts/PlaybackTab.tsx: persistedcrossfadeSecondssetting and its slider, using the sharedSlider. Strings are English-only for now; other locales fall back to English.Known limits: HTML audio can't join two files sample-accurately. The ~40ms head start is a single constant (
GAPLESS_HEAD_START_MS) to tune if a gap or a click shows up. Repeat-one, a radio refill at the end of the queue, and streams that couldn't be cached still use the old reload path.Testing
pnpm exec tsc -b: cleanpnpm lint,pnpm build: cleanpnpm format:check: clean for every file in this PR. It also includes a one-line Prettier fix to an existing lyrics line inplayerEngine.ts, which is unformatted onmainand currently fails the format step of CI onmain.pnpm test: 815 passed. The 2 failures insrc/shared/api/track.test.ts(ResizeObserver is not defined) fail the same way on unmodifiedmain.crossfade.test.ts(fade-length rule) andplayerRuntime.transition.test.ts. The second covers the gapless handoff, crossfade overlap timing, the next-track guard, pausing mid-crossfade, and a manual skip to the standby track.In the running app (
pnpm dev)Three 8s FLAC tone tracks were imported as local files and played through the real engine. Both audio elements were sampled every ~2ms over CDP:
After each handoff the next track loaded onto the standby element on its own. Nobody has listened yet. A screenshot of the slider still has to come from a signed-in session.
Found while testing: local tracks don't carry album info (
localRecordToTrackdrops the album tag), so the same-album rule doesn't apply to local files. With crossfade on, two tracks from a local album rip still crossfade. Gapless is unaffected. Left out of this PR because it changes how local tracks map to albums.Summary by CodeRabbit