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Closes the last remaining 1.8.0 blocker. Exclusive output existed on Linux
and macOS for DoP only, so a DSD file could take the DAC outright while an
ordinary FLAC could not. spawn_output_with_mode said it plainly — the
if exclusive branch was #[cfg(target_os = "windows")], and every other
target did let _ = exclusive;.

What the backends gained

Linux carries ordinary PCM alongside DoP, negotiating a format down a
chain the hardware itself has to accept — there is no plug layer under a
raw hw: device, so every conversion from the ring's f32 is ours:

FLOAT_LES32_LES24_3LES24_LES16_LE

The ambiguous one is placed late on purpose. ALSA's S24_LE puts the 24
bits in the low three bytes of the container; WASAPI's Pcm24Padded
puts them in the high three. Copying the other backend's << 8 would
send every sample out 256x too large, and the reverse costs 48 dB. A test
pins the layout, and a comment says why it exists.

Two things the DoP path had already worked out are now shared rather than
duplicated: the reservation protocol (asking PipeWire to release the card
instead of reading EBUSY as a final answer) and the partial-write
handling that re-offers only the frames the device declined.

macOS takes hog mode and stops there. DoP pins the device's physical
format because a marker cadence that gets resampled is noise; PCM does
not, since re-clocking a device the whole machine shares is a price only
that cadence justifies. It reads the rate and channel count the device
already runs at, publishes them, and lets the decoder meet it.

The period fill moved to output.rs on the way — it was about to exist in
three copies, WASAPI having its own inline loop, and the backends have no
business disagreeing about whether an underrun counts toward the play
clock. Its tests now run on every platform rather than only where the
module compiles.

What is not claimed

The rate is where DoP and PCM differ. DoP demands its exact rate. PCM
only prefers one and takes whatever the device lands on, publishing it
so the decoder's resampler meets it — the same contract cpal shared mode
has.

So this is the system mixer's absence, not the source rate honoured end to
end. The copy no longer says "bit-perfect", which it should not have said
on Windows either: that backend has always opened at the endpoint's format
and let rubato convert. Making the rate follow the source means re-opening
the device per track, and that is its own phase.

The rename

The preference outgrew its name. wasapi_exclusiveexclusive_output
throughout, including the two commands and their TS wrappers. The stored
key moves to audio.exclusive_output, and the boot read accepts the
legacy audio.wasapi_exclusive row so a Windows opt-in survives. The
settings card no longer sniffs the user agent to decide whether to appear.

Four defects found on the way

  • No size was ever asked of ALSA. HwParams::any left the period and
    buffer at what the driver offered, and snd_pcm_hw_params took its
    maximum: a 16384-frame period, and a buffer deep enough that starting a
    track, seeking or changing track each took about ten seconds. The period
    also has to stay small against RING_CAPACITY, since one period is
    drained from the ring in a single pass and the shortfall is written as
    silence — at 16384 frames a period was two thirds of the whole ring.
    The DoP path had the same omission and would have paid the same way.
  • The exclusive flag lied on two platforms out of three. The ALSA and
    CoreAudio handles reported false for a device they had taken
    exclusively, so the pipeline panel denied a grab that had happened.
  • A first launch would have asked the card for mono. The channel count
    starts at zero in SharedPlayback and is only filled in when a backend
    opens. Read literally, the first launch with exclusive already enabled
    asks for zero channels, and a card that accepts mono would grant it.
  • A test had been red on macOS since it landed. stream_cache's
    non-UTF-8 path test is cfg(unix), but APFS refuses to create such a
    name, so create_dir_all fails outright. No CI job builds this project
    on a Mac, so nothing ever saw it.

Testing

Linux, on hardware: the reservation protocol makes PipeWire release the
card, S32_LE is negotiated at the device's own rate, and a 1024-frame
period with a 4096-frame buffer makes start / seek / track change
immediate. A toggle off and back on reopens cleanly at the new rate.

macOS, on hardware — the first time any of this project's macOS audio code
has been compiled or executed at all, since no CI job builds it: hog mode
is acquired, the AudioUnit starts at the device's own 48 kHz stereo, and
the device is usable by other applications again once the process exits.
cargo check, cargo test and cargo clippy -D warnings are all clean
there.

The ALSA packing arithmetic and the period fill were extracted into a
throwaway crate and executed before the first push, because that module is
cfg(linux) and cannot compile on the machine it was written on.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Nouvelles fonctionnalités

    • La sortie exclusive est désormais disponible sous Windows, Linux et macOS.
    • Les flux PCM et DoP prennent en charge la négociation automatique des formats et paramètres compatibles.
    • L’état réellement actif de la sortie exclusive est affiché et conservé dans les préférences.
    • La lecture revient automatiquement au mode partagé si l’accès exclusif échoue ou est perdu.
  • Améliorations

    • Les libellés du réglage ont été généralisés et actualisés dans toutes les langues prises en charge.
    • La gestion des changements de périphérique et des erreurs de lecture a été renforcée.

…just dsd

The exclusive backends already existed on Linux and macOS, but both only
carried DoP: a DSD file could take the DAC outright while a FLAC could
not, and the dispatcher said so plainly, gating the whole preference
behind cfg(windows) and discarding the flag everywhere else.

The ALSA backend now carries PCM as well. It negotiates a format down a
chain the hardware itself has to accept, since there is no plug layer
under a raw hw: device, and it reuses what the DoP path already worked
out: the reservation protocol that asks PipeWire for the card rather
than reading EBUSY as an answer, and the partial-write handling, now
shared instead of copied.

The rate is where the two streams differ. DoP demands its exact rate
because nothing may resample a marker cadence; PCM only prefers one,
and takes whatever the device lands on so the decoder can meet it. So
this is the mixer's absence, not the source rate honoured end to end,
and the copy no longer says bit-perfect.

The preference outgrew its name and is now exclusive_output. The stored
key follows, with the boot read still accepting the old
audio.wasapi_exclusive row so a Windows opt-in survives the rename.

Two things reported wrong before: the ALSA and CoreAudio handles denied
owning a device they had taken exclusively, which WASAPI has always
reported honestly. And read literally, an engine that had never opened
an output asks for zero channels, which a card that accepts mono would
have granted.
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La sortie exclusive est généralisée à Windows, Linux et macOS. ALSA et CoreAudio prennent en charge les flux PCM et DoP. Le moteur suit le mode réellement actif et utilise le mode partagé en cas d’échec. L’interface et la configuration utilisent le contrat exclusive_output.

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Sortie exclusive multiplateforme

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Flux ALSA exclusifs PCM et DoP
src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/alsa_exclusive.rs
ALSA ouvre des flux PCM ou DoP exclusifs. Le chemin PCM négocie la fréquence, les canaux et les formats. Les échantillons f32 sont convertis avec saturation. Les écritures partielles et la perte du périphérique sont gérées.
Flux CoreAudio exclusifs
src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/coreaudio_exclusive.rs
CoreAudio utilise un chemin DoP ou PCM exclusif. Le chemin PCM conserve le format physique du périphérique. Le nettoyage de l’AudioUnit est appliqué lors de l’arrêt ou de la perte du périphérique.
Routage des backends et état du moteur
src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/output.rs, src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/wasapi_exclusive.rs, src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/engine.rs
Le routage tente ALSA sous Linux et CoreAudio sous macOS, puis utilise cpal en cas d’échec. Le remplissage PCM est mutualisé. Le moteur suit la préférence et l’état exclusifs réellement actifs.
API publique, configuration et interface
src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/player.rs, src-tauri/crates/app/src/lib.rs, src/lib/tauri/player.ts, src/components/views/settings/ExclusiveModeCard.tsx, src/components/views/SettingsView.tsx, src/components/common/ToggleSwitch.tsx, src/i18n/locales/*, README.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/*
Les commandes, la configuration persistée et l’API TypeScript passent à exclusive_output. L’interface expose l’option sur les plateformes prises en charge. Les traductions et la documentation décrivent la sortie exclusive sans la limiter à WASAPI ou Windows.

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Exclusive output now spans Windows, Linux, and macOS, but a successful settings change can still be lost after restart if saving the preference fails. The remaining concern is bounded to preference durability and related user expectations, so the change is mergeable with owner follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Interface
  participant AudioEngine
  participant ExclusiveBackend
  participant SharedOutput
  Interface->>AudioEngine: activer exclusive_output
  AudioEngine->>ExclusiveBackend: ouvrir ALSA, CoreAudio ou WASAPI
  ExclusiveBackend-->>AudioEngine: retourner le mode effectivement ouvert
  ExclusiveBackend-->>SharedOutput: repli partagé en cas d’échec
  AudioEngine-->>Interface: publier exclusive_output_active
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Nothing asked for a size, so HwParams::any left both at what the driver
offered and snd_pcm_hw_params took its maximum. On a snd-dummy card that
was a 16384-frame period, and starting a track, seeking or changing track
each took about ten seconds — the wait was the buffer draining.

The period matters twice over. One period is drained from the ring in a
single pass and whatever the ring cannot supply is written as silence, so
at 16384 frames a period was two thirds of the whole ring: an underrun
became the normal case rather than the exception.

Now a 1024-frame period and four of them, on the DoP path too, which had
the same omission and would have paid for it the same way. The negotiated
buffer depth is logged, since it is the number that says how long a pause
takes to be heard.

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CoreAudio had the same shape as ALSA before this: hog mode existed, but
only DoP could reach it. The PCM path now takes hog mode and stops there,
which is the whole difference between the two.

DoP pins the device's physical format, because a marker cadence that gets
resampled is noise. PCM does not: re-clocking a device the whole machine
shares is a price only that cadence justifies, so this reads the rate and
channel count the device already runs at, publishes them, and lets the
decoder meet it. What exclusive buys here is that the system stops mixing
anything else in.

The period fill moved to output.rs on the way. It was about to exist in
three copies — WASAPI had its own inline loop — and the three exclusive
backends have no business disagreeing about whether an underrun counts
toward the play clock. Its tests now run on every platform rather than
only where the module compiles.

The settings card no longer sniffs the user agent to decide whether to
appear: every desktop platform has a backend now, so the copy stops
enumerating them and gets shorter for it.
@InstaZDLL InstaZDLL changed the title feat(audio): exclusive output on Linux, and a name that is not WASAPI's feat(audio): exclusive output on Linux and macOS, and a name that is not WASAPI's Sep 6, 2026
Entering exclusive mode spawns the new output before tearing the old one
down, so a failed open costs nothing: the stream the user is listening to
is still installed. Two platforms can afford that because the new open
evicts the old client — Windows kicks the shared client off the endpoint
it seizes, and on Linux the reservation protocol makes the sound server
hand the card over.

macOS can afford neither. Hog mode is recorded as a pid, and the client it
would have to evict is our own cpal stream in this very process, so it
evicts nothing. The new AudioUnit comes up on a device the old one is
still driving and renders nothing at all: no sound, and a position counter
frozen where it stood.

Only on the toggle. Armed before launch the same code opens on an idle
device and plays, which is what made this look like a fault in the backend
rather than in the order two streams change hands.

The release-first rule was already there for the stream that owns its
device outright, in both rebuild paths. It now also covers entering
exclusive where the grab cannot evict, and says which platform that is
and why. Falling back to shared mode happens inside the spawn, so
releasing first still returns a working stream.
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The ALSA PCM half reads SharedPlayback.sample_rate / channels as its
preference for the next open, so that turning exclusive on doesn't
silently move the resampler's target. A DoP rate is not a preference of
that kind: the DoP thread publishes 176.4, 352.8 or 705.6 kHz, and a DAC
that does DSD128 usually accepts 352.8 kHz as PCM too — so the track
after a DSD one opened there, and rubato upsampled every 44.1 kHz source
eightfold for nothing.

The DoP thread now remembers what it found and puts it back on the way
out. OutputHandle::stop joins, so every deliberate teardown has
published the old value before the replacement output opens; the device
loss path stores it before scheduling the rebuild. Whatever opens next
overwrites both values with what it actually negotiated — this only
decides what that open asks for.

Windows and macOS never had the problem: WASAPI negotiates from the
endpoint format, and the CoreAudio PCM path reads the device's own rate.

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…it became

The rename and the two new backends landed without a single doc touched,
so the repository still described a Windows-only WASAPI mode: CLAUDE.md
listed one exclusive file, audio.md's section was titled after WASAPI and
named the old audio.wasapi_exclusive key, playback.md referred to
set_wasapi_exclusive and wasapi_exclusive_active, and the README promised
"bit-perfect output (Windows)" — the very word the PR removed from the UI.

audio.md now opens on the three backends and their common contract, then
takes each in turn: the Windows negotiation as before, the Linux format
chain with the S24_LE alignment trap and the period-and-buffer rule, and
macOS hog mode leaving the physical format alone. playback.md gains the
reason the release-first rule is load-bearing there: hog mode registers
against a PID, so a second open from our own process is admitted onto a
device we already hold and then renders nothing.

Three comments claiming macOS is still a no-op survived the commit that
gave it PCM (engine.rs, commands/player.rs, lib/tauri/player.ts), and
SettingsView still described a user-agent sniff the same PR deleted.

Also reattaches OutputHandle's doc comment: fill_pcm_period was inserted
between it and the struct, so rustdoc was reading it as the function's.

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Si require_profile_pool() ou execute() échoue après le changement du moteur, ce bloc ignore l’erreur et la commande retourne Ok(()). L’UI confirme alors le changement, mais audio.exclusive_output garde son ancienne valeur et le réglage revient en arrière au prochain démarrage. Utilisez require_profile_pool().await? et propagez l’erreur SQLx.

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In `@docs/architecture/audio.md`:
- Around line 101-102: Update the ALSA period description around HwParams::any
and set_period_and_buffer: state that 16,384 frames at 44.1 kHz are
approximately 372 ms, clarify the distinction between frames and f32 samples,
and describe the observed ten-second start/seek/track-change delay separately
from the period duration.

In `@docs/features/playback.md`:
- Line 88: Clarify the set_exclusive_output documentation to cover macOS
shared-to-exclusive transitions: macOS must release the existing shared stream
before reopening the same device exclusively because hog mode is PID-owned,
while Windows and Linux only require the prior release when the old stream is
exclusive.

In `@src/lib/tauri/player.ts`:
- Around line 466-469: Update the Rust and TypeScript documentation for
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and document that exclusive initialization falls back to shared output when
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All three were mine, from the docs commit, and all three were checked
against the code before being changed.

The ten seconds were the buffer draining, not the period. A 16 384-frame
period is ~370 ms at 44.1 kHz; what made starting, seeking and changing
track take about ten seconds was the buffer the same call had left at the
driver's maximum. The two effects now read as the two separate things
they are, which is also how the comment on set_period_and_buffer puts it.

The release-first rule has two cases, not one. must_release_before_reopening
answers "release first" for an outgoing exclusive stream on any platform,
and also when entering exclusive on macOS from a shared one — hog mode is
registered against a pid, so the client it would evict is our own. The
table said only the first, which reads as macOS spawning first from
shared, the exact ordering that renders nothing.

exclusive_active is no longer false off Windows. Both doc comments still
said it was. The value itself was already right: player_get_state fills
it from engine.exclusive_output(), which reads exclusive_output_active —
what engaged, not the opt-in — so a silent fallback to shared still
reports false.

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Propager les erreurs de persistance.

if let Ok(pool) et let _ = ...execute(...) transforment une erreur de profil ou une erreur SQL en succès. Le moteur peut donc changer de mode, tandis que audio.exclusive_output reste inchangé et que l’interface ne reçoit aucune erreur. Retournez ces erreurs via AppResult avec le mapping AppError du projet.

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In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/player.rs` around lines 1862 - 1873,
Propagate profile-pool and SQL persistence errors from the audio
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In `@docs/features/playback.md`:
- Line 96: Clarify the macOS fallback statement around spawn_output_with_mode:
state that the caller retains a stream only when the shared-mode fallback
succeeds, while preserving the documented no-stream path when both openings
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In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/player.rs`:
- Around line 91-94: Update the comments for exclusive_active in
src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/player.rs lines 91-94 and
src/lib/tauri/player.ts lines 44-49 to describe exclusive device ownership only,
not bit-perfect playback; state that bit-perfect status is determined by
comparing the source and output sample rates.

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- Around line 1862-1873: Propagate profile-pool and SQL persistence errors from
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…o stream

The macOS release-first note claimed the caller "still comes back holding
a stream", full stop. The same section ends by describing what happens
when no output thread survives at all, so the page contradicted itself
four paragraphs apart. The fallback only holds while the shared open
succeeds; say that, and point at the path that covers the rest.

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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff finding about player_set_exclusive_output discarding the profile-pool and SQL errors (if let Ok(pool) + let _ = sqlx::query) — skipping it here, deliberately, for three reasons.

It is the file's convention, not this command's slip. commands/player.rs uses best-effort persistence in 17 places and the propagating require_profile_pool().await? form in 11. The split is not accidental: the propagating form is used where nothing has happened yet, and the best-effort form where the engine has already been changed. Fixing one of the seventeen would leave the file less consistent, not more.

Propagating here would report failure for an action that succeeded. By the time this runs, set_exclusive_output has returned Ok and the output stream has actually been re-opened in the new mode. Returning Err because a settings row could not be written would put an error in front of the user for a switch they can hear working, and ExclusiveModeCard's catch path then re-reads and repaints the toggle. That is the shape of #405, from the other direction.

It is outside this PR. The only thing this PR did to those lines was change the key string from audio.wasapi_exclusive to audio.exclusive_output.

That said, the underlying complaint is fair: a settings write that fails leaves no trace at all. That is worth doing as a class — all seventeen call sites, with a decision on log-vs-propagate — rather than one site at a time, and it lines up with an already-tracked item about setting writes being refused silently. I have flagged it for the maintainer to schedule; it is their call, not mine.

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@InstaZDLL Merci pour l’explication détaillée.

Je retire ce finding. player_set_exclusive_output applique déjà le changement audio avant la persistance. Propager ensuite une erreur SQL ferait échouer la commande alors que la sortie exclusive est active.

Le comportement best-effort est aussi cohérent avec les autres commandes qui modifient déjà l’état du moteur. La journalisation ou la stratégie de propagation doit être traitée pour l’ensemble des appels concernés, dans un suivi séparé.


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Learning: Dans `src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/player.rs`, les commandes utilisent une persistance best-effort (`if let Ok(pool)` et erreurs SQL ignorées) après qu’elles ont déjà modifié l’état du moteur audio. Les commandes utilisent `require_profile_pool().await?` lorsque l’opération n’a pas encore produit d’effet. Pour `player_set_exclusive_output`, propager une erreur de persistance après `set_exclusive_output` signalerait un échec alors que le changement de sortie audio a réussi.

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InstaZDLL added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 7, 2026
#577 is merged, so the document's whole "immediate next step" section was
about closing a PR that no longer exists, and it still gave main as
b550693.

Rewritten against the current state: the two open CodeQL alerts and why
neither is fixable by forcing https, the 1.8.0 position now that both
arbitrated blockers are gone, and the cross-audit put on hold pending a
fresh pass over the audited repository.

Two corrections to what the previous version asserted. The ten-second
ALSA start was the buffer draining, not the period — 16 384 frames is
~370 ms at 44.1 kHz, and the comment on set_period_and_buffer said so all
along. And the release-first rule has two cases, not one: an outgoing
exclusive stream anywhere, and entering exclusive on macOS from a shared
one.

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