feat(player): bring ReplayGain up to the standard - #545
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The loudness figure was a plain RMS over a mono downmix, which is a fine relative yardstick inside one library — every track measured the same wrong way — but it is not on the same scale as anything the rest of the world writes into a file. Now that the scanner reads other people's ReplayGain tags, the two sources have to agree, so the measurement moves first: K-weighting, 400 ms blocks overlapping by 75 %, and both gates (absolute at -70 LUFS, relative 10 LU below the ungated mean, so a fade-out doesn't drag the number down). Peak now comes from every channel instead of the mono downmix. A mix with its channels in opposition sums to near silence while its samples sit at full scale, and the clipping prevention added later in this branch is only as good as that number. Loudness and the gain derived from it become Option: silence, or a file shorter than one gating block, has no loudness to reference, and suggesting a gain there would mean boosting silence. The coefficients are re-derived at the file's own sample rate from the analogue prototype rather than resampling every file to 48 kHz; the test asserts they reproduce the table published in the spec. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ls4aG74DPcE4UUQtrPc5ji
A library tagged by rsgain, foobar2000, beets or Picard arrived with all that work invisible: the only gain WaveFlow knew about was the one its own analysis pass computed, so every track had to be re-analysed to get back a number the file already carried. Two conventions, one scale on the way out. REPLAYGAIN_* is text referenced to -18 LUFS; R128_* is a Q7.8 integer of 1/256 LU referenced to -23 LUFS. The 5 LU between the two reference levels is applied at parse time so everything downstream sees the ReplayGain 2.0 scale, the same one the analysis pass measures against. Values are bounded on the way in — a gain past +/-60 dB or a peak past 4.0 is a broken or misparsed tag, not a loud track, and it must not reach the mixer. Reading goes through lofty's generic Tag, unlike the write path which has to use the concrete type: these keys are all in lofty's mapping table for ID3v2 TXXX, Vorbis comments, APE and MP4 atoms, so the generic view carries them intact. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ls4aG74DPcE4UUQtrPc5ji
Four nullable columns on track, refreshed by every (re)scan. They sit there rather than on track_analysis because they are a property of the file, whereas track_analysis holds what we measured and is only written by an explicit analysis pass — keeping them apart is what lets playback prefer the tag without either source overwriting the other. DSD keeps the limitation it already had for album artist: the DSF ID3v2 blob can carry these frames but our reader doesn't surface arbitrary tag items, so a DSD track falls back to the analysis pass. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ls4aG74DPcE4UUQtrPc5ji
…ention Three things a ReplayGain implementation is expected to have and this one didn't. Clipping prevention is the one that protects the sound: a boost on a track that already peaks near full scale pushes samples past 1.0, and the decoder's final clamp flattens every one of them into distortion. Knowing the peak, the gain is capped at the headroom it leaves instead. It only ever lowers a gain, so a quiet-peaking track that measured loud is still turned down. On by default — a user who turns ReplayGain on is asking for even loudness, not for distortion on the loud ones. The pre-amp exists because -18 LUFS is quieter than most systems are set for, so a correctly-normalised library otherwise sounds like it lost volume the moment the switch goes on. The fallback keeps a half-tagged library from jumping every time playback crosses the line between tracks that have a gain and tracks that don't. ActiveStream now carries the track's gain and peak as metadata rather than a pre-multiplied scalar, and the multiplier is derived per decoded buffer. That is what makes the pre-amp audible immediately instead of at the next track; one powf per buffer is nothing next to the decode that produced it, and it still happens on the decoder thread, never in the cpal callback. fetch_replay_gain reads both sources in one query and prefers the tag field by field, so a tagger that wrote a gain but no peak still gets clipping prevention from our own analysis. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ls4aG74DPcE4UUQtrPc5ji
…switch player_set_replaygain_options writes the three knobs straight into SharedPlayback — they are plain atomics the decoder re-reads on every buffer, so there is no ordering to arrange with the decode stream — and persists them per profile. Values are clamped to +/-15 dB on the way in and again on the way out of the database, for the same reason playback speed is: a hand-edited row must not reach the mixer intact. The sliders fire on every pixel of drag, so the round trip is debounced and local state drives the UI in between; the audio side would take every value, but each push also writes three rows. The sub-settings stay hidden until the switch above is on, since none of them mean anything before that. Docs: playback.md gains a real ReplayGain section (the two sources, the Opus header-gain caveat, the three knobs, the bounds), and library.md records that rows analysed before BS.1770 keep the old unweighted figure — nothing is invalidated automatically, and a re-analysis replaces it. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ls4aG74DPcE4UUQtrPc5ji
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In `@docs/features/playback.md`:
- Line 53: Update the “An Opus caveat” documentation to explicitly state that
files with a non-zero Opus stream-header output gain are unsupported because
only R128_TRACK_GAIN is processed; retain the existing warning about avoiding
double application.
In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/analytics.rs`:
- Around line 174-175: Update every fetch_replay_gain call to pass &*pool while
preserving the same borrowed ProfilePool handle across each async sequence:
analytics.rs lines 174-175 and 219-219, and engine.rs lines 1065-1066,
1223-1224, and 1441-1442. No other changes are required.
In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/decoder.rs`:
- Around line 2061-2062: In player_get_state, reset all shared ReplayGain
atomics to their default values before loading the current profile’s keys, so
missing or invalid activation, preamp, fallback-gain, and clipping-prevention
settings cannot persist from the previous profile. Preserve the existing
key-loading behavior for valid profile values and ensure apply_replay_gain
continues using the resulting replay_gain_settings.
- Around line 719-721: Update the LoadRemoteFileAndPlay HTTP fallback to
preserve and pass through the existing TrackGain from the remote track, instead
of constructing LoadUrlAndPlay with TrackGain::default(). Retain the default
gain only for the live-radio path.
- Line 376: Ajouter un test de non-régression autour de play_dop_track vérifiant
que les mots DoP sont transmis bit-perfect, sans appliquer apply_replay_gain ni
clamp_to_unity, et que ReplayGain ainsi que ses paramètres associés restent
désactivés.
In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/engine.rs`:
- Line 44: Mettre à jour la documentation de AudioCmd::LoadAndPlay pour décrire
replay_gain comme un TrackGain plutôt qu’un Option<f64> : documenter ses valeurs
et préciser que TrackGain::default() fournit le gain de secours appliqué lorsque
nécessaire, sans mentionner None ni l’absence de gain.
In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/audio/replay_gain.rs`:
- Around line 110-120: Update the gain clamping in the replay-gain calculation
so prevent_clipping never raises gain above the computed headroom_db, including
peaks requiring more than 30 dB attenuation. Preserve the existing
MIN_TOTAL_GAIN_DB behavior when clipping prevention is inactive, and add a
regression test covering a peak above 31.62 that verifies the output remains at
or below the safe headroom.
In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/player.rs`:
- Around line 539-579: Update the ReplayGain settings loading in
player_get_state so missing profile_setting rows resolve to defaults of 0.0 dB
for replaygain_preamp_db_bits and replaygain_fallback_db_bits, and true for
replaygain_prevent_clipping. Always store the resolved values into these
atomics, matching the existing dsd_taps and dsd_dop_enabled profile-switch
pattern.
In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/scan.rs`:
- Around line 1014-1015: Ajoutez un backfill unique des tags ReplayGain pour les
pistes existantes dont rg_track_gain_db, rg_track_peak, rg_album_gain_db et
rg_album_peak sont NULL, afin de forcer leur réextraction malgré les métadonnées
de fichier inchangées. Intégrez-le au flux de scan autour de la mise à jour
ReplayGain, en garantissant qu’il ne se répète pas après traitement, puis
ajoutez un test couvrant la migration suivie d’un scan non profond.
In `@src-tauri/crates/core/src/analysis/loudness.rs`:
- Around line 162-177: Update LoudnessMeter::new and its callers to accept and
retain the channel layout, exclude LFE samples from loudness accumulation, and
apply the standard BS.1770-4 surround-channel weighting instead of treating
every channel equally. Ensure loudness_lufs and replay_gain_db use these
weights, and add coverage for LFE-only input and surround channels.
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Clipping prevention could be undone by the floor. The gain was capped at the track's headroom and only then clamped into range, so a peak needing more than MIN_TOTAL_GAIN_DB of attenuation was raised back above its own headroom — re-introducing exactly the clipping the cap exists to prevent. Bound first, cap second. ReplayGain settings leaked across a profile switch. The restore block also runs when the active profile changes, and each setting was only stored when its row existed, so a profile that never set one kept the previous profile's value. They now resolve to their defaults and are stored either way, which is what the dsd_dop restore beside them already did for the same reason. A remote track falling back to streaming from the server lost its gain: the fallback builds a LoadUrlAndPlay, which carried no loudness metadata at all because it was only ever used for live radio. It now carries a TrackGain — empty for a station, the track's own for a library track — and the radio resume snapshot carries it too, so a device flap mid-stream doesn't reintroduce the jump. Loudness now takes per-channel weights instead of treating every channel alike: BS.1770-4 weights the surround channels at G = 1.41 and excludes LFE outright, and a film mix with a loud LFE would otherwise measure far louder than it sounds and be handed too small a gain. The weights are derived from the decoder's own channel layout; a layout we can't interpret keeps the previous all-1.0 behaviour. An existing library saw none of this: the scanner's fast path never opens a file whose mtime and size still match, so tracks written before the ReplayGain columns existed would have kept them empty until someone ran a deep rescan. One pass per folder re-reads the tracks that have no ReplayGain yet, marked done in profile_setting afterwards — without the marker, a library carrying no ReplayGain tags at all would re-read every file on every scan and lose the fast path for good. The skip branch assigns the four columns rather than COALESCEing them, so a tagger that removed a gain can clear it. Also documents that an Opus file with a non-zero header output gain is unsupported rather than merely uncommon, and fixes the LoadAndPlay doc comment still describing replay_gain as an Option. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ls4aG74DPcE4UUQtrPc5ji
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In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/scan.rs`:
- Around line 1371-1380: Modifiez le flux de backfill autour de
rg_backfill_pending afin de suivre les échecs de extract_file pour les pistes
rg_missing et de ne persister le marqueur scan.rg_backfill_done.{folder_id} que
si toutes les pistes ont réussi. Conservez les erreurs dans summary.errors et
permettez au scan suivant de retraiter les pistes échouées. Ajoutez un test
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…read The marker was written whenever the pass ran, regardless of outcome, so a track whose extraction failed — locked, unreadable, being written to — kept its empty ReplayGain columns permanently: the next scan would see the marker, take the fast path, and never open that file again. The comment beside it already claimed a scan that errored out got another go, which the code did not do. Failures on tracks the pass was meant to re-read now hold the marker back, so the next scan retries exactly those files. Files that simply turned out to carry no tags still set it — re-reading those forever is what the marker exists to prevent. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ls4aG74DPcE4UUQtrPc5ji
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1384-1393: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winNe masquez pas l’échec d’écriture du marqueur.
La Line 1393 ignore toute erreur SQL. Si l’écriture échoue, le marqueur reste absent et le scan suivant relit toutes les pistes éligibles au backfill. Cette répétition peut persister sans diagnostic. Capturez l’erreur avec
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In `@src-tauri/crates/app/src/commands/scan.rs`:
- Around line 1384-1393: Update the rg_backfill_pending persistence block to
handle the result of the profile_setting SQL upsert instead of discarding it:
log failures with tracing::warn! including relevant error context, or propagate
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The upsert result was discarded, so a marker that could not be written left no trace at all. Losing it is not fatal — the scan is already committed and the cost is one more backfill pass — but every future scan then re-reads the whole folder, which from the outside looks exactly like the fast path being broken for no reason. Logged rather than propagated: failing an otherwise successful scan over a marker that only exists to save work would be the worse trade. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ls4aG74DPcE4UUQtrPc5ji
All six verified against the code first; a seventh was skipped. **A body without `Accept-Ranges` was never cached.** One variable was answering two questions: seeking needs a length AND ranges, caching needs only a length because it is filled by reading forward. Collapsing them meant a server that sends `Content-Length` without `Accept-Ranges` -- perfectly cacheable -- got nothing. **Eviction could delete a working file out from under its own writer**, spending a download to reclaim bytes that were about to be freed anyway, and `info` counted those `.part` files as cached tracks. Published entries never carry the suffix, since the rename is what drops it, so it is the reliable way to tell the two apart. **A corrupt cache entry fell back to the server on every play instead of once.** `LoadRemoteFileAndPlay` now carries `discard_on_failure`, set only for a stream-cache entry: the server still holds those bytes, so a file that will not open is worth losing. A reconciled file from the user's own library reaches the same failure path and must survive it -- a decoder that deletes a listener's music because a codec tripped would be far worse than a cache miss. **`play_current` re-resolved the profile after its awaits**, so a switch landing in between would file one profile's bytes under another's cache. One `require_profile_snapshot()` now covers the pool, the preference and the cache directory. The two cache commands take the same snapshot. **The clear walk ran on the async executor**, where deleting gigabytes would stall every other command; `artwork::clear` beside it already uses `spawn_blocking`. Skipped: passing `&*pool` to `preference` / `cached_format`. Both take a concrete `&SqlitePool`, so the borrow coerces and the explicit deref would trip clippy's `explicit_auto_deref` under `-D warnings`. Third time this one has been raised; same answer as on #545 and #547. Reported by CodeRabbit on #560.
Rank 2 of the cross-review, first item: our ReplayGain was a boolean on/off over an unweighted RMS pass, ignoring every gain the files already carried.
What was wrong
REPLAYGAINundercrates/core/src/scanner/; the gain lookup only ever hittrack_analysis. A library tagged by rsgain / foobar2000 / beets / Picard arrived with all that work invisible.AtomicBool.peakstored, never readclamp_to_unity, a hard clip that distorts.analysis.rsadmitted it: unweighted RMS over a mono sum, against a −18 dBFS target, in a column namedloudness_lufs.That last one decided the scope. Reading tags referenced to −18 LUFS (K-weighted, gated) while measuring our own tracks with a flat RMS would put two sources on two scales, and the seam would be audible every time playback crossed between them.
What this does
Measurement — ITU-R BS.1770-4 in
analysis/loudness.rs: K-weighting, 400 ms blocks at 75 % overlap, absolute gate at −70 LUFS and relative gate 10 LU below the ungated mean. Coefficients are re-derived at the file's own sample rate rather than resampling everything to 48 kHz, and a test asserts they reproduce the table printed in the spec.Peak is now taken across every channel instead of a mono downmix — a mix with its channels in opposition sums to near silence while its samples sit at full scale, and clipping prevention is only as good as that number.
Tags —
scanner::replay_gainreadsREPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN/_TRACK_PEAK/_ALBUM_GAIN/_ALBUM_PEAKplus the Opus/VorbisR128_*pair (Q7.8 of 1/256 LU against −23 LUFS, converted to the −18 LUFS scale on the way in) into four columns ontrack, refreshed by every scan. Playback prefers the tag field by field, so a tagger that wrote a gain but no peak still gets clipping prevention from our analysis.Three knobs on top of the switch, persisted per profile and clamped to ±15 dB in both directions:
-20·log10(peak)so the loudest sample lands at full scale instead of being clipped flat afterwards. It only ever lowers a gain.The multiplier is derived per decoded buffer rather than baked into the stream at load time, which is what makes the pre-amp audible immediately instead of at the next track. Total gain is bounded to [−30, +12] dB regardless.
Deliberately not in this PR
library.md; a re-analysis replaces the value.output gaina decoder must apply, and addingR128_TRACK_GAINon top of a non-zero one would adjust twice. Taggers overwhelmingly leave the header at 0, so the tag is what we read; a file that does the opposite gets no gain rather than a wrong one. Documented in the module.Checks
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings— cleancargo test --workspace— 637 passed, 0 failed (26 new: 7 loudness, 7 tag parsing, 12 gain arithmetic)bun run typecheck,bun run lint,cargo fmt --check— cleanforeign_keys = ON, and the new columns round-tripped — not just compiled.Not verified: no listening test on real hardware. The arithmetic is covered by unit tests (a 1 kHz sine reads its own level per EBU Tech 3341, the K curve matches published points, a 0.5 peak scales to exactly full scale), but nobody has heard it.
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