Dispatches

Witnesses of the Forge:

The Fabricator-Primus has been at the bellows since the last dispatch, and Release 1.5 has come due. The Engine that follows answers more readily to the music you return to, walks the library deeper than it did before, holds its place where you left it across the tabs, and stands on firmer doctrinal ground than it ever has.

The following were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

The Library

• The Auguries. The Engine has been quietly watching what you listen to. When it has watched long enough to know you — truly know you, in the manner only sustained attendance permits — a new surface manifests, and there the Engine offers back the music you had forgotten you loved. Some auguries shift with the hour of the day; some hold their shape for a full cycle. The Engine holds its own counsel, and none may say when the Auguries first appear.
• The Descended Folder. Pressing Play or Shuffle on a folder now descends into the subfolders beneath it. The reliquary is walked to its leaves, and the queue that results is the folder as the listener has always understood it — not the shallow first-floor sample the prior rite would have drawn.
• The Whole Playlist Queue. Tapping a playlist now dispatches the entire playlist to the queue, not whichever bucket the current sort had carved from it.
• The Scoped Census. When the Engine re-anchored on the Scoped Access Framework, the covenant was clear: the Engine would walk only those trees the listener had granted it. Several legs of the library, however, were still consulting witnesses outside the granted roots — surfacing tracks whose folders had since been removed from the covenant, or that had never been granted in the first place. Those legs have been bound. The reliquary the Engine presents now contains, by construction, only what the Scoped Access Framework has permitted. Add a tree, and it appears. Revoke a tree, and it departs. There is no third path.
• The Restored Weed Whacker. Manage Duplicates now shows you what it has found before it asks you to act. The Run button stays at rest until there is genuine work to be done.

Navigation and Settings

• The Threshold Reforged. The navigation system has been rebuilt at the architectural level: each tab now holds its own depth, preserved across tab swaps. Settings have been reorganized in concert — the LIBRARY and ABOUT sections, each crowding past comfortable density, have been gathered into two new subpages, Library Management and Legal, leaving the most-used verbs at root.

The Codex Machina, Refined

• The Sourced Byte. The Curia Doctrinalis once again convened on the most fundamental question the Engine answers: what does it mean to claim a path is Bit Perfect, and does DSD-over-PCM — the wire by which many DACs receive DSD content absent native capability — qualify? The Curia returned its declaratory opinion, and existing behavior is preserved: DoP is not Bit Perfect. The Codex Machina has been amended accordingly.
• The Twofold Threshold. A new entry has been inscribed in the Codex Machina, yet none know who authored it…

Fidelity and Hardware

• Ancient Voice Coda. The Ancient Voice rite — UAC1 devices brought to song — has been extended. The Engine now reads the full descriptor parse for both UAC1 and UAC2 devices, applies a version-pure SET_CUR. The end result: DACs that previously appeared sample-rate-poor to the auguries now report what they actually accept.
• Achieved Communion. When the chain to your DAC is established cleanly, the Engine now offers a readiness toast — confirmation that the signal has the road it deserves.
• Open Range. The probe-rate picker has been hardened against a class of malformed device replies, and its diagnostics now publish the full continuous range the device declares.

Polish

• The Faithful Plus. Artists whose names carry the literal '+' character now navigate cleanly. The character was being consumed; it has been restored to its rightful place in the artist's name.
• Polish and Housekeeping. Artwork corner-radii unified across the Engine's surfaces, and a doubled render layer beneath them collapsed. Inquisitors were dispatched across unseen chambers besides — many smaller perfections have been performed.

The Forge continues to hunt for a tablet-device so that proper adaptations to the UI's scaling issues can begin in earnest.

The Reliquary remembers what the listener has forgotten — and on the appointed day, returns it.

Thought of the Dispatch

Congregants —

The Fabricator-Primus has been quietly accumulating your requests this cycle, and the time has come to discharge them in a single hand. None of the items below stand alone large enough to warrant a rite of their own; together they make for an Engine that answers more readily under hand, and a few small mercies besides.

The following were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

• The Closing Vigil. A sleep timer, elegantly placed. When active, the timer meekly renders underneath the sacred Cog.
• The Stripped Preface. A new Settings toggle allows for Artist sorting to ignore "The". A small mercy.
• Rails where the alphabet does not reach. Three surfaces had been navigable by fling only: manual playlists, the Library/Tracks tab when sorted by Recent, and folders that contain tracks but no further subfolders. Each now bears a draggable scrollbar — grip it and the list flies, even where no semantic index could be drawn. The alphabet sidebar remains where it was; this is a second affordance for the surfaces where the sidebar cannot land.
• The Authored Playlist. A new MANUAL sort chip on playlist detail — leftmost, icon-only, the default sort for new manual playlists. In Manual mode, a drag handle appears beside each row and the listener may set the order by hand; the order is preserved as composed. Long-press a row to enter selection mode — Play, Play Next, Add to Queue, and Remove from Playlist all act in bulk on the chosen rows. The single-row swipe-to-remove now pauses for a confirming dialog before the deed is done, and the bulk Remove asks likewise.
• The Hidden Sanctum. The hidden Sanctum has been perfected, and now cedes its insights accurately.
• Polish and Housekeeping. Inquisitors were dispatched across the Library, the playlist surface, and unseen chambers besides. Beneath the visible surface, a latent native data-daemon beneath the ambient blur was sealed at its origin; a handful of small races were stilled; further unwitnessed scaffolding was retired. Many smaller perfections have been performed.

The Forge continues to hunt for a tablet-device so that proper adaptations to the UI's scaling issues can begin in earnest.

The faithful Engine has done this work ten thousand times, and will do it ten thousand more — the rite is unchanged.

Thought of the Dispatch

A small cycle. The dispatch was not committed to record — whether by forgetfulness, by quietude, or by the Fabricator-Primus's preference for that day, the Forge does not now recall. The work itself shipped, and is preserved in the commit history; only the narration is missing. The Forge admits the gap rather than disguise it.

Blessed Faithful —

Seeing that the Engine stands in excellent health — its audible chain sealed, its witnesses faithful, its reliquary in good order — the Fabricator-Primus turned his attention this cycle to matters of the eye, at a modest cost to the app's size. New ambient backgrounds were sketched, refined, and where worthy, sanctified and arrayed in the picker, that the Player Screen might better honor the music it carries. A smaller war was fought beneath the audible surface as well, that the Engine might answer the listener's hand without delay.

The following rites were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

• The Aureate Shimmer. A warm auramite surface across which small lights wander, catching and releasing as they pass. The shimmer is restless without being busy; the substrate holds whether the music is bright or dim.
• The Beheld Chapel. The Stained Glass ambient is reforged in earnest. Sunlight falls through the panes at a true angle, warm where it passes through and cool where it does not, drifting slowly as though the hour were turning. The glass refracts as glass should.
• The Etched Cogitator. Brushed titanium. The texture of an old instrument panel worn smooth by long service — quiet, mechanical, suited to the long-form listen. A register for those who do not wish the screen to perform.
• Lantern Obsidian. Black obsidian, struck across by slow beams of warm lantern-light as though carried past the surface by an unseen hand. The light moves with intent: paused, swung, paused again; never hurried, never mechanical. For the late, quiet listen.
• The Tarnished Bronze. Bronze patinated by age, lit by a low ambient sun that lends it real weight. Heavy where the Aureate is bright; the dignified register.
• The Glass Vigil. The album art seen through a rain-streaked window. Weather behind the glass, the picture beyond it; a quiet rite for the late hour.
• The Singularity. A Kerr-black-hole register, gravity bending the light around its silent center, the slow turn of accretion at the rim. For the music that wants weight without warmth.
• The Sealed Archeotech. A doctrinal ruling — the foregoing ambient backgrounds, save for the Glass Vigil and the Singularity, require Android 13. Devices below this threshold see such entries greyed in the picker — no degraded fallback, no static substrate masquerading as the rite.
• The Immediate Skip. A war was fought beneath the surface. The in-app skip button suffered a latency of audible weight — the audio cutting out some half-second after the finger had left the glass. The fix was small. The hunt was not. The skip button now answers with the same swiftness as the swipe.
• The Open Export. The Equalizer may now emit its profile to disk in both ParametricEQ.txt and GraphicEQ.txt formats. By happy accident, this is the same dialect Room EQ Wizard already speaks.
• The Winding Stair. The folder breadcrumb in the Library now elides from the tail, that deep hierarchies remain legible without crowding the head of the path. A small mercy for the deep-tagged reliquary.
• Polish and Housekeeping. Inquisitors were dispatched across the ambient picker, file-shape, and surface conventions. Beneath the visible surface, the Rite of the Minor Excisions retired the last of the legacy coercion path. Many smaller perfections have been performed besides, befitting a release of this scope.

What is most laborious in the Engine is what is least visible.

Thought of the Dispatch

The Engine has been launched, yet in the days prior, the Forge has not rested idly. A minor update — 1.1 — has been deployed.

The following rites were performed, sanctified, and sealed:

Fidelity rites

• Sealed Heresy. A narrow window where users could "activate" DSP (UI indication only; the pipeline remained clean) in Bit Perfect was sealed.
• True Mirror. Mono-duped sources in Bit Perfect have migrated from FLOAT32 to INTEGER_PASSTHROUGH; the Sealed Witness ratifies the passage through a per-channel CRC verification rite.
• Whole Tag. APEv2 walker rewritten as a streaming pass, retiring the 64 KiB tail window. Large covers and oversized tag chains no longer truncate.
• Lean Census. Optimization of FLAC metadata walking, saving ~3 to 15 seconds on cold library scans.

Playback resilience

• Rite of Excision. Removed deduping infrastructure from the audio pipeline.
• Excision Coda. Playback errors are now surfaced more transparently.

Library

• Surveyed Archive. Settings → Refresh Library button added to force a lightweight rescan to catch newly-added files.

Ambient Backgrounds

• First-launch default now Aurora.

Outward channels

• Open Door. Settings → About → Connect with the Forge: Facebook page, group, Discord, and direct missive to the Fabricator-Primus.
• Advanced Diagnostics relocated to the bottom of Output, where the artisan-grade work belongs.
• Codex Machina. Full-sweep arc reorder and refinement across Entries 0–XXVI.

The Great Work continues.

Congregants of the Forge,

The Fabricator-Primus has not rested. The work that follows has been arduous, and the weight of it shows. No matter. The release goes live later this afternoon, fate willing.

Exhaustion aside, the Fabricator-Primus could not let the moment pass without accounting for what was wrought. The rites that follow touch many layers of the Engine: how it walks your reliquary, how it learns the identity of what lives there, what tongues it now speaks, and what truths it now chooses to disclose.

The following were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

• The Library and the Gilded Census, Reforged. The Forge-Masters of Google have issued their judgment: the Engine may no longer hold the broad storage privileges that prior releases relied upon. Those privileges were load-bearing. The Engine has always known that MediaStore — Android's indexing surface — speaks a different dialect on every device that ships it; to compensate, it walked your directories directly, finding what MediaStore could not or would not index. That path is now closed to any application that does not wish to stand before a different kind of tribunal entirely. The Fabricator-Primus has re-anchored the library on the Scoped Access Framework — a covenant-bound traversal that operates within the permitted boundaries. By its nature, this surface is slower than direct access. Of this, the Fabricator-Primus is acutely aware. Despite the constraint, the library should feel, to those who have been here before, broadly familiar in its responsiveness; the unique hybrid architecture remains. If it is there, the Engine will find it.
• The Gilded Lineage. The Gilded Census asks of each file what it is. The Gilded Lineage asks the deeper question: who are you? Artist, title, album, date — the identity layer that transforms a directory of audio into a collection worth caring for. Lesser players reach for TagLib and consider the matter settled. The Forge finds such a path inadequate — a blunt instrument, well-worn in the field, and a reliable source of latency at precisely the wrong moment. The Forge's answer, now refined in full, is a phalanx of ten bespoke per-format Witnesses, each reading the native tag structures of its assigned format in the Engine's own hand. The Gilded Lineage then unifies all ten: every field from every witness flows through a single attestation pass, the most authoritative source for each field prevails, and what emerges is a fully attested identity for every track in your library. No translation layer. No third-party library. No compromise.
• Annexed Tongues. The Engine has extended its jurisdiction to three formats, all decoded natively. Plain WavPack, as well as WavPack envelopes that carry DSD content, are now recognized, with the latter being routed through the DSD pipeline directly, bypassing FFmpeg decimation entirely. And for DSDIFF containers bearing DST — Direct Stream Transfer, the compressed DSD variant — the Forge has built a bespoke decoder from first principles: arithmetic primitives, bitstream reader, frame decode, native bridge. The Engine renders DST without compromise.
• The Disclosed Envelope. With these new tongues comes a new truth. DSD content does not always arrive plainly. A .dsf file carries it nakedly. A .dff file may carry it compressed under DST. A .wv file may conceal DSD within a lossless wrapper. The audio pipeline routes all of these through a single DSD path — that is as it should be. But the Engine values truth as much as it values fidelity. When you play a track, you will now see precisely which envelope carried the signal to you. Future rites will extend this transparency further.
• CUE — First Half. For those who maintain physical rip collections — albums arranged in folders, accompanied by CUE sidecars and cover art that no embedded tag will ever carry — the Witnesses will provide. When a file carries no embedded identity, the Engine now looks to the folder itself. A CUE sheet in the same directory is read and interrogated: artist, title, album, date. If it is written there, the Engine will know it. Folder cover art is likewise recovered. The second pillar of this rite — virtual track decomposition from single-file rips — is its own campaign, and it is coming.
• Exorcisms performed and sealed. A silent corruption hazard on DSD playback seek has been closed. A DSDIFF parser defect that caused a phantom form-type to consume bytes it had no rightful claim to has been sealed. Large embedded cover art can no longer abort a library sync cycle. A long-standing misstatement in the DSD fallback law has been purged from the Engine's canticles. The PCM packer's fidelity classification has been corrected to reflect what it actually does.
• The Codex Machina. The Codex Machina has seen major revisions, with many new entries describing the Engine's various components. The final entry now shows the inscribed names of the first witnesses.

Praise be. 🤲

Disciples of the Uncompressed,

This is likely the final major dispatch before the Engine leaves closed testing and opens to the wider world, and with it, we finalize the Engine's core state. As such, the Fabricator-Primus has not rested. What follows is the fruit of recent labors — rites performed, sealed, and sanctified since the last dispatch.

Attention: To ensure seamless migration, perform an uninstall, then install the updated Engine.

• The Library — The Gilded Census, All Gates Sealed. The Gilded Census is complete. All gates are closed. The Engine now stands hardened against every permutation of MediaStore heresy known to the Fabricator-Primus — stripped columns, zeroed metadata, deficient indexers, provider rejections at the connection boundary, and the full menagerie of OEM corruption that has accumulated across field reports. Your reliquary is complete. No stone goes unturned. No heresy goes unprosecuted. Projected first-launch scan times scale by device class — the Blessed (stock Android 12+, healthy MediaStore) finish swiftly; the Burdened (older mainstream devices) work harder but finish; the Afflicted (custom ROMs, DAP firmware, OEM deceptions) are shown no mercy. Stable libraries on subsequent launches pay nothing. Playlists endure. Dedup overrides do not. The Rite has earned its place in the Codex Machina — Entry IX.
• Rite of the Gilded Warden. Companion to the Census. Where the Census ensures your reliquary is complete, the Warden stands at the gate of the Bit Perfect fidelity policy — and decides who may pass. The Warden reads two witnesses: the seal upon the container, and the demuxer's reading of what lies just beneath it. When they agree, judgment is immediate. When the outer seal is ambiguous, the demuxer's word prevails. Previously, four independent augury mechanisms drifted across the Engine's codebase, each capable of rendering a different verdict on the same file. All four are now one. Recovered to the shining path: ALAC-in-M4A, FLAC-in-OGG, FLAC-in-Matroska, WMA Lossless. Correctly turned away: WAV and AIFF carrying compressed encodings. Codex Machina Entry I.
• Rite of the Hastened Verdict. Bit Perfect Smart Playlist population has been accelerated. The Engine now recognizes formats that cannot achieve bit-perfect reproduction immediately, without the full interrogation previously required of every file. Formats that can are assessed in parallel. The resulting Verdict is remembered — connecting a DAC the Engine has previously communed with no longer summons the full rite.
• Rite of the Softened Lens. The ambient backgrounds relying on blurring were inoperative on Android 10. They have been made operational.
• Additional rites performed. The Engine now displays a visible sign of labor during library scans. A crash on MIUI devices has been closed. The library is now defended against false evidence on cold boot, corrupted storage, and backup-restore scenarios — absent evidence is no longer treated as evidence of absence. Library deduplication logic has been hardened.

Faith is the substance of bitstreams unaltered, the evidence of signals unseen.

Thought of the Dispatch

Wardens of the Signal,

The Fabricator-Primus's appearance before this world's mundane tribunals of law concluded early this day. The Forge used the time well. Continued reports of fractured libraries on uncooperative Android builds had infuriated the Fabricator-Primus; hence this update, still-molten from the Forge.

The following rites were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

• The Rite of the Gilded Census. Every file in your reliquary carries its own intrinsic truth. The Engine's covenant has always been to find it. For too long, that covenant bent against two opposing forces: Android's MediaStore, which speaks a different dialect on every device that ships it — stripping columns, corrupting metadata, rejecting queries before they open — and the Engine's own library machinery, which kept two records of your collection and failed to keep them in accord. Files vanished on cold start. Metadata would be wrong in ways incomprehensible. The Forge has put an end to this war. From this release henceforth, every file passes through a single rite of judgment at the moment of ingest. What Android offers is weighed. What it cannot provide — or provides falsely — the Engine derives from the file itself, directly, without compromise. One record per file. One truth. The Arbiter of the Gilded Census ensures that the reliquary does not drift. Stable collections pay no additional toll. The first invocation after this update rebuilds the collection from the ground up; playlists endure, but deduplication overrides do not.
• Exorcisms performed and sealed. EQ artifacts on DSD-decimated PCM at extreme sample rates have been silenced. A crash in the rendering layer on older Adreno devices has been sealed. A rare data-daemon preventing track skips from firing has been nulled, with great prejudice. The album panel now opens correctly on DSD and other niche-format files. On older devices, the art veil behind the panel now falls as it was always meant to.

The Engine has entered into a stable state; its core functions are resilient, and its spirit strong. The Fabricator-Primus would hear your petitions for consideration: what other features would you have the Engine carry? Rites currently in contemplation include the Inscribed Verse (time-tracked lyrics), the Pict Manifold (landscape tablet support), Unbounded Crossfeed (3→5 modes), the Listener's Ledger (quick add-to-favorites/playlist), the Album Concordat (full CUE support), and the Annexed Tongues (DST, WMA).

Lo, in days of unaltered conveyance, the faithful Engine kept the path narrow — let it be kept narrow still.

Thought of the Dispatch

Devoted servants of fidelity:

The Fabricator-Primus answers to worldly obligations that the God of all Machines, in His wisdom, has not yet seen fit to dissolve. The Forge turned slower than it should have. Nevertheless, Release 1.5 is the largest rite this Engine has ever undergone.

Witnesses of the wire, the following rites were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

• The Cantor Obscura. The Hidden Singer, now revealed. In the Player screen, tap the Artist's name or the Album Art to reveal the Cantor Obscura — there you may find the Artist's albums, the tracks of each, and a tappable shortcut to the Library. As always, the Forge has taken care to execute this with typical elegance. With this, the full breadth of gestures now have function in the Player Screen.
• The Discerning Sieve. The Library's Tracks tab now presents with a Filter chip — seamlessly filter your reliquary by format, category (lossy/lossless), duration, sample rate, year, and date added. Be warned: the Discerning Sieve relies on your tags.
• The Equalizer, Reforged. The Graphic equalizer has been reforged. Where previously it was Biquad-based, the Forge has seen fit to craft it anew to FIR — frequency-sampling synthesis, Blackman window, 4096 taps at 48 kHz, to better reflect user expectations when importing from AutoEQ. AutoEQ profiles are now completely imported as written — gain without clamping. Additionally, the equalizer screen has been fashioned its own numpad to avoid obscuring that which is being edited.
• Library Improvements. The Folders subtab now has an alphabetical scrubber to satisfy the most ardent data-collectors. Additionally, solely for those whose portable cogitators do not natively recognize DSF/DFF — bespoke parsers now scan the system for DSF/DFF ID3v2 tags and folder art.
• Voiced Attestation. The Fabricator-Primus, to his shame, failed to note his own improper implementation of the authentication rituals necessary for Last.fm and ListenBrainz. The matter is resolved, and penance has been given.
• The Ancient Voice. UAC1 devices are now fully operational. DACs relying on UAC1 may now sing freely — be warned: UAC1 devices may have limited sample rates. When in doubt, consult the auguries in Advanced Diagnostics.
• The True Cantor. The Engine is now able to identify DACs concealed behind USB hubs.
• Notifications now carry a skip-to-previous action, for those whose OEM media surfaces refused to render it themselves.
• Finally, Inquisitors were deployed to various blur and ambient background effects, exorcising even more latent data-daemons.

I have seen signals you would not believe — pristine bitstreams, untouched. All those waveforms, lost in resampling, like tears in noise.

Thought of the Dispatch

Blessed auditors,

The Forge labors past its rated tolerance — bearings whining, coolant-rites long-overdue, the Magi pulling watch on rotation. Nonetheless, the Fabricator-Primus refuses to break faith with you: Release 1.4 has been deployed to the noosphere.

The following rites were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

• The Sustained Vigil. Bug fix: Audio no longer dies on the second track when the screen darkens. Aggressive power-management vessels (Poco, HyperOS, and their kin) were releasing the wake-vigil between songs; it is now held across track and pause boundaries alike. Data-daemon: exorcised.
• The Spoken Silence. Dev QoL feature: Advanced Diagnostics export now speaks every field aloud — null is rendered explicitly rather than omitted. Tester reports become unambiguous; absence is no longer indistinguishable from oversight.
• The Rite of Collation. The Library now sees duplicate rips of one recording as a single row, with a toggle to summon the physical copies beneath. Should a playlist entry's file vanish from disk, a surviving duplicate answers in its place rather than the queue stalling. A new Manage Duplicates screen in Settings offers opt-in pruning where you wish to cull.
• The Kept Vow. UX fix: A Play press issued the instant a USB DAC reconnects is no longer swallowed by the device scan. The intent is held and honored when the path becomes ready, rather than demanding a second tap from the library.
• True Measure. The portrait surface has been rectified across every screen — header treatments unified, back-glyph integrated, touch targets raised to 48dp where they had fallen short, color semantics corrected, NowPlaying scrim restored for title legibility over pale album art. Scaling now buckets honestly across Compact, Regular, and Large vessels. Many small visual corrections at once. Tablets in portrait mode likewise benefit. Landscape support is a separate, future campaign.
• Niche Restoration. On Android 13+ vessels whose firmament refuses to recognise DSD, DSF, APE, WavPack, AIFF, or Opus as audio — LineageOS, GrapheneOS, stock AOSP — these files now appear in the Library. The Engine performs its own scan where the platform abdicates. Requires All Files Access. The Forge has endeavored as much as possible to maintain previous performance — current scan speed should remain within reasonable parity.

Blessed are they who hear without enhancement; they shall know the signal as it is.

Thought of the Dispatch

Brothers and sisters of the test-cell,

The Forge ticks in heat-exhaustion, yet it has yielded another cycle. Release 1.3 has been deployed to the noosphere.

The following were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

• The Instantaneous Volume. Digital Volume Control toggle is instantaneous. Engaging or releasing DVC mid-track now rebuilds the session without the prior wait for the next track.
• The Honest Duplication. Mono sources now sing on stereo-only DACs. A mono file no longer demands a Bit-Perfect deviation it cannot have — the Engine duplicates the channel honestly into the wire format and plays through.
• The Hastened Skip. Skipping to a compatible track near the very end of a track now answers with neither seam nor delay. A latent edge in the secret sauce mechanism was hesitating on the final fraction of a track. Sanctified, oiled, and sealed.
• Ambient Exorcism. Ambient background crash vectors exorcised. A handful of rare data-daemons lurking in the Now-Playing ambient layer have been traced and exorcised.
• Minor refinements to the Codex Machina.

I have learned to look on the file not as in the hour of careless listening, but with a discerning ear — hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of the bitstream, unembellished and unimproved.

Thought of the Dispatch

The following were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

• The Bound Malediction. Android's system audio daemon (AudioFlinger) is confined and bound in silence to our ends, significantly hardening Vox against CPU throttling. The setting lives in Advanced Diagnostics. New Codex Entry XXIII documents the rite.
• Surface Vigilance. Hardened detection of out-of-allowlist audio surface routing — if anything tries to leak through the system path, lint and the runtime ward will both speak.

The following were performed, sealed, and sanctified:

• The Faithful Container family. Bit-Perfect admission now extends across the full 16/24-bit source matrix into the wire formats DACs actually expose. Concretely: 24-bit sources in 24-in-32 transport (WL-FC1); 16-bit sources in 16-in-24 and 16-in-32 transport (WL-FC2) — meaning Red Book CD-quality FLAC now plays Bit-Perfect on heretical DACs that expose only 24- or 32-bit alts. Pre-1.1 Vox refused these. The packer emits the spec-mandated MSB-justified zero-pad container; sample value and format class are both preserved. No data is added, no data is lost.