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The audio thread overwrote the shared meter snapshot every block (~94 blocks/s at 512 frames, 48 kHz) while the UI read it 20–60 times a second, so the meters only ever showed the latest block and short transients were under-read (at 60 Hz and 512 frames, about a third of the blocks were never seen).

• Blocks are now folded together (max per channel peak and gain reduction; plugin failures keep the latest count) until the UI takes them with Player::take_meters, which starts a new period. Blocks rendered while the UI holds the lock wait in an audio-side accumulator instead of being lost; the audio thread still only try_locks.
• Stop, start and locate zero the meters in place instead of clearing the maps, so playing again no longer re-allocates every track's entry on the audio thread. The UI works out which tracks a session update deleted and tells the audio thread, which drops just those entries.
• The Mix window and the Renderer read the one snapshot the app takes per poll, so a period's peaks aren't split between readers.

Testing: cargo xtask ci green. New playback tests: a one-block spike among quiet blocks reaches the UI; a spike rendered while the UI holds the meters arrives on the next read; stopping zeroes meters in place and deleted tracks are pruned; gain reduction keeps its maximum until taken.

This is the first of a small meter series: #1047 (ballistics and peak readout) builds on it, #1046 (pre-fader metering) is independent, #1049 (meter types) builds on both.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Peak and gain-reduction meters now retain the highest readings between updates, making brief spikes less likely to be missed.
  • Meter updates remain responsive when the interface is busy, and repeated reads without new audio preserve the previous readings.
  • Meters show silence when playback stops while retaining track and channel entries, and remove entries for deleted tracks.
  • Resetting levels clears meter readings without removing track or channel entries.
  • Main-output and multichannel meters now reflect the latest available readings.

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Walkthrough

Meter readings retain peak and gain-reduction maxima across rendered blocks. Playback publishes accumulated readings through reusable snapshots, removes entries for deleted tracks, and supplies the shared snapshot to UI windows.

Changes: Meter accumulation and display

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Meter accumulation and reset semantics crates/mix/src/lib.rs, crates/playback/src/lib.rs	StripMeter and MeterSnapshot retain finite peak and gain-reduction maxima. Reset operations zero levels while retaining entries and failure history.
Audio-thread publication and track cleanup crates/playback/src/lib.rs	AudioState accumulates rendered-block meters and publishes them when the shared snapshot can be locked. Session updates send removed track IDs for cleanup. Silence marks fresh zero levels. Tests cover accumulation, lock contention, silence, deleted tracks, channel-count changes, and gain reduction.
Taking and displaying meter snapshots crates/playback/src/lib.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/extra_windows.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/mix_window.rs	Player::take_meters transfers fresh readings and prunes deleted tracks. The meter poll and UI windows use SoundApp’s shared snapshot.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AudioState
  participant MeterSnapshot
  participant Player
  participant SoundApp
  participant UIWindows
  AudioState->>MeterSnapshot: publish accumulated block meters when the lock is available
  SoundApp->>Player: take_meters into reusable snapshot
  Player->>MeterSnapshot: transfer fresh accumulated values
  SoundApp->>UIWindows: provide the shared meter snapshot

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 7d4ae

A meter may briefly show an old peak after Stop when the UI holds its lock. The next successful stopped callback and meter poll clear it; this is a bounded display issue, not a merge blocker.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 37e15

Meter readings now accumulate until consumed, changing how readers share and reset them. No new privileged operation or external access path was identified; remaining uncertainty concerns lifecycle behavior and compatibility for other callers.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The traced exposure is the current application's per-track and main-output telemetry. Audio and plugin-derived measurements flow to meter graphics and status text; no new credential, network, persistence, or privileged-operation sink was identified in the changed flow. This does not establish coverage of unknown external consumers.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Forget is a private playback command carrying TrackIds derived from consecutive session snapshots. Its new authority is limited to removing meter-map entries; it does not delete session assets, manipulate credentials, or invoke plugin operations.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The audio producer continues to avoid waiting on the UI snapshot mutex. Contended measurements merge into one retained entry per track rather than queuing every block, preserving failure isolation from a slow reader. Steady-state storage is reused, although track or channel changes can allocate.

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Review comments at @crates/mix/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 195-197: In the channel-count-change branch that updates
self.peaks, also replace self.peak with o.peak so display peaks match the new
channel layout.

Review comments at @crates/playback/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 393-396: Start a new meter period on Play and Locate by clearing
the unsent and shared meter accumulators at the transport boundary before
accumulating the next block. If the shared.meters lock is unavailable, defer
clearing the shared accumulator until the next successful publication.
- Around line 408-411: Update the stopped-state path so a failed shared.meters
lock records a pending reset in Shared rather than representing silence only in
unsent meters. Consume that reset in both publish_meters and
Player::take_meters, clearing stale peaks and preventing them from reappearing
in later UI snapshots.
- Around line 264-272: Update MeterSnapshot::forget to mark the snapshot fresh
after removing the forgotten tracks, so take_meter_snapshot publishes the pruned
state even when render_next produces no meter block.

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