[sanderdewijs]

What

setup.playback_engine and setup.hardware accepted {device?, buffer_size?} but only stored them as session values (engine.device, engine.buffer_size) that nothing reads.

The result was misleading: setup.playback_engine {buffer_size: 1024} answered buffer_size: 1024 while the device kept running at 512 frames. With nothing set, it also reported 1024. Found driving SoundCraft over MCP and confirmed with the callback load meter from #1067: 10.7 ms buffers after the command, 21.3 ms after choosing 1024 in the window.

Fix

• In the app, a programmatic call goes through the same path as Setup ▸ Playback Engine (ui.audio_device):
  • device becomes the output device, and buffer_size reopens the device.
  • delay_compensation is still applied through the engine command, once the device change is accepted.
  • The result is the state actually in use: applied: true, the device name, device_buffer (null when the device default is in use), the sample rate and delay compensation.
• The menu still opens the window.
• Buffer values: any integer from 16 to 8192, as ui.audio_device accepts. Anything else is an error and changes nothing, not even delay compensation. Previously out-of-range values were clamped and 300 was rounded to 512.
• Headless (CLI without the app): the request is still stored, but the result says applied: false, and buffer_size is null until one is set.

Tests

• engine: playback_engine_does_not_pretend_the_device_changed
• ui-egui:
  • playback_engine_applies_the_same_device_choice_as_the_audio_command covers buffer 256 like ui.audio_device, an invalid buffer, a change during recording, and delay compensation.
  • playback_engine_menu_opens_the_window_instead_of_running_the_command

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • The Playback Engine and Hardware setup commands can now apply audio device and buffer-size settings in the desktop app.
  • Buffer sizes from 16 through 8192 are accepted without rounding. Device and buffer settings can be cleared with null.
  • Setup commands report the active device and playback details, including whether settings were applied. Headless use reports applied: false.
• Bug Fixes
  • Invalid device or buffer values are rejected without changing session settings.
  • Delay compensation is applied only after a successful device change.

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The Setup commands now validate and store device and buffer settings in the engine, and the desktop UI applies supplied settings through its audio path. The commands report audio state, and tests cover validation, application, and menu routing.

Changes: Audio setup commands

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Engine settings contract crates/engine/src/cmd/setup_more.rs, docs/gaps.md	The shared handler validates device and buffer settings before changing session values. Buffer sizes must be integers from 16 through 8192 or null; device values must be strings or null. Omitted values remain unchanged, while null clears the corresponding setting. Headless responses report applied: false.
Desktop audio application crates/ui-egui/src/panels/windows.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs, crates/ui-egui/tests/it/*, docs/roadmap.md	setup_audio_command forwards device and buffer settings to the audio-device command, applies delay compensation for setup.playback_engine after a successful device change, and returns audio state. Programmatic calls use this path; menu clicks open the Playback Engine window. Tests cover command behavior and menu reachability.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant run_ui_command
  participant setup_audio_command
  participant audio_device_command
  participant engine
  run_ui_command->>setup_audio_command: command ID and parameters
  setup_audio_command->>audio_device_command: supplied device and buffer settings
  audio_device_command-->>setup_audio_command: device change result
  opt setup.playback_engine and device change succeeds
    setup_audio_command->>engine: apply delay_compensation
    engine-->>setup_audio_command: result or error
  end
  setup_audio_command-->>run_ui_command: audio state or error

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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5c865

Invalid device values are rejected without changing settings, and a desktop request with no player does not claim to have been applied. No identified issue blocks merging after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 5c865

Live device changes reuse existing validation, recording protection, and cleanup behavior. No material security regression was established. Device-failure behavior and authorization outside the inspected command path remain incompletely verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated effect is scoped to the receiving desktop application's audio preferences, player, plugin editors, recorder, and current session delay compensation. Repeated commands can reopen those resources, but the inspected route already exposed this capability through ui.audio_device.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Caller-controlled JSON crosses into live device handling through the existing generic command dispatcher and mutable SoundApp owner. Setup requests reuse audio validation and recording protection rather than directly manipulating streams. This establishes the repository-local control chain, not authentication guarantees for external ingress.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Existing output-failure handling stops transport while preserving a recording take, and reconnect explicitly clears recorder ownership and replaces the player. These recovery owners remain unchanged in the full PR comparison; backend-specific interruption timing was not runtime-verified.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the two affected commands and the main behavior change: applying device and buffer settings in the app while reporting headless handling accurately.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/setup_more.rs:
- Line 192: Validate the device parameter’s type before `device_param` feeds
`engine_settings` or the desktop `audio_device_command` path; reject non-string,
non-null values so they cannot clear the stored device or select default output.
Preserve null and empty-string handling as clear requests.

Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/windows.rs:
- Line 644: Update the hardware setup result’s applied status to reflect whether
SoundApp has a player and a device was actually opened; report false when no
player exists and setup.hardware contains no audio fields, while preserving the
null device and buffer result.
- Around line 643-649: Update the desktop Setup response in the handler
returning this JSON to include the session bit depth, matching the response
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[sanderdewijs]

Merge-order note: this PR and #1076 each pass on their own, but they interact. #1076 makes SoundApp::player private behind app.player(), and this PR still reads app.player directly (setup_audio_command in panels/windows.rs and the audio_device integration test). Git merges them without a conflict there, so the combination only fails at compile time.

• If this PR lands first, I'll convert its uses when I rebase Plugin parameter text and probes through the live instance in the app (#1065) #1076.
• If Plugin parameter text and probes through the live instance in the app (#1065) #1076 lands first, I'll rebase this PR onto it (app.player → app.player()) before it's merged.

[echelon]

Merged. Thank you, @sanderdewijs! If you aren't there yet, come join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/artcraft