# DeepDrft — Design & Streaming Audit (2026-05-17)

Two parallel analyses commissioned on 2026-05-17:
1. **Design Audit** — SOLID compliance, DRY violations, encapsulation, documentation, modularity across all 8 projects.
2. **Streaming Evaluation** — Functional correctness, error handling, state machine integrity, performance, and missing capabilities in the audio streaming pipeline.

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## Part 1: SOLID / DRY / Modularity Design Audit

**Reviewer:** code-reviewer  
**Scope:** All 8 projects — DeepDrftModels, DeepDrftWeb.Services, DeepDrftWeb (host), DeepDrftWeb.Client, DeepDrftContent (host), DeepDrftContent.Services, DeepDrftCli, DeepDrftTests.

**Overall Assessment:** The macro architecture is sound — the host/services split is honoured, dual-database responsibilities are cleanly divided, and the FileDatabase subsystem is notably well-structured. The most pressing issues are a concurrency hazard in the `VaultIndexDirectory` lock, a silent data-loss risk in `TrackRepository.Update`, and several smaller modularity leaks. Most findings are in the Major/Minor tier; there are no broad design failures.

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### 🔴 Critical

**`DeepDrftContent.Services/FileDatabase/Services/IndexSystem.cs:98–128` — Lock released before async disk write; race window on index corruption**

`VaultIndexDirectory.AddToIndexAsync` takes `_indexLock` to mutate `_vaultIndex`, then releases it before calling `SaveIndexAsync` (which writes JSON to disk). If a second call arrives after the lock drop but before the file write finishes, it can read stale in-memory state and overwrite with an older version of the index. The `ReloadIndexAsync` path shares the same lock pattern. Fix: persist the in-memory state to a local snapshot before the lock releases, or ensure `SaveIndexAsync` is called inside the lock (acceptable because file I/O is the only async operation and the lock is not held across unrelated waits).

**`DeepDrftWeb.Services/Repositories/TrackRepository.cs:47–65` — `Update` silently creates a new record when `Id` is not found**

If a caller passes a `TrackEntity` with a non-existent `Id`, `Update` falls through to `Create`, issuing an `INSERT` instead of signalling an error. The service wraps this in a `ResultContainer` that will report success, giving the caller no indication that the semantics changed. This matters in the CLI's `ValidateAndUpdateTrackAsync` path. Fix: return a `Result.CreateFailResult("Track not found")` instead of calling `Create`.

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### 🟡 Major

**`DeepDrftContent.Services/FileDatabase/Services/FileDatabase.cs:120–138` — Vacuous try/catch/throw in `CreateVaultAsync`**

The try block catches everything and immediately rethrows. It adds no logging, no transformation, and no cleanup — it is pure noise that also prevents the method from following the project's established exception-swallowing contract for public FileDatabase operations. Either adopt the swallow-and-return-false pattern (matching the rest of the public API) or remove the try/catch entirely.

**`DeepDrftContent.Services/TrackService.cs:78–81` — Re-throws `InvalidOperationException` wrapping every exception, including cancellation**

`AddTrackFromWavAsync` catches `Exception ex` in the outer handler and always rethrows as `new InvalidOperationException(...)`. This swallows `OperationCanceledException`, which will lose the cooperative-cancellation semantics expected by the CLI and any future async callers. Fix: add `when (ex is not OperationCanceledException)` to the catch filter, or rethrow cancelled exceptions unwrapped.

**`DeepDrftContent.Services/FileDatabase/Services/IndexSystem.cs:122` — `Console.WriteLine` used for structured diagnostics in library code**

`VaultIndexDirectory.ReloadIndexAsync` and `IndexWatcher.cs` both emit diagnostic output directly to `Console.WriteLine`. The `DeepDrftContent.Services` library has no dependency on `ILogger`, so when hosted inside ASP.NET Core the messages bypass the structured logging pipeline (no log level, no correlation, no sink routing). Fix: inject `ILogger<T>` into `FileDatabase` and propagate it to `VaultIndexDirectory` and `IndexWatcher`, or accept the logger as an optional constructor parameter so tests can omit it.

**`DeepDrftWeb.Services/TrackService.cs:60–76` — Sort-sentinel strings constructed per-service-instance with 64-char aggregations**

The `_sortLastAscending` and `_sortLastDescending` fields use `Enumerable.Repeat(..., 64).Aggregate(...)` — a per-instance heap allocation at construction time. The idiomatic version is `entity.Album ?? ""` (for ascending nulls-to-end). Also note that `_sortLastDescending` is never actually used in the switch — only `_sortLastAscending` is referenced — so one field is entirely dead.

**`DeepDrftWeb.Services/TrackRepository.cs:28–36` — `GetPage` counts all rows then queries a potentially sorted subset; count and page can be inconsistent under concurrent writes**

`CountAsync()` and `ToListAsync()` are two separate database round-trips without a transaction. Under concurrent inserts/deletes a caller could receive a page count for N rows but a page containing N±k rows. More concretely: if filtering is ever added, the `count` query will silently return the wrong `TotalCount`. Consider combining into a single query or adding a comment explaining the deliberate trade-off.

**`DeepDrftContent.Services/FileDatabase/Services/FileDatabase.cs:79–99` — `IndexFactoryService` instantiated on every `GetVaultTypeFromIndex` call**

Each call constructs a fresh `IndexFactoryService` complete with two `Dictionary<IndexType, Func<...>>` initializations. `FileDatabase` already holds `_vaults` and `_indexWatcher` as fields; the factory should be the same. Promote to a private field.

**`DeepDrftModels/DTOs/TrackDto.cs:7–8` — `TrackName` and `Artist` are not `required` while their entity counterparts are**

A `new TrackDto()` object silently has null `TrackName` and `Artist`, which can cause NREs or invalid-data bugs if a DTO is instantiated directly. Add `required` to both or annotate with `[NotNull]` and a comment explaining the intentional deviation.

**`DeepDrftWeb.Client/Services/AudioPlayerService.cs` — Base class `StreamAudio` allocates a new `byte[32KB]` buffer on every loop iteration**

Produces GC pressure proportional to audio file size. `StreamingAudioPlayerService` correctly uses `ArrayPool<byte>.Shared`. Use `ArrayPool` in both paths.

**`DeepDrftCli/Services/GuiService.cs` — `TruncateString` is duplicated verbatim from `CliService`**

`GuiService.TruncateString` and `CliService.TruncateString` are identical private methods. Extract to a shared `CliUtils` static class in the `DeepDrftCli` project.

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### 🟢 Minor / Style

**`DeepDrftContent.Services/FileDatabase/Models/MediaModels.cs:119–123` and `169–173` — `GetExtensionType` duplicated in `ImageBinary` and `AudioBinary`**

Both subclasses define identical single-line forwarding methods. The call sites could reference `MimeTypeExtensions.GetExtension` directly, or the method could live once in `MediaBinary` as `protected static`.

**`DeepDrftContent.Services/FileDatabase/Models/MediaFactories.cs:58` — Multiple `SimpleMediaTypeRegistry` instances across static factory classes**

`MediaVaultTypeMap`, `MetaDataFactory`, `MediaParamsFactory`, `FileBinaryFactory`, and `FileBinaryDtoFactory` each hold their own `private static readonly IMediaTypeRegistry` instance. They should share one.

**`DeepDrftWeb.Services/TrackService.cs` — No interface for `TrackService`; concrete type injected directly**

`TrackController` and `CliService` both depend on concrete `TrackService`. Defining `ITrackService` (or even a minimal `IReadTrackService`) would improve testability and remove the namespace disambiguation noise in `CliService.cs`.

**`DeepDrftWeb.Services/TrackService.cs:11–12` — Dead field `_sortLastDescending`**

Declared but never used in the sort switch. Remove it.

**`DeepDrftWeb.Client/Services/AudioPlayerService.cs` — Commented-out code**

`DarkModeSettings.cs` has commented-out `IsDarkModeChanged` event. `AudioPlayerService.SelectTrack` has `// NotifyStateChanged();` commented out. Either remove or document with a `// TODO` explaining intent.

**`DeepDrftWeb.Services/TrackRepository.cs:32` — `Skip` recalculated manually**

Uses `(pageParameters.Page - 1) * pageParameters.PageSize` instead of `pageParameters.Skip`. Use `pageParameters.Skip`.

**`DeepDrftModels/Models/PagedResult.cs:30` — `?? new List<T>()` guard is unreachable**

`items.ToList() ?? new List<T>()` — `ToList()` never returns null. Remove the null-coalescing branch.

**`DeepDrftContent/Controllers/TrackController.cs` — Controller calls `FileDatabase` directly, bypassing `TrackService`**

`GetTrack` and `PutTrack` call `_fileDatabase.LoadResourceAsync` and `RegisterResourceAsync` directly. The controller and CLI service have different entry paths into FileDatabase. If vault initialisation logic changes in `TrackService`, the controller will not pick it up.

**`DeepDrftWeb.Client/Services/AudioInteropService.cs:223–241` — `InvokeJsAsync<T>` uses runtime type-checking switch**

Adding a new result type requires updating this method. Adding an `IOperationResult` marker interface would let the method use a generic constraint and remove the `typeof` switch.

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### 💡 Suggestions

**No rollback for orphaned vault entries on dual-database write failure.** A compensating mechanism — even a simple `DeadLetterLog` recording orphaned `entryKey` values — would allow a maintenance pass to clean up without manually auditing the vault.

**`StructuralMap` and `StructuralSet` are `Dictionary<string, T>` wrappers for string keys.** The `GetKeyString` fast-path means no JSON overhead occurs in production. Consider whether plain `Dictionary<string, T>` and `HashSet<string>` would serve the same purpose with less indirection.

**`AudioPlayerService.StreamAudio` and `StreamingAudioPlayerService.StreamAudioWithEarlyPlayback` share the read-loop skeleton.** A shared `protected async Task ReadChunks(...)` helper in the base class would unify progress reporting and the do/while structure.

**`IPlayerService` interface exposes `EventCallback?` (a Blazor-specific type) as a settable property.** This leaks a UI framework dependency into a service contract. An `event Action StateChanged` pattern is framework-agnostic.

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### ✅ Positive Observations

- **The host/services split is genuinely honoured.** Every piece of domain logic is in a `*.Services` project; hosts contain only controllers, middleware, DI wiring, and config. `DeepDrftCli` consuming both service libraries without taking ASP.NET dependencies is a direct payoff of this discipline.
- **The FileDatabase abstraction layer is well-designed.** The `IMediaTypeRegistry` / `SimpleMediaTypeRegistry` pattern cleanly centralises all type-specific factory logic, avoids reflection entirely, and the registration-time lambda approach is expressive.
- **`WavOffsetService` is precise and well-explained.** Block alignment is correctly applied, the chunk-walking loop handles non-fixed-header WAV files (LIST chunks, INFO chunks), and the early-return guards are tight.
- **Result pattern usage is consistent.** Services return `ResultContainer<T>` / `Result`; callers check `.Success` rather than catching; applied uniformly across the SQL-side and CLI paths.
- **Test isolation is solid.** Unique temp-directory per test, best-effort `[TearDown]` cleanup, and `ArrayPool`-safe test data via `TestData.cs` mean test runs are genuinely independent and fast.
- **`TrackDto` / `TrackEntity` separation is preserved** even though today they are structurally identical. This seam means the API response shape can diverge from the database shape without a refactor.

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## Part 2: Streaming System Functional Evaluation

**Evaluator:** staff-engineer  
**Scope:** TypeScript audio pipeline (StreamDecoder, PlaybackScheduler, AudioContextManager, AudioPlayer, SpectrumAnalyzer, wavutils.ts) + C# streaming server (WavOffsetService, AudioProcessor, StreamingAudioPlayerService, AudioInteropService, TrackController).

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### ✅ What's Working Well

- **Clean SRP decomposition on the JS side.** `AudioContextManager` / `StreamDecoder` / `PlaybackScheduler` / `SpectrumAnalyzer` each own one responsibility; `AudioPlayer` is a thin composer.
- **The seek-beyond-buffer architecture is genuinely good.** Synthesising a fresh 44-byte WAV header server-side and tearing down only the decoder (not the AudioContext or scheduler offset bookkeeping) is the right seam. `playbackOffset` cleanly bridges "the buffer array starts at time T."
- **Block alignment is observed on both sides** (`WavOffsetService.alignedOffset` and `StreamDecoder.calculateByteOffset`). Both round down to `blockAlign` boundaries — correct invariant for click-free seek.
- **Adaptive chunk sizing on the C# side is sensible.** 16–64 KB with hysteresis avoids thrashing.
- **`HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead`** used correctly — playback can start before the full payload arrives.
- **Sample-rate matching via `recreateWithSampleRate`** re-creates the context at the source rate rather than forcing resampling.
- **Lookahead scheduler (500 ms)** is well-chosen — enough to absorb GC jitter without scheduling so far ahead that pause/seek latency becomes user-visible.
- **`ArrayPool<byte>.Shared` rental** in `StreamAudioWithEarlyPlayback` is correct for a hot loop on large files.
- **Spectrum animation throttled to ~30 fps** and gated by subscriber count — JS interop is the expensive seam, not RAF.

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### 🔴 Critical

**1. Concurrent seeks race the streaming loop; cancellation does not await the previous loop's exit.**

`DeepDrftWeb.Client/Services/StreamingAudioPlayerService.cs` — `SeekBeyondBuffer` cancels `_streamingCancellation` and immediately disposes it, then constructs a new one and calls `StreamAudioWithEarlyPlayback`. The previously-running loop's `ReadAsync` will throw `OperationCanceledException` *asynchronously*, after the new loop has already begun pushing chunks to JS. Both loops can be calling `ProcessStreamingChunk` interleaved against the same `StreamDecoder` instance until the old one unwinds. The JS decoder is single-instance per player and cannot distinguish "old stream's late chunk" from "new stream's first chunk."

**Recommendation:** Track the active stream generation as a counter; on each new stream, increment and capture locally; gate `ProcessStreamingChunk` calls on `generation === currentGeneration`. Also `await` the previous streaming task before reinitializing.

**2. Garbage trailing bytes shipped to JS (silent audio corruption).**

`StreamingAudioPlayerService.cs:167` — `currentBytes == _currentBufferSize ? buffer : buffer[..currentBytes]`. When `currentBytes == _currentBufferSize`, the full `MaxBufferSize` rented array (dirty from `ArrayPool`) is passed to JS interop. Blazor serializes *all* of it including stale bytes past `currentBytes`. The decoder adds garbage audio data.

**Recommendation:** Drop the conditional; always pass `buffer.AsMemory(0, currentBytes).ToArray()`.

**3. Final-tail audio silently dropped at EOF.**

`DeepDrftWeb/Interop/wavutils.ts:176–191` — `getSampleAlignedChunkSize` returns 0 when remaining bytes < minimum decode frame (`512 bytes / 10 frames`). Those bytes are never decoded. `isComplete` eventually flips true, but `tryDecodeNextSegment` has already returned `null` and the trailing audio is silently discarded.

**Recommendation:** Track "stream-complete" state in `StreamDecoder` and, once `isComplete`, decode whatever remains regardless of the minimum.

**4. First chunk assumed to contain the entire WAV header.**

`DeepDrftWeb/Interop/audio/StreamDecoder.ts:58–79` and `wavutils.ts:12–101` — If the first network chunk is < 44 bytes (possible at TCP segment boundaries), `parseHeader` returns `null` and the decoder throws fatal "Invalid WAV header in first chunk." Also breaks on non-trivial headers with LIST/INFO/JUNK chunks extending past the first chunk.

**Recommendation:** Accumulate raw bytes until `parseHeader` returns non-null before flipping `isFirstChunk`. The current `rawChunks` array is already designed to grow — feed pre-header bytes into it the same way and re-attempt parse on each chunk until success.

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### 🟡 Major

**5. Format inconsistency: WavOffsetService / AudioProcessor / wavutils.ts disagree on PCM vs. IEEE Float.**

`AudioProcessor.ValidateWavStructure` only accepts PCM (format 1). `WavOffsetService` accepts PCM + IEEE Float (format 3). `WavOffsetService.CreateWavHeader` hard-codes `(short)1` in the synthesized header. A seek on a Float32 WAV would produce a corrupt header claiming PCM with Float-encoded data.

**Recommendation:** Standardize on PCM-only everywhere; enforce identically in all three places; have `CreateWavHeader` accept format as a parameter.

**6. `seekBeyondBuffer` rejects offset 0 as invalid.**

`DeepDrftWeb/Interop/audio/AudioPlayer.ts:288` — `if (byteOffset <= 0) return error`. `calculateByteOffset(0)` returns 0 legitimately (seek to start). A play-from-zero after a long-running stream cannot recover.

**Recommendation:** Change the guard to `byteOffset < 0`.

**7. Server allocates full `byte[]` for every request — no true server-side streaming.**

`DeepDrftContent/Controllers/TrackController.cs:47` — `return File(file.Buffer, mimeType)`. `LoadResourceAsync<AudioBinary>` reads the entire file into memory. A 100 MB WAV = 100 MB LOH allocation per request.

**Recommendation:** Add a `LoadResourceStreamAsync` overload returning an open `FileStream`. Have the controller pass it to `File(stream, mime, enableRangeProcessing: true)`.

**8. `?offset=` query parameter instead of HTTP `Range` headers.**

The architecture re-invents byte-range streaming on top of a custom query parameter, defeating HTTP caching (CDN sees `?offset=1234567` as a distinct URL) and preventing use of `enableRangeProcessing: true`. This is architecture-intentional (requires `decodeAudioData` for spectrum analysis) — but the trade-off should be documented. Note: `MediaElementAudioSourceNode` would still permit FFT tap on the audio graph with native range/seek/cache.

**9. 5-second decode timeout silently drops segments.**

`StreamDecoder.ts:166–175` — on decode timeout, `tryDecodeNextSegment` catches and returns `null`. The bytes are consumed (`processedBytes` was already advanced), creating a silent ~0.37 s audio gap.

**Recommendation:** On decode failure, decrement `processedBytes` by the segment size for retry, or fail the stream loudly.

**10. `playFromPosition` silently no-ops when position equals total duration.**

`PlaybackScheduler.ts:101–113` — if `position` exactly equals total duration, the loop falls through with `startBufferIndex == buffers.length`. A pause near end-of-stream followed by play cannot resume.

**Recommendation:** Clamp to `getTotalDuration() - epsilon` before searching, or detect end-of-stream and call `handlePlaybackEnded`.

**11. `AudioPlayer.play()` does not `await ensureReady()`.**

`AudioPlayer.ts:190` — `this.contextManager.ensureReady()` returns a Promise that is never awaited. On a backgrounded tab with a suspended AudioContext, `createBufferSource` and `source.start` run against a suspended context; audio silently fails.

**Recommendation:** Make `play()` async and `await ensureReady()`.

**12. Progress callbacks fire after disposal; `AudioPlayerProvider` has no `IAsyncDisposable`.**

`AudioPlayer.ts:455–460` and `AudioInteropService.cs:288–292` — the JS `setInterval` holds `DotNetObjectReference` after component unmount, throwing every 100 ms. `AudioPlayerProvider` has no `IAsyncDisposable`, so layout teardown leaks the streaming task, AudioContext, and HTTP connection.

**Recommendation:** Make `AudioPlayerProvider` implement `IAsyncDisposable` and call `_audioPlayerService.DisposeAsync()` on dispose.

**13. No cancellation token on the HTTP GET for streaming.**

`StreamingAudioPlayerService` streams without a `CancellationToken` passed to `_http.GetAsync`. Navigation mid-load leaves a server connection draining bytes into the void.

**Recommendation:** Pass the streaming `CancellationToken` through to `TrackMediaClient.GetTrackMedia` and the underlying `_http.GetAsync`.

**14. `WavOffsetService.CreateOffsetStream` allocates the full offset stream upfront in a `MemoryStream`.**

For a 1 MB seek into a 100 MB file, this allocates 99 MB into a fresh `MemoryStream`. Pure waste.

**Recommendation:** Return a custom composite `Stream` wrapping the synthesized header followed by `new MemoryStream(fullAudioBuffer, headerSize + alignedOffset, newDataSize, writable: false)`.

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### 🟢 Minor

**15. `playbackAnchorTime == 0` as is-playing sentinel is brittle.** `AudioContext.currentTime` is technically allowed to be 0 at context creation. Use the `isActive_` flag that already exists.

**16. Non-WAV upload error message is unhelpful.** "Invalid WAV header in first chunk" falls through to `StreamingErrorHandler` as "Unable to play audio. Please try again." Add a `"header"` / `"wav"` match to the error handler.

**17. `new TextDecoder()` allocated inside chunk-walk loop in `parseHeader`.** `TextDecoder` instantiation is non-trivial. Allocate once at the top of `parseHeader`.

**18. `WavOffsetService.CreateOffsetStream` allocates full offset stream upfront.** (See Major finding 14 — this Minor note is the scope annotation; the fix is the same.)

**19. `MimeTypeExtensions.GetExtension` for unmapped mime returns `.bin`.** Silently renames unknown types. Reject unknown mime types at the PUT controller instead.

**20. `AudioProcessor.cs` `FindChunk` returns first match; `WavOffsetService.ParseWavHeader` uses last match.** Inconsistent behaviour on malformed WAV with two `fmt ` chunks. Pick one.

**21. `processedBytes` and `totalRawBytes` are `number` (double) — correct for ≤ 2^53 bytes.** Note for posterity; not a real risk at audio file sizes.

**22. `SpectrumAnalyzer.dataArray` typed `Float32Array<ArrayBuffer>` — requires TypeScript ≥ 5.7.** Confirm `tsconfig.json` target.

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### 🚫 Missing Capabilities

- **Backward seek is broken.** Seeks below `playbackOffset` silently clamp to start of the current buffer segment, not the user's chosen time. To truly seek backward requires the same "re-fetch from offset" path as forward-beyond-buffer. **This is the highest-impact missing feature.**
- **Format diversity.** PCM/IEEE Float WAV only. MP3 / FLAC / Ogg / AAC / M4A are MIME-mapped but unimplemented.
- **Preload / prefetch next track.** No mechanism to start the next track's stream during the tail of the current.
- **Crossfade.** Two simultaneous `PlaybackScheduler`s would suffice architecturally; nothing wires it.
- **Gapless playback.** Inter-track gap is unmanaged.
- **HTTP Range + cache integration.** See finding 8.
- **Server-side stream from disk.** See finding 7.
- **Track-skip on error.** A failed `processStreamingChunk` aborts the entire load; no concept of skipping bad bytes to recover.

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### 🌐 Browser Compatibility

- **`AudioContext` with explicit `sampleRate`** — Safari ≤ 14 ignored the `sampleRate` constructor option. Safari 14.1+ honors it.
- **`webkitAudioContext` fallback exists** (`AudioContextManager.ts:21`) — good. But `webkitAudioContext.close()` is async-but-not-Promise on older Safari; the `await` resolves immediately and the next `initialize` may run against a not-yet-closed context.
- **`AnalyserNode.getFloatFrequencyData`** — supported everywhere modern.
- **`AudioBufferSourceNode.onended`** — fires reliably; in Firefox, fires on next microtask rather than the audio thread. `handleSourceEnded` scheduling more buffers immediately is fine.
- **`HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead` + WASM HttpClient** — depends on browser's streaming fetch support. All evergreen browsers handle this; iOS Safari < 15 had quirks.
- **`Uint8Array` over JS interop** — Blazor serializes via base64. 64 KB chunks incur base64 overhead on every chunk push.

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### 🏆 Top 5 Priorities (Streaming)

1. Fix finding 2 — garbage trailing bytes shipped to JS (silent audio corruption)
2. Fix finding 3 — final-tail audio dropped at EOF (silent audio truncation)
3. Fix finding 1 — concurrent seek race (reproducible by rapid scrub bar clicks)
4. Implement backward seek (fundamental UX gap)
5. Fix findings 12 & 13 — `AudioPlayerProvider` disposal + HTTP cancellation (session leaks)

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*Generated 2026-05-17. Both analyses are read-only — no code was changed.*
