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Playback pause freezes position · case 01

The transport clock advances while playback is paused.

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ROOT CAUSE

The transport clock advances while playback is paused.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Apply the explicit PCM/playback contract: Advance a nonnegative playback frame cursor by rendered frames only when not paused.

Unsuccessful approach: Replacing position with block length loses cumulative playback progress.

Case contract

Advance a nonnegative playback frame cursor by rendered frames only when not paused.

Why this case matters

A pure Python local audio pipeline stage with explicit sample formats and frame conventions; no real-time device or signal-spectrum claims.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import math
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(position, frames, paused):
    return position+frames
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1',solve(*(10, 4, True)),10)
check('fixture 2',solve(*(10, 4, False)),14)
check('fixture 3',solve(*(0, 0, False)),0)
check('fixture 4',solve(*(3, 0, True)),3)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 11410Failed
fixture 21414Passed
fixture 300Passed
fixture 433Passed

SHA-256 / 37c0c7a77649497760bc04172316aa7b8ff4dc744632ad45aa139fd2c956b013

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import math
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(position, frames, paused):
    return position if paused else frames
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1',solve(*(10, 4, True)),10)
check('fixture 2',solve(*(10, 4, False)),14)
check('fixture 3',solve(*(0, 0, False)),0)
check('fixture 4',solve(*(3, 0, True)),3)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 11010Passed
fixture 2414Failed
fixture 300Passed
fixture 433Passed

SHA-256 / 2cde6fbd8b96fa2fdfffea8c75ac954fc11f489609372325d094a3589966ec0b

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import math
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(position, frames, paused):
    return position if paused else position+frames
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1',solve(*(10, 4, True)),10)
check('fixture 2',solve(*(10, 4, False)),14)
check('fixture 3',solve(*(0, 0, False)),0)
check('fixture 4',solve(*(3, 0, True)),3)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
fixture 11010Passed
fixture 21414Passed
fixture 300Passed
fixture 433Passed

SHA-256 / 6ce7db1d2d9a895d86d6849df5f7178efd72dee81c8b1540d20be166c04892b1

Verification & scope

This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:38:43.717654+00:00.

Case digest / ac0859bb001f11146afb4b7993bccd31a6880bb473f930c0792e84b121084cce