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FA-11011 / Audio playback scheduling / Open access

Scheduled start silence prefix · case 01

Playback starts at the beginning of the callback instead of the scheduled offset.

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ROOT CAUSE

Playback starts at the beginning of the callback instead of the scheduled offset.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Apply the explicit PCM/playback contract: Render exactly nonnegative size samples for a sound starting after nonnegative delay frames, with silence before start and after source end.

Unsuccessful approach: Appending delay silence postpones silence rather than the sound onset.

Case contract

Render exactly nonnegative size samples for a sound starting after nonnegative delay frames, with silence before start and after source end.

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(samples, delay, size):
    return list(samples[:size])+[0]*max(0,size-len(samples))
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1',solve(*([1, 2], 2, 5)),[0, 0, 1, 2, 0])
check('fixture 2',solve(*([1, 2], 0, 2)),[1, 2])
check('fixture 3',solve(*([1], 4, 2)),[0, 0])
check('fixture 4',solve(*([], 1, 3)),[0, 0, 0])
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 1[1, 2, 0, 0, 0][0, 0, 1, 2, 0]Failed
fixture 2[1, 2][1, 2]Passed
fixture 3[1, 0][0, 0]Failed
fixture 4[0, 0, 0][0, 0, 0]Passed

SHA-256 / bde25f98f33725ec78a2c7861bfcbe04380b919932ea6ce71dbf547b79ecb099

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import math
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(samples, delay, size):
    return list(samples[:max(0,size-delay)])+[0]*min(delay,size)
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1',solve(*([1, 2], 2, 5)),[0, 0, 1, 2, 0])
check('fixture 2',solve(*([1, 2], 0, 2)),[1, 2])
check('fixture 3',solve(*([1], 4, 2)),[0, 0])
check('fixture 4',solve(*([], 1, 3)),[0, 0, 0])
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 1[1, 2, 0, 0][0, 0, 1, 2, 0]Failed
fixture 2[1, 2][1, 2]Passed
fixture 3[0, 0][0, 0]Passed
fixture 4[0][0, 0, 0]Failed

SHA-256 / b2534cfbf33860d16c1eb2401376fae957b7e5e8e7ec0bb9fba2984066ae9787

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json
import math
N = 1
observations = []
def solve(samples, delay, size):
    return ([0]*delay+list(samples))[:size]+[0]*max(0,size-delay-len(samples))
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('fixture 1',solve(*([1, 2], 2, 5)),[0, 0, 1, 2, 0])
check('fixture 2',solve(*([1, 2], 0, 2)),[1, 2])
check('fixture 3',solve(*([1], 4, 2)),[0, 0])
check('fixture 4',solve(*([], 1, 3)),[0, 0, 0])
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 1[0, 0, 1, 2, 0][0, 0, 1, 2, 0]Passed
fixture 2[1, 2][1, 2]Passed
fixture 3[0, 0][0, 0]Passed
fixture 4[0, 0, 0][0, 0, 0]Passed

SHA-256 / ba36cf38795c7c8c4c0675170a06e19897934a0fdbdfee5eaa59f06454474afc

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 2026-09-29T14:38:44.215437+00:00.

Case digest / d78faf69e94c8abdf0056c25e11d4241e681429f21da09836049205bbb1e2fa8