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feat(tide-table): recover a tracklist from one room mic, when every existing lens is blind · 470cc882
PLN downloaded the CosmicFest capture and called it "an interesting test". It is: a 63-minute handheld stage-mic MP3, and all three boundary lenses the toolbox owns need something it does not have. Orbit-activity needs stems, there are none. The gig-log `track` events are the real tracklist, but the 1 Hz recorder never ran that night — newest session is 2026-08-20. Gap detection assumes a set stops between tracks, and a livecoded set does not. What is left is audio, plus one large advantage: we know what was prepped, so this is matching over ~23 candidates rather than open discovery. PLN warns "the set was slightly altered", so candidates are treated as candidates — presence is strong evidence, absence is weak. Two lenses, because neither is sufficient. Tempo finds seams but cannot name them: five candidates sit at 120 BPM and three at 124, and tempo from audio is only ever determined up to a factor of two. Sample signature names a segment, and PLN pointed at exactly the right prior art — sample_tfidf.py already computes which sounds IDENTIFY a track. take5 and love_parade are df=1; jungle_breaks is in 80 tracks and worthless. 15 of 23 candidates carry a sound rare enough (df<=6) to fingerprint; 19 such banks, 533k reference hashes. Constellation fingerprints rather than correlation, because the reference is a dry one-shot off disk and the query is that sound through a PA, a room, a limiter, "ppl messed with it", and a 320 kbps encode. Peak constellations encode only which time-frequency points stick up locally, which survives all of that. My first attempt at extracting banks was wrong and the output said so: 9 tokens across 23 tracks, every count 1, and a label reading "shares every bank" that actually meant "nothing parsed". The regex looked for `s "name"` while the ParVagues idiom applies a bare string — `$ "meth_bass" # n "..."`. The fix was not a better regex, it was using the parser that already existed. The docstring carries the limits because they are easy to launder: a detection means the SOUND occurred, not that the TRACK played, since banks get reused live. Recall is asymmetric — a track whose signature never sounded is invisible. And vote counts are not comparable between banks, because a 582-file bank offers far more chances to match than a 4-file one. Also adds `lcxl3.py sniff`: capture raw SysEx in full. The custom-mode format is undocumented, and Components writes modes to the device over SysEx — capturing those bytes is the difference between a layout authored in lcxl_grid.py and one merely stored in a web app.
PLN (Algolia) authored470cc882
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