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Summary

This PR adds native Termux/Android audio support to cliamp through a PulseAudio backend.

The existing Linux audio backend remains unchanged. When built with -tags=termux, cliamp uses PulseAudio directly instead of the Linux/ALSA-based audio stack, allowing the ARM64 binary to run natively on Android/Bionic.

The Termux backend also discovers Termux's PulseAudio Unix socket and starts PulseAudio when necessary.

Closes #417

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How to test

  1. Install PulseAudio in Termux and make sure audio output is working.

  2. Build cliamp natively in Termux:

    go build -tags=termux ./...
  3. Run the resulting ARM64 binary and play a track.

  4. Verify that audio is played through the Android audio output.

  5. Verify the standard Linux build still works:

    go build ./...
  6. Run the test suite:

    make check

Checklist

  • make check passes
  • docs/ and site/index.html updated for user-facing changes

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Termux (Android) support with native PulseAudio output.
    • Added automatic PulseAudio socket discovery and startup fallback on Termux.
    • Added optional PulseAudio diagnostics through CLIAMP_DEBUG_PULSE.
    • Improved playback resilience during PulseAudio connection interruptions and underflow events.
  • Documentation

    • Updated the README and website with Termux support details and -tags=termux build instructions.
    • Clarified that Termux playback uses PulseAudio directly without an ALSA bridge.

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Walkthrough

Cliamp adds native Termux support through a build-tagged PulseAudio backend. Shared speaker wrappers preserve the existing backend on other platforms. Player integration, socket discovery, lifecycle handling, tests, dependency wiring, and documentation are included.

Changes

Termux audio support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Speaker abstraction and player integration
player/speaker.go, player/speaker_beep.go, player/player.go, player/player_test.go
Adds shared speaker operations, preserves the existing backend for non-Termux builds, and routes player operations and lock-based tests through the wrappers.
Termux PulseAudio playback client
player/pulse_termux.go
Adds PulseAudio client setup, stream creation, event handling, playback state, frame delivery, pause/resume, and connection-loss handling.
Termux speaker lifecycle and discovery
player/speaker_termux.go, go.mod
Adds mixer-backed lifecycle supervision, reconnection, cancellation, socket discovery, retry backoff, autospawn, diagnostics, and the direct PulseAudio dependency.
Validation and Termux documentation
player/speaker_termux_test.go, README.md, site/index.html
Adds coverage for discovery, autospawn, lifecycle recovery, cancellation, and reinitialization. Documents Termux builds and PulseAudio behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b8f3f

This change adds native Termux PulseAudio playback and lifecycle handling. Residual risk is limited to incomplete deterministic coverage of retry and Clear-session behavior, which could make future regressions harder to catch; no concrete current playback failure is established.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Player
  participant SpeakerWrappers
  participant termuxSpeaker
  participant PulseAudio
  Player->>SpeakerWrappers: Initialize and play audio
  SpeakerWrappers->>termuxSpeaker: Delegate speaker operations
  termuxSpeaker->>PulseAudio: Create playback stream
  PulseAudio->>termuxSpeaker: Request audio frames
  termuxSpeaker->>PulseAudio: Send mixer samples
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The changes add a Termux build-tagged PulseAudio backend and document native Termux builds, which satisfies the audio compatibility objective in issue #417. The provided changes do not add an ARM64 An… Add or reference the Android/Termux ARM64 build and update release or installation detection so Termux does not receive the regular Linux ARM64 binary. If those changes are intentionally out of scope, update issue #417 or clarify the PR sco…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 44.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 63 functions across 7 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: a native Termux/Android audio backend using PulseAudio.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain related to Termux support. The speaker abstraction, PulseAudio backend, tests, dependency update, and documentation support the stated objectives.
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Explanation

The changes add a Termux build-tagged PulseAudio backend and document native Termux builds, which satisfies the audio compatibility objective in issue #417. The provided changes do not add an ARM64 Android release artifact or Termux-aware release/install detection, which issue #417 also requests.

Resolution

Add or reference the Android/Termux ARM64 build and update release or installation detection so Termux does not receive the regular Linux ARM64 binary. If those changes are intentionally out of scope, update issue #417 or clarify the PR scope instead of claiming full issue completion.


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Inline comments:
In `@player/speaker_termux_test.go`:
- Line 110: Update the test setup around termuxRoot to derive the fixture
directory from t.TempDir() instead of a fixed /tmp path, while preserving the
com.termux component in the resulting PREFIX value and ensuring each test run
uses a unique, automatically cleaned-up directory.

In `@player/speaker_termux.go`:
- Around line 103-104: Synchronize stream startup and teardown in the Speaker
lifecycle: update runStream and Player.Close/Clear so the old stream cannot
start or access the client while t.stream and t.client are being cleared. Reset
started and errored after teardown, preserving safe immediate Play-then-Clear
behavior and allowing playback after New, Close, and New.
- Around line 363-364: Update the PulseAudio startup flow around cmd.Run in
SpeakerInit to use exec.CommandContext with a bounded timeout, canceling the
context after use; return false when the startup command times out or otherwise
fails so socket discovery and initialization cannot block indefinitely.
- Line 248: Update discoverPulseSocketWithProbe’s retry sleep before sleepFunc
so the requested backoff is capped at the time remaining until the 500 ms
deadline, using deadline.Sub(nowFunc()). Preserve the existing retry sequence
while ensuring no sleep exceeds the remaining deadline.
- Around line 88-96: Update termuxSpeaker.runStream and the surrounding Player
lifecycle so PulseAudio stream failures are propagated to Player rather than
only stored in errored: detect failures that occur after Start returns, close
and recreate the client and stream, and reset started only once recovery is
ready so subsequent Play calls restart audio.

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- Line 118: The Clear path must not reset started while runStream may still
invoke PlaybackStream.Start, because Play → Clear → Play can launch competing
stream goroutines and leave one blocked on the unbuffered startup notification.
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Remove the fake PulseAudio initialization from the Clear tests.

makeSocket only listens and has no protocol handler. pulse.NewClient sends SetClientName and Subscribe, so Init can fail and skip the tests. Remove Init from the first two tests. For TestClear_DoesNotTouchStream, use a non-nil zero-value pulse.PlaybackStream. For TestPlay_ClearThenPlay_PreservesStarted, provide a valid stream fixture or test the CAS boundary directly; with stream == nil, Play never reaches CompareAndSwap.

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In `@player/speaker_termux_test.go` at line 428, Remove the fake PulseAudio Init
calls from the first two Clear tests at player/speaker_termux_test.go:428-428
and 453-455. In TestClear_DoesNotTouchStream, use a non-nil zero-value
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player/speaker_termux_test.go:483-485, provide a valid stream fixture or test
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In `@player/speaker_termux.go`:
- Around line 153-154: Update runStream to observe PulseAudio connection loss
throughout the stream lifetime, including before the started notification,
rather than checking stream.Error only after stream.Start returns. Ensure loss
wakes blocked startup and triggers recreation of the active stream so Play
recovery works after daemon restarts, and add regressions covering both
pre-start and post-start disconnects.

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- Line 428: Remove the fake PulseAudio Init calls from the first two Clear tests
at player/speaker_termux_test.go:428-428 and 453-455. In
TestClear_DoesNotTouchStream, use a non-nil zero-value pulse.PlaybackStream; in
TestPlay_ClearThenPlay_PreservesStarted at
player/speaker_termux_test.go:483-485, provide a valid stream fixture or test
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In `@player/pulse_termux.go`:
- Line 414: Update the startup notification flow around notifyStarted and the
ready condition so an Underflow received before Started cannot suppress the
started signal; alternatively, add a deadline to the StartContext startup wait.
Preserve underflow handling after startup while ensuring StartContext always
either observes Started or exits through a bounded timeout.
- Around line 117-119: Update termuxPulseClient.monitor to poll GetServerInfo
only while playback is active and uncorked, so idle sessions and suspended
playback do not perform health checks. Preserve ConnectionClosed handling for
detecting passive connection loss, and use the existing session/playback state
symbols rather than introducing a separate lifecycle mechanism.

In `@player/speaker_beep.go`:
- Line 20: Update beepSpeaker.Close so it does not invoke SpeakerClose; keep the
shared speaker initialized for later player.New calls. Use the existing
SpeakerClear or SpeakerSuspend behavior instead, while preserving the Close
method’s cleanup intent.

In `@player/speaker_termux.go`:
- Line 354: In the session supervision loop, stop resetting backoff during
session creation; record the session start time after it successfully starts,
and reset backoff on the stream Done() path only when the session has remained
active for at least one second. Preserve escalation for sessions that drop
sooner, using the existing backoff and session state flow.

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- Line 393: Update the stable-session timing logic around startedAt to use the
injected nowFunc clock: initialize startedAt with nowFunc() and calculate
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