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• Functionality has been tested, no obvious bugs
• Code style follows project conventions
• Documentation/comments updated (if applicable)

Root cause

Audio looping is implemented in ViewerPanel.MediaEnded by resetting MediaPosition and calling Play() again. That restarts/seeks the DirectShow graph after EC_COMPLETE, so every iteration is separated by the graph restart latency. The reported 100鈥?50 ms gap reproduces as roughly 105鈥?15 ms between loops on this machine.

Changes

• For audio-only files with looping enabled, play the file through an NAudio MediaFoundationReader and a small IWaveProvider that wraps back to byte 0 at the end of the stream. The next iteration is produced from the same decoder without reopening or seeking the DirectShow graph.
• The DirectShow path is unchanged for video and for audio formats that Media Foundation cannot decode. Those formats keep the previous loop behavior.
• If looping is enabled while a DirectShow audio preview is already playing, the preview switches to the NAudio player at the current position. This causes a one-time transition pause of about 235 ms; subsequent loops have no gap.
• Progress, seek, pause/resume, volume and lyrics now use the active player (DirectShow or NAudio).
• No new user-visible strings, so no translation updates are needed.

Verification

• Built QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer in Debug and Release with the .NET 10 SDK: 0 errors (only the pre-existing missing MinimumRecommendedRules.ruleset warning).
• Hosted the real ViewerPanel in a net462 WPF harness and played a synthesized 2.0 s, 48 kHz, 16-bit stereo 440 Hz WAV. Captured the default render endpoint with WASAPI loopback, measured RMS in 5 ms windows, and treated runs >=10 ms below 3% of peak RMS as silence.
• Before the change, the same setup measured 115 ms, 105 ms and 105 ms gaps at the three loop boundaries in a 7 s capture.
• After the change, a 7 s capture (three loops) had no gaps at loop boundaries, both when loop was enabled before playback and when it was toggled on during playback. The only silence was before playback started (and the one-time switch pause when toggling mid-playback).
• Verified video playback and seeking still work through the existing DirectShow path.
• Verified an OGG file (not decodable by Media Foundation) still plays and loops through the DirectShow fallback. That fallback keeps the old gapped loop behavior.
• MP3 decoding through MediaFoundationReader was smoke-tested for playback, position and duration.

Review follow-up

Addressed the 5 unresolved review threads in commit 6f69bd2c:

• AudioFilePlayer: apply Volume after WaveOutEvent.Init and inside the existing cleanup try.
• AudioFilePlayer.Seek: playing seeks now stop and defer the restart to PlaybackStopped (the NAudio worker has exited by then); paused seeks perform a stop-to-flush and stay paused; stopped seeks only move the reader.
• ViewerPanel.TryStartAudioPlayer: carry the live mediaElement.Volume into the player transition instead of re-reading the persisted VolumeDouble setting.
• ViewerPanel.TryStartAudioPlayer delayed-start timer: removed the stale second Seek(position); the timer only starts playback after the ownership check.
• ViewerPanel dispose ordering and the non-video play path are unchanged.

Review-follow-up verification (headless, no GUI):

• Rebuilt QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer in Debug and Release with .NET SDK 10.0.404: 0 errors, 2 warnings (the pre-existing missing MinimumRecommendedRules.ruleset).
• Out-of-repo harness linked the PR's AudioFilePlayer with NAudio 1.10.0 and played a 4 s, 48 kHz WAV (300 Hz region then 3 kHz region) through the default render endpoint.
• Volume: TryCreate(..., 0.30) returned a player with Volume ~0.30; TryCreate(..., 0.0) read back ~0.00.
• Seeking while playing: 50 iterations ended with IsPlaying = true and 0 interruptions. The unpatched c0995612 binary in the same harness ended the run with IsPlaying = false, reproducing the worker-restart bug.
• Paused seek: after pause at ~0.8 s and a seek to 2.6 s, WASAPI loopback showed the first resume window at ~3000 Hz. The unpatched binary showed ~300 Hz there (queued old-position audio).
• The GUI paths for the loop-transition volume and the 200 ms delayed seek were not exercised end-to-end; they are covered by the build and the player-level harness only.

Not verified / limitations

• The full QuickLook app GUI was not run end-to-end; testing hosted ViewerPanel directly. The main app build requires local WiX/Visual Studio resource tooling that is not available here.
• Loop-boundary measurements cover WAV. Other Media Foundation formats (MP3/AAC/WMA/FLAC) use the same sample-level loop, but codec-level encoder padding may still affect the perceived boundary.
• Media-key/System Media Transport Controls integration remains on the DirectShow path, so audio previews using the NAudio loop path are not published to SMTC.
• NAudio 1.10.0 is used because the plugin targets .NET Framework 4.6.2.

Fixes #2021

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Walkthrough

The VideoViewer adds an NAudio playback path for audio-only media. ViewerPanel routes playback state and controls through the active player, and its time displays and progress slider use shared media properties.

Changes: Audio playback

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Audio player and looping QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer/AudioTrack/AudioFilePlayer.cs, QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer/QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer.csproj	The project adds NAudio 1.10.0 and an audio player with playback, seeking, volume, looping, completion handling, and disposal.
Audio player selection and lifecycle QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer/ViewerPanel.xaml.cs	ViewerPanel tries the audio player for eligible audio-only media, preserves playback state when switching players, restores media-element playback state if startup fails, and handles player completion and disposal.
Shared playback state and controls QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer/ViewerPanel.xaml.cs, QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer/ViewerPanel.xaml	ViewerPanel synchronizes playback state and routes controls through the active player. Lyric selection and playback displays use the shared position and duration properties.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ViewerPanel
  participant AudioFilePlayer
  participant NAudioOutput
  participant ViewerPanelXaml as ViewerPanel.xaml
  ViewerPanel->>AudioFilePlayer: TryCreate for eligible audio-only media
  AudioFilePlayer->>NAudioOutput: Initialize playback output
  AudioFilePlayer-->>ViewerPanel: Return player or null
  ViewerPanel->>ViewerPanel: Synchronize shared position and duration
  ViewerPanelXaml->>ViewerPanel: Bind displays and slider to shared properties
  AudioFilePlayer-->>ViewerPanel: Notify playback completion

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Suggested reviewers: mortem3845

Merge Risk: Low · up to 6f69b

Seeking while audio plays can occasionally resume a few tens of milliseconds past the requested position. The effect is small and self-correcting. It can be handled as a follow-up or fixed before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: looping audio previews no longer leaves silent gaps. The changeset adds an AudioFilePlayer that loops audio-only files through Media Foundation and NAudio, and ViewerP…
Linked Issues check		Issue #2021 asks for seamless audio preview loops with no gap between iterations. The primary request is met for audio-only files that Media Foundation can decode. At the reviewed head, `AudioFilePlay…
Out of Scope Changes check		All reviewed changes support the loop fix or its required side effects. AudioFilePlayer.cs (new) implements the NAudio looping player, including seek, pause, volume, and completion handling. The `Qu…
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.

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Explanation

The title names the main change: looping audio previews no longer leaves silent gaps. The changeset adds an AudioFilePlayer that loops audio-only files through Media Foundation and NAudio, and ViewerPanel routes looping audio through it. The title is specific and matches the linked issue about seamless audio loops. It does not mention that the fix covers only Media Foundation-decodable formats, which is a scope detail and not a mismatch.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #2021 asks for seamless audio preview loops with no gap between iterations. The primary request is met for audio-only files that Media Foundation can decode. At the reviewed head, AudioFilePlayer.cs plays through a MediaFoundationReader and a LoopingWaveProvider. When Loop is set, the provider rewinds _source.Position to 0 inside the same read loop, so the DirectShow graph is not reopened or seeked between iterations. ViewerPanel.xaml.cs routes loop start, play, and position through this player for audio-only, non-MIDI media. The PR reports measured WAV loop boundaries with no silence (PR description, Verification). The issue's delay option is introduced with "Alternatively" and is optional, so it is not required. Residual gap: formats Media Foundation cannot decode (for example OGG) still use the DirectShow path and keep the gapped loop. The PR objectives scope the change to Media Foundation-decodable audio, so this is a documented limitation. Uncertainty: the incremental diff from the previous reviewed head could not be read because changed blobs were missing. This assessment relies on the current file content and the whole-PR summary. No automated tests were added; the reported evidence is manual harness measurement.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

All reviewed changes support the loop fix or its required side effects. AudioFilePlayer.cs (new) implements the NAudio looping player, including seek, pause, volume, and completion handling. The QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer.csproj change adds the NAudio 1.10.0 dependency that the player requires. The ViewerPanel.xaml bindings move duration, elapsed/length, and progress to viewerPanel properties, so the UI reflects the active player. ViewerPanel.xaml.cs adds the switch logic, shared position timer, public MediaPosition and MediaDuration properties, and routing of seek, pause, volume, and lyrics. The public properties are needed for the routing. The PR states that SMTC integration is not applied to the NAudio path. This is a stated limitation, not an unrelated change. The incremental diff since the previous reviewed head could not be read, so this verdict covers the whole-PR summary and the current file content only.

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Review comments at
@QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer/AudioTrack/AudioFilePlayer.cs:
- Around line 127-131: Update Seek so seeks made while paused also reset the
output and clear queued audio before changing _reader.CurrentTime, then preserve
the paused state rather than starting playback. Keep the existing resume
behavior for seeks made while playing.
- Line 43: Move the Volume assignment in AudioFilePlayer to after
WaveOutEvent.Init and inside the existing cleanup try block. Preserve the
current volume clamping so volume is applied only after the output is
initialized and initialization failures remain covered by cleanup.
- Around line 139-140: Update the Seek flow around _output.Stop() and the
conditional _output.Play() so restarting waits until the stopped playback worker
has exited, using the playback API’s supported synchronization mechanism.
Preserve the existing behavior of restarting only when wasPlaying is true, and
ensure the old worker cannot change playback state after the restart.

Review comments at
@QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer/ViewerPanel.xaml.cs:
- Around line 465-467: Update the delayed-startup timer flow around
audioPlayer.Seek and audioPlayer.Play so it does not overwrite a position the
user selected with the progress slider during the delay. Remove the stale second
seek or cancel it when the slider position changes, while preserving playback
startup.
- Around line 436-437: Update TryStartAudioPlayer to use the playing
mediaElement’s current volume when creating AudioFilePlayer, rather than
rereading the potentially stale VolumeDouble setting. Capture the current volume
before the player transition so enabling looping preserves the user’s latest
LinearVolume setting.

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Apply the seek target after the playback worker stops.

If a seek overlaps a buffer refill, the worker can read from the new position after _sync is released but before _output.Stop() resets the buffers. The reset discards those samples. The restart then continues beyond the requested position. NAudio 1.10.0 also lets an in-progress buffer-refill loop continue after Stop changes the playback state. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Store the pending seek target. Apply the latest target in OnPlaybackStopped, before restarting or remaining paused.

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Review comment at @QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.VideoViewer/AudioTrack/AudioFilePlayer.cs at line 147:
Update the seek flow around _reader.CurrentTime to defer applying the target while playback may be refilling buffers: store the latest pending seek target, then apply it in OnPlaybackStopped after the worker has stopped and before either restarting playback or remaining paused. Preserve the existing seek clamping behavior and ensure overlapping seeks use the latest target.

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