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A documentation-only patch, found while wiring an embedder's audio path through ace_synth_job_run_dit.

audio-io.h's header line says "All functions use planar stereo float". That is accurate about this header's own returns, but read alone it invites exactly the planar/interleaved mixup that destroys stereo:

  • wav.h's raw reader returns interleaved (deinterleaved on read by this header);
  • the synthesis pipeline's src_audio / ref_audio input takes time-major interleaved (vae_enc_compute indexes audio[t * 2 + c]);
  • the pipeline's AceAudio output is planar, like this header's returns.

An embedder that takes the blanket claim as "everything here is planar" feeds audio_read_48k's planar output straight into src_audio and gets the two channels smeared into each other — plausible-looking wrong audio, no error, no crash. (We measured it: a correct-layout round trip correlates each output channel with its own input at ~0.997 and cross-channel at ~0.01; a smeared layout collapses that separation.)

This patch scopes the planar claim to this header and names the two interleaved neighbours. No code change; comments only.

Also filed on our side: a round-trip test pinning the layout contract (test-audio-layout on our cadenza branch) — happy to offer it here too if wanted.

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  • Documentation
    • Clarified that WAV reading provides time-major, interleaved stereo data at the raw reader level.
    • Documented that the associated audio helpers convert stereo data to planar format when reading.
    • Removed contradictory wording about the deinterleaving behavior.

"All functions use planar stereo" is about this header's own returns, but
read alone it invites exactly the planar/interleaved mixup that destroys
stereo -- an embedder feeding audio_read_48k's planar output straight into
ace_synth_job_run_dit's src/ref (which takes time-major interleaved) gets
channels smeared into each other, with plausible-looking wrong audio.

Say explicitly that the planar claim is about this header's returns, that
wav.h's raw reader is interleaved, and that the pipeline input is
interleaved while its AceAudio output is planar. No code change.
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The header comment now states that wav.h returns time-major interleaved stereo and that the header helpers deinterleave it to planar audio on read.

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Audio layout documentation

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Header audio layout contract
src/audio-io.h
The comment documents the interleaved stereo input and planar output handled by the header helpers.

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Comment thread src/audio-io.h Outdated
Coderabbit correctly noted the parenthetical '(it is
deinterleaved on read)' contradicted 'returns interleaved' -- wav.h
does return time-major interleaved [t*2+0], [t*2+1]; it is the helpers
in this header (audio_io_read_wav_buf, etc.) that deinterleave to
planar [L:T][R:T] on read. Make that explicit so callers do not pass
WAV output as planar.
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