fix(recording): carry the microphone's name, not just its id - #404
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Reported as "I lose my microphone on the second recording", and the constant was going back to the HUD after the editor. That path destroys and rebuilds the HUD window, and on rebuild the recording prefs restored `micDeviceId` and nothing else -- the SAME asymmetry that cost the camera its identity in #387, on the path that fix did not touch. The name is not optional on Windows. `WasapiLoopbackCapture::initialize` only resolves a microphone by name when one is supplied, and otherwise takes `GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(eConsole)` -- so an empty name records whatever Windows calls the default input, which is why the take came back sounding like the wrong microphone. Nothing filled the gap in time either. The name could only come from the HUD's own `useMicrophoneDevices`, which is lazy and has to complete a getUserMedia permission round trip before it can enumerate, and a recording started from the editor auto-starts and wins that race. Two consecutive requests in one session, from the reporter's log: #1 deviceName: 'Microphone (2- Logitech PRO X Wireless Gaming Headset)' #2 deviceName: undefined So `micDeviceName` joins `micDeviceId` in the prefs SSOT, written by both windows that can pick a microphone and seeded on mount, which removes the race rather than widening the window on it. `useMicrophoneDevices` also prefers the remembered device over "first in the list", for the same reason the camera hook does. And the helper stops falling back in silence: it now reports `microphone-defaulted`, which surfaces as a toast the moment recording starts, instead of leaving the discovery to playback. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR preserves the selected microphone across recording-window rebuilds and reports when recording falls back to the system default. A bounded merge-readiness risk remains because that warning may appear before the fallback endpoint is fully selected, potentially misleading users about capture state; merge is reasonable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant LaunchWindow
participant useMicrophoneDevices
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User->>LaunchWindow: select microphone
LaunchWindow->>useMicrophoneDevices: load preferred ID and name
useMicrophoneDevices-->>LaunchWindow: select available microphone
LaunchWindow->>RecordingIPC: persist microphone ID and name
useScreenRecorder->>RecordingIPC: start native Windows recording
RecordingIPC-->>useScreenRecorder: return microphoneDefaulted
useScreenRecorder-->>User: display localized fallback error
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In `@electron/recording/nativeWindowsCaptureStop.test.ts`:
- Around line 103-109: Update the positive fixture in readMicrophoneDefaulted to
remove the microphone-resolution WARNING line, leaving only the JSON warning
emitted when deviceName is empty; keep the assertion unchanged.
In `@src/components/launch/LaunchWindow.tsx`:
- Line 163: Update the microphone device resolution in LaunchWindow and its
useMicrophoneDevices flow so a missing microphoneDeviceId does not overwrite the
persisted microphoneDeviceName with the first input’s label. Preserve the
restored name during automatic fallback, and only update it after an explicit
user selection or propagate the preferred name through resolution.
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Two findings, and the first one uncovered a hole in the fix itself. The `microphone-defaulted` warning was keyed on the empty-name case, so a name that WAS supplied and matched no endpoint fell through to the default input just as silently as before. It is keyed on the outcome now -- a particular microphone was asked for and none was found -- which is the condition that actually matters to the person recording. The second: an id the current window cannot match no longer discards the choice behind it. Chromium's device ids are per-origin salted, so the id one window persisted can name nothing in the next while the microphone sits right there in the list, and falling through to the first input silently swapped it. The remembered LABEL is tried before that fallback. Keeping the persisted name beside a fallback id was the other option and would have been worse: it recreates exactly the id/name mismatch this branch exists to remove. Resolving by name picks a real entry from the current list, so the pair stays true by construction. The test fixture also described an invocation that cannot happen -- both helper lines at once, when the two are mutually exclusive. Split into the two real cases, plus the first tests this hook has had. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@electron/native/wgc-capture/src/wasapi_loopback_capture.cpp`:
- Around line 171-187: Add native WASAPI package tests covering unresolved
non-default microphone IDs, unresolved microphone names, ordinary default
microphone requests, and successful device resolution; assert that
microphone-defaulted is emitted only for unresolved requested microphones. Add
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The review asked for native coverage of the `microphone-defaulted` condition, since the TypeScript tests only search fabricated helper output and WASAPI cannot run on Linux CI. Driving the real helper through the four cases immediately found that the warning did not work. A name matching nothing still resolved a device, so the fallback never happened and the warning could not fire. `scoreDeviceName` matched SUBSTRINGS: a requested "micro" sits inside the "microphone" that opens almost every Windows endpoint name, which scored 100 and won. Asking for a microphone that does not exist quietly recorded whichever one sorted first -- the very outcome this branch exists to end, reached by another road. Word matching is whole-word now. `scripts/test-windows-microphone-selection.mjs` pins all four cases: an unresolvable id with no name, a name matching no endpoint, a plain default request that must stay silent, and a real name that must resolve. Run it with `npm run test:wgc-mic-selection:win`; the happy path needs OPENSCREEN_WGC_TEST_MICROPHONE_DEVICE_NAME to name a microphone that exists on the machine. Measured on the reporter's hardware, before and after the scoring fix: name-matches-nothing defaulted=false -> defaulted=true (the other three unchanged and already correct) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@electron/native/wgc-capture/src/wasapi_loopback_capture.cpp`:
- Around line 111-125: Update scoreDeviceName to remove the
candidate.find(requested) and id.find(requested) substring-scoring branches,
using exact or whole-word matching consistently so partial requests such as
“micro” do not resolve unrelated endpoints. Add a regression test covering a
short partial request and verify microphone-defaulted remains available when no
endpoint matches.
In `@scripts/test-windows-microphone-selection.mjs`:
- Around line 66-92: Update the helper process handling around proc and its
close callback to reject or otherwise record failure for spawn errors, non-zero
exit codes, and signal termination before evaluating output. Add an error
handler for proc spawn failures, and ensure timers and output cleanup remain
consistent on every failure path.
In `@technical-documentation/architecture/recording.md`:
- Around line 62-63: Update the microphone-selection description for
WasapiLoopbackCapture::initialize to state that it resolves a requested
microphone by microphoneDeviceId first, then falls back to microphoneDeviceName
when ID lookup fails. Preserve the existing documentation about default-input
fallback and reporting.
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The camera side of this mistake (#405) showed that making the word match whole-word only fixes the instance and leaves the guessing in place, so the tier goes here as well and the two helpers state the same rule. Nothing real needed it. Every microphone on the reporter's machine resolves at 900 or above without it, because Chromium appends USB ids to the name the driver reports and the rest matches outright. What the tier bought was the ability to answer when it should have said "not this one", and saying that is what makes `microphone-defaulted` reachable. The smoke test gains the case that names the class rather than one instance: a request sharing only a BRAND with a present device -- another Logitech thing is still another device -- must resolve to nothing. npm run test:wgc-mic-selection:win 5/5 on real hardware Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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178-185: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winEmit the warning only after selecting the default endpoint.
The warning is emitted before
GetDefaultAudioEndpointsucceeds at Lines 190-193. If that call fails, the helper reports “capturing the default input” although no fallback endpoint was selected. Emit the warning after the successful lookup.Proposed fix
- if (wantedAParticularMicrophone) { - std::cerr << "{\"event\":\"warning\",\"code\":\"microphone-defaulted\"," - "\"message\":\"The requested microphone could not be resolved; " - "capturing the default input\"}" - << std::endl; - } - const EDataFlow flow = endpoint == WasapiCaptureEndpoint::SystemLoopback ? eRender : eCapture; hr = deviceEnumerator_->GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(flow, eConsole, &device_); if (!succeeded(hr, "GetDefaultAudioEndpoint")) { return false; } + if (wantedAParticularMicrophone) { + std::cerr << "{\"event\":\"warning\",\"code\":\"microphone-defaulted\"," + "\"message\":\"The requested microphone could not be resolved; " + "capturing the default input\"}" + << std::endl; + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/test-windows-microphone-selection.mjs`:
- Around line 110-116: Update the “shares-a-brand-only” case in the
device-selection test to derive its request from an enumerated existing device,
ensuring the selected name shares only the brand while remaining different from
the target; skip the case when the required hardware precondition is
unavailable.
In `@technical-documentation/architecture/recording.md`:
- Line 62: Update the microphone fallback documentation to state that
`microphone-defaulted` is reported only when an explicitly requested microphone
cannot be resolved; clarify that a plain `"default"` request does not emit the
warning. Preserve the existing behavior for unnamed or unmatched microphone
requests as applicable.
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In `@electron/native/wgc-capture/src/wasapi_loopback_capture.cpp`:
- Around line 178-185: Move the microphone-defaulted warning associated with
wantedAParticularMicrophone until after GetDefaultAudioEndpoint successfully
selects the fallback endpoint. Ensure no “capturing the default input” warning
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The review was right that removing the word tier did not finish the job:
the containment tier scored substrings too, and it is the one that
actually resolves devices. Probed on the reporter's hardware, before:
requested "Micro" -> opened "Microphone (Logitech StreamCam)"
requested "Logi" -> opened "Microphone (Logitech StreamCam)"
Both silently, because resolving an endpoint is exactly what stops
`microphone-defaulted` from firing. Containment now has to land on word
boundaries, which keeps every real pairing -- Chromium's name is the
driver's plus USB ids, whole words either way -- and refuses a request
that is merely spelled inside a longer word.
The smoke test grows the two cases that name this mistake, and stops
passing on evidence it did not have:
- a helper that dies, is signalled, or never starts is a failure, not a
silent one; the old harness read the output and ignored how it ended
- a negative case asserts the endpoints were ENUMERATED and all scored
zero, so it cannot pass merely because nothing was there to match
The doc said the helper resolves a microphone by name. It resolves by id
first and by name when that finds nothing -- and since the id it receives
is Chromium's, which names nothing outside the renderer, the name is what
does the work. Both halves are stated now.
npm run test:wgc-mic-selection:win 7/7 on real hardware
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The review caught the sentence claiming a request naming no microphone reports `microphone-defaulted`. It does not, and the smoke test says so: a plain `default` request expects no warning at all. The helper keys the warning on having been asked for a PARTICULAR microphone -- an id other than `default`, or a name -- and finding none. Asking for no particular one lands on the same default input, where it is the answer rather than a fallback, and warning there would cry wolf on every take that never chose a microphone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reported as "on the second recording I stopped hearing my microphone", and the constant the reporter found was going back to the HUD after the editor. That is the path that destroys and rebuilds the HUD window — and on rebuild, the recording prefs restored
micDeviceIdand nothing else.It is the same asymmetry that cost the camera its identity in #387, on the path that fix did not touch.
Why an empty name is not harmless
WasapiLoopbackCapture::initializeonly resolves a microphone by name when one is supplied:So no name means the Windows default input gets recorded instead of the microphone the user chose. Hence a take that sounds like the wrong microphone.
Why nothing filled the gap in time
The name could only come from the HUD's own
useMicrophoneDevices, which is lazy by design — enumerating asks for mic permission, so it must complete agetUserMediaround trip first. A recording started from the editor's Rec tab auto-starts and wins that race. Two consecutive requests from one of the reporter's sessions:The first recording works because the user has time to interact; every one after it does not.
The change
micDeviceNamejoinsmicDeviceIdin the prefs SSOT, written by both windows that can pick a microphone and seeded on mount. That removes the race rather than widening the window on it.useMicrophoneDevicesprefers the remembered device over "first in the list", for the same reason the camera hook does — the enumeration order is the OS's, not the user's choice.microphone-defaulted, which surfaces as a toast the moment recording starts, instead of leaving the discovery to playback.Verification
microphone-defaultedreader.tsc,biome,i18n:check(13 locales) anddocs:checkclean.Verified end to end in the app. Four consecutive recordings driven through the reported flow — record, return to the editor, record again from the Rec tab — each carried the name to the helper:
Before the fix the second request already went out with
deviceName: undefined. Nomicrophone-defaultedand nowebcam-unavailablein the session, so nothing fell back silently.Update: the word tier is gone here too
Adding the native coverage this PR was asked for uncovered the same mistake on the camera side (#405), where a requested "Logi Capture" opened the Logitech StreamCam because "logi" sits inside "logitech". Making the match whole-word fixes the instance and leaves the guessing in place, so the tier is removed on both sides and the two helpers now state the same rule: equal once normalized, or one containing the other, and nothing weaker.
Nothing real needed it — every microphone here resolves at 900 or above, because Chromium appends USB ids to the name the driver reports and the rest matches outright. What the tier bought was the ability to answer when it should have said "not this one", and saying that is what makes
microphone-defaultedreachable at all.#405 carries the camera half and the shared Electron-side rules with their unit tests. The two touch different files and conflict only in the
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