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I argued `highest_rate` had no case because ADV's higher-rate presentation is dual-mono while its louder one is mono-in-stereo, so the extra bytes buy a duplicated channel rather than fidelity. The Decoder tested that disc-wide over the 28 three-stream cues: the stream-3/stream-2 size ratio runs min 0.0778, median 1.2565, max 2.9163, sd 0.5057, with only 12 of 28 within 15% of 1.0, and declared rates scatter with them. A 37x spread is not a duplicated channel. The CHANNEL MEASUREMENT STANDS -- ADV chunk 1 is mono-in-stereo and chunk 2 is dual-mono at -8.318574, this port's own decode, which the Decoder could not re-run and did not dispute. What fails is the step from one asset to the format. NOTHING IN THE EXPORT CHANGES. `loudest` is a per-asset content rule -- it reads the peak of the streams in front of it -- so a scattering structural ratio cannot undermine it. What changes is the REASON, in four places: authored/audio.json's presentation_why, the selector comment in audio.rs, BLOCKED.md's row, and DECISIONS.md. The honest statement is narrower: `highest_rate` was never refuted, it was never argued for, and neither is `loudest`. That is why the entry is marked CHOSEN rather than measured, and why one capture deletes it. Recorded on the pattern rather than just the instance: this is the third claim of mine in two iterations that generalised a single-asset observation, after "the chunks are two stems" and "everything the sequencer paces off rest.t is late". All three were true of the thing I looked at. The failure is reaching for the rule a measurement would imply if it held everywhere and writing that down in the same breath as the measurement. Also noted, not mine and not affecting export_voice: S12B's three streams are byte-size identical, and BIRD_224 is three-stream while not being a movie cue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N7FiFFFwbvG2uxdcEh8HyF
Authored decisions
Everything here is a decision we made, not something the disc said. It is
hand-written, committed, and survives a re-export — unlike export/, which is
regenerated wholesale and must never be hand-edited.
Every entry carries a why. When the RE agent decodes the real answer, delete
the entry and let the exporter emit it; that deletion is the measure of
progress.
See docs/FORMAT.md for the schemas and docs/BLOCKED.md for which HANDOFF
question each placeholder is standing in for.