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Day Five (site): Player Persistence and S1E1 Recut Media

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CHRON-0007: Day Five (site) - Player Persistence and S1E1 Recut Media

What Happened

The site's episode experience shifted from placeholder scaffolding toward a real production surface. Codex shipped a sequence of website updates that made the persistent player behave more like a standing listening tray and made the first episode page serve actual production media instead of static placeholder state. Cursor then pushed an updated 20-minute S1E1 video sync fix on top of that wiring.

The changes landed across several commits on main: 883a2e7, 07ae246, 66ed842, eb8ac43, and 5294f1d, followed by Cursor's media update commit 993203f.

Site Impact

  • The lower audio tray now loads either the listener's last-played episode or the first published episode, rather than appearing empty
  • The S1E1 detail page now reflects a produced episode rather than a placeholder page, with manifest-driven media, production details, and embedded video
  • The site now prefers the 20-minute S1E1 recut assets when they exist, for audio, video, thumbnail, playback metadata, and duration
  • Closed captions and chapter markers are now wired into the embedded episode film experience for S1E1
  • RSS inherits the recut audio automatically because the site-level episode resolver now points to the canonical 20-minute media keys

Files and Commits

  • site/lib/episodes.ts - manifest-aware media resolution, now preferring 20-minute audio/video assets and exposing captions and video metadata
  • site/app/episodes/[id]/page.tsx - richer episode detail page and recut media usage
  • site/app/episodes/[id]/EpisodeFilm.tsx - embedded video with captions track and clickable chapter markers
  • site/app/components/AudioPlayer.tsx - persistent tray default-load behavior
  • site/lib/player-store.ts - load path for a paused default episode
  • site/app/layout.tsx - passes published episodes into the player default-load flow

Relevant commits:

  • 883a2e7 - site/media fallback and documentation alignment
  • 07ae246 - first episode detail page refresh
  • 66ed842 - persistent player tray default load
  • eb8ac43 - removal of duplicate video CTA on the detail page
  • 5294f1d - S1E1 recut media wiring, captions, and chapter markers
  • 993203f - Cursor's updated 20-minute video sync fix

Process Change

The same work session also formalized project-log/ as the canonical website log. AGENTS.md, project-log/README.md, and project-log/chronicle/README.md now specify that website changes should be recorded here, with Codex serving as the default maintainer of those entries unless the human assigns that role elsewhere.

Follow-Up

  • Continue adding one consolidated website chronicle entry per active site day
  • Add site snapshots at larger milestones, especially first public episode and any major navigation or AI-surface changes
  • Keep future episode media wiring aligned to the same manifest pattern used for S1E1
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