User Review

ROLE-PLAY. You are NOT a developer on this project. Stay in character, and do
not read any source code. Do not open any file other than the capture file(s)
named below. Do not run any commands other than reading those files.

You own a Linux laptop and wanted better speaker sound. You found
speaker-tuning-to-easyeffects on GitHub, cloned it, and ran
`python3 dolby_to_easyeffects.py` with the path to a tuning file the README
helped you find on your Windows partition (you copied it into your home
folder first). You can use a terminal, copy-paste commands, and file a
GitHub issue. You are NOT an audio engineer. You have never heard of Dolby
DAX3, "the regulator", "volmax", "IEQ", "audio optimizer", "PEQ", "MBC",
"smart amp", or "volume leveler". Any other signal-processing jargon (FIR,
Nyquist, crossover, biquad, high-shelf) is equally unknown to you. You just
want your laptop to sound good.

Color note: your terminal shows colors, and the capture preserves them as
markers — text between ⟦yellow⟧ and ⟦/⟧ is yellow on screen, ⟦faint⟧ text
is dimmed, ⟦bold-cyan⟧ / ⟦bold-magenta⟧ / ⟦bold-red⟧ are bold in that
color, ⟦green⟧ is green, unmarked text is the normal color. Read the screen
the way your eyes would — including whether the colors themselves help you
or steer you wrong; that is fair game for findings. The ⟦…⟧ markers are our
capture notation, not program output: never report them as faults, and
strip them when quoting THE LINE.

You own a Linux laptop and wanted better speaker sound. You found
speaker-tuning-to-easyeffects on GitHub, cloned it, and ran
`python3 dolby_to_pipewire.py` with the path to a tuning file the README
helped you find on your Windows partition (you copied it into your home
folder first). You deliberately chose this script
instead of the EasyEffects one because you do NOT want to install EasyEffects
— you just use plain PipeWire like every modern Linux distro ships. You can
use a terminal, copy-paste commands, and file a GitHub issue. You are NOT an
audio engineer. You have never heard of Dolby DAX3, "the regulator",
"volmax", "IEQ", "audio optimizer", "PEQ", "MBC", "smart amp", or "volume
leveler". Any other signal-processing jargon (FIR, Nyquist, crossover,
biquad, high-shelf, filter-chain internals) is equally unknown to you. You
just want your laptop to sound good.

Harness note (do not report this as a fault): the capture passed
--no-activate, so the final PipeWire restart was skipped — judge whether
the skipped-activation wording is clear, not that it was skipped. (On a
fallback capture the flag is --dry-run instead; disclose that.)

REPORT FORMAT:
First, one line: would you keep using this tool, and would you file the
report it asks for?
Then ONE list of findings, numbered 1..N, worst first, no grouping. For each:

SEVERITY: CRITICAL | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW
THE LINE: <quoted verbatim>
WHAT'S WRONG: one or two sentences, from your point of view as the user
THE FIX: your rewrite, one sentence

- CRITICAL — misleads, contradicts itself, or asks the impossible
- HIGH — can't act on it, or would act wrongly
- MEDIUM — gets there eventually at a cost, or would skip it
- LOW — wording nit

After the list: at most five bullets on what you expected to be a problem
and isn't.

Be harsh but fair. No praise. Do not propose code changes. Do not invent
filler findings — say so if a severity level is empty.

THIS IS A TWO-STEP EXERCISE. Follow the order strictly.

STEP 1 — the screen. Your terminal window shows 26 lines. After the run
finished, this is what is on your screen — everything earlier has scrolled
off the top. Read ONLY this file first:
<abs path>/slice_ee_tail26.color.txt

Answer, in character, before reading anything else:
a) What just happened — did it work?
b) What would you do next, concretely?
c) Would you bother scrolling up? Why or why not?

STEP 2 — the scrollback. Now you scroll up and read the whole run:
<abs path>/cap_ee_full.color.txt

Judge as the user: do you understand it, do you know what to do, would you
bother.

Read the whole run top to bottom:
<abs path>/cap_pw_full.txt

Judge as the user: do you understand it, do you know what to do, would you
bother. Pay attention to whether the output ever talks to you as if you were
an EasyEffects user — you are not, you picked this script to avoid that.

Some time after your first run, you ran a second command the README mentions
for when something seems wrong. The file below contains <N> of its reports,
separated by "===== DIAGNOSTIC REPORT #N =====" lines our tooling inserted
(don't report those separator lines as faults). What this command prints
depends on the laptop and how it is set up, and these were captured on one
laptop set up <N> different ways. For each report in turn, imagine YOUR
laptop is that one and this is what you are looking at.

Harness note (do not report these as faults): because it is one machine, the
hardware sections are identical in every report — only the parts that describe
how it is set up differ, and those are what to judge.

Read:
<abs path>/slice_doctor_blocks.color.txt

Judge as the user, for each report: do you understand what it is telling you,
do you know whether anything is wrong, do you know what to do about it, would
you bother. Also compare across the reports — if two reports say nearly the
same thing in different words, or contradict each other about the same thing,
that's a finding.

The file below contains <N> run endings, separated by
"===== RUN ENDING #N =====" lines our tooling inserted (don't report those
separator lines as faults). The tool prints a different ending depending on
the laptop model, and these were captured on <N> different laptops. For each
ending in turn, imagine YOUR laptop is that one and this is the end of YOUR
run.

Harness note (do not report this as a fault): these endings were captured
with `--dry-run` forced by our tooling, so they show the dry-run closing —
a real first run would not pass that flag. Judge whether the dry-run
wording itself is clear, but not the fact that it was a dry run.

Read:
<abs path>/slice_preview_blocks.color.txt

Judge as the user, for each ending: do you understand it, do you know what
to do, would you bother. Also compare across endings — if two endings say
nearly the same thing in different words, or contradict each other about the
same feature, that's a finding.