Companion to the `remote` channel just added to pulsar-tidalcycles. With this,
the whole cold-start-and-measure sequence runs unattended:
tools/tidal-remote.py boot live/midi/nova/jazz/the_revolution_will_be_sampled.tidal
tools/probe-chain.py -s 6
`boot` encodes the one ordering that actually works, which was learned the
expensive way:
reboot -> wait for BootTidal.hs -> seed the surface -> eval
Every step of that order is load-bearing. Tidal's control map (`sStateMV`, where
`^NN` values live) is state INSIDE the ghci process, so a reboot empties it —
seeding before a reboot is wasted work. And evaluating before seeding is the
mute-bomb from #61: an untouched `^NN` resolves to `silence`, not 0, so any
stream referencing an unmoved control is completely silent with no error printed
anywhere. Getting these three steps in the wrong order is precisely how an
evening went into "d4/d5/d9-d12 make no sound".
Two things it refuses to do:
* It does not claim success. UDP sends land in the void whether or not anyone
is listening, so `channel_open()` tests the port by trying to BIND it — if
the bind succeeds, nobody was there, and the command fails loudly instead of
printing a cheerful nothing. A remote that reports its own success is how you
end up with a green check on a silent rig.
* It does not infer readiness. Every path ends by telling the caller to go
measure with probe-chain. The rig has taught us repeatedly that static
self-reports agree with each other while the audio disagrees with all of them.
OSC encoding is hand-rolled (~10 lines, all-string args) so this stays
dependency-free — it has to run from a bare launch script, where a pip install is
not part of the plan. Verified by round-tripping an encoded message back through
a decoder: 64 bytes, 4-byte aligned, address and typetag and args all recovered.
Also resolves track names loosely (absolute path, repo-relative, or bare name
searched under live/ and copycat/), erroring on ambiguity rather than guessing —
the corpus has genuine duplicate basenames and picking one silently would be
worse than asking.
