ralyodio · Nov 9, 2026 · Nov 9, 2026 · Nov 9, 2026
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ members = [
 ]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.2.83"
+version = "0.2.84"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MIT"
 repository = "https://github.com/profullstack/c0mpute"

diff --git a/apps/tui/package.json b/apps/tui/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@c0mpute/tui",
-  "version": "0.2.83",
+  "version": "0.2.84",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

diff --git a/apps/web/package.json b/apps/web/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "c0mpute",
-  "version": "0.2.83",
+  "version": "0.2.84",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {

diff --git a/apps/web/src/app/api/v1/music/[id]/route.ts b/apps/web/src/app/api/v1/music/[id]/route.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ export async function GET(req: Request, { params }: { params: Promise<{ id: stri
     return json({ error: { message: "the c0mpute network is restarting; try again in a minute", code: 503 } }, 503);
   }
   const body = (await upstream.json().catch(() => ({}))) as Record<string, unknown>;
-  if (upstream.status === 202) return json({ id, status: "pending", seconds: body.seconds ?? null }, 202, { "cache-control": "no-store" });
+  if (upstream.status === 202) {
+    // Infernet writes lyrics from a brief first; pass what it wrote along.
+    const pick = (k: string) => (typeof body[k] === "string" || typeof body[k] === "number" ? body[k] : undefined);
+    return json(
+      { id, status: "pending", seconds: body.seconds ?? null, stage: pick("stage"), caption: pick("caption"), lyrics: pick("lyrics"), duration: pick("duration") },
+      202,
+      { "cache-control": "no-store" },
+    );
+  }
   return json({ error: { message: typeof body.error === "string" ? body.error : "song failed", code: upstream.status } }, upstream.status);
 }
diff --git a/apps/web/src/app/chat/chat-app.tsx b/apps/web/src/app/chat/chat-app.tsx
@@ -267,15 +267,25 @@ export function ChatApp({ error }: { error: string | null }) {
       });
       const start = await res.json().catch(() => ({}));
       if (res.status !== 202 || !start.poll) throw new Error(start.error?.message ?? `HTTP ${res.status}`);
-      const deadline = Date.now() + 20 * 60_000;
+      // Infernet may write lyrics from the brief first; keep what it wrote.
+      let written: { caption: string; lyrics: string } | null = null;
+      const deadline = Date.now() + 45 * 60_000;
       let done: Response | null = null;
       while (!done) {
         if (Date.now() > deadline) throw new Error("song timed out");
         await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 5000));
         if (ctrl.signal.aborted) throw new DOMException("aborted", "AbortError");
         const poll = await fetch(start.poll, { cache: "no-store", signal: ctrl.signal });
         if (poll.status === 202) {
-          setLast({ content: `// composing with ACE-Step 1.5 on a c0mpute worker… ${Math.round((Date.now() - started) / 1000)}s` });
+          const p = await poll.json().catch(() => ({}));
+          const secs = Math.round((Date.now() - started) / 1000);
+          if (typeof p.caption === "string") written = { caption: p.caption, lyrics: typeof p.lyrics === "string" ? p.lyrics : "" };
+          setLast({
+            content:
+              p.stage === "writing"
+                ? `// writing lyrics and a style from your brief… ${secs}s`
+                : `// composing with ACE-Step 1.5 on a c0mpute worker… ${secs}s${written?.lyrics ? `\n\n${written.lyrics}` : ""}`,
+          });
           continue;
         }
         if (!poll.ok) {
@@ -287,7 +297,7 @@ export function ChatApp({ error }: { error: string | null }) {
       const blob = await done.blob();
       const url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
       setLast({
-        content: `[music: ${music.prompt}${music.lyrics ? " (with lyrics)" : ", instrumental"}] (${Math.round((Date.now() - started) / 1000)}s on a c0mpute worker)`,
+        content: `[music: ${(written?.caption ?? music.prompt).slice(0, 300)}${written?.lyrics || music.lyrics ? " (with lyrics)" : ", instrumental"}] (${Math.round((Date.now() - started) / 1000)}s on a c0mpute worker)${written?.lyrics ? `\n\n${written.lyrics}` : ""}`,
         audio: url,
         audioType: blob.type || "audio/mpeg",
       });

diff --git a/apps/web/src/app/releases/latest.json/route.ts b/apps/web/src/app/releases/latest.json/route.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export const dynamic = "force-dynamic";
  * this in sync with the workspace version in `Cargo.toml` on each release so a
  * freshly built CLI reports "already latest" rather than a phantom upgrade.
  */
-const FALLBACK_VERSION = "0.2.83";
+const FALLBACK_VERSION = "0.2.84";
 const FALLBACK_MIN_REQUIRED = "0.0.1";
 
 type Channel = "stable" | "beta" | "nightly";

diff --git a/apps/web/src/lib/chat/music.ts b/apps/web/src/lib/chat/music.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ export function parseMusicCommand(text: string): MusicCommand | null {
 
 export const MAX_TEXT_CHARS = 100_000;
 export const MIN_SECONDS = 10;
-export const MAX_SECONDS = 120;
+export const MAX_SECONDS = 180;
 
 /** Validate a POST body; returns the body to forward or an error string. */
 export function parseMusicRequest(

diff --git a/node/crates/c0mpute-core/src/config.rs b/node/crates/c0mpute-core/src/config.rs
@@ -377,8 +377,8 @@ fn default_music_min_ram_gb() -> u64 {
     24
 }
 fn default_music_min_free_ram_gb() -> u64 {
-    // A bf16 DiT-only job peaks around 9 GB; keep some to spare.
-    12
+    // A bf16 DiT-only song peaked at 8.5 GB RSS (measured 2026-11-09).
+    10
 }
 fn default_music_min_free_disk_gb() -> u64 {
     30

diff --git a/node/crates/c0mpute-core/src/music.rs b/node/crates/c0mpute-core/src/music.rs
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ pub const MODEL_ID: &str = "ace-step-1.5";
 pub const MODEL_TAG: &str = "c0mpute:music:model:ace-step-1.5";
 
 /// Largest song a worker returns or a buyer accepts. A 2-minute 128 kb/s MP3
-/// is ~2 MB; the FLAC fallback for the same song is up to ~20 MB.
-pub const MAX_RESULT_BYTES: usize = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
+/// is ~2 MB; the FLAC fallback for a 3-minute song is up to ~30 MB.
+pub const MAX_RESULT_BYTES: usize = 48 * 1024 * 1024;
 /// What a buyer may send. Longer than the model reads on purpose: callers
 /// paste whole briefs and songs, and `clip_for_model` trims them.
 pub const MAX_PROMPT_CHARS: usize = 100_000;
@@ -55,10 +55,12 @@ pub const MAX_LYRICS_CHARS: usize = 100_000;
 pub const MODEL_PROMPT_CHARS: usize = 1_000;
 pub const MODEL_LYRICS_CHARS: usize = 4_000;
 pub const MIN_SECONDS: u32 = 10;
-pub const MAX_SECONDS: u32 = 120;
+pub const MAX_SECONDS: u32 = 180;
 pub const DEFAULT_SECONDS: u32 = 30;
-/// Worker-side limit for one song, model load included.
-pub const JOB_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(15 * 60);
+/// Worker-side limit for one song, model load included. A 30 s song takes
+/// ~130 s on 16 CPU threads and time grows with length, so a 3-minute song
+/// on a busy box needs well over 10 minutes.
+pub const JOB_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(25 * 60);
 const INSTALL_RETRY_BACKOFF_SECS: u64 = 6 * 60 * 60;
 
 const WORKER: &str = include_str!("music_worker.py");
@@ -508,6 +510,13 @@ pub async fn generate(spec: &Txt2MusicSpec, job_dir: &Path) -> Result<PathBuf> {
         .current_dir(job_dir)
         .env("HF_HOME", music_root().join("hf-home"))
         .env("ACESTEP_TMPDIR", job_dir)
+        // ACE-Step aborts its own diffusion loop after 600 s, which an 8-thread
+        // CPU budget passes on a 2-minute song (vienna, 2026-11-09). Our job
+        // timeout is the real limit; leave a margin for model load and decode.
+        .env(
+            "ACESTEP_GENERATION_TIMEOUT",
+            JOB_TIMEOUT.saturating_sub(Duration::from_secs(3 * 60)).as_secs().to_string(),
+        )
         .env("TMPDIR", job_dir)
         .stdin(std::process::Stdio::null())
         .stdout(std::process::Stdio::piped())
@@ -657,7 +666,7 @@ async fn run_job(
     let path = generate(&spec, &job_dir).await?;
     let bytes = tokio::fs::read(&path).await?;
     if audio_content_type(&bytes).is_none() || bytes.len() > MAX_RESULT_BYTES {
-        bail!("ACE-Step output is not MP3/FLAC audio under the 32 MiB result limit");
+        bail!("ACE-Step output is not MP3/FLAC audio under the 48 MiB result limit");
     }
     // Over 1 MiB goes back as pieces: one chunk fetch caps out near 5 MiB.
     crate::pieces::publish_result_bytes(net, store, &bytes).await

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "c0mpute-monorepo",
-  "version": "0.2.83",
+  "version": "0.2.84",
   "private": true,
   "workspaces": [
     "apps/*",

diff --git a/packages/shared/package.json b/packages/shared/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@c0mpute/shared",
-  "version": "0.2.83",
+  "version": "0.2.84",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "main": "./dist/index.js",

diff --git a/plugins/ad-generator-agent/module.toml b/plugins/ad-generator-agent/module.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "ad-generator-agent"
 name        = "Ad Generator Agent — every ad type from one URL"
-version     = "0.2.83"
+version     = "0.2.84"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "applications"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/ads-manager/module.toml b/plugins/ads-manager/module.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "ads-manager"
 name        = "Ads Manager — shared ad operations layer"
-version     = "0.2.83"
+version     = "0.2.84"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "applications"
 status      = "partial"

diff --git a/plugins/coinpay/module.toml b/plugins/coinpay/module.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "coinpay"
 name        = "CoinPay — DID, payments, escrow, reputation"
-version     = "0.2.83"
+version     = "0.2.84"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "applications"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/crawl/module.toml b/plugins/crawl/module.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "crawl"
 name        = "Crawl — distributed web fetching"
-version     = "0.2.83"
+version     = "0.2.84"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "data"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/ctv-ads/module.toml b/plugins/ctv-ads/module.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "ctv-ads"
 name        = "CTV Ads — VAST and VMAP from every gateway"
-version     = "0.2.83"
+version     = "0.2.84"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "applications"
 status      = "partial"

diff --git a/plugins/diffusion/module.toml b/plugins/diffusion/module.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "diffusion"
 name        = "Diffusion — image generation"
-version     = "0.2.83"
+version     = "0.2.84"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "ai"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/embed/module.toml b/plugins/embed/module.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "embed"
 name        = "Embeddings — vector generation"
-version     = "0.2.83"
+version     = "0.2.84"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "ai"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/gameserver/module.toml b/plugins/gameserver/module.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "gameserver"
 name        = "Game server — Minecraft / Factorio / Valheim"
-version     = "0.2.83"
+version     = "0.2.84"
 kind        = "workload"
 category    = "infrastructure"
 status      = "available"

diff --git a/plugins/hosting/module.toml b/plugins/hosting/module.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 [module]
 id          = "hosting"
 name        = "Hosting — p2p static sites"
-version     = "0.2.83"
+version     = "0.2.84"
 kind        = "service"
 category    = "data"
 status      = "available"