diff --git a/static/app.js b/static/app.js
index 16595a7..a49ea5a 100644
--- a/static/app.js
+++ b/static/app.js
@@ -40,6 +40,36 @@ import {
     importSettings,
 } from './js/settings-io.js';
 import { audio } from './js/audio-el.js';
+import {
+    _buildSectionParents,
+    _ensureSectionPracticeBar,
+    _hideSectionPracticeBar,
+    _installSectionPracticeDrawHook,
+    _maybeRefreshSectionPracticeDuration,
+    _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome,
+    _resetSectionPracticeLog,
+    _scheduleSectionPracticeRetries,
+    _sectionPracticeBarContains,
+    _sectionPracticeBarIsReady,
+    _sectionPracticePopoverOpen,
+    _sectionPracticeSourceSections,
+    _sectionPracticeStartTime,
+    _setSectionPracticeMode,
+    _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop,
+    _updateSectionPracticeHighlight,
+    invalidateParentCount,
+    onPhraseNext,
+    onPhrasePrev,
+    onSectionParentClick,
+    onSectionPracticeModeChange,
+    onSectionPracticeWholeChange,
+    practiceSection,
+    renderSectionPracticeBar,
+    resetSelection,
+    toggleSectionPracticePopover,
+} from './js/section-practice.js';
+import { configureHost } from './js/host.js';
+
 
 // Demo analytics — real impl set by demo.js; no-op in normal builds
 window.feedBackDemoTrack = window.feedBackDemoTrack ?? null;
@@ -460,11 +490,6 @@ function _isSpaceKey(e) {
     return e.key === ' ' || e.key === 'Spacebar';
 }
 
-function _sectionPracticeBarContains(el) {
-    if (!el) return false;
-    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
-    return !!(bar && bar.contains(el));
-}
 
 function _shortcutDispatchBlocked(e) {
     if (_isTextInput(e.target)) return true;
@@ -5832,7 +5857,7 @@ async function changeArrangement(index) {
         // count. The A-B loop itself is left intact (time-based, song-global).
         _hideSectionPracticeBar();
         _resetSectionPracticeLog();
-        _sectionPracticeLastParentCount = -1;
+        invalidateParentCount();
 
         highway.reconnect(currentFilename, index);
         window.feedBack.emit('arrangement:changed', { index, filename: currentFilename });
@@ -6405,9 +6430,7 @@ function clearLoop(options) {
     document.getElementById('btn-loop-save').classList.add('hidden');
     document.getElementById('loop-label').textContent = '';
     document.getElementById('saved-loops').value = '';
-    _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
-    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
-    _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
+    resetSelection();
     _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(_audioTime());
     if (hadLoop && emitTransportEvent && typeof window !== 'undefined') {
         window.feedBack?.playback?.transportEvent?.('loop-cleared', {
@@ -6620,1168 +6643,74 @@ function returnToEditorFromHighway() {
 }
 window.returnToEditorFromHighway = returnToEditorFromHighway;
 
-// ── Section Practice Bar ────────────────────────────────────────────────
-// One-click looping over song section markers (highway.getSections —
-// same array as 3D highway bundle.sections / "Now / Up Next").
-// Reuses setLoop() so manual A/B controls and saved loops stay canonical.
-let _sectionPracticeRanges = [];
-let _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
-let _sectionPracticeFollowParent = -1;
-let _sectionPracticeDurSynced = false;
-let _sectionPracticeLogged = false;
-let _sectionPracticeHooked = false;
-let _sectionPracticeRetryTimer = null;
-let _sectionPracticeLastPlayableCount = 0;
-let _sectionPracticePlayablePopulateRerendered = false;
-// Last-rendered parent count, so the bar can re-render when the parent layout
-// changes after the initial render — notably when the synthetic "Start" section
-// appears as notes-before-the-first-marker stream in late.
-let _sectionPracticeLastParentCount = -1;
-// Start-time identity of the active parent, tracked so it can be remapped to the
-// correct index when the parent layout shifts (a late "Start" prepend moves every
-// real parent by one) instead of leaving the raw index pointing at the wrong one.
-let _sectionPracticeActiveParentStart = NaN;
-let _sectionPracticeMode = false;
-let _sectionPracticeActiveParent = -1;
-let _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
-let _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
-// Monotonic token to cancel stale practiceSection() retries: a newer click
-// (or a song/arrangement change, which also bumps _audioSeekGen) supersedes
-// any in-flight retry loop so it can't re-arm the wrong loop/count-in.
-let _sectionPracticeRequestGen = 0;
-// >0 while a practiceSection() request is awaiting its loop. While set,
-// _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop() (e.g. from a mid-await bar re-render) must not
-// reconcile against the half-applied / previous loop — practiceSection owns the
-// section state and applies it once its own gen check passes.
-let _sectionPracticeRequestInFlight = 0;
 
-function _setSectionPracticeMode(on, opts = {}) {
-    const next = !!on;
-    if (next === _sectionPracticeMode && !opts.force) return;
-    _sectionPracticeMode = next;
-    const cb = document.getElementById('section-practice-mode');
-    if (cb) cb.checked = _sectionPracticeMode;
-    // Surface the "looping" state on the collapsed pill so the user can tell
-    // Section Practice is armed without opening the popover.
-    const pill = document.getElementById('section-practice-pill');
-    if (pill) pill.classList.toggle('section-practice-pill--active', _sectionPracticeMode);
-    _sectionPracticeFollowParent = -1;
-    if (_sectionPracticeMode) {
-        if (opts.defaultWholeOn) {
-            _sectionPracticeWholeSection = true;
-        }
-        _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(_audioTime());
-        if (opts.defaultWholeOn) {
-            _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
-        }
-    } else {
-        // Turning the feature off must cancel any in-flight practiceSection()
-        // retry: otherwise a stale setLoop() that lands after the user unchecks
-        // Section Practice would re-arm the loop, flip the mode back on via
-        // _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop(), and restart playback through
-        // startCountIn(). Bumping the request gen makes the pending retry bail.
-        _sectionPracticeRequestGen++;
-        // Cancel any pending count-in: every section-practice teardown routes
-        // through here (mode toggle off, clearLoop, and _hideSectionPracticeBar
-        // on song/arrangement change), so a countdown started by a prior section
-        // click must not resume playback after the user has turned practice off.
-        _cancelCountIn();
-        _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
-        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
-        _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
-        _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(_audioTime());
-        if (!opts.skipClearLoop && (loopA !== null || loopB !== null)) {
-            clearLoop();
-        }
-    }
-}
 
-function onSectionPracticeModeChange() {
-    const cb = document.getElementById('section-practice-mode');
-    if (!cb) return;
-    const turningOn = cb.checked && !_sectionPracticeMode;
-    _setSectionPracticeMode(cb.checked, { defaultWholeOn: turningOn });
-}
 
-function _resetSectionPracticeLog() {
-    _sectionPracticeLogged = false;
-    _sectionPracticeLastPlayableCount = 0;
-    _sectionPracticePlayablePopulateRerendered = false;
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeHighway() {
-    return window.highway || (typeof highway !== 'undefined' ? highway : null);
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeDuration() {
-    const d = _audioDuration();
-    if (d && Number.isFinite(d) && d > 0) return d;
-    const cd = window.feedBack?.currentSong?.duration;
-    return (cd && Number.isFinite(cd) && cd > 0) ? cd : 0;
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeSourceSections() {
-    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
-    if (!hw || typeof hw.getSections !== 'function') return [];
-    const raw = hw.getSections();
-    return Array.isArray(raw) ? raw : [];
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeStartTime(s) {
-    const t = s.time ?? s.startTime ?? s.start_time ?? s.start;
-    const n = Number(t);
-    return Number.isFinite(n) ? n : NaN;
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeBaseName(rawName, fallbackIndex) {
-    let s = (typeof rawName === 'string' ? rawName : '').trim();
-    if (!s) s = `Section ${fallbackIndex + 1}`;
-    // Normalise separators and strip common trailing digits like "Chorus 2"
-    s = s.replace(/_/g, ' ');
-    s = s.replace(/\s*\d+$/u, '');
-    const lower = s.toLowerCase();
-    const canonical = {
-        intro: 'Intro',
-        verse: 'Verse',
-        chorus: 'Chorus',
-        bridge: 'Bridge',
-        solo: 'Solo',
-        riff: 'Riff',
-        outro: 'Outro',
-    }[lower];
-    if (canonical) return canonical;
-    // Fallback: title-case words
-    return lower.split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean).map(w => w[0].toUpperCase() + w.slice(1)).join(' ') || `Section ${fallbackIndex + 1}`;
-}
 
-const _SECTION_PRACTICE_START_GAP_SEC = 0.05;
 
-function _sectionPracticeNoteTime(note) {
-    const t = note?.t ?? note?.time ?? note?.start_time ?? note?.start;
-    const n = Number(t);
-    return Number.isFinite(n) ? n : NaN;
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticePlayableCount() {
-    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
-    if (!hw) return 0;
-    let count = 0;
-    if (typeof hw.getNotes === 'function') {
-        const notes = hw.getNotes();
-        if (notes?.length) count += notes.length;
-    }
-    if (typeof hw.getChords === 'function') {
-        const chords = hw.getChords();
-        if (chords?.length) count += chords.length;
-    }
-    return count;
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeHasNotesBefore(beforeTime) {
-    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
-    if (!hw) return false;
-    const cutoff = Number(beforeTime);
-    if (!Number.isFinite(cutoff)) return false;
-    const sources = [];
-    if (typeof hw.getNotes === 'function') {
-        const notes = hw.getNotes();
-        if (notes?.length) sources.push(notes);
-    }
-    if (typeof hw.getChords === 'function') {
-        const chords = hw.getChords();
-        if (chords?.length) sources.push(chords);
-    }
-    for (let s = 0; s < sources.length; s++) {
-        const items = sources[s];
-        for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
-            const t = _sectionPracticeNoteTime(items[i]);
-            if (Number.isFinite(t) && t < cutoff) return true;
-        }
-    }
-    return false;
-}
 
-function _maybeRerenderSectionPracticeOnPlayableLoad() {
-    const count = _sectionPracticePlayableCount();
-    const prev = _sectionPracticeLastPlayableCount;
-    _sectionPracticeLastPlayableCount = count;
-    if (!_sectionPracticeSourceSections().length || !_sectionPracticeBarIsReady()) return;
-    // Re-render whenever the parent layout changes after the bar is up — the
-    // synthetic "Start" section can appear (±1 parent) once a note before the
-    // first marker streams in, which would otherwise leave the DOM chip indices
-    // out of sync with _buildSectionParents() (clicks/highlights hitting the
-    // wrong section). _buildSectionParents() is memoized, so this is cheap.
-    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
-    const parentCount = parents.length;
-    if (parentCount !== _sectionPracticeLastParentCount) {
-        // Remap the active parent by start-time identity before re-rendering: a
-        // late "Start" prepend shifts every real parent's index, so the raw
-        // index would otherwise point at the wrong section (mis-highlighting and
-        // breaking whole/prev/next). Selected/part indices are within-parent and
-        // unaffected. Skip when no active parent or no prior snapshot.
-        if (_sectionPracticeActiveParent >= 0 && Number.isFinite(_sectionPracticeActiveParentStart)) {
-            const remapped = parents.findIndex(
-                (p) => Math.abs(p.start - _sectionPracticeActiveParentStart) < 0.001,
-            );
-            if (remapped >= 0) _sectionPracticeActiveParent = remapped;
-        }
-        _sectionPracticeLastParentCount = parentCount;
-        renderSectionPracticeBar();
-        _sectionPracticeActiveParentStart =
-            (_sectionPracticeActiveParent >= 0 && parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent])
-                ? parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent].start : NaN;
-        return;
-    }
-    // Keep the active-parent start snapshot fresh while the layout is stable, so
-    // it holds the correct pre-change value when the layout next shifts.
-    _sectionPracticeActiveParentStart =
-        (_sectionPracticeActiveParent >= 0 && parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent])
-            ? parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent].start : NaN;
-    if (_sectionPracticePlayablePopulateRerendered) return;
-    if (prev !== 0 || count === 0) return;
-    _sectionPracticePlayablePopulateRerendered = true;
-    renderSectionPracticeBar();
-}
 
-// _buildSectionParents() runs on the 60 Hz highlight path, so memoize it.
-// The parent layout is a pure function of the highway's section list (a
-// stable array reference per song), the song duration, and whether any
-// notes/chords precede the first marker (the synthetic "Start" section).
-// That last input can flip while WS note chunks are still streaming in, so
-// the note/chord counts are part of the key; once a song is fully loaded
-// all four inputs stabilize and the per-frame call becomes a cache hit.
-// Every call site uses the result read-only, so returning the cached array
-// reference is safe.
-let _sectionParentsCache = null;
-let _sectionParentsCacheRaw = null;
-let _sectionParentsCacheDur = -1;
-let _sectionParentsCacheNoteLen = -1;
-let _sectionParentsCacheChordLen = -1;
 
-function _buildSectionParents() {
-    const raw = _sectionPracticeSourceSections();
-    if (!raw.length) return [];
-    const dur = _sectionPracticeDuration();
-    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
-    const noteLen = (hw && typeof hw.getNotes === 'function' && hw.getNotes()?.length) || 0;
-    const chordLen = (hw && typeof hw.getChords === 'function' && hw.getChords()?.length) || 0;
-    if (_sectionParentsCache !== null
-        && _sectionParentsCacheRaw === raw
-        && _sectionParentsCacheDur === dur
-        && _sectionParentsCacheNoteLen === noteLen
-        && _sectionParentsCacheChordLen === chordLen) {
-        return _sectionParentsCache;
-    }
-    const sorted = [...raw].sort((a, b) => _sectionPracticeStartTime(a) - _sectionPracticeStartTime(b));
-    // Step 1: collapse consecutive same-name markers into logical groups.
-    const groups = [];
-    for (let i = 0; i < sorted.length; i++) {
-        const start = _sectionPracticeStartTime(sorted[i]);
-        if (!Number.isFinite(start)) continue;
-        const baseName = _sectionPracticeBaseName(sorted[i].name, groups.length);
-        const prev = groups[groups.length - 1];
-        if (prev && prev.baseName === baseName) {
-            prev.lastIndex = i;
-        } else {
-            groups.push({ baseName, firstIndex: i, lastIndex: i });
-        }
-    }
-    if (!groups.length) return [];
-    // Step 2: assign musician-friendly labels with counters (Verse 1, Verse 2, …).
-    const counters = Object.create(null);
-    const ranges = [];
-    for (let gi = 0; gi < groups.length; gi++) {
-        const g = groups[gi];
-        const base = g.baseName;
-        const count = (counters[base] || 0) + 1;
-        counters[base] = count;
-        const label = `${base} ${count}`;
-        const firstSec = sorted[g.firstIndex];
-        const start = _sectionPracticeStartTime(firstSec);
-        if (!Number.isFinite(start)) continue;
-        let end;
-        if (gi + 1 < groups.length) {
-            const nextFirst = sorted[groups[gi + 1].firstIndex];
-            end = _sectionPracticeStartTime(nextFirst);
-        } else {
-            end = dur;
-        }
-        if (!Number.isFinite(end) || end <= start) {
-            end = dur > start ? dur : start + 4;
-        }
-        ranges.push({ name: label, start, end });
-    }
-    if (ranges.length > 0) {
-        const firstStart = Number(ranges[0].start);
-        if (Number.isFinite(firstStart) && firstStart > _SECTION_PRACTICE_START_GAP_SEC
-            && _sectionPracticeHasNotesBefore(firstStart)) {
-            ranges.unshift({ name: 'Start', start: 0, end: firstStart });
-        }
-    }
-    _sectionParentsCache = ranges;
-    _sectionParentsCacheRaw = raw;
-    _sectionParentsCacheDur = dur;
-    _sectionParentsCacheNoteLen = noteLen;
-    _sectionParentsCacheChordLen = chordLen;
-    return ranges;
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeResetSelectionUi() {
-    _sectionPracticeActiveParent = -1;
-    _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
-    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
-    _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
-    _sectionPracticeRanges = [];
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeSourcePhrases() {
-    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
-    if (!hw || typeof hw.getPracticePhrases !== 'function') return null;
-    const raw = hw.getPracticePhrases();
-    return (raw && raw.length) ? raw : null;
-}
 
-function _buildPhrasePartsForParent(parent) {
-    if (!parent) return [];
-    const dur = _sectionPracticeDuration();
-    const windowStart = parent.start;
-    const windowEnd = parent.end;
-    const phrases = _sectionPracticeSourcePhrases();
-    const parts = [];
 
-    if (phrases) {
-        const inWindow = phrases.filter(
-            (ph) => ph.start_time >= windowStart - 0.001 && ph.start_time < windowEnd - 0.001,
-        );
-        if (inWindow.length) {
-            for (let i = 0; i < inWindow.length; i++) {
-                const ph = inWindow[i];
-                let start = ph.start_time;
-                let end = ph.end_time;
-                if (!Number.isFinite(end) || end > windowEnd) end = windowEnd;
-                if (!Number.isFinite(start) || end <= start) continue;
-                if (dur && Number.isFinite(dur) && end > dur) end = dur;
-                parts.push({ name: parent.name, start, end });
-            }
-            // Snap first part to section start so the loop aligns with the selected marker
-            // when the first in-window phrase iteration begins later (e.g. Chorus 2).
-            if (parts.length > 0 && parts[0].start > windowStart) {
-                parts[0].start = windowStart;
-            }
-            return parts;
-        }
-    }
 
-    let start = windowStart;
-    let end = windowEnd;
-    if (dur && Number.isFinite(dur) && end > dur) end = dur;
-    if (Number.isFinite(start) && Number.isFinite(end) && end > start) {
-        parts.push({ name: parent.name, start, end });
-    }
-    return parts;
-}
 
-function _buildSectionPracticeRanges() {
-    if (_sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return [];
-    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
-    const parent = parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent];
-    if (!parent) return [];
-    return _buildPhrasePartsForParent(parent);
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeActiveParentRange() {
-    if (_sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return null;
-    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
-    const parent = parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent];
-    if (!parent) return null;
-    const dur = _sectionPracticeDuration();
-    let end = Number(parent.end);
-    const start = Number(parent.start);
-    if (dur && Number.isFinite(dur) && end > dur) end = dur;
-    if (!Number.isFinite(start) || !Number.isFinite(end) || end <= start) return null;
-    return { name: parent.name, start, end };
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeResolveLoopTarget(index, opts = {}) {
-    if (opts.whole) {
-        return _sectionPracticeActiveParentRange();
-    }
-    return _sectionPracticeRanges[index] ?? null;
-}
 
-function _formatSectionPracticeName(name) {
-    return name.replace(/_/g, ' ');
-}
 
-const _SECTION_PRACTICE_CHIP_KINDS = new Set([
-    'intro', 'verse', 'chorus', 'bridge', 'solo', 'riff', 'outro',
-]);
 
-function _sectionPracticeChipKindClass(name, index) {
-    const base = _sectionPracticeBaseName(name, index);
-    const kind = base.toLowerCase();
-    if (!_SECTION_PRACTICE_CHIP_KINDS.has(kind)) return '';
-    return ` section-practice-chip--${kind}`;
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeWholeCheckboxHtml() {
-    return '<label class="section-practice-whole-wrap" title="Loop the whole selected section">'
-        + '<input type="checkbox" id="section-practice-whole" onchange="onSectionPracticeWholeChange()">'
-        + '<span class="section-practice-whole-text">Full section</span>'
-        + '</label>';
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticePieceRowHtml() {
-    return '<div id="section-practice-piece-row" class="section-practice-row section-practice-piece-row">'
-        + '<span id="section-practice-piece-label" class="section-practice-piece-label" aria-live="polite">Part — of —</span>'
-        + '<button type="button" id="section-practice-piece-prev" class="section-practice-chip" onclick="onPhrasePrev()">◀ Previous</button>'
-        + '<button type="button" id="section-practice-piece-next" class="section-practice-chip" onclick="onPhraseNext()">Next ▶</button>'
-        + '</div>';
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeMainRow() {
-    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
-    if (!bar) return null;
-    return bar.querySelector('.section-practice-controls-row')
-        || bar.querySelector('.section-practice-primary-row')
-        || bar.querySelector('.section-practice-row:not(.section-practice-piece-row):not(.section-practice-chips-row)');
-}
 
-function _migrateSectionPracticeDomLayout(bar) {
-    if (!bar || bar.querySelector('.section-practice-controls-row')) return;
 
-    const pieceRow = document.getElementById('section-practice-piece-row');
-    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
-    const modeWrap = bar.querySelector('.section-practice-mode-wrap');
-    const wholeWrap = bar.querySelector('.section-practice-whole-wrap');
-    let label = bar.querySelector('.section-practice-label');
 
-    const controlsRow = document.createElement('div');
-    controlsRow.className = 'section-practice-row section-practice-controls-row';
-    if (modeWrap) controlsRow.appendChild(modeWrap);
-    if (wholeWrap) controlsRow.appendChild(wholeWrap);
-    if (pieceRow) controlsRow.appendChild(pieceRow);
 
-    const chipsRow = document.createElement('div');
-    chipsRow.className = 'section-practice-row section-practice-chips-row';
-    if (label) {
-        chipsRow.appendChild(label);
-    } else {
-        label = document.createElement('span');
-        label.className = 'section-practice-label';
-        label.textContent = 'Sections:';
-        chipsRow.appendChild(label);
-    }
-    if (scroll) chipsRow.appendChild(scroll);
 
-    bar.replaceChildren(controlsRow, chipsRow);
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeBarInnerHtml() {
-    return '<div class="section-practice-row section-practice-controls-row">'
-        + '<label class="section-practice-mode-wrap" title="Loop the selected section until turned off">'
-        + '<input type="checkbox" id="section-practice-mode" onchange="onSectionPracticeModeChange()">'
-        + '<span class="section-practice-mode-text">Practice Section</span>'
-        + '</label>'
-        + _sectionPracticeWholeCheckboxHtml()
-        + _sectionPracticePieceRowHtml()
-        + '</div>'
-        + '<div class="section-practice-row section-practice-chips-row">'
-        + '<span class="section-practice-label">Sections:</span>'
-        + '<div id="section-practice-scroll" class="section-practice-scroll" role="toolbar"></div>'
-        + '</div>';
-}
 
-function _ensureSectionPracticeWholeCheckbox() {
-    const existing = document.getElementById('section-practice-whole');
-    const mainRow = _sectionPracticeMainRow();
-    if (!mainRow) return;
-    if (existing) {
-        const wrap = existing.closest('.section-practice-whole-wrap');
-        if (wrap && !mainRow.contains(wrap)) {
-            const modeWrap = mainRow.querySelector('.section-practice-mode-wrap');
-            if (modeWrap) modeWrap.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', wrap);
-            else mainRow.insertBefore(wrap, mainRow.firstChild);
-        }
-        return;
-    }
-    const modeWrap = mainRow.querySelector('.section-practice-mode-wrap');
-    if (modeWrap) {
-        modeWrap.insertAdjacentHTML('afterend', _sectionPracticeWholeCheckboxHtml());
-    } else {
-        mainRow.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', _sectionPracticeWholeCheckboxHtml());
-    }
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeCurrentPartIndex() {
-    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
-    if (!total) return 0;
-    if (!_sectionPracticeWholeSection && _sectionPracticeSelected >= 0) {
-        return Math.min(_sectionPracticeSelected, total - 1);
-    }
-    if (_sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex >= 0) {
-        return Math.min(_sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex, total - 1);
-    }
-    return 0;
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticePillHtml() {
-    return '<button type="button" id="section-practice-pill" class="section-practice-pill"'
-        + ' aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="section-practice-bar"'
-        + ' aria-label="Section practice"'
-        + ' onclick="toggleSectionPracticePopover()" title="Section practice">'
-        + '<span class="section-practice-pill-icon" aria-hidden="true">'
-        + '<svg class="v3-rail-svg section-practice-pill-svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24">'
-        + '<path d="M12,2A10,10 0 0,0 2,12A10,10 0 0,0 12,22A10,10 0 0,0 22,12A10,10 0 0,0 12,2M12,4A8,8 0 0,1 20,12A8,8 0 0,1 12,20A8,8 0 0,1 4,12A8,8 0 0,1 12,4M12,6A6,6 0 0,0 6,12A6,6 0 0,0 12,18A6,6 0 0,0 18,12A6,6 0 0,0 12,6M12,8A4,4 0 0,1 16,12A4,4 0 0,1 12,16A4,4 0 0,1 8,12A4,4 0 0,1 12,8M12,10A2,2 0 0,0 10,12A2,2 0 0,0 12,14A2,2 0 0,0 14,12A2,2 0 0,0 12,10Z"/>'
-        + '</svg></span>'
-        + '<span class="section-practice-pill-text">Practice</span>'
-        + '<span class="section-practice-pill-caret" aria-hidden="true">▾</span>'
-        + '</button>';
-}
 
-function _syncSectionPracticePillV3Chrome(isV3) {
-    const pill = document.getElementById('section-practice-pill');
-    if (!pill) return;
-    pill.classList.toggle('v3-rail-icon', isV3);
-    let ring = pill.querySelector('.v3-rail-border');
-    if (isV3) {
-        if (!ring) {
-            ring = document.createElement('span');
-            ring.className = 'v3-rail-border';
-            ring.setAttribute('aria-hidden', 'true');
-            pill.insertBefore(ring, pill.firstChild);
-        }
-        pill.setAttribute('title', 'Practice');
-        pill.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Practice');
-    } else {
-        if (ring) ring.remove();
-        pill.setAttribute('title', 'Section practice');
-        pill.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Section practice');
-    }
-}
 
-// Wrap an existing #section-practice-bar in the pill control (creating the
-// wrapper + pill if missing). Defensive: works whether the bar came from the
-// static markup (already wrapped) or a chrome whose index.html predates the
-// pill (e.g. a not-yet-rebased v3 build) — the bar is always reachable as a
-// closed popover behind the pill afterward.
-function _ensureSectionPracticeControlWrap(bar) {
-    if (!bar) return null;
-    let ctrl = (bar.closest && bar.closest('.section-practice-control'))
-        || document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
-    if (ctrl) {
-        if (!ctrl.contains(bar)) ctrl.appendChild(bar);
-    } else {
-        ctrl = document.createElement('div');
-        ctrl.id = 'section-practice-control';
-        ctrl.className = 'section-practice-control section-practice-control--hidden';
-        if (bar.parentNode) bar.parentNode.insertBefore(ctrl, bar);
-        ctrl.appendChild(bar);
-    }
-    if (!ctrl.querySelector('#section-practice-pill')) {
-        ctrl.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', _sectionPracticePillHtml());
-    }
-    // Popover visibility is driven by --open now; clear any legacy hidden class.
-    bar.classList.remove('section-practice-bar--hidden');
-    _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe(ctrl);
-    return ctrl;
-}
 
-// Mount the pill control so its popover — whose chip <button>s would otherwise
-// be matched by a plugin's `#player-controls > button:last-child` injector
-// anchor and throw on insertBefore — lives OUTSIDE #player-controls. Prefers
-// #player-footer; otherwise inserts as a sibling immediately before
-// #player-controls. Idempotent and never throws on layout variants where
-// #player-controls isn't a child of #player-footer (it checks parentage before
-// using insertBefore). The v3 rail mount in _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome
-// supersedes this, so a control already in the rail is left alone.
-function _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe(ctrl) {
-    if (!ctrl) return;
-    if (ctrl.closest && ctrl.closest('#v3-player-rail')) return;
-    const controls = document.getElementById('player-controls');
-    const footer = document.getElementById('player-footer');
-    if (footer) {
-        if (controls && controls.parentNode === footer) {
-            if (ctrl.nextSibling !== controls) footer.insertBefore(ctrl, controls);
-        } else if (ctrl.parentNode !== footer) {
-            footer.appendChild(ctrl);
-        }
-        return;
-    }
-    if (controls && controls.parentNode) {
-        if (ctrl.parentNode !== controls.parentNode || ctrl.nextSibling !== controls) {
-            controls.parentNode.insertBefore(ctrl, controls);
-        }
-        return;
-    }
-    // No footer and #player-controls has no parent (degenerate/detached layout):
-    // never nest the popover INSIDE #player-controls — that re-arms the injector
-    // bug. Fall back to the player container so the chip buttons stay outside it.
-    const player = document.getElementById('player');
-    if (player && ctrl.parentNode !== player) player.appendChild(ctrl);
-}
 
-// In the v3 chrome the pill becomes a left-rail icon (CSS hides its label and
-// opens the popover to the right). app.js owns the toggle/dismiss, so this is
-// independent of player-chrome.js's own rail-popover wiring.
-// Idempotent + reversible: mounts the control into #v3-player-rail under v3,
-// or back out to the footer under v2. Safe to call every frame — it only
-// touches the DOM when the placement is actually wrong, so a chrome that flips
-// uiVersion (or mounts #v3-player-rail) after the bar is "ready" still gets the
-// pill relocated on the next draw tick. See the draw hook's ready path.
-function _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome() {
-    const ctrl = document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
-    if (!ctrl) return;
-    const isV3 = !!(window.feedBack && window.feedBack.uiVersion === 'v3');
-    ctrl.classList.toggle('section-practice-control--v3', isV3);
-    _syncSectionPracticePillV3Chrome(isV3);
-    if (isV3) {
-        const rail = document.getElementById('v3-player-rail');
-        if (rail) {
-            const dot = rail.querySelector('.v3-rail-dot');
-            if (dot) {
-                // Reorder even when already in the rail but after the dot (or the
-                // dot mounted later) so the placement self-corrects each tick.
-                if (ctrl.parentElement !== rail || ctrl.nextElementSibling !== dot) {
-                    rail.insertBefore(ctrl, dot);
-                }
-            } else if (ctrl.parentElement !== rail) {
-                rail.appendChild(ctrl);
-            }
-        }
-    } else if (ctrl.closest && ctrl.closest('#v3-player-rail')) {
-        // Chrome reverted to v2: pull the control out of the rail (detach first
-        // so _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe's rail guard doesn't no-op) and
-        // re-home it in the footer.
-        ctrl.remove();
-        _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe(ctrl);
-    }
-}
 
-function _ensureSectionPracticeDom() {
-    let bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
-    if (bar) {
-        _ensureSectionPracticeControlWrap(bar);
-        _migrateSectionPracticeDomLayout(bar);
-        if (!bar.querySelector('#section-practice-piece-row')) {
-            const controlsRow = bar.querySelector('.section-practice-controls-row')
-                || bar.querySelector('.section-practice-primary-row');
-            if (controlsRow) {
-                controlsRow.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', _sectionPracticePieceRowHtml());
-            } else {
-                bar.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', _sectionPracticePieceRowHtml());
-            }
-        }
-        _ensureSectionPracticeWholeCheckbox();
-        bar.querySelector('.section-practice-show-all-wrap')?.remove();
-        _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome();
-        return bar;
-    }
-    const controls = document.getElementById('player-controls');
-    const footer = document.getElementById('player-footer');
-    if (!footer && !controls) return null;
-    bar = document.createElement('div');
-    bar.id = 'section-practice-bar';
-    bar.className = 'section-practice-bar';
-    bar.setAttribute('role', 'dialog');
-    bar.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Section practice');
-    bar.innerHTML = _sectionPracticeBarInnerHtml();
-    const ctrl = document.createElement('div');
-    ctrl.id = 'section-practice-control';
-    ctrl.className = 'section-practice-control section-practice-control--hidden';
-    ctrl.innerHTML = _sectionPracticePillHtml();
-    ctrl.appendChild(bar);
-    // Mount OUTSIDE #player-controls (in #player-footer, or as its sibling) so
-    // the popover's chip <button>s can't be matched by a plugin injector that
-    // anchors on `#player-controls > button:last-of-type` (see static/v3/index.html).
-    _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe(ctrl);
-    _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome();
-    return bar;
-}
 
-// "Show" = make the pill available. The bar itself stays a CLOSED popover
-// until the user opens it via the pill (toggleSectionPracticePopover).
-function _showSectionPracticeBar(bar) {
-    const ctrl = (bar && bar.closest && bar.closest('.section-practice-control'))
-        || document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
-    if (ctrl) ctrl.classList.remove('section-practice-control--hidden');
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticePopoverOpen() {
-    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
-    return !!(bar && bar.classList.contains('section-practice-bar--open'));
-}
 
-function _openSectionPracticePopover() {
-    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
-    if (!bar) return;
-    bar.classList.add('section-practice-bar--open');
-    const pill = document.getElementById('section-practice-pill');
-    if (pill) pill.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'true');
-    _installSectionPracticeDismiss();
-}
 
-function _closeSectionPracticePopover() {
-    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
-    const pill = document.getElementById('section-practice-pill');
-    if (bar) {
-        const focusWasInside = bar.contains(document.activeElement);
-        bar.classList.remove('section-practice-bar--open');
-        // Return focus to the pill if it was inside the popover — otherwise it
-        // would be stranded on a now-display:none control, which also makes the
-        // shortcut gate treat that stale target as interactive and suppress
-        // player keys until focus is moved manually.
-        if (focusWasInside && pill) pill.focus();
-    }
-    if (pill) pill.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'false');
-}
 
-function toggleSectionPracticePopover() {
-    if (_sectionPracticePopoverOpen()) _closeSectionPracticePopover();
-    else _openSectionPracticePopover();
-}
 
-let _sectionPracticeDismissBound = false;
-function _installSectionPracticeDismiss() {
-    if (_sectionPracticeDismissBound) return;
-    _sectionPracticeDismissBound = true;
-    // Click-outside + Esc close. Bound once on document; the pill's own click is
-    // inside #section-practice-control so it never self-closes. Listeners added
-    // mid-dispatch don't fire for the opening click, so there's no immediate
-    // close race.
-    //
-    // The click listener uses the CAPTURE phase: the v3 player rail's icon
-    // buttons call e.stopPropagation() in their click handler (player-chrome.js
-    // wireRail), which kills bubbling before it reaches document. A bubble-phase
-    // outside-click dismiss would therefore never fire when the user clicks a
-    // rail icon (Plugins, Audio, …) to open another popover, leaving this
-    // popover stranded open on top of it. Capture runs before the target's
-    // handler, so the stopPropagation can't swallow it. This mirrors the audio
-    // mixer popover (audio-mixer.js), which dismisses outside-clicks the same
-    // way. (Esc stays bubble-phase — no rail handler stops keydown propagation,
-    // so it already reaches us, and capturing it would reorder it ahead of the
-    // player's Escape-to-exit handling.)
-    document.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
-        if (!_sectionPracticePopoverOpen()) return;
-        const ctrl = document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
-        if (ctrl && ctrl.contains(e.target)) return;
-        _closeSectionPracticePopover();
-    }, true);
-    document.addEventListener('keydown', (e) => {
-        if (e.key === 'Escape' && _sectionPracticePopoverOpen()) _closeSectionPracticePopover();
-    });
-}
 
-function _hideSectionPracticeBar() {
-    _setSectionPracticeMode(false, { skipClearLoop: true });
-    _closeSectionPracticePopover();
-    const ctrl = document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
-    if (ctrl) {
-        // Move focus out before hiding the control: a display:none element that
-        // still holds focus leaves document.activeElement on it, which the
-        // shortcut gate (_shortcutDispatchBlocked) would treat as an interactive
-        // target and swallow player keys. Covers the pill (where the close above
-        // may have just parked focus) and any bar descendant.
-        const ae = document.activeElement;
-        if (ae && ctrl.contains(ae) && typeof ae.blur === 'function') ae.blur();
-        ctrl.classList.add('section-practice-control--hidden');
-    }
-    _sectionPracticeRanges = [];
-    _sectionPracticeActiveParent = -1;
-    _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
-    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
-    _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
-    _sectionPracticeFollowParent = -1;
-    _sectionPracticeDurSynced = false;
-    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
-    if (scroll) scroll.innerHTML = '';
-    _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeBarIsReady() {
-    // "Ready" = the pill is available (sections exist) and the popover is
-    // populated. Independent of whether the popover is currently open, so the
-    // draw-hook retry loop settles even while the bar stays collapsed.
-    const ctrl = document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
-    if (!ctrl || ctrl.classList.contains('section-practice-control--hidden')) return false;
-    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
-    return !!(scroll && scroll.querySelector('[data-parent-idx]'));
-}
 
-function _installSectionPracticeDrawHook() {
-    if (_sectionPracticeHooked) return;
-    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
-    if (!hw || typeof hw.addDrawHook !== 'function') return;
-    _sectionPracticeHooked = true;
-    hw.addDrawHook(() => {
-        if (_sectionPracticeSourceSections().length === 0) return;
-        _maybeRerenderSectionPracticeOnPlayableLoad();
-        if (_sectionPracticeBarIsReady()) { _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome(); return; }
-        renderSectionPracticeBar();
-    });
-}
 
-function _scheduleSectionPracticeRetries() {
-    if (_sectionPracticeRetryTimer) clearTimeout(_sectionPracticeRetryTimer);
-    const delays = [0, 50, 200, 500, 1200];
-    let i = 0;
-    const tick = () => {
-        renderSectionPracticeBar();
-        i += 1;
-        if (i < delays.length && !_sectionPracticeBarIsReady()) {
-            _sectionPracticeRetryTimer = setTimeout(tick, delays[i]);
-        } else {
-            _sectionPracticeRetryTimer = null;
-        }
-    };
-    tick();
-}
-
-function _syncSectionPracticePieceUi() {
-    const label = document.getElementById('section-practice-piece-label');
-    const prev = document.getElementById('section-practice-piece-prev');
-    const next = document.getElementById('section-practice-piece-next');
-    const wholeCb = document.getElementById('section-practice-whole');
-    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
-    const active = _sectionPracticeActiveParent >= 0;
-    if (label) {
-        if (!active || !total) {
-            label.textContent = 'Part — of —';
-        } else {
-            const idx = _sectionPracticeCurrentPartIndex();
-            label.textContent = `Part ${idx + 1} of ${total}`;
-        }
-    }
-    if (wholeCb) {
-        wholeCb.checked = _sectionPracticeWholeSection;
-    }
-    const partIdx = (!active || !total || _sectionPracticeWholeSection)
-        ? 0
-        : (_sectionPracticeSelected >= 0 ? _sectionPracticeSelected : 0);
-    if (prev) {
-        prev.disabled = !active || !total || (!_sectionPracticeWholeSection && partIdx <= 0);
-    }
-    if (next) {
-        next.disabled = !active || !total || (!_sectionPracticeWholeSection && partIdx >= total - 1);
-    }
-}
-
-function renderSectionPracticeBar() {
-    _installSectionPracticeDrawHook();
-    const raw = _sectionPracticeSourceSections();
-    if (!_sectionPracticeLogged) {
-        _sectionPracticeLogged = true;
-    }
-    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
-    const bar = _ensureSectionPracticeDom();
-    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
-    if (!bar || !scroll) return;
-    if (!parents.length) {
-        _hideSectionPracticeBar();
-        return;
-    }
-    if (_sectionPracticeActiveParent >= parents.length) {
-        _sectionPracticeResetSelectionUi();
-    }
-    _showSectionPracticeBar(bar);
-    scroll.innerHTML = parents.map((p, i) => {
-        const label = _formatSectionPracticeName(p.name);
-        const tip = `${label} (${formatTime(p.start)}–${formatTime(p.end)})`;
-        const kindClass = _sectionPracticeChipKindClass(p.name, i);
-        return `<button type="button" class="section-practice-chip${kindClass}" data-parent-idx="${i}" title="${esc(tip)}" onclick="onSectionParentClick(${i})">${esc(label)}</button>`;
-    }).join('');
-    _sectionPracticeRanges = _buildSectionPracticeRanges();
-    // Reconcile any active A-B loop with the (re)rendered section bar. Called
-    // unconditionally so a loop that arrived before the section markers — e.g.
-    // a Saved Loop or window.feedBack.setLoop() during song load, when no
-    // parent was active yet — still re-selects its chip once markers appear.
-    // _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop() scans all parents, so it can activate the
-    // matching one; run it before the piece UI so that reflects the result.
-    _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop();
-    _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
-    _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(_audioTime());
-}
-
-async function onSectionParentClick(parentIdx) {
-    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
-    const idx = Number(parentIdx);
-    if (!Number.isFinite(idx) || idx < 0 || idx >= parents.length) return;
-    _sectionPracticeActiveParent = idx;
-    _sectionPracticeRanges = _buildSectionPracticeRanges();
-    _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
-    _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
-    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = true;
-    _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
-    _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(_audioTime());
-    if (_sectionPracticeActiveParentRange() || _sectionPracticeRanges.length) {
-        await practiceSection(0, { whole: true });
-    }
-}
-
-async function onSectionPracticeWholeChange() {
-    const cb = document.getElementById('section-practice-whole');
-    if (!cb || _sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return;
-    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
-    if (!total) return;
-    if (cb.checked === _sectionPracticeWholeSection) return;
-    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = cb.checked;
-    if (cb.checked) {
-        await practiceSection(_sectionPracticeCurrentPartIndex(), { whole: true });
-        return;
-    }
-    await practiceSection(0);
-}
-
-async function onPhrasePrev() {
-    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
-    if (!total || _sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return;
-    if (_sectionPracticeWholeSection) {
-        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
-        _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
-        await practiceSection(0);
-        return;
-    }
-    const cur = _sectionPracticeSelected >= 0 ? _sectionPracticeSelected : 0;
-    if (cur <= 0) return;
-    await practiceSection(cur - 1);
-}
-
-async function onPhraseNext() {
-    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
-    if (!total || _sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return;
-    if (_sectionPracticeWholeSection) {
-        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
-        _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
-        await practiceSection(0);
-        return;
-    }
-    const cur = _sectionPracticeSelected >= 0 ? _sectionPracticeSelected : 0;
-    if (cur >= total - 1) return;
-    await practiceSection(cur + 1);
-}
 
 window.onSectionParentClick = onSectionParentClick;
 window.onSectionPracticeWholeChange = onSectionPracticeWholeChange;
 window.onPhrasePrev = onPhrasePrev;
 window.onPhraseNext = onPhraseNext;
 
-// Find which section parent / phrase part the active A-B loop corresponds to.
-// Scans ALL parents (not just the active one) so a loop arriving from Saved
-// Loops or window.feedBack.setLoop() can re-select the right chip even when
-// its parent isn't the currently-active one. Returns { parentIdx, whole } or
-// { parentIdx, whole:false, index } (the matching phrase part), or null.
-function _sectionPracticeLoopMatch() {
-    if (loopA === null || loopB === null) return null;
-    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
-    for (let parentIdx = 0; parentIdx < parents.length; parentIdx++) {
-        const parent = parents[parentIdx];
-        let partMatch = -1;
-        const parts = _buildPhrasePartsForParent(parent);
-        for (let i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
-            if (Math.abs(parts[i].start - loopA) < 0.05 && Math.abs(parts[i].end - loopB) < 0.05) {
-                partMatch = i;
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-        const wholeMatch = Math.abs(parent.start - loopA) < 0.05 && Math.abs(parent.end - loopB) < 0.05;
-        if (wholeMatch && partMatch >= 0) {
-            // A single-part section's part range coincides with the whole
-            // section. Preserve the user's whole/part intent when this is the
-            // already-active parent; otherwise default to whole-section.
-            if (parentIdx === _sectionPracticeActiveParent && !_sectionPracticeWholeSection) {
-                return { parentIdx, whole: false, index: partMatch };
-            }
-            return { parentIdx, whole: true };
-        }
-        if (wholeMatch) return { parentIdx, whole: true };
-        if (partMatch >= 0) return { parentIdx, whole: false, index: partMatch };
-    }
-    return null;
-}
 
-function _blurSectionPracticeFocusIfNeeded() {
-    const ae = document.activeElement;
-    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
-    if (ae && bar && bar.contains(ae) && typeof ae.blur === 'function') {
-        ae.blur();
-    }
-}
 
-async function practiceSection(index, opts = {}) {
-    const requestGen = ++_sectionPracticeRequestGen;
-    const seekGen = _audioSeekGen;
-    const loopGen = _loopMutationGen;
-    const whole = !!opts.whole;
-    const r = _sectionPracticeResolveLoopTarget(index, opts);
-    if (!r) return;
-    const dur = _sectionPracticeDuration();
-    const start = Number(r.start);
-    let end = Number(r.end);
-    if (dur && Number.isFinite(dur) && end > dur) end = dur;
-    if (!Number.isFinite(start) || !Number.isFinite(end) || end <= start) return;
 
-    // Mark the request in-flight so a bar re-render that fires during the awaited
-    // setLoop below doesn't reconcile section state against the old/half-applied
-    // loop. Cleared in finally so every exit path (bail, success, failure) resets.
-    _sectionPracticeRequestInFlight++;
-    try {
-    _cancelCountIn();
-    _setSectionPracticeMode(true, { skipClearLoop: true });
 
-    // setLoop() is seek-gated: it returns false when the seek is cancelled
-    // during arrangement switches / teardown-gen bumps, or when the backend
-    // clock clamps off-target. Retry briefly to land after the transport
-    // becomes ready without forking the loop system.
-    let ok = false;
-    for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 5; attempt++) {
-        // A newer click or a song/arrangement change supersedes this retry.
-        if (requestGen !== _sectionPracticeRequestGen || seekGen !== _audioSeekGen || loopGen !== _loopMutationGen) return;
-        try {
-            // skipSectionSync: this function owns the section-practice state and
-            // applies it below under the request-gen guard, so a stale retry
-            // landing here can't re-sync/re-arm via setLoop's shared path.
-            // commitGuard: also prevent a superseded retry from committing
-            // loopA/loopB at all — setLoop re-checks this right before arming,
-            // after its internal seek await, so a stale loop is never armed.
-            ok = await setLoop(start, end, {
-                skipSectionSync: true,
-                commitGuard: () => requestGen === _sectionPracticeRequestGen && seekGen === _audioSeekGen && loopGen === _loopMutationGen,
-            });
-        } catch (err) {
-            ok = false;
-        }
-        if (ok) break;
-        await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, 60 + attempt * 90));
-    }
-    // Re-check after the awaited retries before applying any loop/count-in state.
-    if (requestGen !== _sectionPracticeRequestGen || seekGen !== _audioSeekGen || loopGen !== _loopMutationGen) return;
 
-    if (ok) {
-        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = whole;
-        if (!whole) {
-            _sectionPracticeSelected = index;
-            _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = index;
-        }
-        _blurSectionPracticeFocusIfNeeded();
-        _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(_audioTime());
-        startCountIn({ immediate: true });
-    } else {
-        _setSectionPracticeMode(false, { skipClearLoop: true });
-    }
-    } finally {
-        _sectionPracticeRequestInFlight--;
-    }
-}
 
-function _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop() {
-    // A practiceSection() request owns the section state while it awaits its
-    // loop; reconciling here against the prior/half-applied loop would fight it
-    // (snapping the active parent back or toggling the mode off mid-request).
-    if (_sectionPracticeRequestInFlight > 0) return;
-    if (!_buildSectionParents().length) return;
-    const match = _sectionPracticeLoopMatch();
-    if (match) {
-        // The loop may belong to a parent that isn't currently active (e.g.
-        // restored from Saved Loops); switch to it and rebuild its parts so
-        // the part-level UI reflects the matched section.
-        if (match.parentIdx !== _sectionPracticeActiveParent) {
-            _sectionPracticeActiveParent = match.parentIdx;
-            _sectionPracticeRanges = _buildSectionPracticeRanges();
-        }
-        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = match.whole;
-        if (!match.whole) {
-            _sectionPracticeSelected = match.index;
-            _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = match.index;
-        } else {
-            _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
-        }
-    } else {
-        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
-        _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
-    }
-    if (loopA !== null && loopB !== null) {
-        if (match) {
-            if (!_sectionPracticeMode) {
-                _setSectionPracticeMode(true, { skipClearLoop: true });
-            }
-        } else if (_sectionPracticeMode) {
-            _setSectionPracticeMode(false, { skipClearLoop: true });
-        }
-    } else if (_sectionPracticeMode) {
-        _setSectionPracticeMode(false, { skipClearLoop: true });
-    }
-    _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(_audioTime());
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeIndexAtTime(t) {
-    if (!Number.isFinite(t) || _sectionPracticeRanges.length === 0) return -1;
-    for (let i = _sectionPracticeRanges.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
-        if (t >= _sectionPracticeRanges[i].start) return i;
-    }
-    return -1;
-}
 
-function _sectionPracticeParentIndexAtTime(t) {
-    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
-    if (!Number.isFinite(t) || parents.length === 0) return -1;
-    for (let i = parents.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
-        if (t >= parents[i].start) return i;
-    }
-    return -1;
-}
 
-function _scrollSectionPracticeChipIntoView(chip) {
-    if (!chip) return;
-    chip.scrollIntoView({ block: 'nearest', inline: 'nearest' });
-}
-
-function _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(ct) {
-    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
-    if (!scroll) return;
-    const chips = scroll.querySelectorAll('.section-practice-chip[data-parent-idx]');
-    if (!chips.length) return;
-
-    const followEnabled = !_sectionPracticeMode && _sectionPracticeBarIsReady();
-    const followParent = followEnabled ? _sectionPracticeParentIndexAtTime(ct) : -1;
-
-    chips.forEach((chip) => {
-        const idx = Number(chip.dataset.parentIdx);
-        chip.classList.toggle('is-selected', idx === _sectionPracticeActiveParent);
-        chip.classList.toggle('is-playing', followEnabled && idx === followParent);
-    });
-
-    if (followEnabled && followParent >= 0 && followParent !== _sectionPracticeFollowParent) {
-        _sectionPracticeFollowParent = followParent;
-        const chip = scroll.querySelector(`.section-practice-chip[data-parent-idx="${followParent}"]`);
-        _scrollSectionPracticeChipIntoView(chip);
-    } else if (!followEnabled) {
-        _sectionPracticeFollowParent = -1;
-    }
-
-    _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
-}
-
-function _maybeRefreshSectionPracticeDuration(dur) {
-    if (_sectionPracticeDurSynced || !dur || _sectionPracticeRanges.length === 0) return;
-    const rebuilt = _buildSectionPracticeRanges();
-    if (!rebuilt.length) return;
-    const prevEnd = _sectionPracticeRanges[_sectionPracticeRanges.length - 1].end;
-    const nextEnd = rebuilt[rebuilt.length - 1].end;
-    if (Math.abs(prevEnd - nextEnd) > 0.05) {
-        _sectionPracticeDurSynced = true;
-        renderSectionPracticeBar();
-    } else {
-        _sectionPracticeDurSynced = true;
-    }
-}
-
-// Re-render when section metadata appears (before audio duration is known).
-function _ensureSectionPracticeBar() {
-    if (_sectionPracticeSourceSections().length === 0) return;
-    if (!_sectionPracticeBarIsReady()) {
-        renderSectionPracticeBar();
-    }
-}
 
 
 async function loadSavedLoops() {
@@ -9431,6 +8360,37 @@ async function checkScanAndLoad() {
 //
 // Guarded by tests/js/window_contract.test.js. Add a name here the moment
 // anything outside app.js calls it.
+// ── The host seam ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Hand app.js's own functions DOWN to the carved modules.
+//
+// This runs at TOP LEVEL, during app.js's synchronous module evaluation, and
+// deliberately sits immediately before the window contract below — because that
+// contract is what makes the carved handlers (onPhraseNext, practiceSection, …)
+// clickable. Wiring the seam inside the async boot function instead would leave a
+// real window: app.js's body finishes, the handlers go live on `window`, and a user
+// clicking one before the awaits resolve would hit
+// `[host] … was read before configureHost() ran`. Synchronous, and ordered ahead of
+// the handlers, closes that.
+//
+// ./js/host.js THROWS on an unwired hook rather than quietly returning undefined, and
+// tests/js/host_contract.test.js fails CI if this list and the host.* uses under
+// static/js/ ever drift apart.
+configureHost({
+    _audioTime,
+    _audioDuration,
+    setLoop,
+    clearLoop,
+    startCountIn,
+    _cancelCountIn,
+    formatTime,
+    // Read-only getters. app.js still OWNS these reassigned scalars — the module only
+    // ever reads them, so no state container is needed.
+    loopA: () => loopA,
+    loopB: () => loopB,
+    _audioSeekGen: () => _audioSeekGen,
+    _loopMutationGen: () => _loopMutationGen,
+});
+
 Object.assign(window, {
     _confirmDialog, _getArrangementNamingMode, _libraryLocalFilename, _librarySongArtUrl,
     _librarySongId, _onHeaderClick, _onNamingModeChange, _trapFocusInModal,
diff --git a/static/js/host.js b/static/js/host.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2bf1bdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/js/host.js
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+// The host seam — how a carved-out module calls back into app.js.
+//
+// WHY THIS EXISTS. What is left in app.js is not a tree, it is a cycle: seeding a
+// dependency closure from count-in, from loops, from section-practice, or from the
+// JUCE seek shim all return the SAME 178-function set, and setLoop() and
+// practiceSection() call each other directly. So a module carved out of that
+// component will always need to call back into app.js — and it cannot `import`
+// app.js to do it, because app.js imports the module, and that closes a cycle the
+// import-x/no-cycle gate (rightly) rejects.
+//
+// So app.js hands its functions DOWN, once, at boot: `configureHost({ playSong, … })`.
+//
+// ─── THE FAILURE MODE THIS IS BUILT TO PREVENT ───────────────────────────────
+//
+// The obvious way to write this is a plain object with no-op defaults. That is a
+// TRAP, and we walked into it once already: the plugin loader's host seam defaulted
+// `populateVizPicker` to `() => {}`, which means that if the wiring call in app.js
+// is ever dropped, renamed, or drifts, the loader keeps running, the viz picker
+// silently stops refreshing, and NOTHING — no test, no boot check, no bot — says a
+// word. A feature just quietly stops existing.
+//
+// Two layers stop that here, and the second is the one that actually closes it:
+//
+//   1. RUNTIME — reading an unwired hook THROWS. There are no defaults and no
+//      stubs. `host.playSong` either is the real function or it is a loud error.
+//      An unwired hook cannot degrade into a no-op, because there is nothing for
+//      it to degrade INTO.
+//
+//   2. STATIC — tests/js/host_contract.test.js asserts that the set of hooks the
+//      modules USE is exactly the set app.js WIRES. This is the important one:
+//      layer 1 only fires if the broken path actually executes, and the whole
+//      danger of this seam is paths that don't run in a smoke test. The static
+//      check catches a drifted or misspelled hook in CI, on a path nobody ran.
+//
+// Consequence for anyone adding a hook: add it to the configureHost({…}) call in
+// app.js *and* use it as `host.<name>`. The contract test fails on either alone —
+// deliberately. A hook wired but never used is dead weight; a hook used but never
+// wired is a bug that would otherwise hide.
+
+const _hooks = Object.create(null);
+let _configured = false;
+
+/**
+ * Called ONCE by app.js at boot, before any carved module runs. Every value must
+ * be a function — a hook that is accidentally `undefined` (a typo, a renamed
+ * export, a dropped line) fails HERE, at startup, rather than silently much later.
+ */
+export function configureHost(hooks) {
+    if (_configured) {
+        throw new Error('[host] configureHost() called twice — it must be wired exactly once, at boot.');
+    }
+    const bad = Object.entries(hooks || {})
+        .filter(([, v]) => typeof v !== 'function')
+        .map(([k]) => k);
+    if (bad.length) {
+        throw new Error(
+            `[host] these hooks are not functions: ${bad.join(', ')}. `
+            + 'A hook is usually undefined because it was renamed or its line was dropped.',
+        );
+    }
+    Object.assign(_hooks, hooks);
+    _configured = true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The seam itself. Reading a hook that was never wired THROWS — it never returns
+ * undefined and never returns a silent no-op. See the note at the top: a no-op
+ * default is precisely the bug this module exists to make impossible.
+ */
+export const host = new Proxy(Object.create(null), {
+    get(_target, name) {
+        if (typeof name === 'symbol') return undefined;   // let JS probe it freely
+        if (!_configured) {
+            throw new Error(
+                `[host] host.${name} was read before configureHost() ran. `
+                + 'app.js must call configureHost() at boot, before any carved module executes.',
+            );
+        }
+        const fn = _hooks[name];
+        if (typeof fn !== 'function') {
+            throw new Error(
+                `[host] host.${name} is not wired. Add it to the configureHost({ … }) `
+                + 'call in app.js. (tests/js/host_contract.test.js should have caught this in CI.)',
+            );
+        }
+        return fn;
+    },
+    // Keep the object honest for anything that introspects it.
+    has(_target, name) { return name in _hooks; },
+    ownKeys() { return Object.keys(_hooks); },
+    getOwnPropertyDescriptor(_target, name) {
+        return name in _hooks
+            ? { value: _hooks[name], enumerable: true, configurable: true, writable: false }
+            : undefined;
+    },
+    set(_target, name) {
+        throw new Error(`[host] host.${String(name)} is read-only — hooks are wired only via configureHost().`);
+    },
+});
diff --git a/static/js/section-practice.js b/static/js/section-practice.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7fc00e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/js/section-practice.js
@@ -0,0 +1,1214 @@
+// Section practice — the practice-a-section bar, its phrase parts, and the popover
+// that drives them.
+//
+// THE FIRST SLICE OUT OF app.js's STRONGLY-CONNECTED CORE. It could not be cut by
+// dependency closure: seeding a closure from section-practice, from loops, from
+// count-in, or from the JUCE seek shim all return the SAME 178-function set, because
+// setLoop() and practiceSection() call each other. So it is cut BY NAME, and
+// everything it calls back into app.js goes through the host seam.
+//
+// It owns its own state — the _sectionPractice* / _sectionParents* scalars are read
+// nowhere else and move in with it. It needs 11 hooks from app.js, and four of those
+// are read-only GETTERS: loopA / loopB / _audioSeekGen / _loopMutationGen are only
+// ever READ here, never written, so app.js keeps owning them and no state container
+// is needed.
+//
+// app.js used to reach IN and reset this module's state directly (clearLoop() zeroed
+// the selection; changeArrangement() invalidated the parent count). It cannot now — an
+// imported binding is read-only — so those are exported as resetSelection() and
+// invalidateParentCount(). That is strictly better: the module owns its own invariants
+// instead of trusting two callers on the far side of the file to zero the right fields.
+//
+// ON THE SEAM: see ./host.js. Reading an unwired hook THROWS — there are no no-op
+// defaults, because a host seam that can silently no-op is a trap. The plugin loader's
+// seam had exactly that shape, and a dropped wiring line would have left the viz picker
+// quietly not refreshing, with nothing to notice. tests/js/host_contract.test.js then
+// fails CI if the hooks used here and the hooks wired in app.js ever drift apart — the
+// layer that catches it on the paths a smoke test never runs.
+import { audio } from './audio-el.js';
+import { esc } from './dom.js';
+import { host } from './host.js';
+
+export function _sectionPracticeBarContains(el) {
+    if (!el) return false;
+    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
+    return !!(bar && bar.contains(el));
+}
+
+// ── Section Practice Bar ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// One-click looping over song section markers (highway.getSections —
+// same array as 3D highway bundle.sections / "Now / Up Next").
+// Reuses setLoop() so manual A/B controls and saved loops stay canonical.
+let _sectionPracticeRanges = [];
+let _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
+let _sectionPracticeFollowParent = -1;
+let _sectionPracticeDurSynced = false;
+let _sectionPracticeLogged = false;
+let _sectionPracticeHooked = false;
+let _sectionPracticeRetryTimer = null;
+let _sectionPracticeLastPlayableCount = 0;
+let _sectionPracticePlayablePopulateRerendered = false;
+// Last-rendered parent count, so the bar can re-render when the parent layout
+// changes after the initial render — notably when the synthetic "Start" section
+// appears as notes-before-the-first-marker stream in late.
+let _sectionPracticeLastParentCount = -1;
+// Start-time identity of the active parent, tracked so it can be remapped to the
+// correct index when the parent layout shifts (a late "Start" prepend moves every
+// real parent by one) instead of leaving the raw index pointing at the wrong one.
+let _sectionPracticeActiveParentStart = NaN;
+let _sectionPracticeMode = false;
+let _sectionPracticeActiveParent = -1;
+let _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
+let _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
+// Monotonic token to cancel stale practiceSection() retries: a newer click
+// (or a song/arrangement change, which also bumps _audioSeekGen) supersedes
+// any in-flight retry loop so it can't re-arm the wrong loop/count-in.
+let _sectionPracticeRequestGen = 0;
+// >0 while a practiceSection() request is awaiting its loop. While set,
+// _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop() (e.g. from a mid-await bar re-render) must not
+// reconcile against the half-applied / previous loop — practiceSection owns the
+// section state and applies it once its own gen check passes.
+let _sectionPracticeRequestInFlight = 0;
+
+export function _setSectionPracticeMode(on, opts = {}) {
+    const next = !!on;
+    if (next === _sectionPracticeMode && !opts.force) return;
+    _sectionPracticeMode = next;
+    const cb = document.getElementById('section-practice-mode');
+    if (cb) cb.checked = _sectionPracticeMode;
+    // Surface the "looping" state on the collapsed pill so the user can tell
+    // Section Practice is armed without opening the popover.
+    const pill = document.getElementById('section-practice-pill');
+    if (pill) pill.classList.toggle('section-practice-pill--active', _sectionPracticeMode);
+    _sectionPracticeFollowParent = -1;
+    if (_sectionPracticeMode) {
+        if (opts.defaultWholeOn) {
+            _sectionPracticeWholeSection = true;
+        }
+        _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(host._audioTime());
+        if (opts.defaultWholeOn) {
+            _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
+        }
+    } else {
+        // Turning the feature off must cancel any in-flight practiceSection()
+        // retry: otherwise a stale setLoop() that lands after the user unchecks
+        // Section Practice would re-arm the loop, flip the mode back on via
+        // _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop(), and restart playback through
+        // startCountIn(). Bumping the request gen makes the pending retry bail.
+        _sectionPracticeRequestGen++;
+        // Cancel any pending count-in: every section-practice teardown routes
+        // through here (mode toggle off, clearLoop, and _hideSectionPracticeBar
+        // on song/arrangement change), so a countdown started by a prior section
+        // click must not resume playback after the user has turned practice off.
+        host._cancelCountIn();
+        _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
+        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
+        _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
+        _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(host._audioTime());
+        if (!opts.skipClearLoop && (host.loopA() !== null || host.loopB() !== null)) {
+            host.clearLoop();
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+export function onSectionPracticeModeChange() {
+    const cb = document.getElementById('section-practice-mode');
+    if (!cb) return;
+    const turningOn = cb.checked && !_sectionPracticeMode;
+    _setSectionPracticeMode(cb.checked, { defaultWholeOn: turningOn });
+}
+
+export function _resetSectionPracticeLog() {
+    _sectionPracticeLogged = false;
+    _sectionPracticeLastPlayableCount = 0;
+    _sectionPracticePlayablePopulateRerendered = false;
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeHighway() {
+    return window.highway || (typeof highway !== 'undefined' ? highway : null);
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeDuration() {
+    const d = host._audioDuration();
+    if (d && Number.isFinite(d) && d > 0) return d;
+    const cd = window.feedBack?.currentSong?.duration;
+    return (cd && Number.isFinite(cd) && cd > 0) ? cd : 0;
+}
+
+export function _sectionPracticeSourceSections() {
+    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
+    if (!hw || typeof hw.getSections !== 'function') return [];
+    const raw = hw.getSections();
+    return Array.isArray(raw) ? raw : [];
+}
+
+export function _sectionPracticeStartTime(s) {
+    const t = s.time ?? s.startTime ?? s.start_time ?? s.start;
+    const n = Number(t);
+    return Number.isFinite(n) ? n : NaN;
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeBaseName(rawName, fallbackIndex) {
+    let s = (typeof rawName === 'string' ? rawName : '').trim();
+    if (!s) s = `Section ${fallbackIndex + 1}`;
+    // Normalise separators and strip common trailing digits like "Chorus 2"
+    s = s.replace(/_/g, ' ');
+    s = s.replace(/\s*\d+$/u, '');
+    const lower = s.toLowerCase();
+    const canonical = {
+        intro: 'Intro',
+        verse: 'Verse',
+        chorus: 'Chorus',
+        bridge: 'Bridge',
+        solo: 'Solo',
+        riff: 'Riff',
+        outro: 'Outro',
+    }[lower];
+    if (canonical) return canonical;
+    // Fallback: title-case words
+    return lower.split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean).map(w => w[0].toUpperCase() + w.slice(1)).join(' ') || `Section ${fallbackIndex + 1}`;
+}
+
+const _SECTION_PRACTICE_START_GAP_SEC = 0.05;
+
+function _sectionPracticeNoteTime(note) {
+    const t = note?.t ?? note?.time ?? note?.start_time ?? note?.start;
+    const n = Number(t);
+    return Number.isFinite(n) ? n : NaN;
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticePlayableCount() {
+    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
+    if (!hw) return 0;
+    let count = 0;
+    if (typeof hw.getNotes === 'function') {
+        const notes = hw.getNotes();
+        if (notes?.length) count += notes.length;
+    }
+    if (typeof hw.getChords === 'function') {
+        const chords = hw.getChords();
+        if (chords?.length) count += chords.length;
+    }
+    return count;
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeHasNotesBefore(beforeTime) {
+    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
+    if (!hw) return false;
+    const cutoff = Number(beforeTime);
+    if (!Number.isFinite(cutoff)) return false;
+    const sources = [];
+    if (typeof hw.getNotes === 'function') {
+        const notes = hw.getNotes();
+        if (notes?.length) sources.push(notes);
+    }
+    if (typeof hw.getChords === 'function') {
+        const chords = hw.getChords();
+        if (chords?.length) sources.push(chords);
+    }
+    for (let s = 0; s < sources.length; s++) {
+        const items = sources[s];
+        for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
+            const t = _sectionPracticeNoteTime(items[i]);
+            if (Number.isFinite(t) && t < cutoff) return true;
+        }
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+function _maybeRerenderSectionPracticeOnPlayableLoad() {
+    const count = _sectionPracticePlayableCount();
+    const prev = _sectionPracticeLastPlayableCount;
+    _sectionPracticeLastPlayableCount = count;
+    if (!_sectionPracticeSourceSections().length || !_sectionPracticeBarIsReady()) return;
+    // Re-render whenever the parent layout changes after the bar is up — the
+    // synthetic "Start" section can appear (±1 parent) once a note before the
+    // first marker streams in, which would otherwise leave the DOM chip indices
+    // out of sync with _buildSectionParents() (clicks/highlights hitting the
+    // wrong section). _buildSectionParents() is memoized, so this is cheap.
+    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
+    const parentCount = parents.length;
+    if (parentCount !== _sectionPracticeLastParentCount) {
+        // Remap the active parent by start-time identity before re-rendering: a
+        // late "Start" prepend shifts every real parent's index, so the raw
+        // index would otherwise point at the wrong section (mis-highlighting and
+        // breaking whole/prev/next). Selected/part indices are within-parent and
+        // unaffected. Skip when no active parent or no prior snapshot.
+        if (_sectionPracticeActiveParent >= 0 && Number.isFinite(_sectionPracticeActiveParentStart)) {
+            const remapped = parents.findIndex(
+                (p) => Math.abs(p.start - _sectionPracticeActiveParentStart) < 0.001,
+            );
+            if (remapped >= 0) _sectionPracticeActiveParent = remapped;
+        }
+        _sectionPracticeLastParentCount = parentCount;
+        renderSectionPracticeBar();
+        _sectionPracticeActiveParentStart =
+            (_sectionPracticeActiveParent >= 0 && parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent])
+                ? parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent].start : NaN;
+        return;
+    }
+    // Keep the active-parent start snapshot fresh while the layout is stable, so
+    // it holds the correct pre-change value when the layout next shifts.
+    _sectionPracticeActiveParentStart =
+        (_sectionPracticeActiveParent >= 0 && parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent])
+            ? parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent].start : NaN;
+    if (_sectionPracticePlayablePopulateRerendered) return;
+    if (prev !== 0 || count === 0) return;
+    _sectionPracticePlayablePopulateRerendered = true;
+    renderSectionPracticeBar();
+}
+
+// _buildSectionParents() runs on the 60 Hz highlight path, so memoize it.
+// The parent layout is a pure function of the highway's section list (a
+// stable array reference per song), the song duration, and whether any
+// notes/chords precede the first marker (the synthetic "Start" section).
+// That last input can flip while WS note chunks are still streaming in, so
+// the note/chord counts are part of the key; once a song is fully loaded
+// all four inputs stabilize and the per-frame call becomes a cache hit.
+// Every call site uses the result read-only, so returning the cached array
+// reference is safe.
+let _sectionParentsCache = null;
+let _sectionParentsCacheRaw = null;
+let _sectionParentsCacheDur = -1;
+let _sectionParentsCacheNoteLen = -1;
+let _sectionParentsCacheChordLen = -1;
+
+export function _buildSectionParents() {
+    const raw = _sectionPracticeSourceSections();
+    if (!raw.length) return [];
+    const dur = _sectionPracticeDuration();
+    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
+    const noteLen = (hw && typeof hw.getNotes === 'function' && hw.getNotes()?.length) || 0;
+    const chordLen = (hw && typeof hw.getChords === 'function' && hw.getChords()?.length) || 0;
+    if (_sectionParentsCache !== null
+        && _sectionParentsCacheRaw === raw
+        && _sectionParentsCacheDur === dur
+        && _sectionParentsCacheNoteLen === noteLen
+        && _sectionParentsCacheChordLen === chordLen) {
+        return _sectionParentsCache;
+    }
+    const sorted = [...raw].sort((a, b) => _sectionPracticeStartTime(a) - _sectionPracticeStartTime(b));
+    // Step 1: collapse consecutive same-name markers into logical groups.
+    const groups = [];
+    for (let i = 0; i < sorted.length; i++) {
+        const start = _sectionPracticeStartTime(sorted[i]);
+        if (!Number.isFinite(start)) continue;
+        const baseName = _sectionPracticeBaseName(sorted[i].name, groups.length);
+        const prev = groups[groups.length - 1];
+        if (prev && prev.baseName === baseName) {
+            prev.lastIndex = i;
+        } else {
+            groups.push({ baseName, firstIndex: i, lastIndex: i });
+        }
+    }
+    if (!groups.length) return [];
+    // Step 2: assign musician-friendly labels with counters (Verse 1, Verse 2, …).
+    const counters = Object.create(null);
+    const ranges = [];
+    for (let gi = 0; gi < groups.length; gi++) {
+        const g = groups[gi];
+        const base = g.baseName;
+        const count = (counters[base] || 0) + 1;
+        counters[base] = count;
+        const label = `${base} ${count}`;
+        const firstSec = sorted[g.firstIndex];
+        const start = _sectionPracticeStartTime(firstSec);
+        if (!Number.isFinite(start)) continue;
+        let end;
+        if (gi + 1 < groups.length) {
+            const nextFirst = sorted[groups[gi + 1].firstIndex];
+            end = _sectionPracticeStartTime(nextFirst);
+        } else {
+            end = dur;
+        }
+        if (!Number.isFinite(end) || end <= start) {
+            end = dur > start ? dur : start + 4;
+        }
+        ranges.push({ name: label, start, end });
+    }
+    if (ranges.length > 0) {
+        const firstStart = Number(ranges[0].start);
+        if (Number.isFinite(firstStart) && firstStart > _SECTION_PRACTICE_START_GAP_SEC
+            && _sectionPracticeHasNotesBefore(firstStart)) {
+            ranges.unshift({ name: 'Start', start: 0, end: firstStart });
+        }
+    }
+    _sectionParentsCache = ranges;
+    _sectionParentsCacheRaw = raw;
+    _sectionParentsCacheDur = dur;
+    _sectionParentsCacheNoteLen = noteLen;
+    _sectionParentsCacheChordLen = chordLen;
+    return ranges;
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeResetSelectionUi() {
+    _sectionPracticeActiveParent = -1;
+    _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
+    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
+    _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
+    _sectionPracticeRanges = [];
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeSourcePhrases() {
+    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
+    if (!hw || typeof hw.getPracticePhrases !== 'function') return null;
+    const raw = hw.getPracticePhrases();
+    return (raw && raw.length) ? raw : null;
+}
+
+function _buildPhrasePartsForParent(parent) {
+    if (!parent) return [];
+    const dur = _sectionPracticeDuration();
+    const windowStart = parent.start;
+    const windowEnd = parent.end;
+    const phrases = _sectionPracticeSourcePhrases();
+    const parts = [];
+
+    if (phrases) {
+        const inWindow = phrases.filter(
+            (ph) => ph.start_time >= windowStart - 0.001 && ph.start_time < windowEnd - 0.001,
+        );
+        if (inWindow.length) {
+            for (let i = 0; i < inWindow.length; i++) {
+                const ph = inWindow[i];
+                let start = ph.start_time;
+                let end = ph.end_time;
+                if (!Number.isFinite(end) || end > windowEnd) end = windowEnd;
+                if (!Number.isFinite(start) || end <= start) continue;
+                if (dur && Number.isFinite(dur) && end > dur) end = dur;
+                parts.push({ name: parent.name, start, end });
+            }
+            // Snap first part to section start so the loop aligns with the selected marker
+            // when the first in-window phrase iteration begins later (e.g. Chorus 2).
+            if (parts.length > 0 && parts[0].start > windowStart) {
+                parts[0].start = windowStart;
+            }
+            return parts;
+        }
+    }
+
+    let start = windowStart;
+    let end = windowEnd;
+    if (dur && Number.isFinite(dur) && end > dur) end = dur;
+    if (Number.isFinite(start) && Number.isFinite(end) && end > start) {
+        parts.push({ name: parent.name, start, end });
+    }
+    return parts;
+}
+
+function _buildSectionPracticeRanges() {
+    if (_sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return [];
+    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
+    const parent = parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent];
+    if (!parent) return [];
+    return _buildPhrasePartsForParent(parent);
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeActiveParentRange() {
+    if (_sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return null;
+    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
+    const parent = parents[_sectionPracticeActiveParent];
+    if (!parent) return null;
+    const dur = _sectionPracticeDuration();
+    let end = Number(parent.end);
+    const start = Number(parent.start);
+    if (dur && Number.isFinite(dur) && end > dur) end = dur;
+    if (!Number.isFinite(start) || !Number.isFinite(end) || end <= start) return null;
+    return { name: parent.name, start, end };
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeResolveLoopTarget(index, opts = {}) {
+    if (opts.whole) {
+        return _sectionPracticeActiveParentRange();
+    }
+    return _sectionPracticeRanges[index] ?? null;
+}
+
+function _formatSectionPracticeName(name) {
+    return name.replace(/_/g, ' ');
+}
+
+const _SECTION_PRACTICE_CHIP_KINDS = new Set([
+    'intro', 'verse', 'chorus', 'bridge', 'solo', 'riff', 'outro',
+]);
+
+function _sectionPracticeChipKindClass(name, index) {
+    const base = _sectionPracticeBaseName(name, index);
+    const kind = base.toLowerCase();
+    if (!_SECTION_PRACTICE_CHIP_KINDS.has(kind)) return '';
+    return ` section-practice-chip--${kind}`;
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeWholeCheckboxHtml() {
+    return '<label class="section-practice-whole-wrap" title="Loop the whole selected section">'
+        + '<input type="checkbox" id="section-practice-whole" onchange="onSectionPracticeWholeChange()">'
+        + '<span class="section-practice-whole-text">Full section</span>'
+        + '</label>';
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticePieceRowHtml() {
+    return '<div id="section-practice-piece-row" class="section-practice-row section-practice-piece-row">'
+        + '<span id="section-practice-piece-label" class="section-practice-piece-label" aria-live="polite">Part — of —</span>'
+        + '<button type="button" id="section-practice-piece-prev" class="section-practice-chip" onclick="onPhrasePrev()">◀ Previous</button>'
+        + '<button type="button" id="section-practice-piece-next" class="section-practice-chip" onclick="onPhraseNext()">Next ▶</button>'
+        + '</div>';
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeMainRow() {
+    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
+    if (!bar) return null;
+    return bar.querySelector('.section-practice-controls-row')
+        || bar.querySelector('.section-practice-primary-row')
+        || bar.querySelector('.section-practice-row:not(.section-practice-piece-row):not(.section-practice-chips-row)');
+}
+
+function _migrateSectionPracticeDomLayout(bar) {
+    if (!bar || bar.querySelector('.section-practice-controls-row')) return;
+
+    const pieceRow = document.getElementById('section-practice-piece-row');
+    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
+    const modeWrap = bar.querySelector('.section-practice-mode-wrap');
+    const wholeWrap = bar.querySelector('.section-practice-whole-wrap');
+    let label = bar.querySelector('.section-practice-label');
+
+    const controlsRow = document.createElement('div');
+    controlsRow.className = 'section-practice-row section-practice-controls-row';
+    if (modeWrap) controlsRow.appendChild(modeWrap);
+    if (wholeWrap) controlsRow.appendChild(wholeWrap);
+    if (pieceRow) controlsRow.appendChild(pieceRow);
+
+    const chipsRow = document.createElement('div');
+    chipsRow.className = 'section-practice-row section-practice-chips-row';
+    if (label) {
+        chipsRow.appendChild(label);
+    } else {
+        label = document.createElement('span');
+        label.className = 'section-practice-label';
+        label.textContent = 'Sections:';
+        chipsRow.appendChild(label);
+    }
+    if (scroll) chipsRow.appendChild(scroll);
+
+    bar.replaceChildren(controlsRow, chipsRow);
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeBarInnerHtml() {
+    return '<div class="section-practice-row section-practice-controls-row">'
+        + '<label class="section-practice-mode-wrap" title="Loop the selected section until turned off">'
+        + '<input type="checkbox" id="section-practice-mode" onchange="onSectionPracticeModeChange()">'
+        + '<span class="section-practice-mode-text">Practice Section</span>'
+        + '</label>'
+        + _sectionPracticeWholeCheckboxHtml()
+        + _sectionPracticePieceRowHtml()
+        + '</div>'
+        + '<div class="section-practice-row section-practice-chips-row">'
+        + '<span class="section-practice-label">Sections:</span>'
+        + '<div id="section-practice-scroll" class="section-practice-scroll" role="toolbar"></div>'
+        + '</div>';
+}
+
+function _ensureSectionPracticeWholeCheckbox() {
+    const existing = document.getElementById('section-practice-whole');
+    const mainRow = _sectionPracticeMainRow();
+    if (!mainRow) return;
+    if (existing) {
+        const wrap = existing.closest('.section-practice-whole-wrap');
+        if (wrap && !mainRow.contains(wrap)) {
+            const modeWrap = mainRow.querySelector('.section-practice-mode-wrap');
+            if (modeWrap) modeWrap.insertAdjacentElement('afterend', wrap);
+            else mainRow.insertBefore(wrap, mainRow.firstChild);
+        }
+        return;
+    }
+    const modeWrap = mainRow.querySelector('.section-practice-mode-wrap');
+    if (modeWrap) {
+        modeWrap.insertAdjacentHTML('afterend', _sectionPracticeWholeCheckboxHtml());
+    } else {
+        mainRow.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', _sectionPracticeWholeCheckboxHtml());
+    }
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeCurrentPartIndex() {
+    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
+    if (!total) return 0;
+    if (!_sectionPracticeWholeSection && _sectionPracticeSelected >= 0) {
+        return Math.min(_sectionPracticeSelected, total - 1);
+    }
+    if (_sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex >= 0) {
+        return Math.min(_sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex, total - 1);
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticePillHtml() {
+    return '<button type="button" id="section-practice-pill" class="section-practice-pill"'
+        + ' aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="section-practice-bar"'
+        + ' aria-label="Section practice"'
+        + ' onclick="toggleSectionPracticePopover()" title="Section practice">'
+        + '<span class="section-practice-pill-icon" aria-hidden="true">'
+        + '<svg class="v3-rail-svg section-practice-pill-svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24">'
+        + '<path d="M12,2A10,10 0 0,0 2,12A10,10 0 0,0 12,22A10,10 0 0,0 22,12A10,10 0 0,0 12,2M12,4A8,8 0 0,1 20,12A8,8 0 0,1 12,20A8,8 0 0,1 4,12A8,8 0 0,1 12,4M12,6A6,6 0 0,0 6,12A6,6 0 0,0 12,18A6,6 0 0,0 18,12A6,6 0 0,0 12,6M12,8A4,4 0 0,1 16,12A4,4 0 0,1 12,16A4,4 0 0,1 8,12A4,4 0 0,1 12,8M12,10A2,2 0 0,0 10,12A2,2 0 0,0 12,14A2,2 0 0,0 14,12A2,2 0 0,0 12,10Z"/>'
+        + '</svg></span>'
+        + '<span class="section-practice-pill-text">Practice</span>'
+        + '<span class="section-practice-pill-caret" aria-hidden="true">▾</span>'
+        + '</button>';
+}
+
+function _syncSectionPracticePillV3Chrome(isV3) {
+    const pill = document.getElementById('section-practice-pill');
+    if (!pill) return;
+    pill.classList.toggle('v3-rail-icon', isV3);
+    let ring = pill.querySelector('.v3-rail-border');
+    if (isV3) {
+        if (!ring) {
+            ring = document.createElement('span');
+            ring.className = 'v3-rail-border';
+            ring.setAttribute('aria-hidden', 'true');
+            pill.insertBefore(ring, pill.firstChild);
+        }
+        pill.setAttribute('title', 'Practice');
+        pill.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Practice');
+    } else {
+        if (ring) ring.remove();
+        pill.setAttribute('title', 'Section practice');
+        pill.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Section practice');
+    }
+}
+
+// Wrap an existing #section-practice-bar in the pill control (creating the
+// wrapper + pill if missing). Defensive: works whether the bar came from the
+// static markup (already wrapped) or a chrome whose index.html predates the
+// pill (e.g. a not-yet-rebased v3 build) — the bar is always reachable as a
+// closed popover behind the pill afterward.
+function _ensureSectionPracticeControlWrap(bar) {
+    if (!bar) return null;
+    let ctrl = (bar.closest && bar.closest('.section-practice-control'))
+        || document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
+    if (ctrl) {
+        if (!ctrl.contains(bar)) ctrl.appendChild(bar);
+    } else {
+        ctrl = document.createElement('div');
+        ctrl.id = 'section-practice-control';
+        ctrl.className = 'section-practice-control section-practice-control--hidden';
+        if (bar.parentNode) bar.parentNode.insertBefore(ctrl, bar);
+        ctrl.appendChild(bar);
+    }
+    if (!ctrl.querySelector('#section-practice-pill')) {
+        ctrl.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', _sectionPracticePillHtml());
+    }
+    // Popover visibility is driven by --open now; clear any legacy hidden class.
+    bar.classList.remove('section-practice-bar--hidden');
+    _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe(ctrl);
+    return ctrl;
+}
+
+// Mount the pill control so its popover — whose chip <button>s would otherwise
+// be matched by a plugin's `#player-controls > button:last-child` injector
+// anchor and throw on insertBefore — lives OUTSIDE #player-controls. Prefers
+// #player-footer; otherwise inserts as a sibling immediately before
+// #player-controls. Idempotent and never throws on layout variants where
+// #player-controls isn't a child of #player-footer (it checks parentage before
+// using insertBefore). The v3 rail mount in _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome
+// supersedes this, so a control already in the rail is left alone.
+function _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe(ctrl) {
+    if (!ctrl) return;
+    if (ctrl.closest && ctrl.closest('#v3-player-rail')) return;
+    const controls = document.getElementById('player-controls');
+    const footer = document.getElementById('player-footer');
+    if (footer) {
+        if (controls && controls.parentNode === footer) {
+            if (ctrl.nextSibling !== controls) footer.insertBefore(ctrl, controls);
+        } else if (ctrl.parentNode !== footer) {
+            footer.appendChild(ctrl);
+        }
+        return;
+    }
+    if (controls && controls.parentNode) {
+        if (ctrl.parentNode !== controls.parentNode || ctrl.nextSibling !== controls) {
+            controls.parentNode.insertBefore(ctrl, controls);
+        }
+        return;
+    }
+    // No footer and #player-controls has no parent (degenerate/detached layout):
+    // never nest the popover INSIDE #player-controls — that re-arms the injector
+    // bug. Fall back to the player container so the chip buttons stay outside it.
+    const player = document.getElementById('player');
+    if (player && ctrl.parentNode !== player) player.appendChild(ctrl);
+}
+
+// In the v3 chrome the pill becomes a left-rail icon (CSS hides its label and
+// opens the popover to the right). app.js owns the toggle/dismiss, so this is
+// independent of player-chrome.js's own rail-popover wiring.
+// Idempotent + reversible: mounts the control into #v3-player-rail under v3,
+// or back out to the footer under v2. Safe to call every frame — it only
+// touches the DOM when the placement is actually wrong, so a chrome that flips
+// uiVersion (or mounts #v3-player-rail) after the bar is "ready" still gets the
+// pill relocated on the next draw tick. See the draw hook's ready path.
+export function _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome() {
+    const ctrl = document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
+    if (!ctrl) return;
+    const isV3 = !!(window.feedBack && window.feedBack.uiVersion === 'v3');
+    ctrl.classList.toggle('section-practice-control--v3', isV3);
+    _syncSectionPracticePillV3Chrome(isV3);
+    if (isV3) {
+        const rail = document.getElementById('v3-player-rail');
+        if (rail) {
+            const dot = rail.querySelector('.v3-rail-dot');
+            if (dot) {
+                // Reorder even when already in the rail but after the dot (or the
+                // dot mounted later) so the placement self-corrects each tick.
+                if (ctrl.parentElement !== rail || ctrl.nextElementSibling !== dot) {
+                    rail.insertBefore(ctrl, dot);
+                }
+            } else if (ctrl.parentElement !== rail) {
+                rail.appendChild(ctrl);
+            }
+        }
+    } else if (ctrl.closest && ctrl.closest('#v3-player-rail')) {
+        // Chrome reverted to v2: pull the control out of the rail (detach first
+        // so _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe's rail guard doesn't no-op) and
+        // re-home it in the footer.
+        ctrl.remove();
+        _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe(ctrl);
+    }
+}
+
+function _ensureSectionPracticeDom() {
+    let bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
+    if (bar) {
+        _ensureSectionPracticeControlWrap(bar);
+        _migrateSectionPracticeDomLayout(bar);
+        if (!bar.querySelector('#section-practice-piece-row')) {
+            const controlsRow = bar.querySelector('.section-practice-controls-row')
+                || bar.querySelector('.section-practice-primary-row');
+            if (controlsRow) {
+                controlsRow.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', _sectionPracticePieceRowHtml());
+            } else {
+                bar.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', _sectionPracticePieceRowHtml());
+            }
+        }
+        _ensureSectionPracticeWholeCheckbox();
+        bar.querySelector('.section-practice-show-all-wrap')?.remove();
+        _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome();
+        return bar;
+    }
+    const controls = document.getElementById('player-controls');
+    const footer = document.getElementById('player-footer');
+    if (!footer && !controls) return null;
+    bar = document.createElement('div');
+    bar.id = 'section-practice-bar';
+    bar.className = 'section-practice-bar';
+    bar.setAttribute('role', 'dialog');
+    bar.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Section practice');
+    bar.innerHTML = _sectionPracticeBarInnerHtml();
+    const ctrl = document.createElement('div');
+    ctrl.id = 'section-practice-control';
+    ctrl.className = 'section-practice-control section-practice-control--hidden';
+    ctrl.innerHTML = _sectionPracticePillHtml();
+    ctrl.appendChild(bar);
+    // Mount OUTSIDE #player-controls (in #player-footer, or as its sibling) so
+    // the popover's chip <button>s can't be matched by a plugin injector that
+    // anchors on `#player-controls > button:last-of-type` (see static/v3/index.html).
+    _mountSectionPracticeControlSafe(ctrl);
+    _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome();
+    return bar;
+}
+
+// "Show" = make the pill available. The bar itself stays a CLOSED popover
+// until the user opens it via the pill (toggleSectionPracticePopover).
+function _showSectionPracticeBar(bar) {
+    const ctrl = (bar && bar.closest && bar.closest('.section-practice-control'))
+        || document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
+    if (ctrl) ctrl.classList.remove('section-practice-control--hidden');
+}
+
+export function _sectionPracticePopoverOpen() {
+    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
+    return !!(bar && bar.classList.contains('section-practice-bar--open'));
+}
+
+function _openSectionPracticePopover() {
+    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
+    if (!bar) return;
+    bar.classList.add('section-practice-bar--open');
+    const pill = document.getElementById('section-practice-pill');
+    if (pill) pill.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'true');
+    _installSectionPracticeDismiss();
+}
+
+function _closeSectionPracticePopover() {
+    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
+    const pill = document.getElementById('section-practice-pill');
+    if (bar) {
+        const focusWasInside = bar.contains(document.activeElement);
+        bar.classList.remove('section-practice-bar--open');
+        // Return focus to the pill if it was inside the popover — otherwise it
+        // would be stranded on a now-display:none control, which also makes the
+        // shortcut gate treat that stale target as interactive and suppress
+        // player keys until focus is moved manually.
+        if (focusWasInside && pill) pill.focus();
+    }
+    if (pill) pill.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'false');
+}
+
+export function toggleSectionPracticePopover() {
+    if (_sectionPracticePopoverOpen()) _closeSectionPracticePopover();
+    else _openSectionPracticePopover();
+}
+
+let _sectionPracticeDismissBound = false;
+function _installSectionPracticeDismiss() {
+    if (_sectionPracticeDismissBound) return;
+    _sectionPracticeDismissBound = true;
+    // Click-outside + Esc close. Bound once on document; the pill's own click is
+    // inside #section-practice-control so it never self-closes. Listeners added
+    // mid-dispatch don't fire for the opening click, so there's no immediate
+    // close race.
+    //
+    // The click listener uses the CAPTURE phase: the v3 player rail's icon
+    // buttons call e.stopPropagation() in their click handler (player-chrome.js
+    // wireRail), which kills bubbling before it reaches document. A bubble-phase
+    // outside-click dismiss would therefore never fire when the user clicks a
+    // rail icon (Plugins, Audio, …) to open another popover, leaving this
+    // popover stranded open on top of it. Capture runs before the target's
+    // handler, so the stopPropagation can't swallow it. This mirrors the audio
+    // mixer popover (audio-mixer.js), which dismisses outside-clicks the same
+    // way. (Esc stays bubble-phase — no rail handler stops keydown propagation,
+    // so it already reaches us, and capturing it would reorder it ahead of the
+    // player's Escape-to-exit handling.)
+    document.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
+        if (!_sectionPracticePopoverOpen()) return;
+        const ctrl = document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
+        if (ctrl && ctrl.contains(e.target)) return;
+        _closeSectionPracticePopover();
+    }, true);
+    document.addEventListener('keydown', (e) => {
+        if (e.key === 'Escape' && _sectionPracticePopoverOpen()) _closeSectionPracticePopover();
+    });
+}
+
+export function _hideSectionPracticeBar() {
+    _setSectionPracticeMode(false, { skipClearLoop: true });
+    _closeSectionPracticePopover();
+    const ctrl = document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
+    if (ctrl) {
+        // Move focus out before hiding the control: a display:none element that
+        // still holds focus leaves document.activeElement on it, which the
+        // shortcut gate (_shortcutDispatchBlocked) would treat as an interactive
+        // target and swallow player keys. Covers the pill (where the close above
+        // may have just parked focus) and any bar descendant.
+        const ae = document.activeElement;
+        if (ae && ctrl.contains(ae) && typeof ae.blur === 'function') ae.blur();
+        ctrl.classList.add('section-practice-control--hidden');
+    }
+    _sectionPracticeRanges = [];
+    _sectionPracticeActiveParent = -1;
+    _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
+    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
+    _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
+    _sectionPracticeFollowParent = -1;
+    _sectionPracticeDurSynced = false;
+    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
+    if (scroll) scroll.innerHTML = '';
+    _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
+}
+
+export function _sectionPracticeBarIsReady() {
+    // "Ready" = the pill is available (sections exist) and the popover is
+    // populated. Independent of whether the popover is currently open, so the
+    // draw-hook retry loop settles even while the bar stays collapsed.
+    const ctrl = document.getElementById('section-practice-control');
+    if (!ctrl || ctrl.classList.contains('section-practice-control--hidden')) return false;
+    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
+    return !!(scroll && scroll.querySelector('[data-parent-idx]'));
+}
+
+export function _installSectionPracticeDrawHook() {
+    if (_sectionPracticeHooked) return;
+    const hw = _sectionPracticeHighway();
+    if (!hw || typeof hw.addDrawHook !== 'function') return;
+    _sectionPracticeHooked = true;
+    hw.addDrawHook(() => {
+        if (_sectionPracticeSourceSections().length === 0) return;
+        _maybeRerenderSectionPracticeOnPlayableLoad();
+        if (_sectionPracticeBarIsReady()) { _placeSectionPracticeControlForChrome(); return; }
+        renderSectionPracticeBar();
+    });
+}
+
+export function _scheduleSectionPracticeRetries() {
+    if (_sectionPracticeRetryTimer) clearTimeout(_sectionPracticeRetryTimer);
+    const delays = [0, 50, 200, 500, 1200];
+    let i = 0;
+    const tick = () => {
+        renderSectionPracticeBar();
+        i += 1;
+        if (i < delays.length && !_sectionPracticeBarIsReady()) {
+            _sectionPracticeRetryTimer = setTimeout(tick, delays[i]);
+        } else {
+            _sectionPracticeRetryTimer = null;
+        }
+    };
+    tick();
+}
+
+function _syncSectionPracticePieceUi() {
+    const label = document.getElementById('section-practice-piece-label');
+    const prev = document.getElementById('section-practice-piece-prev');
+    const next = document.getElementById('section-practice-piece-next');
+    const wholeCb = document.getElementById('section-practice-whole');
+    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
+    const active = _sectionPracticeActiveParent >= 0;
+    if (label) {
+        if (!active || !total) {
+            label.textContent = 'Part — of —';
+        } else {
+            const idx = _sectionPracticeCurrentPartIndex();
+            label.textContent = `Part ${idx + 1} of ${total}`;
+        }
+    }
+    if (wholeCb) {
+        wholeCb.checked = _sectionPracticeWholeSection;
+    }
+    const partIdx = (!active || !total || _sectionPracticeWholeSection)
+        ? 0
+        : (_sectionPracticeSelected >= 0 ? _sectionPracticeSelected : 0);
+    if (prev) {
+        prev.disabled = !active || !total || (!_sectionPracticeWholeSection && partIdx <= 0);
+    }
+    if (next) {
+        next.disabled = !active || !total || (!_sectionPracticeWholeSection && partIdx >= total - 1);
+    }
+}
+
+export function renderSectionPracticeBar() {
+    _installSectionPracticeDrawHook();
+    const raw = _sectionPracticeSourceSections();
+    if (!_sectionPracticeLogged) {
+        _sectionPracticeLogged = true;
+    }
+    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
+    const bar = _ensureSectionPracticeDom();
+    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
+    if (!bar || !scroll) return;
+    if (!parents.length) {
+        _hideSectionPracticeBar();
+        return;
+    }
+    if (_sectionPracticeActiveParent >= parents.length) {
+        _sectionPracticeResetSelectionUi();
+    }
+    _showSectionPracticeBar(bar);
+    scroll.innerHTML = parents.map((p, i) => {
+        const label = _formatSectionPracticeName(p.name);
+        const tip = `${label} (${host.formatTime(p.start)}–${host.formatTime(p.end)})`;
+        const kindClass = _sectionPracticeChipKindClass(p.name, i);
+        return `<button type="button" class="section-practice-chip${kindClass}" data-parent-idx="${i}" title="${esc(tip)}" onclick="onSectionParentClick(${i})">${esc(label)}</button>`;
+    }).join('');
+    _sectionPracticeRanges = _buildSectionPracticeRanges();
+    // Reconcile any active A-B loop with the (re)rendered section bar. Called
+    // unconditionally so a loop that arrived before the section markers — e.g.
+    // a Saved Loop or window.feedBack.setLoop() during song load, when no
+    // parent was active yet — still re-selects its chip once markers appear.
+    // _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop() scans all parents, so it can activate the
+    // matching one; run it before the piece UI so that reflects the result.
+    _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop();
+    _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
+    _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(host._audioTime());
+}
+
+export async function onSectionParentClick(parentIdx) {
+    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
+    const idx = Number(parentIdx);
+    if (!Number.isFinite(idx) || idx < 0 || idx >= parents.length) return;
+    _sectionPracticeActiveParent = idx;
+    _sectionPracticeRanges = _buildSectionPracticeRanges();
+    _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
+    _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
+    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = true;
+    _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
+    _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(host._audioTime());
+    if (_sectionPracticeActiveParentRange() || _sectionPracticeRanges.length) {
+        await practiceSection(0, { whole: true });
+    }
+}
+
+export async function onSectionPracticeWholeChange() {
+    const cb = document.getElementById('section-practice-whole');
+    if (!cb || _sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return;
+    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
+    if (!total) return;
+    if (cb.checked === _sectionPracticeWholeSection) return;
+    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = cb.checked;
+    if (cb.checked) {
+        await practiceSection(_sectionPracticeCurrentPartIndex(), { whole: true });
+        return;
+    }
+    await practiceSection(0);
+}
+
+export async function onPhrasePrev() {
+    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
+    if (!total || _sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return;
+    if (_sectionPracticeWholeSection) {
+        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
+        _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
+        await practiceSection(0);
+        return;
+    }
+    const cur = _sectionPracticeSelected >= 0 ? _sectionPracticeSelected : 0;
+    if (cur <= 0) return;
+    await practiceSection(cur - 1);
+}
+
+export async function onPhraseNext() {
+    const total = _sectionPracticeRanges.length;
+    if (!total || _sectionPracticeActiveParent < 0) return;
+    if (_sectionPracticeWholeSection) {
+        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
+        _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
+        await practiceSection(0);
+        return;
+    }
+    const cur = _sectionPracticeSelected >= 0 ? _sectionPracticeSelected : 0;
+    if (cur >= total - 1) return;
+    await practiceSection(cur + 1);
+}
+
+// Find which section parent / phrase part the active A-B loop corresponds to.
+// Scans ALL parents (not just the active one) so a loop arriving from Saved
+// Loops or window.feedBack.setLoop() can re-select the right chip even when
+// its parent isn't the currently-active one. Returns { parentIdx, whole } or
+// { parentIdx, whole:false, index } (the matching phrase part), or null.
+function _sectionPracticeLoopMatch() {
+    if (host.loopA() === null || host.loopB() === null) return null;
+    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
+    for (let parentIdx = 0; parentIdx < parents.length; parentIdx++) {
+        const parent = parents[parentIdx];
+        let partMatch = -1;
+        const parts = _buildPhrasePartsForParent(parent);
+        for (let i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
+            if (Math.abs(parts[i].start - host.loopA()) < 0.05 && Math.abs(parts[i].end - host.loopB()) < 0.05) {
+                partMatch = i;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        const wholeMatch = Math.abs(parent.start - host.loopA()) < 0.05 && Math.abs(parent.end - host.loopB()) < 0.05;
+        if (wholeMatch && partMatch >= 0) {
+            // A single-part section's part range coincides with the whole
+            // section. Preserve the user's whole/part intent when this is the
+            // already-active parent; otherwise default to whole-section.
+            if (parentIdx === _sectionPracticeActiveParent && !_sectionPracticeWholeSection) {
+                return { parentIdx, whole: false, index: partMatch };
+            }
+            return { parentIdx, whole: true };
+        }
+        if (wholeMatch) return { parentIdx, whole: true };
+        if (partMatch >= 0) return { parentIdx, whole: false, index: partMatch };
+    }
+    return null;
+}
+
+function _blurSectionPracticeFocusIfNeeded() {
+    const ae = document.activeElement;
+    const bar = document.getElementById('section-practice-bar');
+    if (ae && bar && bar.contains(ae) && typeof ae.blur === 'function') {
+        ae.blur();
+    }
+}
+
+export async function practiceSection(index, opts = {}) {
+    const requestGen = ++_sectionPracticeRequestGen;
+    const seekGen = host._audioSeekGen();
+    const loopGen = host._loopMutationGen();
+    const whole = !!opts.whole;
+    const r = _sectionPracticeResolveLoopTarget(index, opts);
+    if (!r) return;
+    const dur = _sectionPracticeDuration();
+    const start = Number(r.start);
+    let end = Number(r.end);
+    if (dur && Number.isFinite(dur) && end > dur) end = dur;
+    if (!Number.isFinite(start) || !Number.isFinite(end) || end <= start) return;
+
+    // Mark the request in-flight so a bar re-render that fires during the awaited
+    // setLoop below doesn't reconcile section state against the old/half-applied
+    // loop. Cleared in finally so every exit path (bail, success, failure) resets.
+    _sectionPracticeRequestInFlight++;
+    try {
+    host._cancelCountIn();
+    _setSectionPracticeMode(true, { skipClearLoop: true });
+
+    // setLoop() is seek-gated: it returns false when the seek is cancelled
+    // during arrangement switches / teardown-gen bumps, or when the backend
+    // clock clamps off-target. Retry briefly to land after the transport
+    // becomes ready without forking the loop system.
+    let ok = false;
+    for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 5; attempt++) {
+        // A newer click or a song/arrangement change supersedes this retry.
+        if (requestGen !== _sectionPracticeRequestGen || seekGen !== host._audioSeekGen() || loopGen !== host._loopMutationGen()) return;
+        try {
+            // skipSectionSync: this function owns the section-practice state and
+            // applies it below under the request-gen guard, so a stale retry
+            // landing here can't re-sync/re-arm via setLoop's shared path.
+            // commitGuard: also prevent a superseded retry from committing
+            // loopA/loopB at all — setLoop re-checks this right before arming,
+            // after its internal seek await, so a stale loop is never armed.
+            ok = await host.setLoop(start, end, {
+                skipSectionSync: true,
+                commitGuard: () => requestGen === _sectionPracticeRequestGen && seekGen === host._audioSeekGen() && loopGen === host._loopMutationGen(),
+            });
+        } catch (err) {
+            ok = false;
+        }
+        if (ok) break;
+        await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, 60 + attempt * 90));
+    }
+    // Re-check after the awaited retries before applying any loop/count-in state.
+    if (requestGen !== _sectionPracticeRequestGen || seekGen !== host._audioSeekGen() || loopGen !== host._loopMutationGen()) return;
+
+    if (ok) {
+        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = whole;
+        if (!whole) {
+            _sectionPracticeSelected = index;
+            _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = index;
+        }
+        _blurSectionPracticeFocusIfNeeded();
+        _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(host._audioTime());
+        host.startCountIn({ immediate: true });
+    } else {
+        _setSectionPracticeMode(false, { skipClearLoop: true });
+    }
+    } finally {
+        _sectionPracticeRequestInFlight--;
+    }
+}
+
+export function _syncSectionPracticeFromLoop() {
+    // A practiceSection() request owns the section state while it awaits its
+    // loop; reconciling here against the prior/half-applied loop would fight it
+    // (snapping the active parent back or toggling the mode off mid-request).
+    if (_sectionPracticeRequestInFlight > 0) return;
+    if (!_buildSectionParents().length) return;
+    const match = _sectionPracticeLoopMatch();
+    if (match) {
+        // The loop may belong to a parent that isn't currently active (e.g.
+        // restored from Saved Loops); switch to it and rebuild its parts so
+        // the part-level UI reflects the matched section.
+        if (match.parentIdx !== _sectionPracticeActiveParent) {
+            _sectionPracticeActiveParent = match.parentIdx;
+            _sectionPracticeRanges = _buildSectionPracticeRanges();
+        }
+        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = match.whole;
+        if (!match.whole) {
+            _sectionPracticeSelected = match.index;
+            _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = match.index;
+        } else {
+            _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
+        }
+    } else {
+        _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
+        _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
+    }
+    if (host.loopA() !== null && host.loopB() !== null) {
+        if (match) {
+            if (!_sectionPracticeMode) {
+                _setSectionPracticeMode(true, { skipClearLoop: true });
+            }
+        } else if (_sectionPracticeMode) {
+            _setSectionPracticeMode(false, { skipClearLoop: true });
+        }
+    } else if (_sectionPracticeMode) {
+        _setSectionPracticeMode(false, { skipClearLoop: true });
+    }
+    _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(host._audioTime());
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeIndexAtTime(t) {
+    if (!Number.isFinite(t) || _sectionPracticeRanges.length === 0) return -1;
+    for (let i = _sectionPracticeRanges.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+        if (t >= _sectionPracticeRanges[i].start) return i;
+    }
+    return -1;
+}
+
+function _sectionPracticeParentIndexAtTime(t) {
+    const parents = _buildSectionParents();
+    if (!Number.isFinite(t) || parents.length === 0) return -1;
+    for (let i = parents.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+        if (t >= parents[i].start) return i;
+    }
+    return -1;
+}
+
+function _scrollSectionPracticeChipIntoView(chip) {
+    if (!chip) return;
+    chip.scrollIntoView({ block: 'nearest', inline: 'nearest' });
+}
+
+export function _updateSectionPracticeHighlight(ct) {
+    const scroll = document.getElementById('section-practice-scroll');
+    if (!scroll) return;
+    const chips = scroll.querySelectorAll('.section-practice-chip[data-parent-idx]');
+    if (!chips.length) return;
+
+    const followEnabled = !_sectionPracticeMode && _sectionPracticeBarIsReady();
+    const followParent = followEnabled ? _sectionPracticeParentIndexAtTime(ct) : -1;
+
+    chips.forEach((chip) => {
+        const idx = Number(chip.dataset.parentIdx);
+        chip.classList.toggle('is-selected', idx === _sectionPracticeActiveParent);
+        chip.classList.toggle('is-playing', followEnabled && idx === followParent);
+    });
+
+    if (followEnabled && followParent >= 0 && followParent !== _sectionPracticeFollowParent) {
+        _sectionPracticeFollowParent = followParent;
+        const chip = scroll.querySelector(`.section-practice-chip[data-parent-idx="${followParent}"]`);
+        _scrollSectionPracticeChipIntoView(chip);
+    } else if (!followEnabled) {
+        _sectionPracticeFollowParent = -1;
+    }
+
+    _syncSectionPracticePieceUi();
+}
+
+export function _maybeRefreshSectionPracticeDuration(dur) {
+    if (_sectionPracticeDurSynced || !dur || _sectionPracticeRanges.length === 0) return;
+    const rebuilt = _buildSectionPracticeRanges();
+    if (!rebuilt.length) return;
+    const prevEnd = _sectionPracticeRanges[_sectionPracticeRanges.length - 1].end;
+    const nextEnd = rebuilt[rebuilt.length - 1].end;
+    if (Math.abs(prevEnd - nextEnd) > 0.05) {
+        _sectionPracticeDurSynced = true;
+        renderSectionPracticeBar();
+    } else {
+        _sectionPracticeDurSynced = true;
+    }
+}
+
+// Re-render when section metadata appears (before audio duration is known).
+export function _ensureSectionPracticeBar() {
+    if (_sectionPracticeSourceSections().length === 0) return;
+    if (!_sectionPracticeBarIsReady()) {
+        renderSectionPracticeBar();
+    }
+}
+
+// ── Resets app.js used to perform by hand ───────────────────────────────────
+// clearLoop() and changeArrangement() used to reach in and zero these scalars
+// directly. They cannot now (an imported binding is read-only), and they should not
+// have to: the module owns its own invariants.
+
+/** Drop the current section selection. Called by app.js's clearLoop(). */
+export function resetSelection() {
+    _sectionPracticeSelected = -1;
+    _sectionPracticeWholeSection = false;
+    _sectionPracticeSavedPartIndex = 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Force the next bar render to rebuild its parents, even when the new arrangement
+ * happens to have the same parent count. Called by app.js's changeArrangement().
+ */
+export function invalidateParentCount() {
+    _sectionPracticeLastParentCount = -1;
+}
diff --git a/tests/js/host_contract.test.js b/tests/js/host_contract.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5a47f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/js/host_contract.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+// The host-seam contract: the hooks the modules USE must be exactly the hooks
+// app.js WIRES.
+//
+// This is the test that makes the seam safe. static/js/host.js already throws at
+// runtime when an unwired hook is read — but a runtime throw only fires if the
+// broken path actually executes, and the entire danger of a host seam is the paths
+// that DON'T run in a smoke test. That is not hypothetical: the plugin loader's
+// seam defaulted a hook to `() => {}`, and a dropped wiring line would have left
+// the viz picker silently not refreshing with no test, boot check, or bot noticing.
+//
+// So this closes it statically. Rename a hook in app.js, drop a line from the
+// configureHost({…}) call, or typo a `host.foo` in a module, and CI fails — on a
+// path nobody ever ran.
+//
+// It is deliberately symmetric:
+//   * used but not wired  -> a latent crash (host.js would throw at runtime)
+//   * wired but not used  -> dead weight, and usually the fossil of a rename
+// Both fail.
+
+const { test } = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+const fs = require('node:fs');
+const path = require('node:path');
+
+const ROOT = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..');
+const APP_JS = path.join(ROOT, 'static', 'app.js');
+const JS_DIR = path.join(ROOT, 'static', 'js');
+
+// Strip comments, so prose about `host.foo` in a header block is not read as a call
+// site.
+//
+// NOTHING ELSE. An earlier version also tried to strip import statements (to stop
+// `from './host.js'` reading as a hook called `js`) and its `[\s\S]*?` spanned lines
+// and silently ate 14,000 characters of the file — including, in the bite test, the
+// very drift it was supposed to catch. A guard with a hole in it is worse than no
+// guard, because you trust it. The `host.js` path is excluded far more cheaply,
+// below, by refusing a match followed by a quote.
+function scrub(src) {
+    return src
+        .replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, '')
+        .replace(/^\s*\/\/[^\n]*$/gm, '');
+}
+
+// `host.<name>` — but not `host.js'` from the `from './host.js'` import path, which is
+// the one string in these files that looks like a hook and isn't.
+//
+// The trailing class must forbid a WORD character as well as a quote. With only
+// `(?!['"])`, `host.js'` fails on `js` (a quote follows), then BACKTRACKS to `j` —
+// where the next char is `s`, not a quote — and happily reports a hook called `j`.
+// Forbidding `[\w$]` too leaves it nowhere to backtrack to.
+const HOOK_RE = /(?<![\w$.])host\.([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)(?![\w$'"])/g;
+
+/** Every `host.<name>` referenced by a carved module. */
+function hooksUsed() {
+    const used = new Map();   // name -> [files]
+    for (const file of fs.readdirSync(JS_DIR)) {
+        if (!file.endsWith('.js') || file === 'host.js') continue;
+        const raw = fs.readFileSync(path.join(JS_DIR, file), 'utf8');
+        if (!/from\s+'\.\/host\.js'/.test(raw)) continue;
+        for (const m of scrub(raw).matchAll(HOOK_RE)) {
+            if (!used.has(m[1])) used.set(m[1], []);
+            used.get(m[1]).push(file);
+        }
+    }
+    return used;
+}
+
+/** Every hook app.js passes to configureHost({ … }). */
+function hooksWired() {
+    const src = scrub(fs.readFileSync(APP_JS, 'utf8'));
+    // NB the closing brace is INDENTED (the call sits inside the boot function), so
+    // anchoring on `\n});` at column 0 runs straight past it and swallows the next
+    // object literal in the file — which is how this first read 77 "hooks", most of
+    // them app.js's window contract.
+    const call = src.match(/configureHost\(\{([\s\S]*?)\n\s*\}\);/);
+    if (!call) return null;   // no seam wired yet — fine until there is one
+    const wired = new Set();
+    for (const m of call[1].matchAll(/(?:^|,)\s*([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)\s*(?=[,:}]|$)/gm)) {
+        wired.add(m[1]);
+    }
+    return wired;
+}
+
+test('every host.<hook> a module uses is wired by app.js', () => {
+    const used = hooksUsed();
+    if (used.size === 0) return;                      // no consumers yet
+    const wired = hooksWired();
+    assert.ok(wired, 'modules import ./host.js but app.js never calls configureHost({ … })');
+
+    const missing = [...used.keys()]
+        .filter((h) => !wired.has(h))
+        .map((h) => `${h} (used in ${used.get(h).join(', ')})`);
+
+    assert.deepEqual(
+        missing, [],
+        'these hooks are read by a module but never wired by app.js — they would throw at runtime, '
+        + 'on whatever path happens to reach them',
+    );
+});
+
+test('every hook app.js wires is actually used by a module', () => {
+    const wired = hooksWired();
+    if (!wired || wired.size === 0) return;
+    const used = hooksUsed();
+
+    const unused = [...wired].filter((h) => !used.has(h));
+
+    assert.deepEqual(
+        unused, [],
+        'these hooks are wired by app.js but no module reads them — dead weight, and usually '
+        + 'the fossil of a rename that left the other half behind',
+    );
+});
diff --git a/tests/js/loop_api.test.js b/tests/js/loop_api.test.js
index 5548ff5..6d5b10f 100644
--- a/tests/js/loop_api.test.js
+++ b/tests/js/loop_api.test.js
@@ -44,10 +44,18 @@ function buildSandbox() {
     const seekCalls = [];
     const sectionPracticeModeCalls = [];
     const transportEvents = [];
+    // clearLoop() used to zero section-practice's three selection scalars by hand.
+    // They now live in static/js/section-practice.js, which owns them, so clearLoop
+    // calls its exported resetSelection() instead. This is a SPY, not a stub — the
+    // test below still asserts the reset happens, it just asserts it through the
+    // seam rather than by reaching into someone else's state.
+    const resetSelectionCalls = [];
     const sandbox = {
         seekCalls,
         sectionPracticeModeCalls,
         transportEvents,
+        resetSelectionCalls,
+        resetSelection: () => resetSelectionCalls.push(true),
         // Mutable state (declared as `var` in eval prelude so it lives on
         // the sandbox global and the extracted functions can read/write).
         // The actual values are set below.
@@ -201,7 +209,7 @@ test('setLoop rejects b <= a', async () => {
     await assert.rejects(() => sandbox.__setLoop(10, 5), /b > a/);
 });
 
-test('clearLoop resets loopA/loopB to null', async () => {
+test('clearLoop resets loopA/loopB to null (and asks section-practice to drop its selection)', async () => {
     const src = fs.readFileSync(APP_JS, 'utf8');
     const sandbox = buildSandbox();
     loadFunctions(sandbox, src);
@@ -211,6 +219,11 @@ test('clearLoop resets loopA/loopB to null', async () => {
     const { loopA, loopB } = sandbox.__getLoop();
     assert.equal(loopA, null);
     assert.equal(loopB, null);
+    assert.equal(
+        sandbox.resetSelectionCalls.length, 1,
+        'clearLoop must ask section-practice to drop its selection (it used to zero the '
+        + 'scalars by hand; the module owns them now)',
+    );
     assert.equal(sandbox.sectionPracticeModeCalls.length, 1);
     assert.equal(sandbox.sectionPracticeModeCalls[0].on, false);
     // Field-wise: vm-context objects break deepStrictEqual across realms.
diff --git a/tests/js/section_practice_dismiss.test.js b/tests/js/section_practice_dismiss.test.js
index 8a0912c..fa74532 100644
--- a/tests/js/section_practice_dismiss.test.js
+++ b/tests/js/section_practice_dismiss.test.js
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
 const fs = require('node:fs');
 const path = require('node:path');
 
-const src = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'static', 'app.js'), 'utf8');
+// _installSectionPracticeDismiss was carved out of app.js into its own module (R3a).
+const src = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'static', 'js', 'section-practice.js'), 'utf8');
 const m = src.match(/function _installSectionPracticeDismiss\s*\(\)\s*\{[\s\S]*?\n\}/);
-assert.ok(m, '_installSectionPracticeDismiss() not found in static/app.js');
+assert.ok(m, '_installSectionPracticeDismiss() not found in static/js/section-practice.js');
 const body = m[0];
 
 test('the outside-click dismiss binds in the CAPTURE phase', () => {