fix(feed): keep audio-only notes (podcasts/music) out of the video grid

A podcast/music note published as a native kind-30078 (content url = an .ogg/
.mp3 audio file, imeta `m audio/*`) was accepted by convertEventToVideo (it has
a url) and rendered as a broken <video> — black frame + audio on Chrome/FF,
MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED on Safari/iOS — since bitvid has no <audio> player.
The existing audio guard only covered the NIP-71 ingest path, not native events.

convertEventToVideo now marks such notes invalid ("audio-only source (no video)")
so every ingestion path that already drops invalid filters them: main feed buffer,
author/channel batch fetch, and local ingest. Audio-only = no magnet AND no
`imeta m video/*` AND (an `imeta m audio/*` variant OR an unambiguous audio URL
.mp3/.m4a/.aac/.wav/.flac/.opus/.oga/.weba). `.ogg` alone is NOT filtered
(ambiguous → video/ogg); only when imeta says audio. A video imeta variant wins.
Direct open-by-nevent is intentionally unaffected — an explicit link still loads.

Near-term half of TODO #60 (the future dedicated Audio tab remains open).

Tests: tests/video-schema-and-conversion.test.mjs (+5, 8/8). Lint + build green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>

js/nostr/nip71.js

@@ -1461,6 +1461,42 @@ function inferMimeTypeFromUrl(url) {
  * @param {import("nostr-tools").Event} event - The raw event.
  * @returns {Object} The normalized video object, or { invalid: true, reason: string }.
  */
+// Inspect an event's `imeta` tags for declared media types. Native bitvid notes
+// (kind 30078) can carry `imeta` variants with an `m <mime>` field just like
+// NIP-71 events; a podcast/music note advertises `m audio/*`. Mirrors the
+// video/audio split in nip71IngestAdapter.js so the native path stays consistent.
+function detectImetaMediaKinds(tags = []) {
+  let hasVideo = false;
+  let hasAudio = false;
+  for (const tag of Array.isArray(tags) ? tags : []) {
+    if (!Array.isArray(tag) || tag[0] !== "imeta") {
+      continue;
+    }
+    for (let i = 1; i < tag.length; i += 1) {
+      const entry = tag[i];
+      if (typeof entry !== "string") {
+        continue;
+      }
+      const trimmed = entry.trim();
+      if (!/^m\s+/i.test(trimmed)) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      const mime = trimmed.replace(/^m\s+/i, "").trim().toLowerCase();
+      if (mime.startsWith("video/")) {
+        hasVideo = true;
+      } else if (mime.startsWith("audio/")) {
+        hasAudio = true;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return { hasVideo, hasAudio };
+}
+
+// Unambiguous audio-only file extensions. `.ogg` is deliberately excluded — it
+// can be video (Theora) and bitvid maps it to video/ogg — so `.ogg` is only
+// treated as audio when an `imeta m audio/*` tag says so.
+const AUDIO_ONLY_URL_PATTERN = /\.(mp3|m4a|aac|wav|flac|opus|oga|weba)(?:[?#]|$)/i;
+
 export function convertEventToVideo(event = {}) {
   const safeTrim = (value) => (typeof value === "string" ? value.trim() : "");
 
@@ -1507,6 +1543,19 @@ export function convertEventToVideo(event = {}) {
     return { id: event.id, invalid: true, reason: "missing playable source" };
   }
 
+  // Keep audio-only notes (podcasts/music published as native video events) out
+  // of the video feed: bitvid has no <audio> player, so they render as a broken
+  // <video>. Treat as audio-only only when there's NO video signal — an `imeta
+  // m audio/*` variant (with no video variant) or an unambiguous audio URL — and
+  // no magnet (a torrent could still be video). See TODO #60 for the future
+  // dedicated Audio tab that will surface these properly.
+  const { hasVideo: imetaHasVideo, hasAudio: imetaHasAudio } =
+    detectImetaMediaKinds(tags);
+  const urlLooksAudioOnly = url ? AUDIO_ONLY_URL_PATTERN.test(url) : false;
+  if (!magnet && !imetaHasVideo && (imetaHasAudio || urlLooksAudioOnly)) {
+    return { id: event.id, invalid: true, reason: "audio-only source (no video)" };
+  }
+
   const thumbnail = safeTrim(parsedContent.thumbnail);
   const description = safeTrim(parsedContent.description);
   const rawMode = safeTrim(parsedContent.mode);

tests/video-schema-and-conversion.test.mjs

@@ -76,3 +76,115 @@ test("convertEventToVideo normalizes nsfw and kids booleans", () => {
   assert.equal(defaultParsed.isNsfw, false);
   assert.equal(defaultParsed.isForKids, false);
 });
+
+// TODO #60: audio-only notes (podcasts/music published as native kind-30078)
+// must not leak into the video feed — bitvid has no <audio> player, so they
+// render as a broken <video>. convertEventToVideo marks them invalid so every
+// feed/grid ingestion path (which already drops invalid) filters them out.
+
+test("audio-only event with imeta m audio/* is filtered as invalid", () => {
+  const podcast = {
+    id: "evt-audio-imeta",
+    content: JSON.stringify({
+      version: 3,
+      title: "Nostr Compass Podcast #20",
+      url: "https://relay.example/episode.ogg",
+      videoRootId: "root-podcast",
+    }),
+    tags: [
+      [
+        "imeta",
+        "url https://relay.example/episode.ogg",
+        "m audio/ogg",
+        "duration 5254",
+      ],
+    ],
+  };
+
+  const parsed = convertEventToVideo(podcast);
+  assert.equal(parsed.invalid, true, "audio-only note should be invalid");
+  assert.match(parsed.reason, /audio-only/);
+});
+
+test("audio-only url extension (mp3) with no imeta is filtered", () => {
+  const track = {
+    id: "evt-audio-ext",
+    content: JSON.stringify({
+      version: 3,
+      title: "A song",
+      url: "https://cdn.example/track.mp3?v=2",
+      videoRootId: "root-track",
+    }),
+    tags: [],
+  };
+
+  assert.equal(convertEventToVideo(track).invalid, true);
+});
+
+test(".ogg url WITHOUT an audio imeta is kept (ambiguous → treated as video)", () => {
+  const ambiguousOgg = {
+    id: "evt-ogg-ambiguous",
+    content: JSON.stringify({
+      version: 3,
+      title: "Theora clip",
+      url: "https://cdn.example/clip.ogg",
+      videoRootId: "root-ogg",
+    }),
+    tags: [],
+  };
+
+  const parsed = convertEventToVideo(ambiguousOgg);
+  assert.equal(parsed.invalid, false, ".ogg alone must not be filtered");
+  assert.equal(parsed.url, "https://cdn.example/clip.ogg");
+});
+
+test("a video imeta variant wins even when an audio variant is also present", () => {
+  const mixed = {
+    id: "evt-mixed",
+    content: JSON.stringify({
+      version: 3,
+      title: "Talk with audio alt",
+      url: "https://cdn.example/talk.mp4",
+      videoRootId: "root-mixed",
+    }),
+    tags: [
+      ["imeta", "url https://cdn.example/talk.mp4", "m video/mp4"],
+      ["imeta", "url https://cdn.example/talk.ogg", "m audio/ogg"],
+    ],
+  };
+
+  assert.equal(convertEventToVideo(mixed).invalid, false);
+});
+
+test("an audio url paired with a magnet is kept (torrent may be video)", () => {
+  const withMagnet = {
+    id: "evt-audio-magnet",
+    content: JSON.stringify({
+      version: 3,
+      title: "Torrented",
+      url: "https://cdn.example/preview.mp3",
+      magnet: "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567",
+      videoRootId: "root-magnet",
+    }),
+    tags: [["imeta", "url https://cdn.example/preview.mp3", "m audio/mpeg"]],
+  };
+
+  assert.equal(convertEventToVideo(withMagnet).invalid, false);
+});
+
+test("a normal video (mp4) event is unaffected by the audio guard", () => {
+  const video = {
+    id: "evt-video",
+    content: JSON.stringify({
+      version: 3,
+      title: "Real video",
+      url: "https://cdn.example/real.mp4",
+      videoRootId: "root-video",
+    }),
+    tags: [["imeta", "url https://cdn.example/real.mp4", "m video/mp4"]],
+  };
+
+  const parsed = convertEventToVideo(video);
+  assert.equal(parsed.invalid, false);
+  assert.equal(parsed.url, "https://cdn.example/real.mp4");
+});

todo/TODO_2026-06-20_pre-launch.md

@@ -1999,13 +1999,18 @@ and hands it to a `<video>` element → black frame + audio on Chrome/FF, or
 The NIP-71 *ingest* guard (`nip71IngestAdapter.js` — "exclude audio/image/etc.")
 only covers ingested kinds 21/22/34235/34236, not the native 30078 path. Real
 example: event `95053d75…` "Nostr Compass Podcast #20" (pubkey `b7ed68b0…`).
-- [ ] **Near-term (launch hygiene, separate small task):** stop audio-only notes
-      from rendering as broken video. Extend the existing audio guard to the native
-      path (`convertEventToVideo` / author-fetch): if the only source is audio
-      (`imeta m audio/*`, or an audio-only `.ogg/.mp3/.m4a/.opus/.wav` URL with no
-      video track) mark it filtered so it doesn't appear in the video grid. Mirrors
-      the ingest adapter's behavior. Test: audio-only event → filtered; video event
-      → unaffected. (This is the immediate fix; the tab below is the real feature.)
+- [x] **Near-term (launch hygiene) — DONE 2026-07-09.** `convertEventToVideo`
+      (`js/nostr/nip71.js`) now marks audio-only notes `invalid` (reason
+      "audio-only source (no video)") so every feed/grid ingestion path that already
+      drops invalid filters them out: main feed buffer (`videoEventBuffer.js:145`),
+      author/channel batch fetch (`client.js:4192`), local ingest (`client.js:4500`).
+      Audio-only = no magnet AND no `imeta m video/*` AND (an `imeta m audio/*`
+      variant OR an unambiguous audio URL `.mp3/.m4a/.aac/.wav/.flac/.opus/.oga/.weba`).
+      `.ogg` is NOT filtered on extension alone (ambiguous → video/ogg) — only when
+      an `imeta m audio/*` says so. A video imeta variant always wins. Tests:
+      `tests/video-schema-and-conversion.test.mjs` (+5, 8/8). NOTE: the direct
+      open-by-nevent path (`client.js:4129`) still resolves an audio event on
+      purpose — an explicit link should still load; only feeds are filtered.
 - [ ] **The feature:** a dedicated **Audio** sidebar tab (podcasts / music / audio)
       with its own player. Detect `audio/*` sources and render an `<audio>` UI
       (poster from the `image`/thumbnail tag + transport controls, duration, seek)