Abstract
- The labels payload is variable in length: one name and one mix id per mix position of the carrier's layout, 4 + 6N + ceil(6N/8) bytes for N positions (magic, format, N names of 6 bytes, N ids of 6 bits padded to a byte, a 2-byte keyed tag). The pack learns N from the link profile named in the authenticated beacon, so the payload carries no length or count field.
- A name is 1 to 8 characters from a fixed 64-symbol alphabet: space, A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and -. On air each character is its 6-bit index in that alphabet, so 8 characters take 48 bits (6 bytes), the size a 6-character ASCII name took before. Space is code 0, so padding and "no name" are zero bits.
- One name rule applies everywhere a name is set or carried: the control interface refuses a name that breaks it with a fixed message, the configuration build stops on one, the encoder sends a broken name as "no name", and the receiver shows a generic "Mix N" for a blank name. Nothing is truncated or substituted.
- Each position also carries the 6-bit id (1-63, 0 = no mix) of the mix placed there. The id is the rack's own name for the mix: it does not change when the mix moves to another position, is renamed or changes width.
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Recommended Citation
Anonymous, "Mix names and stable mix identities carried in band on a continuous wireless audio stream: a labels payload sized by the link profile's mix count, a 64-symbol 6-bit name alphabet, 6-bit mix ids per position so receivers follow their mix through reorders, and one name rule shared by the control interface, the configuration and the air", Technical Disclosure Commons, (October 20, 2026)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12318