The player was an item of the LazyColumn, so scrolling it off screen disposed
it, and the DisposableEffect that releases the MediaPlayer cut the reading off
mid-line. It is now pinned above the scrolling text: it stays in composition for
as long as the poem is open, and stays in reach while you read further down,
which is when a player is wanted.
A seek bar comes with it — position, a draggable handle, and the two times —
shown only once the length is known, because a bar that cannot be dragged
anywhere is furniture. The handle follows the audio on a 250ms poll while it
plays and stops fighting the finger while it is being dragged. MediaPlayer
already seeks; this needed no media library.
The bar and its times run left to right inside the otherwise right-to-left page,
because time does, whatever the script.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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