diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 270e6a5..622170c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,5 +21,15 @@ vendor/
 .DS_Store
 Thumbs.db
 
+# Dev config (has local paths — use config.yaml.example as template)
+config.yaml
+
 # Config with secrets
 config.local.yaml
+
+# Portable Winamp (extracted locally for dev — not committed)
+winamp/
+
+# Runtime data files
+killist.dat
+resume.dat
diff --git a/internal/server/server.go b/internal/server/server.go
index e12d372..33b574e 100644
--- a/internal/server/server.go
+++ b/internal/server/server.go
@@ -266,8 +266,13 @@ func (s *Server) statusMsg() ([]byte, error) {
 			msg.State = "stopped"
 		}
 		msg.Title = s.wa.GetTitle()
-		msg.Position = s.wa.GetPosition()
-		msg.Length = s.wa.GetLength()
+		// Winamp returns 0xFFFFFFFF when stopped/no track — clamp to 0.
+		pos := s.wa.GetPosition()
+		length := s.wa.GetLength()
+		if pos > 86400 { pos = 0 }      // > 24h → garbage value
+		if length > 86400 { length = 0 }
+		msg.Position = pos
+		msg.Length = length
 		msg.PlaylistPos = s.wa.GetPlaylistPosition()
 		msg.PlaylistLength = s.wa.GetPlaylistLength()
 		msg.Version = s.wa.GetVersion()
diff --git a/internal/viz/capture.go b/internal/viz/capture.go
index a0c9870..98efb61 100644
--- a/internal/viz/capture.go
+++ b/internal/viz/capture.go
@@ -72,11 +72,21 @@ type waveFormatEx struct {
 	Size           uint16
 }
 
+// waveFormatExtensibleEx is a flat representation of WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE.
+// We cannot embed waveFormatEx because Go pads the struct to 20 bytes
+// (alignment of largest field = uint32), but the C layout is 18 bytes —
+// so SubFormat would land at the wrong offset if we used struct embedding.
 type waveFormatExtensibleEx struct {
-	Format      waveFormatEx
-	Samples     uint16
-	ChannelMask uint32
-	SubFormat   windows.GUID
+	FormatTag      uint16
+	Channels       uint16
+	SamplesPerSec  uint32
+	AvgBytesPerSec uint32
+	BlockAlign     uint16
+	BitsPerSample  uint16
+	Size           uint16
+	Samples        uint16       // wValidBitsPerSample / wSamplesPerBlock
+	ChannelMask    uint32
+	SubFormat      windows.GUID // 16 bytes → total 40 bytes, matches C layout
 }
 
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