diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3b3893d..91840b5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -88,3 +88,8 @@ build/android/overlay.json
 # Written by @semantic-release/changelog purely to carry the release notes
 # into scripts/gitea-release.sh; the release page is the changelog.
 .release-notes.md
+
+# Agent session log: local scratch, not repo memory (that is CLAUDE.md
+# and .planning/). Written by the scheduled backlog runs.
+.pi/journal.md
+.pi/schedule-prompts.json
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 904af8c..d5475c0 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -1909,6 +1909,33 @@ every desktop button from 33×21 to 36×24, silently. The sizes are
 asserted as `'33x21'` rather than as a range, because the regression
 was three pixels.
 
+**What that bar lost is how far through the song it is, and
+`<player-progress-line>` is where it went** (#58). Plan 016 B2 took the
+seek bar off the phone's transport, so the one thing a mini player is
+expected to say without being opened had nowhere left to be said. It is
+a 2px line on the border between the mini player and the tab bar: the
+**shell's** element and its own `auto` grid row between `bottom-bar`
+and `bottom-nav`, because those two are separate components and either
+one drawing it means reaching into the other's box for two pixels.
+
+Four things about it are load-bearing. **It never counts** — the fill is
+`scaleX()` off the same `PlaybackPositionChanged` the seek bar renders,
+with the same `trackChangeId` and `seq` guards and an interval that is
+stopped and restarted by every report, which is the rule that exists
+because a local clock drifted 30 s away across four keyboard seeks.
+**It is not a control and cannot become one**: `aria-hidden` on the host
+and `pointer-events: none` throughout, because Now Playing's seek bar
+is what announces the position and a 2px strip on the top edge of the
+tab bar is exactly where a thumb aiming at a tab lands. **It renders
+nothing above 600px**, from `matchMedia` rather than a media query, for
+`job-band`'s reason plus one of its own — a stylesheet cannot stop a
+1 Hz interval running for the life of every desktop session about a
+line nobody can see. And **its phone rule sits at the foot of
+`index.css`, beside `job-band`'s**, not in the phone block above: a
+media query adds no specificity, so a `display: block` written before
+the `display: none` that takes it out of the desktop grid loses to it
+and the line never appears at any width, silently.
+
 **900 is the worst desktop width, not the 800×600 minimum.** The
 sidebar collapses to icons *below* 900, so the main panel is 843px at
 899 and 700px at 900 — the narrowest content area any desktop width
diff --git a/e2e/specs/phone-progress-line.spec.ts b/e2e/specs/phone-progress-line.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..006e79f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/specs/phone-progress-line.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+import {
+  test,
+  expect,
+  callBinding,
+  resetEvents,
+  waitForEvent,
+  LONG_TRACK,
+  NO_QUEUE_SOURCE,
+} from '../support/fixtures.js';
+import type { Page } from '@playwright/test';
+
+/**
+ * The phone's progress line (#58).
+ *
+ * The component tier already pins what the line *says* — that it
+ * renders the backend's reported position and never a count of its own.
+ * What only a real shell can answer is **where it is**: the issue asks
+ * for a line on the border between the mini player and the tab bar, and
+ * "on the border" is two adjacencies in a grid that no component-level
+ * render has around it.
+ *
+ * It also asserts the line is not there on a desktop, which is the
+ * other half of the same fact: above 600px there is no tab bar for it
+ * to sit on the border of, and the bar carries a real seek bar.
+ */
+type Rect = { x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number };
+
+/** The reference device's real viewport. */
+const DEVICE = { width: 424, height: 439 };
+const DESKTOP = { width: 1280, height: 800 };
+
+async function rectOf(app: Page, selector: string): Promise<Rect | null> {
+  return app.evaluate((sel) => {
+    const el = document.querySelector(sel);
+
+    if (!el) return null;
+
+    const r = el.getBoundingClientRect();
+
+    return { x: r.x, y: r.y, width: r.width, height: r.height };
+  }, selector);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Put the 90-second fixture on and wait for the first position report.
+ *
+ * The long track rather than any track: every other fixture is 2-6
+ * seconds, which is shorter than the time this spec takes to measure
+ * three rectangles.
+ */
+async function play(app: Page): Promise<void> {
+  const tracks = await callBinding<{ FilePath: string; TrackName: string }[]>(
+    app,
+    'library.Library.GetTracks',
+    [0],
+  );
+
+  // `TrackName`, not `Title`: that is what the library model calls it.
+  const long = tracks.find((t) => t.TrackName === LONG_TRACK);
+
+  expect(long, `no fixture track named ${LONG_TRACK}`).toBeTruthy();
+
+  await callBinding(app, 'queue.Queue.Clear');
+  await resetEvents(app);
+  await callBinding(app, 'queue.Queue.SetQueue', [
+    [long!.FilePath],
+    0,
+    false,
+    NO_QUEUE_SOURCE,
+  ]);
+  await waitForEvent(app, 'QueueChanged');
+  await callBinding(app, 'queue.Queue.Play');
+  await waitForEvent(app, 'PlaybackPositionChanged', { timeoutMs: 15_000 });
+}
+
+test.describe('the progress line sits on the border between the bars', () => {
+  test.beforeEach(async ({ app }) => {
+    await app.setViewportSize(DEVICE);
+    await play(app);
+  });
+
+  /*
+   * Every test here starts a LONG_TRACK and the suite is workers: 1,
+   * fullyParallel: false against one long-lived app — so without this
+   * the four phone-* specs that follow alphabetically inherit a playing
+   * queue. phone-transport.spec.ts records where that lesson came from:
+   * the fault first showed up as a flake in a spec about something else.
+   */
+  test.afterEach(async ({ app }) => {
+    await callBinding(app, 'queue.Queue.Clear').catch(() => {
+      /* already empty */
+    });
+    await app.setViewportSize(DESKTOP);
+  });
+
+  test('spans the width, between the mini player and the tab bar', async ({
+    app,
+  }) => {
+    const line = await rectOf(app, 'player-progress-line');
+    const bar = await rectOf(app, '.bottom-bar');
+    const nav = await rectOf(app, 'bottom-nav');
+
+    expect(line, 'no progress line on the phone').not.toBeNull();
+    expect(bar).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(nav).not.toBeNull();
+
+    // A border, not a band: 2px, the full width, and touching both.
+    expect(line!.height).toBeCloseTo(2, 0);
+    expect(line!.width).toBeCloseTo(bar!.width, 0);
+    expect(line!.y).toBeCloseTo(bar!.y + bar!.height, 0);
+    expect(nav!.y).toBeCloseTo(line!.y + line!.height, 0);
+  });
+
+  /**
+   * It is 2px on the top edge of the tab bar, which is exactly where a
+   * thumb aiming at a tab lands. A line that sometimes seeks is worse
+   * than one that never does, so it must take no part in hit testing
+   * at all.
+   */
+  test('takes no taps', async ({ app }) => {
+    const line = await rectOf(app, 'player-progress-line');
+
+    const hit = await app.evaluate(
+      ({ x, y }) => document.elementFromPoint(x, y)?.tagName ?? '',
+      { x: line!.x + line!.width / 2, y: line!.y + 1 },
+    );
+
+    expect(hit).not.toBe('PLAYER-PROGRESS-LINE');
+  });
+
+  test('is not there on a desktop', async ({ app }) => {
+    await app.setViewportSize(DESKTOP);
+
+    await expect(app.locator('player-progress-line')).toBeHidden();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/index.css b/frontend/index.css
index 30172ae..a7e2438 100644
--- a/frontend/index.css
+++ b/frontend/index.css
@@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ body div.sidebar {
             "jobs-band" auto
             "main-panel" 1fr
             "bottom-bar" auto
+            "progress-line" auto
             "bottom-nav" auto
             / 1fr;
         /* Nothing may scroll sideways here.  On a desktop the shell is
@@ -501,7 +502,8 @@ body div.sidebar {
        expression of the same fact is a second thing to keep in step.
        The view carries its own queue button, because this is where
        that one lived. */
-    body:has(#main-content[data-active-view="now-playing"]) .bottom-bar {
+    body:has(#main-content[data-active-view="now-playing"]) .bottom-bar,
+    body:has(#main-content[data-active-view="now-playing"]) player-progress-line {
         display: none;
     }
 }
@@ -568,8 +570,12 @@ body div.sidebar {
 /* Out of the desktop grid entirely.  `job-band` renders nothing above
    600px anyway, but an in-flow grid child with no named area is
    auto-placed into a row of the shell -- the same trap the skip link is
-   absolutely positioned to avoid. */
-body job-band {
+   absolutely positioned to avoid.  `player-progress-line` (#58) is the
+   same element in the same position for the same reason: below 600px it
+   has a named row, and above it there is no border for it to sit on --
+   the desktop bar carries a real, interactive seek bar. */
+body job-band,
+body player-progress-line {
     display: none;
 }
 
@@ -602,3 +608,21 @@ body job-band {
         background-color: var(--yj-bg-elevated, #343a40);
     }
 }
+
+/* #58.  How far through the song we are, in its own grid row between
+   the two bars -- so the line is *on* the border rather than inside
+   either of them, and in flow rather than over it.  The row is `auto`
+   and the element renders nothing while no track is loaded, so it costs
+   no height at all until there is something to say.
+
+   **This block is below the `display: none` above and has to be**, for
+   the reason the band's rule is: a media query adds no specificity, so
+   `body player-progress-line { display: block }` written before that
+   rule loses to it at equal specificity and the line never appears at
+   any width.  Nothing fails; it is simply not there. */
+@media (max-width: 599px) {
+    body player-progress-line {
+        display: block;
+        grid-area: progress-line;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/frontend/index.html b/frontend/index.html
index 991def6..cebe75a 100644
--- a/frontend/index.html
+++ b/frontend/index.html
@@ -81,6 +81,16 @@
             </button>
         </div>
     </footer>
+    <!-- How far through the song we are, on the border between the two
+         bars (#58). The shell's element rather than either bar's:
+         they are separate components stacked in this grid, so a line
+         on the border between them is a row of it, and neither one has
+         to reach into the other's box for two pixels. It renders
+         nothing above 600px and nothing with no track, is `aria-hidden`
+         (Now Playing's seek bar is what announces the position) and
+         takes no pointer events at all -- a thin line that sometimes
+         seeks is worse than one that never does. -->
+    <player-progress-line></player-progress-line>
     <!-- The phone's primary navigation, hidden above 600px by
          index.css.  Eager rather than a chunk, for the reason
          notification-host is: it is the only way to move around the
diff --git a/frontend/index.ts b/frontend/index.ts
index f5b1f6b..f69b74b 100644
--- a/frontend/index.ts
+++ b/frontend/index.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ import '@components/audio-player/audio-player.ts';
 // In the bar rather than inside `audio-player` since #42, so the shell
 // is what has to register it.
 import '@components/audio-player/volume-control/volume-control.ts';
+// The phone's progress line (#58), on the border between the mini
+// player and the tab bar. In the shell for the same reason the volume
+// is, and eager because it is part of the bottom bar's first paint.
+import '@components/audio-player/progress-line/progress-line.ts';
 import '@components/track-list/track-list.ts';
 import '@components/now-playing/now-playing.ts';
 import '@components/sidebar/app-sidebar.ts';
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/audio-player/progress-line/progress-line.ts b/frontend/src/components/audio-player/progress-line/progress-line.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..953d70e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/audio-player/progress-line/progress-line.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+import { LitElement, html, css, nothing } from 'lit';
+import { customElement, state } from 'lit/decorators.js';
+
+import { PlayerController } from '@store/controllers/player-controller';
+import { designTokens } from '../../../styles/tokens.css';
+import { PHONE_QUERY } from '../../../utils/breakpoints';
+
+/**
+ * How far through the song we are, on the border between the mini
+ * player and the tab bar (#58).
+ *
+ * The phone's bottom bar carries three controls and no seek bar — plan
+ * 016 B2 took it out, because 4px of height is not a thumb target and the
+ * full-screen `now-playing-view` is where seeking belongs. What went
+ * with it is the one thing a mini player is expected to say without
+ * being opened: how far through the song it is. This is that, and
+ * only that.
+ *
+ * Four things about it are load-bearing.
+ *
+ * **It is the shell's element, not either bar's.** The mini player and
+ * `<bottom-nav>` are separate components stacked in the shell's grid,
+ * so a line on the border between them is a row of the grid — either
+ * one drawing it means reaching into the other's box for two pixels.
+ *
+ * **It never counts.** The position is pushed at 1 Hz by the backend
+ * (`PlaybackPositionChanged`), and the interval here interpolates
+ * *between* those reports and is stopped and restarted by every one of
+ * them — the seek bar's rule, for the reason the seek bar has it: a
+ * local clock drifted 30 s away from the backend across four keyboard
+ * seeks. The `trackChangeId` and `seq` guards come along for the same
+ * reason: the store is a singleton, so a report about the previous
+ * track must not be adopted, and the same second reported twice still
+ * has to reset the interpolation.
+ *
+ * **It is not a control and cannot become one.** `aria-hidden` on the
+ * host and `pointer-events: none` throughout: the real progress is
+ * announced by the seek bar on Now Playing, and a 2px strip on the top
+ * edge of the tab bar that sometimes seeks is worse than one that
+ * never does. It is also where a thumb aiming at a tab lands.
+ *
+ * **It renders nothing above 600px**, from `matchMedia` rather than a
+ * media query, because that decides whether the element *exists* — and
+ * with it whether a 1 Hz interval runs for the life of every desktop
+ * session about a line nobody can see. `job-band`, `search-trigger`
+ * and `player-controls` are the same pattern for the same reason.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * The reporting cadence, matched. This is not the clock: it exists
+ * only so the line moves in the second between two reports, and its
+ * error is discarded by the next one rather than carried.
+ */
+const InterpolationIntervalMillis = 1000;
+
+@customElement('player-progress-line')
+export class PlayerProgressLine extends LitElement {
+    private player = new PlayerController(this);
+
+    /** Phone width. See the class comment: existence, not paint. */
+    @state() private phone = false;
+
+    /** Seconds into the track, from the last report plus interpolation. */
+    @state() private elapsed = 0;
+
+    private previousTrackChangeId = -1;
+
+    /** The sequence number of the last backend report applied. */
+    private previousPositionSeq = -1;
+
+    private timerID = -1;
+
+    private media?: MediaQueryList;
+
+    private onMedia = (e: MediaQueryListEvent) => {
+        this.phone = e.matches;
+    };
+
+    static override styles = [
+        designTokens,
+        css`
+            :host {
+                display: block;
+                /* Not a target, at any depth. */
+                pointer-events: none;
+            }
+
+            .track {
+                height: 2px;
+                background-color: var(--yj-bg-surface, #212529);
+            }
+
+            .fill {
+                height: 100%;
+                background-color: var(--yj-accent, #ffd43b);
+                /* scaleX off a full-width box rather than a width in
+                   percent, so the moving thing is a transform and the
+                   line costs no layout once a second. */
+                transform-origin: left center;
+            }
+        `,
+    ];
+
+    private get trackLength(): number {
+        return this.player.currentTrack?.trackLength ?? 0;
+    }
+
+    override connectedCallback(): void {
+        super.connectedCallback();
+
+        // Decorative in full: the seek bar on Now Playing is what
+        // announces the position, and this says the same thing without
+        // a name, a value or a way to act on it.
+        this.setAttribute('aria-hidden', 'true');
+
+        this.media = window.matchMedia(PHONE_QUERY);
+        this.phone = this.media.matches;
+        this.media.addEventListener('change', this.onMedia);
+    }
+
+    override disconnectedCallback(): void {
+        super.disconnectedCallback();
+        this.stopInterpolating();
+        this.media?.removeEventListener('change', this.onMedia);
+    }
+
+    override updated(): void {
+        // A track change resets the line, and `trackChangeId` is what
+        // reveals one when the same file plays twice in a row.
+        const currentChangeId = this.player.currentTrack?.trackChangeId ?? -1;
+
+        if (currentChangeId !== this.previousTrackChangeId) {
+            this.previousTrackChangeId = currentChangeId;
+            this.elapsed = this.player.currentTrack?.seekPosition ?? 0;
+            this.stopInterpolating();
+        }
+
+        // The backend's own position wins over anything counted here,
+        // and a report for a track that is no longer loaded is stale by
+        // definition.
+        const position = this.player.position;
+
+        if (
+            position &&
+            position.trackChangeId === currentChangeId &&
+            position.seq !== this.previousPositionSeq
+        ) {
+            this.previousPositionSeq = position.seq;
+            this.elapsed = position.positionSeconds;
+            this.stopInterpolating();
+        }
+
+        // One owner for the interval, as in `seek-bar`: everything that
+        // wants it started or stopped says so by changing state that
+        // brings us back here.
+        if (this.phone && this.player.isPlaying && currentChangeId !== -1) {
+            this.startInterpolating();
+        } else {
+            this.stopInterpolating();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private stopInterpolating(): void {
+        if (this.timerID !== -1) {
+            clearInterval(this.timerID);
+            this.timerID = -1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private startInterpolating(): void {
+        if (this.timerID !== -1) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        this.timerID = window.setInterval(() => {
+            if (this.elapsed < this.trackLength) {
+                this.elapsed += 1;
+            }
+        }, InterpolationIntervalMillis);
+    }
+
+    override render() {
+        // Nothing playing is nothing to say, and the grid row is `auto`
+        // so an empty render costs no height at all -- `job-band`'s
+        // rule one row down.
+        if (!this.phone || this.player.currentTrack === null) return nothing;
+
+        const length = this.trackLength;
+        const fraction =
+            length > 0 ? Math.min(1, Math.max(0, this.elapsed / length)) : 0;
+
+        return html`
+            <div class="track" data-testid="progress-line">
+                <div class="fill" style="transform: scaleX(${fraction})"></div>
+            </div>
+        `;
+    }
+}
+
+declare global {
+    interface HTMLElementTagNameMap {
+        'player-progress-line': PlayerProgressLine;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/frontend/test/components/progress-line.test.ts b/frontend/test/components/progress-line.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5409ce3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/test/components/progress-line.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,258 @@
+/**
+ * The phone's progress line (#58).
+ *
+ * **What this tier can and cannot see.** It can see the whole of what
+ * the issue asks for that is not a pixel: that the line exists only on
+ * a phone and only with a track, that it renders the position the
+ * backend reported rather than a count of its own, and that it is
+ * neither announced nor touchable. It cannot see where it sits — that
+ * is the shell's grid, and it is asserted in
+ * `e2e/specs/phone-progress-line.spec.ts` where there is a real bar
+ * with a real tab bar under it.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach, afterEach, vi } from 'vitest';
+
+import '@components/audio-player/progress-line/progress-line';
+import { Events } from '../../src/events';
+import { emit, flush } from '@test/support/harness';
+import { fixture, shadow } from '@test/support/render';
+
+const TRACK = {
+    fileName: 'song.mp3',
+    filePath: '/music/song.mp3',
+    trackLength: 90,
+    seekPosition: 0,
+    state: 'playing',
+    title: 'Song',
+    artist: 'Artist',
+    album: 'Album',
+    coverArt: '',
+    coverArtSmall: '',
+    coverArtMedium: '',
+    coverArtLarge: '',
+    trackChangeId: 1,
+    artistMbid: '',
+    releaseGroupMbid: '',
+    recordingMbid: '',
+};
+
+/**
+ * Answer `matchMedia` for the phone query, since the runner's own
+ * window is whatever size the browser provider gives it. Stubbed rather
+ * than resized for `transport-context.test.ts`'s reason: what is under
+ * test is the component's reaction to the answer.
+ */
+const realMatchMedia = window.matchMedia;
+
+function pretendPhone(phone: boolean): void {
+    window.matchMedia = ((query: string) => ({
+        matches: phone && query.includes('599'),
+        media: query,
+        addEventListener: () => {},
+        removeEventListener: () => {},
+    })) as unknown as typeof window.matchMedia;
+}
+
+/** The horizontal scale of the fill, or null if there is no line. */
+function scale(el: Element): number | null {
+    const fill = shadow<HTMLElement>(el, '.fill');
+
+    if (!fill) return null;
+
+    const match = /scaleX\(([^)]+)\)/.exec(fill.style.transform);
+
+    return match ? Number(match[1]) : null;
+}
+
+describe('<player-progress-line>', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+        emit(Events.TrackChanged, null);
+        emit(Events.PlaybackStateChanged, { state: 'stopped' });
+    });
+
+    afterEach(() => {
+        window.matchMedia = realMatchMedia;
+        vi.useRealTimers();
+    });
+
+    it('draws nothing above the phone breakpoint', async () => {
+        pretendPhone(false);
+
+        const el = await fixture('player-progress-line');
+
+        emit(Events.TrackChanged, { ...TRACK, trackChangeId: 2 });
+        emit(Events.PlaybackPositionChanged, {
+            positionSeconds: 45,
+            trackLength: 90,
+            trackChangeId: 2,
+            seq: 1,
+            playing: true,
+        });
+        await flush();
+        await el.updateComplete;
+
+        // The desktop bar carries a real seek bar, and there is no tab
+        // bar for this to sit on the border of.
+        expect(el.shadowRoot!.querySelector('.track')).toBeNull();
+    });
+
+    it('draws nothing until there is a track', async () => {
+        pretendPhone(true);
+
+        const el = await fixture('player-progress-line');
+
+        expect(el.shadowRoot!.querySelector('.track')).toBeNull();
+    });
+
+    it('renders the fraction the backend reported', async () => {
+        pretendPhone(true);
+
+        const el = await fixture('player-progress-line');
+
+        emit(Events.TrackChanged, { ...TRACK, trackChangeId: 3 });
+        emit(Events.PlaybackPositionChanged, {
+            positionSeconds: 45,
+            trackLength: 90,
+            trackChangeId: 3,
+            seq: 1,
+            playing: true,
+        });
+        await flush();
+        await el.updateComplete;
+
+        expect(scale(el)).toBeCloseTo(0.5, 3);
+    });
+
+    it('resumes mid-track at the position the track arrived with', async () => {
+        pretendPhone(true);
+
+        const el = await fixture('player-progress-line');
+
+        emit(Events.TrackChanged, {
+            ...TRACK,
+            seekPosition: 30,
+            trackChangeId: 4,
+        });
+        await flush();
+        await el.updateComplete;
+
+        expect(scale(el)).toBeCloseTo(1 / 3, 3);
+    });
+
+    it('interpolates between reports, and every report resets it', async () => {
+        pretendPhone(true);
+        vi.useFakeTimers();
+
+        const el = await fixture('player-progress-line');
+
+        emit(Events.TrackChanged, { ...TRACK, trackChangeId: 5 });
+        emit(Events.PlaybackStateChanged, { state: 'playing' });
+        await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(3000);
+        await el.updateComplete;
+
+        expect(scale(el)).toBeCloseTo(3 / 90, 3);
+
+        // The user seeks; the backend lands somewhere else and says so.
+        // The local count is discarded, never added to -- the seek
+        // bar's rule, and the reason it has it.
+        emit(Events.PlaybackPositionChanged, {
+            positionSeconds: 40,
+            trackLength: 90,
+            trackChangeId: 5,
+            seq: 2,
+            playing: true,
+        });
+        await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(1000);
+        await el.updateComplete;
+
+        expect(scale(el)).toBeCloseTo(41 / 90, 3);
+    });
+
+    /*
+     * The reason this component asks `matchMedia` instead of letting a
+     * stylesheet hide it: a media query cannot stop a 1 Hz interval
+     * running for the life of every desktop session. That claim is
+     * load-bearing in CLAUDE.md, so it is asserted rather than
+     * described — the timer count, because a desktop render is empty
+     * either way and so cannot tell the two apart.
+     */
+    it('runs no interpolation timer above the breakpoint', async () => {
+        pretendPhone(false);
+        vi.useFakeTimers();
+
+        const el = await fixture('player-progress-line');
+
+        emit(Events.TrackChanged, { ...TRACK, trackChangeId: 9 });
+        emit(Events.PlaybackStateChanged, { state: 'playing' });
+        emit(Events.PlaybackPositionChanged, {
+            positionSeconds: 3,
+            trackLength: 90,
+            trackChangeId: 9,
+            seq: 9,
+            playing: true,
+        });
+        await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(5000);
+        await el.updateComplete;
+
+        expect(scale(el)).toBeNull();
+        expect(vi.getTimerCount()).toBe(0);
+    });
+
+    it('ignores a report about a track that is no longer loaded', async () => {
+        pretendPhone(true);
+
+        const el = await fixture('player-progress-line');
+
+        emit(Events.TrackChanged, { ...TRACK, trackChangeId: 6 });
+        emit(Events.PlaybackPositionChanged, {
+            positionSeconds: 60,
+            trackLength: 90,
+            trackChangeId: 5,
+            seq: 3,
+            playing: true,
+        });
+        await flush();
+        await el.updateComplete;
+
+        // The store is a singleton, so a line mounting late must not
+        // adopt a report about the previous track.
+        expect(scale(el)).toBe(0);
+    });
+
+    it('counts nothing while the player is paused', async () => {
+        pretendPhone(true);
+        vi.useFakeTimers();
+
+        const el = await fixture('player-progress-line');
+
+        emit(Events.TrackChanged, { ...TRACK, trackChangeId: 7 });
+        emit(Events.PlaybackPositionChanged, {
+            positionSeconds: 10,
+            trackLength: 90,
+            trackChangeId: 7,
+            seq: 1,
+            playing: false,
+        });
+        emit(Events.PlaybackStateChanged, { state: 'paused' });
+        await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(5000);
+        await el.updateComplete;
+
+        expect(scale(el)).toBeCloseTo(10 / 90, 3);
+    });
+
+    it('is decorative and cannot be touched', async () => {
+        pretendPhone(true);
+
+        const el = await fixture('player-progress-line');
+
+        emit(Events.TrackChanged, { ...TRACK, trackChangeId: 8 });
+        await flush();
+        await el.updateComplete;
+
+        // The seek bar on Now Playing is what announces the position;
+        // this says the same thing with no name and no way to act on
+        // it, and it sits exactly where a thumb aiming at a tab lands.
+        expect(el.getAttribute('aria-hidden')).toBe('true');
+        expect(getComputedStyle(el).pointerEvents).toBe('none');
+    });
+});