diff --git a/subwave_nowplaying.star b/subwave_nowplaying.star
index f5e61e8..03cab5d 100644
--- a/subwave_nowplaying.star
+++ b/subwave_nowplaying.star
@@ -411,19 +411,24 @@ GLITCH_STATE_POOL = [
 # render.Sequence doesn't loop on its own (see _glitch_scanlines below), so
 # to repeat the burst-then-pause pattern, the repeats have to be spelled
 # out as one long children list up front rather than relying on any
-# runtime looping.
+# runtime looping. That matters here: with GLITCH_ACTIVE_SECONDS shorter
+# than the actual show_static window, the sequence simply ran out and
+# stopped painting partway through -- jitter played once near the start
+# of the window and then silently went quiet for the rest of it, while
+# the scanlines/corner ticks (which aren't Sequence-based) kept going,
+# making it look like jitter wasn't working at all once past that
+# opening burst.
 #
-# Deliberately *not* sized against the full show_static window (which can
-# now be up to STATIC_OVERLAY_END_SECONDS = 22s): each repeat adds several
-# more uniquely-tinted/shifted frames for WebP to encode, and scaling that
-# up to cover 22s of jitter pushed a real render past the 460KB device
-# limit (measured 481KB). Scanlines and corner ticks (see _glitch_effect)
-# are cheap, constant per-pixel layers that can cover the full window for
-# free, but the hue-shifted bands don't need to keep jittering the whole
-# time to read as "something's happening" -- GLITCH_ACTIVE_SECONDS caps
-# how much of the window actually gets jitter, independent of how long
-# the window itself is.
-GLITCH_ACTIVE_SECONDS = 6
+# An earlier version capped this well below the full show_static window
+# (which can be up to STATIC_OVERLAY_END_SECONDS = 22s) because the
+# hue-shifted RGB-split bands this used to also drive were expensive
+# enough to push a real render past the 460KB device limit if sized
+# against the full window (measured 481KB at the time). Those bands are
+# gone now -- this only drives the base-art jitter, built on
+# render.Sequence + _glitch_shift (Padding), which compresses far
+# better: a real worst-case render at the *full* 22s now measures ~54KB.
+# So this now covers the whole window instead of a short burst within it.
+GLITCH_ACTIVE_SECONDS = STATIC_OVERLAY_END_SECONDS
 _GLITCH_CYCLE_TICKS = GLITCH_STATES_PER_CYCLE * GLITCH_HOLD_TICKS + GLITCH_PAUSE_TICKS
 _GLITCH_TICKS_PER_SECOND = 20  # 1000ms / 50ms-per-tick
 GLITCH_REPEATS = int(GLITCH_ACTIVE_SECONDS * _GLITCH_TICKS_PER_SECOND / _GLITCH_CYCLE_TICKS) + 1