diff --git a/src-tauri/src/commands/player/mod.rs b/src-tauri/src/commands/player/mod.rs
index 7e100d79..98fb636f 100644
--- a/src-tauri/src/commands/player/mod.rs
+++ b/src-tauri/src/commands/player/mod.rs
@@ -1705,6 +1705,23 @@ pub async fn player_set_subtitle_track(
     Ok(get_player_status(&controller))
 }
 
+/// Normalise a volume arriving over IPC to the 0.0..=1.0 range every backend
+/// works in.
+///
+/// NaN is handled before the clamp rather than by it: `f32::clamp` returns NaN
+/// for a NaN input (it only panics on NaN *bounds*), and NaN then survives every
+/// comparison downstream, so a backend clamp cannot catch it either. It is
+/// treated as "no volume asked for" and floored to 0.0.
+///
+/// TRACES: DR-212 | UT-206
+fn normalize_volume(volume: f32) -> f32 {
+    if volume.is_nan() {
+        0.0
+    } else {
+        volume.clamp(0.0, 1.0)
+    }
+}
+
 #[tauri::command]
 #[specta::specta]
 pub async fn player_set_volume(
@@ -1712,6 +1729,12 @@ pub async fn player_set_volume(
     playback_mode: State<'_, super::playback_mode::PlaybackModeManagerWrapper>,
     volume: f32,
 ) -> Result<PlayerStatus, String> {
+    // Clamp at the boundary as well as in each backend: the remote branch below
+    // never reaches a backend clamp, and `(f32::INFINITY * 100.0) as i32` would
+    // hand the server i32::MAX as a volume percentage.
+    // TRACES: DR-212 | UT-206
+    let volume = normalize_volume(volume);
+
     // Check if we're in remote mode
     let mode = playback_mode.0.get_mode();
 
@@ -2769,6 +2792,44 @@ pub async fn player_disable_jellyfin(player: State<'_, PlayerStateWrapper>) -> R
 mod tests {
     use crate::utils::lock::MutexSafe;
 
+    /// UT-206 — the volume the command hands on is always a real number in
+    /// 0.0..=1.0.
+    ///
+    /// Every backend clamps for itself, but the remote branch of
+    /// `player_set_volume` reaches no backend at all: it does
+    /// `(volume * 100.0) as i32`, which turns infinity into `i32::MAX` and NaN
+    /// into 0. NaN also survives `f32::clamp` unchanged, so clamping alone is
+    /// not enough — it has to be tested for.
+    ///
+    /// TRACES: DR-212 | UT-206
+    #[test]
+    fn test_normalize_volume_clamps_and_rejects_nan() {
+        use super::normalize_volume;
+
+        // In-range values pass through untouched.
+        assert_eq!(normalize_volume(0.0), 0.0);
+        assert_eq!(normalize_volume(0.5), 0.5);
+        assert_eq!(normalize_volume(1.0), 1.0);
+
+        // Out of range clamps to the same 0.0..=1.0 the backends use.
+        assert_eq!(normalize_volume(-0.5), 0.0);
+        assert_eq!(normalize_volume(42.0), 1.0);
+        assert_eq!(normalize_volume(f32::INFINITY), 1.0);
+        assert_eq!(normalize_volume(f32::NEG_INFINITY), 0.0);
+
+        // NaN is not a volume; it must not reach the Jellyfin percentage
+        // conversion or a backend.
+        let from_nan = normalize_volume(f32::NAN);
+        assert!(!from_nan.is_nan(), "NaN must not pass through the boundary");
+        assert_eq!(from_nan, 0.0);
+
+        // Whatever comes out survives the remote branch's percentage cast.
+        for input in [-1.0, 0.25, 9.0, f32::INFINITY, f32::NAN] {
+            let percent = (normalize_volume(input) * 100.0) as i32;
+            assert!((0..=100).contains(&percent), "input {input} gave {percent}");
+        }
+    }
+
     /// The subtitle list the frontend resolved must survive the IPC hop and end
     /// up on the `MediaItem` the native backend loads.
     ///