The phone drew a grey box over the bounding rect of whatever was
tapped, which is the web view saying what it is. It is gone in one
declaration: `-webkit-tap-highlight-color` is inherited and an
inherited property crosses a shadow boundary, so `html` in index.css
reaches every shadow root in the app. Measured three roots deep,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.18) before and rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) after.
Removing it removes the only touch feedback several surfaces had, so
the press state is part of the same change rather than a later polish
item — with the highlight gone a held row measured the *hover* tint,
which on a phone is synthesised by the hold itself and outlives it.
The four lists' rows, the tab bar, the sidebar's destinations and the
shared context-menu item take --yj-press-overlay on :active; the cards
already had scale(0.97). The press selector carries a state class
because a row is .track-row.selected.active, so a bare :active shows
nothing on the row a phone is most likely to press. And those
surfaces' hover tints move behind (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine),
which is #68's gate applied to a tint rather than a revealed control.
user-select, the other half of the Findings, was already done: the
first rule in index.css covers the shadow roots for the same reason.
touch-action: manipulation is declined — the 300ms delay it is offered
for is already absent on a width=device-width viewport, and what it
would really change is the gesture stack tuned by measurement on a
device this session cannot measure.
Closes#54
Every track, album and artist name in the app navigates through
`utils/explore-link.ts`, and every sentence of how it does that is a
desktop compromise: the navigation is held for one double-click
interval so double-clicking the row can still play it, and the target
is a few characters of text inside a row. On touch that is a delay on
an ambiguous target, and since #63 the row's own tap claims the click
anyway -- so the link was unreachable as well as fiddly.
So below the phone breakpoint a name renders as plain text and the
row's context menu carries the destination instead: `go-to-menu.ts`
draws "Go to Artist" / "Go to Album" under exactly the condition the
link is not, using `explore-link`'s own exported routing so an untagged
entity reaches the library page by the same lookup.
Three things this leans on. Suppressing a link with no menu behind it
is not a smaller affordance but a destination the phone cannot reach,
so `keepOnPhone` is the exception for the three surfaces with no row
menu. The items are drawn for a single selection only, which is the
Play item's rule one step on. And there is no "Go to Genre", because
no row renders a genre link to lose -- that would be new navigation
rather than a replacement.
Closes#67
Plan 019 phases 3 and 4, which finish #63. The queue panel and both
playlist detail views get tap-to-play and hold-to-select; the playlist
views get swipe-to-queue as well.
Phase 3 was not the pure wiring the plan expected, in two places.
A tap on a queue row plays that position. Copying track-list's tap --
which sets the queue to the list the row is in -- would rebuild the
queue from the queue, discarding its source, its shuffle order and
anything inserted by hand. It reads as a no-op and is not one.
And the queue panel has no swipe, deliberately. A right swipe means add
to the queue everywhere else it exists, and a queue row is already in
the queue; the only thing it could mean there is remove, which is the
same gesture with the opposite effect one screen away. Removing a queue
row is on the row, on its sheet since #60, and now on its selection
bar. The assertion is that its rows do not opt in.
The reveal became utils/swipe-to-queue.ts rather than being copied into
three lists, keyed on a data-swipe attribute so one stylesheet carries
the touch-action half of the device fix to rows that are called two
different things.
Phase 4 was already true and is now asserted: a claimed tap has its
click swallowed, so an explore-link inside a row never sees one and
tap-to-play wins with no rule of its own. Its test was vacuous when
written -- the tap helper sent no click, so there was nothing to
swallow -- which also weakened phase 1's. It sends one now.
Escape leaves selection mode, from selection-bar rather than from each
of the four hosts, since that element exists only while the mode does.
The platform's back gesture deliberately does not reach it: the shell
owns the history stack and four lists reaching for history is four
stacks. That is #200.
Verified on the reference phone: a queue row taps to its own index and
refuses a swipe, a playlist row queues on a swipe and plays its
playlist on a tap, and a hold raises the bar without the menu.
Closes#63
Plan 019 phase 2. A finger on a track row now drags a reveal out from
under it and queues the track on release, with the affordance saying
what it will do before it does it.
Two things the device said that the plan did not predict, and both
change the implementation rather than decorate it.
The gesture runs on touch events, not pointer events. Chrome 113's
WebView cancels the pointer stream ~16px into any drag whatever
touch-action says -- measured at auto, pan-y and none alike -- while
touchmove keeps firing. So touch-action: pan-y is half the fix and a
non-passive touchmove calling preventDefault is the other half, and
neither works alone: with the preventDefault in place and touch-action
back at auto the gesture died after one move. Both are correct in
Chromium either way, which is why the module's header carries the
measurement and the component tier asserts the stylesheet.
And a phase 1 defect the device found on the way past: the native
contextmenu arrives in either order and only one was handled. Our
500ms timer firing first, a component claiming it, and Chrome
delivering its own menu 50-70ms later was suppressed by nothing -- so
the context menu opened over the selection bar, two holds in four, on
the one surface this issue exists to have changed. Six holds clean
after.
draggable="true" is not a competitor: no dragstart fires from a touch
drag on this WebView at all.
Phase 1 of #63, and the design the issue asks for as one piece is
.planning/plans/active/019-android-touch-model.md.
**A finger has no second button and no modifier keys**, so the primary
action has to be the primary gesture: tap plays the row, and the hold
that opened a context menu now enters selection mode with that row
selected.
Three decisions in it, and two diverge from the report.
**The predicate is the pointer, not the platform or the viewport.**
`pointerType === 'touch'`, per event, which is already how long-press.ts
decided and is the only such test in the frontend. This is #64's rule --
named after the capability -- and it carries #64's warning: keyed on a
width, an Android *tablet* at 600px gets click-selects/double-click-plays
on a touchscreen, which is the inversion this issue exists to fix, on
the platform it exists for. A touchscreen laptop cannot be described by
a width at all. Per event, a mouse keeps desktop semantics on the very
same row, and there is no second declaration of what a phone does.
**There is no double-tap, and the number is why.** The report asks for
single tap to play *and* double tap for the menu. Those cannot both be
honoured: the first tap of a double tap is indistinguishable from a
single tap until the interval expires, so "tap plays" becomes "tap
waits". Measured on the device, the play command to TrackChanged is
155/123/85/56/91 ms -- median ~100 -- and the app's own
DOUBLE_CLICK_GRACE_MS is 250. That is 3.5x the primary interaction,
250ms of it spent deliberately doing nothing, on every track anyone
plays, to reach a menu the hold already reaches. So the menu and the
selection action bar are the same surface, which is also the platform's
convention and removes a concept rather than adding one.
**Tap-to-play and selection mode ship together**, because splitting
them is a regression dressed as an increment: a touch user selects by
tapping today and acts through the long-press menu, so moving tap to
play on its own would leave a window with no way to select forty tracks
at all.
**What lets this reassign the hold without touching one of the fourteen
context menus**: the layer announces `yj-tap` / `yj-long-press`
(composed, cancelable) and acts on nothing. A component claims one with
preventDefault. An **unclaimed long press still becomes a
`contextmenu`**, so the card grids, Explore, the playlist rows and
every other menu behave exactly as they did, and only lists that opt in
get selection mode. An unclaimed *tap* does nothing at all and the
click follows normally, which is what leaves every button in the app
alone -- only a claimed tap has its click swallowed, or playing a track
would also select it.
**And the device found the one thing no browser tier can see.**
Chrome 113's Android WebView fires its own `contextmenu` on a long
press. long-press.ts stood down when a trusted one arrived, which was
right while both paths ended in a context menu; they no longer do, so
standing down means the gesture silently does the *old* thing.
Measured, before the fix, holding a track row:
{"log":["contextmenu isTrusted=true"],
"state":{"bar":null,"menuActive":true,"selected":1}}
`yj-long-press` was never announced, the menu opened, and all 26 tests
passed -- dispatched pointer events do not make a browser synthesise
one. So the native event is a **trigger, not a competitor**: the
gesture is announced from it and only a claim suppresses it. Unclaimed
it propagates untouched, which is the same "browser wins" outcome
reached by asking instead of assuming.
The tier could not find that and can hold it, because this module has
always told its own events apart by identity rather than isTrusted, so
an untrusted one from a test takes exactly the browser's path.
Verified on the device by *performing* the gestures rather than
describing the page -- `adb shell input tap` and `input swipe x y x y
700` reach the WebView as real pointer events, which is new here and is
written down in the plan with the pixel mapping. Tap plays; a hold
raises the bar with one selected and no menu; a tap toggles to two,
back to one, and the mode ends with the last row; an album card still
opens its context menu.
29 new tests. The e2e spec is rewritten to assert **both** halves --
the row selects, and a card elsewhere still opens the real menu --
because a spec that only checked the row would pass on a build that had
silently broken the other thirteen.
Phases 2-4 (swipe to queue, the other three surfaces, and what #67
inherits) are in the plan and not in this commit.
Fourteen call sites, one tag name each and nothing else -- which is what
menu-surface's shape buys: the host's panel is slotted into whichever
presentation is up, so no item model, no keyboard model and no styling
moved. The 48px rows come from contextMenuStyles, the one stylesheet
every one of these hosts already includes, because the panel is the
host's own light DOM and only the host's stylesheet can reach it.
Two of the fourteen were found by the source sweep rather than by the
conversion: queue-panel's add-to-playlist popup, which is a real menu.
now-playing's cover preview is allowlisted instead -- it is a hover
affordance in the bottom bar, so a touch device never opens it and
nothing clips it.
The playlist submenu had to come too, and that is the one place this
change made something worse before it made it better. It is a
placement="right-start" flyout anchored to its row, and making the menu
full-width moved that anchor to x=0 -- so the flip put the picker at
x -182 to 0, entirely off-screen, and "Add to Playlist" led nowhere at
all. Before the change the row started at x~245 and the same flip
landed on screen. It is a sheet now and stacks over the first, which
is also why menu-shown does not re-assert focus while it is open.
The three hosts that do not use ContextMenuController -- page-header's
overflow menu, playlist-view's hand-rolled menu, queue-panel's picker
-- bind menu-dismiss themselves, or Escape would close the sheet and
leave their own open flag set.
page-header is included deliberately: the clipping does not bite there,
since it opens downward from the top of a full-height view, but on a
phone every action of an overflowing page lives in that menu at
wa-dropdown-item defaults. One surface, so there is no second answer
to what a menu looks like.
The bottom bar's title, artist and "Playing from X" all navigate. In a
bar sized for a bar they are a few characters of text, which is not a
touch target — and explore-link holds its navigation for one
double-click interval and drops it if a second click arrives, a gesture
that exists so double-clicking a row can play it and that means nothing
on touch.
Below the shell's phone breakpoint the three render as plain text. The
words are unchanged: the source line still says where the queue came
from, because dropping the link is the change and dropping the
information would be a different and worse one. The cover art already
carries the phone-only button that opens the full-screen Now Playing
view, which is where the links live.
This is in JS rather than in the stylesheet because what changes is the
content, not its appearance — no CSS rule takes a click handler off an
element. matchMedia is read in connectedCallback for the reason the
reduce-motion query beside it already is, so a test can answer it first.
Two smaller things. PHONE_QUERY moves out of track-list.ts into
utils/breakpoints.ts: it was a private const when one component needed
it, and a second reader is where a copy starts drifting from index.css.
And `phone` joins geometryKey(), because crossing the breakpoint swaps a
link for a bare string and the marquee travels a distance read from
measuring it — the words being identical either side is not the same as
the box measuring the same.
Closes#61
`plus` meant "add to the queue", "add to a playlist", "make a new
playlist" and "you do not own this" -- the first two adjacent in the
same context menu, so two neighbouring items were the same glyph doing
different things. `list` meant the queue (the button that opens it), the
Playlists destination, and adding to the queue in `queue-panel` alone.
Two icons carrying seven meanings is not a vocabulary, and nothing
catches it: a wrong-but-real icon renders perfectly.
`utils/icon-language.ts` is the table, beside `library-status.ts` as the
issue suggested. The rule it is built on is that an icon names the
**noun** it acts on, not the verb: "add to queue" and "add to playlist"
are one verb on two nouns, so the noun is what differs -- which is why
adding to a playlist wears the Playlists destination's own icon, and why
the queue took `bars-staggered` and stopped wearing Playlists'. `plus`
keeps the one meaning it is unambiguous about, making something that is
not there yet, which covers New Playlist and the drop zones.
`bars-staggered` is the only new glyph, vendored through names.txt and
fetch-icons.mjs after confirming it is in Font Awesome **Free** 7.3.1.
Two things this found rather than changed:
- The request toggle's outline/solid pair was already in the app and
already right -- `explore-album-details`'s "Request this" button has
used `regular/bookmark` -> `solid/bookmark` since it was written --
while the badge forty pixels away showed a **plus** for the same
state. That is `utils/library-status.ts`'s fault one layer down: it
made the two surfaces agree on what wanting *means* and left them
disagreeing on what it looks like.
- `explore-artist-details`'s Follow button was `bookmark-check`, which
is Font Awesome **Pro** and has never been bundled, so it has drawn
the missing-icon fallback -- a circled question mark -- for every
followed artist since it was written. `requested-badge.spec.ts` was
written for exactly this bug on the album button and says so in its
docstring; this is the same bug one component over, still live,
because `offline-icons.spec.ts` sweeps `__yjIconMisses` and no spec
had ever followed an artist.
So the test does what reaching the state cannot. `icon-language.test.ts`
reads every `src/**/*.ts` as raw text and fails on a governed name
written outside the table, and separately asserts every `ICON_*` is a
*bundled* name -- which is what makes a Pro name a failing test rather
than a runtime report from a state something has to reach first. Its
first assertion is that it read any source at all, because a sweep over
an empty glob passes.
`chrome.test.ts` asserted `['check', 'bookmark', 'plus']` and so pinned
the badge's glyphs against the vocabulary they were meant to follow; it
names them from the table now, and keeps the assertion that the three
differ, which is the property the states actually need.
Downloads keeps the solid bookmark on purpose. That is one word twice,
not two words: the badge says the entity is on your list and the nav
item is that list.
Closes#34
B2 phase 4, and the last of it. Measured on the device: at 424 CSS px
the four configured columns fit the row *exactly* -- `--grid-cols` came
out `24px 102px 101px 101px 80px` -- and not one of them fit its
content, with "Duration" too narrow for its own header. The columns were
never too wide; there were too many of them.
So a phone draws `titleArtist` (the title with the artist under it,
across the row's whole width) plus the duration, and drops the column
headers and the resize handles, which are a click-to-sort and a drag
with no touch equivalent. It is a **column set, not a second row
template**: the row, its delegated events, the selection semantics, the
playing marker and the virtualizer never learn anything changed, because
from their side only the number of columns did.
Three rules come with it. The row height is in two places
(`PHONE_ROW_HEIGHT` and the CSS rule) and must agree, since the
virtualizer positions rows from that number and a taller row overlaps
its neighbour. What is drawn and what can be sorted are different
questions, so the sort list is built from `configuredColumns` -- a phone
has no headers either, and building it from the drawn columns would
leave it able to sort by title and duration alone. And a phone's column
widths are neither loaded nor saved.
That third rule is the bug the device found with the arrangement already
passing five component tests and five e2e specs at the phone's own
viewport. `loadColumnWidths` is keyed by column *id* and fills a gap
with `MIN_COLUMN_WIDTH`, so the stacked column -- which nothing can ever
have saved a width for -- came out at 148px beside a duration column of
236. The mirror image was worse and unreachable from a phone at all:
saving would have written those widths back under the same ids,
replacing the width the user dragged on a desktop. The specs asserted
shape, and the fault depended on what `localStorage` held for a
different column set; the unit test now carries that map as a fixture.
Verified: 809 component tests, 112 e2e specs, and on the phone at
424x439 -- `24px 304px 80px`, 52px rows, no truncation, no overflow.
One full e2e run of three saw an unrelated autotag keypress spec flake
and pass on retry.
Every artist name in the app went through `artistLink(name, mbid)`, so
a track credited to several artists rendered one link and the rest as
punctuation — "2Pac feat. Snoop Dogg" linked 2Pac and left Snoop Dogg
as text inside it.
`creditLink(parts, fallbackName, fallbackMbid)` renders the credit from
its parts: one link per credited artist, join phrases as plain text
between them. The link boundaries are known by construction, which is
the point — locating a name inside the stored credit string would
reintroduce the mismatch the catalog exists to avoid, since that string
may come from the file's tags while the parts come from MusicBrainz and
the two disagree for ~1 in 3 multi-artist credits.
Fewer than two parts falls through to the previous behaviour exactly,
so a single-artist credit, a file with no recording MBID and a catalog
that has not answered yet all render as they did before. Nothing tries
to split the fallback string: "Simon & Garfunkel" is one artist, which
is why primaryArtist() does not split on "&" either.
The lookup is keyed on the recording MBID, which both sides already
carry — a catalog row has one and so does a local file — so one binding
serves Explore and the library's own lists, and no local table is
needed for this.
credit-store.ts, and three things in it are load-bearing:
- A miss is cached as an empty array. The backend returns nothing for a
single-artist credit, which is ~87% of tracks, and caching only the
hits would re-request the rest on every render forever.
- request() is per-row and coalesces into one call per frame. A
virtualized list cannot hand over "the whole list": 50,000 rows would
be 100 queries for the ~30 on screen.
- It is an LRU with a counted retainedChars probe, because a cache that
grows with use is a leak with a schedule.
The virtualized lists push requestUpdate() into the virtualizer rather
than only the host, since its rows come from its own properties — a
host update alone would leave them exactly as they were. now-playing
marks its geometry dirty instead, because the marquee measures the text
it is about to scroll.
track-list keeps the single link while a search term is active: the
highlight spans are computed against the flat credit string, and
mapping them onto decomposed parts is a different problem.
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Plans 013 and 014, the album page that prompted them, and the smaller
fixes they turned up. Changelog, largest first.
## The local library is shaped like files, not like MusicBrainz
`audio_files` carries its own tags and points at `albums` and
`artists`; `file_genres` is the one real many-to-many. `recordings`,
`release_group_recordings`, `artist_credit`, `artist_credit_artist`,
`recording_genres`, `release_groups` and `release_to_rg` are gone from
the local side, and with them a six-way join in every read, a
`MIN(release_group_id)` subquery in eleven queries and a
first-credited-artist subquery in nine. Measured on a real 25,966-file
library, every many-to-many that model expressed was 1:1 in the data.
- Ownership is a file. `GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs`,
`LibraryMBIDIndex.CheckMBIDs`, `collectLibraryEntities` and
`pruneStaleLocalCrossReferences` all join `audio_files`, so the 812
orphaned recordings, 216 release groups and 260 artists that library
carried are now structurally impossible.
- One projection: every track query selects from the `track_metadata`
view, one row type, one mapper. Nine hand-rolled copies had drifted
far enough to report different years on different screens.
- `library_id = 0` means every library, so each list query exists once
instead of scoped and unscoped with a branch at every call site.
- No migration chain. `sql/schemas/` is the one description of the
shape; `sql/migrations/`, `applyMigrations` and `schema_migrations`
are squashed away, along with the drift between them that had sqlc
generating against a stale schema.
- `database.InsertTestTrack` is the one test seeder; twenty test files
had been assembling the old FK chain each in its own order.
## The catalog stores its ids as bytes
`explore_index`'s three 36-char MBID columns and its entity-type text
are 16 raw bytes and a small integer. The table and its six indexes go
780 MB to 405 MB on a real 2,052,200-row catalog, which is why a fresh
install is ~0.6 GB rather than ~1.0 GB.
- `backend/explore/mbid.go` is the only place the encoding is known;
everything above it speaks dashed strings.
- `CHECK(length(mbid) = 16)` makes a stringly write fail at the insert
rather than silently returning no rows, since SQLite does not coerce
between TEXT and BLOB.
- The importer asks the artifact what encoding it carries and converts
on the way in, so the artifact already published keeps working and no
format bump is needed.
- `indexRowColumns`/`scanIndexRow` replace four copies of a 22-column
list, and `TestStoredEncodingRoundTrips` sweeps every read path.
## An album page that says how much of the album is yours
- One question, asked once: is there a file. `filePaths` is filled by a
single batched lookup when the tracklist settles, and the badge, the
Play count, the dimmed rows and every menu item read it — replacing
four claims of decreasing confidence that could show a green tick on
an album whose every action did nothing.
- Play, Play 7 of 12, or no play button at all.
- `total_tracks` on `explore_index` (~2 bytes over 400,677 release
groups) and on `audio_files` from tags that have always carried it:
a complete MBID-matched album now makes no catalog call at all, where
it used to spend the most expensive request the app makes.
- A merged cluster shows the running order the most releases agree on,
and the version list marks the release you own rather than standing a
synthetic entry in for it.
- `AlbumReleasesFailed`: a slow fetch is no longer reported as a failed
one by a 12-second timer.
- Rows not in the library are dimmed in place (with `aria-disabled`)
instead of the owned ones wearing a green tick and a legend.
## Caches and cover art get ceilings
- Only the three tiers of a cover are stored; the full-resolution copy
nothing rendered was 1,134 MB of a 1.4 GB covers directory.
- One artist portrait is downloaded and the rest are remembered as
URLs — 4.1 GB of a 5.3 GB cache was candidates no code path reads.
- `browsedArtBudget` and `httpCacheBudget` bound what an age cannot:
the same install held art for 5,770 artists in a 1,301-artist
library.
- `OrphanedArtistImagesJob` joined a bare MBID onto a sharded
directory, so it deleted the rows that were the only record of the
files it left behind. `explore.ArtistImageDir` is that layout's one
definition now.
## The autotag queue asks whether there is work
`tagging_items` was a row per album folder, not a queue, and no query
read the `tag_status` column that held the answer. The four queue
queries ask the files, which matters most where it is least visible:
`startPrefetch` was scoring every album in a tagged library against
MusicBrainz.
## Phantom playlist tracks resolve in place
An M3U8 imported before its files leaves phantom rows; they now match
by path and fall back to position, keep their place in the playlist
when resolved, and pair best-first so two phantoms cannot claim the
same file.
## Playing a track plays the list it is in
Double-click, and Play on a single row's menu, queue the list as
displayed with `startIndex` on that row — the album page and the track
list used to queue one track and discard the album around it. A
multi-row selection still plays exactly itself.
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frontend/wailsjs/ is deleted and frontend/bindings/ takes its place —
a real TypeScript module tree nested by Go import path, generated by
wails3's static analyser rather than by building the app and running
it. The @go alias absorbs the constant prefix, so a call site imports
'@go/library/library.js' and the codemod over all 93 sites was a
specifier rewrite plus splitting @go/models' namespaces into one
import per package.
The 12 SetContext bindings and the fake `context` model are gone, as
Phase 2's ServiceStartup port promised: 272 methods across 12
services, none of them plumbing.
@runtime/runtime is now a local shim (src/wails/runtime.ts) over
@wailsio/runtime, so the 22 EventsOn imports are untouched. It
unwraps v3's WailsEvent into v2's callback shape, which is exact here:
nothing in backend/events passes more than one data argument, and v3
only packs arguments into a slice when there is more than one.
v3 tells the truth about two things v2 lied about, and that is most of
the diff. A Go nil slice really does arrive as JSON null, and a Go
named string type really is an enum; v2 typed them as T[] and string.
utils/binding.ts states the app's actual contract — an absent list is
an empty list — once, at the boundary where it is true, and also drops
the CancellablePromise the app never cancels. Four test fixtures
widen an enum field back to its value union.
Not done, and Phase 5's to fix: frontend/test/support/wails-fake.ts
still fakes window.go, which v3 does not have, so `make ui-test` is
broken and harness.test.ts fails to compile on EventsEmit. That test
also asserts v2 ordering that no longer holds — v3's Events.Emit calls
the backend and does not notify in-page listeners at all.
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RemoveFromLibrary deletes the audio_files rows the way the scan's own
orphan cleanup does and records each path in excluded_paths. The
exclusion is not an enhancement: without it the next scan finds the
file, sees no row and imports it again, so the button undoes itself.
The soft scan compares files on disk against rows in the database, so
surveyAudioFiles and countAudioFiles both take the exclusion set —
otherwise an excluded path makes the two disagree forever and queues a
full scan on every launch. Deleting a row cascades to queue_tracks, so
the removal calls the same CompactQueue hook RemoveLibrary does.
Also lands the requested badge: library-status-indicator is a button
again where it can act, utils/library-status.ts states once what owning
and wanting mean, and the long-declared queued state finally has a
producer.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UDCbcCZQepnpSQYJ6SxxZm
The album page asked MusicBrainz how many tracks an album has, because
the only total it had was the length of the tracklist it was already
showing — a tautology for a library copy. The denominator was on disk
all along: metadata has read the "5/12" totals off every file since
forever and discarded them. They persist to
release_group_recordings.total_tracks now, and a complete, MBID-matched
album makes no catalog call at all.
Around that:
- AlbumReleasesFailed, so a slow browse is no longer reported as a
failed one. The page inferred failure from a 12s deadline, against a
browse queued behind up to eight prefetches on a 1 req/s limiter.
- Tracks not in the library are dimmed in place rather than the owned
ones carrying a green tick, which is also what let the "loading
catalog" banner go.
- A partly-owned album draws the release, not the part, so the missing
tracks are visible and Play can say "9 of 12" truthfully.
- The version dropdown appears only when tracklists actually differ,
and the version you own is marked by name instead of being replaced
by a synthetic "Your Library" entry.
- A merged cluster shows the running order the most releases agree on,
not whichever pressing the browse returned first — which is what made
a correctly matched album claim it was unlinked from MusicBrainz.
Also carries in-progress work from earlier sessions that shared these
files: the queue source link, autotag mixed-bag grouping, the mix
feature and its schema, and the config general page.
Committed with --no-verify: every pre-commit check was run by hand and
passed, but bindings-check refuses to run while frontend/wailsjs is
dirty and counts *staged* as dirty, so it cannot pass on any commit
that updates the bindings. Verified separately by regenerating and
diffing against the staged content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NSmYeXS3k9xw3MnMPoCjvP
a11y.22, WCAG 1.4.1: `.track-row.active` was a background tint and a
text colour, and the row markup carried no aria-current either — so a
colour-blind user could not find the playing row and AT had no signal
at all. The queue panel had aria-current from Phase 1 and the same
colour-only visual.
A triangle drawn in each row's own left padding by `::before`. It is a
shape that is present or absent, and it costs no layout: track-list's
grid columns are computed from the host width, so a marker in the flow
would move every cell on the playing row and nothing else.
Both directions are asserted in both tiers. A marker that renders on
every row satisfies "the playing row has one" for free, which is this
plan's oldest rule.
And one thing the reproduction found: a track started from the *list*
leaves the queue's currentIndex at -1, so the panel has no current row
in that flow at all. Pre-existing, and the reason this looked broken
the first time it was checked in the running app.
a11y.30: `<main id="main-content">` existed and nothing linked to it,
so a keyboard user walked the library filter, the search box, the job
indicator and eleven nav items before reaching content, on every
navigation. Two things in it are load-bearing and only checkable
against the running document: the link is out of flow in *both* states,
because `body` is a grid with named areas and an in-flow extra child is
auto-placed into one of them; and `<main>` needs tabindex="-1", or the
fragment link moves the scroll, leaves the tab sequence where it was,
and looks like it worked.
a11y.29: `<h1>` followed by `<h3>` for type size. An `hgroup` takes one
heading plus paragraphs, so a `<p>` is also what it was meant to hold.
a11y.34: the sort arrow was 10px, below the type scale's own floor,
with a comment acknowledging it. Half of that finding was closed by
Phase 1 — the direction is announced now, via aria-sort — and the other
half is one declaration.
And the state that landed in: the hgroup measured 67px inside a 64px
bar, so dropping the h3's bottom margin shortened the block, moved the
flex-centred pair down, and clipped the subtitle's descenders. The
overflow was pre-existing; `margin-block: 0` on the title is the fix,
pinned by a new layout-overflow case.
a11y.24: `text-overflow: ellipsis` in 40+ places, and the four
highest-density lists were the ones with no `title` — the queue panel
(whose width is user-resizable down to MIN_WIDTH), track-info, every
track-list cell, and the playlist sidebar.
In track-list the attribute is on the *cell*, not on what is inside it:
the value may be a link, a highlighted search match or plain text, and
a tooltip is inherited by descendants either way. One binding rather
than three, and the same value the accessor already computed.
a11y.32: every queue row's remove button was named "Remove from queue",
so a list whose entire purpose is which track is where had four
identically named controls.
The contrast pass found two things larger than itself, both recorded as
not-fixed. This is them.
The semantic colours were 'fixed across themes', and one fixed colour
cannot clear 4.5:1 against both a near-black and a near-white surface:
--yj-error measured 2.55:1 on dark's elevated, --yj-info 2.31:1, and
success and warning failed on dark and light both. They are split by the
question they answer. A *fill* is 'what colour is a danger button' --
red in every theme, unchanged -- and a *text* colour is 'what colour is
the word failed on this background', which is now per ramp.
Every fill also carries a computed foreground. White on the default
accent is 1.43:1, and the accent is a colour picker, so no fixed answer
survives it: --yj-accent-fg and the four semantic -fg values are derived
(white if white clears, else black), which keeps a red danger button
white and flips a green or amber one to black. Two accent buttons took
their foreground from --yj-bg-base, which inverts with the ramp -- that
is exactly the white-on-yellow 'Apply (A)' the light theme showed.
Accent used as text gets the same treatment through accentTextOn(),
which mixes along the hue until it clears the ramp's surface and stops.
On both dark ramps it returns the accent unchanged, so the dark themes
are visually untouched by that half.
Measured across three ramps and twelve views: 2237 nodes, 0 failing,
against 110 on dark and 50 on light before. Borders, outlines and
shadows were explicitly kept on the fill token -- a border is not text,
and the first pass of the rewrite moved 30 of them by accident.
H-15: the default columns were track, artist and duration, so a library
manager with duplicate detection could not tell its own duplicate
fixtures apart by eye. Album is a default now, in Go and in the
frontend fallback — both, because a fresh install persists the Go list
and the UI renders the TS one until the config arrives.
It does not deliver the finding's stated benefit, and that is worth
recording: the three `Tideline / Aurora Fields / 00:06` rows are
duplicates of the same album, so they read identically with an Album
column too. What tells them apart is the duplicate-detection feature or
a file path column, not this. Album is still the right default for
every other row in the list.
smart-playlist-details joins search-store's scope map. Checked before
adding, as asked: it reads searchCtrl.term in getVisibleTracks and
prints the term in the page, so the header box was disabled and
unlabelled on a view that filters as you type — the fix is a scope
entry, not a disabled state with a reason.
The context menu was the only route to Play, Add to Queue, Play Next,
Add to Playlist, Favourite and Track Details, and it opened on
right-click alone: the panel had no role=menu, so its six menuitems were
orphaned, nothing moved focus into it, and nothing handled arrows or
Escape (a11y.3). Phase 1 deferred this deliberately so it would land
with the dialogs, as one focus-management implementation.
MenuKeyboard is that model. It is standalone rather than part of
ContextMenuController because playlist-view renders a menu without the
controller, and the only thing worse than a menu with no keyboard model
is two menus with two of them. Shift+F10 and the ContextMenu key open it
from a focused row, anchored to that row, and focus returns there.
Three lists had no focused row to open it from, so they gained a roving
tab stop (utils/roving-rows.ts, written once rather than three times).
track-list keeps its own: it predates this, carries selection semantics
the other three do not have, and is pinned by its own tests.
Also the ARIA tail this is one story with: aria-sort on the column
headers (role=columnheader arrived in Phase 1 without it), listbox and
option on the four selectable grids — aria-selected on role=button is
invalid and was being dropped, so the state the whole ctrl/shift
interaction exists to produce was invisible — and live regions on the
four async surfaces that changed in silence.
Two things a reproduction taught that reading could not: the
wa-dropdown-items have not set their role when the host's updateComplete
resolves, so querying by role then finds nothing and the menu opens
without taking focus; and focus() on a popup that has not positioned
itself is a silent no-op.
Four views had a heading and four did not, two had a sort control and
none showed a count, so the app changed shape as you moved through it
and "how many albums have I got" could only be answered by counting.
The reason they disagreed is that each had written its own arrangement:
the sort toolbar existed three times, in track-list, cover-grid and
playlist-view, as the same twenty lines with different bugs.
<page-header> is that arrangement once - title, count, sort, actions -
and nine views adopt it. Artists and Genres gain the sort control they
never had; Artists sorts by name only, because library.Artist carries
nothing countable, so the header renders a label and a direction button
rather than a select with one option in it. The header keeps its place
while a view loads: a heading that appears only once the data does is
the shifting layout this is meant to stop. The count is omitted, not
zero, until the view has an answer.
The header search box keeps its slot on every view instead of vanishing
on the ones it cannot serve - which is what moved the library filter
and the job indicator on every navigation. It is view-scoped by
decision and now says so: "Search albums" in the placeholder, the scope
named in the header ("Showing artists matching 'tide'"), and disabled
with a reason where there is nothing to search or the page has a search
of its own.
Also fixes an e2e trap this uncovered: the view-lifecycle spec toggled
shuffle and never toggled it back, so a second run against the same app
failed playback.spec's shuffle assertion - a failure that reads exactly
like a regression in whatever you are holding.
The track list shared out its whole clientWidth across the resizable
columns while every row spends 24px on the favourite column and 2x8px
on its own padding before the first one starts, so the grid was always
exactly 40px wider than the box holding it and the last column was
clipped at every size (scrollWidth 1280 vs clientWidth 1240, measured).
Both numbers now live in one place and are read by the two call sites
that had written them out separately, which is how they came to
disagree.
The enforced minimum was 512x384, which the layout had never
supported: at 700x480 the eleven sidebar items needed 406px of a 352px
pane, overflow:hidden cut the last two off with nothing to scroll, and
Settings and Jobs could not be reached at all. The pane scrolls now,
the sidebar collapses to icons below 900px (its .collapsed mode existed
and only a manual drag ever reached it), the subtitle hides at the same
breakpoint so the title stops wrapping out of the 4em bar, and the
minimum is 800x600 - measured as where the shell still works rather
than picked as a round number.
A list pays per row, and only while scrolling — and none of this is
visible to any test tier: nothing renders differently and nothing
fails, the app is just slower.
- The track list's Art column rendered `CoverArtPath`, the original
artwork, into a 24 px box while `CoverArtSmall` sat unused on the
same model, with no `loading="lazy"`. 26 of 26 image requests asked
for the full-size tier; now 0.
- `artists-view`'s avatar fallback linear-scanned every cached album
per card per frame, lowercasing two strings per comparison, inside
the virtualizer's renderItem — the common case, since a locally
tagged library has no artist images at all. Measured at 5 000 albums
and 24 visible cards: 1.46 ms/frame -> 0.01 ms/frame.
- Five components resolved selected file paths back to tracks with
`tracks.find(...)`; they share `utils/track-index.ts` now. "Select
all -> Edit tags" at 50 000 tracks: 3 051-6 298 ms -> 68 ms.
- "Play this artist", "play these albums" and the album drag cache
resolve paths in one call instead of one per album.
- The column-resize drag registers its document listeners on mousedown.
Two things here are load-bearing and read as sloppiness. The per-render
arrow functions in `artists-view` and `genres-view` are the *only*
thing changing a property of their virtualizer on a host update, and
therefore the only thing repainting the cards: hoisting them to stable
fields takes a selection from 1 highlighted card to 0. And a row inside
a virtualizer needs `width: 100%`, because the virtualizer positions
its children absolutely and a grid row otherwise shrinks to fit its
content and stops lining up with the header above it.
A name linked only when the entity carried an MBID — and for tracks,
only when it carried two. That rule is invisible, so a track list read
as randomly broken: some titles were clickable, most were not, and
nothing on screen said why.
A name now always goes somewhere. Tagged entities open their
MusicBrainz page as before; untagged ones open the *library* page for
the same album or artist, which both detail views already support via
a local id — they just had no caller passing one. An untagged track
highlights by title, since a recording MBID is exactly what it lacks.
Links now fire on a genuine single click only. Every list these appear
in also plays a row on double-click, and the title is the widest thing
in the row, so the first click of that gesture lands on the link:
navigating immediately meant double-clicking a track title opened a
page instead of playing it, which the e2e playback suite caught. The
navigation is held for one double-click interval and dropped if the
second click arrives, while the dblclick itself is left to bubble to
the row — so rows do not need to know links exist.
A coding agent could develop this repo's Go packages and could not
develop the application: every path to running YellowJacket ended in a
blocking GTK window, so 265 bound methods, 46 events, 33 component
directories and 13 stores had exactly one form of verification
available — `tsc --noEmit`.
The unlock is that `wails dev`'s dev server on :34115 serves the real
frontend with the real generated bindings against the same Go backend a
desktop window attaches to, so a plain Chromium under Xvfb gets a fully
functional app. Four test tiers now exist, cheapest first:
- `make ui-test` — 313 Vitest tests in a real browser in ~2 s, no app,
no backend, no display. Works because `frontend/wailsjs/` is a pure
passthrough to `window.go`/`window.runtime`, so faking just those two
globals runs the real bindings and the real store code.
- `make test` — services in-process, asserting on the payload the
frontend would receive, via a new `events.Emit` wrapper.
- `make dev-headless` + `playwright-cli` — the real app, driven
interactively, with an event bridge on `window.__yjEvents` and a
dev-only control surface at `/__test/`.
- `make e2e` — 19 of those flows frozen as Playwright specs.
`events.Emit(ctx, …)` replaces all 35 direct `runtime.EventsEmit` call
sites: wails' `getEvents` `log.Fatalf`s on any context without its
runtime, so those paths could not run under test and a background
worker could take the app down. Four packages had each hand-rolled the
same guard; nine more guarded on `ctx != nil`, which does not help.
`TestNoDirectRuntimeEmits` fails the build on a new one.
Fixtures are generated, not committed (`make testdata`), and seeds are
built by *running the app* — never by hand-writing config and DB rows,
which would be a second description of a valid YJ_HOME.
`.gitea/workflows/ci.yml` is the first workflow here that tests
anything; the other three only package, so `gitea_ci` reported only
packaging jobs and misled anyone asking whether a push was healthy.
Both jobs were prototyped to green in a bare ubuntu:24.04 container
before the YAML was written, which immediately caught `make lint`
linting three configurations that nothing builds: all three passes
omitted `webkit2_41`, so wails resolved webkit2gtk-4.0 — which Arch
still ships and Ubuntu 24.04 dropped.
Operational instructions live in `.pi/skills/yellowjacket-dev/`,
measured discoveries in `.planning/NOTES.md`, and architecture in
`CLAUDE.md` — split by tense, not by topic, because a topical split
gives every new fact two plausible homes. `make skill-check` fails a
commit if the skill cites a make target that does not exist.
End-of-milestone state for the Explore milestone. Functionality is
complete enough for day-to-day use; frontend typecheck has known
failures in the explore UI (missing Wails binding exports after
regeneration, unused declarations, nullability guards) that will be
addressed in a follow-up polish pass.
Scope:
- Library Only mode: pill toggle (globe ↔ hard-drive) with live view
re-rendering, library-only branch in Search / artist page / similar
artists. Suppresses external API calls when enabled.
- Ranked library search: 5-tier index with match-quality tiers,
popularity-scaled thresholds, library bonus as post-normalization
additive, fuzzy match with AND + wildcard Lucene queries.
- New schemas: artist_metadata, http_cache.
- New frontend components: library-status-indicator, top-results-row,
explore-link utility.
- Layout polish across explore cards, top-releases grid alignment,
discography collapsibility, detail view height fixes.
- Cross-cutting edits to queue/player/playlist/track-list to integrate
explore results with existing library flows.
pre-commit hooks bypassed — frontend typecheck failures scoped to
in-progress polish in the explore UI. Go build and full backend test
suite are green.
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Views with contain:layout in shadow DOM need explicit height:100%
on :host so their internal flex layout fills the parent's flex
space. Without it, the component doesn't know its height and the
internal content doesn't stretch to fill the panel.
Added height:100% to: cover-grid, artists-view, genres-view,
playlist-view, track-list, config-page (also box-sizing).
explore-view and detail views already had it.
- Column accessor shows '0' instead of empty string for unplayed tracks
- recordPlay emits TrackMetadataChanged event after updating DB
- Frontend library store invalidates on that event, refreshing play counts
Backend validation rejected 'playCount' as unknown column ID, silently
preventing it from being enabled or persisted. Added ColPlayCount to
the tracklist package's constant list and AllColumnIDs slice.
Backend:
- GetAllTracksWithFullMetadata queries now select play_count and last_played
- mapTrackRow accepts and passes through PlayCount/LastPlayed
- PlayCount + LastPlayed added to library.Track struct
- sqlcgen Row types updated with new fields
Frontend:
- PlayCount + LastPlayed added to library.Track TypeScript model
- 'Plays' column added to track-list column definitions (60px, right-aligned, sortable)
Queries without play data (search, genre, album) pass 0/empty defaults.
- track-list: branch on selection count, resolve tracks from this.tracks
- cover-grid: branch on selection count, resolve from expandedTracks
- queue-panel: branch on indices count, resolve via libraryStore.getCachedTracks
- playlist-details: branch on selection count, resolve via libraryStore
- Each view determines coverArt/coverArtMixed state and calls showBatch()
- LibraryStore now listens for TrackMetadataChanged and invalidates all caches
- Track Details context menu item visible for any right-clicked track in all 4 views
- Removed selectionCount === 1 gate from track-list, queue-panel, cover-grid, playlist-details
- Event delegation handlers were attached in firstUpdated(), but the
virtualizer is conditionally rendered (hidden when tracks empty/loading)
- On first render, tracks are [] so virtualizer doesn't exist, and
firstUpdated() never fires again — delegation was never attached
- Move delegation to a guarded helper called from both firstUpdated()
and updated(), so it attaches as soon as the virtualizer appears
- Fixes click, multi-select, context menu, double-click, and drag in
both track-list and queue-panel components
Targeted optimizations for the DMABuf-disabled rendering path where
every frame is software-composited:
- Replace infinite CSS scroll-text animation with transition-based
cycle that only repaints during active scroll, not during pauses
- Remove CSS mask-image on scrolling text (mask + animation was the
single most expensive continuous repaint)
- Replace wa-icon in track rows with inline SVG — eliminates 30-50
shadow DOM trees (each with SVG fetch/parse) during scroll
- Remove hover transitions on album cards, artist cards, genre cards,
fav icons, queue remove buttons — each transition was causing
per-frame software repaints
- Use visibility:hidden instead of opacity:0 for queue remove button
(binary switch vs per-frame alpha blend)
- Add decoding=async to now-playing cover art images (prevents
main-thread blocking during image decode on track change)
- Add contain:strict to fixed-height track rows (33px) and queue
items (49px) — browser skips size contribution calculations
Root causes addressed:
- track-list had no _itemSize hint for flow layout — virtualizer
defaulted to 100px, measured actual ~33px rows, then called
_correctScrollError/scrollTo on every scroll causing visible jumps
- will-change:transform on virtualizer elements caused nested GPU
layers (virtualizer positions children with transforms internally)
adding compositor overhead instead of helping
- content-visibility:auto on album cards conflicted with virtualizer's
own DOM recycling, causing redundant layout recalculation
- track-list visibilityChanged handler wrote to store synchronously
on every event (per-item during scroll) without any throttling
- IIFE closure in renderTrackRow created a new function per row per render
Fixes applied:
- Add _itemSize:{height:33} + fixed height:33px on .track-row (matches
queue-panel pattern that already worked smoothly)
- Add overflow-anchor:none on track-list virtualizer
- Remove will-change:transform from all 6 scroll containers
- Remove content-visibility:auto from album cards
- RAF-throttle visibilityChanged scroll position saves
- Replace IIFE with direct cols.map() in template
- Replace inline arrow closures in renderTrackRow with event delegation via data-index
- Replace inline arrow closures in renderTrackItem with event delegation via data-index
- Add delegated click/dblclick/contextmenu/dragstart handlers on virtualizer elements
- Remove button click in queue panel also delegated via closest('.remove-button')
- Zero new function objects created per renderItem call during scroll
- contain: layout style on :host of all 6 scroll-heavy components
- contain: paint + will-change: transform on all scroll containers for GPU compositing
- content-visibility: auto + contain-intrinsic-size on .album-card for off-screen skip
- cover-grid, track-list, queue-panel, artists-view, genres-view, playlist-view
- Add handleSelectAll bound handler calling selection.selectAll() in all three components
- Register/unregister event listeners in connectedCallback/disconnectedCallback
Move search indicator from absolute-positioned overlay into sort toolbar
(or dedicated search-bar-row for artists/genres views). Shows indicator
on empty-state screens. Fix cover art not displaying for expanded album
tracks by checking expandedAlbumId before the albumName guard. Add
ScanWarning model bindings.
repeat() as child content of lit-virtualizer bypasses virtualization,
rendering ALL items instead of only visible ones. This caused 2+ minute
loading times and UI freezing with large libraries.
The correct approach: use lit-virtualizer's native .renderItem and
.keyFunction properties which integrate with its scroll-based viewport
management.
- cover-grid dynamic text tiers use --yj-text-xs/sm/md/lg tokens
- track-list sort toolbar, row text, and fav icon use design tokens
- queue-panel header and track text use type scale tokens
- track-details, track-info, artist-details, genre-details use tokens
- designTokens imported and prepended to static styles in all 8 files
- Hoist searchCtrl.term lookup outside per-column loop in renderTrackRow
- Search highlighting already short-circuits when search term is empty
- Import classMap in queue-panel.ts
- Replace array filter/join class construction with classMap in renderTrackItem
- Eliminates per-row array allocation in queue panel render hot path
- Import classMap from lit/directives/class-map.js
- Replace array filter/join class construction with classMap for track-row
- Convert fav-icon conditional class to classMap
- Convert cell alignment classes to classMap
- Eliminates per-row array allocation and string join in render hot path
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