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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfVYUVExXsx1nSWrXN8mAh
Phases 2 and 3 of plan 009, plus the parts of phase 1 that could not
land before them. Nothing in the tree imports wails/v2 any more; all
three lint and test configurations are green and `go build .` produces
a running binary.
The point of the migration is one file. backend/events/emit.go probed
ctx.Value("events") — a v2-*private* context key — to decide whether
emitting was safe, because runtime.EventsEmit called log.Fatalf on a
context without the runtime and took the process down with it. v3's
emit takes no context, so that is now application.Get() == nil. D1
held: events.Emit keeps its ctx as the WithSink test seam, and all 45
call sites and 7 test files are untouched.
The bootstrap splits into application.New + Window.NewWithOptions +
Run. Ten bound services implement ServiceStartup instead of being
handed a context by hand from OnStartup, which also stops ten
SetContext methods being exported as bindings. jobs.Registry and
explore.SearchIndex keep theirs — neither is bound, so converting them
would be churn for no binding removed.
Four things differed from the plan and are written up in it: GPU policy
moved to the per-window LinuxWindow options rather than surviving on
LinuxOptions; there is no OnStartup/OnDomReady option, so app-level
wiring hangs off ApplicationStarted; application.NewService is generic,
so FEBindings []any could not survive (the binding generator is a
static analyser and would have seen nothing); and the quit veto had to
be restructured, because v3's dialog answers on a callback rather than
returning the button, so ShouldQuit vetoes, asks, and quits again from
the callback.
Window state saving moves to a WindowClosing hook — the size has to be
read while the window still exists, and v3's OnShutdown has neither
context nor window. backend/logging is deleted rather than ported:
v3 takes a *slog.Logger directly, so the v2 logger.Logger adapter had
no caller left.
Phase 1's tail rides along, now that it can: the Makefile's wails
invocations, all 50 webkit2_41 sites, lefthook, both packaging recipes
and ci.yml's apt lists. v3 builds against GTK4 + WebKitGTK 6.0, which
Arch and ubuntu:24.04 both ship, so the tag is a deletion rather than
a translation.
Phase 4 is next and the branch is not usable until it lands: the app
builds, but frontend/wailsjs/ is v2's tree and nothing regenerates it,
so the frontend cannot reach the backend yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UDCbcCZQepnpSQYJ6SxxZm
Every write goes through one connection — MaxOpenConns(1), because
SQLite has one writer — and a background pass can hold it for a long
time. The player and the queue wrote inline from paths that hold their
own mutexes, so a contended writer did not merely slow persistence
down: SetQueue blocked in LoadFile's saveState and then in
persistState, while holding q.mu and p.mu.
That is the exact shape of the report: the track changed and the
transport sat at paused, nothing appeared in the queue, and the play
button did nothing because Queue.Play waited on the same held q.mu.
Diagnosed by profiling the running app — 91% of its CPU was
BackfillLibraryDiscographies → upsertBatch, with four of its six
workers parked in sql.(*DB).conn.
Jobs now run in submission order on one goroutine per component, each
carrying its own snapshot. A job must not touch the component's fields
— it holds no lock and the state has moved on — which is why
persistTracks clones. SaveState still flushes and waits, because that
is the one caller for which the row has to exist on return.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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
`recordPlay` emitted `TrackMetadataChanged`, which the frontend
correctly reads as "tags were rewritten" and answers by discarding
every cached collection: measured at 8 binding calls, 71.18 MB across
the IPC and a 765 ms longest task per two track changes at 50 000
tracks — once per song, while clearing the user's selection.
It now emits `TrackPlayCountChanged` with everything needed to patch
the one track in place, read back with `UPDATE ... RETURNING` so the
count cannot drift from the stored one. Measured after: 0 calls, 0 MB,
0 ms.
The seek bar was a setInterval counter reconciled only on track
change: measured 3 s behind during steady playback and 30 s behind
after four keyboard seeks, because the seek shortcut never told it.
And `loadCurrentTrack`/`playCurrentTrack` logged, returned false and
emitted nothing, so double-clicking a moved file did nothing, twice,
forever — while auto-advance onto a bad file stopped playback dead.
- A 1 Hz position ticker while playing, plus an immediate report on
load, play, pause, seek and natural finish. The payload carries a
`trackChangeId` (the store is a singleton, so a bar mounting later
must not adopt a report about the previous track) and a `seq` (the
same second reported twice still has to reset interpolation).
- `PlaybackFailed` from both failure paths, and `playCurrentOrSkip`
steps over tracks that will not load — bounded by the queue length,
so a disconnected drive stops after one pass instead of spinning
through a RepeatAll wrap. `PlayIndex` still reverts: the user picked
that track.
- `SeekFailed` is emitted when the seek itself fails, not only when
nothing is loaded, and is followed by a position report so the
optimistic move is taken back by the mechanism that fixed the drift.
- A queue that simply ran out no longer unloads the player, so the
finished track stays on the bar at 0:00.
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.
Consolidates in-progress work across autotag, explore, and library:
- autotag: beets/Picard-informed scoring engine — ID-first matching, VA
handling, recommendation tiers, and a merged distance/rank cascade, with
an eval harness for regression tracking.
- explore: offline MusicBrainz dump import/incremental refresh replaces the
legacy tier crawl; index-first local search with fuzzy matching and a
dedicated ranker; disk-free guards for dump downloads.
- library: artist-credit extraction and matching.
- lyrics: owned-library lyric search (FTS) with LRCLIB backfill.
Also: rewrite README to be user-focused, and migrate upstream to
git.ljones.me/yonlu/yellowjacket.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
Migration 10:
- play_history table (audio_file_id FK, played_at DATETIME, CASCADE delete)
- play_count + last_played columns on audio_files (denormalized)
- Recreated track_metadata VIEW with play_count and last_played columns
Play recording:
- queue.recordPlay() inserts play_history row + updates denormalized columns
- Called from OnPlaybackFinished after queue advance completes
- Mutex released before DB write to avoid MaxOpenConns(1) deadlock
- Natural finish only — skip/stop does not count
Tests:
- TestMigration10PlayHistory: schema, columns, VIEW, round-trip verification
- All 49 smart playlist + 15 service + existing DB tests still pass
- Add CompactAfterLibraryRemoval on Queue: reloads surviving tracks from DB, resets currentIndex, unloads player if current track was removed, clears shuffle order
- Wire RemovalHooks in app.go OnStartup: StopPlayback → player.UnloadTrack, CompactQueue → queue.CompactAfterLibraryRemoval
- All existing tests pass with no regressions
- Next() rolls back currentIndex and skips emitIndexChanged on load failure
- Previous() applies same pattern to all three branches (RepeatOne, restart, navigate)
- OnPlaybackFinished() rolls back currentIndex on playCurrentTrack failure
- PlayIndex() and playFromStart() also guard against load failures
- RepeatOne paths guard emitIndexChanged with the bool return value
- playCurrentTrack returns false on load failure or play error
- playOrLoadCurrentTrack propagates bool from load/play helpers
- loadCurrentTrack already returned bool — no change needed
- Fix errcheck for db.Close() in testhelper.go
- Fix errcheck, nlreturn, wsl, gofumpt issues in genevents/main.go
- Fix gofumpt and wsl issues in library.go
- Add phase1Meta parameter to resolveRemainingTracks
- Filter out already-resolved paths before lookupTrackMetaBatch call
- Merge Phase 1 results into Phase 2 lookup map
- Pass batchMeta from SetQueue call site to resolveRemainingTracks
- For 1000-track queue with Phase 1 resolving 50, Phase 2 now queries 950 instead of 1000
- Add persistAddTrack/persistAddTracks for O(1) append operations
- Add persistInsertTracks with variable-N position shift for insert-at operations
- Add persistRemoveTrack with single DELETE + position shift
- Wire AddTrack/AddTracks to use incremental INSERT (no full table rewrite)
- Wire InsertNext/InsertNextTracks/InsertTracksAt to use position shift + INSERT
- Wire RemoveTrack to use single DELETE + shift (no full table rewrite)
- RemoveTracks keeps full persistTracks rewrite (bulk operation per design)
- Preserve shuffle order regeneration in all mutation paths
- 7 SAFETY comments in search.go (FTS5 MATCH/INSERT/DELETE operations)
- 3 SAFETY comments in library.go (FTS5 INSERT/DELETE in commitNewAudioFile, updateAudioFileMetadata)
- 1 SAFETY comment in rescan.go (FTS5 DELETE in clearAllLibraryData)
- 1 SAFETY comment in persistence.go (variable-count multi-row INSERT)
- Cross-references link library.go/rescan.go back to search.go
- Two-part format: why sqlc can't handle it + what makes it safe
- Add LookupTrackMetaByPaths sqlc query using track_metadata VIEW with sqlc.slice()
- Replace hand-crafted fmt.Sprintf IN clause in lookupChunk with sqlc-generated call
- Preserve lookupTrackMetaBatch chunking at maxSQLiteVars (900)
- All queue tests pass with -race
- Full roundtrip: SaveState/RestoreState preserves all fields (tracks, index, shuffle, repeat, shuffleOrder)
- Edge cases: empty queue, single track, no prior save state
- Track order: 10-track order preservation verification
- Overwrite: second SaveState replaces first
- 6 tests all passing with -race
- Queue.SetContext acquires existing q.mu before writing q.ctx
- Library struct gets new mu sync.Mutex; SetContext and SetRescanHooks acquire it
- Playlist Service struct gets new mu sync.Mutex; SetContext and SetFavoritesConfig acquire it
- Library and Playlist release lock before calling post-init methods (registerEventHandlers, migrateExistingPlaylists)
Wire up Go's standard profiling toolkit so it's automatically available
in dev builds and completely absent from production. The profiling
package uses build tags (dev/!dev) to eliminate all pprof, trace, and
timing code from release binaries with zero new dependencies.
- backend/profiling: pprof HTTP server on :6060, /debug/trace endpoint,
block/mutex profiling, and TimeOp helper for structured operation timing
- scripts/profile.sh: interactive menu-driven script that auto-selects
free ports (8080-8089) so multiple profiles can be open simultaneously
- Instrumented key operations: app init, database init, player load/restore,
queue set/restore
- Makefile targets: profile, profile-cpu, profile-heap, profile-trace
- .gitignore: exclude trace-*.out and *.pprof artifacts
- Fix 10 err113 violations: extract dynamic errors to package-level sentinels
- Fix 12 errcheck violations: handle unchecked error returns in player,
metadata, and config packages
- Fix 4 revive stutter warnings: rename player.PlayerState to player.State,
player.PlayerVolume to player.Volume, queue.QueueTrack to queue.Track,
queue.QueueState to queue.State
- Fix 2 staticcheck SA4001: simplify *&x to x in assets handler
- Fix 5 unused constants: remove dead AudioFileType iota block in models
- Fix gci/gofumpt/wsl formatting issues across multiple files
- Add gofumpt module-path setting to .golangci.yml for correct import grouping
- Fix player test: gate integration test behind YELLOWJACKET_INTEGRATION env var
instead of only skipping in CI, and replace t.Errorf+t.Failed with t.Fatalf
- Remove continue-on-error from golangci-lint CI step so linting is now required
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