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.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
- 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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