`make sandbox`, `make dev`, `make build-dev` and `make build-prod` all
died with "/bin/sh: wails3: command not found". `wails3 dev` and
`wails3 task` are supervisors: they run the scaffold's Taskfile tree,
which invokes `wails3` by bare name in 54 places across four files. The
CLI is a vendored Go tool by design (plan 009, D3 — a global install
would be this build's first undeclared dependency), so that name did
not exist.
scripts/toolbin/wails3 execs `go tool wails3`, and the Makefile
prepends that directory only for the targets that start a supervisor.
Rewriting 54 scaffold call sites would be churn to redo on every
scaffold refresh; nothing global is installed either way.
The shim does not cd. The first version did, to be sure `go tool` found
the module — it does not need to — and that silently discarded the
`dir:` a task had set, so generate:icons failed with "open
appicon.png: no such file or directory" against a file that was there.
Three things the build path needed once it got that far:
- `frontend/package.json` gains `build:dev`, which build:frontend runs
under DEV=true and which did not exist.
- Vite binds 127.0.0.1. It defaulted to `localhost`, which resolves to
`[::1]` only here, while wails3 dev's asset proxy dials IPv4 — so the
first request for the dev server was refused and the first paint
raced a retry. Zero proxy errors after.
- The icons and the .desktop file are generated on every build.
icons.icns/icon.ico are deterministic from our appicon.png (verified
by regenerating), so the regenerated pair is committed and the churn
ends; .task/ and the .desktop file are ignored.
Also corrects a claim: build-prod strips and trims but does **not**
UPX-compress — that was v2's `-upx` flag. Phase 1 recorded UPX as
still working, but neither build target had been run.
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make e2e is green on chromium: 92 passed. The harness is rebuilt on
what v3 actually offers, and three of the four things it replaced turn
out to be better than what they replaced.
The headless launch is v3's own server mode. scripts/dev-headless.sh
ran a `-tags dev` binary whose app_dev.go parsed -devserver/-assetdir
out of os.Args; that file went with v2, so the harness had no server at
all. `-tags dev,server` is a first-class mode and needs no display, so
Xvfb is gone from the script and from CI.
The bridge hooks two places, neither of them EventsOn. Inbound is
window._wails.dispatchWailsEvent, wrapped by pre-creating the object
the runtime keeps and putting an accessor on the one property.
Outbound is fetch: v3 routes every runtime call through one POST, so
the bridge sees binding calls and event emits from any module, needs no
walk of an object graph, and cannot miss a call made before it looked.
__yjEvents.call posts to that endpoint by method name, so it depends on
nothing in the app's bundle and works on a page with no init script.
That is what lets seed-sandbox.sh drop playwright-cli entirely — it
drove AddLibrary through a browser only because window.go was v2's one
way in — and with it a global npm install and a second Chromium in CI.
measure.mjs and one spec lose their window.go walks and read the
bridge's log instead; e2e/support/method-ids.mjs derives id -> name
from frontend/bindings/ (phase 6b option 1, so it cannot go stale
silently). Plain .mjs because measure.mjs runs under bare node and one
derivation beats two that can disagree.
Four bugs surfaced, and the migration is how.
The cross-service wiring never ran headless. It hung off
Common.ApplicationStarted, which server mode never emits —
setupCommonEvents is an explicit no-op there — so the queue had no
TrackLoader and playing a track changed the queue and then silently did
nothing. It is a service registered last now (backend/startup.go):
services start in registration order, which is the ordering the wiring
needs, in every mode.
Six specs called SetQueue with 3 of its 4 arguments. v2 accepted that
and filled the gap; v3 answers "expects 4 arguments, got 3".
requested-badge's cleanup read window.go and returned early on
`if (!svc)` — the silent cleanup its own comment was written to
prevent, one migration later. It posts to the runtime endpoint now,
which any page can do.
SearchIndex.Search trusted a startup latch, so rows a spec staged
afterwards were unsearchable and three specs passed only when an
earlier one happened to flip it. shelves.go fixed exactly this and left
hasCatalogRows behind; the search path now uses it as the fallback,
with the latch still the fast path.
Two spec edits are deletions of assertions about v2. harness.spec
checked Object.keys(window.go) and that a bad call *hung*; it now
checks the real runtime is loaded and that the backend rejects with a
TypeError naming the argument. album-actions asserted a tracklist
legend that dcc40b1 deleted on main — that spec has been failing since,
and what replaced it is covered in frontend/test/components.
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v2 installed two globals and the fake replaced both. v3 has neither —
the runtime is an npm module and the generated bindings call into it.
What it has instead is better: setTransport() is a public seam for
replacing the IPC transport, and *every* runtime call goes through it,
so the fake is smaller than v2's and covers strictly more.
The event dispatcher is no longer mirrored at all. v2's fake
reimplemented desktop/events.js — the listener list, maxCallbacks
expiry, the reverse iteration — because there was no way to reach the
real one; emit() now goes through window._wails.dispatchWailsEvent,
which is the entry point the backend's own push uses. What is mirrored
instead is one line of Go: how EventManager.Emit packs variadic data
into an event's single data field. Registration and unregistration are
the public Events API. The one non-public thing left is the listener
registry, aliased in vitest.config.mts and used only by
listenerNames() — a test asks whether importing a store subscribed it,
which nothing public can answer.
A binding carries a method ID, not a name, so the fake derives the
ID -> path map from the generated tree: FNV-1a over the FQN, with the
Go type's casing recovered from each package's index.ts, which is the
only place it survives (library/library.ts cannot tell you it is
FrontendUtil). The map has to be complete rather than lazy because 21
assertions read calls() with no argument and compare the whole list.
Two things had to move that are not the fake.
fixture() drains microtasks between two renders: a v3 binding settles
several hops later than v2's, and tests were already written as though
fixture() meant "mounted and loaded". Microtasks and not a timer,
which would hang under the suites that install fake ones.
tracklist-store keeps its defaults on an empty answer instead of
emptying the column list. GetTrackListColumns substitutes
DefaultColumns only when the whole config section is missing; a section
that exists with no columns returns nothing. Until now this was
accidental — the binding was typed Column[], an absent answer arrived
as undefined, and .map threw into the catch.
757 tests pass across all 63 files. They are run in batches: a single
browser session dies partway through the 58 it queues, which reproduces
unchanged at the pre-migration commit and is a resource limit on this
machine rather than anything here.
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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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The commit before this removed the tag from the Makefile, lefthook,
both packaging recipes and CI, but left it in CLAUDE.md's "Running
tests" section and the yellowjacket-dev skill — which are the copies a
coding agent actually runs, so a stale tag there is worse than one in
prose. skill-check does not catch this: it verifies that documented
make targets exist, not that documented go commands do.
The historical mentions in .planning/ and .pi/journal.md are left
alone; they are records of what was true then.
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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.
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The plan assumed build/ was free and that GTK4 was a preference. It
was not free — this repo used it as ignored build output — and GTK4 is
not available on the dev machine, which breaks `go tool wails3`
outright rather than merely changing which webkit is linked.
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Phase 1 of plan 009. The app still builds and runs on v2 — nothing in
main.go or backend/ has moved yet — but the v3 CLI, its pinned runtime
and its build-asset tree are now present, which is what Phase 2 needs.
- wails/v3 v3.0.0-beta.8 pinned per D5, and wails3 added to the `tool`
block beside the v2 CLI per D3. Both are vendored; neither is a
global install.
- build/ now holds the v3 build assets, copied wholesale from a
`wails3 init` scaffold rather than hand-written. That collides with
this repo's existing use of build/ as ignored build *output*, so
.gitignore narrows to build/bin/ and bin/ and the assets are tracked.
The mobile platforms are not carried: this is a desktop player
(MPRIS over D-Bus, beep, XDG paths) and cannot target them.
- build/config.yml's info block is filled from wails.json, which stays
for now because the v2 CLI still reads it.
- Taskfile.yml defaults PACKAGE_MANAGER to pnpm, since the scaffold
assumes npm and frontend/package.json.md5 is part of the dep-caching
scheme.
One deviation from the plan worth recording. webkitgtk-6.0 is not
installed on this machine, so the default GTK4 path is unavailable and
the gtk3 fallback is in use. That also means `go tool wails3` does not
work — the CLI itself fails to compile without webkitgtk-6.0 — while
`go run -tags gtk3 .../cmd/wails3` does. The Makefile rewrite in the
next commit has to account for that, and it goes away once the GTK4
dependency is installed.
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Three things on the Explore surfaces, all about not asking twice.
A portrait already on disk costs no network call. explore-view seeded
only from the library store — owned artists, which on a catalog search
is nearly none of the results — and sent everything else to
GetArtistImageURL, the resolving entry point, one await at a time.
GetArtistImagesCachedPaths asks the disk about every unresolved artist
in one call, and only what it does not answer reaches the resolver,
in parallel.
The artist page's two sections both wanted PrefetchReleases and each
called it, so the most expensive call the app makes was issued twice
for an overlapping set on a 1 req/s limiter. They are collected and
sent once on a microtask, and prefetchRequested stops the cold-artist
refetch re-asking for what it already asked for.
The release cards — most of the artist page — had no context menu at
all. They have one now on both release shapes, normalised to a
ReleaseMenuTarget when the menu opens so the union does not reach the
action handlers. It is a discriminated union rather than one nullable
field per kind because the panel is shared with the track menu: that is
what keeps aria-label moving with the target, which is the fault
cover-grid shipped. Which items appear is three different questions —
playback is gated on a local album id, not on "owned", and the request
needs a catalog MBID, so it is absent for a library-only release.
Note on the docs: the CLAUDE.md and NOTES.md prose here was
reconstructed after a mishandled `git stash --keep-index` destroyed the
uncommitted originals. One NOTES.md section is marked as incomplete
where its text could not be recovered.
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The post-scan backfills share MusicBrainz's rate limiters with every
page the user can open, and both were FIFO — so a thousand-artist
enrichment put an album page behind an hour of queued work.
WithBackgroundLane/WithBackgroundPriority add a slower second lane: a
marked wait takes no token while any interactive wait is outstanding.
It is a context marker rather than a parameter because a backfill calls
the same client methods a detail page does. A long backfill also has to
be visible and stoppable, so jobs.KindCatalogEnrich registers both with
progress and cancel — after the work is counted, since these passes are
a no-op on every launch once the library is covered.
What it does not fetch is the point. It ran for hours against a
900-artist library and marked nothing, because three of the four things
it did per artist were work nobody asked for: similar artists, which
the artist page already resolves on view, and a full GetArtistImage
(fanart.tv, TheAudioDB, Wikidata, Wikipedia, ten portraits) reached
only to warm the MB artist lookup EnsureArtistRels does alone. It was
also serial across artists while every limiter is per-host and idle.
The marks are a table rather than more explore_index columns, because
artifactimport merges by column list and a flag added there is a second
place to remember. BrowseReleaseGroupsAll pages to exhaustion, where
the old call silently cut a prolific artist at 100 release groups.
One portrait is downloaded now; the rest are remembered as URLs.
resolveAllSources downloaded every candidate, up to ten, full size,
while nothing reads anything but primary.jpg — 5.3 GB measured on a
real cache, 4.1 GB of it unreachable. OrphanedArtistImagesJob is why
that survived: it joined the bare MBID onto the images directory, but
artist directories are sharded under a two-character prefix, so it
named a path that never existed and deleted the rows that were the only
record of the files it left behind.
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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.
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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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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.
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Two of Phase 2's three judgement calls were answered by reading the
code rather than by choosing: there is no artist badge to make a
button, and a track badge stops reading as noise the moment it means
something. The third went the other way — `EntityRecording` reads like
a placeholder and is real work.
Only this tier can say it: the badge sits inside a card whose own click
navigates, so what matters is that a real gesture files the request
*and* leaves the page where it was.
It clicks a locator rather than a measured point. The first version
read a bounding box the moment the search settled, but cover art is
still arriving then and a card that grows moves the badge — so the
click landed on the card and opened the album, which is precisely the
regression the test exists to catch, reported as a failure to file a
request.
The phase 1 label assertion moves with the component: a control is
named after what activating it does, so the badge that said "is queued
for download" now says "Cancel the request for …".
007 turned this badge from a `<button>` whose handler was a
`stopPropagation()` and a TODO into `role="img"`, on the rule that a
control which cannot act is worse than none — and wrote down what would
change the answer: a `<button>` again *with* a handler, never a handler
bolted onto something already shaped like one. This is that.
A call site opts in by passing `request-mbid`, so where a badge is
redundant it stays a badge: `explore-album-details`'s header has "Want
this" in words directly below it, and its template says so by not
opting in. An `in-library` badge is never a button either, because
there is nothing left to ask for — that is what keeps the tab stops 007
gave back from being spent on nothing.
The copy is the action, not the state, and it is deliberately about the
request list rather than the library: "Want album X" / "Cancel the
request for album X". Clicking still adds nothing to the library, which
is what made the original "Add … to library" a promise the control
could not keep.
Tracks are requestable too. `EntityRecording` is not a placeholder in
the request model — `Reconciler.tracklistFor` has a deliberate branch
for it, because one expected title is what lets filename matching score
a single-track download at all. Artists are not: there is no artist
badge anywhere, and a discography subscription belongs on the Follow
button that can say what it commits to.
The click is swallowed again, for the opposite reason to before: with
an action of its own, a click on the badge no longer means what the
card means. Enter and Space are stopped for the same reason — every
card holding one is a role=button or role=option with its own handler.
The plan's own framing was wrong in a way worth keeping: the badge was
not waiting on the download client, which had largely landed already —
it was waiting on somebody looking at a state nothing produced.
Two assertions, and the second is why this is at this tier at all.
Reaching the requested state is the only way to render the requested
icon, so the sweep that already asserts `__yjIconMisses` is empty can
finally see a name computed from state.
Both were watched failing on the pre-fix build by neutering one line
each: the badge reported `not-in-library` where `queued` was expected,
and the sweep returned `["bookmark-check"]`.
The spec gives back what it spends — the request is dropped in
`afterAll`, and cleared in `beforeAll` too, since a run that dies
between the two would otherwise fail the next one. That cleanup uses
the raw binding rather than `callBinding`: a bare `browser.newPage()`
has no init script, so the event bridge is undefined and the first
version threw where nobody was looking.
Its 60 s search budget is not paranoia either. A freshly launched app
spends ~40 s merging the core catalog artifact and Explore's search
returns nothing until it lands, including for rows staged directly
into `explore_index`.
`bookmark-check` is Font Awesome **Pro**, so it was never bundled and
`window.__yjIconMisses` has held it for as long as anything could be
requested — the button rendered the missing-icon fallback in the one
state it exists to show.
`offline-icons.spec.ts` asserts that array is empty and passed anyway:
no spec had ever put the app in a state where an album is requested. A
name computed from state is only checkable from that state, which is
the case `names.txt` exists for.
Outline and solid of the same Free glyph carry the toggle instead,
which is what the vendoring script tells you to do when a name is
missing: pick one that is Free, never reach for the Pro file.
`library-status-indicator` has had three states since it was written
and produced two: all eight call sites were a two-way ternary between
`in-library` and `not-in-library`, so the `queued` state it styles and
labels was unreachable.
The result was the app contradicting itself on one page. An album added
to the request list showed a plus and announced "is not in your
library", forty pixels from a filled button reading "Wanted".
The rule was written at eight places, which is why none of them had all
of it, so it is `utils/library-status.ts` now: owning outranks wanting,
a satisfied request is not queued, and a request is by MBID — a track
inside a requested album is not itself requested and still says so.
`explore-view` gains the `downloadStore` subscription both detail views
already had, registered `whileActive` because it is a cached view that
never unmounts. `top-results-row` needs its own: its host re-rendering
sets the same `results` array back, so Lit stops at the property and
the row never hears about a change.
Plan 008 is complete and moves to completed/. The two findings worth
carrying forward are that a new table needs one schema file rather than
two (and a datamap entry, which is a gate nobody remembers), and that
excluding a path has to reach every place that counts what is in the
library — the soft scan's disk-vs-database comparison above all, which
would otherwise have rescanned the whole library on every launch with
nothing failing anywhere.
The binding has been in the defaults and in Settings since it was
written, with nothing on the other end of it, because "remove from
library" did not exist. It does now — and Delete only *opens* the
dialog, never performs the removal, which is the only version
defensible one keystroke from a focused row.
The e2e case asserts the two things that matter and neither is the row
count: the file is still on disk, and a real scan of the real directory
does not bring the row back. It watches a control path survive the same
scan, because a guard that excluded everything would pass the negative
assertion for free — and it restores the database it spends.
The context menu's one destructive command. Its impact line says the
files are not deleted, because a user who reads "remove" as "delete"
and finds their music gone was failed by the copy rather than by the
operation.
The store patches rather than invalidates: the event carries the paths,
so the tracks array — the expensive collection — is spliced in place
and only the album/artist/genre summaries, whose counts really did
change, are refetched. It falls back to a full invalidate when a tracks
fetch is already in flight, which is the one case a patch cannot be
shown to be equivalent to.
Deleting an audio_files row cascades to queue_tracks, so the removal
also compacts the queue — the same reload RemoveLibrary does, which
unloads the player if the removed track was the one playing.
"Remove from library" deletes the audio_files row and records the path
as excluded, so the next scan does not import it again. Without the
exclusion the operation undoes itself on the next scan, which is worse
than not having it at all; the file on disk is never touched, which is
the promise the confirmation copy will make.
The soft scan compares the number of audio files on disk against the
number of rows, so both walks now skip excluded paths — otherwise the
two counts disagree forever and every launch queues a full scan of the
whole library. A full rescan clears the exclusions, which is the only
way back for a path removed by mistake until there is a UI for it.
Phase 3 shipped in six landings and a11y.md is closed, which closes all
four audits from 2026-08-11.
The pass's one lesson is that an accessible name is computed on the
element carrying the role, and every tier we check with looks somewhere
else: the audit read the source and credited a name that was never
computed, an AX sweep read the tree and reported a placeholder-only box
as clean, and a component test asserted the attribute and pinned the
bug it existed to prevent.
Six of the audit's claims turned out to be wrong or smaller than
written, and one of the plan's own findings was false — the page
header's sort control is named on all nine views. All of them are
written down, which is where a third of the value of the last two plans
came from.
a11y.26, the half of it that was still open — `search-bar` gained a
computed aria-label some phases ago and this one did not.
It is why the finding survived: a placeholder *is* an accname fallback,
so the box was never unnamed and a sweep of the accessibility tree
reported the whole view clean. It is a weak name all the same, since it
disappears the moment anyone types, and it is the only thing that
distinguishes catalog search from lyric search.
a11y.21 (WCAG 1.4.10), measured rather than taken as filed. The
finding's mechanism is vertical — "the 4em bars grow while the viewport
does not, and anything that no longer fits is clipped with no
scrollbar" — and that is not what happens. The middle row is `1fr` and
absorbs the growth exactly: at 200% text on 800x600 the bars go 64px to
128px and the panel 472px to 344px, with the footer still landing on
600. Nothing is clipped vertically, and Settings stays reachable
because the sidebar scrolls (007 phase 5).
What is real is the axis the finding does not mention. At 200% text the
shell is 1014px wide in an 800px viewport, and at 320px — 400% page
zoom of 1280, the width 1.4.10 names — it is 784px, so 464px of the
app including the job indicator and the queue button sat behind
`overflow: hidden` with no way to reach it.
So the horizontal axis scrolls and the vertical one stays fixed, which
also keeps the transport where a desktop player's transport belongs. At
every size this app promises there is no overflow on either axis and no
scrollbar appears, which the three viewport cases assert.
The first version of the spec passed on the broken build: `overflow:
hidden` still permits programmatic scrolling, so `scrollLeft = 9999`
proves nothing. It is a wheel gesture now.
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.
Measured with Accessibility.getFullAXTree against the running app with
all seven sections expanded: 24 of 93 controls computed an empty name.
Every config-field select and toggle, and all eighteen track-list
column checkboxes, had a <label> sitting right beside them with nothing
associating the two. Now 0 of 93.
Not in the audit, and a11y.6 says why in its own line: it scanned every
<button>, and none of these is one. Same shape as the count that sent
Phase 1 looking for an unnamed sort control — the claim was answering a
narrower question than it reads as.
The fields use `for`/`id` rather than aria-label, for what it buys
beyond the name: the label text becomes a click target for the control.
A fixed id is safe only because each config-field is its own shadow
root.
Two more are named but identify nothing, which is a11y.32's complaint
one page over: three shortcut buttons announced themselves as "S", and
thirty-six column arrows as "Move up".
`a11y.md` lists `seek-bar` and `volume-control` under "what is already
correct" because both pass `aria-label`. Measured with
Accessibility.getFullAXTree against the running app on all eleven
views, both sliders compute a name of "": `wa-slider` puts
role="slider" on a div inside its own shadow root, pointing
aria-labelledby at an empty internal <label>, and that IDREF outranks
the host's aria-label. `volume-control` did not have the aria-label the
audit credits it with at all.
The name comes from `label` now, which is the library's own API — and
for a slider that is visible, so `styles/wa-slider-label.css.ts` hides
it by part. Preferred over reaching into the shadow root the way
name-dialog.ts must: if Web Awesome renames the part the label becomes
visible rather than silently nameless. The second rule in that file is
load-bearing — `#slider` takes an 8px margin the moment a label exists,
which grows the bar from 6px to 14px and moves the transport with it.
a11y.25 is the same family: wa-progress-bar maps `label` onto its inner
aria-label, falling back to the localised word "progress" — so it was
named after the widget rather than after the work, not unnamed.
The existing transport test asserted the host's aria-label and called
it an accessible name, so it was pinning the bug.
The two findings recorded as too big for the contrast pass are fixed, so
the plan says so. Also corrects a claim I made and did not check: the
chrome does not stay dark under the light ramp -- that screenshot was
taken before the theme propagated, which is the third time in two passes
a picture read at the wrong moment produced a confident wrong claim.
A backtick inside a comment in a css`` literal ends the literal. It has
cost four sessions across three plans, it is written down in CLAUDE.md,
the skill and NOTES.md, and it was read twice in the session it then
cost a cycle in. Knowledge that has been ignored three times is not a
knowledge problem.
The expense is the report, not the mistake: the literal ends early, the
rest of the CSS parses as JavaScript, and tsc says 'Class static side
incorrectly extends base class static side' pointing at a line of prose
-- or, in a shared module, every test in the suite fails to import and
the output reads like a broken test runner. make dev-headless mean-
while keeps serving the last good bundle.
Detection is exact rather than heuristic: if a backtick in a comment
closed the literal early, the text the parser took as the literal
contains an unterminated /*. Nothing else produces that. Verified both
ways -- clean on the tree, and red on a deliberately broken comment.
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 audit's one 'borderline ~4.1:1' pair was nine of twelve failing
combinations across three ramps, 110 nodes on screen, worst 2.31:1. The
other never-measured item closed on measurement and stays dropped, now
for a reason with a number behind it. Two findings larger than either
are recorded and deliberately not fixed: the semantic colours are fixed
across ramps, and the light ramp is not a supported theme.
a11y.md flagged --yj-text-tertiary on --yj-bg-surface as 'borderline
(~4.1:1) but that needs a real measurement', and plan 007 parked it as
'worth measuring before planning'. Measured, against the rendered app
and then across all three background ramps: it failed AA in nine of
twelve text/surface combinations, as low as 2.31:1 on dark's overlay
and 2.55:1 on light's -- the app's most-used secondary text colour,
failing on every view. Not borderline. 110 failing nodes across twelve
views, now 0 of 659.
Three separate mechanisms, and only the first is the finding:
- The ramps. Tertiary is raised per ramp (#a6a6a6 dark, #949494 darker,
#5c636a light), sized to the lightest surface it actually sits on and
keeping its hue. Sizing it to bgOverlay too would need a grey lighter
than secondary, so bgOverlay is documented as not a text surface and
the one component that put text there uses primary.
- The avatar generator. hsl(hue, 45%, 35%) behind white initials failed
for 35 of the 360 hues -- the yellow-green band -- so which artists
were unreadable depended on how their names hashed. The two a sweep
found were not the finding. 32% clears every hue.
- Jobs' local #ff6b6b, at 4.15:1 on elevated.
Pinned by a unit test over the palette table rather than a DOM sweep:
the ramps are pure data, and checking only what happens to be on screen
is exactly how the light ramp went unexamined. Note that make ui-visual
cannot see any of this -- the component tier renders the fallbacks,
because theme-store sets :root only in the real app.
Three a11y findings shipped. The generalisation is the mirror of 'a
finding creates the conditions for the next one': that one is about the
code path a fix opens, this one about the path it sends people to. The
reduced-motion guard is two lines and both bugs behind it were in the
fallback it routes users into -- one of which had been wrong in every
mode, including the default, since the component was written.
a11y.11: the queue's order could not be changed without a mouse.
Reordering existed only as a drag whose drop index is computed from the
cursor's Y position. Reproduced with a row focused: Alt, Ctrl, Shift and
Meta + arrows all left the order untouched.
Alt+ArrowUp/Down moves the focused row and a live region says where it
went. It is handled in the panel's own delegated keydown rather than as
a backend panel binding -- that is where Enter and the roving arrows
already live, it cannot collide with the global Up/Down volume bindings
(measured: 0 VolumeChanged events from a focused row), and it keeps a
destructive-looking key out of the user-editable shortcut table.
Two things the finding did not contain. The index arithmetic is not
symmetric: MoveQueueTracks takes an index into the array before the
move, so down-by-one has to ask for i+2 -- i+1 is where the row already
is once its own removal is accounted for, and the backend's
contiguous-block guard correctly makes it a no-op. Both tiers pin that,
because a symmetric-looking fix silently does nothing in one direction.
And focusedIndex only ever moved on an arrow key, so a row reached by a
click or by Tab left it saying 0 and every key acted on the wrong row --
Enter played the first track in the queue from any focused row. The
delegated handler reads the index off the row the event came from now.
Pre-existing; visible only once a key moved something.
a11y.14: role=combobox, role=listbox and role=option were all present
and nothing connected them -- no ids, no aria-controls, no
aria-activedescendant -- so arrowing through nineteen options moved a
visual highlight and announced nothing.
Reproduced on the smart-playlist rule editor against the browser's own
computation rather than a snapshot: getFullAXTree reported no
activedescendant and no controls on any of the five comboboxes on the
page. After, the same node carries both.
aria-selected also meant 'highlighted', which is the one thing it does
not mean: a user arrowing past an option heard it announced as selected
while the value they had chosen was announced as unselected. It is the
chosen value now, and the highlight is what activedescendant points at.
The IDREF tests assert the link rather than the attribute -- an
activedescendant naming an id no element carries is exactly as silent as
no attribute, and reads as fixed.
a11y.15 / WCAG 2.2.2: the bottom bar's title and artist scrolled for as
long as a track played, re-armed in a loop by transitionend, with no
pause mechanism and no reduced-motion guard.
Reproduced under an emulated prefers-reduced-motion before the fix: the
title still carried will-scroll with a 15s transition and the transform
was still moving. That read landed in the snap-back half of the cycle,
which is why a CSS-only 'transition: none' is the wrong fix -- it leaves
the text translated off its own box and transitionend never fires to
bring it back. The scroll is not armed at all instead, which is a
decision shouldScroll() already owned, and it covers hover as well as
always: reduce is a request about motion, not about autoplay.
Two things came out of looking at the result rather than asserting on
it. The non-scrolling fallback was hard-clipping, not ellipsising, in
every mode including the default -- text-overflow was on the outer span
while the overflowing box is the inline-block child. And moving it to
the child then broke overflow *detection*, because the parent stops
overflowing once the child hides its own; both measurements come from
the child now. The second was caught by the new test's positive case,
which is why it has one.
All six phases of 007 shipped. The plan moves to completed/ with a recap
rather than a rewrite: its seven "where the plan was wrong" lists are
seventy-nine entries and about a third of them are the audit being wrong,
which is the material 008 is planned against.
008 is a11y.md, the only audit with open items and the least verified
material in the repo. A grep pass closes at least five findings the
coverage map still shows open, including a11y.7, which the map assigns to
phase 6 and which phase 1 fixed. The triage in the plan is recorded as
hypotheses for that reason.
Twelve corrections to a plan written before any of phases 1-5 existed,
of which the load-bearing one is that a rule written against a
mechanism does not cover what the rule is for: `home` suppresses a
repeated shelf by comparing album ids, Explore's first two shelves hold
different entity types and share none, and the page repeated itself
anyway because a person reads artists.
`H-23`. Explore was a search box over a 1.1 M-row local catalog and a
sentence telling the user to type into it — the only view that answers
"what exists" rather than "what have I got", and it would not start.
Shelves, on `backend/home`'s terms: a shelf is a reason, not a filter,
it carries the sentence that says so, and one with nothing behind it is
omitted. The queries return ids and are joined back to the card
projection by `rowsByIDs`, so there is one definition of an Explore
card; the three that produced it were inlined in `mergeIndexHits` and
are now named functions both callers share.
Two of the plan's four candidate shelves cannot be built, and the
schema says so rather than the design: `explore_index` has no genre
column to join a "big in a genre you have depth in" shelf to, and
`similar_artist_map` is not in the shipped artifact and is filled
lazily from the network, so "artists next to ones you own" is empty
exactly when this page most needs content. What ships is popular
albums, popular artists, and the rest of the catalogue of artists the
library owns exactly one album by.
Where "no shelves" differs from Home: Explore's data is a downloaded
artifact, so it can be absent or still arriving, and a blank panel is
the bug being fixed. The page says which, and points at Settings.
One rule came from looking at the result rather than from the plan.
Ordered by raw listen count the top albums are one act and its members,
and the artists row underneath was the same people — a duplication
`home`'s guard cannot see, since the two rows hold different entity
types and share no ids. Shelves are now one album per artist, and skip
whoever a row above already showed.
--no-verify: bindings-check rejects staged-but-uncommitted wailsjs.
`RovingGridController.measureColumns` read `offsetTop`, and every card
in these grids is drawn by a `lit-virtualizer`, which positions its
children with a transform — which `offsetTop` does not see. So all of
them reported 0, every rendered card counted as one row, and ArrowDown
was `min(i + everything, last)` while ArrowUp was `max(i - everything,
0)`: the vertical arrows have been End and Home in the albums, artists
and genres grids since the day this was written. At 700x700 with three
real rows of 3/3/2, ArrowDown from card 0 landed on card 7.
Two things behind it, both only visible once the grid splits:
`cover-grid`'s scrollToIndex was `querySelector('lit-virtualizer')` —
always `#grid-before` — while the roving index spans the whole album
list, so with a dropdown open End scrolled the wrong half to an index
it does not contain. It now picks the half that holds the index and
rebases it.
And the focus is retried on a deadline rather than taken once at the
host's `updateComplete`: a scroll of 5 000 rows produces the card a few
hundred ms later, so the tab stop moved and nothing took focus, which
looks exactly like the key not being handled.
Also waits for the virtualizer in album-dropdown.spec's expandCard,
which flaked on roughly one run in two on main.
`library-status-indicator` was a <button> whose click handler was a
stopPropagation() and a comment saying to wire up the download client
later. On an Explore results page that is 20 of 66 tab stops (measured
in the running app, before and after: 66/20 → 46/0) that announce
themselves as buttons and do nothing.
It is role="img" with its existing label now, and the label for an
unowned entity says "… is not in your library" rather than "Add … to
library" — the old copy was the button's promise written out. The day
there is a download client to call, the right change is a <button>
*with* a handler, not a handler bolted onto something already shaped
like one.
box-sizing: border-box is explicit because a <button> gets it from the
UA stylesheet and a <span> does not, so the badge grew 36px → 38px.
Caught by the stored screenshot.
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