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feat(dev): ask the phone instead of looking at it
The device tier could only take a screenshot and read what Go chose to
log, and a screenshot cannot tell a dropped CSS declaration from a
missing asset. This adds the third thing: the page's own answer, from
the engine that is really rendering it.

`make android-screenshot` grabs the screen, `make android-inspect`
forwards the WebView's devtools socket, and `make android-eval EXPR=...`
evaluates in the real page.

Four details are load-bearing. Only a `debuggable` build opens that
socket, so the debug build type takes `applicationIdSuffix ".dev"` and
installs *beside* the release app -- the two carry different signing
certificates, and Android's only remedy for a changed certificate is an
uninstall, which takes the user's library with it. Playwright cannot
drive a WebView (`connectOverCDP` calls `Browser.setDownloadBehavior`,
which it answers "Browser context management is not supported"), so the
eval is raw CDP over Node's built-in WebSocket. The socket name carries
the pid, so it is resolved per launch rather than written down. And
`exec-out`, not `shell`, for the screenshot: a pty translates LF and
corrupts the PNG.

What it immediately established is why it was worth having. The phone
renders in Chrome 113 at 424x439 CSS px -- two years behind every
browser the other tiers use, with no Popover API and no relaxed CSS
nesting -- so a spec passing at that viewport says nothing about the
device, and two conclusions drawn from version numbers alone were wrong.
Both are corrected in NOTES.md and the plan.
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YellowJacket

Music how it was meant to bee.

YellowJacket is a fast, cross-platform desktop music player for your local collection. It plays your files, keeps your library tidy, and helps you discover and organize your music — all in a clean, responsive interface. No accounts, no streaming, no telemetry: just your music on your machine.

Runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Features

Play your music

  • Plays MP3, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, and WAV
  • Play, pause, seek, and volume control with a mute toggle
  • Gapless, glitch-free seeking backed by a read-ahead buffer
  • A queue you can add to, reorder, and shuffle, with play-next support
  • Shuffle and repeat (off / all / one)
  • Picks up right where you left off — remembers your track, position, and volume between sessions
  • Media-key and MPRIS support on Linux, so your desktop's playback controls just work

Keep your library organized

  • Point it at your music folders and it scans them automatically
  • Reads tags and embedded cover art, and de-duplicates artwork so it isn't stored twice
  • Incremental sync — only new or changed files get reprocessed, and deleted files are cleaned up
  • Browse by album, artist, or genre, or search across everything
  • Mark favorites and see what you've been listening to with play history
  • Edit track tags directly when something's off

Playlists

  • Create playlists, drag tracks in, and reorder them
  • Smart playlists that build themselves from rules (by genre, rating, play count, and more)
  • Pin a default playlist and spot duplicate tracks at a glance

Discover and clean up (powered by MusicBrainz)

  • Explore — browse artists, releases, and genres from the MusicBrainz catalog, not just what's already in your library
  • Auto-tag — match your files against MusicBrainz to fill in correct artist, album, and track metadata, with a review step before anything is written
  • Lyrics search — find a track by a line you remember

Install

Download the latest build for your platform from the releases page.

Platform Download
Linux yellowjacket-linux-amd64
macOS yellowjacket-darwin-universal.app.zip (Apple Silicon + Intel)
Windows yellowjacket-windows-amd64.exe

Prefer to build it yourself? See Building from source.

Getting started

  1. Launch YellowJacket.
  2. Open Settings and add the folder(s) where your music lives.
  3. Let the initial scan finish — you'll see progress as it works.
  4. Browse by album, artist, or genre, queue something up, and press play.

Your library and settings are stored locally:

Linux / macOS Windows
Config ~/.config/yellowjacket/ %LOCALAPPDATA%\yellowjacket\config
Library data ~/.local/share/yellowjacket/ %LOCALAPPDATA%\yellowjacket\data

Building from source

YellowJacket is built with Go and a Lit/TypeScript frontend, bridged by the Wails framework.

Prerequisites

Tool Version
Go 1.25+
Node.js 22+
pnpm 10+
Wails CLI v3 — vendored, no install needed (go tool wails3)

The Wails v3 CLI resolves from the tool block in go.mod, so there is nothing to install globally; make setup fetches it with the rest of the tooling.

On Linux, install the system libraries Wails needs. v3 builds against GTK4 + WebKitGTK 6.0 by default:

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev libgtk-4-dev libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev   # Debian/Ubuntu
sudo pacman -S alsa-lib gtk4 webkitgtk-6.0                              # Arch

A machine without webkitgtk-6.0 can still build with -tags gtk3 against the older WebKit2GTK 4.1 stack, but that is an escape hatch, not what CI or a release builds.

macOS and Windows need no extra system packages. Run go tool wails3 doctor to check your environment.

Build

make setup        # install tooling and git hooks
make dev          # run with hot-reload
make build-prod   # produce a release binary

More detail for contributors lives in docs/dev/overview.md and CLAUDE.md.

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