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fix(a11y): stop the now-playing marquee under reduced motion
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.
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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 v2 (go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest)

On Linux, install the system libraries Wails needs:

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev

macOS and Windows need no extra system packages. Run wails 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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