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Three faults, one subsystem, and the middle one is why a request that looked obviously satisfiable came back refused. **The guardrails were in megabytes, which cannot mean anything.** 300 MB is a generous FLAC single and a suspiciously small boxset, and whoever fills the field in has no idea which release the pipeline will apply it to. `MinKbps`/`MaxKbps`/`PreferredKbps` are the same statement divided by how long the music is, so one number holds across a nine-minute EP and a three-hour opera. The runtime comes from `Download.Expected`, which every anchored request already carries, so this costs no lookup; the rate is audio bytes over that, falling back to the mean stated per-file bitrate when the runtime is unknown. Artwork is excluded from the numerator, or a folder with 30 MB of scans reads as a better rip. An unknown runtime *passes* the window rather than failing it: the window is a statement about quality, and refusing everything the moment MusicBrainz is missing a track length would be a silent embargo. `MaxFileSizeMB` survives as a separate ceiling, still in megabytes on purpose -- it is a question about disk space, and it has to apply to a candidate whose bitrate cannot be worked out at all. **Auto-pick required daylight over the runner-up**, 0.08 on the combined score, and so fired hardest in the case it was never written for: a popular album turns up five *correct* copies, all matching the tracklist at 95%+ and differing only in format and seeders, their scores land within a point of each other, and it refused forever on the grounds that the choice was the user's. It was not. There was no question about what to fetch, only about which copy -- and abundance is the condition under which that matters least. A candidate no longer has to beat the field, only clear the bars on its own terms; where several do, ranking puts the one closest to the preferred bitrate first. That tie-break needed the preference to carry weight or it would have been decorative in a new unit: `BitrateFit` was 0.05 against format's 0.42, so asking for 320 and being handed a FLAC every time was the designed behaviour. When a preference is set the weights shift to fit 0.40 / format 0.20 / bitrate 0.10, taking it off the two heuristics that exist as stand-ins for the preference the user has now given. Health and priority are untouched. And the fit spans 0.5 to 1.0 rather than 0 to 1, so a preference can promote the copy that matches it and can never push the others under `minQuality` -- turning "I like 320" into "never take anything else" silently is what `MinKbps`/`MaxKbps` are for, out loud. **And a refusal quoted numbers that passed.** The request list built its message from `ranked[0]` -- the best candidate *before* the guardrails and before the lead check -- so a request killed by the size window, or by having too many good copies, reported "best of 12 found is not a confident enough match (match 96%, quality 88%)". `AutoPickVeto` names the gate that actually refused, and `AutoPickable` is that returning empty. Existing configs: the old `MinFileSizeMB`/`PreferredFileSizeMB` are not migrated. A number meaning "300 MB" cannot be reinterpreted as a rate without knowing the album it was aimed at, so carrying it over would be inventing an intent nobody expressed. Those two fall back to no window, which is the permissive default and what a fresh install gets; `MaxFileSizeMB` carries over unchanged, because a ceiling on bytes still means exactly what it did. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MeQt5hgXg5YGoNZQ9ozG7L
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
- Launch YellowJacket.
- Open Settings and add the folder(s) where your music lives.
- Let the initial scan finish — you'll see progress as it works.
- 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.