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The APK installs and launches. It also dies six milliseconds later, and finding that out cost a cycle for three reasons that have nothing to do with the bug itself: **Go's stdout does not reach logcat.** An Android app's fd 1 and 2 go to /dev/null, so every slog line -- including the one naming the error the app is about to exit on -- is discarded. `setprop log.redirect-stdio true` does not help: that redirects the Java runtime's System.out, and our code is a c-shared native library. **os.Exit leaves no evidence.** No panic, no AndroidRuntime stack, nothing in /data/tombstones, nothing in `logcat -b crash` or dropbox. All three places anyone would look are empty, and the one signal that is present -- "Zygote: exited due to signal 9" -- reads as "the system killed it" and sends you after the low-memory killer. **ActivityManager restarts it faster than you can observe.** pidof always answers and `am start` always reports Status: ok, so a crash-looping app looks alive. "Did it start" is the wrong question; `make android-smoke` asks whether it is the *same pid* N seconds later, and prints the filtered logcat plus how to read it when it is not. The tell, once known: "I/WailsBridge: Wails bridge initialized" followed immediately by a new pid doing the same thing. scripts/android-emulator.sh follows dev-headless.sh's shape -- background start, saved-PID stop, filtered log tail, never pkill -f. Two scaffold tasks are deliberately not wrapped: `android:logs` greps logcat for (Wails|yellowjacket), which catches the WailsBridge tag but misses the app's own process tag (app.yellowjacket is lowercase) and misses ActivityManager's "has died" line, which is the one that says it crashed; and `ensure-emulator` boots whatever `-list-avds | tail -1` returns, with no pidfile and no boot wait, so it cannot be sequenced. One environment note that is not obvious on Arch: Gradle needs a platform and /opt/android-sdk has none, so ANDROID_SDK defaults to ~/Android/Sdk while ANDROID_NDK points at /opt/android-ndk. Two SDKs, one for each half of the build.
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.