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#56 sized the playback transport for a thumb and named 44px; the queue header keeps it. Nothing else was resized, so the controls a user meets on *every* screen sat between a third and two thirds of the app's own floor. Measured on the reference device at 424x439: page-sort 99x23, page-sort-direction **28x21**, page-actions-more 38x27, and search-trigger 40x40. **Both questions the issue left open are answered by one measurement.** The header is 63px tall and its controls are 20-23px, so the vertical room was already there; the select and its direction arrow are 6px apart, so the horizontal room was not. That makes this min-size rather than padding with a negative margin, which is what the seek bar needed (#187), and the difference decides everything else. There the painted track had to stay thin, so the target was grown past its own box and had to be checked against its neighbours. Here the control *is* the target: the boxes are flex items, so the gap keeps them apart and **no two targets can overlap by construction**. From which: **There is no phone branch.** A 44px control on a desktop is merely large, and a second declaration of what a phone shows is a second thing to keep in step -- which is why this component has never had one. It also avoids a media query no tier here renders, which is exactly how the seek bar's phone rule came to be dead for months. **#69's overflow fit does not move.** That pass measures inline size, so the height costs it nothing, and only the two square controls grow the header's content -- by 22px in total. header-action-overflow.spec.ts passes unchanged at all four of its widths, which was the check rather than the assumption. Verified on the device that the count is still shown at 424px, so nothing has started yielding. search-trigger is the sharpest case and is fixed in the same pass: #57 created it as the phone's replacement for the header search box, so it exists *only* where there is a thumb, and it shipped at 40x40 under a comment calling that "the smallest a touch target should be". That was the floor restated four pixels short rather than a second opinion about it, and the comment now says so. Unlike #187 this can be measured rather than inferred: the controls are plain elements and the rule is a min-size, so it holds at every width and a real Chromium rendering a real page-header gives the actual answer. The tests fail with the device's own numbers -- 29x21, 38, 40. Verified on the device: every control in the header is now at least 44x44, and so is the phone's search button. **This is the Direction's first step, not all of it.** config-field's 93 Settings controls and explore-view's search row are the second pass; Settings is a form with one shape for every row and wants its own argument. #186 stays open for them.
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 CLAUDE.md — the
architecture, the conventions and the reasons behind them. What is
being worked on is the issue
tracker; #73 is the
roadmap.