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`explore-album-details` had the rule right for one tracklist and nothing else did: Explore's cards, `top-results-row` and the artist page's three card shapes all mixed owned and unowned with a small badge as the only difference, and drew a green tick on the *common* case — which is the treatment that tracklist's own green ticks were removed for. `utils/ownership.ts` is the rule written once, so eight call sites stop each holding their own version: - owned is plain, and draws no badge at all; - unowned is dimmed *and* says so in its accessible name, because dimming is a colour and cannot be the only signal; - a partly-held album says how partly. **Ownership is a file, and `localId` is the flag that says so.** The album page answers with `filePaths`, a real file per displayed track; a card grid cannot afford that and does not need to, because `local_*_id` is built by queries that all join `audio_files` and cleared by a prune whose existence test is a file test in every case. `inLibrary` is written by the same pass, so the two agree in a healthy database — but it is a one-way ratchet (`MAX(in_library, excluded)`) whose only clearing pass is gated on a non-null local id, so it cannot be un-set on its own. Where they already diverged was the client. Both `explore-view` and `explore-artist-details` kept a `libraryMBIDs` set that accumulated every MBID ever seen with `inLibrary` and cleared it never, in views that never unmount. Both are deleted. And one card answered the question twice and got two answers: `renderReleaseMenuItems` gates Play on `localId > 0` while the badge and `albumTarget.owned` used `inLibrary`, so an album with the flag and no local row drew a tick saying it was in your library, offered no Play, and — the request item being gated on *not* owned — offered no way to ask for it either. The count comes from `completenessStore`, shaped like `credit-store`: `request()` is per-card and coalesces a screenful into one `GetAlbumsCompleteness`, absence is cached as an answer, and the whole cache is dropped on a scan, a retag or a removal rather than aged. `aria-disabled` goes on rows that cannot be activated and deliberately not on cards: an unowned card still navigates to the catalog page for it, which is a perfectly good thing to do with something you do not own. Audited and unchanged: `home-view`, `downloads-view`, `cover-grid`, `artist-details` and `genre-details` cannot show catalog content, so everything on them is owned and "owned is plain" is already what they do. The album page's own header badge stays, because that page is about one entity and the badge is its answer rather than a mark on one of many. Closes #38
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.