yonluandClaude Opus 4.8
65048401e8
Consolidates in-progress work across autotag, explore, and library: - autotag: beets/Picard-informed scoring engine — ID-first matching, VA handling, recommendation tiers, and a merged distance/rank cascade, with an eval harness for regression tracking. - explore: offline MusicBrainz dump import/incremental refresh replaces the legacy tier crawl; index-first local search with fuzzy matching and a dedicated ranker; disk-free guards for dump downloads. - library: artist-credit extraction and matching. - lyrics: owned-library lyric search (FTS) with LRCLIB backfill. Also: rewrite README to be user-focused, and migrate upstream to git.ljones.me/yonlu/yellowjacket. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# YellowJacket
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*Music how it was meant to bee.*
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YellowJacket is a fast, cross-platform desktop music player for your local
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collection. It plays your files, keeps your library tidy, and helps you discover
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and organize your music — all in a clean, responsive interface. No accounts, no
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streaming, no telemetry: just your music on your machine.
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Runs on **Linux**, **macOS**, and **Windows**.
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## Features
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### Play your music
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- Plays **MP3, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, and WAV**
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- Play, pause, seek, and volume control with a mute toggle
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- Gapless, glitch-free seeking backed by a read-ahead buffer
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- A queue you can add to, reorder, and shuffle, with play-next support
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- Shuffle and repeat (off / all / one)
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- Picks up right where you left off — remembers your track, position, and volume between sessions
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- Media-key and MPRIS support on Linux, so your desktop's playback controls just work
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### Keep your library organized
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- Point it at your music folders and it scans them automatically
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- Reads tags and embedded cover art, and de-duplicates artwork so it isn't stored twice
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- Incremental sync — only new or changed files get reprocessed, and deleted files are cleaned up
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- Browse by **album**, **artist**, or **genre**, or search across everything
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- Mark favorites and see what you've been listening to with play history
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- Edit track tags directly when something's off
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### Playlists
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- Create playlists, drag tracks in, and reorder them
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- **Smart playlists** that build themselves from rules (by genre, rating, play count, and more)
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- Pin a default playlist and spot duplicate tracks at a glance
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### Discover and clean up (powered by MusicBrainz)
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- **Explore** — browse artists, releases, and genres from the MusicBrainz catalog, not just what's already in your library
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- **Auto-tag** — match your files against MusicBrainz to fill in correct artist, album, and track metadata, with a review step before anything is written
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- **Lyrics search** — find a track by a line you remember
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## Install
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Download the latest build for your platform from the
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[releases page](https://git.ljones.me/yonlu/yellowjacket/releases).
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| Platform | Download |
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| Linux | `yellowjacket-linux-amd64` |
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| macOS | `yellowjacket-darwin-universal.app.zip` (Apple Silicon + Intel) |
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| Windows | `yellowjacket-windows-amd64.exe` |
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Prefer to build it yourself? See [Building from source](#building-from-source).
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## Getting started
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1. Launch YellowJacket.
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2. Open **Settings** and add the folder(s) where your music lives.
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3. Let the initial scan finish — you'll see progress as it works.
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4. Browse by album, artist, or genre, queue something up, and press play.
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Your library and settings are stored locally:
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| Config | `~/.config/yellowjacket/` | `%LOCALAPPDATA%\yellowjacket\config` |
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| Library data | `~/.local/share/yellowjacket/` | `%LOCALAPPDATA%\yellowjacket\data` |
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## Building from source
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YellowJacket is built with [Go](https://go.dev/) and a
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[Lit](https://lit.dev/)/TypeScript frontend, bridged by the
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[Wails](https://wails.io/) framework.
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**Prerequisites**
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| Tool | Version |
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| Go | 1.25+ |
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| Node.js | 22+ |
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| pnpm | 10+ |
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| Wails CLI | v2 (`go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest`) |
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On Linux, install the system libraries Wails needs:
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```bash
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sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev
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```
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macOS and Windows need no extra system packages. Run `wails doctor` to check your
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environment.
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**Build**
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```bash
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make setup # install tooling and git hooks
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make dev # run with hot-reload
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make build-prod # produce a release binary
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```
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More detail for contributors lives in
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[`docs/dev/overview.md`](./docs/dev/overview.md) and [`CLAUDE.md`](./CLAUDE.md).
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