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The complaint was having to notice the metadata was missing, then go and hunt the album down on the Autotag page. The album page now says it while you are looking at the thing: "MusicBrainz has a match for this album: <release> by <artist>", with Apply tags and Review in Autotag. Four things about it are load-bearing. **Applying is offered only where it would do the whole album.** A tagging group is a folder, so a multi-disc album is several, and one button that applied to the best-scoring group would leave the album holding a mix of old and new tags — the exact case the app's Blocking notification level exists for. `groupCount` is the test, and the answer there is review rather than apply. **It rewrites files, so it asks.** `confirmAction()` with an impact line that says it cannot be undone and that nothing is moved or deleted, because "rewrites your files" reads worse than it is. The apply goes through `ApplyAsync`, the registered-job path, so progress belongs to the jobs indicator and this page does not grow a second one — what it owes the user is the acknowledgement, because the button is here. The suggestion clears itself on success rather than inviting a second click while the job runs. **The banner does not quote a percentage.** The backend has a score and deliberately keeps it out of the sentence: 0.95 reads as a probability and is not one. Which release it is, is the part a person can judge. **"Review in Autotag" lands on that album.** The queue is sorted by score so the intended folder is often near the top, and "often" is a link that sometimes opens a different album. Autotag is a cached primary view, so there is no construction to hand a payload to: the request goes on as an attribute and the view *consumes* it, or every later visit would reopen a folder the user finished with long ago. `ICON_AUTOTAG` joins the vocabulary at the same time, on the rule `ICON_PLAYLIST` was chosen by — an icon names the noun it acts on, so a suggestion pointing at Autotag wears the Autotag destination's own mark. It was written inline in the sidebar; two call sites is where a name stops being one component's detail, so the sweep governs it now. Verified against the running app with a staged match: the banner, the confirm dialog's wording, and the navigation landing on the right folder with the attribute consumed. Closes #28
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.