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The queue's pixels were already right. Measured at the reference device's 424x439, #24's overlay is 424x318 -- `.main-panel`'s rect exactly -- so the `DETAIL_LOADERS` mount the issue's Direction asks for would draw the same rectangle in the same place. What was missing was the navigation model: opening the queue on Artists and pressing back moved the page *underneath* to Albums and left the queue up, which is a press that changes something the user cannot see and costs them their place. So the queue is a *place* exactly while it is an overlay, and a *control* while it is a column. A column is a thing the user docked -- back must not undock it and a navigation must not take it away -- and that reuses #24's computed mode rather than adding a breakpoint, so the drag-resizable panel width keeps deciding it. It is in neither `VIEW_TAGS` nor `DETAIL_LOADERS`, because there is nothing to mount and moving it would cost something. `.main-panel > *` computes `contain: content` under a `.main-panel` that does too, and paint containment clips the `position: fixed` a `wa-popup` falls back to on Chrome 113 (#60) -- so the detail-view mount would have broken `queue-panel`'s working context menu on the one device this is about. The panel's ancestry today is paint-free to `body`. Two details that fail silently otherwise. The entry is unwound from the panel's `open` attribute in the observer that already ran for `aria-expanded`, not at each of the four ways out -- without that the entry is orphaned and the *next* back press is the one that closes the queue, which is this defect moved one press later. And the navigation writes neither `dataset.activeView` nor `searchStore.setCurrentView`, because both describe what is *in* the main panel and the queue covers that panel without replacing it. `now-playing-view`'s copy of the button went through the helper too: it set `open` directly, so on a phone it produced exactly the queue with no entry behind it that this removes. Closes #55
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.