yonluandClaude Opus 5 deb3f3da7e feat(wails): move the e2e harness and headless launch onto v3
make e2e is green on chromium: 92 passed. The harness is rebuilt on
what v3 actually offers, and three of the four things it replaced turn
out to be better than what they replaced.

The headless launch is v3's own server mode. scripts/dev-headless.sh
ran a `-tags dev` binary whose app_dev.go parsed -devserver/-assetdir
out of os.Args; that file went with v2, so the harness had no server at
all. `-tags dev,server` is a first-class mode and needs no display, so
Xvfb is gone from the script and from CI.

The bridge hooks two places, neither of them EventsOn. Inbound is
window._wails.dispatchWailsEvent, wrapped by pre-creating the object
the runtime keeps and putting an accessor on the one property.
Outbound is fetch: v3 routes every runtime call through one POST, so
the bridge sees binding calls and event emits from any module, needs no
walk of an object graph, and cannot miss a call made before it looked.

__yjEvents.call posts to that endpoint by method name, so it depends on
nothing in the app's bundle and works on a page with no init script.
That is what lets seed-sandbox.sh drop playwright-cli entirely — it
drove AddLibrary through a browser only because window.go was v2's one
way in — and with it a global npm install and a second Chromium in CI.

measure.mjs and one spec lose their window.go walks and read the
bridge's log instead; e2e/support/method-ids.mjs derives id -> name
from frontend/bindings/ (phase 6b option 1, so it cannot go stale
silently). Plain .mjs because measure.mjs runs under bare node and one
derivation beats two that can disagree.

Four bugs surfaced, and the migration is how.

The cross-service wiring never ran headless. It hung off
Common.ApplicationStarted, which server mode never emits —
setupCommonEvents is an explicit no-op there — so the queue had no
TrackLoader and playing a track changed the queue and then silently did
nothing. It is a service registered last now (backend/startup.go):
services start in registration order, which is the ordering the wiring
needs, in every mode.

Six specs called SetQueue with 3 of its 4 arguments. v2 accepted that
and filled the gap; v3 answers "expects 4 arguments, got 3".

requested-badge's cleanup read window.go and returned early on
`if (!svc)` — the silent cleanup its own comment was written to
prevent, one migration later. It posts to the runtime endpoint now,
which any page can do.

SearchIndex.Search trusted a startup latch, so rows a spec staged
afterwards were unsearchable and three specs passed only when an
earlier one happened to flip it. shelves.go fixed exactly this and left
hasCatalogRows behind; the search path now uses it as the fallback,
with the latch still the fast path.

Two spec edits are deletions of assertions about v2. harness.spec
checked Object.keys(window.go) and that a bad call *hung*; it now
checks the real runtime is loaded and that the backend rejects with a
TypeError naming the argument. album-actions asserted a tracklist
legend that dcc40b1 deleted on main — that spec has been failing since,
and what replaced it is covered in frontend/test/components.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UDCbcCZQepnpSQYJ6SxxZm
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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

  1. Launch YellowJacket.
  2. Open Settings and add the folder(s) where your music lives.
  3. Let the initial scan finish — you'll see progress as it works.
  4. 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 v2 (go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest)

On Linux, install the system libraries Wails needs:

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev

macOS and Windows need no extra system packages. Run wails 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 docs/dev/overview.md and CLAUDE.md.

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