yonluandClaude Opus 5
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Plans 013 and 014, the album page that prompted them, and the smaller fixes they turned up. Changelog, largest first. ## The local library is shaped like files, not like MusicBrainz `audio_files` carries its own tags and points at `albums` and `artists`; `file_genres` is the one real many-to-many. `recordings`, `release_group_recordings`, `artist_credit`, `artist_credit_artist`, `recording_genres`, `release_groups` and `release_to_rg` are gone from the local side, and with them a six-way join in every read, a `MIN(release_group_id)` subquery in eleven queries and a first-credited-artist subquery in nine. Measured on a real 25,966-file library, every many-to-many that model expressed was 1:1 in the data. - Ownership is a file. `GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs`, `LibraryMBIDIndex.CheckMBIDs`, `collectLibraryEntities` and `pruneStaleLocalCrossReferences` all join `audio_files`, so the 812 orphaned recordings, 216 release groups and 260 artists that library carried are now structurally impossible. - One projection: every track query selects from the `track_metadata` view, one row type, one mapper. Nine hand-rolled copies had drifted far enough to report different years on different screens. - `library_id = 0` means every library, so each list query exists once instead of scoped and unscoped with a branch at every call site. - No migration chain. `sql/schemas/` is the one description of the shape; `sql/migrations/`, `applyMigrations` and `schema_migrations` are squashed away, along with the drift between them that had sqlc generating against a stale schema. - `database.InsertTestTrack` is the one test seeder; twenty test files had been assembling the old FK chain each in its own order. ## The catalog stores its ids as bytes `explore_index`'s three 36-char MBID columns and its entity-type text are 16 raw bytes and a small integer. The table and its six indexes go 780 MB to 405 MB on a real 2,052,200-row catalog, which is why a fresh install is ~0.6 GB rather than ~1.0 GB. - `backend/explore/mbid.go` is the only place the encoding is known; everything above it speaks dashed strings. - `CHECK(length(mbid) = 16)` makes a stringly write fail at the insert rather than silently returning no rows, since SQLite does not coerce between TEXT and BLOB. - The importer asks the artifact what encoding it carries and converts on the way in, so the artifact already published keeps working and no format bump is needed. - `indexRowColumns`/`scanIndexRow` replace four copies of a 22-column list, and `TestStoredEncodingRoundTrips` sweeps every read path. ## An album page that says how much of the album is yours - One question, asked once: is there a file. `filePaths` is filled by a single batched lookup when the tracklist settles, and the badge, the Play count, the dimmed rows and every menu item read it — replacing four claims of decreasing confidence that could show a green tick on an album whose every action did nothing. - Play, Play 7 of 12, or no play button at all. - `total_tracks` on `explore_index` (~2 bytes over 400,677 release groups) and on `audio_files` from tags that have always carried it: a complete MBID-matched album now makes no catalog call at all, where it used to spend the most expensive request the app makes. - A merged cluster shows the running order the most releases agree on, and the version list marks the release you own rather than standing a synthetic entry in for it. - `AlbumReleasesFailed`: a slow fetch is no longer reported as a failed one by a 12-second timer. - Rows not in the library are dimmed in place (with `aria-disabled`) instead of the owned ones wearing a green tick and a legend. ## Caches and cover art get ceilings - Only the three tiers of a cover are stored; the full-resolution copy nothing rendered was 1,134 MB of a 1.4 GB covers directory. - One artist portrait is downloaded and the rest are remembered as URLs — 4.1 GB of a 5.3 GB cache was candidates no code path reads. - `browsedArtBudget` and `httpCacheBudget` bound what an age cannot: the same install held art for 5,770 artists in a 1,301-artist library. - `OrphanedArtistImagesJob` joined a bare MBID onto a sharded directory, so it deleted the rows that were the only record of the files it left behind. `explore.ArtistImageDir` is that layout's one definition now. ## The autotag queue asks whether there is work `tagging_items` was a row per album folder, not a queue, and no query read the `tag_status` column that held the answer. The four queue queries ask the files, which matters most where it is least visible: `startPrefetch` was scoring every album in a tagged library against MusicBrainz. ## Phantom playlist tracks resolve in place An M3U8 imported before its files leaves phantom rows; they now match by path and fall back to position, keep their place in the playlist when resolved, and pair best-first so two phantoms cannot claim the same file. ## Playing a track plays the list it is in Double-click, and Play on a single row's menu, queue the list as displayed with `startIndex` on that row — the album page and the track list used to queue one track and discard the album around it. A multi-row selection still plays exactly itself. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfVYUVExXsx1nSWrXN8mAh
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
docs/dev/overview.md and CLAUDE.md.