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`applySchema` is CREATE ... IF NOT EXISTS and there is no migration chain, so a *changed* table never migrates: the statement silently no-ops against the old shape. Two plans had already landed on that, and neither showed up in a test because a fresh install is perfectly healthy. - 014 added `total_tracks` to explore_index and to `indexRowFields`, the projection every explore read uses, so every search, browse, artist page and album page failed with "no such column: total_tracks" on any database that already had a catalog. - 013 reshaped audio_files, so applySchema could not run at all and the app did not open. staleshape.go runs before applySchema and drops what disagrees, so the create is a create. It parses sql/schemas/ for the expectation rather than writing the column list down a second time, and it notices a changed *type* as well as a missing column — 013 moved mbid TEXT to BLOB, which no ALTER could express and which SQLite will not coerce, so a query against 16 raw bytes returns no rows rather than an error. Only Authored tables are exempt. Cache is rebuildable by definition, Owned is what a rescan rebuilds (plan 013's stated "delete and rescan"), and a table the schema no longer describes at all goes too -- 013 left seven behind plus schema_migrations. Three things in it are load-bearing, and each was a bug first: - The parser read `UNIQUE(mbid)` as a column, which made a healthy catalog look stale. That would have retired it on every launch and cost every user an artifact download per start. - The drops are one transaction with defer_foreign_keys. Those legacy tables reference each other, so any order fails on whichever goes first; turning foreign keys off instead would suppress playlist_tracks.audio_file_id's ON DELETE SET NULL and leave entries pointing at ids a rescan reissues to *different songs*. Nulled entries are empty; stale ones are wrong, and wrong quietly. - The order is sorted, so a failure reproduces. Map order is random, and the foreign-key bug passed its own regression test on two runs in three until the order was fixed. Verified against a real pre-013 install: it opens, its 22 playlists survive, 1,887 linked playlist entries become 0 rather than dangling, and the legacy tables are swept. 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.