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feat(macos): ship PodTui.app bundle so Now Playing shows our icon

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mpv owns the macOS Now Playing session (it plays the audio), and an
unbundled binary renders as a blank placeholder for the source-app icon.
macOS has no public API for a third party to claim session ownership
(MPNowPlayingSession is iOS-only; the private MRMediaRemoteSetNowPlayingApplication
was removed from the shared cache), so instead we make the OWNING process
carry our bundle: the darwin tarball now includes PodTui.app with mpv copied
into Contents/MacOS. AudioPlayer resolves the sibling mpv first (falling
back to PATH), LaunchServices attributes the process to com.mikefreno.podtui,
and Control Center shows the PodTui icon + name with podcast cover art.
AppIcon.icns generated from the Xcode icon-composer exports.
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@@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ Linux (arm64/x64). Pick whichever fits your platform.
brew install mikefreno/tap/podtui
```
On macOS the tarball also ships a `PodTui.app` bundle. PodTui plays audio
through a copy of mpv that lives **inside the bundle**, so macOS attributes
the Now Playing session to PodTui — the Control Center / lock-screen entry
shows the PodTui name and icon, and podcast cover art as its artwork —
rather than a blank placeholder for an unbundled binary. Installers can drop
`PodTui.app` into `/Applications`; the `podtui` entry point should point at
`PodTui.app/Contents/MacOS/podtui` so the bundled mpv is used.
### 2. Standalone tarball (all platforms)
Grab `podtui-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz` from the latest