Self-rescheduling refresh timer (default 30 min, configurable via a
Preferences item, re-read on every tick, skips in-flight refreshes).
fetchEpisodes returns null on network failure/timeout so a failed
refresh can never wipe a feed's episodes (addFeed/refreshFeed/
refreshAllFeeds all treat null as unchanged); feeds still refresh on
launch.
History used localStorage, which never exists in the Bun TUI, so nothing
survived a restart. Store the 10 most recent queries in config-dir
search-history.json (same fire-and-forget file pattern as audio-nav.json),
loaded asynchronously at store init. Dedupe case-insensitively, cap at 10.
Regression coverage for the search input's focus flag: it must track
the renderable's REAL focus (useInputFocusNav FOCUSED/BLURRED), not a
flag that outlives it. Clicking off the input drops inputFocused and
keyboard control resumes; s re-enters typing; Esc defocuses; clicking
the input refocuses.
Documents the observed full-suite CPU-contention flake in the header:
both tests occasionally time out in openSearch under suite load while
passing reliably in isolation.
Search now covers individual episodes, not just shows: the iTunes
Search API (entity=podcastEpisode) matches episode titles and show
notes, so a guest or topic finds the episodes they appear in across
shows. Enter on an episode result subscribes to the parent show.
- types: SearchResult becomes a kind-discriminated union
(podcast | episode); EpisodeSearchResult carries the parent show so
existing consumers compile unchanged
- source-searcher: searchEpisodesByType (RSS/CUSTOM return []),
buildItunesEpisodeUrl, cleanDescription (HTML -> text),
mapItunesEpisodeResult (episode id/duration ms->s/audioUrl, reuses
mapItunesResult so delisted shows keep a directoryUrl)
- search: searchEpisodes with an 'episode' cache/dedupe namespace so
shows and episodes for the same query never mix
- stores/search: scope signal (podcast | episode) persisted to
podtui_search_scope; search() branches on scope
- SearchPage: Shows/Episodes pills row with 'tab to toggle', scope-
aware placeholder/empty state/result rows (episode row = title +
Show · date) and preview; toggling re-runs the current query
- keybinds: search-scope-toggle bound to tab (keybinds.jsonc AND the
runtime DEFAULT_KEYBINDS merge so the binding exists for users with
a pre-existing config file); while the input is focused the Shell
router never sees Tab, so the input handles it via onKeyDown +
preventDefault (no double-toggle: the router path only fires when
the input is defocused)
- Shell help overlay documents [tab] shows/episodes
Podcast Index (api.podcastindex.org) ships as a disabled, key-less source
and is only consulted as a fallback when primary search results are fewer
than 3 — never on the hot path, never when disabled or credential-less.
A failed fallback leaves primary results intact.
Credentials are user-supplied: enabling the source pops a dialog that
asks for the free key+secret, prefilled masked (first 3 chars + "...")
when already stored; toggling off never clears them. Secrets prefer the
macOS keychain (security CLI, encrypted at rest) with a plaintext
config.json fallback when the keychain is unavailable; sources carry only
a hasCredentials/credentialStorage marker, and legacy plaintext keys in
existing configs are migrated on load.
Auth follows the documented scheme: X-Auth-Key, X-Auth-Date (epoch) and
Authorization = sha1(key + secret + date). Dead feeds are filtered, feed
URLs are used directly, and episode-scope search is a no-op (no endpoint).
Shows that left Apple Podcasts (e.g. Daily Wire's in 2021) come back from
the iTunes Search API as metadata-only stub records with feedUrl null.
mapItunesResult dropped them, so The Ben Shapiro Show — the #1 hit for
'ben shapiro' — never appeared in search while sibling shows did.
- Keep feedUrl-less results (feedUrl "" + directoryUrl pointing at the
Apple page) so delisted shows stay findable.
- Resolve the real feed from the Apple page at subscribe time
(itunes-feed-resolver: anchor on the collection's adamId, forward-scan
for the embedded feedUrl; Apple serves page variants where the
showOffer block sits thousands of chars after the adamId).
- addFeed refuses feedless stubs whose feed can't be resolved instead of
adding a broken feed; SearchPage surfaces the failure via toast.
- Tests: stub mapping, extractor variants, and an end-to-end subscribe
over a local HTTP server.
Mirrors the Feed tab's '[Fetch More]' row inside a drilled show's episode
list (My Shows depth 1): shows only while the show's cache holds episodes
beyond its loaded window, and advances just that show's window by 50 on
Enter (or automatically at the bottom in auto mode). Same fetchMoreMode
preference drives both behaviors. Adds a store-contract test for the
per-feed pagination path.
The babel-preset-solid JSX transform HTML-escapes static string
children (< > → < >), which opentui renders verbatim — so the
"< > seek" hint displayed its entities. Pass the string as the
content prop instead, which bypasses the transform.
Previously the marquee looped continuously, cycling back to the
start the moment the text finished. Now it holds at the start for
SCROLL_HOLD_MS (10s), scrolls one pass at SCROLL_STEP_MS per char,
then holds again.
Feed and My Shows rows could grow to 4+ lines when a long title was
shrunk by the current pane: flexible text wrapped instead of
truncating, shifting every row below while scrolling. Add
wrapMode=none + truncate to flexible text and flexShrink=0 to
fixed-width cells so rows stay one line tall. Feed rows also move
the podcast name onto its own line. Adds a rendered-layout
regression test at 70 columns (35-col current pane).
Two fixes to refresh order stability (My Shows / Feed sort by
lastUpdated):
- A refresh that fetches identical episodes no longer bumps
lastUpdated (id-set comparison via sameEpisodes), so unchanged
feeds keep their position instead of reordering every cycle.
- refreshAllFeeds now fetches in parallel and applies ONE atomic
update instead of a per-feed setFeeds, which re-sorted the list
once per completion and made order flap until the batch finished.
Adds feed-refresh regression tests with mocked clock.
Change the parent|current|preview split from 1:2:2 (20/40/40) to
2:5:3 (20/50/30) so the focused list gets more room. 2-pane tabs
now give current the combined 80%. Updates ratio comments and the
PaneRow test expectations.
Adds a Selection Marker toggle under Settings → Preferences that
controls the ❯ cursor glyph on the focused row of every list.
Default off; rows keep a leading space for alignment either way.
Every list pane (tab strip, feed, my shows, discover, search,
settings, whitelist editor) reads the glyph through the shared
useSelectionMarker hook.
Also aligns the lead column across panes: page list rows drop
their extra box paddingLeft so labels start at the same column
as the tab strip (2 cells without nerd icons, 4 with), keeping
episode sub-rows aligned to the title.
The decode head lagged the player by a constant ε (ffmpeg startup
latency) because ffmpeg paced at -readrate <speed> started behind mpv
and, advancing at the same rate, never caught up — bars were a few
seconds behind for the entire playback.
Add -readrate_initial_burst LEAD_SECONDS so ffmpeg emits 3s of audio
immediately on start, then paces at realtime after. The decode head
leads the player by a stable ~3s from the very first frame; read()
samples at the exact player position and always finds fresh samples.
Add a sustained render-loop test that simulates ~5s of real playback,
asserting ffmpeg stays alive, the decode head maintains a positive
lead, and read() returns full windows. Uses real wall-clock time
(documented exception) since ffmpeg's decode pacing can't be tested
deterministically.
The cover was previously only wired through the UI hook; --play skipped it.
Also: Bun's fetch hangs in compiled binaries (Bun 1.3.8) — every cover
download silently failed in shipped builds, timing out against any host.
Cover staging now shells out to curl (present on macOS/Linux, 8s bound),
shared via src/utils/cover-art.ts so the UI and CLI paths stage the same
temp file and pass it to mpv as --cover-art-files (albumart track).
mediaremoted resolves the Now Playing client from the registering process's
code-signing identifier, not its bundle. codesign derives the identifier of
a plist-less executable from its basename, so the bundled mpv was stamped
'mpv' regardless of PodTui.app — the audio center kept showing a blank
placeholder. Signing mpv last with --identifier com.mikefreno.podtui (after
the bundle deep-seal, which would otherwise re-derive the basename) makes
the session register as PodTui: icon + name. Identity overridable via
PODTUI_CODESIGN_IDENTITY for Developer ID release builds.
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.
MouseEvent coordinates are terminal-absolute, so the bar's seek handler
must subtract its own absolute left edge (renderable ref) instead of
treating the mouse x as bar-local. Clicking was off by the width of the
parent/Up pane (~20%) plus chrome. Also drop the empty played-text node
at position 0, which rendered a phantom space column and shifted the
drawn bar one char when playback started.
- release tarballs now ship podtui.png (assets/App Icon/App Icon.png, 512px)
on every platform; Linux tarballs additionally carry podtui.desktop
(Terminal=true so launchers open the TUI in a terminal)
- AUR PKGBUILD installs both: icon to hicolor 512x512, entry to applications/
- build.ts bundles the icon/desktop into dist before tarballing
Tabs, Discover categories (replacing unused placeholder glyphs), Settings
sections, and the Feed 'Fetch More' row get Nerd Font glyphs (Font Awesome PUA
codepoints). When the terminal font isn't Nerd Font capable the glyphs render
nothing at all — no tofu, no layout gaps — via supportsNerdFonts() (env
allowlist + PODTUI_NERD_FONTS=1/0 override). Documented in README (Configuration
-> Fonts).
- mpv: --force-media-title '<podcast> — <episode>' so macOS Now Playing shows
the podcast name instead of the download-hash filename (mediaTitle PlayOption)
- media registry: artist is now the human podcast title (customName ||
podcast.title), falling back to podcastId
- downloads: write the podcast cover as a <base>.jpg sibling so mpv's
cover-art-auto=exact picks it up for artwork; delete it with the download
The bottom-bar now-playing segment shows '<podcast> — <episode>' (custom name
when set, feed resolved like advanceEpisode), takes the full remaining status-bar
width, and marquee-scrolls on a 300ms timer when the text overflows instead of
truncating at 40 chars. Static when it fits; no interval runs on fit/narrow bars.
- ProgressBar: full-width played/remaining bar in the player pane, click-to-seek;
waveform no longer handles seeking or the played/future color split (pure visual)
- bars: 2 terminal rows per bar (16 levels) via barChars, partial block in the
top row so the column renders continuously
- fix bars maxing at audio start: disable cava autosens (silence gain-ramp),
pre-warm the malloc'd FFT window with zeros, skip partial FFT windows
- createBarScaler peak follower + power curve replaces cava autosens for
level-to-height mapping (src/utils/bar-mapping.ts, unit-tested)
Whitelist editor (Preferences > Auto Download Whitelist):
- input focus driven by nav.inputFocused() (SearchPage pattern) so Esc
deterministically defocuses and j/k/Space/Enter browse the suggestions
- suggestions react to mouse: click focuses the row and toggles membership
- no accent bg / no marker on any suggestion while the input is focused
- s re-enters typing mode; suggestion rows scroll into view
Search page: recent-searches rows get no bg and no marker while the query
input is focused (previously the focused row fell into the inactive branch
and rendered the border color as a background).
My Shows: w toggles the focused show in/out of the auto-download whitelist
at the show list (depth 0), with a whitelist marker on the row and a hint in
the preview pane (scope: whitelist).
Loading indicators: the braille spinner now carries a contextual label
(Refreshing…, Fetching…, Loading more…, Discovering…, Searching…) and is
shown in every loading state that previously rendered nothing — Discover
results, Search results fallback, and the empty Feed list.
Feed pagination: a focusable "[Fetch More]" row at the bottom of the flat
feed list advances every feed's loaded window by 50 episodes via the new
loadMoreAllFeeds/hasMoreAcrossAll store API. Behavior is a setting
(Fetch More: manual|auto, default manual) persisted in config.json; auto
fetches when focus reaches the bottom row. The button row is excluded
from episode focus so no episode is double-highlighted while it is active.
Set autoloadBunfig: false in build.ts so the compiled runtime ignores any
bunfig.toml in the launching directory, preventing startup failures from a
CWD preload the standalone cannot resolve. Update release.yml, Makefile,
bunfig.toml, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md to match.
- Current pane gets muted left/right borders only (no full box, no accent
ring); border colors are passed only when a border is requested, since
opentui flips borderless boxes to bordered when borderColor is supplied.
- Remove the Up / <current tab> / Detail titles above the panes; the current
pane's title now renders once, top-left in the parent column's header slot.
- Drop the parentLabel/previewLabel props from PaneRow and all callers.
- Remove the tab/depth indicator from the bottom-left of the status bar.
- Tests measure column widths from the border glyphs and assert the
left/right edges render muted regardless of focus.
Make parent|current|preview fully borderless: no scrollbox borders and no
accent border highlight on the current column. focused still gates
scroll-following but never surfaces a separator. Update tests to measure
column widths from the header-label row and assert no border glyphs render.
