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.
- 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
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.
- Vendor cava/cavacore.c + header (MIT, from karlstav/cava) — the FFI build
referenced cava/cavacore.c which was never committed, so every CI runner
failed at scripts/build-cavacore.sh and no release was possible.
- build-cavacore.sh: discover libfftw3.a across Homebrew and Debian/Ubuntu
multiarch paths (FFTW_PREFIX override preserved).
- release.yml: install fftw before building cavacore; run the boot smoke test
from a bunfig-free dir (the embedded runtime reads the CWD bunfig.toml and
this repo's preload entry breaks it — 'preload not found'); use
macos-15-intel for darwin-x64 (macos-latest is arm64).
- Makefile/build.ts: drop the no-op BUN_CONFIG=bunfig.standalone.toml compile
dance (Bun never honored it; compile output is config-independent); delete
bunfig.standalone.toml.
