The pinned mpv binary breaks on brew ffmpeg major drift (libavcodec.62 vs
.63 shipped a dead player); making it self-contained costs ~100MB for an
app icon. Removing the whole machinery: build.ts app-bundle assembly,
audio-player bundled-binary resolver + probe (spawns PATH mpv again),
CI mpv install + bundle smoke checks, AppIcon.icns, README note.
Cover-art staging (curl + --cover-art-files) is unrelated and stays.
The release tag bumps VERSION in src/index.tsx, but build.ts hardcoded
0.3.1 in the app bundle's plist — shipped bundles reported a stale version
(lsappinfo/System Settings). Extract VERSION at bundle-assembly time and
interpolate into CFBundleShortVersionString/CFBundleVersion.
- build.ts: darwin compile now exits 1 when mpv is absent — CI can no
longer ship a PodTui.app without its bundled player (0.4.0 did, killing
Now Playing attribution).
- audio-player.ts: the bundled mpv is probed (--version) at first resolve;
it links against brew's dylibs, and a Homebrew ffmpeg major upgrade can
break it — fall back to PATH mpv so audio survives (icon degrades to
blank instead of playback dying). Probed once per process.
- release.yml: brew install mpv on darwin runners; smoke test now asserts
the tarball's PodTui.app has a launchable mpv signed with the
com.mikefreno.podtui identifier.
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.
