media-control 0.2.0 (new formula)

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I've just created this tool within the last couple of days, but regarding the "notability threshold" (Acceptable Casks), I think my tool may qualify to fall under the following exception:

A piece of software that was recently released to great fanfare—everyone is talking about it on Twitter and Hacker News and we’ve even gotten multiple premature submissions for it. That’d be a clear case of an app that will reach the threshold in no time so that’s a PR we won’t close immediately (but may wait to merge).

While the tool is located at ungive/media-control, the projected started over at ungive/mediaremote-adapter.

Since macOS 15.4 media control and media detection has been broken by Apple and formulas like nowplaying-cli no longer work: kirtan-shah/nowplaying-cli#28

This is because Apple has added entitlement checks for the use of the MediaRemote private framework which makes it impossible to directly use it in an application. You can still use it indirectly by loading it in a separate process that passes these new entitlement checks, which is e.g. the case with /usr/bin/perl. That's exactly what media-control does and what mediaremote-adapter implements (which is the main component of this formula, media-control is just a small wrapper script written in Perl).

To my knowledge I'm the first person to discover this workaround and people got very excited when I shared the news:

• Stopped working on MacOS 15.4 vincentneo/LosslessSwitcher#161 (comment)
• MRMediaRemoteGetNowPlayingInfo return nil in latest MacOS aviwad/LyricFever#94 (comment)
• nowplaying-cli no longer works on macOS 15.4 kirtan-shah/nowplaying-cli#28 (comment)
• 16 stars since I published the repository 3 days ago: https://github.com/ungive/mediaremote-adapter/stargazers
  Date of publishment: ungive/mediaremote-adapter@1af927f
• So far one fork exists which turned the whole thing into a Swift package: https://github.com/ungive/mediaremote-adapter/forks (https://github.com/ejbills/mediaremote-adapter)

On a side note, the mediaremote-adapter library that media-control uses is also used by and bundled with in the recently merged music-presence cask, albeit an older version: Homebrew/homebrew-cask#216446

I hope this insight helps in deciding whether merging is a viable option for you.

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I've released a new version, v0.4.0. I would integrate it into this PR, but I don't want to interrupt the review process, in case the version is relevant for that. Let me know though, if I can just go ahead and update the PR anyway, that might save you another pull request later (in case this PR is even accepted).

Changes since making this PR:

• media-control: https://github.com/ungive/media-control/compare/v0.2.0..v0.4.0
• mediaremote-adapter (submodule): https://github.com/ungive/mediaremote-adapter/compare/v0.2.0..v0.4.0

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I'd love some feedback on this. The repository has 15 stars now, but it's merely a small CLI wrapper around the main project which has 43 stars today: https://github.com/ungive/mediaremote-adapter (see the submodule inclusion in the repository).