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v0.1.1 — Polish: level meters, timer in menu bar, app icon

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@BozhengLong BozhengLong released this 24 May 03:02
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A polish release. No new core functionality — everything from v0.1.0 still works the same way — but the daily-use experience is meaningfully better.

What's new

  • 🎨 App icon — Finder, LaunchPad, Cmd+Tab, and Spotlight now show a proper red-record-dot squircle instead of the generic macOS app placeholder.
  • 📊 Live level meters in the menu bar popover — one bar per channel, green → yellow → red. Confirms at a glance that audio is actually flowing, and makes muted channels visually obvious.
  • ⏱️ Elapsed time in the menu bar — recording duration is shown directly next to the icon (e.g. 🔴 01:23), so you don't have to open the popover to check.
  • 📖 README rewrite — leads with the product value, adds a comparison table vs Granola / Audio Hijack / BlackHole+OBS, collapses the architecture/internals into expandable sections, adds shields.io badges.
  • 🛠️ TCC troubleshooting — documented the most common "permission silently denied after rebuild" gotcha, with a one-line tccutil reset fix.
  • 🧰 Icon build pipelinemake-icon.py + make-icon.sh regenerate the icon from parameters. Changing colors / shape is now a one-commit edit.

Install

Same as v0.1.0:

  1. Download MeetRec.app.zip below, unzip
  2. Drag MeetRec.app to /Applications
  3. First launch: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or:
    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/MeetRec.app
  4. Grant Microphone and Screen Recording permissions when prompted
  5. If you only get mic audio after rebuilding, the Screen Recording TCC may be stuck:
    tccutil reset ScreenCapture com.local.meetrec

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/BozhengLong/meetrec.git
cd meetrec
./make-app.sh

What's still missing (planned)

  • Demo gif in the README — soon
  • GitHub Actions to auto-build releases on tag push — soon-ish
  • Pause/resume within a single file
  • Bookmark markers (⌥⌘B to drop a timestamp into a sidecar file)

Full changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1