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NotchIsland 1.1.0

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@Edwardrem Edwardrem released this 29 Oct 20:29
· 5 commits to main since this release
v1.1.0
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Fixed

  • The island stuck on one browser while another one played. The browser status script stopped at the first tab with any media element, even a paused preview (YouTube's home page keeps one), so a tab playing further along the tab strip was never seen and the island stayed on whatever it had shown before. Every tab is now read and every stream is reported.

Added

  • Multiple sources. Every player and every browser tab with media is a stream. The island follows the one that started playing most recently (audible before muted), stays on the current one while nothing plays, and lists the others as chips in the media card. Tap a chip to switch; the choice holds until a new stream starts. Clicking the artwork of a browser stream jumps to its tab.
  • Safari and every Chromium browser next to Chrome, Brave and Edge: Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, Opera GX, Chromium and the beta/dev/canary channels. Safari needs Develop ▸ Developer Settings ▸ Allow JavaScript from Apple Events (turn on Show features for web developers in Settings ▸ Advanced first). Chromium browsers keep their one-time View ▸ Developer ▸ Allow JavaScript from Apple Events. Firefox has no scripting bridge.
  • NOTCHISLAND_MEDIA_LOG=1 logs every poll's streams and the chosen one.

Changed

  • Media that never played (hover previews, blocked autoplay) and muted looping decorations (landing-page hero videos) are ignored. Each tab gets at most 3 s, so a hung page can no longer freeze the island for a minute. A stream that one poll missed is held for a couple of seconds before the island moves on, so a tab closing elsewhere does not flip the card back and forth.

Install

  1. Download NotchIsland.dmg below and drag NotchIsland into Applications.
  2. macOS says "Apple could not verify NotchIsland is free of malware": the app is not notarized (no paid Developer ID). To open it anyway:
    • macOS 15 and later: click Done, then System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ scroll to "NotchIsland was blocked" ▸ Open Anyway ▸ Open.
    • macOS 13 / 14: right-click NotchIsland in Applications ▸ Open ▸ Open.
    • Or in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/NotchIsland.app
  3. Allow NotchIsland to control each player or browser when macOS asks (Automation), and for notifications turn on NotchIsland under System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Full Disk Access, then relaunch.
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