NotchIsland 1.3.2

What's new in 1.3.2

Fixed: a TV app (or QuickTime Player, Podcasts…) stream dropped out of the island after a few minutes. The process that reads the system Now Playing feed locked up on its first playback notification, and the island lost the stream about ten seconds later. The feed's notification handling has been rebuilt, and both the feed and the app now watch for silence and replace a feed that goes quiet before the island notices.

Every app that publishes is listed. The feed now reports each app with an item, not only the one macOS has elected as "now playing". With a browser tab paused in the background and the TV app playing, the island keeps the TV app; each app is its own source chip.

Commands never land on the wrong app. macOS delivers a Now Playing command to the elected app whichever app is named, so NotchIsland now sends a feed command only to that app. For the TV app and QuickTime Player it uses AppleScript instead when they are not the elected app, which asks for Automation permission once.

Updating: Settings ▸ Updates ▸ Update Now in 1.2.0 or later, or download the DMG below. Permission grants carry over (same signing identity).