← Pokoe
Changelog
Every release, newest first. The same notes your Mac shows when Pokoe updates itself.
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1.2.2
LatestImproved
- The panel opens without a browser row jumping into place. Pokoe decides whether to show the SoundCloud or YouTube browser row before the panel appears.
- Artwork and icons are prepared before the panel displays them. This avoids the image resolution path linked to recent panel crashes. Large covers use less memory, and icons stay sharp on Retina screens.
- The Playing indicator starts fresh when you reopen the panel. A late audio reading can no longer show an out-of-date indicator.
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1.2.1
Fixed
- Clicking the menu bar icon closes the panel again on macOS 27. With the panel open, a click on the icon left it open instead of closing it. It now closes on that click, the same as clicking outside the panel, pressing Esc, or switching Spaces. Nothing changes on earlier versions of macOS.
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1.2.0
New
- Your keys can follow whatever is playing. Pokoe used to send every press to the one player you had picked, even when something else was playing. Picking a player now pins it, and with nothing pinned each press goes to whatever is playing at that moment, whether that is Spotify, Apple Music or a YouTube tab. Click a pinned player again to unpin it and follow along instead.
- Unpinning no longer hands your keys back to macOS. It used to, which is the unreliable behaviour Pokoe exists to replace, reached by a click that looks like it just clears a choice. If that is the state you were in, Pokoe is now following what plays. Pin a player again whenever you want a fixed target.
Changed
- "On air" is now "Playing". The old wording had to be vague because the signal underneath it could not tell paused from playing. It reads the system now playing session instead, so the plain word is true.
Fixed
- A silent browser tab no longer looks like it is playing. SoundCloud and YouTube rows could both show the mark with the tabs merely open and nothing playing. A browser keeps its audio output open once it has played anything, so that mark was never about the tab you were looking at.
- A tab you closed no longer keeps its row, and detection is quicker. Browsers are checked at the same time rather than one after another, and Pokoe takes another look the moment you bring a browser to the front.
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1.1.0
New
- YouTube in your browser. Your media keys now control a YouTube tab the same way they control a music app: play, pause and skip, with no desktop app and no extension. It works in every browser, and YouTube Music on the web comes along with it. Pick YouTube in the panel the way you pick any other player.
- Only when you are actually watching something. A YouTube tab parked on the homepage does not put a row in your panel. Pokoe offers YouTube when there is a video, a playlist or a short open.
Fixed
- Two browser tabs no longer get mixed up. With SoundCloud and YouTube open in the same browser, pressing play for one could control the other. macOS reports only a single app as "now playing", and for both tabs that app is the same browser, so there was nothing to tell them apart by. Pokoe now works out which tab is really playing and reaches the one you chose.
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1.0.4
Fixed
- No more permission prompt you have already answered. Pokoe could ask for Accessibility access out of the blue while the switch was already on, because macOS reports a second copy of an app (a beta build, a stale copy in Downloads) as if it were never granted. Pokoe now trusts the grant you have already given.
- The "On air" label sits still between tracks. Players drop their audio stream for a moment when one track ends and the next begins, so the label blinked off and on again on every track change.
Improved
- A better empty panel. With nothing playing, Pokoe now tells you which player your media keys will reach, and wears its own mark instead of a generic music note.
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1.0.3
Fixed
- The panel no longer shows the wrong thing. With SoundCloud open in one browser and a video playing in another, Pokoe showed that video as if it were your SoundCloud track.
- And no longer controls the wrong thing. In the same situation the media keys could reach the other browser's video instead of your SoundCloud tab. Pokoe now leaves it alone.
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1.0.2
Fixed
- Pokoe no longer asks for access you have already given. macOS sometimes hides a permission change from an app that is already running, so Pokoe could keep asking for Accessibility access while the switch was already on, and only quitting fixed it. It now offers to reopen itself instead, which clears it in one click.
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1.0.1
Fixed
- Media keys now control SoundCloud in your browser straight away. They previously did nothing until you granted Pokoe permission to look at your tabs, even though the keys never needed it. Works in every browser, including Arc and Dia.
- The "On air" dot now lights for Arc, Dia and other browsers. It only ever worked in some browsers, by coincidence.
- Your chosen player stays visible. Picking SoundCloud and then closing the tab made the row vanish, so there was no way to see or change what your keys were controlling.
- Clearer permission questions. Pokoe now explains what access actually buys you, asks about the browser you are listening in rather than guessing, and lets you change your mind later.
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1.0.0
Your keyboard's play, next, and previous keys, pointed at the music player you actually use, not whichever app macOS decided to hand them to.
- 15 players supported, detected automatically: Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Qobuz, SoundCloud, YouTube Music, VLC, Plexamp, Pocket Casts, and more. SoundCloud in a browser tab works too.
- Now playing at a glance, click the menu bar icon for the current track with artwork, and switch players in one click.
- Stays out of the way. No dock icon, no window, and nothing running in the background while the panel is closed.
- Keeps itself up to date from this release onward.