Enables Fiddles That Capture Audio via Apple's New CoreAudio Tap API#1844
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Enables Fiddles That Capture Audio via Apple's New CoreAudio Tap API#1844Bug-Reaper wants to merge 1 commit intoelectron:mainfrom
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Hey there,
Big fan of this app, it was really useful on my most recent adventure. Let me be the first to introduce you to:
Core Audio Tap API
Apple introduced a new permission to be able to use their latest API for audio-capture available since some version of macOS 14. In line with enabling other permissions like web-cam and microphone (which enable audio capture through a different API anyways) we should also include this new permission to our Fiddle's info.plist.
This PR adds the proper
usageDescriptionto the forge-script so at build time the new flag is added to Fiddle's info.plistI've spent the last 5 days reviewing C++/Objective-C Chromium source to hone in on why my DesktopAudioCapture broke on an electron version update.
It is in-fact chromium started using this new
Core Audio Tap APIand has no fallback to the old API if the new one fails. Frustratingly, the error is silent from the electron-side and it fails even though a valid permission for audio-capture exists under a different API.This PR is important to resolve aforementioned issues for Fiddler's attempting to use desktop audio on electron versions
39.0.0-beta.3