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docs: highlight the standalone notch and the Gatekeeper step
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docs: highlight the standalone notch and the Homebrew install path
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docs: highlight the standalone notch, the Homebrew path and add funding
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ko_fi: sunnrockk
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Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Overhead switches noise cancelling and ambient sound, sets the equalizer and sho
Bluetooth headphones. It also turns the MacBook notch into a small player for the music playing in Spotify,
Apple Music, and (experimental) Deezer, YouTube Music or your browser.

The notch player stands on its own: no Sony headphones, no Bluetooth, no account. Any MacBook with a notch will
do, and on a screen without one it shows up as a black pill at the top.

<p align="center"><img src=".github/media/notch-open.gif" width="640" alt="The notch opening into a music player, then closing"></p>

## Install
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brew install --cask flotttt/tap/overhead
```

That's it. Open Overhead from your Applications folder.
That's it. Open Overhead from your Applications folder. The app isn't signed with an Apple developer account
yet, but the cask clears the quarantine flag for you, so macOS doesn't get in the way. This is the easy path.

### Without Homebrew

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Overhead isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Sony. It uses a reverse engineered protocol, so use it at your
own risk.

## Support

Overhead is free and there's no company behind it. If it's useful to you, you can
[buy me a coffee](https://ko-fi.com/sunnrockk). The first thing that pays for is the Apple developer account,
so the app can be signed and open without the Open Anyway detour.

## License

MIT, see [LICENSE](LICENSE). The original copyright notice is kept as the license requires.
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