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Install beardie with Homebrew Cask
Control various media players with your keyboard. Version 3.0.24.84.Release via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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overview
Package summary
Control various media players with your keyboard
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Commands and aliases
No executable aliases were found in the local package database.
history
Project history and usage
Beardie is a macOS utility for controlling web, native, and network media players using media keys and configurable shortcuts.
Project history
Beardie originated as a fork of BeardedSpice and retained compatibility with BeardedSpice media strategies. Its repository later moved from the Stillness-2 organization to the vityevato account.
The maintainer states that notarized binary releases are currently suspended, although the application can still be built from source.
Adoption history
Distributed as a macOS application and Homebrew cask. Its official repository documents support for browser-based players, native applications, and Sonos systems.
How it is used
Users run Beardie from the macOS menu bar, select or automatically detect an active player, and control playback with media keys or custom shortcuts. Browser control requires enabling browser extensions and installing a compatible extension.
Why package nerds care
Beardie is notable to macOS package users as a specialized menu-bar utility that unifies media-key control across otherwise unrelated applications and browser tabs.
Timeline
- Forked from BeardedSpice: Beardie continued the media-strategy model under a separate project.
- Current status: Source remains available, but the maintainer is not producing notarized releases.
Related projects
- BeardedSpice: upstream project from which Beardie was forked.
- Unsupported BeardedSpice Strategies: a source of additional web-player strategies compatible with Beardie.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for beardie. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| No executable data was present. | |||
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-11-04
manager version3.0.24.84.Release
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/Stillness-2/beardie
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/Stillness-2/beardienone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:beardie |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.0.24.84.Release |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/beardie |
| Homepage | https://github.com/Stillness-2/beardie |
| Repository | https://github.com/Stillness-2/beardie |
| Source archive | https://github.com/Stillness-2/beardie/releases/download/v3.0.24.84.Release/Beardie.app.zip |
| SHA-256 | d4361bc06beab9e868b746695506656603febe02c32539ffc15a5a7b642425dd |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | beardie |
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| Artifacts | |
| Auto Updates | yes |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment
- pkgdb category and tag curation