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using System.Reflection;
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namespace RemSound.App;
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/// <summary>
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/// About dialog. Shows the running version, a short blurb about RemSound and the latest
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/// release notes (built in below — bumped per release alongside the project's
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/// <see cref="System.Version"/> property).
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///
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/// Layout follows the same NVDA-friendly conventions the rest of the app uses: a small
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/// modal dialog with a heading label, a read-only multi-line text box for the notes that
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/// the user can tab into and arrow through, and a Close button as the AcceptButton /
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/// CancelButton. Escape dismisses.
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/// </summary>
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internal sealed class AboutDialog : Form
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{
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/// <summary>Markdown-ish release notes shown in the About box's scrolling text area.
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/// Bumped per release. Keep it short — the canonical release notes also live on the
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/// GitHub Releases page, which the user can reach via the Help menu's "Check for
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/// updates" path.</summary>
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private const string ReleaseNotes =
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"""
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2026-05-15 17:20:01 +01:00
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RemSound v1.5
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Menu reorganisation, multi-peer audio-routing fix, recording
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fix for BothIndependent mode, and Ctrl+O for Open profile.
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Wire format and audio pipeline are unchanged — v1.4 and v1.5
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peers interoperate.
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Bug fixes:
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* BothIndependent recording: when both WASAPI and ASIO
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output devices were ticked, recordings came out garbled
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and twice the expected duration. The recorder taps fired
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from both lanes' render reads and the writer thread
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appended both streams into one ring as if they were
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sequential audio. Recorder now has per-lane rings and
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mixes them in the writer thread.
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* A peer announcing audio on the WASAPI lane was inaudible
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when the receiver only had an ASIO output device ticked
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(and vice versa). Sessions whose announced lane has no
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active output now fall through to whichever lane IS
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being read.
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Menu reorganisation:
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* New Options menu (Alt+O) holds: Recording settings,
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Keyboard shortcuts, Startup behaviour, Preferences.
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These used to be scattered across File menu (Keyboard
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shortcuts, Preferences), Record menu (Recording settings),
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and inside the Preferences dialog (Startup behaviour).
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* Record menu mnemonic moved from Alt+O to Alt+K (rendered
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as "Record (Alt+K)") so Alt+O could go to Options. K is
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unusual for "Record" but the Record menu doesn't have a
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natural free letter — Alt+R is taken by Receive audio.
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* File menu: new Recent profiles submenu (Alt+F, R). Lists
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the last five profiles you've opened, most-recent first.
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Press 1..5 while the submenu is open to jump to a slot.
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File → Rename current profile moves to Alt+F, M, and
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Minimise to tray moves to Alt+F, N, to free up R for the
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new submenu.
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* Lock to audio clock (Audio profile tab) was Alt+K; now
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Alt+D (the D in "audio") since the Record menu won Alt+K.
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UX additions:
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* Ctrl+O opens the Open profile dialog (matches the menu
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chord). Previously the menu had no global shortcut.
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* New global hotkey: Start / Stop recording. Pickable from
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Options - Keyboard shortcuts. Unbound by default. Works
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system-wide — RemSound doesn't need keyboard focus.
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Recording feature unchanged in this release — the dialog
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layout, formats (WAV / MP3 / OGG-Opus / FLAC), and tap-points
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all the same as v1.4.
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2026-05-15 13:44:15 +01:00
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RemSound v1.4
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Recording-settings dialog cleanup and a few mnemonic
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adjustments. No wire-format or audio-pipeline changes — v1.4
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and v1.3 peers interoperate.
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Recording settings dialog:
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* Channel mode is now its own dedicated listbox (Alt+C)
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instead of being folded into every attribute row. WAV
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shrinks from 6 attribute rows to 3, MP3 and OGG-Opus from
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8 to 4, FLAC from 4 to 2.
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* FLAC compression level (0..8) is now selectable in its
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own listbox (Alt+L). Previously hard-fixed at the libFLAC
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default of 5. The list is shown only when the file format
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is FLAC. Friendly tags on the endpoints: "0 — fastest
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encode, biggest file", "5 — default (libFLAC reference)",
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"8 — slowest encode, smallest file". All levels produce
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bit-identical audio — pure encode-time vs file-size
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tradeoff.
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Record menu mnemonics:
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* Start / Stop recording is now Alt+O, R (was Alt+O, S).
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Matches the Ctrl+R global toggle so the same letter does
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the same job from either entry point.
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* Recording settings is now Alt+O, S (was Alt+O, T). Reads
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more naturally now that the R slot is freed.
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* Open folder (O) and Change folder (C) unchanged.
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Dialog mnemonic adjustment:
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* Cancel button in the Recording settings dialog moved
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from Alt+C to Alt+N so the Channels listbox can take
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Alt+C. Esc still dismisses the dialog the way it always
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has.
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2026-05-15 13:07:36 +01:00
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RemSound v1.3
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Updater hardening. The v1.2 self-updater silently failed on
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installs inside Dropbox-synced folders because Dropbox held
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write locks on the existing files during the brief window
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between the parent exiting and the helper script copying the
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new files in. Robocopy gave up after 5 seconds and the helper
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relaunched the old binary anyway — so the user saw the same
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version they started with after pressing "Yes" on the install
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prompt.
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What's new:
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* Helper script retries robocopy for up to 60 seconds per
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file (was 5). Dropbox lock release happens reliably within
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that window in practice.
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* Helper now checks robocopy's exit code. On a true failure
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(exit code 8 or higher), it writes update-failed.txt next
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to RemSound.exe with diagnostic detail and does NOT
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relaunch the old binary. Earlier versions silently
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relaunched the unmodified old binary, hiding the failure.
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* Helper writes a step-by-step log to _update-helper.log in
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the install folder. If a future update goes wrong this is
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where the trace lives.
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* Stale failure markers are cleared at the start of every
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new update attempt, so a successful run leaves the install
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folder clean.
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Wire format, audio pipeline, and recording feature are
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unchanged from v1.2.
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2026-05-15 12:40:01 +01:00
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RemSound v1.2
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Recording, sound cues, and receiver-side drift compensation.
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This release is mostly about features that sit on top of the
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v1.1 transport — the wire format and audio pipeline are
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unchanged, so v1.1 and v1.2 peers interoperate.
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What's new:
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* Recording. New Record menu (Alt+O) — Start / Stop with
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Ctrl+R, dedicated settings dialog, per-profile choice of
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source (received only, sent only, or both), file format
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(WAV, MP3, OGG-Opus, FLAC), bit depth or bitrate, mono or
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stereo, and recordings folder. Files are crash-resilient:
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WAV re-patches its RIFF header every 5 seconds, MP3 / FLAC
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/ OGG-Opus all produce well-formed truncated files if the
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app crashes mid-recording.
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* OGG-Opus and FLAC encoders now wired up — they were stubs
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in earlier builds. OGG-Opus reuses the same Concentus
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encoder as the wire path; FLAC uses pure-managed CUETools
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FLAKE (no native DLL).
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* Recording start / stop sound cues. Plays a short ding
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when recording transitions on or off. Played via the
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default Windows output device, separate from the
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recording pipeline, so a normal recording does not include
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the cue.
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* Sound-cue Preferences. The old single "Mute connect /
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disconnect sounds" checkbox is replaced by a per-cue
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CheckedListBox: Connect / Disconnect / Recording start /
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Recording stop, each independently toggleable. Old profile
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settings that had the legacy mute on are honoured on first
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load.
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* Receiver-side drift compensation switched from discrete
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single-frame splices to a continuous WdlResampler running
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at a slowly-updated rate ratio. Smooths out long-session
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clock drift between sender and receiver without the
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occasional 21 µs splice the v1.1 corrector emitted.
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UI changes:
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* Record menu moved to Alt+O (Rec&ord). The old Alt+R chord
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conflicted with the Receive audio checkbox on the main
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form. Inside the menu the item mnemonics are unchanged
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(S / T / O / C for Start, settings, Open folder, Change
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folder).
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* Auto-tune interval combo label and accessible name are now
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mode-aware. In BothIndependent mode it reads "Auto-tune
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interval — WASAPI and ASIO" so it's clear the same combo
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drives ticks for both lanes; each lane still independently
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tunes to its own target latency. Earlier builds also had
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a bug where ticking ASIO auto-tune alone left this combo
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greyed out — fixed.
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Diagnostics (only active with Enable logs ticked):
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* Per-stage discontinuity probes — sender raw capture,
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sender pre-encode (now per lane in BothIndependent),
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receiver post-decode, receiver post-ring, receiver
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post-resampler. Lets a log inspection localise where a
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click was introduced (capture / wire / decode / playout).
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* Wire-level sequence tracking on each PCM stream:
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in-order / missed / reordered / duplicated packet counts
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in the diag log. Healthy LAN should show all-zero except
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in-order; non-zero on the others points to transport
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issues rather than software.
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* Clipped-sample delta in the diag log.
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Bug fixes:
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* Auto-tune interval combo no longer greys out when only
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ASIO auto-tune is ticked in BothIndependent.
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2026-05-14 11:24:14 +01:00
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RemSound v1.1
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Priority and performance hardening, plus always-on network
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packet priority. Aimed at the cold-start latency jitter you
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sometimes hear when the machine has been idle.
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What's new:
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* Use CPU and Windows performance settings in high priority
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mode (Audio profile tab, Alt+U). Off by default; opt in per
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profile. Combines eight Windows power and scheduling levers
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so the OS can't decide we're idle and downclock: process
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power-throttling off (including timer-resolution honouring),
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an execution-required power request, scheduler quantum
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pinned to 1 ms, process priority raised to High, working-set
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minimum locked, memory priority normalised, and
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SetThreadExecutionState set to keep the system awake. Fully
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reversed on toggle-off and on app exit. Costs battery on
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laptops — that's why it's off by default.
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* Network packet priority — always on, no toggle. The
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outbound UDP socket is attached to Windows' built-in qWAVE
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service at Voice priority (DSCP 46, WMM Voice on Wi-Fi). On
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a busy Wi-Fi access point, RemSound's packets win
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medium-contention against other clients; on wired LAN,
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switches that honour DSCP give us scheduling priority.
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Neutral across the public internet (most ISPs strip DSCP at
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the edge). Silent fallback if the qWAVE service isn't
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available on stripped-down Windows images.
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* Sender and receiver UDP kernel buffers bumped to 1 MB each
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way — enough to absorb roughly 30 ms of GC or scheduler
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stall without dropping datagrams.
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* MMCSS audio-thread priority on the network listener, mix
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loop, and render thread bumped from High to Critical
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(always on, no toggle).
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Bug fixes:
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* Toggling "Enable logs" in Preferences no longer marks the
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current profile as dirty. Logs are a machine-local setting,
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so the spurious flag was triggering the "unsaved changes?"
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prompt on exit after just toggling logs.
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2026-05-13 15:08:31 +01:00
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RemSound v1.0
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Initial public release.
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Highlights:
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* Low-latency peer-to-peer audio over UDP. WASAPI for any Windows audio device,
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and a parallel ASIO lane for pro audio interfaces (Audient, Komplete Audio,
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Focusrite, RME). Each lane keeps its own native callback latency.
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* Pick an ASIO driver from the dropdown at the top of the Audio inputs and outputs
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tab to bring ASIO into the pipeline; select "(none)" to run WASAPI-only.
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* Profile system. Save your entire setup — device ticks, peers, codec, latency
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targets, hotkeys, ASIO driver choice — into a JSON file. Pick which profile to
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load at every launch.
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* Continuous auto-tune on either lane. Watches receive jitter and nudges the
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latency target up or down to stay click-free without forcing you to overshoot.
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* Opus inband FEC. Single-packet losses recover transparently in both Opus modes;
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you don't hear them at all. PCM is also available for clean LAN connections.
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* Remote control. Configurable global hotkeys can nudge a peer's RemSound volume
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or their Windows default-output-device master volume, opt-in on the receiver.
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* Built-in self-updater. Optionally polls GitHub for newer releases on a schedule
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you set; can install them silently if you want.
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See the user manual (Help menu, or F1 from anywhere in the app) for full details
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on every control, the keyboard shortcuts, and the troubleshooting guide.
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""";
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public AboutDialog()
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{
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Text = "About RemSound";
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FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog;
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MinimizeBox = false;
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MaximizeBox = false;
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ShowInTaskbar = false;
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StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent;
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KeyPreview = true;
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ClientSize = new Size(560, 420);
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var version = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version?.ToString(3) ?? "?";
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var headingLabel = new Label
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{
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Text = $"RemSound version {version}",
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AutoSize = true,
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Font = new Font(SystemFonts.MessageBoxFont!.FontFamily, 11f, FontStyle.Bold),
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AccessibleName = $"RemSound version {version}",
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};
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var notesBox = new TextBox
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{
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Multiline = true,
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ReadOnly = true,
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TabStop = true,
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Dock = DockStyle.Fill,
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ScrollBars = ScrollBars.Vertical,
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BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle,
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Text = ReleaseNotes,
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AccessibleName = "Release notes (tab into and arrow to read)",
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};
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var closeButton = new Button
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{
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Text = "Close",
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AutoSize = true,
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DialogResult = DialogResult.OK,
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TabIndex = 1,
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};
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closeButton.Click += (_, _) => Close();
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notesBox.TabIndex = 0;
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var root = new TableLayoutPanel
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{
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Dock = DockStyle.Fill,
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Padding = new Padding(12),
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ColumnCount = 1,
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RowCount = 3,
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};
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root.ColumnStyles.Add(new ColumnStyle(SizeType.Percent, 100));
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root.RowStyles.Add(new RowStyle(SizeType.AutoSize));
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root.RowStyles.Add(new RowStyle(SizeType.Percent, 100));
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root.RowStyles.Add(new RowStyle(SizeType.AutoSize));
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var buttons = new FlowLayoutPanel
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{
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Dock = DockStyle.Fill,
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FlowDirection = FlowDirection.RightToLeft,
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AutoSize = true,
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};
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buttons.Controls.Add(closeButton);
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root.Controls.Add(headingLabel, 0, 0);
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root.Controls.Add(notesBox, 0, 1);
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root.Controls.Add(buttons, 0, 2);
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Controls.Add(root);
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AcceptButton = closeButton;
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CancelButton = closeButton;
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KeyDown += (_, e) =>
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{
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if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Escape)
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{
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Close();
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e.SuppressKeyPress = true;
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e.Handled = true;
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}
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};
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}
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}
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