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Release v4.6: follow the Windows default audio device (output + input)

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- New "Use Windows default audio device, follows Windows changes" entry at the top of the
  received-output and send-input WASAPI lists. Resolves the current Windows default live,
  re-routes automatically when the default device changes, works alongside specific devices,
  and persists across launches (a follower can't go stale). Optional "untick the others?"
  prompt with a remembered "don't ask again", reset via a new Options item "Reset the default
  audio device prompt".
- Manual updated for the feature, plus a sweep that corrected the now-stale Options-menu
  section (retired Startup-behaviour item, four->five Preferences tabs, missing entries).
  About changelog and RELEASE_NOTES updated; version 4.6.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# RemSound v4.5
# RemSound v4.6
Keyboard shortcuts get easier to manage — and people upgrading from before 4.4 no longer lose theirs.
Follow your Windows default audio device — for both the sound you receive and the mic you send.
## Bring your shortcuts across when you upgrade
## Use the Windows default audio device
In version 4.4, keyboard shortcuts moved from being saved per-profile to one shared set for the whole app. If you're updating **from before 4.4**, RemSound now offers — the first time you run it — to **bring your shortcuts across** from one of your existing profiles: it lists your profiles, you pick the one you set your shortcuts up in, or choose to start fresh. (If you already updated to 4.4, nothing changes for you here.)
Both WASAPI device lists now have a new entry at the very top — **"Use Windows default audio device, follows Windows changes"** — in the outputs for received sound, and in the inputs to send.
## A clearer Keyboard shortcuts dialog
Tick it and RemSound uses whatever Windows currently treats as the default (the default speakers for received sound, the default microphone for sending), and — the useful part — it **follows that default automatically**. Make a headset your default and RemSound switches to it on its own; unplug it and it moves back, all without touching the list.
- A new **Clear this shortcut** button next to Close, so clearing a shortcut is discoverable — you no longer have to know the Del key.
- When you're setting a shortcut, pressing **Delete** in that box now leaves it unassigned.
## Clearer remote-control labels
The three remote-control rows that adjust a peer's **RemSound** volume now say so — "Send remote RemSound volume up / down to peers" and "Send remote RemSound receive mute toggle to peers" — so they're easy to tell apart from the "Windows global volume" rows.
It works alongside the specific devices: tick the default entry *and* particular cards, and the sound plays out of (or is captured from) all of them at once. When you first turn it on, RemSound offers to untick the other devices so you use only the default — with a "Don't ask me this again" option. If you hide that question and later want it back, use **Options → Reset the default audio device prompt**.
## Compatibility
**v4.5 talks to v3.3 through v4.4 with no trouble** — the over-the-network format is unchanged, so you don't have to update both ends at once. (Everyone still needs **v3.3 or newer**, where end-to-end encryption came in.)
**v4.6 talks to v3.3 through v4.5 with no trouble** — the over-the-network format is unchanged, so you don't have to update both ends at once. (Everyone still needs **v3.3 or newer**, where end-to-end encryption came in.)
## Install
1. Download `RemSound-v4.5.zip` from this release.
1. Download `RemSound-v4.6.zip` from this release.
2. Close RemSound.
3. Extract the zip **over your existing RemSound folder**, overwriting program files when prompted. The zip is program files only — it won't touch your settings, profiles, logs or recordings.
4. Run `RemSound.exe`.
## Upgrading
**From v3.6 or newer:** Help → Check for updates installs v4.5 with the in-app updater — and if it can't finish, it puts your old version back exactly as it was.
**From v3.6 or newer:** Help → Check for updates installs v4.6 with the in-app updater — and if it can't finish, it puts your old version back exactly as it was.
**From v1.9–v3.5:** Check for updates works, but uses your current version's older updater for this one hop. If auto-update has been failing on your machine, install by hand using the steps above.