- Remembered applications list now supports the Delete key (issue #26): deleting an
entry forgets it machine-wide, mirroring the remembered-peers list exactly (same
focus-next-item behaviour). Logic lives in RemoveRememberedApplication so the
self-test drives the real path; the send-app semantics test now covers deletion.
Manual documents Delete on BOTH remembered lists (neither was documented).
- Service dialog's Additional options no longer offers connect/disconnect cue
checkboxes: the headless service never plays cues (nothing in it touches CuePlayer,
and a logged-out session couldn't render them), so the switches did nothing.
Manual sentence updated to match.
- Three re-entrancy suppress flags (send-mode reset x2, streaming password gate) now
clear in try/finally - a throw can no longer leave list events suppressed for the
rest of the session.
Gate 47/47.
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The service streams a machine's OUTPUT audio (or specific apps); capturing a mic from an
unattended, logged-out box isn't a use case (Ed). Removed the "WASAPI audio inputs to
send" list from the service config dialog, and made the service ignore inputs everywhere:
- ServiceProfileDialog: removed the inputs CheckedListBox, its status label, its row and
accessibility wiring. Save now clears SelectedWasapiSendInputs so a profile saved by an
older build can't keep a mic streaming.
- ServiceSendHost.BuildSendSpecs: removed the input-spec loop — a legacy profile's inputs
are deliberately ignored.
(The main app is unchanged: it still has its WASAPI inputs list and AudioDeviceCatalog
.LoadInputs stays for it.)
Test: the service-parity test now adds a mic to the profile and asserts BuildSendSpecs
emits only per-application specs and never a CaptureKind.Input. Gate 46/46.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ed: ticking "Use Windows default audio device" should uncheck the other cards and stop
them being ticked again until the default is turned back off - in both the app and the
service. This replaces the old optional "shall I untick the others?" prompt with a hard
rule.
Behaviour (all follower lists: app received-outputs, outputs-to-send and inputs-to-send;
service outputs):
- Ticking the follower unticks every specific card in that list.
- While the follower is on, trying to tick a specific card is refused (the ItemCheck is
vetoed straight back to unticked) - you're either following the Windows default or
picking cards, never both.
- Unticking the follower frees the cards again.
- Enforced on load too, so a hand-edited/legacy profile carrying both comes up clean.
Shared, not duplicated: the veto + clear + follower-checked helpers live in
AudioDefaultFollower and are used by MainForm and the service dialog alike.
Removed the now-obsolete soft prompt and everything that hung off it:
- MainForm.MaybeUntickOthersForDefault + ResetDefaultAudioDevicePrompt.
- The "Reset the default audio device prompt" Options item (and its Alt+O,R).
- AppConfig.UntickOthersWhenUsingDefaultOutput/Input.
- Manual + About-box references to the prompt / reset item; the manual now documents
the exclusive rule and lists all three follower lists (the outputs-to-send follower
had been undocumented).
Test: "Default follower exclusivity" self-test - follower on clears + locks specific
cards, follower off frees them, unticking and the follower entry itself are never
vetoed. Gate 45/45.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The service profile could only pick named output devices, so it couldn't "just send
whatever this machine plays and follow the Windows default". The main app already had
exactly that (its DefaultLoopbackSendFollower + ResolveDefaultDeviceId) - so rather
than invent a parallel mechanism (which would silently diverge), this pulls the shared
piece out and has the service reuse it.
- New AudioDefaultFollower: one home for the loopback-send sentinel
("__use-default-loopback-send__"), the follower list entry, and the default-endpoint
resolver. MainForm now references it (its DefaultLoopbackSendFollower and
ResolveDefaultDeviceId delegate to it) so there is a single definition.
- Service config dialog: the Audio send tab lists "Use Windows default audio device,
follows Windows changes" as the first output choice. Ticking it persists the same
sentinel the app uses.
- ServiceSendHost.BuildSendSpecs resolves that sentinel to the LIVE default render
endpoint (with de-dup against explicitly-ticked devices), never passing the raw
sentinel through. Because the service re-applies its profile on every device-change
notification - and OnDefaultDeviceChanged is one of them - it FOLLOWS the default:
change Windows' default output and the service switches to it within a beat.
- Manual: documents the new option in the service section.
Test: new "Default-output follower" self-test - follower is flagged + shares the app's
sentinel, and the service resolves it to the current Windows default render endpoint
(never leaks the raw sentinel into a capture spec). Gate 44/44.
The ASIO "Rea" devices Ed noticed are real registry drivers (Realtek ASIO + REAPER's
ReaRoute), not injected dummies - we only ever list HKLM\SOFTWARE\ASIO. No code change.
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Ed asked back on 2026-07-16 to drop "send all applications" from the app AND the
service - applications mode = pick specific apps only. The main app was done; the
service kept it. Worse, a code comment had pinned it in place as a DELIBERATE
divergence ("the headless service streams system audio, so send-all stays"), which
is exactly why the earlier removal skipped the service. Standing rule bit us: the
service silently diverged from the main app.
Removed across the whole service path, not just the checkbox:
- ServiceProfileDialog: dropped the "Send all applications" AccessibleCheckBox, its
event wiring and visibility branch; applications mode now always shows the specific-
apps list. Renumbered the tab's Alt hints (apps Alt+3, inputs Alt+4) now the box is
gone. Save forces SendAllApplications=false so a stale profile can't resurrect it.
- ServiceSendHost.BuildSendSpecs: deleted the SendAllApplications branch (and the now-
dead ResolveDefaultRenderId helper). Apps mode builds one process-loopback spec per
ticked app - identical to the main app.
- Profile.SendAllApplications: marked vestigial (kept only so old profiles deserialize;
nothing reads it now).
Guard so it can't drift again: the Service-sender-parity self-test now asserts apps
mode produces only per-application specs and NEVER a whole-system loopback spec, even
with SendAllApplications=true. (The old parity test only exercised devices mode, which
is why it missed this.)
Service UI audit (Ed's question): the whole service UI is house-controls throughout -
QuietTabControl, AccessibleCheckBox, MnemonicLabel, Theme.SectionHeader/AppIcon,
FormLayoutRows, CheckedListAccessibility. No raw CheckBox/TabControl (which are silent
to NVDA on .NET 10) anywhere in Service*.cs.
Gate 43/43.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ed, 2026-07-17. The bigger half of the service crackle fix: raw PCM sounded hideous;
Opus at the live-jamming frame with Small packets and lock-to-clock sounds right.
Lock to audio clock (TightLatencyMode) is now ALWAYS ON and no longer a user option:
- Removed the checkbox from the main window and the service dialog. Nobody ever runs
with it off -- off just adds delay.
- Main app forces the sender tight at startup; Profile.TightLatencyMode defaults true
and is kept only for file compatibility. Load/SaveTightLatencyMode accessors removed.
Service audio profile is now fixed and unconfigurable:
- Removed the "Audio profile" tab from the service config dialog entirely (two tabs
left: Connectivity, Audio send).
- The service FORCES Opus + 2.5 ms frame (120 samples) + Small packets + lock-to-clock
at runtime in ServiceSendHost.ApplyProfile, ignoring whatever the profile carries, so
a stale/hand-edited profile can never put it back on a bad codec. SaveToProfile writes
the same fixed values.
Robustness: ApplyProfile now swallows a capture Start() failure (with lock-to-clock
always on the WASAPI lane is push-mode, which opens the device synchronously and throws
if it is invalid/gone) -- presence stays up and the device-watcher/self-heal re-open when
a device is available, instead of the exception crashing the service loop.
Self-test "Service sender parity" rewritten to prove the service overrides a PCM profile
to Opus/120. Gate: 39/39.
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Per-app capture (the "foobar alone = no sound" report):
- ProcessLoopbackCapture: take ActivateAudioInterfaceAsync's out operation as a raw
IntPtr (released after completion) instead of a typed interface. The eager RCW cast
of the not-yet-realised operation object threw InvalidCastException / E_NOINTERFACE
and killed EVERY specific-app capture at start.
- CompositeCaptureBackend: single IsPushEligible authority shared by Start,
UpdateSources and the coalesced rebuild. The update paths were missing the
ProcessLoopback exclusion, so switching whole-device -> one app kept the push
backend and fed it "proc:<pid>" (GetDevice ArgumentException).
- PushModeWasapiBackend: loud backstop rejecting process-loopback specs.
- Self-test: lifecycle test now FAILS on an activation error (it previously passed
green with the feature completely dead) + pure routing-rule checks.
Apps-mode UI (Ed 2026-07-16): the "Send all applications" checkbox is GONE from the
main window - applications mode always means picking specific apps; whole-system
audio is devices mode's job. Active list = running apps + any ticked app that is not
running ("(not running)" so it can be unticked); Remembered list = global address
book minus whatever is ticked. In-place list reconcile (no Clear+rebuild) kills the
NVDA double-read of the toggled row. Profile.SendAllApplications stays for the
SERVICE (deliberate divergence - a headless lock-screen sender wants system audio).
Remembered lists now genuinely machine-wide (AppConfig-backed): the settings store is
an intra-process cache, so remembered applications were forgotten on every exit and
remembered peers were per-profile in practice. Both books moved to AppConfig; legacy
per-profile peers are unioned in on profile load; profile save snapshots the global
book back for old-build compat. Cross-instance persistence pinned by self-test.
Service (issue #23): 15s capture pulse (callbacks/bytes/pre-encode peak/frames sent)
while sending - distinguishes "endpoint mix is genuinely silent at the lock screen"
from a pipeline fault, which callbacks alone cannot.
Gate: 38/38.
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Local checkpoint - NOT for public release. Ed: the service profile must never be
reachable except through the Service menu.
Also fixes a real bug: the service runs as SYSTEM, whose per-user data folder is NOT the
interactive user's - so a profile saved in the user's profiles folder (or AppConfig, both
per-user) was invisible to the service. It would have idled, never streaming.
- New RemSound.Core.ServiceStore: the service profile + its settings (logging) live in a
MACHINE-WIDE ProgramData\RemSound\service location - same absolute path for the user
(config dialog) and SYSTEM (service). Moved ServiceProfileName/ServiceLoggingEnabled off
AppConfig (per-user) onto this store.
- ServiceSendHost.FromConfig + RemSoundService now read ServiceStore; ConfigureServiceProfile
saves there (and migrates + deletes any profile left in the old user-folder location).
- Because it's no longer in the user's profiles folder, it can't appear in the startup
picker, File->Open, Recent profiles, or the password manager (all of which read the user
ProfileStore); the reserved-title filter in ListProfileTitles stays as belt-and-braces.
- Password button renamed "Set service profile password".
- New self-test "Service profile isolation": store is under ProgramData, the reserved title
is filtered from the listing, and it round-trips through the machine-wide store.
Gate 27/27.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Local checkpoint - NOT for public release. Ed: the connectivity box was totally
different from the main window's - I'd rolled a bespoke listbox + textbox + buttons
instead of copying the real tab.
Now built like the main window's Connectivity tab:
- Theme.SectionHeader("Peers") header.
- Peers list is a wired CheckedListBox ("Peers to send to", Alt+C) with the shared
CheckedListAccessibility so it announces state like every other list; a ticked peer
is one the service sends to, Delete removes it.
- "Add peer by IP (Alt+A)" button uses the SAME ManualPeerPrompt the main window uses,
not an inline textbox.
- Set password button kept.
Checked peers persist as SelectedConnectedPeers (the send-to set); every listed peer is
kept as RememberedPeers. Gate 25/25.
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Local checkpoint - NOT for public release. Ed flagged the dialog as sloppy - lists
not announcing, wrong tab order, leftover Alt+4/5/6, "Standard/Tight" instead of the
real labels, and not looking like the main window.
- Screen-reader parity: new CheckedListAccessibility.Wire (factored from the main
window's WireCheckedListAccessibility) drives every checked list - announces
"checked, <item>. Item N of M. Press Space to toggle." on focus and arrow, plus
first-letter nav that never toggles. This was the core miss (lists not announcing).
- Layout parity: uses the house FormLayoutRows rows + status labels, QuietTabControl,
AccessibleCheckBox, MnemonicLabel, and the app icon - so it reads/looks like a real tab.
- Tab order now mirrors the main window: Connectivity, then Audio send, then Audio profile.
- Alt keys renumbered for the dialog (were lifted verbatim from the I/O tab): send tab
1-5, connectivity 1-2, profile keeps the main window's C/P/D.
- Exact main-window labels copied verbatim: codec ("PCM 48K 24 bit - uncompressed", etc.),
packet size ("Standard (5 ms PCM, 10/20 ms Opus)" / "Small (2.5 ms ...)"), and the
lock-to-audio-clock text + accessible description.
Gate 25/25 (dialog passes the accessibility audit: names + unique mnemonics + tab order).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Local checkpoint - NOT for public release.
- ServiceProfileDialog: modal 3-tab editor (Audio send / Audio profile / Connectivity)
reusing the house controls, with a Save and Close / Cancel / Additional options
button row. Send-only: send-mode chooser + WASAPI outputs/apps + inputs (no "Send
my audio" toggle, no receive, no ASIO); codec/rate/lock-to-clock; peers add/remove +
a Set password button. Additional options sub-dialog = play connect/disconnect sound
+ enable service logging. Edits a Profile clone; returns it on OK.
- Service menu in MainForm: status line + Configure / Install / Uninstall / Start / Stop,
items enabled per live state on drop-down. Install/uninstall confirm then elevate.
Configure saves the reserved service profile, points AppConfig at it, stores the
machine-wide logging choice, and restarts a running service to pick up edits.
- ProfileStore.ReservedServiceProfileTitle ("RemSound service"): the service profile
lives with normal profiles (so the service Loads it) but ListProfileTitles hides it
from every picker. ServiceControl reuses that single constant.
- Self-test: the service dialog is now in the accessibility audit (constructs cleanly,
unique mnemonics, all controls named). Gate 20/20.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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