RemSound/RELEASE_NOTES.md

RemSound v5.3

Send a single application's sound, and stream a machine from its lock screen. Plus freer use of pro (ASIO) sound cards.

Send one application, not the whole device

Until now you sent a whole audio device — everything coming out of your PC. In the send list you can now choose a specific application instead: just your music player, just your game, just a call. Only that program's sound goes out; the rest of your PC stays private.

• Tick any app that's currently making sound, or name an app so RemSound catches it the moment it opens.
• Whole-device sending works exactly as before — this is an extra choice, not a replacement.

Stream from the lock screen, before anyone signs in

There's a new, optional RemSound service. It can send a machine's audio from the Windows lock screen — so you can hear a computer that's powered on but not yet logged in, which the normal app can't do because nothing runs until you sign in.

• Install it once, from the RemSound installer (it offers to set it up for you). It needs administrator rights that one time only.
• It runs quietly in the background and steps aside automatically the instant you open RemSound normally, handing the audio back to the app.
• It updates itself whenever RemSound updates — there's nothing to maintain.

If you never want it, don't install it: nothing about the normal app changes.

Freer with professional (ASIO) sound cards

• You can now switch between ASIO drivers while RemSound is open.
• RemSound releases the sound card when it isn't using it, so another program (a DAW, for example) can take it over instead of being locked out.

Also

• Per-application sending is fully wired through the app, and a range of fixes and internal tidy-ups from continued review.

Compatibility

Nothing about the over-the-network format changed, so v5.3 talks to v3.3 through v5.2 with no trouble — 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-v5.3.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 v5.3 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.

v1.8 and earlier: the auto-updater in those versions can't install updates — install by hand using the steps above.