EdnunpandClaude Fable 5
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The everyone-must-update release. Four coordinated changes, each from the security discussion Ed approved 2026-07-27, plus the remembered-apps polish: 1. SIGNED RELEASES. build-release.ps1 now signs the release zip (ECDSA P-256 / SHA-256, --sign-update verb) with a private key that lives ONLY at Ed's chosen location outside the repo; the matching public key is embedded (UpdateSignature) and the updater REFUSES any release whose .sig asset is missing or does not verify - a compromised GitHub account can no longer ship code to users. The signing verb self-checks against the embedded key so a key/embed mismatch fails the pipeline, and the gate proves the on-disk key matches the embed when present. 2. STRONGER PASSWORDS, ENFORCED (BREAKING). PBKDF2 raised 100k -> 600k (both peers must derive the same key, so 5.6 cannot stream with pre-5.6 AT ALL - release notes lead with it). New PasswordStrength rule (>= 8 chars, not an infamous password) enforced at EVERY door: both password dialogs block weak NEW entries with concrete plain-English advice; the streaming gate walks an existing weak password through strengthening; and ForPlainPassword - the single derivation choke-point shared with the service - refuses weak outright, so no path streams on a guessable password. Headless service logs the why. Per Ed: painful once, and this coordinated-update release is the cheapest moment it will ever have. 3. RELAY ADDRESS-PROOF (watch-only). The relay sends every new client address a random cookie and marks it verified when echoed - a forged source address can never echo, killing the reflection attack. 5.6 clients echo automatically (AddrCheck type 10, verbatim, self-limiting); the relay ships watch-only (logs would-blocks) until the fleet updates, then one flag (--require-addr-check) enforces. Per-IP entry cap (4) enforced immediately. Relay changes are committed but NOT deployed to the Pi - they ride the v5.6 release moment. 4. Remembered-apps empty state teaches its lifecycle + manual sentence; About/ release notes written; version bumped to 5.6. New gate steps: signing round-trip/tamper/wrong-key/embed-match; password rules incl. the exact "Games" case; AddrCheck verbatim echo. Gate 69/69. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
1425 lines
70 KiB
C#
1425 lines
70 KiB
C#
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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RemSound v5.6
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IMPORTANT: everyone must update. This version strengthens the encryption maths, so a 5.6 machine cannot exchange audio with any older RemSound — until both sides are on 5.6, you'll hear nothing between them. Update every machine you connect with, including any running the background service (it updates itself from the app). Remote volume commands also need both ends on 5.6.
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Stronger passwords, enforced. The profile password is what protects your audio, so from this version RemSound refuses to stream on one that's easy to guess. Passwords must be at least 8 characters and not a common word — if yours is shorter, RemSound tells you the moment you try to stream and walks you through choosing a better one. Three unrelated words with a number, like kettle9tiger42moon, is easy to type and very hard to guess. Remember to set the SAME new password on every machine you connect with.
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Signed updates. Every release is now digitally signed, and the updater refuses anything that isn't genuinely from us — so even if our download page were ever tampered with, a fake update could not install itself on your machine.
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Remote volume, now password-locked. The remote volume and mute commands are sealed with your profile password, so only someone who knows it can adjust your machine — nobody on the network can fake a command and mute your screen reader.
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Set the machine's volume when the service starts. In the service's Additional options you can have an unattended machine unmute itself and set its Windows volume to a level you choose — on the first start after each boot, or on every service start.
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Updates on your schedule. In Preferences you can now restrict automatic updates to a time range — say 1am to 6am — so an update never closes RemSound and kills your sound mid-session. Found outside the range, it quietly waits and installs the moment the range opens.
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Plus: the app now releases its high-priority and keep-awake settings when you're not actually streaming (kinder to laptops), diagnostic logs cap their own size on long sessions, the remembered-applications list explains itself when empty, and a raft of security hardening under the hood.
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RemSound v5.5
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A close-hang fix, and keyboard shortcuts everywhere.
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Fixed a hang when UPnP is on. With the "open my router's port automatically" option turned on, closing RemSound could hang — on the way out it asks the router to close the port again, and a slow or fussy router left the window stuck waiting. Closing now never waits on the router: it tidies up in the background and shuts straight away.
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Keyboard shortcuts on every dialog. Every button in every pop-up now has an Alt-key shortcut — including the "RemSound is already running" dialog, which previously had none. So you can always choose an option from the keyboard instead of tabbing to it.
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RemSound v5.4
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Service polish, and an important fix.
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Use the Windows default output. The service — and the main app — can now "Use Windows default audio device" for what they send: pick it and RemSound sends whatever this machine is currently playing, following the Windows default if you later change it. Ticking it is now exclusive — it clears the specific cards and locks them out until you turn it back off — so in each list you're clearly either following the default or picking devices, never a confusing mix.
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Fixed a service-install freeze. Installing or reinstalling the service could hang and lock RemSound up, with its audio stopping while it sat frozen. That's fixed, and the install now runs in a way that can never freeze the app again. Straight after installing, RemSound also asks whether you'd like to start the service right away.
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Service tidy-up. The service now sends this machine's output audio, or specific applications — the microphone-inputs list has been removed, since capturing a mic from a logged-out machine isn't what the service is for.
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RemSound v5.3
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Send a single app, and stream from the lock screen.
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Send one application, not the whole device. In the send list you can now pick a specific program — just your music player, or just your game — and send only its sound, keeping the rest of your PC private. Tick apps that are already running, or name ones to be caught the instant they open.
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Stream before you even sign in. A new, optional RemSound service can send a machine's audio from the Windows lock screen, so you can hear a computer that's switched on but not yet logged in. You install it once from the RemSound installer; it runs quietly in the background, steps aside the moment you open RemSound normally, and updates itself whenever RemSound does.
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Freer with pro (ASIO) sound cards. You can now switch between ASIO drivers while RemSound is open, and RemSound lets go of the sound card when it isn't using it, so another app — a DAW, say — can take over. Plus fixes and polish under the hood.
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RemSound v5.2
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A stability and polish release — bug fixes and tidy-ups from a deep code review. No new features; it should just feel a bit more solid.
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Fixed: changing the codec or send rate while streaming could, in rare cases, crash RemSound. Fixed: recording both your sent and received audio into a single file could lose a little audio and drift out of sync over a long recording — it now stays accurate the whole way through. Fixed: after installing, RemSound now stays minimised if that's your setting (and still comes to the front otherwise), and uninstalling one copy no longer switches off another copy's run-at-startup.
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Also: the clipping indicator works again, the router port opened for incoming connections is tidied up when you close, and the app is a little lighter on memory and disk. Nothing about how you connect changed, so it still talks to older versions.
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RemSound v5.1
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Install RemSound as a proper Windows app.
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A new "Install RemSound on this PC" in the Options menu turns the copy you're running into a properly installed app — on the Start menu, with a desktop shortcut, and listed in Windows' Installed apps. It installs just for you, so it never needs administrator rights, and you can bring your profiles, settings, recordings and logs across as you go. Once it's installed, that same menu item becomes Uninstall, which removes it again and asks first whether to keep or delete your own files. You never have to install — running RemSound straight from the unzipped folder works exactly as before.
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Smaller download too, now the built-in sounds have been slimmed down.
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RemSound v5.0
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A big one. Shape each person, record everyone separately, name your peers, and make the window your own.
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Shape each peer. A new "Volume, pan and EQ for peers" tab lets you set how loud each connected person is, lean them left or right, and change their tone with an equaliser — a simple 3-band, a 12-band graphic, or a full 16-band parametric where you place each band yourself. It's all live, adds no delay, and what you dial in is captured in your recordings too.
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Record everyone on their own track. Recording can now save each connected peer to its own separate file, so you can take a jam or a chat away and mix the parts afterwards.
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Name your peers. Give the people you connect to friendly names that stick to their machine for good, and a new details view shows who's connected, for how long, and what they're sending. Manage them all under Options, Manage named peers.
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Make it yours. RemSound now follows your Windows light or dark theme, has a fresh look and its own icon, and a new Appearance tab in Preferences lets you reorder or hide the window's tabs. Jump straight to any tab with Ctrl and its number.
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RemSound v4.9
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Lock a profile to fixed addresses.
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RemSound normally finds the other computer by the
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name it advertises on the network, and follows it
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if it turns up at a new address. Handy — but not
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what you want if a machine has two addresses (say
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a VPN one and a local one) and you only ever want
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the one you chose.
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A new tickbox on the Connectivity tab — "Lock to
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these exact peer addresses, no matter what" — pins
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a profile to exactly the addresses you set. With
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it on, RemSound never matches by name and never
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switches address; if the address you set stops
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working, the connection simply waits rather than
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wandering to another. Off by default, and saved
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per profile, so you can lock one profile down
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while another keeps the automatic behaviour.
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RemSound v4.8
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A rare crash fixed, and crash reports for next
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time.
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If a peer was reachable at two addresses at once
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— for example over a VPN and the local network at
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the same time — RemSound could rapidly flip the
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connection between the two, and in a fast enough
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flip it could close unexpectedly. It now settles
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on whichever address is working and stays there,
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so that flipping (and the crash it could cause)
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is gone.
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And if RemSound ever does close unexpectedly, it
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now writes a small crash file into your logs
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folder. There's nothing for you to do with it,
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but it means a problem that used to leave no
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trace can now be sent in and pinned down.
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RemSound v4.7
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Sound now comes back on its own after a reboot.
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If RemSound started before your network or VPN
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was up, it could latch onto a different machine
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on your network and stay silent until you closed
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and reopened it. It now keeps trying the peer you
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chose and connects the moment it answers — no
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manual reconnect. (Thank you to the singer who
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reported this and sent the log that pinned it
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down.)
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A few improvements for screen-reader users. The
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"Speak the RemSound status information" hotkey
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now reads the status a line at a time, shows big
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data totals in gigabytes, and a quick double
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press copies the status to the clipboard so you
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can share it. The status also now includes how
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much CPU and memory RemSound itself is using.
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If RemSound ever won't start because the .NET
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runtime is missing, there's a new "Install
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Scripts" folder next to the program with a
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one-click installer for it.
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And the "what's new" notes no longer pop up a
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second time after an update that didn't finish.
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RemSound v4.6
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Follow your Windows default audio device.
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Both device lists — the outputs for received
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sound and the inputs to send — now have a "Use
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Windows default audio device, follows Windows
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changes" entry at the top. Tick it and RemSound
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uses whatever Windows is currently using, and
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switches with it on its own: make a headset your
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default and RemSound follows, no clicking.
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RemSound v4.5
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Keyboard shortcuts get easier to manage.
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If you're updating from before version 4.4,
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RemSound now offers to bring your shortcuts
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across from one of your profiles instead of
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resetting them — pick the profile you set them
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up in, or start fresh.
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The Keyboard shortcuts dialog has a new "Clear
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this shortcut" button, and when you're setting a
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shortcut you can press Delete to leave it
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unassigned.
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And the three remote-control rows now name
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RemSound — "Send remote RemSound volume", and so
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on — so they're easy to tell apart from the
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Windows-volume ones.
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RemSound v4.4
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Keyboard shortcuts are now shared across all
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your profiles, instead of being saved separately
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in each one. Set a shortcut once and it works on
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every profile, and stays put when you switch —
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which is what people asked for.
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Because of this change, your shortcuts have gone
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back to their defaults. If you'd set up any of
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your own, please set them again in Options →
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Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+K). You only need to do
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this once.
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RemSound v4.3.1
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A gentler update sound. The cue that plays when
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an update is on its way is now quieter by default
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— enough to let you know it's coming, without
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breaking your concentration while you're working.
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As before, you can choose your own update sound,
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or switch it off, on the Audio cues tab in
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Preferences.
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RemSound v4.3
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Two additions for screen-reader users, and a
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tidier home for logging.
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You can now hear the RemSound status line on
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demand. In the Keyboard shortcuts dialog set a
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key for "Speak the RemSound status information",
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and pressing it reads the whole status line aloud
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through your screen reader — how long you've been
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connected, your peers, whether sound is flowing,
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and how healthy the link is — from anywhere, even
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with RemSound in the tray. It's there for the
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times your screen reader can't read the status
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line itself. Unset to begin with, so you pick the
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key.
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Logging now has its own tab in Preferences, and it
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can keep its own folder tidy: warn you at startup
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if the logs folder grows past a size you choose,
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automatically delete logs older than a number of
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days you set, and a "Delete all logs" button to
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clear them out at once. All three are off unless
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you turn them on.
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RemSound v4.2
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Three fixes, one of them a real annoyance gone.
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Connecting to someone no longer risks a freeze.
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If you had a peer saved by name and that name
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couldn't be looked up quickly, RemSound used to
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stall for a few seconds while it waited — and
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because your screen reader waits on RemSound, the
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whole computer could seem to lock up. That lookup
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now happens out of the way, so connecting stays
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responsive.
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Creating a new profile (Ctrl+N), or switching
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profiles, no longer drops the window to the tray
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when you have "start minimised" turned on.
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Starting minimised is meant for when RemSound
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first launches, not for something you did on
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purpose — so a new profile now comes up the normal
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way (or stays in the tray only if that's where you
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already were), instead of vanishing and looking
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like a crash.
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And WASAPI audio is smoother. RemSound now keeps
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Windows' timing fine while it's streaming, so audio
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moves in even steps instead of arriving in clumps.
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On machines where playback was breaking up or
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running laggy on WASAPI, this should help — and you
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no longer need Priority mode switched on to get it.
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RemSound v4.1
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A couple of small fixes for screen-reader users. When
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RemSound starts straight into the notification area, it no
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longer plays the "minimise" sound — starting in the tray
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isn't the same as you choosing to hide the window, so it
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shouldn't sound the cue. And when you bring the window back
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from the tray, RemSound now lands on a control on whichever
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tab you'd left open, so your screen reader announces the
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window instead of coming up silent.
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RemSound v4.0
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RemSound now has a sound for nearly everything you do.
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On top of the connect, disconnect and recording cues, it
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can play a short sound when you turn sending or receiving
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on or off, when it minimises to or returns from the tray,
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when you tick or untick any box, and when you move between
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tabs. Every one is optional: under Options → Preferences →
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Audio cues you can silence any of them, pick which built-in
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sound it uses, or choose your own WAV file.
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It can also click softly as you type into any box, so you
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hear your keystrokes, with a distinct sound in password
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fields so you always know which kind of box you're in. That
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too is a single tick you can turn off.
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The Preferences window is now organised into four clear tabs
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— General, Audio cues, Startup behaviour and Update settings
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— so everything is easier to find. The startup options
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(start with Windows, start minimised, start with a chosen
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profile) have moved here from the Options menu.
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The automatic latency tuning is cleverer. It used to treat
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every tiny audio glitch as "the buffer is too small" and
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keep adding delay — even when the real cause was the
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receiving computer's own sound card stumbling, which more
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buffer can't fix. It now tells the two apart, so it stops
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piling on delay it can't help. And when it does lower the
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latency, it eases the buffer down smoothly instead of
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trimming it, so you no longer hear little clicks while it
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tunes.
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Finally, the built-in default sounds now travel with the
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program itself, so an update can refresh them — if a better
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default sound ships in a future update, you'll actually get
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it. Your own chosen sounds are kept exactly as you set them.
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RemSound v3.9
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Listening for a long time no longer slowly builds up
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delay. On the standard (non-ASIO) path the incoming audio
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buffer used to creep deeper after a network hiccup and
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never settle back, so a connection that started tight
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could feel laggy by morning. It now eases itself back to
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your chosen latency, gently and silently, so a long
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session stays as tight as it began.
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Fixed a long-standing cause of one-way silence: if you
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sent plain (non-ASIO) audio to someone who had an ASIO
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device selected, your sound — your microphone included —
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could arrive at their machine and then never be played,
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leaving them in silence. It now always reaches their
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speakers, whatever mix of ASIO and standard audio the two
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of you happen to be using.
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RemSound's log now also records whether your microphone
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audio is actually leaving the machine, alongside how loud
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it is — so a "my mic isn't getting through" report can be
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pinned down from the log instead of guessed at.
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RemSound no longer sends audio out when no one is actually
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connected. It waits until a peer is genuinely reachable, so
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a profile left open on its own sits quietly instead of
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streaming into nothing.
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RemSound now plays a short sound as it starts up, so you
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know it's running even when it opens straight to the
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notification area. You can turn it off, or choose your own
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sound, under Options → Preferences.
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And RemSound can now be driven from the command line for
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quick checks and support — list the audio devices, run a
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self-test of the whole audio path, or write a diagnostics
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report to send for help. Press F1 and see "Command-line
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options" in the manual for the full list.
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RemSound v3.8
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You can now start a brand-new profile at any time. A
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new "New profile" item at the top of the File menu (or
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Ctrl+N) opens a fresh, unsaved profile, so you can set up
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a profile for a different connection from scratch — even
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when RemSound is set to start straight into a specific
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profile and you'd otherwise never see the picker. If your
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current profile has unsaved changes, it offers to save
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them first. The startup picker and the window title now
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say "New profile" too, where they used to say "blank
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template".
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And the "you and the other person have different
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passwords" warning now stays on screen until you press
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OK, instead of flashing away before you could reach it.
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RemSound v3.7
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Changing audio devices mid-session is smoother. A quick
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run of device changes now settles for a moment and
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rebuilds the sound engine once, instead of several times
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in a row — so reconfiguring no longer crackles.
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The latency auto-tuner keeps its head when the computer
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hiccups. A single brief stall no longer makes it balloon
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the buffer; it only raises the cushion when late audio
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keeps coming.
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The microphone-privacy warning now also catches blocks
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aimed at RemSound alone, and blocks set by an
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administrator policy — kinds of block Windows applies
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without showing you a switch.
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RemSound's log now records the loudness of what you're
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sending, the mic-privacy check's verdict, and every
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device change — so if something goes wrong, the log can
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prove what happened instead of leaving us guessing.
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RemSound v3.6
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Updating is far more reliable. RemSound now installs its
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own updates, step by step, instead of handing off to a
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Windows script that could quietly fail. If an update can't
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finish for any reason, RemSound puts your previous version
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back exactly as it was and tells you — so a failed update
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|
can never leave you stuck or half-installed. Your settings,
|
|
profiles, logs and sounds are never touched.
|
|
|
|
A couple more notices now come to the front too: the
|
|
"RemSound is already running" message, and the notes shown
|
|
after an update when RemSound was tucked away in the tray.
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|
|
|
RemSound v3.5
|
|
|
|
Recover a sound card you unplug: if a USB sound card
|
|
you're listening through is pulled out and plugged back
|
|
in, RemSound re-opens it on its own and audio resumes —
|
|
no need to re-tick it.
|
|
|
|
Each sound card now gets the right audio cushion
|
|
automatically. RemSound sizes it to the card, so one that
|
|
needs a little more gets it without any fiddling, and a
|
|
fast card stays tight.
|
|
|
|
A microphone-privacy heads-up: if Windows is blocking
|
|
microphone access and you switch a mic on, RemSound warns
|
|
you once, so you're not left wondering why no one can
|
|
hear you.
|
|
|
|
Warnings always come to the front now, even when RemSound
|
|
is tucked away in the system tray — so you never miss one.
|
|
|
|
Everything this machine keeps for you — settings,
|
|
profiles, logs and your cue sounds — now lives in one
|
|
tidy folder called "user settings and logs". It moves
|
|
there automatically the first time you run this version.
|
|
From now on, updates never touch that folder, so any
|
|
custom cue sounds you put there are safe.
|
|
|
|
Also: your volume and mute now come back correctly when
|
|
you load a profile, plus a batch of under-the-hood
|
|
reliability and tidy-up work.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.4
|
|
|
|
Quick profile switch: a new global hotkey pops up a
|
|
list of all your profiles from anywhere — even when
|
|
RemSound is in the system tray. Arrow to one, press
|
|
Enter, and it switches straight away. It marks the
|
|
profile you're on, plays a sound as the list opens
|
|
and again when you switch, and stays in the tray if
|
|
that's where it was. Unset by default; give it a key
|
|
under Options → Keyboard shortcuts.
|
|
|
|
A safety net for the Realtek ASIO driver, which leaks
|
|
Windows resources and can make audio unstable: RemSound
|
|
now spots it on startup and offers, just once, to
|
|
disable it. Re-enable or disable it any time from the
|
|
Options menu.
|
|
|
|
Your screen reader now reads out global hotkeys when
|
|
you move over the menu item or control they're tied to,
|
|
so you can learn your shortcuts just by arrowing around
|
|
— no need to open the shortcuts dialog.
|
|
|
|
Smoother long sessions on WASAPI: two machines' sound
|
|
clocks drift apart by a hair over time, which slowly
|
|
added delay. RemSound now corrects that continuously,
|
|
so a WASAPI link stays as tight after three hours as it
|
|
was at the start. (ASIO already kept itself in step.)
|
|
|
|
Also: a new "profile menu open" cue; the profile-switch
|
|
cue now plays the instant you switch, and no longer on
|
|
a fresh start; faster reaction when you plug or unplug a
|
|
device; and your settings now tuck into a "config"
|
|
folder, moved there automatically the first time you
|
|
run this version.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.3
|
|
|
|
Your audio is now encrypted, end to end, so you no
|
|
longer need a VPN just to keep it private.
|
|
|
|
How it works: every profile has a password. You and
|
|
the person you're connecting to must use the SAME
|
|
password — then your audio is scrambled on the way
|
|
out and only unscrambled at the other end. Anyone in
|
|
between hears nothing usable. The password is what
|
|
lets you connect: matching passwords connect, and
|
|
you hear each other; different passwords mean no
|
|
audio (RemSound tells you when that happens).
|
|
|
|
Setting a password: when you create a profile it asks
|
|
for one. You can change it any time with File → Change
|
|
this profile's password, and you can see and edit the
|
|
passwords for ALL your profiles in one place under
|
|
Options → Profile passwords. If you try to start
|
|
sending or receiving on a profile that has no password
|
|
yet, RemSound asks you to set one first.
|
|
|
|
Adds almost no delay — the scrambling takes millionths
|
|
of a second per packet, far less than the audio itself.
|
|
|
|
Important: because the audio format changed, v3.3 can
|
|
only talk to other v3.3 (and later) copies. Anyone you
|
|
connect with needs to update to v3.3 too.
|
|
|
|
Also in this release: connect, disconnect and the
|
|
other cue sounds now play reliably whatever format the
|
|
WAV is in (they used to be hit-and-miss with high-
|
|
resolution files); the connect/disconnect cues now
|
|
follow the actual audio, so you won't hear a false
|
|
"disconnect" while sound is still playing; the system
|
|
tray icon sticks to a peer's working address instead
|
|
of hopping between a VPN and a LAN address (which could
|
|
cause crackle on some setups); and RemSound now offers
|
|
to show you what's new after each update (on by
|
|
default; turn it off in Preferences).
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.2
|
|
|
|
A new audio cue, plus the reliability work from
|
|
the recent updates, rolled into one release.
|
|
|
|
New "Update sound" cue: RemSound now plays a short
|
|
sound just before it closes to install an update —
|
|
for both manual updates and silent background ones.
|
|
So a silent update no longer takes you by surprise;
|
|
you hear it coming. Like every cue it's per-profile,
|
|
can be muted, and you can swap in your own sound,
|
|
all from File → Preferences → Audio cue sounds.
|
|
|
|
Only one copy at a time: RemSound refuses to run as
|
|
two copies at once. Open it while it's already
|
|
running and it offers to switch you to the copy
|
|
that's already going (now reliably bringing that
|
|
window to the front, even from the system tray), or
|
|
— if that copy is stuck — to force it closed and
|
|
start fresh.
|
|
|
|
Updates can't be blocked or doubled up: nothing can
|
|
get in the way of an update's restart any more, and
|
|
a single copy can't kick off two installs at once.
|
|
|
|
Locked profiles stay locked: marking a profile as
|
|
read-only now survives saving it.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.1.3
|
|
|
|
An important reliability fix. After an update, a
|
|
chain of small faults could line up and leave
|
|
RemSound misbehaving — in the worst case, more than
|
|
one copy running at once with the sound getting
|
|
louder and louder. This release breaks that chain.
|
|
|
|
Only one copy at a time: RemSound now refuses to run
|
|
as two copies at once. If you open it while it's
|
|
already running, it offers to switch you to the copy
|
|
that's already going (it may be down in the system
|
|
tray), or — if that copy is stuck — to force it
|
|
closed and start fresh. This makes the "stacking
|
|
copies" runaway impossible.
|
|
|
|
Updates can't be blocked any more: when RemSound
|
|
updates itself and restarts, nothing is allowed to
|
|
get in the way of that restart. Previously an
|
|
"unsaved changes?" question could pop up at that
|
|
moment and quietly cancel the update.
|
|
|
|
Locked profiles stay locked: marking a profile as
|
|
read-only now survives saving it. Before, if you
|
|
deliberately saved a locked profile the lock was
|
|
silently lost — which brought back the "save your
|
|
changes?" question and, in turn, could trip up an
|
|
update. Locked means locked.
|
|
|
|
Everything else from v3.1 is unchanged.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.1.2
|
|
|
|
A small accessibility fix for the system tray
|
|
icon, plus a clearer "check for updates" message
|
|
for Windows 7.
|
|
|
|
The tray icon's double announcement: if you use a
|
|
screen reader, the tray icon could read out two
|
|
states one after the other — for example "no peers"
|
|
and then "1 peer" — every time you landed on it. It
|
|
always happened in that same order. Windows stamps
|
|
a tray icon's name at the moment the icon appears,
|
|
which on a fresh start is a second before your other
|
|
machine has reconnected — so the name was frozen as
|
|
"no peers" while only the hover text caught up to
|
|
"1 peer". RemSound now refreshes the icon itself
|
|
whenever something real changes — a peer connecting
|
|
or dropping, sending or receiving switching on or
|
|
off, a recording starting or stopping — so the
|
|
screen reader hears a single, current state.
|
|
|
|
Recording in the tray: while a recording is running
|
|
the tray now simply says "recording" rather than
|
|
counting the seconds. A live timer would have made
|
|
the icon flicker or read out a stale time; the exact
|
|
length is on the main window if you need it.
|
|
|
|
Windows 7 update message: on a Windows 7 machine
|
|
that can't make a secure connection to the update
|
|
server, "Check for updates" used to say "you're on
|
|
the latest version", which was misleading. It now
|
|
explains that the secure connection failed and points
|
|
to the Windows updates that fix it, with a manual
|
|
download link as a fallback. Windows 10 and 11 were
|
|
never affected.
|
|
|
|
Everything else from v3.1 is unchanged.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.1.1
|
|
|
|
Hot-fix for a small but annoying bug with the system
|
|
tray tooltip after v3.1 first installed itself.
|
|
|
|
What was happening: if the v3.1 auto-update fired
|
|
while RemSound was set to start minimised to the tray,
|
|
the tray icon's hover text could get stuck saying
|
|
"RemSound — starting up" indefinitely, instead of
|
|
switching to the live "X peers, sending, receiving"
|
|
summary after a second or so. Showing the main window
|
|
and then minimising it again was the workaround.
|
|
|
|
What was actually going wrong: Windows registers a
|
|
tray icon's tooltip with the shell at the moment the
|
|
icon becomes visible. RemSound was setting an initial
|
|
"starting up" string at construction time, and the
|
|
shell tended to keep showing that on hover even after
|
|
the live state had been computed and pushed through.
|
|
The workaround (hide then re-show the icon) cleared
|
|
the shell's cache. The fix is to compute the right
|
|
live tooltip text once, just before the icon becomes
|
|
visible for the first time, so the shell registers
|
|
the icon with correct text from the start.
|
|
|
|
Everything else in v3.1 is unchanged.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.1
|
|
|
|
Two big rounds of work on audio cues and the system
|
|
tray, plus a handful of smaller fixes.
|
|
|
|
New audio cue sounds:
|
|
* Profile saved. Plays a short cue whenever a
|
|
profile is saved (Ctrl+S or File menu Save as).
|
|
Gives you an audible "yes, that took" so you
|
|
don't have to look at the screen.
|
|
* Profile switched. Plays a short cue whenever a
|
|
profile finishes loading - at startup and after
|
|
you pick a different profile. It plays the new
|
|
profile's cue, not the old one's, so if you
|
|
give each profile a different switched-to
|
|
sound you can tell at a glance which profile
|
|
you're now on.
|
|
|
|
Per-profile custom cue sounds:
|
|
* The Audio cue sounds list in Preferences now has
|
|
six entries (Connect, Disconnect, Recording
|
|
start, Recording stop, Profile saved, Profile
|
|
switched), each with a tick to enable or
|
|
silence it.
|
|
* Two new buttons sit under the list. Play
|
|
previews the currently-highlighted cue through
|
|
your default Windows output. Browse opens a
|
|
file picker so you can replace the default
|
|
sound with any WAV file from your own disk.
|
|
Right-clicking Browse offers "Use default
|
|
sound" to undo the swap.
|
|
* Both the tick states AND the custom sound
|
|
choices are saved with the active profile, so
|
|
different profiles can carry different cue
|
|
palettes. A "quiet listening" profile can have
|
|
all cues off; a "studio" profile can use a
|
|
distinct set of sounds.
|
|
* The default WAV files have moved from sitting
|
|
loose next to RemSound.exe into a new sounds
|
|
subfolder, keeping the install folder tidier.
|
|
|
|
System tray icon redesigned:
|
|
* Hovering shows a live summary - peer count,
|
|
send / receive mode (WASAPI, ASIO, or both),
|
|
and how long any current recording has been
|
|
running. Refreshes every second.
|
|
* Right-click menu reworked. The items are now
|
|
Show RemSound (W), Enable sending (S, ticks
|
|
reflect state), Enable receiving (R, same),
|
|
Profiles (P, submenu of your recent profiles
|
|
with number-key shortcuts), and Exit (X).
|
|
* Show RemSound now reliably brings the window
|
|
forward and focuses it, fixing a case where
|
|
screen reader users had to Alt+Tab to actually
|
|
reach the restored window.
|
|
* Enable sending and Enable receiving toggle the
|
|
state instead of always switching it on, so
|
|
you can use them to turn off too.
|
|
* The Profiles submenu lets you switch profiles
|
|
from the tray without re-opening the main
|
|
window. Number keys 1..5 jump straight to a
|
|
slot.
|
|
|
|
Bug fixes:
|
|
* The tray icon's initial hover text was reading
|
|
as "RemSound RemSound" on screen readers
|
|
because the tooltip text matched the process
|
|
name. Now reads cleanly as "RemSound - starting
|
|
up" at first, then the live state takes over.
|
|
* Recent profiles in both menus no longer
|
|
announce a "Recent profile N:" prefix - they
|
|
just read the profile name. The number-key
|
|
shortcuts still work.
|
|
|
|
No wire format change. v3.1 talks to other v3.0.x
|
|
machines exactly as v3.0 / v3.0.1 / v3.0.2 did.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.0.2
|
|
|
|
Hot-fix for a slow memory leak in the receive side. If
|
|
you leave RemSound running for many hours receiving
|
|
audio, its memory use was creeping up steadily — small
|
|
at first, but big enough after a day to slow the
|
|
computer down and make audio feel slightly laggy.
|
|
|
|
What was happening: RemSound uses a small library
|
|
called Concentus to decode incoming Opus audio. In
|
|
version 2.2 we switched it from a pure software
|
|
version to a faster native version. The native version
|
|
keeps some memory in Windows itself rather than in
|
|
RemSound, and you're supposed to tell it explicitly
|
|
when you're done with it. Our code wasn't doing that —
|
|
it was relying on the system to notice and tidy up
|
|
eventually, but a setting we use to keep audio smooth
|
|
also stops Windows from doing that tidy-up. Result:
|
|
memory built up over hours and never came back.
|
|
|
|
The fix is twofold. First, RemSound now does that
|
|
tidy-up properly every time it finishes with a piece
|
|
of the audio pipeline — at the end of a session, when
|
|
you change codec, and when a recording stops. Second,
|
|
as a backstop in case any other piece of the puzzle
|
|
ever has the same shape of bug, RemSound now does a
|
|
quick "release any leftover memory" pass once every
|
|
five minutes in the background. The pass doesn't
|
|
affect audio — it runs on its own and is over before
|
|
the next audio packet arrives.
|
|
|
|
Reported by a user whose desktop was using 3.5 GB of
|
|
memory after running RemSound continuously for nearly
|
|
a full day. After the fix, expect memory to settle at
|
|
around 100-200 megabytes and stay there for as long as
|
|
you leave RemSound running.
|
|
|
|
Nothing else has changed from v3.0.1 — same wire
|
|
format, same codec list, same everything. If you've
|
|
not noticed any slowdown after long sessions, the fix
|
|
is still worth having because the leak was happening
|
|
under the surface even if you didn't see it.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.0.1
|
|
|
|
Hot-fix for a bug in the "Automatically open my router
|
|
for incoming connections (UPnP)" tickbox.
|
|
|
|
On some network setups (machines with several network
|
|
adapters, a VPN connected, or a router that doesn't
|
|
answer the way RemSound's UPnP library expects) ticking
|
|
that box could freeze RemSound's window — audio kept
|
|
flowing, but you couldn't open the window again, even
|
|
from the system tray. The only way out was to end the
|
|
process from Task Manager.
|
|
|
|
The fault was that RemSound was doing the router
|
|
discovery on the same thread that draws the window, so
|
|
a slow router (or no router answering at all) would
|
|
block the window until it finished — which sometimes
|
|
was never. v3.0.1 moves that work off to a background
|
|
thread so the window stays responsive while RemSound
|
|
looks for the router.
|
|
|
|
Nothing else has changed from v3.0 — same wire format,
|
|
same codec list, same everything. If you were already
|
|
running v3.0 happily, this update fixes a problem you
|
|
may not have hit; you can install it at your leisure.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v3.0
|
|
|
|
A big release with two things you'll actually notice:
|
|
|
|
1) A new "live latency" Opus mode. RemSound now sends
|
|
sound in tiny 2.5-millisecond chunks instead of the
|
|
usual 10 or 20 ms. End-to-end delay drops to about
|
|
5 ms of codec delay — close to PCM — perfect for
|
|
playing along with someone in real time. Uses a bit
|
|
more network bandwidth than the regular Opus mode
|
|
but still a fraction of PCM. Best on a clean wired
|
|
network. Pick it from the codec list as "Opus, live
|
|
latency — for jamming and monitoring".
|
|
|
|
2) After RemSound updates itself, it now reopens on
|
|
the same profile you were using. So if a silent
|
|
update fires mid-session, the session drops briefly
|
|
while the new files swap in, then RemSound reopens
|
|
with the same devices, peers and settings — you
|
|
don't see the profile picker, and you don't have to
|
|
be at the computer when it happens. The next time
|
|
you launch RemSound yourself, your normal startup
|
|
choice applies as before.
|
|
|
|
Other changes:
|
|
* The codec list is now three choices, with clearer
|
|
names: PCM 48K 24 bit (uncompressed); Opus,
|
|
broadcast quality (loss tolerant); Opus, live
|
|
latency (the new low-latency mode). The old
|
|
"Opus lower quality (10 ms)" middle option has
|
|
been retired — it sat between the other two
|
|
without a clear reason to pick it. If your saved
|
|
profile was using it, RemSound silently picks
|
|
broadcast quality for you — slightly more delay,
|
|
more loss tolerance.
|
|
* Save on a locked (read-only) profile now goes
|
|
through when you ask on purpose. The lock still
|
|
suppresses the automatic "save your changes?"
|
|
prompt on close (its main job), but if you press
|
|
Save deliberately, a one-time warning explains
|
|
what's about to happen and lets you confirm or
|
|
cancel. Once you tick "do not show again", future
|
|
deliberate saves on a locked profile go through
|
|
silently. Save as... is unchanged — it always
|
|
works.
|
|
|
|
Also includes everything from the never-separately-
|
|
released v2.2 work: a native Opus encoder that puts
|
|
much less load on Windows' memory manager (about 97 %
|
|
less per-second memory churn while sending Opus),
|
|
various small CPU and memory tidy-ups, and new
|
|
diagnostic log columns (cpu, memMB, wsMB, allocKBps,
|
|
captureMs / sendMs / recvMs / renderMs).
|
|
|
|
Compatibility note — please read:
|
|
|
|
v3.0 changes how RemSound describes audio frame sizes
|
|
to other RemSound machines on the wire. Two v3.0
|
|
machines talk to each other perfectly. A v3.0 machine
|
|
talking to a v2.x machine will still pass audio, but
|
|
the v2.x side will build up too much buffer and
|
|
latency will be very high. To avoid this, update BOTH
|
|
machines to v3.0. The auto-updater on v1.9 and later
|
|
will handle the upgrade for you, but the timing
|
|
matters: if one machine updates before the other,
|
|
expect a short period of high latency until the
|
|
second machine catches up.
|
|
|
|
If you had previously ticked "do not show me this
|
|
message again" on the v2.x "save was blocked on a
|
|
read-only profile" dialog, that suppression doesn't
|
|
carry over — you'll see the new one-time warning once
|
|
per machine. That's deliberate; the behaviour changed
|
|
and you need to know.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v2.2
|
|
|
|
A maintenance release that makes RemSound use less of
|
|
your computer's CPU and memory, especially when sending
|
|
with the Opus codec. No new features to learn, no
|
|
settings have changed, and audio sounds exactly the same.
|
|
Wire format and audio pipeline are unchanged — every
|
|
version from v1.5 to v2.2 still talks to every other
|
|
version cleanly.
|
|
|
|
What's lighter on your computer:
|
|
* Opus sending uses much less memory. RemSound's
|
|
Opus encoder used to put quite a lot of work on
|
|
Windows' memory manager — about 4 megabytes per
|
|
second of "throwaway" memory churn while sending
|
|
Opus audio. v2.2 ships a native build of the same
|
|
encoder that does its work in a tighter, faster way.
|
|
The audio you hear is identical (it really is the
|
|
same encoder, just packaged better); the memory
|
|
churn drops by about 97 per cent. On laptops you
|
|
should see less background CPU when streaming Opus,
|
|
and longer sessions are less likely to see brief
|
|
pauses while Windows tidies up memory.
|
|
* Smaller all-round efficiency tidy-up. A handful of
|
|
small fixes — RemSound checks the audio-device list
|
|
less often, reuses some small bits of memory it
|
|
used to make fresh each time, and skips some
|
|
paperwork on the receive side when there's nothing
|
|
to do. Each one is small on its own; together they
|
|
cut RemSound's everyday memory churn modestly.
|
|
* Removed some old leftover code that was retired
|
|
months ago but still lived on as zero-valued
|
|
columns in the diagnostic log. Same behaviour,
|
|
cleaner files.
|
|
|
|
For people who use the diagnostic logs:
|
|
* Several new columns. "cpu" shows how much of one
|
|
CPU core RemSound just used. "memMB" and "wsMB" are
|
|
its memory footprint. "allocKBps" is the per-second
|
|
memory-churn rate. "captureMs / sendMs / recvMs /
|
|
renderMs" show how busy each of the four audio
|
|
threads is. All of this only writes to the log when
|
|
Enable logs is ticked; with logs off it costs
|
|
nothing.
|
|
* "fanCacheMs", "driftDrop", "driftRep" and "driftAcc"
|
|
columns have been removed — they were always zero
|
|
after the playback engine changed in May.
|
|
|
|
No bug fixes in v2.2 specifically — everything carried
|
|
over from v2.1's UPnP, lock-profile, wake-from-sleep
|
|
and hibernate fixes is still in place.
|
|
|
|
What's new:
|
|
* Automatic router port opening (UPnP). RemSound can
|
|
now ask your router to let peers on the internet
|
|
reach you, so you don't have to set up port
|
|
forwarding by hand. Off by default. Tick the new
|
|
"Automatically open my router for incoming
|
|
connections (UPnP)" box in Preferences to turn it
|
|
on. A status line right below the tick tells you
|
|
what happened — found your router and opened the
|
|
port, found your router but the port couldn't be
|
|
opened, or no router found that supports this
|
|
feature. If your internet provider puts you behind
|
|
a second layer of NAT (common on mobile broadband
|
|
and some cable connections), the status line will
|
|
say so and suggest using Tailscale or the relay
|
|
instead.
|
|
* Check for updates on startup. New checkbox in
|
|
Preferences, on by default. Shortly after RemSound
|
|
launches it has a quiet look for a new release.
|
|
Combined with "Silently install updates", this
|
|
means leaving RemSound to keep itself up to date
|
|
without you ever needing to think about it.
|
|
* Brief notice before a silent update installs. When
|
|
RemSound finds an update at startup and is set to
|
|
install silently, it now shows a small window with
|
|
the version it's about to install and an 8-second
|
|
countdown. Press Enter (or wait) to install now,
|
|
"Skip this version" to leave the update for
|
|
another day, or "Postpone" to try again at the
|
|
next check. Without this notice, the app could
|
|
silently close on you a few seconds after launch
|
|
and you'd have no idea why.
|
|
* Lock profile (read-only). New tickable item in the
|
|
File menu (Alt+F, L). When ticked, anything you
|
|
change while RemSound is running stays in this
|
|
session and is forgotten on close — your saved
|
|
profile is left untouched, and there's NO "save
|
|
changes?" prompt on exit. Useful when you have a
|
|
default profile you want to keep clean even if you
|
|
toggle send/receive or volume during the day, and
|
|
essential if a save prompt could block shutdown
|
|
when you can't reach it (screen reader gone,
|
|
remote session dropped, machine hibernating).
|
|
Saved per profile, off by default, toggle as often
|
|
as you like. Save As on a locked profile produces
|
|
an unlocked copy you can edit normally.
|
|
* "Cue sounds" in Preferences is now labelled "Audio
|
|
cue sounds" for clarity.
|
|
|
|
Bug fixes:
|
|
* No sound after the computer wakes from sleep. On
|
|
many setups (especially USB audio interfaces),
|
|
waking the computer left RemSound's audio engine
|
|
in a state where it looked like it was running but
|
|
no sound actually came out — you'd have to quit
|
|
and reopen RemSound to get audio back. RemSound
|
|
now notices when the system has woken up, waits a
|
|
moment for the USB devices to settle, and rebuilds
|
|
its audio engine automatically. The "Loading audio
|
|
driver" window briefly appears during the rebuild
|
|
so you can see it's happening.
|
|
* Receiver audio silent after waking from hibernate.
|
|
A follow-up to the wake-from-sleep fix above: on
|
|
hibernate (rather than ordinary sleep) the ASIO
|
|
receive output's tick selection could be silently
|
|
wiped during hibernation entry, leaving the
|
|
receiver running silent on resume even though
|
|
everything looked normal in the logs. Fixed by
|
|
recognising the transient driver-disappeared state
|
|
and preserving the user's tick until the driver
|
|
comes back.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v2.0
|
|
|
|
A smoother startup when a profile uses an ASIO driver.
|
|
No wire-format or audio-pipeline changes — v1.5 through
|
|
v2.0 peers interoperate.
|
|
|
|
Change:
|
|
* Opening an ASIO driver takes a couple of seconds,
|
|
and during that time the main window used to look
|
|
frozen on startup. RemSound now shows a small
|
|
"Loading audio driver" window while the driver
|
|
opens, so startup no longer looks hung. The window
|
|
then opens as normal. Profiles that don't use an
|
|
ASIO driver are unaffected — they still start
|
|
instantly, with no extra window.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.9
|
|
|
|
Critical auto-updater fix. No wire-format or
|
|
audio-pipeline changes — v1.5 through v1.9 peers
|
|
interoperate.
|
|
|
|
Bug fix:
|
|
* The auto-updater now actually installs updates.
|
|
Every previous version had a fault in the update
|
|
step: the folder path handed to the file-copy
|
|
command ended in a backslash, which Windows
|
|
mis-read, so the copy was rejected and no files
|
|
were ever replaced. Check for updates would
|
|
download the new version but never apply it. That
|
|
copy step is fixed.
|
|
|
|
Because the fault was in the OLD version doing the
|
|
updating, v1.8 and earlier cannot install v1.9 for you
|
|
— install v1.9 by hand once (download the zip, extract
|
|
it over your RemSound folder). From v1.9 onward, Check
|
|
for updates installs every update automatically.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.8
|
|
|
|
Updater polish and a rewritten user manual. No
|
|
wire-format or audio-pipeline changes — v1.5 through
|
|
v1.8 peers interoperate.
|
|
|
|
Changes:
|
|
* Check for updates looks further down the release
|
|
list, so it reliably finds the newest RemSound
|
|
version.
|
|
* An update can no longer overwrite your own
|
|
settings, profiles, logs or recordings — it only
|
|
replaces program files.
|
|
* After a successful update the install folder is
|
|
left tidy: temporary update files, the update log
|
|
and any old failure note are cleared automatically.
|
|
* If an update ever fails, the note it leaves
|
|
(update-failed.txt) is now written in plain
|
|
language with clear steps to follow.
|
|
* The user manual (press F1) has been rewritten in
|
|
plain language throughout.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.7
|
|
|
|
Updater fix. No wire-format or audio-pipeline changes —
|
|
v1.5, v1.6 and v1.7 peers interoperate.
|
|
|
|
Bug fix:
|
|
* Check for updates now reliably finds RemSound
|
|
releases. RemSound and the relay server share one
|
|
GitHub repository; the server's releases use
|
|
"server-" tags. The updater previously looked only
|
|
at the single newest release of any kind, so a
|
|
server release could derail it (it would misread
|
|
the version and report "up to date"). It now scans
|
|
the release list and considers only RemSound client
|
|
versions, ignoring server releases, drafts and
|
|
pre-releases.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.6
|
|
|
|
Three reliability fixes. No wire-format or audio-pipeline
|
|
changes — v1.5 and v1.6 peers interoperate.
|
|
|
|
Bug fixes:
|
|
* Peer address recovery. If the address you connected
|
|
to goes unreachable — a peer rebooted onto a new IP,
|
|
or a computer name resolved to a stale address —
|
|
RemSound now follows the peer to the live address it
|
|
is heartbeating from, instead of sending audio into
|
|
the void. Recovers on its own within a few seconds.
|
|
Limited to private-network addresses so a relay can
|
|
never be mistaken for a moved peer.
|
|
* Fixed a crash that could happen when a peer
|
|
reconnected (e.g. after rebooting). The Connectivity
|
|
peer list could be read mid-rebuild with a stale
|
|
index and bring the app down from the status timer.
|
|
* Fixed runaway memory and CPU on a long-running
|
|
receiver. Decoder sessions orphaned by peer
|
|
reconnects were not being reclaimed — over hours they
|
|
piled up, each holding a multi-megabyte buffer and
|
|
costing render-thread time every callback. They are
|
|
now reaped once idle, with a hard cap as a backstop.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.5
|
|
|
|
Menu reorganisation, multi-peer audio-routing fix, recording
|
|
fix for BothIndependent mode, and Ctrl+O for Open profile.
|
|
Wire format and audio pipeline are unchanged — v1.4 and v1.5
|
|
peers interoperate.
|
|
|
|
Bug fixes:
|
|
* BothIndependent recording: when both WASAPI and ASIO
|
|
output devices were ticked, recordings came out garbled
|
|
and twice the expected duration. The recorder taps fired
|
|
from both lanes' render reads and the writer thread
|
|
appended both streams into one ring as if they were
|
|
sequential audio. Recorder now has per-lane rings and
|
|
mixes them in the writer thread.
|
|
* A peer announcing audio on the WASAPI lane was inaudible
|
|
when the receiver only had an ASIO output device ticked
|
|
(and vice versa). Sessions whose announced lane has no
|
|
active output now fall through to whichever lane IS
|
|
being read.
|
|
|
|
Menu reorganisation:
|
|
* New Options menu (Alt+O) holds: Recording settings,
|
|
Keyboard shortcuts, Startup behaviour, Preferences.
|
|
These used to be scattered across File menu (Keyboard
|
|
shortcuts, Preferences), Record menu (Recording settings),
|
|
and inside the Preferences dialog (Startup behaviour).
|
|
* Record menu mnemonic moved from Alt+O to Alt+K (rendered
|
|
as "Record (Alt+K)") so Alt+O could go to Options. K is
|
|
unusual for "Record" but the Record menu doesn't have a
|
|
natural free letter — Alt+R is taken by Receive audio.
|
|
* File menu: new Recent profiles submenu (Alt+F, R). Lists
|
|
the last five profiles you've opened, most-recent first.
|
|
Press 1..5 while the submenu is open to jump to a slot.
|
|
File → Rename current profile moves to Alt+F, M, and
|
|
Minimise to tray moves to Alt+F, N, to free up R for the
|
|
new submenu.
|
|
* Lock to audio clock (Audio profile tab) was Alt+K; now
|
|
Alt+D (the D in "audio") since the Record menu won Alt+K.
|
|
|
|
UX additions:
|
|
* Ctrl+O opens the Open profile dialog (matches the menu
|
|
chord). Previously the menu had no global shortcut.
|
|
* New global hotkey: Start / Stop recording. Pickable from
|
|
Options - Keyboard shortcuts. Unbound by default. Works
|
|
system-wide — RemSound doesn't need keyboard focus.
|
|
|
|
Recording feature unchanged in this release — the dialog
|
|
layout, formats (WAV / MP3 / OGG-Opus / FLAC), and tap-points
|
|
all the same as v1.4.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.4
|
|
|
|
Recording-settings dialog cleanup and a few mnemonic
|
|
adjustments. No wire-format or audio-pipeline changes — v1.4
|
|
and v1.3 peers interoperate.
|
|
|
|
Recording settings dialog:
|
|
* Channel mode is now its own dedicated listbox (Alt+C)
|
|
instead of being folded into every attribute row. WAV
|
|
shrinks from 6 attribute rows to 3, MP3 and OGG-Opus from
|
|
8 to 4, FLAC from 4 to 2.
|
|
* FLAC compression level (0..8) is now selectable in its
|
|
own listbox (Alt+L). Previously hard-fixed at the libFLAC
|
|
default of 5. The list is shown only when the file format
|
|
is FLAC. Friendly tags on the endpoints: "0 — fastest
|
|
encode, biggest file", "5 — default (libFLAC reference)",
|
|
"8 — slowest encode, smallest file". All levels produce
|
|
bit-identical audio — pure encode-time vs file-size
|
|
tradeoff.
|
|
|
|
Record menu mnemonics:
|
|
* Start / Stop recording is now Alt+O, R (was Alt+O, S).
|
|
Matches the Ctrl+R global toggle so the same letter does
|
|
the same job from either entry point.
|
|
* Recording settings is now Alt+O, S (was Alt+O, T). Reads
|
|
more naturally now that the R slot is freed.
|
|
* Open folder (O) and Change folder (C) unchanged.
|
|
|
|
Dialog mnemonic adjustment:
|
|
* Cancel button in the Recording settings dialog moved
|
|
from Alt+C to Alt+N so the Channels listbox can take
|
|
Alt+C. Esc still dismisses the dialog the way it always
|
|
has.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.3
|
|
|
|
Updater hardening. The v1.2 self-updater silently failed on
|
|
installs inside Dropbox-synced folders because Dropbox held
|
|
write locks on the existing files during the brief window
|
|
between the parent exiting and the helper script copying the
|
|
new files in. Robocopy gave up after 5 seconds and the helper
|
|
relaunched the old binary anyway — so the user saw the same
|
|
version they started with after pressing "Yes" on the install
|
|
prompt.
|
|
|
|
What's new:
|
|
* Helper script retries robocopy for up to 60 seconds per
|
|
file (was 5). Dropbox lock release happens reliably within
|
|
that window in practice.
|
|
* Helper now checks robocopy's exit code. On a true failure
|
|
(exit code 8 or higher), it writes update-failed.txt next
|
|
to RemSound.exe with diagnostic detail and does NOT
|
|
relaunch the old binary. Earlier versions silently
|
|
relaunched the unmodified old binary, hiding the failure.
|
|
* Helper writes a step-by-step log to _update-helper.log in
|
|
the install folder. If a future update goes wrong this is
|
|
where the trace lives.
|
|
* Stale failure markers are cleared at the start of every
|
|
new update attempt, so a successful run leaves the install
|
|
folder clean.
|
|
|
|
Wire format, audio pipeline, and recording feature are
|
|
unchanged from v1.2.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.2
|
|
|
|
Recording, sound cues, and receiver-side drift compensation.
|
|
This release is mostly about features that sit on top of the
|
|
v1.1 transport — the wire format and audio pipeline are
|
|
unchanged, so v1.1 and v1.2 peers interoperate.
|
|
|
|
What's new:
|
|
* Recording. New Record menu (Alt+O) — Start / Stop with
|
|
Ctrl+R, dedicated settings dialog, per-profile choice of
|
|
source (received only, sent only, or both), file format
|
|
(WAV, MP3, OGG-Opus, FLAC), bit depth or bitrate, mono or
|
|
stereo, and recordings folder. Files are crash-resilient:
|
|
WAV re-patches its RIFF header every 5 seconds, MP3 / FLAC
|
|
/ OGG-Opus all produce well-formed truncated files if the
|
|
app crashes mid-recording.
|
|
* OGG-Opus and FLAC encoders now wired up — they were stubs
|
|
in earlier builds. OGG-Opus reuses the same Concentus
|
|
encoder as the wire path; FLAC uses pure-managed CUETools
|
|
FLAKE (no native DLL).
|
|
* Recording start / stop sound cues. Plays a short ding
|
|
when recording transitions on or off. Played via the
|
|
default Windows output device, separate from the
|
|
recording pipeline, so a normal recording does not include
|
|
the cue.
|
|
* Sound-cue Preferences. The old single "Mute connect /
|
|
disconnect sounds" checkbox is replaced by a per-cue
|
|
CheckedListBox: Connect / Disconnect / Recording start /
|
|
Recording stop, each independently toggleable. Old profile
|
|
settings that had the legacy mute on are honoured on first
|
|
load.
|
|
* Receiver-side drift compensation switched from discrete
|
|
single-frame splices to a continuous WdlResampler running
|
|
at a slowly-updated rate ratio. Smooths out long-session
|
|
clock drift between sender and receiver without the
|
|
occasional 21 µs splice the v1.1 corrector emitted.
|
|
|
|
UI changes:
|
|
* Record menu moved to Alt+O (Rec&ord). The old Alt+R chord
|
|
conflicted with the Receive audio checkbox on the main
|
|
form. Inside the menu the item mnemonics are unchanged
|
|
(S / T / O / C for Start, settings, Open folder, Change
|
|
folder).
|
|
* Auto-tune interval combo label and accessible name are now
|
|
mode-aware. In BothIndependent mode it reads "Auto-tune
|
|
interval — WASAPI and ASIO" so it's clear the same combo
|
|
drives ticks for both lanes; each lane still independently
|
|
tunes to its own target latency. Earlier builds also had
|
|
a bug where ticking ASIO auto-tune alone left this combo
|
|
greyed out — fixed.
|
|
|
|
Diagnostics (only active with Enable logs ticked):
|
|
* Per-stage discontinuity probes — sender raw capture,
|
|
sender pre-encode (now per lane in BothIndependent),
|
|
receiver post-decode, receiver post-ring, receiver
|
|
post-resampler. Lets a log inspection localise where a
|
|
click was introduced (capture / wire / decode / playout).
|
|
* Wire-level sequence tracking on each PCM stream:
|
|
in-order / missed / reordered / duplicated packet counts
|
|
in the diag log. Healthy LAN should show all-zero except
|
|
in-order; non-zero on the others points to transport
|
|
issues rather than software.
|
|
* Clipped-sample delta in the diag log.
|
|
|
|
Bug fixes:
|
|
* Auto-tune interval combo no longer greys out when only
|
|
ASIO auto-tune is ticked in BothIndependent.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.1
|
|
|
|
Priority and performance hardening, plus always-on network
|
|
packet priority. Aimed at the cold-start latency jitter you
|
|
sometimes hear when the machine has been idle.
|
|
|
|
What's new:
|
|
* Use CPU and Windows performance settings in high priority
|
|
mode (Audio profile tab, Alt+U). Off by default; opt in per
|
|
profile. Combines eight Windows power and scheduling levers
|
|
so the OS can't decide we're idle and downclock: process
|
|
power-throttling off (including timer-resolution honouring),
|
|
an execution-required power request, scheduler quantum
|
|
pinned to 1 ms, process priority raised to High, working-set
|
|
minimum locked, memory priority normalised, and
|
|
SetThreadExecutionState set to keep the system awake. Fully
|
|
reversed on toggle-off and on app exit. Costs battery on
|
|
laptops — that's why it's off by default.
|
|
* Network packet priority — always on, no toggle. The
|
|
outbound UDP socket is attached to Windows' built-in qWAVE
|
|
service at Voice priority (DSCP 46, WMM Voice on Wi-Fi). On
|
|
a busy Wi-Fi access point, RemSound's packets win
|
|
medium-contention against other clients; on wired LAN,
|
|
switches that honour DSCP give us scheduling priority.
|
|
Neutral across the public internet (most ISPs strip DSCP at
|
|
the edge). Silent fallback if the qWAVE service isn't
|
|
available on stripped-down Windows images.
|
|
* Sender and receiver UDP kernel buffers bumped to 1 MB each
|
|
way — enough to absorb roughly 30 ms of GC or scheduler
|
|
stall without dropping datagrams.
|
|
* MMCSS audio-thread priority on the network listener, mix
|
|
loop, and render thread bumped from High to Critical
|
|
(always on, no toggle).
|
|
|
|
Bug fixes:
|
|
* Toggling "Enable logs" in Preferences no longer marks the
|
|
current profile as dirty. Logs are a machine-local setting,
|
|
so the spurious flag was triggering the "unsaved changes?"
|
|
prompt on exit after just toggling logs.
|
|
|
|
RemSound v1.0
|
|
|
|
Initial public release.
|
|
|
|
Highlights:
|
|
* Low-latency peer-to-peer audio over UDP. WASAPI for any Windows audio device,
|
|
and a parallel ASIO lane for pro audio interfaces (Audient, Komplete Audio,
|
|
Focusrite, RME). Each lane keeps its own native callback latency.
|
|
* Pick an ASIO driver from the dropdown at the top of the Audio inputs and outputs
|
|
tab to bring ASIO into the pipeline; select "(none)" to run WASAPI-only.
|
|
* Profile system. Save your entire setup — device ticks, peers, codec, latency
|
|
targets, hotkeys, ASIO driver choice — into a JSON file. Pick which profile to
|
|
load at every launch.
|
|
* Continuous auto-tune on either lane. Watches receive jitter and nudges the
|
|
latency target up or down to stay click-free without forcing you to overshoot.
|
|
* Opus inband FEC. Single-packet losses recover transparently in both Opus modes;
|
|
you don't hear them at all. PCM is also available for clean LAN connections.
|
|
* Remote control. Configurable global hotkeys can nudge a peer's RemSound volume
|
|
or their Windows default-output-device master volume, opt-in on the receiver.
|
|
* Built-in self-updater. Optionally polls GitHub for newer releases on a schedule
|
|
you set; can install them silently if you want.
|
|
|
|
See the user manual (Help menu, or F1 from anywhere in the app) for full details
|
|
on every control, the keyboard shortcuts, and the troubleshooting guide.
|
|
""";
|
|
|
|
public AboutDialog()
|
|
{
|
|
Text = "About RemSound";
|
|
FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog;
|
|
MinimizeBox = false;
|
|
MaximizeBox = false;
|
|
ShowInTaskbar = false;
|
|
StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent;
|
|
KeyPreview = true;
|
|
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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