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Version history and known deficiencies

The first mention of a bug does not mean that is new in the respective version of the app. Earlier versions can be affected as well.

Rooms! 1.0 (2013-04-26):

• On iPhone, audio is rendered via the phone speaker instead of the music speaker. Thanks to rafael_ollero for making us aware of this problem. Fixed in version 1.1.
• Sometimes the parameter sliders slip to a wrong position when the device rotates. Rotate again to correct this. Fixed in version 2.0.
• When a file with reverb is created from an audio file that has a sample rate different from 44.1 kHz, then the time slider of the audio files view moves with the wrong speed. This phenomenon can be observed only on iPad. Fixed in version 2.0.

Rooms! 1.1 (2013-05-10):

• If headphones are connected when the app is started, then the sound is still output via the device speaker. To get sound from the headphones you have to unplug and re-plug them. Fixed in version 1.2.

Rooms! 1.2 (2013-05-18):

• No new known problems.

Rooms! 2.0 (2013-05-31):

• No known problems.

Rooms! 2.1 (2013-06-28):

• Saving user presets does not work. In about three months availability of 2.1, no user has complained about this! Are the factory presets good enough for all purposes? Fixed in version 2.2.

Rooms! 2.2 (2013-09-17):

• In the Edit mode of the User Presets view, some operation sequences can lead to a crash. Fixed in version 2.3.

Rooms! 2.3 (2013-09-26):

• No known problems.

Rooms! 3.0 (2014-01-06):

• Convolution reverb: When you select "Create copy with reverb" for a file "A" while a file "B" is playing, then the reverberated file "A + Reverb" contains at the beginning artefacts of the sound of "B" (because there is only one convolution engine, which had still stuff of "B" in its guts). Workaround: Stop the file player before selecting "Create copy with reverb" and wait a moment until the sound has faded out. Turn off playthrough also. Fixed in version 3.1.

Rooms! 3.1 (2014-01-22):

• When long-tapping an iOS AU parameter slider, the numerical input view pops up. This is a rather annoying behaviour. The numerical input ought to appear only when the user long-taps the parameter name. Thanks to Patrick Stiegeler for pointing out this problem. Fixed in version 3.2.
• Some short WAV files with 8kHz/8bit/mono do not work as impulse responses.

Rooms! 3.2 (2014-02-17):

• Irset archives cannot be imported if there are nested subdirectories with identically named files. Fixed in version 3.3.

Rooms! 3.3 (2014-03-06):

• No new known problems.

Rooms! 3.4 (2014-03-28):

• The IAA initialisation does not work ("AudioOutputUnitPublish Failed" at app startup on iOS 7) because of a missing IAA entitlement. Fixed in version 3.41.

Rooms! 3.41 (2014-04-02):

• Under certain conditions, Rooms! fails to initialise the audio graph at startup. It seems this happens when another app is running or was running that sets the hardware sample rate to a value different from 44100 Hz. On iOS 5/6 terminate the other app and Rooms! and, after waiting a few seconds, start Rooms! again. Fixed in version 3.50.

Rooms! 3.50 (2014-08-20):

• With convolution reverb, the new preferred buffer size setting of 4096 frames does not work with hardware sample rates of 22050 Hz (corresponding to a buffer duration of 185.8 ms) and less because in these cases iOS switches to buffer sizes that are not a power of 2, and the convolution engine cannot cope with this. The same is true for a preferred buffer size of 2048 frames and a hardware sample rate of 8000 Hz.

Rooms! 4.0 (2014-08-28):

• Handing over audio files to Rooms! via Open In... does on iOS 8 not work with files shorter than 15 seconds. The action selector which lets the user decide between "Audio File" and "Impulse Response" does not appear. Fixed in version 4.1.
• Rooms! 4.0 uses symbolic links for files of the Demo IR set. iOS 8 is changing directory names whenever you install a new version of an app, which breaks the symbolic links. Workaround: You have to delete and reinstall the Demo IR set. Fixed in version 4.1, which creates copies of the files instead of symbolic links.

Rooms! 4.1 (2014-09-27):

• No new known problems.

Rooms! 4.2 (2014-11-25):

• Under certain cirumstances (other app changing the hardware sample rate while Rooms! is in suspended state), the playback speed of audio files is wrong. Workaround: Go to the Settings view, select a different sample rate and return to the previous value. Fixed in version 4.3.
• It is not possible to download zipped IR archives which are offered by a web server via a URL like http://.../download.php?.... Fixed in version 4.3.

Rooms! 4.3 (2015-02-20):

• The playback speed problem is still there. Workaround: See above. Fixed in version 4.4.
• A wrong audio file duration is displayed after a file was imported from the media library. Fixed in version 4.4.

Rooms! 4.4 (2015-02-27):
Rooms! 4.5 (2015-03-23):
Rooms! 4.6 (2015-07-30):

• No new known problems.

Rooms! 4.7 (2015-09-12):

• Sorting audio files does not work. Fixed in version 4.8.

Rooms! 4.8 (2015-10-14):
Rooms! 4.9 (2016-03-14):

• When you delete an audio file while it is playing and put the app to the background, then an error message appears when the app if fetched to the foreground again. This problem was there in (probably) all earlier versions as well. Fixed in version 4.10.

Rooms! 4.10 (2016-04-18):

• Sorting by date or length in the Files view is flawed. The list does not update correctly for example when you add a file, only when you tap the sort button once again. Furthermore, the rename function is messed up when sorting by date or length is active. Thanks to Morris Rolland for making us aware of this bug. Fixed in version 4.11.

Rooms! 4.11 (2016-12-12):

• On iPhone/iPod touch, the playthrough buttons do not always show the correct status. This happens when you leave one of the main views to access a subview, then switch to another main view and tap the playthrough button in this other main view. For example, go to the Recorder view, open the file name configuration view by tapping the text "File name:", then switch to another main view by tapping an icon in the tab bar, and in this other main view tap the playthrough button. When you return to the the Recorder view, its playthrough button will not have adapted its color. Fixed in version 4.12.
• Just an inconvenience: Cancelled recordings can be selected only by long-tapping. Fixed in version 4.12.
• Another inconvenience: When the user tries to import files from the media library, but permission to access the media library was denied previously, then the app ought to inform the user about this. Instead, the media picker appears and then disappears for no apparent reason. Fixed in version 4.12.
• And yet another one: The table contents in the Files view flickers during iCloud uploads and downloads. Fixed in version 4.12.
• When an audio files plays and the app is sent to the background, then the file stops playing when the app returns to the foreground. Fixed in version 4.12.

Rooms! 4.12 (2017-01-08):

• For fresh installations, at least on iOS 10.3, the user cannot give permission to the app for accessing the Media Library. Fixed in version 4.13.

Rooms! 4.13 (2017-05-16),
Rooms! 4.14 (2017-09-25),
Rooms! 4.15 (2018-01-23):

• No known problems.

Rooms! 5.0 (2019-02-13):

• No known problems.

Rooms! 5.1 (2019-03-14):

• The Bluetooth MIDI Connect button does not work on iPad. Fixed in version 5.2.
• Presets Grid View: When there are no preset buttons defined, then, after tapping the expansion button, the full screen view is missing the contraction button. Workaround: Terminate and restart the app to leave the full screen mode. Fixed in version 5.2.

Rooms! 5.2 (2019-03-27):

• When a Sounding Preset is playing and the user starts another Sounding Preset, which includes a reverb setting, then this reverb setting will be installed. This is not the intended behaviour – the reverb ought not to change in this case. Fixed in version 6.0.
• At startup, the icon of the Parameters tab bar entry does not reflect the current reverb state. Even if reverb is off, it shows the parameter sliders icon. Fixed in version 6.0.
• On iOS 11/12: When the device rotates from landscape to portrait, the play controls in the Files view disappear. Workaround: Return to landscape mode. Fixed in version 6.0.
• On iOS 6, iPhone / iPod touch: In portrait mode, long lines of detail text in the Presets List View wrap around, and later lines are possibly not visible. Workaround: Change to landscape mode.
• On iPhone / iPod touch: When the user tries to open the In-App Purchases view while the In-App Purchases view (or the About The App view) is already open, the app would crash. Fixed in version 6.0.
• An additional, superfluous directory level is created when the app extracts a zip or irset archive to the impulse responses library. Consequently, the description, comment and license files cannot be viewed. Fixed in version 6.0.
• Copying files to Rooms! via the Files app with "Share" – "Open in Rooms!" does not work. Workaround: Use the steps "Move" – "On My iPad" – "[app name]" and then select "Copy" in the right top. Fixed in version 6.0.

Rooms! 6.0 (2019-06-08):

• The sound volume of other apps drops then you start Rooms! ("ducking"). This change in behaviour was not intended. Fixed in version 6.4.

Rooms! 6.1 (2019-07-02):

• Tapping a file in Safari and using "Open In..." to open the file in Rooms! does not work. Workaround: Use "Save to Files" and save the file directly into the documents folder of Rooms!. Fixed in version 6.2.

Rooms! 6.2 (2019-07-09):

• Restoring all in-app purchases gives an "Internal Error" for the Convolution Reverb IAP, as the app does not anymore 'know' this IAP. Simply ignore this message. Fixed in version 6.4.
• Not a bug in Rooms!, but in iOS 12.4 the iOS Files app behaves strangely: When a zip file is tapped, it opens Rooms! instead of showing a content preview. There seems to be no way to get a preview, so this is really annoying. Preliminary fix in version 6.3. Fixed in version 6.4 (hopefully).

Rooms! 6.3 (2019-08-05):

• The IAP error message is still there. Fixed in version 6.4.

Rooms! 6.4 (2019-08-26):

• The "View in App Store" option of the action menu in the Settings view does not work. Fixed in version 6.5.

Rooms! 6.5 (2019-09-04),
Rooms! 6.6 (2019-09-19),
Rooms! 6.7 (2020-01-08):

• No known problems.

Thafknar 7.0 (2020-01-29):

• The iOS Files app and the macOS Finder show Thafknar's iCloud Drive container labelled with the old name "Rooms!" instead of the new name "Thafknar". Fixed in version 7.2.

Thafknar 7.1 (2020-02-05):

• Delayed recording works only as long as the app is in the foreground. Fixed in version 7.2.
• Quad convolution mode does not work. Fixed in version 8.6.

Thafknar 7.2 (2020-02-06):

• On iOS 13, the section titles (impulse response set names) in the impulse response list view are hard to read. Fixed in version 7.3.
• The dry signal leaks to the output when the convolution parameter gain is smaller than 1. Fixed in version 7.3.
• Occasionally, presumably after doing "Restore previously purchased items", the app complains that it does not know a certain product identifier. This refers to an old IAP and can be savely ignored. Fixed in version 7.4.
• With later versions of iOS 13, and with iOS 14, the AUv3 extension's GUI does not adopt the design of the host app. Fixed in version 7.4 by letting Thafknar's audio unit view controller use its own design and giving the user the option to choose Dark Mode, Light Mode, or Automatic Mode.

Thafknar 7.3 (2020-10-04):

• No new known problems.

Thafknar 7.4 (2021-01-15),
Thafknar 7.5 (2021-04-17):

• No new known problems.

Thafknar 7.6 (2021-05-02):

• AUv3: Primary and secondary IRs are not correctly saved in presets. Fixed in version 7.7.

Thafknar 7.7 (2021-05-19):

• iOS 13+: Some action selectors are shown at a wrong position or partly off screen. Fixed in version 7.8.

Thafknar 7.8 (2021-06-13):

• The impulse response table view of the Thafknar app does not update itself when another app performs changes to the impulse response library. Workaround: Force a reload e.g. by changing the sorting criterion. Fixed in version 7.9. (Currently, no other apps access Thafknar's IR library, but this will change when the Napo apps start using this library.)

Thafknar 7.9 (2021-12-07),
Thafknar 7.10 (2022-01-20),
Thafknar 7.11 (2022-02-18):

• No new known problems.

Thafknar 8.0 (2022-12-20):

• Audio Unit: The value of the Max. convolution time setting can drop to 10% (in fact 0%, but this is not shown), which leads to timeout warnings and truncated reverb. This will not happen again when you set the value manually (usually, 80% is fine). Fixed in version 8.1.
• Audio Unit: The Max. convolution time slider is updated when the user taps Reset, but the displayed percentage value is not. Fixed in version 8.1.
• Audio Unit: When a preset is loaded, the GUI shows the new parameter values, but they are not sent to the convolver (only the impulse response is). Fixed in version 8.2.

Thafknar 8.1 (2023-04-05):

• No new known problems.

Thafknar 8.2 (2023-04-18):

• No new known problems.

Thafknar 8.3 (2023-06-20):

• Bad responsiveness in case of many (i.e. thousands of) iCloud files. Fixed in version 8.4.

Thafknar 8.4 (2023-06-26),
Thafknar 8.5 (2023-08-10):

• No new known problems.

Thafknar 8.6 (2023-11-10):

• No known problems.