Re: low latency software for group singing online

On 5/4/25 11:41 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Paul Rubin  <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:

https://barbershop.de/en/content/soi-projekt
>
This describes some software called Jamulus, which I'd never heard of
before and am unfamiliar with now.  But it apparently lets groups of
even 100 people sing together with apparently better sense of unison
than with conferencing products (presumably meaning Zoom).
>
Jamulus site: https://jamulus.io/

 This was one of the first of its kind that actually caught on (earlier
products like Res Rocket Surfer sort of worked but didn't come around
at the right time).  It was actually very popular for the some of the
filk events taking place during Covid.  I think now that people are
actually going to conventions again, it's less important, but it's
good not to forget.

There's still a lot of online filksinging, including Festival of the Living Rooms, Friends of Filk Bytes, Eurofilk, and MASSFILC. The problem is that its main value is in bringing together people who are geographically far apart. If the participants are thousands of miles from each other, I don't think anything can bring latency down to levels usable for group singing.
--
Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com