[ale] SemiOT: musicians colaboration software.

[neal at mnopltd.com]

ooooh.  OOOOOH.   Might have been me.

My bluegrass gospel type group used the Jambox boot on a PI4 with 
HiFiBerry HAT cards for ... near simultaneous audio within the Lilburn 
area.    Back in the pandemic.

The HAT card gets you minimal latency inside the PI box.

Jambox runs Jamulus, which at the time needed a Jamulus server which we 
placed at church on a Comcast business internet.  The Jamulus server we 
stood up on a Dell optiplex running Ubuntu.   Modestly straightforward 
to setup.   There are also some local public Jamulus servers you could 
play with initially.

It worked .... pretty well.   some of us were on AT&T, some were on 
Comcast, and my understanding is that those two providers connect to 
each other in Marietta, so maybe 20ms of latency between the two.

So, kinda depends on the music.   And the latency between each.  I 
wouldn't put rhythm instruments in two separate homes; 20ms of latency 
just doesn't work.

It does require CAT5 connection to your internet router; WIFI latency is 
bleah.

We initially tried JackTrip, and found Jamulus was easier.

getting the Jambox ISO, and burning to a microSD and booting up was 
fairly straightforward.

For our Oktoberfest we used the same Jambox, which includes Sonobus to 
run Sonobus from the stage in the tent in the back field to the 
Nurse/First Aid station in the church building over WIFI.  Worked great; 
  Sonobus connections will recognize lost packets and just delay the 
playback so that there are no dropouts.   Of course that is a one-way 
street.

We've also swapped out the HiFiBerry HAT cards for some cheap USB 
dongles.

As you can tell, I could talk about that for a long long time.

On 2025-10-08 17:41, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:

> Someone posted here information about software that allows musicians to 
> play together from home as they are together in same studio.
> 
> If I recall was done with rasPI or I can be totally off.
> 
> Do you recall that.
> 
> I found one open source project called sonobus.net [1] with clients for 
> many platforms.
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Links:
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[1] http://sonobus.net
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