[ale] SemiOT: musicians colaboration software.

[Boris Borisov]

For now I just installed the Sonobus client on my Desktop linux which is
pretty old PC by nowadays. Is fun to listen to other people jamming. But I
have problem with sound like the sound buffer cannot be filled up fast
enough. I'm using ALSA for now perhaps Jack would have better results.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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 with clients for many
> platforms.
>
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