[ale] SemiOT: musicians colaboration software.
neal at mnopltd.com
neal at mnopltd.com
Sat Oct 11 21:13:43 EDT 2025
GitHub - kdoren/jambox-pi-gen: Start jamming online easily with a
Raspberry Pi, an audio interface, and this free Jambox image file. Just
download/burn/boot/jam. Choose from multiple jamming apps: Jamulus,
SonoBus, JackTrip, JamTaba, JammerNetz or HpsJam. User interface is any
web browser on same local network. Pre-built image file is available
under "Releases". [2]
Yes, Pi 4. Lesser Pi really doesn't have the oomph.
Good news is you just burn the microSD image, stick it in, slap a USB
sound interface or HiFiBerry HAT card, and voila.
And it does have Sonobus if you want to play with that too.
William: Yes, this is a complete turnkey microSD image tweaked for PI.
You could install Jamulus on a normal Debian system, but I suspect it
would suck. Latency getting in and out of the audio section would
likely be too high.
On 2025-10-11 16:07, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> Seems to be usb image designed specifically for raspberry pi. With all
> necessary client server apps. I may have to get me raspi 3 or 4.
>
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2025, 15:51 William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> Expand on this "Jambox". Info? "HOWTO"s? Is it available for Debian
> 12+ in the repository, or the snap repository, or will it have to be
> installed from source or an outside package?
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
>
> So, you have some latency within the desktop sound pathway.
>
> I'm thinking that Sonobus on Jambox uses Jack as transport "out of the
> box".
>
> I will also note that a PI using Jambox can be configured to "just
> work". Meaning I can give one to a non-technical person, and just say
> "plug this in at 7pm". And it comes up and auto-connects.
>
> On 2025-10-09 18:42, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>
> 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 [1] with clients for
> many platforms.
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[1] http://sonobus.net
[2] https://github.com/kdoren/jambox-pi-gen
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