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From: Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com>
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Subject: Re: low latency software for group singing online
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 17:46:11 -0400
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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