Re:FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet
by WatchDog on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:08PM
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Are there any products in this space using "smart routing" services like argo, or AWS global accelerator?
I've seen really impressive latency improvements, just for HTTP based services, but this is the kind of use case where I would think they would really shine.
Re:FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet
by hansel_der on Thursday November 25, 2021 @04:59AM
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> it's latency not bandwidth that's critical and a "fast" connection normally refers to bandwidth.
the lack of distinction in this regard is part of the problem.
i.e. an airplane is faster (latency) than a containership, althou the ship has higher bandwidth (capacity).
Re:FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet
by bcook on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:28AM
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The better word is "quicker". Faster = bandwidth. Quicker = latency. 56k connections can have good latency, depending on packet size.
Re:FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet
by Wowfunhappy on Thursday November 25, 2021 @09:47AM
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I don't think that helps much, fast and quick are interchangeable in common parlance.
Re:FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet
by CapsAdmin on Friday November 26, 2021 @04:02AM
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this has been the main reason as to why i don't understand the hype behind 5g on phones
Re:FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet
by tekstar on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @10:49PM
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Agree on jamulus. I re-joined my highschool band during the pandemic, despite us all living in different cities. Jamulus jams were an important part of us getting back together, along with zoom calls and passing recordings back and forth. Best thing that happened for me out of the pandemic.
Re:FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet
by gavinray on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:36PM
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If anyone is looking for realtime collaboration tools, there's a free (proprietary) one that has live video + audio chat and a shared project workspace for building songs.
The homepage does a pretty poor job of showing what it is, so it'll probably make more sense if you just see it:
"For the lowest possible latency, FarPlay establishes peer-to-peer connections between users": Except when the peers are on different ISP networks and the packets are forced to travel to some distant node, introducing latency at every node along the way. In my experience with this issue using Jamulus, having a server in the cloud at a suitable location reduces latency. Minimizing "the distance travelled" isn't important if there are few nodes introducing latency. The speed of light along wires is orders of magnitude faster than the speed of sound through air.
"the faster your connection, the better your results will be"; Misleading; it's latency not bandwidth that's critical and a "fast" connection normally refers to bandwidth.
Anyone interested in audio over the internet should check out Jamulus at https://jamulus.io/