KC:
Hi – Jeff alerted me to this site after seeing my post at Skype. I’m in the northeast and my drummer pal is in the deep south. Recently we experimented with a Swedish videoconferencing site called Marratech.com. You download some software, then go to a public “room.” When you shut off the video, the audio quality is quite good--for conversation. But for music, the delay was severe and it did not seem to provide true full-duplex.
We also tried Skype and AIM and (if memory serves) Yahoo Messenger. But only intermittent drum beats came through as I strummed guitar on my end.
There must be a solution! I would be glad to help with any experiments. (With the caveat that I’m a pretty lame guitarist!)
MattisManzel:
Hi KC. This was not planned here and kinda doesn’t really fit into my scedule. I’m busy these days with making node-wikis for university-wiki, city-wikis and wiki-hives (ea. node-wiki for city-wikis: wiki-node - if someboby knows more of them please add them). But I agree, there will be a solution and going for it is worth the efford I guess. There is great potential in real-time audio conversation - and that’s what a jam session basically is, right? Let’s collect some proposals for software. The WikiNode will be of help when connecting to other wiki on audio - there must be hoards of ‘em already.