David Kastrup

Well, that saves me some work (I am doing a talk about Jamulus in about 3 weeks and don't have a lot of time for testing alternatives myself). With regard to lossless coding: one could put some appropriate codec into Jamulus if wanted. It might make some sense for in-house applications (like the Intranet of a socially distanced music school where everybody is there but in separate rooms). Basically you'd do it when the network overhead ends up a net win in latency (there is no real expectation of...

You could check out Sonobus and report back your experiences...

Turn the monitor pot to "Computer" rather than "Source". Wait, maybe you don't have it. Turn off the "Direct Monitor" switch.

Late to the thread but I wanted to add a few considerations for the sake of people finding this in the archive. Peer-to-peer would make more sense when using webrtc as wrapper protocol since it is recognised by network infrastructure and can work with multicast, greatly reducing the outgoing network bandwidth (which usually is in shorter supply than incoming). Another point worth noting: I expect by requiring a only nearby (< 100 km or so), and wired connections, we should be in much better shape....

Late to the thread but I wanted to add a few considerations for the sake of people finding this in the archive. Peer-to-peer would make more sense when using webrtc as wrapper protocol since it is recognised by network infrastructure and can work with multicast, greatly reducing the outgoing network bandwidth (which usually is in shorter supply than incoming). Another point worth noting: I expect by requiring a only nearby (< 100 km or so), and wired connections, we should be in much better shape....

Ok, here is a screencast: https://youtu.be/_J3pIUo2A9k

Feedback means that part of your output manages to make it back into the input. That can actually only sensibly happen when there is a rather explicit misconfiguration (output cable plugged into an input, for example) or a microphone and speaker are involved. You don't have a microphone connected, and the headphones should provide good acoustic isolation. That suggests that your version of Jamulus is connected to laptop speakers and laptop microphones and ignores your sound interface. Try to see...

It's not logical to say Jamulus uses insignificant network bandwidth for a side-channel containing no information because 62kB/s are being sent regardless of the audio information being inputted. Zeroes in the side-channel are being encoded and sent. So the two statements cannot be simultaneously correct but that may be a quibble over semantics. It is perfectly logical since the rest of the bandwidth is then invested into the mid-channel, making the resulting mono of higher quality than it would...