Jonathan S Watson

When singing in a group, I turn some people up and some people down. But when we pause to talk, I can't hear the people whom I've turned down. It's a pain to adjust several sliders each time we switch between singing and talking. What if there were some kind of mode switch in the UI, to switch between singing levels and talking levels? Perhaps hardware mixers already have some such feature. In the abstract, it's simply having two sets of slider values, and the ability to toggle between them. What...

Good idea. Another UI design would be to allow the user to set an offset, which would be added to the value calculated by Auto. So if Auto calculates 10 but your offset is -2, your buffer would be 8. I've had a situation where one person in a session is creating dropouts or similar network-induced noise, and it seems to help if I push my Local Buffer to the max (20 I think). Anybody else had a similar experience?

The marketing profession would not say "the name is as good as we make it". I can't verify these claims, but they address the question: "Google was once Back Rub. Yahoo! Was originally Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web. Before it was Best Buy, it was Sound of Music. Accenture was originally Arthur Andersen. PepsiCola started out as Brad’s Drink." https://flybluekite.com/company-name-change/ Hewlett-Packard was always a good name. Many 20th century technology corporations were named after founders,...

1) A friend who is technically strong noted that the big cloud providers often have more complex software and hence more latency than smaller hosting services. We tested DigitalOcean vs. the big cloud providers and it was faster. 2) Windows has more overhead than Linux. My cheap Raspberry Pi as a client has less overall delay than my good-quality Windows desktop.

The marketing profession would not say "the name is as good as we make it". I can't verify these claims, but they address the question: "Google was once Back Rub. Yahoo! Was originally Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web. Before it was Best Buy, it was Sound of Music. Accenture was originally Arthur Andersen. PepsiCola started out as Brad’s Drink." https://flybluekite.com/company-name-change/ As to Jamulus and famulus, that's a valuable insight. It's probably different in Europe, but most Americans...

In the Settings / Jitter Buffer control, using Auto is recommended. The tooltip says "The network buffers of the local client and the remote server are set to a conservative value to minimize the audio dropout probability. To tweak the audio delay/latency it is recommended to disable the Auto setting and to lower the jitter buffer size" As a fairly sophisticated user, I find this advice difficult to follow. Sometimes I hear crackling which seems to come from dropouts. Is it worth manually controlling...

Raspberry Pi 4. $100.

Thanks all for the thoughts. Zoom was a niche product pre-pandemic. A quick search turns up: "There are more than 62 million amateur musicians in the U.S. indicating that one in five people play a musical instrument. Feb 14, 2013" That's a big potential market.