Re: [linux-audio-user] Web-based collaborative band/musicians app?

I don't think the requirements are quite defined here yet, and I see the term 'latency' taking on dual meaning and creating some confusion. Firs of all, what are we talking about with collaboration? Real-Time prcessing/recording, or the assembly and editing of audio tracks in a shared environment? One of the biggest problems here is timing. When dealing with music, notes have values in relation to beats and time, ie 4 beats per measure, etc. In order for everything to be synchronized, everyone must first agree to the tempo (beats per minute). There are techniques to do this in a localized system, SMPTE, or MIDI Clock, are two examples. The challenge is to achieve this synchronization, in real time, and compensate for the distance latency. The other latency problem is with sound generation. We all know the challenges of getting things synchronized in our local machines, so this poses an even greater challenge by adding the time latency related physical distance. The vision I came up with for such a system is a combination of a file sharing (GNUTella, SAMBA, or NFS?) and clustering (Beowolf). Sharing the files and sharing in the processing will get everybody involved on the same page because time could be negotiated to the machine with the greatest time latency. I belive the pieces of the collaboration aspect exist; people smarter than me need to identify the pieces and assemble that puzzle. Because latency relates to both processing time and physical distance, I do not see how this could happen in real-time. Again, somebody smarter than me would have to solve this problem. --- Paul Winkler <pw_lists(a)slinkp.com> wrote: if __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com