Better never than late
July 23, 2020

Can musicians in quarantine play music together over an Internet connection?

When talking to someone over an Internet connection it takes time for audio data to travel from person to person, which is fine in conversation. That small delay, called latency, makes playing music online impossible. NPR has found a solution - an open-source software called JackTrip, that can transfer high-quality audio data across the Internet at low enough latencies, within a geographic radius. It takes a bit of hardware and a strong Internet connection...