Linux Application

[Dimitri Muskens]

Thank you. 

I also looked at Jammr a year or so ago, which was not what I wanted.  Jamulus would work for our piano solo/recital group.  However, I don't want to buy and administer a website/public facing server.  It is what has put me off building a WebRTC P2P solution. 

Zoom Pro Original Sound (the ability to switch off speech audio processing) is good enough but too expensive for the few in our society willing to tackle the technical challenges alone.  Original Sound is not available for Linux PCs and I don't see Zoom Pro developers giving Linux much attention while they battle it out with Google, Microsoft, Apple et al  in the business video conferencing market. 

I am really glad Jamkazam has made some advances toward a Linux version.  I think JamKazam is the right design based on what I have read; and it should get better and support bigger ensembles as people upgrade to Gigabit FTTP broadband (gigabit Internet circuits on optical fibre to the premises) and faster CPUs.

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You don't really need to buy anything nor administer very much in most cases.
You can run the server on the same machine you are jamming on yourself and only have the server up when you want it to be. it is very light weight and open source. Only one port would need to be forwarded to run the server. It's a five minute job and could be totally command line driven if that's what you prefer. Apart from that there are many 'public' servers freely available for general use.

I use both JamKazam (band rehearsals and general meeting place) and Jamulus for a specific project and I run two Jamulus 'rooms' as a general service for friends and colleagues.