Skype - The whole world can talk for free.

seraph · Last edited by seraph on Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:20 am; edited 1 time in total

http://www.skype.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype

is there anyone using it?

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:42 am Post subject:

I did some time ago. Works just fine.

dnny · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:47 am Post subject:

works fine for me also.
it´s just that i prefer writing in communication.
talking is ... well it´s just not my thing.

Static Strobe Emitter · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:27 am Post subject: Hmms.

Now i havent tested Skype yet, but I use Ventrilo regulary (every day)
too speak with people on the net =O

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:49 am Post subject:

I am also using ichat (the Apple branded version of AIM ) and it works great both with audio only and audio/video ..

This one works great with iChat: http://www.apple.com/isight/

That said, is there any interest in an electro-music.com jabber server?

http://www.jabber.org/

It is compatible with clients for OS X, Windows and Linux.

Ponk · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:01 am Post subject:

The interesting thing about these net based audio communication applications is that soon there'll be mobile phones that use wi-fi to access the internet. After that mobile phone calls will be free in many places as there'll be more and more wi-fi spots around.

jksuperstar · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject:

Yeah, as soon as things like WiMAX take hold, and are then improved, I'd imagine most comms moving to AoIP (Anything over IP) (I made that up).

Anyone want to start a "WiFone" company? Go to a Starbuck's hotspot and make worldwide phone calls. For Free.

mosc · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject:

Audio and video.

mosc · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject:

That's cool. When I worked for corporate America we were using Jabber as an internal AIM because we didn't want to go out beyond the firewall. For us, AIM seems to work quite well and we don't need to tie up our bandwidth with this service.

One feature that ytou can't get with AIM, as far as I'm aware, is group chat using audio. If we had that, we could have multi-party jam sessions.

jksuperstar · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:17 pm Post subject:

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

Isn't latency (compensation) a huge drawback of online audio jamming?

With latency ranging from 10ms to .5s depending on distance, network quality and whatnot that's a lot of music that can go awry.

I remember some MIDI-based jamming protocols that delayed everyone (!) by a bar so they always would be in sync, though off by a bar ...

-diskonext

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:46 pm Post subject:

True, latency makes true jamming almost impossible. YOu might might solve some of this by using midi and not audio, but that m,idi wouldn´t much sense anyway.. so.. no real solution yet ..

jksuperstar · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:53 am Post subject:

zynthetix · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:08 am Post subject:

I played with skype a little bit in the past. The voice communication worked pretty well, but another useful "feature" is that skype is not stereotypically firewalled on certain kinds of networks (unlike aim, msn, etc). This makes a great alternative to e-mail in needed contexts when also under obnoxiously silly network restrictions.