Internet based recording collaboration

Hi guys, I’ve been toying with the idea of an open source Internet based recording collaboration site.

Essentially it’d be a way to upload your songs and share them with others in your project (or maybe meet people there) and work with them. It’d be broadband essential I guess.

I don’t really have coding skills to design an engine, so right now its all pie in the sky. I think I could do an okay job mocking up a process design, sys-admin, etc.

It’d have to be pretty useful, but I think it could be done.

Any ideas?

There is Ardour session exchange which acts both as a client and server to distribute Ardour sessions over a TCP network. It’s created to make collaboration easier - it only transfers what has changed, not the entire session.

Then there is ninjam, http://www.ninjam.com/
“NINJAM is a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OS X and Windows.”

Interesting, check this too:

llcon, Low-Latency (Internet) Connection tool

The task is to build a client/server software to enable musicians to play together over the internet. Target internet connection is DSL with 256 kbps upstream and 1 Mbit downstream. The server software must be located at a server with a very fast internet connection (at least 1 Mbps for up- and downstream) and a very low ping time.

…and LDAS - Low Delay Audio Streamer could be usefull too:

LDAS is primarily developed to be used as a tool for research into distributed multimedia interaction and perceived quality of service. It is aimed at demanding applications where very low latency transmission of high quality multichannel audio is needed. It is developed from scratch in order to have a solution that is fully open, suitable for our research tasks and with control over all aspects and parameters of the transmission process. The current plan is to release the software under the GNU GPL license. An early version will be released Real Soon Now(TM).

Marco Ravich

note: again, an Haiku port would be great !!!

Interesting: your reply is focused on my note…

BTW i’m not a developer and yes, i already asked Haiku devs a port here but they seems not interested too (at least according to this comment):

I think we can do better than Ardour and GNOME, really.

Last but not least, the Ardour port request is a part of a more wide-breath project: HA.M.P.S.

Marco Ravich

(note: are we going OT ?)

found this thread while searching for session-exchange, recommended to me by ron parker. I have been interested in a similar idea for a while. niko123456, get in touch with me if you are interested in my help. my first thought is to get ogg compression in session exchange to improve transfer speed…

colby.brown@gmail.com

I am currently working on the same type of collaboration concept. Anyone interested may contact me. peter_willis_pi@yahoo.com

I stumbled across this site and read Niko’s comment and questions about a multiple computer DAW. I have not found any comments referencing M$ Server 03.I have been interested in this concept strongly enough to take a Network Administration Degree Course. Before anyone freaks out consider this:
XP Pro by design will not recognize more than 3.2 gigs of RAM but, Server Enterprise Edition will recognize 32 gigs and 8 processors.

Is there a nice way to export a session and then tar it up for easy portability onto another user’s machine?

seems like there’s just “save” and “save as template”…

I have a web site I wanted to use to put stuff up on, for other people to use.

Perhaps a SubVersion-based approach would work?