2013 Workgroup Topic Proposals

Social Stereo

It saddens me to see two people sharing a single set of earbuds, one lonely channel per listener. What if there were an app that let one person broadcast music to the mobile devices of nearby friends? Add voice and text chat, plus some ways to monetize the service through DSP plug-ins, hardware add-ons, and referral fees for promoting music.

What are the requirements, and what types of businesses could result?

Failing that, how about some really immersive headphones?

2 thoughts on “Social Stereo

  1. Wouldn’t this be easy with bluetooth.
    We can drive external speakers with a bluetooth connection.
    What should be added is simply having both the headset and the bluetooth connection be active.
    This might be a simple application….

    Jan-Paul Huijser

    1. I don’t think the A2DP profile has multiple sink support – that doesn’t mean there isn’t a work around, but from what I’ve seen it is not natively supported.

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