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Stereo audio support for regular voice chatting #5626

Open alexbobp opened 2 years ago

alexbobp commented 2 years ago

Context

I know there have been other tickets relating to stereo audio functionality in mumble. They appear to have largely been dismissed because they involve using mumble for use cases that are arguably not really what mumble is for.

The reason why I think this request is different is that there are now sub-$100 stereo microphones that someone can very reasonably use as a desktop mic for their voice chatting, and I in fact do so. Specifically, https://www.bestbuy.com/site/jlab-talk-professional-plug-play-usb-microphone/6417453.p?skuId=6417453

I like to sing to my friends, and I also have friends that respond well to ASMR. Stereo would greatly aid in both of these. I've gone as far as setting up an icecast stream so that I can stream to my friends with that (at high latency cost), while they talk to me on mumble, just to stimulate my friend's ASMR better, and it was worth it, but definitely annoying to do. I can't be the only one who wishes to use mumble this way, can I?

Description

It would be nice for mumble to support transmitting stereo audio from a regular stereo audio source, such as any stereo microphone or line-in device. As I understand, it can already receive stereo audio, so even a beta build with this would work right away with existing clients.

Mumble component

Client

OS-specific?

No

Additional information

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Krzmbrzl commented 2 years ago

I think that most likely this will only happen in the context of #5408, but let's keep this as a separate issue anyway.

z411 commented 2 years ago

I'd also like to comment that many phones now (including the one I own, Xiaomi Redmi Note 8) have 2 microphones for stereo recording/speech.

Krzmbrzl commented 2 years ago

No ETA for this. I don't expect this to happen any time soon though

755713372 commented 1 year ago

How long can we support stereo sound? We want to use this software to sing songs

Krzmbrzl commented 1 year ago

We already support stereo output. As for input, that will be supported as soon as someone implements it. This, however, is a lot more work than it might seem at first glance due to the way the current code is written (unfortunately).