{"id":2326,"date":"2012-05-15T20:07:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T06:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2012-05-15T20:07:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T06:07:19","slug":"smulekhursh-songify-for-android-released-android-audio-latency-solved-not-so-fast-podcast-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/smulekhursh-songify-for-android-released-android-audio-latency-solved-not-so-fast-podcast-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Smule\/Khursh Songify for Android released: Android audio latency solved? Not so fast&#8230; (Podcast 55)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/songify_android.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"songify_android\" width=\"240\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/songify_android.png 240w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/songify_android-175x300.png 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>GigaOm reported on the first music app from iPhone music creation app pioneer Smule.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/05\/15\/music-app-maker-smule-finally-gives-android-some-love\/\">Music app maker Smule finally gives Android some love<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It references an interview discussion I had with Smule CTO Ge Wang last year (December 2011) in which he said that Smule had not released Android apps because of the platform&#8217;s audio latency problems. However, as GigaOm&#8217;s article rightly notes: <em>Smule started with Songify because the app doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the realtime audio needs that other Smule apps do. But she said that Smule has come up with a work-around for Android\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latency problem that will be deployed in Magic Piano.<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSongify and Magic Piano are not, however, typical of the real-time audio processing found in other Smule apps like I Am T-Pain or Ocarina. Songify sends an entire audio segment to a server for processing and then returns the completed audio output. Magic Piano reacts to fingers touchs. I Am T-Pain, Ocarina and other similar Smule apps produces audio based on sound as it is produced by someone singing or blowing into the iPhone&#8217;s microphone. This is quite different from the batch processing going on in Songify or zero audio input processing of Magic Piano. I&#8217;m not quite convinced the the audio latency issue has been quashed quite yet. But, perhaps I should call Ge Wang and ask him about this. 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