sync of 2 ipods

tomgalileo's icon

Hi !
Does anyone know about syncing the playback of 2 ipods?

i would like that a track can be started and played at the exact time
of the other one.
Is there an application that can do that?

I knew there was an application that send sms at a specific time: do
you know if there is some developer out there who
can do the same , triggering the start of a song playback instead of
the sms?

thanx in advance,
cheers

fairesigneaumachiniste's icon

Odd question. Not really a software thing so here's my hardware suggestion (bit of a hack).

Get a couple of Apple remotes off ebay and take them to bits. Find the pins for play, stop, pause etc... and connect each to digital pins on a controller like the Arduino or something which you can control from Max. Write your program and max patch.

Not tried. Not tested. Could work though.

jayrope's icon

uhm. how about sending them both into max msp at first.

then build a tapin tapout delay line for the first ipod you attach to a timer started by a tresh~ on input signal.

count the time between the start of the first ipod and the second by stopping the running timer upon thresh~ on audio start of second ipod. immediately set delay of ipod one to calculated delay, listen to delay only, and there you go.

also theory by now (no time to write example patch) but hey, might be working well without the need for further application terror :)

jrp