@ELCBK and @Mark - Thank you !

ELCB said
BillyG - 🥰

oooooh!  Had me sway'n!

Starting to wonder if it would do any good to try a video camera 24/7 (or could pretending be enough) - just for us to be able to come closer to playing like we practice...

- Emily  

  Yeah, interesting, Emily.   We used to run live-stream shows on StreetJelly (http://www.streetjelly.com).  The get-togethers were originally stared by @Barry, back in late 2014.    These "FiddleFest" events were run annually - as well as other impromptu get-togethers, such as the "Strings on Sunday" regular weekly(ish) slots.  These events were great for getting folks past the fear of the red-record-light on the webcam !!!!   Sadly, these get-togethers seem to have run their course - but we occasionally have someone still just jump-on and do a show.  You can read about it here -https://fiddlerman.com/forum/s.....reetjelly/

And, out of passing interest - I did a SJ show in support of the annual "Play Music on the Porch Day 2018"- and recorded the entire session, showing exactly how it looks from both the player, and audience perspective.  SJ is NOT like Zoom or Skype, and basically it allows one video stream,and a separate text stream for audience chat - you'll find it here -

Hahahaha - you can tell, I'm trying hard to "sell the idea" and maybe re-kindle some interest in SJ get-togethers on the forum !

To be honest, the biggest issue I have with SJ is the time-zone difference, with the bulk of artists being states-side and me in the UK.  It's not easy really (for me) on that score alone - the first FiddleFest event in 2014 started at 4pm Central (that would have been my 9 or 10pm) - but - it was hugely well attended, and ran (in my timezone) till 3:30am the following day !!!!

MrYikes said
I am, at times, envious. Because of slow dialup I am unable to participate in streetJelly or see your videos.  

@MrYikes - oh, I know the feeling, trust me.  We are, in our rural area beset with "broadband" issues.  When we lived on the west coast, yes, we had "broadband" but it was 512k.   Impossible to stream youtube or anything - well, it would stream, but, continually pause. 

And once, on a SJ show (with my 512K broadband) there was NO indication that the stream (my outgoing stream) had hung- I spent 30 minutes, playing to no-one !!!!!

And, yes, I know, dial-up is even worse, and will simply time-out and give-up-the-ghost.  Oddly enough, 6 months  before we moved across country to a house on the east (where travel connections are SO much easier for us in our older years) - the "Scottish Broadband Rollout" passed through our village ( Scourie ). So, yes, we were still copper-connected to the exchange, but, the exchange was only 1/2 a mile away - suddenly, 60Mbps !!!!  YAYYYYYY, YIPPEEEE

Anyway, we really wanted to move.  So over to the east coast.   Yup, broadband rollout to the local exchange had already happened.   Sadly though, we're now 4 miles over copper away from the exchange - result - 2Mbps if we are lucky, but, yes, it is useable (unless Debbie starts watching something at the same time, oh, it causes friction!!!!)

Just a passing thought MrYikes - how would your connection work for a download from say Google Drive ?   You still wouldn't be able to stream, but the connection may be "forgiving enough" to allow a download ( like, at your dial-up speed of 9600 or 19200 baud etc it might take 20 minutes (guessing, but probably not far off) to fetch a 3 or 5 minute video).  Then you could view it.  Dunno?   Alsodepends on your dial up account, if it's "fixed price" or you pay by the amount of data, so yes, there would be other considerations.

I know you've mentioned this before, and I'd be happy to post stuff to Google Drive or DropBox etc for you !  Let me know what you think!

  OK @MrYikes, no problem ! ( LOL, oddly enough I completely understand your final 10 or so words... well,  in fact, the entire final sentence !!!!  hahahaha !

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