The process of developing the final product – which works by allowing the user to sync music through the SoundCloud streaming service – took about a year of trial-and-error testing. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford a speaker system that offers surround sound.
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Bluetooth speakers are a popular choice when it comes to listening to music among a group of friends away from home.
Once a user puts a microphone close to the host’s speaker, the music syncs and the party is surrounded by sound.
An Apple Watch app is also available, which allows party hosts to control AmpMe playback. Archambault, who stars on the French-Canadian version of Shark Tank, didn’t seem too anxious about it, and hinted that the money could someday come from licensing AmpMe’s tech or even in-app purchases.
The Host controls the playlist, and is able to search for their favourite songs, artists and albums by connecting to the SoundCloud music service.
AmpMe, a Montreal startup founded by serial entrepreneur and MLA Ventures Founder Martin-Luc Archambault, today announced a mobile app that syncs streaming music across smartphones and tablets to create a powerful speaker and a shared musical experience. That means iPhones and Android phones can join forces to save the day. From then on, all devices will blast the same music for an all-around fuller experience.
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Rather than rely on Bluetooth or Wi-Fi technology to connect devices together, AmpMe uses a server-centric audio fingerprinting technology to synch music. Overall, the system shows great promise. (Just think of how easy it is to drop a call or find yourself with a weak Wi-Fi signal indoors.) And while there is a button in the app that lets you (quickly) re-sync the music, needing to do that with any frequency would be a chore.
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Hopefully, AmpMe will get the kinks worked out and add new streaming options soon to broaden its appeal. In some cases, for example, a device wouldn’t connect through AmpMe; in others, the music did play, but not in harmony. If they do, it could prove to be a big success. Once the producer and host contacts “Play”, good friends is aware of precisely the same audio at their equipment by stepping in a special program using the app creation.
