AmpMe App Syncs Smartphones, Tablets To Build Loud Sound System

Unfortunately, not everyone can afford a speaker system that offers surround sound. A new company called AmpMe wants to solve this problem with an app of the same name.

Exhausted of trying hit the “play” button over and over to get your music in-sync with your buddy’s phone? 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.

AmpMe works by allowing a host to sync streaming music with friends’ device.

Rather than rely on Bluetooth or Wi-Fi technology to connect devices together, AmpMe uses a server-centric audio fingerprinting technology to synch music.

Once a user puts a microphone close to the host’s speaker, the music syncs and the party is surrounded by sound.

The Host controls the playlist, and is able to search for their favourite songs, artists and albums by connecting to the SoundCloud music service.

At launch, AmpMe is compatible with iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, as well as Bluetooth speakers that include a microphone. If AmpMe can partner with Spotify or Apple Music to increase its library, this app might have some legs.

AmpMe founder Martin-Luc Archambault said, “Music was never meant to be enjoyed by a bunch of friends crowding around a single, maxed out phone speaker… but we’ve all done it. It’s a bad experience, but sometimes it’s all you have when the party starts”.

AmpMe is compatible with iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. 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. But every once in a while we all find ourselves in a situation where none of those options are at our fingertips.

The real challenge for the company would be to play songs without any latency between phones, and according to demonstrations, it seems as though it has achieved that. Note that these tests were performed on some of the newest mobile devices available, including an iPad Air 2, iPhone 6 Plus, and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+.