If you have any Jambox portable speaker, I would recommend checking out the Jawbone app. The integration of three of the most popular music services is handy, and the app acts like a hub for the.
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Owners of Jawbone’s popular Bluetooth Jambox speaker now have an additional way to listen to their music, as the company unveiled a free software update on Tuesday night for the speaker that includes a plug-in called. With LiveAudio, Jawbone aims to recreate the experience of hearing your favorite music live.“Music is about being in the moment,” Travis Bogard, Jawbone’s vice president of product management and strategy, told Macworld. “Why does it feel different when you’re in person at a concert, versus when you’re listening to music at home played through speakers?” Beyond the obvious answers (the crowd, different instrumentation, and the like), Bogard points to “this other aspect that happens on a human level You hear things in a three-dimensional space.”“When you’re at a concert,” he said, “the singer is standing in a different place from the drummer, who’s set apart from the guitarist; you experience the music differently because of that spatial layout.”Jawbone released its well-reviewed in November 2010. At the time, the company highlighted its ability to update the speaker via software, without requiring hardware revisions. Jawbone believes the Jambox qualifies as a new class of device.
You’ve hard of smartphones? Jawbone now refers to the Jambox as a “SmartSpeaker.”Jambox owners can now download and install Jawbone’s free LiveAudio plug-in, which attempts to recreate the live concert experience on the speaker by offering binaural audio, in which different parts of a recording hit your ears differently, without requiring headphones.“We’re able to use the rich computing power inside the Jambox to process the audio coming through it and create this immersive audio space,” Bogard said.
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The effect is unsurprisingly most pronounced when you center yourself directly in front of the speaker.“You’ll notice that on some songs,” Bogard said, “that audio hits your left ear, and it’s not even going to your right ear.” He likened the auditory experience to recreating the human ability to focus on a single person at a noisy dinner table; you can ignore the other eight voices and hone in on your conversation partner—something Bogard said becomes impossible on a speakerphone call when the brain can’t use the spatial clues it relies on for that focus.
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