Already in 2018, Jamulus was attracting attention as a way for classical ensembles such as string quartets to rehearse at a distance, but its usage increased dramatically in 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020 it was being downloaded two thousand times per day, with the trend increasing. It was elected
SourceForge 'Project of the Month' in June 2020. Jamulus Storband, Sweden's first "virtual big band" with over 20 members, also started that month. Many changes were later made to support larger groups, such as choirs with as many as 98 members as well as WorldJam, an initiative allowing musicians from all over the world to play together on a regular basis. Having a synchronized
metronome for participants of a session can be key to helping musicians keep the pace of the song and be in sync with each other. Numerous online metronomes are available, or other OpenSource tools may be used: as one example, Sychronome uses
NTP (Network Time Protocol) with a network time server to sync metronomes for each Jamulus client via smartphones. == See also ==