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Zoom High Fidelity Music Mode for Online Music Lessons - YouTube
Channel: Music Repo
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hello and welcome back this is an
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updated version of my ultra popular
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zoom in music mode video that i made
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earlier this year
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that video explained how to adjust the
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audio settings in zoom
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to make sure your music sounded as good
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as possible
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for your online music lessons your
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online fitness classes
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virtual choirs and so on zoom is an
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excellent tool for running online events
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and teaching but the default audio
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settings will play
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havoc with any music streaming the noise
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suppression algorithms in zoom will make
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your audio choppy
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and cut in and out and so your students
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will not have a good
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experience fortunately you can do
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something about this
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and just recently zoom added high
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fidelity music mode
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so now you can get even better quality
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audio
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plus i have addressed some of your
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frequently asked questions too
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this video is divided into a few
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sections firstly
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how to optimize all the audio settings
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for music in zoom including
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all the advanced tweaks and that new
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high fidelity music mode
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how to share audio files from your
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computer
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how to stream in stereo how to access
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the settings on a mobile device
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and finally a quick look at the issue of
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latency
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in zoom many people want to use zoom for
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live jamming and collaboration
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unfortunately this is not possible due
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to sync issues but i do discuss
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a couple of resources and strategies you
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could use instead
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i hope this will be a useful update for
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you i post
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regular videos on home studio recording
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made easy
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so if that is of interest to you please
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subscribe
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give the video a thumbs up if you find
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it helpful and if you have
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any comments or questions then do post
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them below i love to read them and it
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helps me decide what content to produce
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next to help you
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out finally i have written an in-depth
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step-by-step guide to
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zoom in music mode on my website so do
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check that out for further details okay
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let's crack on and
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optimize that audio
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now remember that zoom out of the box
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with the default settings
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is optimized for conferencing
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in noisy office environments so it has
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lots of built-in algorithms
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to suppress fan noise and air
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conditioning noise scraping of chairs
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and to smooth out your voice
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as you speak in a conference environment
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which is great
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if that's what you want to do but if you
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want to use zoom for a fitness class
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or for a music lesson or for any music
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application
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then it will play havoc with your music
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stream
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and you'll find that it chops in and out
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so we
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need to do some modification to the
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settings to get back control
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of our audio here's how we do it so when
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you open up the zoom desktop client make
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sure you're on the home
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screen and then you can access the
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settings here
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go down to audio here and the first
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thing you'll do
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is set up your speakers and microphone
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test them out
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and so on now i would first of all
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uncheck this box here automatically
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adjust
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microphone volume so that i could get
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control of the microphone volume myself
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now here the mic i have got selected i
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can adjust the
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levels here if you have an audio
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interface then you
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adjust the settings on the device itself
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so
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turn that off get back control of your
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own levels don't worry about this
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suppress background noise thing here
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we're about to override it
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by going into the advanced settings now
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you'll see the default
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is the echo cancellation is set on auto
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just leave that
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because this is the crucial thing
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this show in meeting option to enable
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original sound from microphone
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if you hover here this option
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automatically disables zoom noise
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suppression removes high pass filtering
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removes automatic gain control it is
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recommended for playing music and for
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studio-like environments
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perfect this is exactly what we want to
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do and we check
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this box here now just by checking this
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box
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and enabling original sound within the
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meeting you will significantly improve
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your audio stream because you will
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remove all the choppiness that you get
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if you don't do this
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so that is going to be good enough for
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most people
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especially if you have a pupil who is
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playing to you just make sure that they
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have done that and then their audio
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stream won't be
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interrupted but if you want to go
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further then there are two more options
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let's have a look first at this one this
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is a new one
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high fidelity music mode okay so if we
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check
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that now i recommend that you check this
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if you are using
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good quality audio hardware for example
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an audio interface or an external
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microphone
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you can use it with your built-in
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microphone but it's probably
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not worth it although again you can
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experiment with this yourself
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now if we hover over here you'll see
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that this optimizes zoom
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audio for the highest quality music so
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you'll get the highest quality setting
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by ticking this box here
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your audio will be transmitting at 48
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kilohertz and if it's stereo it'll be
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192 kilobits per second
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so it is going to significantly improve
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the quality especially if you've got the
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hardware to go with it
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but it will increase your cpu
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utilization so you will just have to be
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aware of that and be careful
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that you're not running software with
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too many plug-ins and really maxing out
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on your cpu
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keep an eye on that the other thing is
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that it does consume
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greater bandwidth the best situation is
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going to be
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if you have an ethernet connection if
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you are on wi-fi you might find this
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will struggle more unless you've got
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very high quality wi-fi and you're quite
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near the router the other thing you can
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do
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is you can disable echo cancellation and
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again i recommend you do that because it
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is fiddling with the sound again the
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echo it's talking about is when you hear
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your voice echoing back at yourself
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when you're speaking in general if
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you're hearing an echo it means there is
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a device out there
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in your lesson or choir or whatever that
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is channeling your audio back to you
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and so you will need to ask your users
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to look at their settings
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it will work best and if you look on
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this and
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hover over it says about a headset what
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it means is it'll work best if people
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are wearing headphones
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rather than having speakers because it's
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having a speaker
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that is playing back your audio that is
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then picked up by their microphone that
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is going to be doing the echoing so a
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good quality set of headphones
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will improve that but i would
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tick the box so that you've got full
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control of your audio
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okay now then let's start a meeting up
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you'll see that every time you start a
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meeting
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you will need to turn on original sound
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like that and by turning on original
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sound
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you will then benefit from those
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settings
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you have made in the audio settings
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so you can access them anytime in the
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meeting by clicking the arrow here and
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going to audio settings
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and just checking what you've got set
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here
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okay but by turning on original sound
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you're accessing the high fidelity audio
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the echo cancellation the noise
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suppression all those things
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that now is you optimized for your audio
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stream
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right while we are here i'll mention
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something else
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if you have audio files that you want to
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play music tracks that you want to play
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within
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your meeting then the way you can do
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that is by using this
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share screen option here when you click
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that button
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you'll end up on this basic mode here
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and if you had
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a piece of software running that had got
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audio
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running as well that you wanted to share
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then you could just simply choose share
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computer stand here you'd be sharing
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your screen
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and your sound but if we go to the
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advanced setting here
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it could be that you just have a music
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file you want to play
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and you can do that by clicking this
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icon here now by doing that you will be
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sharing your computer audio and what
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your participants will then experience
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is
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you speaking like this into a microphone
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but when you press play they will hear
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the computer sound the track that you
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want to share
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so that's how you share audio within
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zoom
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so let's stop the meeting there because
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we have covered all the aspects that we
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need to do there
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right i want to show you something else
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if you want to
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enable stereo audio then this is how you
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go about
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it you need to go to the zoom.us
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website and sign in so we're in the
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website now you can't do this in the
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desktop client you do this on the
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website
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so i've signed in and i go to account
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management here and account settings
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now when i am there i get various
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options for how my meetings are going to
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run
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and you'll see that if you scroll down
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one of the options
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is to allow users to select stereo audio
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in their client settings
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so what this actually does is allows you
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to
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select stereo audio within your desktop
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which we'll have a look at in a minute
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so turn that
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on if you want to use stereo
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audio now the other thing you can do
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is you can allow users to select
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original sound in their client
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settings so you may want to do that
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if you have pupils who you would like to
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be able to direct
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to turn on original sound if they're
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going to play back to you
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okay so now having done that i'm
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actually going to restart
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zoom and so i'm starting up the desktop
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client there
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now if i go to the settings here and go
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to the audio settings
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and go to the advanced you'll see that a
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new option has appeared here
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under the show in meeting option to
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enable original sound i can now
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use stereo audio if i want to now
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remember
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this increases cpu utilization
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and consumes more bandwidth a stereo
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file is twice the size
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of a mono file and likewise the stereo
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stream is double what a mono stream is
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but it does allow you to transmit in
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stereo which you may wish to do
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and so that is how you do it first of
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all you sign into the zoom
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web portal and enable it there and then
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it becomes an
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option within the client software here
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on the desktop if you're using zoom on a
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mobile device
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then you will need to access the
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settings
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and make sure that you have
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enabled the option to use original sound
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you'll find that every time you start a
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meeting you will need to enable
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original sound each time
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unfortunately on a mobile device you
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don't have all the extra bells and
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whistles that you have
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in the desktop client but it does enable
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you to at least get rid of all the
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choppy audio if you're using your
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ipad for a fitness class or something or
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if it is your pupil
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who is using an ipad to play to you
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one of the questions i get asked a lot
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is how to use zoom for live performance
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and collaborations
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you see videos like this one all over
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the internet and want to do something
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similar
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for instance run a virtual choir or
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orchestra
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play duets with your pupils jam with
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your bandmates etc
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unfortunately you cannot do this in zoom
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videos like this one look like zoom but
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they have been created by all the
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performers
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playing individually in advance along
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with a click track
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then the videos have been put together
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in a montage in zoom
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there is too much latency so if you try
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to perform alongside other people you
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will be out of sync
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this really disappoints people but there
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are other strategies
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you can use to create a good experience
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in zoom
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in the description below i've linked to
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a couple of videos which i think are
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excellent
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get ready for online music lessons is by
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a saxophone teacher with a lot of
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experience describing strategies he uses
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for example sending a backing track in
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advance that a pupil can play along to
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the zoom tutorial for coral conductors
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is quite lengthy but covers a lot of
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strategies
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you could use now my own experience of
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participating in a virtual choir via
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zoom is with the nottingham voice
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collective run by abby moore
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she is a brilliant arranger of acapella
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versions of popular songs
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which you can see in action on her
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youtube channel once a month she's
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running virtual
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acapella choir workshops at the moment
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which are great fun to participate in
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her strategy is to create recordings of
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each part
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the soprano alto tenor and bass with the
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other parts partially muted
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and then a recording of the entire
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arrangement during
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the workshop she mutes all participants
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then teaches each part using the sound
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files
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at the end you perform the finished
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arrangement by singing along
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you get all the experience of singing
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alongside other parts and because you
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can see all the
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other participants joining in you have a
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great social experience too
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and this works really well as a singing
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experience
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if in doubt then do consider signing up
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and giving it a try
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you'll find a link to her website below
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it is a strategy that works well on zoom
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but obviously takes quite a bit of
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advanced prep
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so the upshot is you can't do
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live collaboration in zoom but you can
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use other strategies well i hope you
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have found that helpful
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and you're raring to go with your online
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teaching and music making
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if you liked it please do give it a
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thumbs up do post any comments or
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questions below
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of my home recording studio tips and
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tricks
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thank you for watching and hopefully i
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will see you again
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soon
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