If you’re using Soundslice with external audio output — such as Bluetooth speakers or an overhead projector — you might experience latency, a slight delay between when Soundslice plays audio and when you actually hear it.

Latency is an unfortunate fact of life for certain speaker setups, and it’s especially annoying for a tool like Soundslice where it’s important for sound and visuals to line up.

Today we’re happy to announce we’ve added a latency control to our player, which lets you deal with this — hence ensuring sound and visuals are indeed aligned nicely.

When viewing a slice, open the settings panel via the button at lower right of the player. Look for the “Audio latency” section, and click it to open it:

By default, latency is set to zero. Move the slider rightward to increase the latency value. You’ll see the number increase at right.

You can also type in an exact number instead of using the slider. This number represents the latency in milliseconds.

Changes are reflected immediately, so feel free to tweak this during playback.

It doesn’t cost anything to use this feature. It’s available across all slices sitewide, even if you’re not logged in.

For more details, check out our new help page on latency.