@hailey Up until a few weeks ago I was working at a company that made products with exactly this. Not Bark (heh) but we worked on multi-room and in-room audio sync stuff. So I know what it really takes to get something like this off the ground. So this Bark project is super commendable!
I had always imagined a BETTER-ENGINEERED and more lightweight solution had always existed, but I never saw it, because our codebases at work had literally decades of historical baggage and other crap on top. Maybe Bark is the answer.