Re: [LAU] qjackctl patchbay

From: schoappied <schoappied@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 22:39:05 EEST

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:43:19AM -0700, Justin Smith wrote:
>
>
>> I think this is because, when your app is using oss or alsa, the friendly
>> thing to do is to stop using the sound card (since using the sound card
>> blocks other applications that would like to use it), and it is easier to
>> plug in your calls to the jack api in the same place as the oss or alsa api
>> calls, than it is to change your connection/disconnection policy based on
>> api.
>>
>
> Probably true, but it's a weak argument IMHO. It would just
> take a couple of ifs to get this right.
>
> A real problem are the 'portable, cross-platform' audio APIs
> and tools that usually fail to understand the rather special
> nature of JACK, or have been designed in such a way that they
> can't handle it.
>
> Ciao,
>
>
Is this a problem of the apps like audacity or of qjackctl?

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