Re: [LAU] Default Jack metering (XFCE QJackCTL)

On 10/03/2018 04:58 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:26 PM Tim <termtech@rogers.com
> <mailto:termtech@rogers.com>> wrote:
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> On 10/03/2018 04:00 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 3:41 PM Tim <termtech@rogers.com
> <mailto:termtech@rogers.com>
> > <mailto:termtech@rogers.com <mailto:termtech@rogers.com>>> wrote:
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> >     That is why port aliases are SO VERY important and should
> >        never be removed from Jack.
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> >
> > port aliases are an ad-hoc hack.
> >
> > the correct solution was added to jack1, but never (AFAIK) to
> jack2, and
> > that's metadata, along with well-known metadata keys such as
> "pretty-name".
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> > port aliases should go away, and be replaced by metadata.
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> But when you and I last spoke of this, I was disappointed to learn
>   that there were no plans to put default information in that
> meta-data,
>   like the information that is provided in those alias names.
> So as I understood, the meta-data would be blank by default.
> You demonstrated that meta-data does work - but you had to provide
>   that information from your own list.
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> Am I mistaken? Would such information be available by default?
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> In Jack1 when I left it, the server doesn't create any metadata. But
> there's no hard policy on that, and technically the ALSA driver itself
> is in the best position to get information from hardware to set up
> "pretty-name".
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> Port aliases also have no official policy either.
>

Thanks Paul. Yes I suspected it might be a relatively basic step
  to have something fill in that data. That would be awesome.
Hopefully it could be done if it's ever finished in Jack-1 and 2.

For Jack-2 I believe the meta-data support is currently just stubs,
  as sletz has said. It appears in the headers but that's about it.
I think...

Tim.
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