luned?, 25 luglio 2005 alle 14:41:07, Eric Robert ha scritto: > Hi list, > > for my needs as a musician i've configured my favorites audio apps to > run with jack (mainly xmms, rosegarden, timidity and audacity), as i > don't record anything yet but mainly transcript solos or compose midi > stuff , or play with band in a box (through wine). I use jack as it > makes it possible to open and use more than one app in the same time. > > Great! > > But sometimes i'd like to use non jack aware apps like sox (correct me > if i'm wrong) or mpg123 or others. Those won't run unless i kill jack! > How painfull as it is a very good friend of mine ;-) > dev/dsp: Device or resource busy > audio: Device or resource busy > > In the jack diagram > (http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/diagram/JACK-Diagram-screensize.png) > i can see that non jack aware apps can run in the same time using either > the ALSA API or the OSS emulation layer. > > How comes that i can't run, say mpg123, and jack in the same time? > xawdecode or xawtv for instance won't care if jack is running or not, > why not sox or mpg123? There's a library for interfacing old OSS apps to the jack server: http://gige.xdv.org/soft/libjackasyn/ with it I can launch eg. mpg123 like this: $ jacklaunch mpg123 file.mp3 I've only tried with ogg123 and mpg123 and it works with those two... > Thanks > Eric HTH ciao -- Emiliano Grilli Linux user #209089 http://www.emillo.net