On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 17:51 -0400, lanas wrote: > Better yet. We have MIDI. This is quite a standard that everyone > seems to adhere to. We have Jack. Now, is there a standard means to IPC > between audio apps ? Such that a song manager could IPC (and > eventually launch apps that are not running) to the various apps used > for song, setting along the way the parameters for each app through > IPC ? its called LASH (Linux Audio Session Handler). its a work in progress. not all apps support it. in fact not a lot do, but virtually all of them should. my own apps included (ardour in particular). --p