On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 00:14 +0200, Tom Szilagyi wrote: > On 8/10/07, Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 10 August 2007 at 0:55, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:06:53AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > > > > When I use Audacity, why does every plugin show up twice in the > > > > effects list? Looking on my hard drive it looks like the plugins are > > > > only installed in one place, /usr/lib/ladspa, and they all come from > > > > either swh-plugins-0.4.14-1mdk or tap-plugins-0.7.0-2mdk. > > Just a hunch (I have developed both LADSPA plugins and a host): > The problem may be due to the fact that some hosts have hard-wired > defaults for plugin locations. This makes them work for the default > case (plugins in /usr/lib/ladspa) even with no LADSPA_PATH set. > However, if it is set, the host may iterate over its hard-wired path > *and* the paths found in LADSPA_PATH, thus resulting in visiting > each plugin more than once. If this is indeed the cause, the fix is > to amend the host to drop duplicate paths from the merged list > of paths (from hard-wired paths and paths from LADSPA_PATH). > Or not use its hard-wired path at all if it finds LADSPA_PATH set. i differ. the fix is for the host to notice duplicate plugin IDs and ignore them. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
