Re: qjackctl patchbay

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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,

-- 
FA

Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica
Parma, Italia

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