Re: Jack fallback to alsa when firefire device off?

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On 02/17/2011 06:05 PM, Daniel Worth wrote:
> Personally, I would say that KXStudio has made a mistake here. There
>> is no reason to run PulseAudio for this purpose. Torben wrote a
>> libflashsupport-jack which routes Flash straight to JACK, and
>> http://jackaudio.org/faq describes ways to get a variety of other
>> desktop software to talk to JACK. I spend all day listening to
>> internet radio and my own music collection via Rhythmbox, browing the
>> catalog at emusic.com, watching Flash *and* working on Ardour ... all
>> via JACK and all without a large, complex layer like PulseAudio in the
>> middle.
>>
>> Some of these are not quite as robust as they should be but it would
>> be far better (I think) to focus resources on making them more robust
>> than introducing PulseAudio as a desktop<->JACK middle layer.
>>
> 
> I'm going to have to disagree here. falktx, the guy behind KXStudio, has
> written a very useful script called pulse-jack that configures Pulseaudio
> automatically to work with Jack. I have found this to work better and
> require much less configuration than alsa-jack and allows me to use Skype
> and Google Voice Chat for my podcast. I also use Torben's Flash Jack driver
> and this setup doesn't interfere with pulseaudio or jack. There is NO way to
> get the current version of Skype working with Jack without using Pulseaudio.

never say never :)

Older versions of skype worked just fine with ALSA-jackplug. Any version
of skype works with the alsa loopback:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Index.php/Jack_and_Loopback_device_as_Alsa-to-Jack_bridge


> I have spent years perfecting my podcasting setup and thanks to falktx I'm
> now closer to the perfect setup than I ever have been before. I haven't had
> any issues with his packages and I use it for audio everyday. I use both
> KXStudio and his PPAs on top of vanilla Ubuntu and I've never been happier.
> 
> The fact is that Pulseaudio is winning the widest adoption and thanks to the
> pulse-jack script Pulseaudio works very well with jack.
> 
> Daniel Worth
> Host
> The Open Source Musician Podcast
> http://opensourcemusician.com
> 
> 
> 
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