On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I tried this a few days ago, firefox showed as > alsa-jack.rawjackC(somenumber) > and audacity showed as portaudio(something) > > Now both are showing as alsa-jack.rawjacksomething. you've made JACK the default ALSA device, so that portaudio connects to it even when apparently using ALSA. > pcm.!default { > type plug > slave { pcm "rawjack" } > } audacity & portaudio have *bad* JACK support. the .asoundrc file isn't a workaround for that. portaudio's support isn't bad in and of itself, but audacity insists on opening and closing its "device" every time it starts and stops playing. totally broken system when combined with JACK. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user