On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 09:59 +0000, Dan MacDonald wrote: > * JACK needs to become more plug-and-play. I think its a shame it > still offers no way to auto-detect optimal settings on any given setup > and instead the user has to find out what options to tweak then find > the best settings through trial and error. How should it be done to auto-detect the best settings? IMO it's impossible. > > * JACK can still fail to start and just leave the user with some > pretty cryptic errors as to why it failed. I experienced this very seldom, but it's true, I at least remember one very strange example on jack devel mailing list a while ago. The output lead into a completely wrong direction. > * JACK can't hot swap audio devices and so if the user wants this > feature they have to integrate PA with JACK which sadly still isn't > straightforward under many popular distros and then the user has to > learn about how ALSA, PA and JACK interact. Are there many cases when users need to switch the audio device? > [snip] > > In fact, I'm a bit concerned that if Bitwig leads to an explosion of > commercial apps and plugins for Linux and LA busts out of its niche > that LA* will suffer a kinda Ubuntu/Android effect where these lists > will get swamped with newb questions and cause many of our valued > members to unsubscribe. There's already energyXT, but it didn't cause such an explosion. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
