[LAU] Rename jackd ports by command line?

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb at ponderworthy.com>
wrote:

>
>      I'd like to rename jackd ports by command line -- is there a way?
>>>
>>>
>>> whether there is a way or not, the goal is misguided. what is your
>>> actual goal?
>>>
>>
> It seems that you are right again -- somehow my "wires" work across
> hardware changes, even though the names of the ports are very different, I
> have been trying between Behringer FCA202 firewire and Prosonus USB. Are
> there "hidden" jackd port names or other default designations (something
> like "default output port #0 and #1") which make this work so nicely?
>

we deliberately designed JACK to use generic names like "system:playback_1"
precisely to avoid the first-level dependence on device names and
architecture.

the new metadata API, which only exists in jack1 and is not really used by
any applications yet, is there to solve second-level problems.
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