[Jack-Devel] jackd and volume control

[Stéphane Letz]

As an old JACK2 developer I would say: Fons is (almost always…) right, listen to him ((-;

Stéphane 


> Le 27 mars 2019 à 19:22, Holger Marzen <holger at marzen.de> a écrit :
> 
> As far as I understood there are 3 opinions:
> 
> 1.) Don't change anything
> 2.) Add some API-calls to control the volume of every port
> 3.) Add an API-call to control the volume of system:playback_*
> 
> I'd say that 2.) will introduce too much complexity. This is what jack
> clients should do.
> 
> But some time ago I proposed 3.)
> 
> - Not every audio adapter has a software controllable hardware mixer,
>  e.g. Focusrite Scarlett Solo, 2i2, 2i4. So alsamixer can't do the job.
> 
> - No need to break clients' connection to system:playback_* and make
>  connections to a volume control application like jack_mixer.
>  That's really nasty when the application connects only at playback
>  with changing port names, like Audacity. Then you need tools like
>  jack-plumbing.
> 
> I can live without that but that's what new users would appreciate,
> especially when there are some apps for the system tray/dock/whatever.
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