[Jack-Devel] Jack Problems

[Kjetil Matheussen]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:44 PM John Rigg <jd at jrigg.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 05:54:31PM +0100, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 5:51 PM Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 05:35:04PM +0100, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
> > >
> > > > This should be considered an essential feature expected to be there.
> > > > Do you think the windows/pulseaudio/osx peple don't know what they are
> > > > doing? Do you think Fons' zita-mu1 program is not an improvement?
> > >
> > > It is NOT an improvement. It is an application which you can use
> > > if and when you need the functionality.
> >
> > You seem to misunderstand. We were talking about the type of
> > functionality that zita-mu1, pavucontrol, etc. provides. Clearly you
> > would think zita-mu1 is an improvement, if not you wouldn't have made
> > it.
>
> This is sophistry. Having zita-mu1 to use when required is an
> improvement over not having it. Adding its functionality to jack
> when zita-mu1 (along with other solutions) already exists is not an
> improvement, but a redundant increase in complexity.
>
> This is starting to sound like a systemd vs. traditional init argument.
> Not everyone wants multiple functions added to software when there's
> already a purpose-specific equivalent that works.
>

Currently you have to setup zita-mu in order to use it. We lack a
program that does everything automatically for you when you start it,
so we don't really have it.