[Jack-Devel] Don't ever bother with bridging JACK with ALSA or Pulseaudio.

[crocket]

Just read https://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=20419&p=110059
in order to appreciate the enormous complexity of my current audio system.
It is a giant overkill for a simple morning alarm.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 2:16 AM Chris Caudle <chris at chriscaudle.org> wrote:

> On Thu, September 12, 2019 8:05 am, crocket wrote:
> > I've spent months on perfecting the bridge between JACK and ALSA.
>
> I think you have created the most complex monitor controller ever.  This
> is that system that has S/PDIF from the motherboard audio to digital input
> on a USB connected interface that you described earlier?
>
> -----------------------------
> --> is a connection that doesn't cross the boundary of a computer.
> ==> is a connection that occurs between two computers.
>
> Anything that doesn't cross ==> occurs on my desktop computer. Anything
> that happens after ==> occurs on Raspberry Pi 3 B+.
> netjack1 runs on my desktop computer. Ethernet cable is the only cable
> that connects two machines.
>
> 1. ALSA dmix --> SPDIF out of Realtek ALC887 onboard soundcard --> SPDIF
> In of X-Fi HD USB --(alsa_in or zita-a2j)--> netjack1 ==(ethernet
> cable)==> ALSA jack backend --> I2S Amplifier(HiFiBerry Amp2) --> Speakers
>
> 2. netjack1 --(alsa_out or zita-j2a)--> headphone jack of X-Fi HD USB on
> my desktop computer --> headphones
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Is this being used for music production, or just listening to audio files?
> PulseAudio can do something similar in a self-contained fashion, at the
> expense of higher latency and the occasional dropped sample.  And of
> course the old fashioned way to do it would be with an analog monitor
> controller or small mixer.  The more modern audio production focused way
> would be to use Dante or similar if you really want network connectivity,
> or the ability to add and remove devices, have large distance separation,
> etc.
>
> My recollection is that the questions you posed were somewhat isolated,
> and mostly how to accomplish various specific tasks with jackd or alsa.
> It may have been better to start with a more general description of what
> you were trying to accomplish and ask about the best way to get to that
> result, because I can't imagine anyone recommending that convoluted signal
> chain just for listening to audio from your desktop and a separate
> computer (RPi in your case) at the same time.  Using an on board audio
> interface just to send audio over S/PDIF to a USB interface to drive
> headphones seems pretty bizarre, I never could make sense of what you were
> trying to accomplish with that rather than just sending audio to the USB
> interface to start with.
>
>
> --
> Chris Caudle
>
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