<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Darn! I was thinking something more along the line of an API that could handle song tags, to time-stamp the start of a new track playing into or out-of a jack port. I guess I'm back to using MIDI sysex or maybe a unix socket. It doesn't look like the metadata API would work well for noticing and with time-stamping changes.</div><div><br></div><div>Ethan...</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 22:17 +0200, Christopher Arndt wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Am 22.05.19 um 21:58 schrieb Ethan Funk:</pre><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></pre><pre>Metadata support? Wow... I really want that for my application. That's a</pre><pre>huge problem solver. Where can I find proposed API info?</pre><pre></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The metadata API has been in existence for a couple of years already in</pre><pre>JACK 1:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><a href="http://jackaudio.org/api/group__Metadata.html">http://jackaudio.org/api/group__Metadata.html</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>But unfortunately not many people know about it (I only was made aware</pre><pre>of it a couple of months ago), maybe in part because the only</pre><pre>non-technical description of it was lost, when the jackaudio.org web</pre><pre>site was compromised and then completely replaced a few years ago. I</pre><pre>restored a page about the topic from the old web site to the curernt</pre><pre>Github wiki a few weeks ago:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><a href="https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki/JACK-Metadata-API">https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki/JACK-Metadata-API</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Chris</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Jack-Devel mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Jack-Devel@lists.jackaudio.org">Jack-Devel@lists.jackaudio.org</a></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.jackaudio.org/listinfo.cgi/jack-devel-jackaudio.org">http://lists.jackaudio.org/listinfo.cgi/jack-devel-jackaudio.org</a></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote></body></html>