[LAD] Feature requests: add JackSession support

rosea grammostola rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 09:43:50 UTC 2011


On 06/30/2011 11:31 AM, Renato wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:03:05 +0200
> rosea grammostola<rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Linux Audio Developer,
>>
>>
>> May I make a feature request here for your Linuxaudio application(s)?
>>
>> Could you please add JackSession support? It makes working with JACK
>> standalone applications a lot more user friendly. There are some apps
>> who support it already and they work fine, like Yoshimi, Qtractor,
>> Pianoteq, Ghostess, Guitarix, Jack-Rack, Ardour3, Bristol, Seq24,
>> Jalv, Ingen, Connie, Specimen and probably more.
>>
>> It is possible to use applications without JackSession-support in a
>> session (via so called infra clients), it starts the applications,
>> make the connections, but doesn't save the state. So obviously it
>> would be far more useful if those applications would get
>> JackSession-support also.
>>
>> Qjackctl is able to work as Session Manager, so is Pyjacksm (and
>> likely Patchage in the future).
>>
>> According to comments on IRC by Paul Davis, it's very easy to add
>> JackSession support to your application.
>>
>> "Its really easy, just handle 1 more callback from the server.
>> Torben's walkthrough shows what is necessary."
>>
>> Torben's walktrough:
>> http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/Dev/JackSession
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> \r
>>
> I second this, I tried using jacksession a few days ago and it seems
> to me it works very well; it does what it should and nothing more, it is
> not intrusive
Maybe good to note also is that almost all recent distros (also 
multimedia distros like AVLinux, Tango Studio etc.) have the latest 
Jackd version these days (JACK1 and/ or JACK2, both support 
JackSession). So apps with JackSession support are compiled with 
JackSession automatically on those distros (no need to add a patch or a 
special build parameter or anything like that). :)

Regards,
\r



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