[LAD] aj-snapshot fails to connect a2jmidid ports

[Lieven Moors]

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 06:31:42PM +0200, Lieven Moors wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 06:24:54PM +0200, Lieven Moors wrote:
> > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:20:09PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Lieven Moors <lievenmoors at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi, I just discovered that aj-snapshot fails to connect
> > > > a2jmidid ports that appear in jack midi.
> > > >
> > > > I store connections by seperating the client and port name
> > > > from what jack_get_ports returns, and I restore connections by
> > > > concatenating those as port names again (with a seperating colon).
> > > > This seems to work with most clients, but not with a2jmidid.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know what the problem might be?
> > > 
> > > what are the failing portnames?
> > 
> > e.g.:
> > 
> > Failed to connect port 'a2j:Midi Through [14] (capture)' to 'yoshimi:midi in' !
> > Failed to connect port 'a2j:Midi Through [14] (capture)' to 'a2j:TiMidity [128] (playback): TiMidity port 0' !
> 
> This seems to work though:
> 
> Connecting port 'jack-keyboard:midi_out' with 'a2j:TiMidity [128] (playback): TiMidity port 0'
> 
> I'll have to do some more testing...
> Just thought there might have been something obvious.

It looks like connecting from a2jmidid output ports to
other clients does not work. But connecting to a2jmidid's
input ports does. Strange...