[LAD] Custom JACK MIDI port names for osc2midi ?

[Hanspeter Portner]

On 06.01.19 13:38, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> Didn't find jack_property -- but did find jack_alias, this what you were
> thinking of?

You're most probably running JACK2.

JACK metadata is only implemented for JACK1 as of today, but should be part of
next official JACK2 release [1].

[1]
https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2/commit/fed6f1e66dfb4b78f8b55467d5130e587e07da87

> J.E.B.
> 
> On 1/6/19 4:53 AM, hgn wrote:
>> For a non-destructive solution you could set metadata.
>> This is possible from outside the client, for example with the commandline
>> tool jack_property, included in jack(2).
>>
>> Be advised that not all patchbays and connection tools display these "pretty
>> names". Sometimes you have to switch the display mode in the tool, sometimes
>> they don't have them implemented, in this case please file a bug report.
>>
>> hgn
>>
>> Am 06.01.2019 03:24 schrieb Jonathan E. Brickman:
>>> I have a need to run three osc2midi clients (m2o) on a single JACK
>>> server.  Is there a way to customize their JACK port names?  I can
>>> engineer to use osc2midi, osc2midi-01, and osc2mid-02, i.e., the
>>> automatic JACK-given names, but I was hoping for something more
>>> self-documenting.  I took a look at jackdriver.c, but did not find
>>> where I could insert a JACK port name string.
>>>
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