[linux-audio-user] Favorite way to use Jamin?

[John Anderson]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 00:48 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote:
> So far I've only played with Jamin by feeding it with Alsaplayer.
> Today I tried for the first time to use it on real work.
> I have 3 songs I've exported from ardour (0.99) in float 44.1kHz wav files.
> These files seem to be OK - I can load them into Audacity,
> play them with sox, etc.  But my first thought - re-import the
> mixes into a new Ardour session, put them in sequence, and hook it up to
> Jack - failed with the problem I describe here:
> http://ardour.org/mantis/view.php?id=1167
> 
> So, I thought, I'll just play them with alsaplayer -o jack.  I have
> alsaplayer version 0.99.76.  But when I do, alsaplayer loads the files
> without complaint (well, mostly; there's some messages like "short_mask
> = 0x6" on stdout...) ... the UI indicates that it's playing, and it says
> "sndfile supported format" -- but the output is silent!  Could it be a
> problem with routing or mixer controls?  Nope, I can hear any other file
> I load, but not these mixes.  Weird.
> 
> Hey, I know, I'll use Audacity! .... except... it doesn't support jack?
> Aargh.  (version 1.2.1) 
> 
> Any other suggestions?

Somebody was saying they used ecasound to route the source files to
jamin, and then record the output from jamin.

bye
John