[linux-audio-user] running jack and non jack aware audio apps in the same time

[Salvatore Di Pietro]

Eric Robert wrote:

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> But sometimes i'd like to use non jack aware apps like sox (correct me 
> if i'm wrong) or mpg123 or others. Those won't run unless i kill jack!
> How painfull as it is a very good friend of mine ;-)
> dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> audio: Device or resource busy
> 
> In the jack diagram 
> (http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/diagram/JACK-Diagram-screensize.png)
> i can see that non jack aware apps can run in the same time using either 
> the ALSA API or the OSS emulation layer.

You can try oss2jack: http://fort.xdas.com/~kor/oss2jack/

with many apps I did obtain good results.
With ZynAddSubFX and ReZound it works better than the original JACK 
support! Awesome!
Hope this helps,
ciao
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