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

[Eric Robert]

Salvatore Di Pietro wrote:
> 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
Apparently it cannot be used on a 2.6 system! Thanks anyways!
The jacklaunch solution is handy even if if i was looking for a solution 
like the one you provide.

Eric