[PlanetCCRMA] Re: [linux-audio-user] audacity and jack

[Mike Jewell]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:56 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 02:06, Emmanuel Serié wrote:
> > Le Mercredi 27 Juillet 2005 23:17, David Ford a écrit :
> > 
> > > See the Audacity wiki --
> > > http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.pl?LinuxIssues -- it has details on
> > > how to make audacity work with alsa. (and maybe then jack as well)
> > >
> > > David

I'll check this out.

> > 
> > Thanks!
> > I have compile it as they say, using the latest portaudio-v19 and it works 
> > apparentlty perfectly!
> > Just, a client PortAudio-5121 appear when I do "play" in audacity, but it 
> > desappear when I do "stop". So I can't do a connection between audacity and 
> > other output client of jack than alsa_pcm...
> 
> I think I read somewhere you can select the connection from inside
> audacity, but not for other jack clients that were not there when
> audacity started. 
> 
> The very "unjack" behavior of being connected only while playing is one
> of the reasons I have not yet built a jack enabled audacity in Planet
> CCRMA. I don't know if the culprit is portaudio itself or the code
> inside audacity. Well, maybe I should build one anyway. 
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
If a build of Audacity like this would simply let it talk to my sound
card while JACK/Ardour are running, this would be a huge benefit since
then I could easily use it to edit sound files exported from Ardour as
in my other recent post.

Mike
Mike Jewell
One-Up Audio