[LAU] Using logical ALSA device names with qjackctl

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-06-05 00:14:19 +0200:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there any way to use logical device nammes instead of
> 'hw:a.b' when setting up Qjackctl ? It seems like the
> easiest way to deal with hw device numbers changing on
> each boot, but I haven't found a way to do it. 
> Editing ~/.jackdrc doesn't work, it just gets overwritten
> with the (wrong) hw device names (and I wonder why this
> is done).
> 
> Ciao,

I heard it's also possible to reference cards by unique IDs of some
sort, but this likely only works with interfaces that have a unique
number and I don't remember the details. Florian Faber certainly knows
how to do it.

I use shortnames myself, hw:UA25 here. I remember it's possible to enter
those numbers in the qjackctl GUI.