[LAU] Bridging alsa and jack midi

[Rui Nuno Capela]

On 09/27/2014 09:16 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org
> <mailto:rncbc at rncbc.org>> wrote:
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>     that said, it would be awesome to merge your hack Paul.
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>     i can vaguely remember something about that from you a year ago or
>     so, but i also remember you also recalled and scrapped it the next
>     day, so nothing was patched yet :(
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> i didn't pass it on because i started to get some crashes with qjc that
> i hadn' t had before.
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>     is there any plans for (re)posting the "qjackctl pretty-name
>     metadata patch" or whatever it's called?
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> it is a pretty deep change (i threw out all support for JACK port
> aliases). but i will post it at some point because i don't have time to
> figure out the nature of the (very occasional) crash (yet)
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> jack port aliases *should* be deprecated. it is a mechanism that should
> never have seen the light of day.

there's the "jack port aliases" and there's the "qjackctl client/port 
aliases". they are two different things and orthogonal. the later is 
what i believe may be integrated with the "jack pretty-name metatada" 
interface.

cheers
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc.org