[LAU] MPD and JACK

Hanspeter Portner dev at open-music-kontrollers.ch
Mon Apr 11 08:26:35 UTC 2016


On 11.04.2016 09:41, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> anyone having troubles with MPD playing happily through jack?
> 
> I have jack up and running with a loopback device all the time and got MPD working but it
> stopped working, ie. no sound but the player is going on with no errors in mpd.log
> 
> This is my audio conf snippet from mpd.conf, just added device parameter for my loopback
> device:
> 
> audio_output {
> 	type		"alsa"
> 	name		"My ALSA Device"
> 	device		"hw:1,0"	# optional
> }
> 
> Any hints? 

Maybe I'm missing the point, but why don't you use mplayer's JACK backend direclty?

$ mplayer -ao jack ...

or

mpd.conf
--------
audio_output {
  type "jack"
}


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