[LAU] Getting Rhythmbox to Appear in qjackctl

[Max]

As far as I can see Strawberry does remove the Jack client on stop but 
not on pause and not in-between songs.
@Paul I'd recommend to switch to Strawberry, it handles Jack better than 
Clementine. Clementine wasn't updated since over 4 years.


On 20.05.20 22:14, Paul Davis wrote:
> although clementine has the same issue as previously mentioned - it 
> connects/disconnects between songs and disconnects when not playing.
> 
> RB can definitely use JACK directly (because gstreamer can). I did this 
> for years. Alas, I've been using Clementine for years now too, and I do 
> not recall the precise gstreamer setup I used with RB.
> 
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 2:08 PM Max <abonnements at revolwear.com 
> <mailto:abonnements at revolwear.com>> wrote:
> 
>     If you are fine with not using Rhythmbox, try Strawberry [1](a fork of
>     Clementine [2](inspired by Amarok [3])).
> 
>     In the settings select "Backend". Set Engine to "GStreamer" and Output
>     to "Output to a JACK server". It will show up in the Graph of QJackctl
>     as it's own node and you can route it as you wish.
> 
> 
>     [1] https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
>     [2] https://clementine-player.org
>     [3] https://amarok.kde.org/
> 
>     On 20.05.20 19:03, Samir Parikh wrote:
>      > Hi Everyone, I'm back!
>      >
>      > How do I get Rhythmbox (GNOME application similar to iTunes) to
>     appear
>      > in qjackctl?
>      >
>      > To recap:  I'm trying to take the output of music playing from
>     Rhythmbox
>      > and combine that with my microphone (either onboard laptop or
>     bluetooth
>      > headset) to pipe both into the Jitsi Meet videoconference
>     service[1].
>      > Thanks again to everyone who has been helping me thus far.  Based
>     on the
>      > feedback I received, I'm going to try to solve my issue using JACK.
>      >
>      > Over the past few days, I have been doing more research, reading
>     wiki
>      > pages and watching YouTube videos to become more familiar with
>     JACK and
>      > the various tools.  Thus far, I have:
>      >
>      > - installed qjackctl and its dependencies on Ubuntu 16.04
>      >
>      > - updated /etc/security/limits.conf with:
>      >    @audio           -       rtprio          95
>      >    @audio           -       memlock         unlimited
>      >    per these instructions[2]
>      >
>      > - added my userid to the audio group
>      >
>      > - installed pulseaudio-module-jack
>      >
>      > - installed gstreamer1.0-plugins.bad
>      >
>      > - I have NOT installed the low latency kernel
>      >
>      > I can now start the JACK server without any XRUNS after changing my
>      > Output and Input devices to hw:PCH but I can't get Rhythmbox to
>     appear
>      > under "Readable Clients/Output Port" in the Connections window in
>      > qjackctl.  I'm struggling to figure out how to set these GStreamer
>      > values[3] assuming that this is even the solution to my problem.
>      >
>      > Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
>      >
>      > Thanks
>      > Samir
>      >
>      >
>      > [1]
>      >
>     https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/2020-May/113035.html
>      > [2] https://jackaudio.org/faq/linux_rt_config.html
>      > [3] https://jackaudio.org/faq/gstreamer_via_jack.html
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