[LAU] Any 'transport aware' jack-play alternatives?

John Murphy rosegardener at freeode.co.uk
Thu Feb 3 12:24:57 CET 2022


On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 07:49:51 +0100 Giso Grimm wrote:

> On 03.02.22 04:52, John Murphy wrote:
> > I have a slight problem using jack-play since I'm using Pipewire and
> > I wonder if anyone knows of an alternative I could try.  
> 
> jack_playrec is a command line tool that supports transport:
> 
> https://github.com/HoerTech-gGmbH/jack_playrec

Thanks, but it may not be suitable as it loads the file into memory
before playing. Most of my files are about 2gB and a new one may be
requested every few minutes. jack-play seeks into a new .wav almost
seamlessly.

See my reply to Joel Roth, above, for what I hope will solve my problem.

-- 
John.


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