On Wed, March 27, 2019 17:35, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 5:19 PM John Rigg
<jd(a)jrigg.co.uk> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 03:44:07PM +0100, Kjetil
Matheussen wrote:
Clutterered or not, this functionality is
something
pulseaudio/windows/osx all provide, but not jack. Is jack better
because it doesn't provide this? No, it's worse.
No, it's decidedly better IMO. Complexity isn't always an improvement.
This should be considered an essential feature expected to be there.
Do you think the windows/pulseaudio/osx peple don't know what they are
doing? Do you think Fons' zita-mu1 program is not an improvement?
Thinking out loud .. we could ship a tool / example client with jack that
is similar to alsamixer but for jack. A simple command line tool (no GUI
issues) with a configurable number of ports, eventually it could even
catch all connections to system:playback if requested.
Eg. the program jack_capture (which i think is one of the best recorders)
offers connection logic that will for instance record everything that goes
to system:playback (it involves to manage connections).
Bonus points if the jack_mixer could also set alsa parameters of the alsa
device in use, eg. set levels to 100%. You could then scale everything
inside jack and have minimal control on the device's volume.
Greetings
Thomas