6 Jul
2009
6 Jul
'09
2:01 a.m.
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 19:10 +0300, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
[using LADSPA unique ids]
> That is bad of Ecasound, since ladspa.h says:
>
> "Plugin types should be identified by file and label rather than by index or
plugin name, which may be changed in
> new plugin versions."
This is an error in ladspa.h
Ecasound allows to use both label (-el) and unique id
(-eli) to identify
plugins. In many cases label is sufficient (versus file+label), and in the
rare case of a conflict, then unique-id is a practical way to select the
correct plugin.
There are conflicts with the unique ID too, but there's no accounting
for broken plugins I guess.
I don't know why people started recommending using the filename/label
over the unique ID, but they shouldn't. This varies even between
different packages of the exact same plugins (e.g. blop, notoriously),
and it's clear from the spec that file/label isn't intended to be
important as an identifier... there's an ID in there, use it.
-dr