On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 21:33 -0400, Chris Hallinan wrote:
> Just starting to build my Linux audio studio, and having lots of fun
> so far. Installed Jack, qjackctl, ardour, rosegarden, and bought the
> Edirol FA-101, all working "out of the box". Pretty amazing.
>
> Now what I'd like is an iPod player that's Jack aware. When I plug my
> iPod into USB, Rythmbox understands the format and plays the media on
> it, but of course, it won't play into my FA-101 'cuz it appears to
> have no support for Jack. Anyone have a recommendation for an iPod
> player that's Jack aware for Ubuntu 8.04?

Rhythmbox doesn't do audio I/O, GStreamer does. And GStreamer *is* JACK
aware. You just need the gstreamer JACK plugin. Then you need to
configure gnome-sound-properties, which is frankly a hassle. i did it a
few weeks ago, and i've already forgotten what i had to do :(

Thanks, Paul. That helps me start to understand the "big picture!"

Now that I have your attention :) can I direct the conversation back to one of the original question: is it possible to run Jackd (via qjackctl, preferrably) with support for both freebob and alsa, so that, for example, I can route some audio streams to my FA-101 (via freebob/firewire) and others to my ALSA output ports? Right now, I've only figured out how to run it with either ALSA or FreeBob backends. While both work great separately, I'd like to have both sets of ports (FA-101 i/o and ALSA capture/playback) appear together in the connections widget. Or more likely, I'm missing something more fundamental in my understanding! Many thanks.

Oh, and if you'd like some help documenting some of this stuff, as time permits, I'd be delighted. I'm not too bad at writing. Google "Embedded Linux Primer" and contact me off list if you'd like some help on jackaudio.org or elsewhere.

Regards,

Chris
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