Thanks looks like I need to look at what it would take to have the gui front end (Cadence) behave this way by default
http://jackaudio.org/device_naming
2012/6/26 Danni Coy <danni.coy@gmail.com>:
> I have only been using jackd with the alsa back end for a short amount of
> time (been a ffado user for many years). I am also dealing with a friends
> cheap laptop which is having issues; basically the order of the alsa devices
> is changing with every boot which means I have to configure jack every time
> I want to use it.
>
> Is there any way to get jack to remember the description of the device
> rather than the number and search for that description on startup (then use
> the device number if that fails). This would seem to me like a much saner
> way of doing things to me.
>
>
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