On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:16 PM Tim <termtech@rogers.com> wrote:

On 10/03/2018 04:58 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:26 PM Tim <termtech@rogers.com
> <mailto:termtech@rogers.com>> wrote:
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> On 10/03/2018 04:00 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> In Jack1 when I left it, the server doesn't create any metadata. But
> there's no hard policy on that, and technically the ALSA driver itself
> is in the best position to get information from hardware to set up
> "pretty-name".
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> Port aliases also have no official policy either.
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Thanks Paul. Yes I suspected it might be a relatively basic step
to have something fill in that data. That would be awesome.
Hopefully it could be done if it's ever finished in Jack-1 and 2.

the thing is, many times the user is in a better place than the software to name the ports. that's why i trended toward a JACK startup process where the user would supply the information that would get pushed into the port metadata.

there's no way the driver knows that system:capture_1 is "kawaii k5000 left", but i do.

For Jack-2 I believe the meta-data support is currently just stubs,
as sletz has said. It appears in the headers but that's about it.
I think...

last i heard, falktx is now maintaining both jack1 and jack2.

Tim.
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