I figured it out!
Applications like xmms and jack-rack show up in the jack connection list
with their PID's appended and this was a bit difficult to reconcile with
brutefir, which wants the user to name the in's and out's in a config file.
The solution was already built into brutefir and I just configured the
qjackctl patchbay to recognize the ports and connect them properly.
The brutefir config file should name it's inputs as follows:
input 0, 1 {
device: "jack" { ports: "", "";};
sample: "AUTO";
channels: 2;};