[LAU] Jack hanging when a usb soundcard is disconnected

Len Ovens len at ovenwerks.net
Sun Oct 18 14:23:09 UTC 2015


On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:

> On 10/17/2015 08:49 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
>>
>> Just one more reason why USB Audio Interfaces are not a good replacement
>> for PCI(e) Audio Interfaces.
>
> USB devices support hot plugging, most if not all PCI audio interfaces
> don't. To write off USB because sometimes the hot plugging functionality
> fails doesn't seem fair to me.

Sorry, I was not trying to say USB Audio had no place, but rather that it 
did not replace the PCI(e) AI. I should have said that. There are still 
things that the "Internal" AI is better for.

USB hot plug _can_ work with jack:
http://gareus.org/blog/jack2dbus


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