On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, yvan volochine wrote:
On 26/06/13 12:57, Nick Lanham wrote:
In my experience, most people using jack these days are aware that most clients will autostart the server if they haven't started it, and it does not confuse them.
yeah well in my experience you don't need to open a terminal and kill jackd because an app has been too smart and started it for you.
Yeah, that's bad, but that's a bug in the app, not a jack bug. Jack usually shuts down cleanly if you kill your app.
I don't know if the following apps use the old jack API but about "starting jack for me when I didn't ask them to":
- ardour3 does not
- audacity does not
- any media players that I tried don't..
Also, all the following apps will auto-start jack, and are more similar IMO to PD than audacity or a media player:
So, I think it's more common to start it than not to.
I would expect a call to
jack_client_open()
when I turn DSP on, not when I launch an app with which I might not make audio at all..
Agreed. If I don't turn on DSP, PD probably shouldn't start jack, but if you haven't started jack and you've configured PD to use jack, and you turn on DSP, it should probably start it.
-Nick