[pulseaudio-discuss] Ubuntu Hardy, Pulseaudio and Jack

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 01:38 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Sat, 23.05.09 22:31, rosea grammostola (rosea.grammostola at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:42 AM, rosea grammostola <
> > rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Now Iḿ wondering how to let pulseaudio nicely work together with Pulseaudio
> > > (I know how to set up jackd).
> 
> This doesn't make much sense. PA is a sound server for the
> desktop. JACK for audio production. Running both at the same time
> seldomly makes any sense. You don't want event sounds from your window
> manager mixed into your newly recording song.

Actually, one situation in which it WOULD make sense is when an app
whose sound you want to record and play with has pulse support but no
JACK support. alsa-Jack plugin is horrendous, much much worse than
module-jack-sink/source.

The other situation is mine, where I'm just lazy to keep track of what's
on or not and would like everything running so I can fire up
audacity/ardour/hydrogen, for example, without having to remember to
start JACK/kill pulse, whatever.

> 
> If you really want to do this, then you can load "module-jack-sink"
> and "module-jack-source" into the PA server, but this is mostly a toy
> for niche uses and hacks. It's not intended to be used by a wider
> audience. If you do use it you are expected to know your way
> around. There's a bit of documentation available in the Wiki, but it's
> most likely outdated.

QFT.