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Configuring jackd (JACK daemon) with ALSA

I'm trying to wrap my head around ALSA config files and jackd, but I'm not getting anywhere, other than crashing my machine. The microphone is a USB type and specified in ALSA arecord as -D ...
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Linux newbie: How do I use Jack? How does Linux sound work? [closed]

I am a Linux newbie. I know my way around the command-line enough to where it doesn't get in the way of my day job (I develop web applications in Python). This involves some piping, grep, awk, and ...
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Espeak showing some warnings and Input output error

I am running espeak on Linux Mint 14. Whenever I try to run it, it shows following warnings ( Not errors as it works correctly ). ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM ...
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Starting jackd after using other audio

I know this is probably a common question. When I start jackd after first booting, everything works fine. If I use another audio (such as Banshee or Youtube, etc) jack won't start. From what I ...
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Channeling audio

I am trying to get an audio setup that looks like: INPUTS: 1 stream from mpg123 (CLI MP3 player) 1 Microphone Input OUTPUT: 1 stream going to Jitsi (Jabber w/ voice) to be broadcast. 1 connection to ...
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Jack vs Pulseaudio — how is it faster?

I see a bunch of claims that Jack is faster than Pulse and has less latency. How is that so? Why does Pulse call itself lightweight, and the Jack guys call it fat? Could anyone break down the ...
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What Linux distro is good for music and well supported?

I'm pretty disappointed with Ubuntu. It's never been easy to sort out the mess that is Alsa / Jack / whatever and have it work with Pd, Supercollider, Ardour, Lillypad. I've upgraded to the latest ...
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Is there a linux distro that uses Jack audio server all the time?

By this I mean a distro that does not use pulse audio at all. So when you are runing programs like miro or mumbles you do not lose audio playback becuase Jack took over the audio stack.
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How to turn microphone jack to headphones jack?

I've picked out my headphones jack. Can i change my microphone jack to headphones jack only by soundsystem configuration? My soundcard is Intel82801I (ICH9 Family) HD.
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alsa and 5.1 surround through three front stereo jacks on the Dell Studio XPS 13

I know this is not a tech support forum, but I am not etting an answer from alsa people and have tried much, if not everything. I can upload the alsa-info output if needed, but here is the info ...
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Help configuring DBUS to start JACK

I have the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) installed, but cannot seem to get jack_control start to start the service. I'm using Slackware64-current, which recently updated its ...
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Issues with ardour and jackd

I'm trying to play with ardour. When I started it up, it complained that jackd isn't running, so I ran jackd -d alsa, which displayed: jackdmp 1.9.6 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. ...
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Can someone diagnose this JACK error message?

OK. I start JACK without starting the JACK server. I get: 23:09:22.730 Patchbay deactivated. 23:09:22.765 Statistics reset. Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot ...