Re: jackd and volume control

On 28.03.2019 21:27, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 8:55 PM Filipe Coelho <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 27.03.2019 19:22, Holger Marzen wrote:
>>> As far as I understood there are 3 opinions:
>>>
>>> 1.) Don't change anything
>>> 2.) Add some API-calls to control the volume of every port
>>> 3.) Add an API-call to control the volume of system:playback_*
>> As the current jack maintainer I can already give you the heads up.
>> It is option 1, no such API is going to be added, ever.
>>
> So, what do you think is wrong with number 2? It's a simple
> modification to jack that might give a lot of benefit. Also, it would
> certainly solve problem that it's impossible to create a client mixer
> for jack now. Pulsaudio/window/osx has it, it's a very natural tool to
> expect.

This has been debated to death already, you are just not willing to 
listen and quickly dismiss the other side.

I am not adding more fuel to the fire, let's stop the discussion here 
since, as I said, it will just not happen.


> And what are your opinion about functions for providing
> default output ports? That would also solve the client mixer problem.

The "default" ports should be set via meta-data.
I said this before on this mailing list just a few emails back, not sure 
if you noticed...