Re: Cannot add dropped file. JACK audio server is not available.

On 7/8/24 08:35, Martin VanWinkle wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, with rosegarden 1:21.12-1 installed.
>
> I've configured qsynth to use alsa, and I've configured Rosegarden to 
> not start JACK on startup.  This has allowed me to get audio from 
> other applications (e.g. Chrome, Audacity) working at the same time as 
> Rosegarden is (say) playing a metronome.
>
> I'm trying to get Rosegarden to import an audio track, and it's saying 
> that because JACK isn't running:
>
> "Cannot add dropped file.  JACK audio server isn't available".
>
> Also, File -> Manage Audio Files is grayed out.
>
> I would like to be able to use other applications that play audio 
> while I'm using Rosegarden.  But I haven't had any success getting 
> that working with JACK.
>
> Does anybody have suggestions for this?
>
> Thanks

Hi, Marty!

I use Cadence to manage audio on my Debian Bookworm system. It set up a 
bridge - ALSA > PulseAudio > Jack - so everything audio goes through 
JACK. Much simpler and transparent, and Rosegarden (and all my other 
audio applications) works with audio just fine.

I got Cadence from the KX Studio applications: 
https://kx.studio/Applications:Cadence

You can get it from their Debian/Ubuntu repository: apt://cadence

It's also possible to set up the audio bridging manually, I just wasn't 
able to sort it out, but ther people on the list might have instructions 
or links on how to do that.

Hope that helps!

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