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

On 7/8/24 15:32, david wrote:
> 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!
>
I think you can also do that kind of setup using qjackctl but I don't 
know how.

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