Re: Activate jack under pipewire [was: Tool for inspecting audio hardware?]

Am Dienstag, dem 24.03.2026 um 21:25 -0500 schrieb Chris Caudle:
> On Sunday, March 22, 2026 7:31:16 PM Central Daylight Time Mitsch
> wrote:
> > Status of jack is off.
> > Is this normal (on Debian)?
> 
> Your previous output indicated that jackd (traditional JACK server)
> is 
> installed and pipewire is the audio server active.
> 
> If you wish to use jackd then start jackd with the options you want, 
> and if 
> pipewire is using the device you configured jackd will request
> exclusive 
> access, and the pipewire server will release exclusive access of the
> device 
> while jackd is running.

Excellent!
Is this a new feature?

> 
> If you with to use pipewire as the JACK server then install the
> pipewire-jack 
> modules and the pipewire server will provide JACK as well as Pulse
> API for 
> applications to use, along with ALSA plugin emulation for
> applications which 
> can only use alsalib (different than e.g. jackd or Ardour which only
> use ALSA 
> hardware devices).
> 
> >   Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-
> > pulse
> >     status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa
> > type:
> > plugin
> >     4: pw-jack type: plugin
> > 
> > Still, linux-show-player and pw-jack won't work together. I
> > thought,
> > this one could lead me to a solution, unfortunately, it doesn't…
> 
> You still have not yet installed pipewire-jack.  The output quoted
> above shows 
> that your pipewire server has pipewire-pulse and pipewire-alsa API
> active.
> 
> The pw-jack plugin is for pipewire server to act as a JACK client in
> the case 
> that jackd server is running.
> 
> That is different than the application pw-jack, which is used to set
> the 
> library path to libjack.so in cases where ldconfig is not set
> properly to point 
> to the libjack provided by pipewire-jack (which you do not have yet
> because 
> you have not yet installed pipewire-jack).

I have!

:~$ sudo apt install pipewire-jack 
pipewire-jack is already the newest version (1.4.2-1).
Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0

Strange…!

Greets!
Mitsch