On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 08:52:12AM -0700, Jeremy Evans wrote: > On 07/18 04:22, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2015/07/18 00:18, Jeremy Evans wrote: > > > This updates aqualung to the latest release, which is still about a > > > year old. I'm encouraging my fellow upstream developers to release > > > a final 1.0, but in the meantime this is a lot more current than the > > > 0.9beta11 we have in the tree, which was released over 5 years ago. > > > > First time I tried with this update, it was hanging for me.. > > It started (with a few errors; it took about 5 seconds for the > > attempts at using jack) : > > Does anyone care about jack support? I'm fine with removing it > (--without-jack) and making sndio the only output option. That should > hopefully fix this issue on initial startup.
Jack is not designed to serve a general purpose audio server, it's more about synchronizing & passing data between programs, ex to build a DAW. IIRC, the jack backend used to make sense when we did't have sndio backend yet, so now it's not very useful.
