Simple audio player that works with JACK

lykwydchykyn · Post by **lykwydchykyn** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 3:39 am

Hi everyone; was wondering if you all could help me patch a pothole in my workflow.

I'm looking for a simple, lightweight audio player that works with Jack. Reason being, I'll be working on a piece and want to hunt for a sample or track to drop in, and whatever program I'm in (e.g. qtractor) doesn't have a file browser with audio previews. So I need some way to demo my samples from a file manager quickly, and most of the audio programs I know are either too cumbersome or don't work with Jack.

On a normal desktop system (without Jack) I'd just use paplay, aplay, or mplayer for this purpose.
Advice?

apathity · Post by **apathity** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:54 am

You can use VLC and connect it to JACK. Here's some info about the package: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1948086

It's a long time ago since I've tried it though.

antiesen · Post by **antiesen** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:26 am

mplayer also works with jack.

Post by **khz** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:14 am

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asbak · Post by **asbak** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:31 pm

Audacious works too

logicgate · Post by **logicgate** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 4:41 pm

asbak wrote:Audacious works too

I use Audacious myself but I believe AlsaPlayer supports JACK as well.

lykwydchykyn · Post by **lykwydchykyn** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:55 am

Thanks guys. I didn't realize mplayer worked with jack, but I found some instructions on the Arch wiki to make it use Jack. I added it as a custom command in pcmanfm, and this seems to do what I need.

Thad E Ginathom · Post by **Thad E Ginathom** » Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:58 pm

Aqualung works with JACK. Deadbeef works with JACK with the JACK plugin loaded.

Once upon a time, just to play music through JACK, with gapless support, seemed to be a huge deal. Now it doesn't seem to be a big problem at all.

VLC, when I last looked (a while back) is not good, because it drops the connection whenever you stop play. Maddening. Hey, Audacity does that too: I don't know what some people think "JACK friendly" actually means!

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