VLC and MusE

[topmusik]

played around with Audacity (due to the fact that I discovered the jack option, but will prefer Audacious, if I could ever check it) and wanna share;
Audacity connected with Jack -> sound ok; Audacity not listed in pavucontrol

If no changes made (one runtime of a song) Audacity and MusE have both sound, until any kind of change in Audacity
so this connections seems to be right:

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PortAudio in QJack is changing "out_XX" to:" out_X1" and next to: "outX2" etc. every time when change of the audio in Audacity
persistent patch in QjackCtl is active but, and what I learned here that there is the old out_XX saved

connections in this view can't be defined in more detail:

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[Impostor]

to see if you can get sound from pulseaudio into jack at all

you are right ! in FF there is sound as usual but silence as soon as Jack is started

the slider for silence in pavucontrol is not active / doesn't work
20240209%FFaudio.png

there is sound in Audacious and also silence as soon as Jack is started

Okay, so it seems Pulseaudio doesn't use pulseaudio-jack-sink as output device.

What if you run this command in a terminal?

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pacmd set-default-sink jack_out

Does that change things?

[Impostor]

PortAudio in QJack is changing "out_XX" to:" out_X1" and next to: "outX2" etc. every time when change of the audio in Audacity

Audacity does the same as VLC with creating and deleting jack ports on the fly. Highly obnoxious. If you're looking for a sample editor I'd recommend Ocenaudio instead. Has a much more user friendly UI too.

[sunrat]

PortAudio in QJack is changing "out_XX" to:" out_X1" and next to: "outX2" etc. every time when change of the audio in Audacity

Audacity does the same as VLC with creating and deleting jack ports on the fly. Highly obnoxious. If you're looking for a sample editor I'd recommend Ocenaudio instead. Has a much more user friendly UI too.

Curious. I actually like the new Audacity, currently using v.3.4.2 installed in Bookworm using the packages from MX repo (no telemetry). It's way better than the old 2.x versions including the GUI which used to be terrible. Sure the Portaudio outputs change on the fly but they always autoconnect to the right system outs as set in Preferences so it's not an issue.
I used Ocenaudio for a while as it was a little better than Audacity 2.x but now prefer the current Audacity.

Just for fun, I currently have Audacity playing through JACK and VLC playing through PA JACK sink at the same time.

@topmusik are you sure you have selected JACK sink from the dropdown menu in pavucontrol for VLC? You need to do it while playing something in VLC.

[Impostor]

Curious. I actually like the new Audacity, currently using v.3.4.2 installed in Bookworm using the packages from MX repo (no telemetry). It's way better than the old 2.x versions including the GUI which used to be terrible. Sure the Portaudio outputs change on the fly but they always autoconnect to the right system outs as set in Preferences so it's not an issue.
I used Ocenaudio for a while as it was a little better than Audacity 2.x but now prefer the current Audacity.

I'm not familiar with any newer Audacity versions. Tried it three or four years ago, and ran back screaming to Cool Edit, which is still my preferred editor, even though it's a 24 year old Windows version ( CEP 1.2a runs flawlessly in Wine). Ocenaudio seems to be designed on a Cool Edit template, so this would be my preference for a Linux native editor.

[Impostor]

I actually like the new Audacity, currently using v.3.4.2 installed in Bookworm using the packages from MX repo (no telemetry).

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firejail --net=none audacity

[sunrat]

I actually like the new Audacity, currently using v.3.4.2 installed in Bookworm using the packages from MX repo (no telemetry).

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firejail --net=none audacity

But Audacity MX version doesn't connect to the net.

[Impostor]

I actually like the new Audacity, currently using v.3.4.2 installed in Bookworm using the packages from MX repo (no telemetry).

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firejail --net=none audacity

But Audacity MX version doesn't connect to the net.

Yes, but with firejail --net=none no version does..

[topmusik]

experimenting i realized that pressing pause button (as parttime solution) didn't set back the connections.

What if you run this command in a terminal?

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pacmd set-default-sink jack_out

Does that change things?

That changed things !!! Yes !!! Yihaaa !!!
I thank you a lot or your help, your time and effort, You are great! May you have lots of musical inspiration

[Impostor]

Does that change things?

That changed things

Cool! Could've saved us the detour if we started out with that :)

[wintpe]

i also use ocenaudio, not audacity, its an excelent editor and xplatform.
regards peter