Re: [fluid-dev] Multiple jack clients == really bad

[David Henningsson]

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> While doing some testing of the MIDI parser, using the Jack MIDI driver, 
> I discovered that FluidSynth would semi-randomly lose connection with 
> Jack on startup.

Seems bad. I guess most people with Jack use the ALSA MIDI drivers, right?

> It seems Jack (at least 116.1) doesn't like to have multiple client 
> connections.  Currently the Jack audio driver and Jack MIDI driver 
> create separate client connections.  In addition, I discovered that 
> PortAudio will also create a Jack client connection when you initialize 
> the library.  In order to have the list of PortAudio devices in the 
> audio.portaudio.device, PortAudio is initialized even if it doesn't get 
> used.  We may be able to get around this by de-initializing the driver 
> at the end of getting the device list.

If it is causing trouble for more people than it solves problems for; we 
could consider disabling the PortAudio driver by default (i e people 
have to provide a configure switch to enable PortAudio).

> At any rate, some work cut out for me, to merge the JACK audio and MIDI 
> drivers.  I already kind of hacked it somewhat, but its a bit too messy 
> for my taste.
>
> Yet another status report, as we count down to the release of 1.1.0.  
> Any reports on testing would be greatly appreciated.  I'm trying to test 
> as much as I can, but its hard to cover every usage scenario.

From what I've tested it looks fine. Either that, or I try to fix it ;-)

// David