jack_play_record

After looking for a convenient command line tool, that reliably played and recorded multichannel wave files in JACK, I came up short. So I wrote jack_play_record to fill that niche. If something robust already exists and I've missed it, please email me or file an issue to update the README.

Getting Started

To build the code, change to the jack_play_record directory on a linux system, and run

./build.sh

That should leave an executable in the same directory named jack_play_record

There are examples below, but the help text is pretty straightforward:

Usage: jack_play_record [OPTION...] [-p play.wav | -c chans -r rec.wav]
  -h,    print this help text
  -c,    specify the number of channels (required for recording)
  -n,    specify the name of the jack client
  -f,    specify the intended nframes for use with jack server
         note, that this will save on memory, but is unsafe if the
         jack server nframes value is ever increased
  -w,    wait until W ports have been connected before playing or recording

If you want to record a four-channel wave file named sweet_sounds.wav, where the jack client is named cool_client, you can issue the following:

./jack_play_record -r sweet_sounds.wav -c 4 -n cool_client

When that file has finished recording, you can play that same file back in to jack:

./jack_play_record -p sweet_sounds.wav -n really_cool_client

The order of the command line arguments is irrelevant.

Prerequisites

The build.sh script is very simple, but requires the following libraries

• libjack
• libsndfile
• libpthread

Authors

• Dave Crist

License

This project is licensed under the Unlicense License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to the developers of JACK, libsndfile, PortAudio and gcc
• Thanks to Spencer Russell for introducing me to the convenient pa_ringbuffer code