@Matlib Did you do any more work on this?

No, I'm busy with other projects for the time being.

I think steam looked up for pulse or pipe by default and might mix them up in some games...
Try setting environment variable or running steam with SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa or STEAM_RUNTIME=0

There is the files with pulseaudio settings for alsa... if those exist.

/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/50-pulseaudio.conf
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/51-pulseaudio-probe.conf

Hope it helps.

My setup

@Matlib Did you do any more work on this?

Latest release has come a long way from when I started this. It is at a point that I'm happy with and it seems to be working good. Now I've got the features I wanted on top of jack (bluetooth and connecting apps that don't support jack, except steam it doesn't work with steam). And all without having to use a terminal. Thanks again greenjeans for sharing your code.

All the chat bot code is there for all to see, use and improve if anyone is interested. You can download the code or latest release here https://sourceforge.net/projects/jack-bridge/ or here https://github.com/rations/jack-bridge/releases

There are some UNTESTED versions for openrc on Arch and Debian and also runit for Void in the github branches. They are a few commits behind the master branch. I'll get the chat bots to update them to the latest release soon.

Added an expander to the mixer controls so now you can can collapse or expand everything in the gui.

This is on mate.

I'm not a fan of steam as you don't own anything you buy but it has been a great challenge trying to get alsa or jack to work with it and apart from rebuilding steams runtime to support it there must be a way. If any of the alsa only guys out there play games on steam it would great if you could share how you do it?

Also created a tar.gz file so you don't have to clone the repo. It's on sourceforge here  https://sourceforge.net/projects/jack-bridge/  or on github here https://github.com/rations/jack-bridge/releases

I think together we are doing some great stuff on this forum in the area of sound, really looking forward to the future, once I have some stuff squared away I want to join you guys in working more with Jack, I have a lot of reading to do first though, lol, i'm still a noob pretending to be a programmer.

I had trouble with this. jack-bridge uses jack-connection-manager.c in the src files, jack-auto-connect in contrib/usr/lib/jack-bridge and jack-route-select contrib/usr/local/lib/jack-bridge/jack-route-select. They all work together with greenjeans mxeq.c. There could be something in there that helps. Also as greenjeans suggested check out his code he actually knows what he is doing.

For bluetooth I am not sure. I got the chat bots to rebuild bluealsa without systemd. I left all that info in the repo as well.

@greengeans

I'm not sure about a mixer in xfce I only used yours when you showed me your gui. I have removed the eq part from jack-bridge now as when I try to add more features like surround sound, computer keeps saying no because everything goes through equal first.

As for heroes you're the hero mate, and modest to. I've been using vuudo mini and it's off the charts, you really know your stuff. I installed it on a laptop I bought for work 15 years ago which came with windows 7 and it was a piece of shit. I could never record anything in reaper without crackles and pops and vuudo handles recording my vsts running in wine easy. This thing has 4gb of ram and a cpu that by todays standards belongs in the bin. Seriously it does everything I need and your openbox config shits all over xfce, which I'm a huge fan of xfce. The only bug I've got is no sound when i switch to hdmi in alsatune, the screens a bit knocked around so i connect it to my tele with hdmi and use my audio interface for the sound which alsatune switches to and works.

What i installed in vuudo mini to have everything I need as an end user. Brave, reaper, yabridge, wine-staging, winetricks, libre office writer and openvpn. And the best bit, It's devuan 5. I know devuan team does a lot of work to keep up to date but bookworm is where it's at for me. Vuudo should be an offical devuan release it's awesome.

Re: Mate; It does want to pull in Pipewire when you uninstall Pulse, on mine I let it do so, then I uninstalled Pipewire and it didn't complain or try to make me install Pulse again. But the problem I had with Mate is that it still has it's own built-in mixer, which works fine with Alsa, but does take over sound, so my EQ was a no-go as was all my volume sliders but main. Really dug in there too, I was able to remove it with some effort but doing so took out some other important functionality.

Does XFCE have it's own built-in mixer?

There may be some code in AlsaTune that might help, I included the source code in a separate tar.xz so folks can mess with it:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … /AlsaTune/

Unreal mate, that's fantastic, great setup and that screenshot looks neat.

100% in agreement, really nice work Matlib!!

Loving it, i'm ever more convinced that pure Alsa+Jack is the way forward for complex sound set-ups, you guys are doing important work here.

1) Code that would reconnect an app to the same output it used before. Now whenever VLC changes track it switches back to the default output.

2) Adding devices automatically.

3) Bluetooth without dbus.