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On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 19:22 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > But surely, the client IDs are a moving target. I want to connect

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> > to a specific instance of ZynaddsubFX, not to the program that was

> > the second one to get an ALSA ID...

> >

> > Am I missing something?

>

> i don't think so. but since, as dave pointed out, there is no

> particular mapping between client IDs and names, there's really no way

> to do this. i think. like i said, i consider the whole design totally

> FUBAR'ed. if you use numeric ID's you're screwed because the client ID

> may change; if you use names, you're screwed because you can't map

> reliably from names to the numeric ID's required by the API. that's

> how it looks to me, anyway.

Well, hang on... can't you force a client to take a particular ID?  You

can do that with the hardware addresses by specifying it in asound.conf

so your MIDI interfaces stay in the same place across reboots (otherwise

it's a race to see which interface initialises first).
Gordon MM0YEQ
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