JACK audio

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2017–2023), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with JACK audio, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Hard to organize and connect audio routing in its interface2023-10-02
Audio interface splits into wrong channels, needing many manual PulseAudio fixes and config commands2022-12-20
PulseAudio and JACK don't cooperate, so routing YouTube audio into Renoise requires fiddling with session management2022-03-13
Can't get JACK to run, and PulseAudio's latency is too high for Bitwig2021-02-07
Much fiddlier to set up than on Windows or Mac2021-02-07
Setting up JACK from scratch can get crazy complicated2017-09-22
Can't get play/pause in one application to start the other2017-05-16