Essentially linux used OSS back in the day than OSS changed its licence so linux had to find something new in a hurry, enter ALSA which was not at all ready but pretty good, not as mature as OSS or as featureful but it did a good job within its limits, which is where Jack and Pulse come in. All of these have overlap but they are not quite the same thing. PipeWire, Jack and PulseAudio are more user level and communicate with ALSA or OSS. ![]() Still happy to be schooled ALSA and OSS are low level/tied into the kernel. TLDR: I'm not sure why anyone would want to use Jack on a Mac. If that's not your cup of tea, don't install it! Finally, it's worth noting that Jack doesn't come with an uninstaller, so to get rid of it you have to manually remove files from /usr/local and below, and the list of files can be found on one of the windows of the installation package if you scroll down. RE that first point, I'm tentatively concluding that an audio app has to be Jack-aware (like Pd) in order for it to be routed by Jack, which isn't a requirement of other loopback drivers like Soundflower or Blackhole. I've seen 2 tutorial videos on Mac audio loopback where you can see that the presenter has Soundflower installed in addition to whatever loopback software they were demonstrating, so that makes me scratch my head. Soundflower is obsolete Jack is currentĮdit: I can confirm the 2nd through 4th bullet point but not the first and last. ![]()
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