[Stk] RtAudio application/port name (for jack in particular)

[Stephen Sinclair]

Hello,

In a program I have written using RtAudio, I have mostly been using it 
with ALSA.  Recently I thought I'd see how it would work with Jack.  It 
works quite well!
One thing I noticed though is that the Jack device always shows up as 
"RtApiJack" instead of something meaningful with the application's name.

Would it be beneficial to add some mechanism to the RtAudio object to 
specify the application name?
It would be useful also for RtMidi, with the ALSA device name.  
Currently it just shows up as RtMidi Input or RtMidi Output.

By the way, a quick test just showed me that a very real problem with 
not having unique names for the Jack device is that when you run more 
than one application that uses RtAudio, only the first one shows up in 
the "Connect" dialog in qjackctl.  I guess ideally you'd not only want a 
unique name for the application, but also a unique name between 
instances of the same application.  Not sure how to approach that problem..

Another thing I noticed today is that sometimes I get some major 
clicking or other kinds of distortion if my application's buffer sizes 
don't match well with the Jack settings. Is this a common Jack problem?  
I haven't used Jack much, and certainly not with any non-RtAudio 
applications, so I have nothing to compare with.


Steve
ps., this post is just to get some opinions on the topic. I'll probably 
try it and post a patch sometime soon.