jackd, amarok/xine, and pulseaudio on Intrepid 8.10
SOLVED: JACK support for Amarok?
LSA contains a JACK plugin, which enables ALSA-only applications to output to JACK using ALSA's emulation plug. First, make sure that alsa-jack is installed. Usually, it comes with alsa-plugins when its jack USE flag is enabled.
LASH is a session management system for JACK and ALSA audio applications on GNU/Linux.
jack.plumbing maintains a set of port connection rules and manages these as clients register ports with JACK. Port names are implicitly bounded regular expressions and support sub-expression patterns.