Hi. I'm trying to check that I have jack properly installed by using alsaplayer.

I can start jackd OK:

% jackd -d alsa -d hw:0 -r 44100
jackd 0.98.1
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

loading driver ..
apparent rate = 44100
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead

I can run alsaplayer OK:

% alsaplayer mountain.mp3

[plays music]

However, I can't get alsaplayer to play sound through jack.

% alsaplayer -o jack mountain.mp3
cannot connect to jack server
cannot connect to default JACK server
jack: server not running?
Failed to register plugin: /usr/local/lib/alsaplayer/output/libjack_out.so
Failed to load output plugin "jack". Trying defaults.

I do have jackd running. I haven't used jack before, so it is entirely possible that I'm
doing something utterly stupid :-)

Any hints?

Thanks in anticipation,

Ross-c