Some audio backend cleanup / refactor#943
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…ary enum StandardDeviceName The StandardDeviceName enum was misleadingly *not* the name - the name only came from get_standard_device_name. Instead, simplify things, and just use two different trivial getters.
The description of is_realtime() did not match its actual use. And client_real_time_priority() did not have any description. It was hard to come up with good descriptions of what they actually did. Most backends returned true from is_realtime(), but every one except JACK used the default implementation of client_real_time_priority() that returned 0 ... which is exactly the same as when is_realtime() returns false. Just merge them and keep it simple.
The thing called backend_client_name defaulted to lowercase PROGRAM_NAME
and could be controlled with:
-c, --name <name> Use a specific backend client name, default is ardour
This value was *only* used for set_backend arg2 which only is used for
jack, where it was called session_uuid and passed to jack_client_open as
"a SessionID Token this allows the sessionmanager to identify the client
again" because JackSessionID.
It is certainly misleading to call it a uuid. It also doesn't seem
helpful to call it "client name" when the documentation calls it
"session id". And mostly: jack_client_open calls its *first* argument
"client_name" and it comes from argv1.
To clear things up, consistently call it something with "session id".
And it is not helpful to use a generic arg2 naming.
This parameter is consistently used to name the audio backend instance and how it appear as client of the sound server. Just name it `client_name`, consistent with the name of the jack_client_open parameter it is passed to .
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