> No, I like it as stereo AND LtRt. The stereo part is the physical format > enum that plugs use to identify their acceptable formats. The LtRt part > would be additional information that the plug can simply ignore. So there > could be both a physical enum and an encoding enum: Disagree - in the same vein as wanting to fail when appropriate, connect LtRt to a Stereo plug is probably wrong. > physical enums > mono, stereo, 2.1, quad, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.2, N-channel... How is 2.1 different from 3?. All your "physical enums" are are channel counts. Certainly your host can ALLOW connections from unlike encodings, but in general it would be worthy of note. I think. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe