PipeWire Alternatives

PipeWire is described as 'project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are four alternatives to PipeWire for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Xfce. The best alternative is JACK Audio Connection Kit, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PipeWire are PulseAudio, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture and GStreamer.

PipeWire alternatives are mainly Audio Routers but may also be Codec Packs. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of PipeWire.

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PipeWire

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PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency,...

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JACK Audio Connection Kit
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Audio Router
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18 alternatives to JACK Audio Connection Kit
JACK is a professional sound server daemon that provides real-time low latency connections for both audio and MIDI data between applications that implement its API. The API can be used through either JACK1 or JACK2.
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1. Support for MIDIJACK Audio Connection Kit includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
Virtual Audio Cable
Connecting audio streams
Sound drivers
Multi Channel
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Macro Recording
PulseAudio
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Audio Router
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4 alternatives to PulseAudio
PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware.
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Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
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Linux
3 alternatives to Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (known by the acronym ALSA) is a free and open source software framework that provides an API for device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and...

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GStreamer
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Codec Pack
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9 alternatives to GStreamer
GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
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JACK Audio Connection Kit

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PulseAudio

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Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

GStreamer

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