PulseAudio AlternativesAudio Routers & Volume Control Tools like PulseAudio

PulseAudio is described as 'Sound server system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It integral part of all relevant modern Linux distributions and is used in various mobile devices, by multiple vendors' and is a Audio Router in the system & hardware category. There are five alternatives to PulseAudio for Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Linux Mobile. The best PulseAudio alternative is VB-Audio VoiceMeeter, which is free. Other great apps like PulseAudio are PipeWire, MIXLINE, AudioBus and Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.

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  1. VB-Audio VoiceMeeter icon

    VB-Audio VoiceMeeter

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    Voicemeeter is Audio Mixer Application endowed with Virtual Audio Device used as Virtual I/O to mix and manage any audio sources from or to any audio devices or applications.

    28 VB-Audio VoiceMeeter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    VoiceMeeter (Basic)
     

    • VB-Audio VoiceMeeter is the most popular Windows alternative to PulseAudio.

    • VB-Audio VoiceMeeter is the most popular free alternative to PulseAudio.

    • VB-Audio VoiceMeeter is Freemium and ProprietaryPulseAudio is Free and Open Source
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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, 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.

    7 PipeWire alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
     
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    PipeWire is a seamless drop-in replacement for PulseAudio that also handles JACK applications at the same time.

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    • PipeWire is the most popular Linux alternative to PulseAudio.

    • PipeWire is the most popular Open Source alternative to PulseAudio.

    • PipeWire is Free and Open SourcePulseAudio is also Free and Open Source
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    MIXLINE

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    MIXLINE is an audio mixing software that performs audio routing, mixing, and streaming. All bundled into a beautiful User Interface!.

    25 MIXLINE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    AudioBus

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    With Audiobus, the revolutionary new inter-app audio routing system, you can connect your Audiobus-compatible music apps together, just like virtual cables.

    19 AudioBus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    Not a low level audio server

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    • AudioBus is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to PulseAudio.

    • AudioBus is the most popular commercial alternative to PulseAudio.

    • AudioBus is Paid and ProprietaryPulseAudio is Free and Open Source
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    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    AlsaMixer
     
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