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PulseAudio

PulseAudio is a sound server system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It is an integral part of all relevant modern Linux distributions and is used in various mobile devices, by multiple vendors.

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux  Widely used on Linux. Default sound server on Ubuntu.
  • BSD
  • Oracle Solaris
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  1.  Sound drivers
  2.  Mix Music
  3.  Audio Router

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This is great. I can use it to wirelessly stream music from my Linux computer although I'm having problems playing audio from videolan client for some reason

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  • brew install pulseaudio

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What is PulseAudio?

PulseAudio is a sound server system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It is an integral part of all relevant modern Linux distributions and is used in various mobile devices, by multiple vendors. It performs advanced operations on sound data as it passes between your application and hardware. Things like transferring audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count, or mixing several sounds into one input/output, are easily achieved using PulseAudio.