PulseAudio

What is 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. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server.

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Features Vote on or suggest new features

• Sound drivers
• Mix Music
• Audio Router

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• Top positive comment  over 1 year ago • 0 replies

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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Categories

System & Hardware • Audio & Music

Platform details

Linux: Widely used on Linux. Default sound server on Ubuntu.

Tags

• system-audio
• Volume control
• audio-manager

List containing PulseAudio

Linux Apps

PulseAudio

Links and Download

 Official Website

Other

Ubuntu Software Center

PulseAudio

Summary

Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about PulseAudio, and it has gotten 15 likes

• Open Source and Free product.
• 4 alternatives listed

Popular alternatives

• 1VB-Audio VoiceMeeter
• 2Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
• 3PipeWire

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PulseAudio was added to AlternativeTo by JamesJRH on Jun 30, 2011 and this page was last updated Jan 22, 2022.

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