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PulseAudio

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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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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux  Widely used on Linux. Default sound server on Ubuntu.
  • BSD
  • Oracle Solaris
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Features

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  1.  Sound drivers
  2.  Mix Music
  3.  Audio Router

 Tags

  • audio-manager
  • system-audio

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PulseAudio information

  • Developed by

    US flagfreedesktop.org

  • Licensing

    Open Source (LGPL-2.1) and Free product.

  • Alternatives

    5 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about PulseAudio, and it has gotten 18 likes

PulseAudio was added to AlternativeTo by JamesJRH on Jun 30, 2011 and this page was last updated Jun 20, 2025.

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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

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.

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