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PulseAudio
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Developer(s)
Lennart Poettering
Pierre Ossman
Shahms E. King
Tanu Kaskinen
Colin Guthrie
Arun Raghavan
David Henningsson
Initial release
17 July 2004; 19 years ago (2004-07-17)[1]
Stable release
17.0[2]
/ 12 January 2024; 3 months ago (2024-01-12)
Repository
gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio
Written in
C[3]
Operating system
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Illumos, Solaris, macOS, and Microsoft Windows (not maintained)
Platform
ARM, PowerPC, x86 / IA-32, x86-64, and MIPS
Type
Sound server
License
LGPL-2.1-or-later[4]
Website
pulseaudio.org
PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project. It runs mainly on Linux, including Windows Subsystem for Linux on Microsoft Windows and Termux on Android; various BSD distributions such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS; as well as Illumos distributions and the Solaris operating system. It serves as a middleware in between applications and hardware and handles raw PCM audio streams.[5]
PulseAudio is free and open-source software, and is licensed under the terms of the LGPL-2.1-or-later.[4]
It was created in 2004 under the name Polypaudio but was renamed in 2006 to PulseAudio.[6]
PulseAudio competes with newer PipeWire, which provides a compatible PulseAudio server (known as pipewire-pulse), and PipeWire is now used by default on many Linux distributions, including Fedora Linux, Ubuntu, and Debian.[7][8][9]
German software engineer working for Microsoft and the original author of PulseAudio, Avahi and systemd. Interview with LCA TV interview with Poettering about...
way that PulseAudio improved handling of audio. Although a separate project from PulseAudio, Taymans initially considered using the name "PulseVideo" for...
LV2 – APIs for plugins PulseAudio – sound server for desktop use List of Linux audio software Comparison of free software for audio ASIO free alternatives...
Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises[clarification...
sndio, PulseAudio, JACK (low-latency professional-grade audio editing and mixing) and PipeWire, and higher-level APIs (e.g OpenAL, SDL audio, etc.) work...
In medicine, a pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the cardiac cycle (heartbeat) by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any...
competitor to PulseAudio, another sound server, and an indirect competitor to the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD). It is now common to use PulseAudio instead...
component. Audio Units PulseAudio "Core Audio Overview: OpenAL (Open Audio Library)". Apple Inc. February 11, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2015. "Audio and MIDI...
permissions to have access to resources such as Bluetooth, sound (with PulseAudio), network, and files. These permissions are configured by the maintainer...
processing for input and output audio streams with PulseAudio. FreqTweak, real-time audio processing with spectral displays. Linux Audio Developers Simple Plug-in...
highlights and also recursive searching. This release also trades the PulseAudioaudio controller for PipeWire and employs wireplumber as the PipeWire modular...
GNOME's Mutter), a desktop environment, a sound server (usually either PulseAudio or more recently PipeWire), and other related programs may be included...
input and output audio streams. The application originally used the Pulseaudio sound server as it allowed effects to be added to audio streams with ease...
comparison of free software for audio lists notable free and open source software for use by sound engineers, audio producers, and those involved in...
retrieved 2009-09-09 Release of sbc-1.1, BlueZ Project, April 30, 2013 PulseAudio 15 Released With Bluetooth Improvements, Better Hardware Support. Phoronix...
Daemon JACK Network Audio System PipeWire PulseAudio sndio - OpenBSD audio and MIDI framework Icecast SHOUTcast Introduction to Linux Audio RFC: GNOME 2.0...
through the update process. This version removed ALSA audio support from Firefox in favour of PulseAudio, something initially not mentioned in the Mozilla...
application using ESD. PulseAudio – prevailing sound server for Linux desktop use Sndio - sound server from OpenBSD JACK Audio Connection Kit – prevailing...
Linux system daemons, like e.g. journald, PackageKit, NetworkManager or PulseAudio. Settings – main interface to configure various aspects of GNOME. Diverse...
depend on its components, which is similar to the problems created by PulseAudio, another project which was also developed by Lennart Poettering. In a...
to client devices is provided through different open protocols such as PulseAudio for sound (playback and recording), NFS for file system access (using...
Recommended NetworkManager 0.7 or newer DBus 1.0 or newer GNOME 2.16 or newer PulseAudio X.Org 1.7 or newer libxtst 1.2.3 or newer macOS 10.15 or newer ESR: 10...
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