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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.

Key facts

Software.name
PulseAudio
Software.logo
Pulseaudio-logo.svg
Software.screenshot
PulseAudio GUI.png
Software.caption
Screenshot
Software.latest release version
17.0
Software.programming language
C
Software.operating system
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Illumos, Solaris, macOS, and Microsoft Windows (not maintained)
Software.platform
ARM, PowerPC, x86 / IA-32, x86-64, and MIPS
Software.genre
Sound server
Software.license
LGPL-2.1-or-later

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PulseAudio GUI.png
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Commons category
PulseAudio
software version identifier
17.0
inception
2004-07-17
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13 sections
Contents
  • Support for Microsoft Windows
  • Software architecture
  • libcanberra
  • libSydney
  • Features
  • Adoption
  • Problems during adoption phase
  • Related software
  • Other sound servers
  • General audio infrastructures
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

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.

PulseAudio is free and open-source software, and is licensed under the terms of the LGPL-2.1-or-later.

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