PulseAudio
Sign in to savePulseAudio 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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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio
- Image
- PulseAudio GUI.png
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- Commons category
- PulseAudio
- software version identifier
- 17.0
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio
- inception
- 2004-07-17
Sources (7)
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- 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.