PulseAudio

Sound server for Unix-like operating systems PulseAudioScreenshotDevelopersLennart PoetteringPierre OssmanShahms E. KingTanu KaskinenColin GuthrieArun RaghavanDavid HenningssonRelease17 July 2004; 22 years ago (2004-07-17)Stable release17.0 / 12 January 2024; 2 years ago (2024-01-12) Written inCOperating systemFreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Illumos, Solaris, macOS, and Microsoft Windows (not maintained)PlatformARM, PowerPC, x86 / IA-32, x86-64, and MIPSTypeSound serverLicenseLGPL-2.1-or-laterWebsitepulseaudio.orgRepositorygitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio 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. It was created in 2004 under the name Polypaudio but was renamed in 2006 to PulseAudio. P