Frequent Question: What Is Pulseaudio in Linux?
Contents Pulseaudio Is a Network-Capable Sound Server Program Distributed via the Freedesktop. Org Project. It Runs Mainly on Linux, Various Bsd Distributions...
PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project. It runs mainly on Linux, various BSD distributions such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD, macOS, as well as Illumos distributions and the Solaris operating system.
What is the use of PulseAudio?
Welcome to PulseAudio!
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.
Is PulseAudio needed?
You don‘t. It’s a piece of middleware that for most users is completely unnecessary. Most applications that need audio can use ALSA directly just fine.