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pulseaudio

brew install pulseaudio v17.0 GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause

Sound server daemon that manages audio input/output across POSIX systems and applications.

Why you might care

PulseAudio acts as a central audio hub, allowing multiple applications to share sound devices with mixing, volume control, and routing. It's essential for desktop audio workflows on Linux and some BSD systems. Primarily needed as a runtime dependency for GUI apps and media tools that expect a modern audio server rather than direct device access.

Categories

daemon audio-tool

Alternatives

ALSA OSS pipewire sndio

10.6k

30-day installs · #348

37.8k

90-day · #326

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Runtime dependencies

glib libsndfile libsoxr libtool openssl@3 orc speexdsp gettext

Build dependencies

gettext meson ninja pkgconf

Links

https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/PulseAudio/
Brew formula source: Formula/p/pulseaudio.rb

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