Welcome to PulseAudio!

What Is PulseAudio?

PulseAudio is a sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server.

PulseAudio has been tested on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It should also run on all other POSIX and Windows systems, but may require new backends to handle their sound systems.

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News

July 2008

• 2008-07-24: PulseAudio 0.9.11 has been released. (Changes)

April 2008

• 2008-04-08: Lennart Poettering goes into detail what's up next with PulseAudio's new glitch-free playback model.

March 2008

• 2008-03-30: PulseAudio 0.9.10 has been released. This is an important bugfix release. (Changes)

January 2008

• 2008-01-24: PulseAudio 0.9.9 has been released. The only change from 0.9.8 is a fix for CVE-2008-0008. An upgrade is highly recommended. (People using -NDEBUG should also check out this email.)

November 2007

• 2007-11-20: PulseAudio 0.9.8 has been released. This is a major feature enhancement release (Changes)
• 2007-11-02: Linux.com on PulseAudio

October 2007

• 2007-10-30: Don't miss this interview with Lennart which goes a bit into detail what's coming next for PulseAudio
• 2007-10-30: PulseAudio 0.9.7 has been released. This is a major feature enhancement release (Changes, announcement, blog); The Volume Control, Volume Meter, Preferences, Manager, gst-pulse, xmms-pulse have been updated, too.
• 2007-10-17: ars.technica on PulseAudio and GNOME
• 2007-10-12: Please read this blog story and the email linked therein about how GNOME and PulseAudio relate.

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