Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Alternatives

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is described as '(known by the acronym ALSA) is a free and open source software framework that provides an API for device drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are three alternatives to Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for a variety of platforms, including Linux, iPhone, BSD, iPad and Linux Mobile apps. The best Advanced Linux Sound Architecture alternative is PipeWire, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Advanced Linux Sound Architecture are PulseAudio and AudioBus.

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    PipeWire

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    PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It provides a low-latency, graph based processing engine on top of audio and video devices that can be used to support the use cases currently handled by both PulseAudio and JACK.

    7 PipeWire alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
     
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    a small clarification, PipeWire is not a full replacement for ALSA because ALSA is a kernel-level sound framework. What PipeWire can be a drop-in replacement for is ALSA's userspace library: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#does-pipewire-replace-alsa

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    PipeWire is a seamless drop-in replacement for ALSA that also handles JACK and PulseAudio applications at the same time.

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    • PipeWire is Free and Open SourceAdvanced Linux Sound Architecture is also Free and Open Source
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    PulseAudio

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    PulseAudio is a sound server system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It is an integral part of all relevant modern Linux distributions and is used in various mobile devices, by multiple vendors.

    6 PulseAudio alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
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    AudioBus

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    With Audiobus, the revolutionary new inter-app audio routing system, you can connect your Audiobus-compatible music apps together, just like virtual cables.

    20 AudioBus alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
    • iPad
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