pulseaudio

Install command:
brew install pulseaudio

Sound system for POSIX OSes

https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/PulseAudio/

License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/pulseaudio.json

Formula code: pulseaudio.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 17.0
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

glib 2.90.1 Core application library for C
libsndfile 1.2.2 C library for files containing sampled sound
libsoxr 0.1.3 High quality, one-dimensional sample-rate conversion library
libtool 2.6.2 Generic library support script
openssl@3 3.6.5 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
orc 0.4.44 Oil Runtime Compiler (ORC)
speexdsp 1.2.1 Speex audio processing library
gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library
meson 1.12.1 Fast and user friendly build system
ninja 1.13.2 Small build system for use with gyp or CMake
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: perl (build)

Binaries: pa-info, pacat, pacmd, pactl, pamon, paplay, parec, parecord, pasuspender, pulseaudio

Service:

Start now and at login: brew services start pulseaudio
Run directly: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/pulseaudio/bin/pulseaudio --exit-idle-time=-1 --verbose

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Installs (--HEAD)003
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