How to manage sounds using PulseAudio on Ubuntu 18.04 | Linux Today

How to manage sounds using PulseAudio on Ubuntu 18.04

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Sep 27, 2020

PulseAudio handles the sound that is emitted by your Linux application. It works like a proxy or a sound server which can manipulate the sound before it reaches your ears.PulseAudio has the ability to combine sounds from different sources (aka mixing). It can alter the sound format, decrease or increase sound channels, send the sound of one machine to another one.

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