A smartphone in a coffee can sounds better than my speakers. But a free Linux app helped make them sound better without new ...

AV Linux MX Edition is available for download now and won't cost you a penny to use. With tons of audio software and extremely low-latency, this OS is ideal for audio creators. Video creation is still ...

While the downstream Asahi Linux kernel has offered working speaker support and headset jack capabilities on Apple Silicon Macs, the mainline Linux kernel hasn't supported this functionality. But a ...

I have a friend who has had nothing but nightmares result from his attempts at setting up the fabled low-latency high-performance Linux audio system. In sympathy with his plight I present here a ...

As a sound server for Linux, Pipewire 1.4 addresses music production requirements with an extended JACK API and MIDI 2 and contains new codecs. The new version of the ...

Linux has always been a great operating system for programmers. Since the late 90s, however, there’s been a big push to make Linux more attractive to people that don’t have Mountain Dew addictions.

Audio systems in Linux are terrible. You’ve never known true pain until you’ve tried to set up a recording or broadcasting workstation running Linux. I did, twenty years ago, and nothing has changed ...

Linux audio may be confusing for the uninitiated. As a system that has evolved and spawned at least two independent branches over time it tends to produce results that surprise or irritate the user.

Around that time, David Henningson, one of the core PulseAudio developers, resigned from the project. He cited frustrations over the daemon's poor fit for the sandboxed-applications use case, and its ...

The contemporary DAW—digital audio workstation—is a system of hardware and software parts assembled to record, edit, and play digital audio and MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data.

The 2nd annual Linux audio software conference took place again at the wonderful ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnology) in Karlsruhe, Germany, from April 29 through May 2. Last year's conference ...