PulseAudio 16.0 Released With A Variety Of Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PulseAudio 16.0 Released With A Variety Of Improvements

While PipeWire continues gaining traction for fulfilling the audio management roles long handled by PulseAudio, the PulseAudio project itself continues progressing and successfully evolving its mature code-base. Out this weekend is PulseAudio 16.0...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PulseAudio-16.0

[archola]

> PulseAudio's pactl command can now dump information in JSON format

Better late than never, I guess. Had to write a parser for pactl's custom output format for a sink-switching utility I created six years ago or so. That was not particularly nice because of lots of weird text indentations...

[microcode]

> PulseAudio's pactl command can now dump information in JSON format

Better late than never, I guess. Had to write a parser for pactl's custom output format for a sink-switching utility I created six years ago or so. That was not particularly nice because of lots of weird text indentations...

I mean, could you not have used the Pulseaudio API? It's not that bad lol.

[microcode]

I wonder how long PulseAudio will be maintained, it's been replaced by default on my machines with PipeWire for a while now.

[ClosedSource]

I wonder how long PulseAudio will be maintained, it's been replaced by default on my machines with PipeWire for a while now.

Obviously till no more applications need libpulse at compile time.

[caligula]

I mean, could you not have used the Pulseaudio API? It's not that bad lol.

Not really a realistic option for bash scripts.

[caligula]

I wonder how long PulseAudio will be maintained, it's been replaced by default on my machines with PipeWire for a while now.

Both are still equally useful for normal users who don't have low latency requirements.

[microcode]

Obviously till no more applications need libpulse at compile time.

Are there any that aren't working with PipeWire Pulse left?

[timofonic]

Both are still equally useful for normal users who don't have low latency requirements.

Please define normal users. There are issues with PulseAudio other than low latency.

[Wtay]

Are there any that aren't working with PipeWire Pulse left?

No, but they all use the pulseaudio client library (libpulse). PipeWire pulse only replaces the server part of pulseaudio.