Configuring Sound on Linux/Pulse Audio/Pulse apps

A typical PulseAudio distribution comes with numerous different programs. Refer to the man pages for more information. All official PulseAudio applications are prefixed with pa.


 * paplay
 * Plays wavs and select other audio files. This is not an mp3 player.


 * pacat : Plays and records streams
 * PulseAudio alternative to aplay


 * pasuspender
 * Permits another device to access the sound device directly. Typically this is used for applications that can not plug into pulseaudio.


 * pactl
 * Controls the running pulseaudio server/daemon.


 * padsp
 * Creates a dsp and other devices for a transparent abstraction of a non-existent device.


 * pacmd
 * PulseAudio shell into pactl