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Pipewire

pipewire.org

PipeWire is a Linux project focused on improving audio and video handling on the platform. It provides a low-latency, graph-based processing engine for multimedia devices, supporting use cases previously managed by PulseAudio and JACK. The project includes a security model designed to facilitate audio and video access for containerized applications, with primary support for Flatpak. It supports audio and video capture and playback with minimal latency, real-time multimedia processing, multiprocess content sharing, and compatibility with PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA, and GStreamer applications.

Effects

github.com

Easy Effects is a Linux audio effects application for PipeWire that provides plugins including limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and autogain. It was formerly known as PulseEffects and was renamed after adopting GTK4 and native PipeWire filters, later ported to Qt, QML and KDE/Kirigami. Users control the order of effects. Some effects require separately installed plugin packages.

AudioSource

github.com

Audio Source is a tool that forwards Android microphone audio input to the PulseAudio daemon through ADB, allowing an Android device to be used as a USB microphone. It consists of an Android app and a client script for a GNU/Linux machine with Android SDK Platform Tools, PulseAudio or PipeWire with PulseAudio support, and Python 3.

AV Linux

bandshed.net

AV Linux MX Edition is an MX Linux-based distribution customized for content creators. It uses the Enlightenment desktop environment and includes a low latency Liquorix kernel, MX Linux tools, PipeWire, and audio and video applications such as Ardour, Kdenlive, Cinelerra-GG, GIMP and Inkscape. The system is available only in 64-bit architecture and is provided free of charge.

CatNip

github.com

catnip is a terminal audio visualizer for Linux/Unix, macOS and Windows. It supports audio backends including ALSA, AVFoundation, DirectShow, Pipewire, PortAudio and PulseAudio, and can print raw frequency-bin output to stdout.

NoiseTorch

github.com

NoiseTorch is a real-time microphone noise suppression tool for Linux systems. It supports PulseAudio and Pipewire audio servers, and its open source code is hosted on a public GitHub repository.

Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens and other desktop components using QtQuick, usable alongside a Wayland compositor or window manager. It is configured in QML, loads changes as they are saved, and ships integrations including networking, notifications, system tray and Pipewire modules.