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pulseaudio

The PulseAudio sound system daemon and manager. More information: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/.
  • Check if PulseAudio is running (a non-zero exit code means it is not running):
    pulseaudio --check
  • Start the PulseAudio daemon in the background:
    pulseaudio --start
  • Kill the running PulseAudio daemon:
    pulseaudio --kill
  • List available modules:
    pulseaudio --dump-modules
  • Load a module into the currently running daemon with the specified arguments:
    pulseaudio --load="{{module_name}} {{arguments}}"

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