pulsemixer is a terminal-based audio mixer for PulseAudio. It provides both an interactive curses interface and a command-line mode, allowing you to manage sound devices and individual application streams without opening a graphical control panel.
The interactive interface brings together playback devices, recording devices and audio streams. You can adjust volume levels, mute audio, select default devices and move application streams between outputs. Individual channel volumes can be controlled separately or locked together.
The interface supports keyboard and mouse operation, with configurable shortcuts, colours and display characters. pulsemixer is implemented as a single Python file and does not require third-party Python libraries.
It can also be used in scripts to query or change audio levels. On Linux systems using PipeWire, it can work through the PulseAudio compatibility service.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Interactive curses interface for controlling PulseAudio devices and application streams.
- Adjust volumes and toggle mute for sinks, sources and audio streams.
- Control individual audio channels or lock their volumes together.
- Move playback and recording streams between compatible devices.
- Select default audio inputs and outputs, and change device ports and card profiles.
- Supports keyboard navigation, mouse interaction and configurable shortcuts.
- Customise interface colours, volume bars and displayed stream names.
- Offers command-line operations for querying and changing volume and mute states.
- Implemented as a standalone Python script without additional Python library dependencies.
Website: github.com/GeorgeFilipkin/pulsemixer
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Developer: George Filipkin
License: MIT License
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Related Software
| Terminal-Based Audio Mixers | |
|---|---|
| wiremix | Simple TUI audio mixer fort Pipewire |
| pulsemixer | CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio |
| ncpamixer | ncurses mixer for PulseAudio inspired by pavucontrol |
| PAmix | ncurses/curses PulseAudio mixer written in C |
| pacmixer | PulseAudio tool similar to alsamixer |
| RsMixer | PulseAudio volume mixer |
| alsamixer | Terminal-based mixer for the ALSA sound system |
| pulseaudio-mixer-cli | Control PulseAudio volumes and audio devices from the terminal |
| pipemixer | TUI volume control software for pipewire |
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