NEW BERN, N.C.—Wheatstone will introduce a Linux audio driver for its WheatNet IP audio network during the 2025 NAB Show, April 5-9, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The driver, the company’s ...

Getting sound configured in Linux can be a nightmare. Rescue is on the way in the form of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Jim McIntyre is here to walk you through installing and configuring ...

Wheatstone will show a new Linux audio driver for the WheatNet IP network at the NAB Show. “The audio driver enables bidirectional audio streaming over the WheatNet IP network and is the latest ...

In my last installment of this series I introduced a variety of GUI-based tools that can help you discover more about your system to help identify potentially troublesome components. This week we'll ...

Update: I tried the OSS trial drivers, and they improved XMMS and esd apps, but Sim City 3k was still bad and quake 3, which was running well, didn't work.

Many Firefox users on Linux were left without the ability to play sound in their browser after updating to Firefox 52, released last week. The issue at the heart of this problem is that Mozilla ...

Linux audio has a reputation for being confusing at best and downright broken at worst. Between PulseAudio, ALSA, and JACK, the experience has often depended on trial and error, along with a lot of ...

Once upon a time (and it wasn't that long ago), if you wanted to do real, low-latency work with audio on Linux, you faced serious trouble. That's no longer true. PipeWire 1.0, an audio/video software ...