alsamixer is a graphical mixer program for the
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is a software framework and part of the Linux kernel that provides an application programming interface (API) for sound card device drivers.
Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were ...
(ALSA) that is used to configure sound settings and adjust the volume. It has an
ncurses
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces (TUI) in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" ...
user interface and does not require the
X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting wit ...
. It supports multiple
sound card
A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs. The term ''sound card'' is also applied to external audio i ...
s with multiple devices.
See also
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Aplay
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Softvol Softvol is an Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) Plug-in (computing), plugin that adds a software based Loudness, volume control to the ALSA audio mixer (alsamixer). This is helpful when a sound card does not have a computer hardware, hardwar ...
References
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External links
Alsamixer - ALSA wiki
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
Linux audio video-related software
Software that uses ncurses