Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (known by the acronym ALSA) is a free and open source software framework released under the GNU GPL and the GNU LGPL that provides an API for device drivers for sound cards. As such, it is a Linux kernel component. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it has largely met. A couple of different frameworks, such as JACK, use ALSA to allow performing low-latency professional-grade audio editing and mixing.
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