pulseaudio — The PulseAudio sound system daemon and manager. More information: <https://manned.org/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 {{[-k|--kill]}}

List available modules

pulseaudio --dump-modules

Load a module into the currently running daemon with the specified arguments

pulseaudio {{[-L|--load]}} "{{module_name}} {{arguments}}"