bastibe/PySoundCard

System audio recording?

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janleskovec commented

Can you record the audio that is being played to the speakers aka. "what you hear"? Is that on Linux and Windows? I am asking this because I'm developing: http://supercode.co.nf/ .

bastibe commented

As far as I know, you can not. Portaudio, the C library we rely on, does not support this. On Linux, you could use my newer library SoundCard, which on Linux uses pulseaudio, and exposes this feature: Use all_microphones(exclude_monitors=False), and look for a sound card with the same name as your default speaker.

The audio libraries of the other operating systems do not (easily) support this feature, as far as I know.

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janleskovec commented

Thanks for the reply. I'll look into SoundCard. I was just curious because I was using Windows's WASAPI and up to this point and I was able to record system audio without a problem. If I won't be able to use SoundCard for my project I'll try to write my own wrappers for WASAPI and ALSA for QT.