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Re: Help with monitoring system-wide audio
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Re: Help with monitoring system-wide audio


  • Subject: Re: Help with monitoring system-wide audio
  • From: Jeff Moore <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:34:52 -0800

No, there isn't any service or API that does what you want. That is not to say it is impossible. There are ways to do it that have various pros and cons. In general, the main way others have attempted this task is to use the various audio driver APIs to create a fake device that can funnel the data to your application for metering and then your app can mix and send the data to the real hardware.

On Nov 26, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Bob Smith wrote:

I'm trying to create a Cocoa application which can monitor audio output level system-wide. I just need to display a basic audio level meter, but it has to respond to anything being sent to the default audio device from any application. The monitoring application itself won't be generating or processing audio, just displaying the level. Is there any way to query the audio system to get the necessary information? I've been studying documentation and searching list archives, but I'm not finding anything that seems relevant, or maybe I'm just not "getting it". I'm a newbie as far as the audio APIs go, I've done a fair amount of Cocoa development but this is my first attempt at anything audio-related (beyond just telling NSSound or QuickTime to play an audio file).



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Jeff Moore
Core Audio
Apple


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