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jakoni
jakoni

Reputation: 11

Capture playing sound

I would like to build a program that can catch sound played on Mac OS X, either all sound or from individual programs. Is that possible? I've been reading a lot of documentation but have not found much that looks useful. It could be that I'm just looking in the wrong direction. Can it be done and are there a specific group of APIs that I should focus on?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 212

Answers (1)

alexis
alexis

Reputation: 50180

Haven't tried it, but the idea would be to direct all sound output to an audio "device" (a kernel component) that allows it to be captured. According to this page, you can do that with soundflower.

If you want to do it programmatically, I'd install the soundflower driver and look into controlling it from your program.

Upvotes: 1

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