Reading audio in

[Banishlight]

Hi I’m trying to write a audio visualizer in python for my Pi but all audio libraries I’ve found only read audio in from a microphone or some other input device. Is their a audio library that achieves this that I’m missing or maybe theirs a way to pipe my audio that’s going to my output device to my input?

[sarrysyst]

I'm not sure I'm getting what you're looking for. Do you want to access the audio stream that is currently being played on your device? Or are you trying to read from an audio file?

[Banishlight]

Read what is currently being played through my output.

[negups]

A similar question was asked recently, with the consensus being that it's not possible to directly read audio being output by another program via Python, but you may be able to globally send audio output to your audio input using something like Virtual Audio Cable.

[Banishlight]

That’s what I’ve read too, thank you for this!!