Check if audio playing with Python on Windows 10

Question

I'm working with Python 3.7 on Windows 10. I would like to detect if there is any audio playing on my computer or not. I was looking into win32api.GetVolumeinformation but I'm unable to get what I want.

When you control your audio you can see if there is a program playing and I want to achieve that.

Answer 1

Try this api using winrt: The enum options are listed here, but you can use mediaIs("PAUSED"), mediaIs("PLAYING") ect...

import asyncio, winrt.windows.media.control as wmc

async def getMediaSession():
    sessions = await wmc.GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSessionManager.request_async()
    session = sessions.get_current_session()
    return session

def mediaIs(state):
    session = asyncio.run(getMediaSession())
    if session == None:
        return False
    return int(wmc.GlobalSystemMediaTransportControlsSessionPlaybackStatus[state]) == session.get_playback_info().playback_status #get media state enum and compare to current main media session state

There are heaps more useful winrt APIs to control media on windows too here.