How can the audio data being sent to the speakers be captured from an application?

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Published on 2010-03-13T08:32:33Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 11:35 UTC
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Is there an API that is suitable for doing this? A possible application of this is for writing a visualiser, and to play with real time signal processing.

EDIT: The operating system in question is Windows. On Linux, a roundabout way to accomplish this is with Jack, but I'm hoping for a way to read the data in the audio buffer without having to couple apps to Jack.

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