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CLI based audio visualizer
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(OS X) Visualizing Stereo Output (from all applications) #43

Closed indfnzo closed 7 years ago

indfnzo commented 7 years ago

Related: https://github.com/dpayne/cli-visualizer/issues/41

Is it possible to visualize sound output (e.g. Spotify, Youtube running on Chrome, games, etc) on OS X? Currently stuck with the blank screen because I literally have no music on my laptop (mpd only plays local music and I stream all music).

Thanks :)

dpayne commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately there's no good way to do this. OS X's sound system is fairly sandboxed, only the kernel and the program outputting the sound can read the sound output. I was experimenting in a branch with a custom loopback service similar to https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/ but I couldn't figure out a way to do it that didn't require the user execute a lot of different steps.