Whenever audio is playing in windows 10, whether it is from Spotify, Firefox, or a game. When you turn the volume, windows has a thing in the corner that says the song artist, title, and what app is playing like the photo below (sometimes it only says what app is playing sound if a game is playing the sound)
I want to somehow get that data with python. My end goal, is to mute an application if it is playing something I don't like, such as an advertisement.
I am getting the titles of the windows to get the song information. Usually, the application name is displayed in the title, but when it is playing a song, the song name is shown. Here is a function that returns a list of all the window titles.
from __future__ import print_function
import ctypes
def get_titles():
EnumWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumWindows
EnumWindowsProc = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(ctypes.c_bool, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int))
GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
IsWindowVisible = ctypes.windll.user32.IsWindowVisible
titles = []
def foreach_window(hwnd, lParam):
if IsWindowVisible(hwnd):
length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
titles.append(buff.value)
return True
EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc(foreach_window), 0)
return titles