How can I get the title of the currently playing media in windows 10 with python

Question

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.

Answer 1

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