Capturing Window's audio in C# Capturing Window's audio in C# windows windows

Capturing Window's audio in C#


This is called loopback recording, and it is possible in Windows. If you have a soundcard that supports loopback (I just checked on my low-end Toshiba laptop, and it doesn't) you can record straight from the loopback device using the waveInOpen etc. API, which is easy to use in C#. Note: recording audio in this way necessarily entails a reduction in quality, since the audio signal is converted to analog for output and then re-digitized to support the loopback interface.

If you don't have a soundcard, WASAPI will let you do this. I suppose WASAPI can be used with C#, but it looks painful.


I'm a bit tardy to the party, but CSCore has a pretty great library for managing windows audio events in C#.

This in particular looks like what you're wanting. http://filoe.github.io/cscore/sharpDox/1.2.0-release/#type/WasapiLoopbackCapture