Record Android Audio Output

Many people are asking for this, no one seems to have an answer so I do neither.

How is it possible that some apps serve the function to record the audio output of the android system? Everything I am finding is the very same tutorial on 1432 different sites where you can record MIC input. I don't care about mic input, I want the audio output and just can't imagine how to access it.

If everyone can get me on the right way, I would be so happy.

Seems to be currently there is no way to achieve this.

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The closest API available to you for these purposes is Visualizer. Which only captures "partial and low quality audio content".

I imagine direct audio capture functionality is omitted to prevent pro-piracy apps. It may be worth noting that there is a CAPTURE_AUDIO_OUTPUT permission, but it is "Not for use by third-party applications". So if you really do have legitimate apps that are capable of this, as you claim, they are likely system apps. Even if you wrote an app that generated its own musical sequences, for example, you would still have to write your own encoder/decoder to achieve anything close to what you're asking for (and that wouldn't even be considered audio capture at that point.)

To put it bluntly, it's currently impossible without breaking any ToS with Google or your phone provider, and will probably remain so indefinitely.

In Android 10, they have introduced Audio Playback Capture API using which we can capture the Audio being played by other applications. But it's not available in previous android versions.

An app X can also prevent any other app from listening, if that app hasn't added any constraint then this API can be used.