Getting individual windows application current volume output level as visualized in audio Mixer
You can use CSCore. There is a wrapper for the CoreAudioAPI-Audiosessions. Use something like that (for more details take a look at the unittests: AudioSession-UnitTests):
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (var sessionManager = GetDefaultAudioSessionManager2(DataFlow.Render))
{
using (var sessionEnumerator = sessionManager.GetSessionEnumerator())
{
foreach (var session in sessionEnumerator)
{
using (var audioMeterInformation = session.QueryInterface<AudioMeterInformation>())
{
Console.WriteLine(audioMeterInformation.GetPeakValue());
}
}
}
}
Console.ReadKey();
}
private static AudioSessionManager2 GetDefaultAudioSessionManager2(DataFlow dataFlow)
{
using (var enumerator = new MMDeviceEnumerator())
{
using (var device = enumerator.GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(dataFlow, Role.Multimedia))
{
Debug.WriteLine("DefaultDevice: " + device.FriendlyName);
var sessionManager = AudioSessionManager2.FromMMDevice(device);
return sessionManager;
}
}
}
To control an applications volume, take a look at the unit-tests here.
Here is a sample application which displays the audio levels from running applications in a graph. There are two versions, one in WPF and one in Windows.Forms. They use the method from Florian's answer to get the audio levels.
https://github.com/jeske/SoundLevelMonitor