Get system volume (Sound level) in linux using Python

Question

I am using Fedora 16 and modifying a program in python 2.7.

How do I get the systems volume (Sound level)?

Likely depends on if the system is using alsa, pulseaudio, or OSS (not likely since alsa has OSS compatibility). Good luck. — jordanm, Jul 19 '12 at 02:57
Kindly refer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1936828/how-get-sound-input-from-microphone-in-python-and-process-it-on-the-fly — Learner, Jul 19 '12 at 05:31

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 17 '22 at 09:48

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For ALSA, use pyalsaaudio

For Pulse, its a bit raw. There are ctype bindings

edited Oct 17 '22 at 09:48

Sam Mason

answered Jul 19 '12 at 05:06

Burhan Khalid

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '12 at 03:12

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If you are using ALSA, you can run 'amixer' to dump the state of all volume controls. For PulseAudio, I believe 'pacmd dump' should get similar info. (see http://blog.waan.name/pulseaudio-setting-volume-from-command-line/ )

answered Jul 19 '12 at 03:12

Luke

To apply this answer in Python, you would just use a system call, e.g. popen or similar. – lxop Jul 19 '12 at 03:17

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