# Getting Volume from a Recorded Sound Programmatically **URL:** \ **Category:** FMOD Engine\ **Created:** [December 2, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/getting-volume-from-a-recorded-sound-programmatically/11746 "2014-12-02T21:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![nick1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@nick1](https://qa.fmod.com/u/nick1)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/getting-volume-from-a-recorded-sound-programmatically/11746/2 "2014-12-02T22:56:23Z")
The loudness meter isn’t usable from the public API at the moment. It’s designed to run and display it’s output in the studio tool. As you’ve discovered it’s data parameters are not in declared in any of our headers. I would look at this question [http://52.88.2.202/questions/question/microphone-input-playback](http://52.88.2.202/questions/question/microphone-input-playback) for info on using DSP::getMeteringInfo. --- _[View the full topic](https://qa.fmod.com/t/getting-volume-from-a-recorded-sound-programmatically/11746)._