Selective routing of audio between applications

A computer system comprising one or more processing units and memory, wherein the computer system implements an audio management architecture, the architecture comprising:

• one or more interfaces configured to:
• receive a request to register a target audio application;
• and
• receive a request from a requestor audio application for audio content of the target audio application;
• and
• an audio playback/routing manager configured to, in response to the request from the requestor audio application for audio content of the target audio application:
• from a plurality of tap points associated with an audio system of the computer system and in communication with a master tap point, determine one or more tap points uniquely associated with the target audio application, the plurality of tap points associated with the audio system further comprising a tap point for the requestor audio application that is in communication with the master tap point, the master tap point being in communication with one or more audio endpoints;
• and
• cause output of the one or more tap points uniquely associated with the target audio application to be sent to the requestor audio application.