[casual_games] Audio Engines

[Lennard Feddersen]

I've been using audiere which supports Ogg Vorbis format and is free.   
I occasionally hear some sound mixing artifacts but other developers 
I've talked to have had no complaints.

Lennard Feddersen
CEO, Rusty Axe Games, Inc.
www.RustyAxe.com

Lennard at RustyAxe.com
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Allan Simonsen wrote:

> We use BASS; pretty happy with it, the price is right,

> and the MO3 (compressed MOD) support is nice.

> Essentially allow high-quality, low-size music files,

> assuming the musician is happy with the format.

>

> Also has decent OGG support... it's one of those

> things that I really don't want to worry too much

> about..

>

> Allan

>

>

> --- Kane <kane at somatone.com> wrote:

>

>   

>> Any other audio engine options?

>>

>>

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>> From: Paul Brobst <brobst at speakeasy.net>

>> Reply-To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

>> <casual_games at igda.org>

>> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:31:51 -0800

>> To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

>> <casual_games at igda.org>

>> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Audio Engines

>>

>> http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/744/744595p1.html

>>

>> I don't know how relevant 3D sound is to casual

>> games, but OpenAL is

>> positioned as the solution to move to for Vista if

>> you want any hardware

>> acceleration.  DirectSound doesn't sound like a

>> great option anymore.

>>

>> -Paul

>>

>> Chris Dillman wrote:

>>     

>>>> I've heard OpenAL is buggy and not as compatible

>>>>         

>> as DirectSound.

>>     

>>>> I wouldn't use it, at least not yet.

>>>>     

>>>>         

>>> Well its has been shipping in different forms in

>>>       

>> many games on Mac

>>     

>>> and windows for some years now.

>>>

>>> There are private and public OSS versions of the

>>>       

>> lib.

>>     

>>> Apple for instance ships one with the last few

>>>       

>> versions of the OS.

>>     

>>> There have been complaints that version is not

>>>       

>> thread safe.

>>     

>>> If you use a OSS version you are free to fix any

>>>       

>> bugs that show up.

>>     

>>>

>>>   

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