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A friend asked me what is the prefered "libraries" to handle soundcards (e.g. generate sounds, write a custome player,...) for Linux and Windows (could be different).
As I'm not a PC coder and my poor experience was to scream against SDL_Audio, I'm sure there are people here who can have good advices.

Thanks !

Hum, sorry, he'd like to use the same lib for Win & Linux...

BASS.

BASS.

BASS.

Stand on the stage and hum loudly when your entry is up.

Just in case Shazz thinks we're all "just being Pouet" to him, I guess I should point out that BASS is indeed an audio library, and not just an awesome word to shout: http://www.un4seen.com/bass.html

I like FMOD.

openal?

visy obviously likes 43hz demos!

visy: If you like capping your FPS at 43, sure.

Use BASS. Really.

HivelyTracker replayer ;-)

visy: FMOD also suffers from crackling sound and glitches on a bit too many PC configurations.

Uh, that's ugly :P

Guess I'll be ditching FMOD then. Do the newer FMOD Ex versions also suffer from that stupidity?

Thanks guys... looks that BASS makes everyone happy :)

Rasmus, are you using openAL ? Could it be considered as the OpenGL for audio or something dead ?

OpenAL follows the same type of C-style interface afaik. It's not dead, not by far, but it's got it's share of problems.

yeah bass will do the trick ;-)

Also always used BASS for Windows stuff.

Audiere as a latency of 10ms and tends to crash sometimes, but for music playback only, recompiling the whole thing with fresh libs(not the ones included in zip file) solves the problems, still.. it's a 300Kb dll with ogg lib only :(

If you want audio for demos just use this: http://nothings.org/stb_vorbis/

xernobyl: A decoder alone isn't enough...

Launch a thread with a sound loop. Not that hard.

Seriously though, there's probably nothing wrong with bass..

Sure, but it's rather silly to spend time on that and potentially limit yourself when you want more features (effects, timing tools, different formats et cetera). BASS or any complete sound library takes care of all that for you, and not taking advantage of that better have a good reason.