[ANN] ALmixer: A library built on top of OpenAL to make playing sounds and streams easier

I announced this on the SDL mailing list a few days ago and forgot
that people here might be interested too.

I am announcing the first public release of ALmixer (v. 0.1.0)

ALmixer is a cross-platform audio library built on top of OpenAL to make
playing and managing sounds easier.

ALmixer provides a simple API inspired by SDL_mixer to make playing
sounds easy with having to worry about directly dealing with OpenAL
sources, buffers, and buffer queuing directly.

ALmixer currently utilizes SDL_sound behind the scenes to decode
various audio formats such as WAV, MP3, AAC, MP4, OGG, FLAC, etc.


This library is targeted towards two major groups:

- People who just want an easy, high performance, way to play audio
(don't care if its OpenAL or not)

- People who want to an easy way to play audio in OpenAL but still
want access to OpenAL directly for effects.

Here's a code excerpt which hopefully conveys what the library is trying to do:

ALmixer_Data* background_music =
ALmixer_LoadStream("background_music.mp3", ALMIXER_DEFAULT_BUFFERSIZE,
ALMIXER_DEFAULT_QUEUE_BUFFERS, ALMIXER_DEFAULT_STARTUP_BUFFERS,
AL_FALSE);

ALmixer_Data* laser_blast = ALmixer_LoadAll("laser_blast.ogg", AL_FALSE);

// Fetches any available al source (param=0) and plays music, looping
infinitely (param=-1)
ALuint background_music_source = ALmixer_PlaySource(0, background_music, -1);

// Plays the laser blast on any available al source
ALuint laser_blast_source = ALmixer_PlaySource(0, laser_blast, 0);


ALmixer is under the LGPL license.

I have setup a website containing more information, Doxygen
documentation, and a link to the Mercurial repository. Go here to
learn more:
http://playcontrol.net/opensource/ALmixer

Thanks,
Eric
-- 
Beginning iPhone Games Development
http://playcontrol.net/iphonegamebook/
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