PlayControl Software

I am announcing the first public release of ALmixer.

ALmixer (which I sometimes call "SDL-OpenAL-Mixer" or "SDL_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, 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)

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My repo can be found at:
http://hg.assembla.com/SDL_sound_CoreAudio

The bulk of the new stuff is in coreaudio.c.

It works for both Mac OS X and iOS. Core Audio handles lots of different file formats like aiff, aifc, wav, mp3, mp4, aac, sd2, au, caf, 3gpp, 3gp2, ima, etc, so at least for Apple platforms we can shrink the dependencies a bit. And on iOS, we also get an additional potential benefit of hardware decoding for performance and battery life.