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