About playing sounds....

xKlibur · Post by **xKlibur** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:43 am

Does irrlicht handle sounds playing in a game or do i have to use native C++ functions for that?
thanX

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:53 am

irrlicht is a graphics library only, you'll need an audio library.
audiere is a popular choice.

xKlibur · Post by **xKlibur** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:48 am

Thanx, but i can't find any tutorial on the site...I need to know how to implement the audiere to code to play a sound "sound.wav".

cpprules · Post by **cpprules** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:49 am

I have tryed audiere and it sucks. FMod Rules!!!!!!
it is very simply to use, and has much more suported formats( like midi ),
and on varius platforms.
Praise FMOD...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:06 am

Why does "Audiere suck" exactly? for basic load and play of sound effects and music (ogg etc)??

And more to the point - FMOD is NOT FREE for commercial games - $1000 a pop IIRC??

cpprules · Post by **cpprules** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:08 am

Audiere doesn't support MIDI which is most important to me 'cause i make old console style rpg's which must have midi. FMOD has a better documentation, forums, much more platforms are supported. And i'm not planing to make a commercial game.

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:32 am

They don't get any easier than Audiere.

Code: Select all

using namespace audiere;

#pragma comment(lib, "audiere.lib")

//initialize audio in main

   AudioDevicePtr audiereDevice; 
    OutputStreamPtr stream; 

    audiereDevice = OpenDevice(); 
    if (!audiereDevice) 
     return 1; 

    stream = OpenSound(audiereDevice.get(), "sound.wav", true); 
    if (!stream) 
     return 2; 

    stream->setRepeat(false); 
    stream->setVolume(0.5f); // 25% volume 
    stream->play();

cpprules · Post by **cpprules** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:50 am

// well...
#include <fmod.h>

int main()
{
FSOUND_Init(44100, 32, 0);
FMUSIC_MODULE* Song;
Song = FMUSIC_LoadSong("hell.mid");
FMUSIC_PlaySong(Song);
return 0;
}

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:37 am

Yes, Audiere is preatty helpfull for playing backgound music and menu sound, etc.
For in game sounds you should use a 3D-audio lib, like FMod or OpenAL (my prefered lib) !!!

Audiere is that simple structured, taht there is only a little text file as dokumentation includet...

Reiyn · Post by **Reiyn** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:00 pm

Fmod is only one DLL while Audiere seems to need about 4 or so... =/
Also I can get Fmod working easily with Dev-CPP however Audiere doesn't like DEVCPP

I am curious though, getting FMOD to load an mp3 from a .zip is really convoluted and complicated enough I haven't figured it out or found support here on the forums for it.

... Can Audiere easily read zipped sound files? (ie: utilize the file structure of Irrlicht?)

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:23 pm

If you can get fmod working easily, use it.

Audiere uses 1 dll. Don't know where you get 4 from, and it compiles with dev-cpp without a problem.

Personally, I will be using openal tho. It's a better and more complete library.

cpprules · Post by **cpprules** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:02 am

FMod has a better community. But I would never even think of it if Audiere supports MIDI. And not just that, When Audiere loads a Sound Sample it can't be reloaded any more, and it can't work with arrays.

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:42 am

Where is the legal documentation for OpenAL??

I want to use it for 3d sound eventually since it seems to be the best choice for potentially commercial games but I can't seem to find the info about the license

cpprules · Post by **cpprules** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:07 pm

I've found this on wiki:

OpenAL is open source and released under the terms of the Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) and as such is free to use and develop with.