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@thefool:
it wasnt a stupid question... sorry if you interpreted it as such a one... btw, stupid questions dont exist... just only stupid answers... (from a chinese luck cake)

Sorry then, but i hope my stupid answer answers it then

Audiere is probably our best bet because:

- It's free
- It's open source
- It's portable across platforms
- The un-needed portions can be removed from the source to reduce size

All we need is for someone with reasonable knowledge in this area to adapt a PB library to use Audiere (instead of Midas) as an 'official' sound library/mod player. (I'll check to see if this hasn't already been done by someone!)

That said, fmod has some really nice advantages over the others:

- It's quite robust (stable)
- It potentially has a very small footprint (If this is important to you)
- It uses the least amount of CPU processing time (usually less than 1%)
- It's chock full of aforementioned features
- miniFmod is basically free (source code included) and has already been adapted to PB and works quite well

So, can someone have a look at Audiere and adapt it to PB in a transparent sort of way?

Maybe we could even take up a reasonable collection and pay THAT person for their efforts if it's really good Personally, I'd like to see mod playing and mp3/FLAC/Ogg etc in separate libraries to keep unnecessary code out of the final executable (if, for example, you only are interested .xm playing and are content with PB's built-in ability to play Ogg files, etc).

Russell

I thought Audiere is abandonware now ... ?

Also, what copyright limitations do FMod have? I havent found anything in the docs where it infringes on people's copyright of their applications?

Not copyright issues, but licensing issues: Namely, money. It's reasonable if your app\game is freeware or shareware but goes up quite a bit if your program is commercial (up to many thousands of US dollars).

Audiere, on the other hand, is totally free, even for commercial applications.

miniFMod is essentially free, but is missing 90% of the functionality of Fmod (or Audiere for that matter). If module playing is all you need, then miniFMod is certainly worth looking into, otherwise, I'd say Audiere. Check out its website to see all it can do:
http://audiere.sourceforge.net/

Russell

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=19865

Under GNU GPL. (more to come is coming for pb sound system)