Which cross platform C++ sound API do you recommend?

FMOD is free for non-commercial use and Is really easy to use compared to the other free/open source alternatives. OpenAL is a bit harder to use, from what I saw. I also used SDL_sound and its very easy to use.

I would suggest either FMOD or SDL_sound.

I think he's stating that it IS for commercial/shareware use so FMod might not be worth the money.

Also, I don't know if the ModPlug library used by SDL_sound has been ported to Linux yet. If you're just using a music module player and some simple pitch-shifting audio, I'd recommend the MikMod library directly rather than wrapping it in SDL_sound. That should save some memory and still be portable to many operating systems. It also is LGPL like SDL_sound so there should be no license conflicts.

Ya our game is a small scale MMO. It's not really shareware but it's not a full commercial title either. Obviously a huge jump for the $100 license to the full $6000 one for FMOD.

So no one is using IrrKlang? I guess maybe only Irrlicht users would be interesting in using that library.

Thanks for the input so far. It's appreciated.

OpenAL is free and on there are a couple of pretty good tutorials on devmaster.net. That would be my choice..

There is also Audiere: http://audiere.sourceforge.net/

And there's BASS.

I am using IrrKlang right now. I was using DX sound but that went the way of the dinosaur. I was going with OpenAL, but I don't feel like messing with coding the multi-threaded self buffering sound code it would need, though it wasn't too hard to get working. IrrKlang does the multi-threading for you, so I chose it instead, and it wasn't that hard either. $150 isn't really all that much to pay for the commercial license either, especially considering that Irrlicht itself is free(which I also use). For example, I believe the indie license for Torque Game Engine Advanced(the newer one) from garagegames.com is $250 last I checked, though it is much more mature and proven than Irrlicht. I happen to like Irrlicht myself though, and members of the Irrlicht community have made scenenodes that combine Irrlicht scenenodes with IrrKlang sound.

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Original post by kburkhart84 I am using IrrKlang right now. I was using DX sound but that went the way of the dinosaur. I was going with OpenAL, but I don't feel like messing with coding the multi-threaded self buffering sound code it would need, though it wasn't too hard to get working. IrrKlang does the multi-threading for you, so I chose it instead, and it wasn't that hard either. $150 isn't really all that much to pay for the commercial license either, especially considering that Irrlicht itself is free(which I also use). For example, I believe the indie license for Torque Game Engine Advanced(the newer one) from garagegames.com is $250 last I checked, though it is much more mature and proven than Irrlicht. I happen to like Irrlicht myself though, and members of the Irrlicht community have made scenenodes that combine Irrlicht scenenodes with IrrKlang sound.

Thanks

I use OpenAL and I've had good experiences with it. The API is structured similar to OpenGL's so if you have an OpenGL background it may be a good choice.