Looking for a free playback library

[Firlefanz]

Squallsound is great stuff and totally free.
I use it for SFX and music with OGG.

But I am not sure if it plays midi

[Mirage]

Squall most likely will become commercial AFAIK.
I used Audiere in two commercial products as well as in my competition entry and had no problems.
The header I have is same as posted by Robert.
MIDI files can be played by OS services.

[Ingemar]

Bumping old thread on a subject that I find important.

I never heard of Audiere before, but it is out of the question for me since it has no Mac support.

What would you suggest for FPC friendly cross-platform audio? My main alternatives right now are SDL mixer and OpenAL. Any opinions about these? License, installation, usage? Other interesting alternatives?

[chronozphere]

Normally I would recommend OpenAL because it has a really nice API and it's cross-platform. But i just took a closer look at SDL-mixer and i must say that I'm impressed. It seems to support WAV, MOD, MIDI, OGG and MP3 out of the box.

They're both good options, but If you're allready using SDL for graphics and input, I'd definitely pick the SDL-mixer.