MP3 playback for Prometheus

[WILL]

I'm more so for completely free options than Bass myself. Bass is great for freeware games, which any beginner would be doing, however as development gets more serious and beginners become novices, this choice in mp3 playback may scare away potential continuing usage of the game library once all the basics have been learned.

Even as beginners, us independent developers let our heads get big at the start. We all want to be able to release the next big thing and small things like shareware license fees can seem like large limitations so we will seek out newer alternatives. That's kind of what it was like in the days of DelphiX before 3D hardware acceleration was put in. Other game libraries were first spawned because of this missing feature.

[arthurprs]

Also, there is a LGPL alternative for BASS http://audiere.sourceforge.net/

[code_glitch]

could anyone suggest a good tutorial.example of how to use mpg123 or OpenAl?

[chronozphere]

I believe Noeska had a tutorial, but I can't find it anymore.

Edit: Maybe you'll find this interesting: http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...ghlight=mpg123

[code_glitch]

In terms of help, I much appreciate the above. I've thought it over and I think I am going to go with the support ogg and wav and all formats that are GPL-Happy and include a tool to convert .mp3 and other proprietary formats. Thanks for all the help, I think I have plenty more work to do on the Audio unit until the next release.

cheers,
code_glitch

[paul_nicholls]

I believe Noeska had a tutorial, but I can't find it anymore.

Just go here:
http://www.noeska.com/doal/

and follow the tutorial links...

cheers,
Paul

[chronozphere]

I know where to find Noeska's tutorials. I just recall that there was one covering MP3 playback, but I can't find that one.

[code_glitch]

'Noeska's tutorials' - I'm getting a lot of these as responses. However, there is one thing I inherently dislike: I've never, like ever, worked with lazarus or delphi... This is rather quite problematic when trying to understand a concept I don't understand at all. Even with the comments and etc. It's making life veeeery difficult. Especially when my only experience with that sort of application development is with Visual Basic.Net 2010 Beta (which I hate and dont use any more)... Apart from that, the new Prometheus_Audio based on (oh hell) OpenAl is now only capable of playing WAV. Lets hope you don't need better compression on audio files.

Anyway, until I figure this mess of Delphi, Lazarus, C and C++ code along with the vorbis and ogg stuff, prometheus is a bit dead in the water. But hey, I might've seen worse.

cheers,
code_glitch