Ive been looking into methods for using sounds in my newest game. I looked at OpenAL and I dont want to have to include the installer for it. Sound Manager seems to be becomming fast outdated and i kind of wanted to avoid it. Quicktime playback also seems like a nightmare waiting to happen.

I then came across some old post here about FMOD (http://www.fmod.org/) and it looks pretty good, although does anyone have a carbon(xcode) example of this so i can look through how to get it working correctly? Anyone use it recently? Good/Bad Experinces?

Thanks!

I used it in Chopper (objC) and my current game which is C++ / SDL. I found a few problems with mod playback in Chopper, and I can't seem to get mp3s to loop seemlessly, but other than that I'm happy. Really easy so set up streaming mp3 or do things like modify frequencies of looping aifs for engine sounds etc.

There aren't really any gotchas just add libfmod.a, fmod_errors.h and fmod.h to your project, #include "fmod.h", call FSOUND_Init, load a sound with FSOUND_Sample_Load, then FSOUND_PlaySound to play. It should just work.

David

Well I guess thats it then =p

Thanks for the help david.

Ok well i got it working easy enough and all. It works fine from compiling within xcode but when i run it outside of xcode the sounds dont play at all. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Want to look at my code?

Heres my code for the interested,

#include <fmod.h>
#include <fmod_errors.h>

FSOUND_SAMPLE *samp[10];

void initSounds()
{
if (!FSOUND_Init(44100, 32, FSOUND_INIT_USEDEFAULTMIDISYNTH))
{
printf("Error!\n");
printf("%s\n", FMOD_ErrorString(FSOUND_GetError()));
}

int i;

for (i = 0; i <10; i++)
samp[i] = 0;

samp[0] = FSOUND_Sample_Load(FSOUND_UNMANAGED, "../drumloop.wav", FSOUND_NORMAL | FSOUND_NORMAL, 0, 0);
FSOUND_Sample_SetMode(samp[0], FSOUND_LOOP_OFF); //turn off looping for this track
}


void playSound(int i)
{
FSOUND_PlaySound(FSOUND_FREE, samp[i]);
}

kodex Wrote:I looked at OpenAL and I dont want to have to include the installer for it.

You don't have to. You can bundle the framework in the application. FMOD has licensing issues, and I've heard a lot of people like OpenAL better. I haven't used FMOD myself, so I don't know how they compare, but my experience with OpenAL has been very good. I'd highly recommend at least trying it. Even if you don't end up using it for the final product, it's good to know what your options are.

- Alex Diener

I fixed my issue it was path related. Sorry for making people look through my code =p

ThemsAllTook Wrote:FMOD has licensing issues

Deny. FMOD is free for free stuff, ~$100 for shareware and expensive for truly commercial applications. You just have to read the fine print; in reality it's very affordable.

im using it, its really easy to use, i made a test on PC too and it work well
nice to do cross platform game with sound

in my case it worth buying it
im using OGG vorbis playback streaming from the HD (not loading the music in memory) and the loops are nice, no strange sound poping at the end of the loop