What is a good way to play background music in a game on the Mac? I need start, stop, volume control and maybe panning.

I know that AVAudioPlayer is available on Lion, but for earlier versions (10.5 and after), I'm looking at Audio Queue Services. Is this the right way to go?

Meanwhile, I'm using OpenAL for sound effects. Are there any possible conflicts with these two?

Thanks.

Any reason not to use OpenAL for both? Since you're already using it for sound effects, it seems to me like it'd be the logical choice.

The thing is I haven't done OpenAL Buffer Queuing before and I'm pressed for time. But now that you mentioned it I might actually go for that. Thanks.

Give cocodenshion a try. Took me about 1 minute to set it up, and 1 minute to data drive all my audio

Does it do low latency sound effects also?

(Sep 6, 2011 01:11 PM)ipeku Wrote:  Does it do low latency sound effects also?

yes (though I personally have not tried it for that)

sounds good. I researched a little and it's supposedly built right on top of OpenAL. Still, I wasn't sure where to get the official package. Is there a central place to get it or a forum of people using it (if I run into trouble)?

thanks!

grab cocos2d. it comes with it

I'll check it out. Thanks!

I finally went for OpenAL both soundFX and music. It took me 6 hours to get the streaming going and I'm glad I did that. It's pretty simple in the end.