Sound in C++?

[racefreak]

OK, I know some people say it's not so good, but I do use Bloodshed's Dev-C++, and it fulfills my purposes just fine. But the thing I want to do is add sound to my C++ program, and I am currently using Allegro. I am unable to use Playsound, and OpenAL is too sophisticated for my needs. I just need a simple library, that's library, that can allow me to at least play .wav and .mp3 sound files. This is just for background noise/music, not for some open-area 3D game. If anyone can point me in the direction of a good sound library that IS NOT Playsound or OpenAL, that would be very, very helpfull. Thank you.

[Peter87]

Can't you use Allegro for the sound?
http://wiki.allegro.cc/index.php?title=Allegro_5_Tutorial/Addons/Audio

[eraggo]

It is not your IDE's problem that you can't play sounds.

Code is thing that matter and how you compile it (#includes) :) I think there is some way to determine compiler arguments in dev-c++ but i don't know how.

Take your time to understand peter's answer

[Dy7SLyTq]

sfml

[racefreak]

I found SFML to be too complicated. Mainly because it's both audio and graphics, and I already use Allegro. My current Allegro version is 4.1, and I don't think audio is supported in that version, so I might try to update it. If not, I found a seemingly good one called PortAudio. Thank you for your suggestions!

[MrHutch]

Surely you can just #include <SFML/Audio.hpp> ...?

You don't need to use it for graphics.

[racefreak]

Yes, but the download is for both, and i don't want space taken up with unneeded stuff, and PortAudio seems to be quite fine

[Dy7SLyTq]

openAL?

[Disch]

He already said he's using PortAudio and it's working for him.

[modoran]

Use BASS library, works on windows, linux, etc most games uses it, it is free, has example code and it is only a small DLL of about 100KB:
http://www.un4seen.com/