[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Music

[rutger@xxxxxxxx]

> > My father is making music for freeciv under GNU/GPL. You can download the 
> > first sample at
> > http://elfesoft.linuxbox.com/freeciv/a.mp3
> > (760ko)
> > What do you think about that?
> > You must hear this sample in loop.
> 
> It is great. I am currently trying to implement sound support (wav files
> only) in freeciv, but I could try looking at mp3 loading as well. So far
> the only sound samples I have for testing is the civ2 originals (and
> frankly, they SUCK). If sound support is to be of any real use, we need
> new, free sound samples.

What did you use to implement this? I implemented a sound daemon 2
weeks ago, which could play multiple streams of samples together with
a module (.XM, .MOD) file using the MikMod library. Maybe we could act 
together.

> Of course, all sounds/music would have to go into an optional soundpack as
> a separate download...

I went to sunsite, which has got some free samples on their FTP
site. Some sounds I recognised as being used in GNOME :)

Regards,
Rutger.

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