[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Sound

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:52:29AM -0700, Samuel Weston wrote:
> I'm just returning to the mailing list and haven't
> been able to keep up with the current state of sound
> support in FreeCiv.  I'm interested in doing some
> sound programming but don't know what's been done yet.
> 
> Here are some of my current ideas (in order of
> priority):
> 
>   1) Write and integrate into FreeCiv a .wav player
> for background music, sound effects, etc.  Is there
> something out there already that could be adapted? 
> Should I use the OSS API? (I have a little wav player
> written using the OSS API, but I need to working on
> the timing sinc. It plays a 5 minut song in under 2
> minutes!! )
> 
>   2) Write a VERY simple mixer to play sound effects
> over a background sound track, i.e. dim the soundtrack
> when playing special effects sounds.
> 
>   3) Write support for other sound formats (au, etc.)

These 3 should be done by esd support.
esd should be available on all GNU/Linux machines and
it seems to be very easy to implement.

>   4) Support a play list feature for background music.
> 
>   5) Ear Candy: Write a mp3 player module so you can
> listen to your favorite songs while playing FreeCiv :)

Why can't you use external background music player ?
Any benefits of including such thing in freeciv ?