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This library provides a cross-platform 3D audio API. It simulates multiple sound sources moving in a 3D environment, rendered from a single listener's perspective, for gaming and audio apps.
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  • Pros

    • Cross-platform 3D audio API support.
    • Models audio sources moving in 3D space.
    • Supports multiple buffers containing audio data.
    • Attaches buffers to multiple spatial sources.
    • Renders audio from a single listener's perspective.
  • Cons

    • Supports only a single listener per audio context.

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2.1.0.0
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Windows
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  • Windows 8
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
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Get a library that models a collection of audio sources moving in a 3D space.
OpenAL is a cross-platform 3D audio API appropriate for use with gaming applications and many other types of audio applications.

The library models a collection of audio sources moving in a 3D space that are heard by a single listener somewhere in that space. The basic OpenAL objects are a Listener, a Source, and a Buffer. There can be a large number of Buffers, which contain audio data. Each buffer can be attached to one or more Sources, which represent points in 3D space which are emitting audio. There is always one Listener object (per audio context), which represents the position where the sources are heard -- rendering is done from the perspective of the Listener.


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