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I'm working on a simple audio player, which is going quite well, using Qt and everything. But I'm in need of a solid but simple Audio library. I don't need anything fancy such as 3D sound and what do I know what else these things got nowadays. I'm just looking for something simple and efficient.

A list of features I'm looking for:

1. Audio playback from files
2. .ogg, .mp3 and .flac should be supported at the very least.
3. Should be able to pause playback.
4. I am planning to use it in C++

See. Nothing huge or anything, but at the same time I am having a hard time finding something suitable. The 开发者_开发百科platform I'm targeting is Windows 7.

Anyone out there that knows something that I might be looking for?

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The best possible choice in my opinion is the BASS audio library, which is not open source, but free for non-commercial use.

It is used by the AIMP2 audio player, which you can use to check the sound quality, natively supports a lot of formats including MP3 and OGG, and uses plugins to support even more, including FLAC.

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How about libavcodec ? Its LGPL. I'm not sure about ogg >_<

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I have used BASS before from a Windows C++ program, and it is very simple to use - link the DLL and call a couple of methods to specify the file to play back.

It certainly handles MP3 playback from a file as that's what I was doing.

I wish I could verify OGG and Flac, but alas I'm behind a firewall that has the site blocked.

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Miles is a good and commonly used audio library.

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Came across a good answer to my own question via an answer of another. FFmpeg is almost exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks all.

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I suggest Openframeworks or use of the rtAudio library - that openframeworks is using - directly. Oh, and on the side: rtAudio has pretty much no license restrictions. ;-) Correct me, if I'm wrong.

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DirectShow is actually pretty easy to use, flexible, and comes with Windows. There are a million examples, and it can be as easy or as sophisticated as you need it to be. When I throw together something that needs to play MP3s, I use it. Note that you are targeting Windows 7, so you could consider using Media Foundation instead.

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I use a C++ encapsulation of FFMPEG : FOBS
Easy to use and C++ :)

EDIT:

Fobs is no longer maintained. However you can use it as a starting point to make your own C++ encapsulation of FFMPEG.