   Best file format using SDL_mixer
  Hi,I was just wondering what is most common file format that is used in cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and OSX) game developing and why? At the momment I'm using SDL_mixer for all audio purposes in my cross-platform game engine, and since it supports Microsoft WAVE files,Creative Labs VOC files as audio samples, MIDI files via Timidity, .MOD .S3M .IT .XM. via MikMod, Ogg Vorbis streams as music if built with the Ogg Vorbis libraries, and MP3 using the SMPEG library.To be honest I'm not very familiar with audio programming hence I'm using SDL_mixer since I'm using SDL for windowing and input :pFrom all the file format that SDL_mixer is able to load, MP3 and WAVE files are probably the only format that I'm familiar with although I've heard of MIDI before but that's about it.Please help,Dana   
Ogg Vorbis.The .ogg format is often preferred over .mp3 by game developers (especially hobbyists and indie developers) because it is unencumbered by patents. It is often used for music in games, and sometimes for sound effects as well.I'd say it's fairly common for games to use .ogg for music, and .ogg or .wav for sounds.   ;  Hi,So how can I create a .ogg file exactly? Also do you know any sound and audio libary sites for games, preferably free :PThanks,Dana   ;  Use oggenc.Another good reason for Vorbis is that it has a different, more human-friendly noise profile - when the bitrate gets way too low (I'm talking 30 kbit/s or less), you're not gonna hear metallic rattling like with an mpeg3, instead you'll notice a gradual drop in quality, starting with higher frequencies (like blurring, but with sound). This is good news if you really want to squeeze your orchestral soundtrack into a game for an embedded platform or something.   ;  You can probably find lots of utilities for transcoding into the ogg format. A Google search for "mp3 to ogg" or "wav to ogg" would be a good start.   ;Audacity the open source audio editor can export Ogg Vorbis.dBpoweramp has Ogg Vorbis codecs avaliable and convert several formats to ogg vorbis.   ;XRecode has a very convenient drag and drop interface for batch conversion of files, wav->ogg included.   