Yesterday, I set out to accomplish the challenge of loading and playing a sound from a file.

So far, my attempts have resulted only in silence... rather disheartening after all the effort

it took to get everything to build and run cleanly.

I currently take the following steps:

- Load samples from file into an IOCArray using hsndfile

- Create an OpenAL buffer which points to the IOCArray

- Play sound using OpenAL

code is at: http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=13836

I'm wondering if anyone who is familiar with these libraries can tell me if I'm using them

sanely or not.  Alternatively, if anyone has a favorite sound library and can help me get

started with that, I'd be very grateful.

-Matt