Some thoughts I had about sound.

[Qantourisc]

isn't there already a 5 channels option for sound in Nexuiz ?

It's not really channel related ... but rather HRTF, early reserebs ... But still have a lot of work to do

[esteel]

Most games have a certain style of music and do not mix it. Granted most shooters have rock music, Nexuiz not. I prefer no music while playing so i can hardly comment on the music but the problem is indeed licensing the music. Nexuiz is completly free (gpl) including the content. Guess it was hard to find some matching songs that were allowed to become gpl. I know nowadays there is lots of CC music but is there anyone that wants to license a whole bunch of songs under gpl to be included in Nexuiz?

[Qantourisc]

one rule for me in games: no music ... because you don't hear what is going on then :p

[mehere101]

Does nex have the capability to have user defined playlist from around the harddrive, not from within the nex data folder? kind of the way that ut2k4 had the mp3 player built into it.

[esteel]

No it does not have such a thing currently and because of the way quake-engines interact with the filesystem its not (that easily??) possible to access a file Outside the main directory.. But on the other hand this is also a security plus

[Shoe]

It would be kind of cool, though, to be able to put symlinks/shortcuts to audio folders and have the game randomly play them back, if the user enables it in the options or something to override the game's soundtrack.

[Tei]

Is Nex using OGG files? Is that a good idea? will be WAV be better? I guest is optimized, but anyway I query that.

[Ed]

Mostly OGG, some wav. It depends how you look at it. Not that much power is needed to decode a few seconds of OGG.

[esteel]

.wav is indeed better for smaller files/sounds while .ogg is better for the larger ones. Size and quality is ok with ogg for longer things like the music..

[C.Brutail]

Afaik fuhQuake can remote control winamp or xmms, so it might be an option to play music outside nexuiz.