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by Jasper_ 3207 days ago
We've been through this multiple times. WASAPI, MME, DirectSound on Windows. CoreAudio on Mac. Libraries like SDL_mixer, FMOD, Wwise. We know how to construct a sound API. There's 20 years of prior art.

If you provide a low-level "play" API, others can build stuff on top because it's just numbers. Sure, sometimes there's "expensive numbers" like MP3 decoders, FFTs, etc., but these can be added as needed.