Announcing SDL_mixer 2.8.0

slouken · January 21, 2024, 5:37pm

Thanks to all the people who contributed code and feedback, SDL_mixer 2.8.0 is now available!

In addition to lots of bug fixes, here are the major changes in this release:

Added support for loading wavpack sound files (https://www.wavpack.com/)
Added support for loading classic console sound files using Game_Music_Emu (GitHub - libgme/game-music-emu: Blargg's video game music emulation library, which allows audio applications to easily add playback support for the music of many classic video game consoles.)
Use minimp3 instead of dr_mp3 as the default backend for MP3 music
Use libxmp instead of modplug as the default backend for MOD music
To use libmodplug instead, configure using --enable-music-mod-modplug --disable-music-mod-xmp
Added support for FLAC audio in Ogg containers
Added Mix_PauseAudio() to pause and resume all audio playback
Added Mix_GetNumTracks() and Mix_StartTrack() for managing tracks in GME files

slouken · February 7, 2025, 9:22pm

A minor update with bug fixes has been released:

SeanOConnor · February 13, 2025, 11:40am

Using 2.8 with Android Studio gives this error:

C:/Work/Android/androidSDK/ndk-bundle/build//…/build/core/build-binary.mk:654: Android NDK: Module SDL2_mixer depends on undefined modules: wavpack
C:/Work/Android/androidSDK/ndk-bundle/build//…/build/core/build-binary.mk:667: *** Android NDK: Note that old versions of ndk-build silently ignored this error case. If your project worked on those versions, the missing libraries were not needed and you can remove those dependencies from the module to fix your build. Alternatively, set APP_ALLOW_MISSING_DEPS=true to allow missing dependencies. . Stop.

I’ve tried adding:

APP_ALLOW_MISSING_DEPS=true

to my Application.mk file, but Android Studio still says that wavpack is missing

SeanOConnor · February 15, 2025, 2:07pm

I’ve come up with a workaround for SDL_Mixer 2.8 not working on Android by commenting out all the lines for Wavpack and GME in its Android.mk file.

As far as I can work out it seems as if SDL_Mixer is meant to load these modules from some Git repository? I don’t know why this isn’t working?