How to play multiple wxSound objects at once?

[Tapsa]

In my program I need to play up to four sound files simultaneously.
First problem I found is that wxSound is noncopyable, but I got over it only to find out that the documentation correctly says

If another sound is playing, it will be interrupted.

in the description of wxSound::Play, which I sadly noticed while testing my app.

[doublemax]

I haven't tried it, but if the documentation says so and your tests confirm it, i guess there is nothing you can do.

You could try to use a (hidden) wxMediaCtrl to play the sounds, although it sounds like overkill.

[Tapsa]

If I understand correctly, I will need separate wxMediaCtrl objects for the simultaneously playing sounds?

[doublemax]

Yes.

[Tapsa]

wxMediaCtrl seems to have no method to load media from memory.
I need a function similar to this:

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wxSound (size_t size, const void *data)

It looks like I am left to seek for alternative libraries outside of wx.
It turned out that I need mp3 support too, so mixing wave forms would not be enough.

[doublemax]

For playing WAV data you can use PortAudio: http://www.portaudio.com

It doesn't contain any decoders though, so you'll need another library for that.

[Tapsa]

TY. That lib (along with some decoders) seems to be a good way to go.

It's ridiculous that there is no one-liner library out there for such a simple thing as playing multiple sounds simultaneously.
Like this

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#include "one_liner_sound_library.h"
...
SoundLib::Play(/* some settings */);
SoundLib::Play(/* some settings */); // Both sounds can be heard

Something is wrong when you can write OpenGL program to show some nice graphics with less lines than write a program to play sound files.
/rant