This is a very simple introduction to a very simple API.Some basic concepts: Audiere has a C++ API. You, as a user, interactwith Audiere through a set of abstract classes (i.e. interfaces)defined in audiere.h. All Audiere objects are reference counted.This means that when you want to hold on to an object, you call ref()on it, and when you are done, you call unref(). To make this easier,Audiere provides a RefPtr class that calls ref() on construction andunref() on destruction. Otherwise, it acts just like a normalpointer, greatly simplifying your code. For even greater convenience,each interface type has an associated InterfacePtr type which is justlike RefPtr.Now, on to the good stuff...Make sure the Audiere header is in your compiler include path. EveryAudiere symbol is contained within the namespace 'audiere', so if youwant your code to be a little clearer, you can bring the entireaudiere namespace into global scope. #include using namespace audiere;You need to open an AudioDevice before you can play sounds... AudioDevicePtr device(OpenDevice()); if (!device) { // failure }Now that we have a device, we can actually open and play sounds. /* * If OpenSound is called with the last parameter = false, then * Audiere tries to load the sound into memory. If it can't do * that, it will just stream it. */ OutputStreamPtr sound(OpenSound(device, "effect.wav", false)); if (!sound) { // failure } /* * Since this file is background music, we don't need to load the * whole thing into memory. */ OutputStreamPtr stream(OpenSound(device, "music.ogg", true)); if (!stream) { // failure }Great, we have some opened streams! What do we do with them? // let's start the background music first stream->setRepeat(true); stream->setVolume(0.5f); // 50% volume stream->play(); // now play a sound effect sound->play();When you are done using Audiere, just let the RefPtr objects go out ofscope, and they will automatically clean themselves up. If you really_must_ delete an object before its pointer goes out of scope, just setthe pointer to 0.That's it! Look in audiere.h or the doxygen documentation fordescriptions of the remaining interfaces and methods.