My first experiences with Duke Nukem 3D were with EDuke32 ages ago. This was back when I was running Windows Vista, and while my memory is a bit lacking, I swear that I had working music then. Ever since I made the switch to Linux, I haven't had working music playback in EDuke. Frustrated at the fact that my past few years of Duke 3D have been devoid of all sound besides the screams of death and Duke's trash talking, I've finally decided to troubleshoot it.

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To start off, I'd like to say that I know very little about audio programming and digital audio in general. I've never formally studied signal processing, and hell, I haven't even started high school physics yet. This post merely documents what I've learned while trying to get sound working in my game, because there aren't really any other learning resources about this out there.

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