Squashed commit of the following:

commit 915c53e
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 19:12:57 2025 +0000

    Add game pause detection to OpenAL music system

commit e1906bf
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 18:53:59 2025 +0000

    Add MP3 support and soundtrack queue system

    Integrated dr_mp3 library for MP3 playback and extended CSoundtrackSystem to support MP3 files. Added soundtrack queue management, playback controls, and new console commands for queueing, skipping, clearing, and inspecting soundtrack tracks. Improved OGG loading robustness and refactored code for better error handling and state management.

commit d21a082
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 16:33:43 2025 +0000

    Re-add my fork of OpenAL with halflife fixes

commit ee9d82f
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 16:22:38 2025 +0000

    Remove OpenAL Soft

commit 6fab704
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 01:07:16 2025 +0000

    Add OGG soundtrack support and refactor audio system

    Refactored CWavPlayer to CSoundtrackSystem to support both WAV and OGG playback using OpenAL and libvorbis. Updated CMakeLists.txt to include ogg and vorbis libraries and headers. Replaced old command interface with soundtrack_play and soundtrack_stop commands, supporting looped playback. Updated initialization and shutdown logic to use the new system.

commit 0c76747
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 00:23:29 2025 +0000

    Add OGG submodules

commit 994aa79
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 00:15:59 2025 +0000

    Rename WavPlayer to SoundtrackSystem

commit cdc0e3f
Merge: 46bf742 f3affdb
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 00:11:57 2025 +0000

    Merge branch 'dev' into dev_openAL

commit 46bf742
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 00:07:03 2025 +0000

    Update CMakeLists.txt

commit fe0ab89
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 00:01:49 2025 +0000

    Downgrade OpenAL to 1.24.3

commit f329ad4
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 10 23:58:34 2025 +0000

    Update CMakeLists.txt

commit 17cdf52
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 10 23:55:46 2025 +0000

    Update CMakeLists.txt

commit 1d2357a
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 10 23:53:35 2025 +0000

    Update openal-soft

commit d7ef3d6
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Oct 13 20:19:29 2025 +0100

    Add OpenAL WAV audio playback support

    Introduces a new CWavPlayer class for WAV audio playback using OpenAL, with play and stop console commands. Integrates initialization and shutdown of the audio system into the client DLL lifecycle, and updates CMakeLists to include the new audio module.

commit d36ffa5
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Oct 13 17:55:24 2025 +0100

    Update openal-soft

commit d62e4dd
Author: Sabian Roberts <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Oct 13 17:54:43 2025 +0100

    Update CMakeLists.txt

Author: sabianroberts

.gitmodules

@@ -3,9 +3,16 @@
 	url = https://github.com/YaLTeR/discord-rpc.git
 	branch = xp
 	shallow = true
-[submodule "external/openal-soft"]
-	path = external/openal-soft
-	url = https://github.com/kcat/openal-soft.git
 [submodule "source_sdk"]
 	path = source_sdk
 	url = https://github.com/sabianroberts/hl1_source_sdk.git
+[submodule "external/ogg"]
+	path = external/ogg
+	url = https://github.com/xiph/ogg
+[submodule "external/vorbis"]
+	path = external/vorbis
+	url = https://github.com/xiph/vorbis
+[submodule "external/openal-soft"]
+	path = external/openal-soft
+	url = https://github.com/sabianroberts/openal-soft.git
+	branch = halflife

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,31 @@
 set(CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM 3.23)
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.23)
+set(ALSOFT_USE_CPP20_MODULES OFF CACHE BOOL "Disable OpenAL C++20 modules" FORCE)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_SCAN_FOR_MODULES OFF CACHE BOOL "Disable module scanning" FORCE)
+set(ALSOFT_UTILS OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(ALSOFT_TESTS OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(ALSOFT_EXAMPLES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+
+set(ALSOFT_INSTALL OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+
+set(ALSOFT_NO_CONFIG_UTIL OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+
+set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(OGG_BUILD_TESTS OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(VORBIS_BUILD_TESTS OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+set(VORBIS_ENABLE_DOCS OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+
+# Completely disable system OpenAL discovery
+set(OpenAL_ROOT "" CACHE PATH "" FORCE)
+set(OPENAL_LIBRARY "" CACHE FILEPATH "" FORCE)
+set(OPENAL_INCLUDE_DIR "" CACHE PATH "" FORCE)
+set(OPENAL_INCLUDE_DIRS "" CACHE PATH "" FORCE)
+set(OPENAL_FOUND FALSE CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+unset(OpenAL_ROOT CACHE)
+unset(OPENAL_INCLUDE_DIR CACHE)
+unset(OPENAL_LIBRARY CACHE)
+
+
 
 set(CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY "MultiThreaded$<$<OR:$<CONFIG:Debug>,$<CONFIG:SteamDebug>,$<CONFIG:HaloDebug>>:Debug>DLL")
 
@@ -163,6 +189,9 @@ add_subdirectory(dlls)
 add_subdirectory(game_shared)
 add_subdirectory(pm_shared)
 add_subdirectory(public)
+add_subdirectory(external/openal-soft)
+add_subdirectory(external/ogg)
+add_subdirectory(external/vorbis)
 add_subdirectory(source_sdk)
 
 get_property(SOURCE_FILES GLOBAL PROPERTY SOURCE_FILES)
@@ -181,6 +210,10 @@ target_include_directories(client PRIVATE
     engine
     external
     external/discord-rpc/include
+	external/openal-soft/include
+	external/ogg/include
+	external/vorbis/include
+    external/drmp3
     game_shared
     pm_shared
     public
@@ -287,5 +320,5 @@ target_compile_definitions(client PRIVATE
     -DCLIENT_DLL
     -DCLIENT_WEAPONS
     -DUPDATE_CHECK)
-
-target_link_libraries(client discord-rpc)
+	
+target_link_libraries(client discord-rpc OpenAL vorbisfile vorbis ogg)

cl_dll/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+add_subdirectory(audio)
 add_subdirectory(gameui)
 add_subdirectory(halo_weapons)
 add_subdirectory(hl)

cl_dll/audio/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+add_sources(
+			openal_wav.cpp
+			openal_wav.h)