OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, is a joint effort to create an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform API for interactive, primarily spatialized audio. OpenAL's primary audience are application developers and desktop users that rely on portable standards like OpenGL, for games and other multimedia applications. OpenAL is already supported by a number of hardware vendors and developers [L1 ].
For more specific developer information, see the Documentation [L2 ] section. To obtain SDK and Installer from Creative Labs (for Windows platform) , see the downloads [L3 ] section.
Also could check: Wikipedia article on OpenAL
OpenAL Soft is an LGPL-licensed, cross-platform, software implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API.
ray2501: tclopenal is a study for Linux open source Audio library. Try to use OpenAL to play music.