Remove limitation of of 256 sources about openal-soft HOT 2 CLOSED

If you request a higher number of sources at context creation, you can allocate more:

ALCint attributes[] = {
    ALC_MONO_SOURCES, 1024,
    0 /* end of list */
};
context = alcCreateContext(device, attributes);

You can then query the device with alcGetIntegerv to see how many ALC_MONO_SOURCES and ALC_STEREO_SOURCES are available. (OpenAL Soft treats all sources equally; it doesn't matter how many are set to be "mono" or "stereo", if you have a source you can play a buffer of any available channel configuration with it).

However, it's generally a good idea to use a dynamic source pool, where you have a pool of available sources and take a source when a sound needs to be played, and put it back when it's done playing, rather than assigning a source to an object for the lifetime of the object. Especially given a distance threshold (you don't need to play sounds that are far enough away that you can't hear them) and a priority system (where more important sounds can preempt/stop less important ones and take their source if there are none available), you won't normally need more than a few dozen or maybe a hundred sources playing simultaneously.

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Thank you so much for your support and suggestion. I'll look for dynamic source pool to see how to use it.

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