+cvar_t snd_initialized = { CVAR_READONLY, "snd_initialized", "0", "indicates the sound subsystem is active"};
+cvar_t snd_streaming = { CVAR_SAVE, "snd_streaming", "1", "enables keeping compressed ogg sound files compressed, decompressing them only as needed, otherwise they will be decompressed completely at load (may use a lot of memory)"};
+cvar_t bgmvolume = {CVAR_SAVE, "bgmvolume", "1", "volume of background music (such as CD music or replacement files such as sound/cdtracks/track002.ogg)"};
+cvar_t volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "volume", "0.7", "volume of sound effects"};
+cvar_t snd_staticvolume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_staticvolume", "1", "volume of ambient sound effects (such as swampy sounds at the start of e1m2)"};
+cvar_t ambient_level = {0, "ambient_level", "0.3", "volume of environment noises (water and wind)"};
+cvar_t ambient_fade = {0, "ambient_fade", "100", "rate of volume fading when moving from one environment to another"};
+cvar_t snd_noextraupdate = {0, "snd_noextraupdate", "0", "disables extra sound mixer calls that are meant to reduce the chance of sound breakup at very low framerates"};
+cvar_t snd_show = {0, "snd_show", "0", "shows some statistics about sound mixing"};
+cvar_t _snd_mixahead = {CVAR_SAVE, "_snd_mixahead", "0.1", "how much sound to mix ahead of time"};
+cvar_t snd_swapstereo = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_swapstereo", "0", "swaps left/right speakers for old ISA soundblaster cards"};