+int snd_blocked = 0;
+static int current_swapstereo = false;
+static int current_channellayout = SND_CHANNELLAYOUT_AUTO;
+static int current_channellayout_used = SND_CHANNELLAYOUT_AUTO;
+
+static double spatialpower, spatialmin, spatialdiff, spatialoffset, spatialfactor;
+typedef enum { SPATIAL_NONE, SPATIAL_LOG, SPATIAL_POW, SPATIAL_THRESH } spatialmethod_t;
+spatialmethod_t spatialmethod;
+
+// Cvars declared in sound.h (part of the sound API)
+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_initialized = { CVAR_READONLY, "snd_initialized", "0", "indicates the sound subsystem is active"};
+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 snd_soundradius = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_soundradius", "2000", "radius of weapon sounds and other standard sound effects (monster idle noises are half this radius and flickering light noises are one third of this radius)"};
+cvar_t snd_spatialization_min_radius = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_spatialization_min_radius", "10000", "use minimum spatialization above to this radius"};
+cvar_t snd_spatialization_max_radius = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_spatialization_max_radius", "100", "use maximum spatialization below this radius"};
+cvar_t snd_spatialization_min = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_spatialization_min", "0.70", "minimum spatializazion of sounds"};
+cvar_t snd_spatialization_max = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_spatialization_max", "0.95", "maximum spatialization of sounds"};
+cvar_t snd_spatialization_power = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_spatialization_power", "0", "exponent of the spatialization falloff curve (0: logarithmic)"};
+cvar_t snd_spatialization_control = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_spatialization_control", "0", "enable spatialization control (headphone friendly mode)"};
+
+// Cvars declared in snd_main.h (shared with other snd_*.c files)
+cvar_t _snd_mixahead = {CVAR_SAVE, "_snd_mixahead", "0.1", "how much sound to mix ahead of time"};
+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 snd_swapstereo = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_swapstereo", "0", "swaps left/right speakers for old ISA soundblaster cards"};
+extern cvar_t v_flipped;
+cvar_t snd_channellayout = {0, "snd_channellayout", "0", "channel layout. Can be 0 (auto - snd_restart needed), 1 (standard layout), or 2 (ALSA layout)"};
+cvar_t snd_mutewhenidle = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_mutewhenidle", "1", "whether to disable sound output when game window is inactive"};
+cvar_t snd_entchannel0volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_entchannel0volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the auto-allocate entity channel of regular entities"};
+cvar_t snd_entchannel1volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_entchannel1volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 1st entity channel of regular entities"};
+cvar_t snd_entchannel2volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_entchannel2volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 2nd entity channel of regular entities"};
+cvar_t snd_entchannel3volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_entchannel3volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 3rd entity channel of regular entities"};
+cvar_t snd_entchannel4volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_entchannel4volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 4th entity channel of regular entities"};
+cvar_t snd_entchannel5volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_entchannel5volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 5th entity channel of regular entities"};
+cvar_t snd_entchannel6volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_entchannel6volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 6th entity channel of regular entities"};
+cvar_t snd_entchannel7volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_entchannel7volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 7th entity channel of regular entities"};
+cvar_t snd_playerchannel0volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_playerchannel0volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the auto-allocate entity channel of player entities"};
+cvar_t snd_playerchannel1volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_playerchannel1volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 1st entity channel of player entities"};
+cvar_t snd_playerchannel2volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_playerchannel2volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 2nd entity channel of player entities"};
+cvar_t snd_playerchannel3volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_playerchannel3volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 3rd entity channel of player entities"};
+cvar_t snd_playerchannel4volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_playerchannel4volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 4th entity channel of player entities"};
+cvar_t snd_playerchannel5volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_playerchannel5volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 5th entity channel of player entities"};
+cvar_t snd_playerchannel6volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_playerchannel6volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 6th entity channel of player entities"};
+cvar_t snd_playerchannel7volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_playerchannel7volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 7th entity channel of player entities"};
+cvar_t snd_worldchannel0volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_worldchannel0volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the auto-allocate entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_worldchannel1volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_worldchannel1volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 1st entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_worldchannel2volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_worldchannel2volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 2nd entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_worldchannel3volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_worldchannel3volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 3rd entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_worldchannel4volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_worldchannel4volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 4th entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_worldchannel5volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_worldchannel5volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 5th entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_worldchannel6volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_worldchannel6volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 6th entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_worldchannel7volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_worldchannel7volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 7th entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_csqcchannel0volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_csqcchannel0volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the auto-allocate entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_csqcchannel1volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_csqcchannel1volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 1st entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_csqcchannel2volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_csqcchannel2volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 2nd entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_csqcchannel3volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_csqcchannel3volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 3rd entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_csqcchannel4volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_csqcchannel4volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 4th entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_csqcchannel5volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_csqcchannel5volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 5th entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_csqcchannel6volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_csqcchannel6volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 6th entity channel of the world entity"};
+cvar_t snd_csqcchannel7volume = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_csqcchannel7volume", "1", "volume multiplier of the 7th entity channel of the world entity"};
+
+// Local cvars
+static cvar_t nosound = {0, "nosound", "0", "disables sound"};
+static cvar_t snd_precache = {0, "snd_precache", "1", "loads sounds before they are used"};
+static cvar_t ambient_level = {0, "ambient_level", "0.3", "volume of environment noises (water and wind)"};
+static cvar_t ambient_fade = {0, "ambient_fade", "100", "rate of volume fading when moving from one environment to another"};
+static 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"};
+static cvar_t snd_show = {0, "snd_show", "0", "shows some statistics about sound mixing"};
+
+// Default sound format is 48KHz, 16-bit, stereo
+// (48KHz because a lot of onboard sound cards sucks at any other speed)
+static cvar_t snd_speed = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_speed", "48000", "sound output frequency, in hertz"};
+static cvar_t snd_width = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_width", "2", "sound output precision, in bytes (1 and 2 supported)"};
+static cvar_t snd_channels = {CVAR_SAVE, "snd_channels", "2", "number of channels for the sound ouput (2 for stereo; up to 8 supported for 3D sound)"};
+
+// Ambient sounds
+static sfx_t* ambient_sfxs [2] = { NULL, NULL };
+static const char* ambient_names [2] = { "sound/ambience/water1.wav", "sound/ambience/wind2.wav" };