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+# Sound API
+
+This mod is a wrapper for [sound api library](https://github.com/mt-mods/sound_api_core/).
+
+## Usage of the sound api
+
+### Option 1: embed
+
+You can insert the [sound api library](https://github.com/mt-mods/sound_api_core/) directly into your mod as a submodule and use the following to load it.
+
+```lua
+local sound_api = dofile(modpath .. "/sound_api_core/init.lua")
+```
+
+additionally the author recommends that you use dependabot(github) or similar to help you keep the submodule up to date.
+
+### Option 2: Agnostically depend
+
+You can do this by using a custom field in your node def instead of the `sounds` key.
+
+```lua
+minetest.register_node(nodename, {
+    ...
+    _sound_def = {
+        key = "",
+        input = {},
+    },
+    ...
+})
+```
+
+where:
+
+* key: string name of the field from the sound api you want to use, for example `node_sound_stone_defaults`
+* input: table input of fields you want passed to the key field, used to override specific sounds.
+
+### Option 3: Hard depend
+
+add this mod to your mod.confs depends and directly call the sound_api as follows
+
+```lua
+minetest.register_node(nodename, {
+    ...
+    sounds = sound_api.node_sound_stone_defaults(input)
+    ...
+})
+```
+
+* input: optional table to override some or all of returned values
+