I'm using OpenAl for a game I'm working on. Currently openAl has a limit of only 32 buffers than can be generated. I would like the pool of preloaded sounds to be more than 32, how can I go about doing this? Obviously I won't be playing more than a few sounds at a time, so they don't all have to be an active buffer, I would just like a way to have the data already in memory. Thanks for any help.

Simple. Load the sounds and store the sound data in memory. Don't gen the buffers until you are ready to use them. A more advanced way is to make a background loading thread and load the sounds as you need them.