are there any extremely simple ways to add music (in the form of wavs) to a program? please help!

use windows multimedia library
or DirectMusic
or FMOD
or DirectSound
or BASS

do you know any sites with tutorials on how to use one of these?

for a start you can look at microsoft''s MSDN pages.

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I''m not acquainted with FMOD or BASS, but I know some of DS and DM, if your using DirectX 8, then they are combined into ''DirectX Audio'', which in theory simplifies all initialisation and loading code (look at Julio''s recommendation and also the DX help file), prior to that (DX7 and below) you had to do cope with getting the data from files yourself (you could use the MMIO, or be stbborn and write your own .wav/.ov whatever loader).

I can''t really go through it all here, but there is a fair amount of helpful documentation in the DX SDK.

After that, your second call should be the DX C++ website, I''ve forgotton the damn link now...

-Mezz

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Check MSDN Library for details on it, really very simple. Plays .WAV files with looping or no looping, synchronously (program waits for playback to finish) or asynchronously.

No problem