Instead of using the out-dated, slow MCI commands to play an Audio CD, is there a new alternative? Maybe hidden in DirectX?

By what standard do you consider MCI "out-dated"?

No,

The only other function I know that can control CD audio volume is using the mixerXXXX series of functions (and I think the auxXXXX series of functions can do it too).

I remember this topic way back when I was beta testing Quaternion.

Look up the function mixerGetNumDevs, in the Platform SDK and take it from there. Be warned though - it is not an easy task. You must enumerate all the devices, searching for the CD audio mixer, and then you can control the volume.

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Alrighty then ill stick with MCI I guess.

I read somewhere that MCI is slow, but hey, if it works, dont recode it.

Maybe it''s slow if you play AVIs or so, but CD-Audio is only hardware-dependent. The only thing you need is the initial "start to play"-code, the rest takes next to none cpu-time.