How do you incorperate sound files into a C++ program?

I dont know if it matters or not but im using microsoft visual studio 2005 for my compiler and my OS is Windows Xp home

Anyone?

It can be tricky, there is a playSound function in C++ but it's not all that powerful so you may be best suited to look for a library to do that, or feel free to get your hands dirty with some DirectX.



http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms712879.aspx

I've always thought about this too....but if you need different colour text..i think you could use "
#define yl system("color 0e");".

Try this: http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet190.html

Ok the site you gave me had this code one it.
BOOL PlaySound(
LPCSTR pszSound,
HMODULE hmod,
DWORD fdwSound
);

but I dont see where I insert the name of my sound file.

um ok you lost me here why would I have to change the text color to add a sound file? Although I would like to know how to change the text color also with this code do I just change ("color 0e ") to the color I want?

If so does C++ have built in colors that can be defined just by their name like in HTML or is there another method for defining colors? Hexidecimal codes or something.

In case you guys cant tell I'm fairly new to C++ .

mciSendString("play the_file",NULL,0,NULL);

Ok for this do I just change the "the_file" to the name of my wave file?

Um? sorry if im being impatent but are you guys still here?