Hello, I''m teaching myself VC++ by programming a simple Space War game and would like to play MIDI music in the background. I''ve been having problems with the DX libraries and the compiler, so I''m doing this one without DX. I remember back in the good ol'' VB days I would use the MCI API commands to play MIDI files. Of course, the tutorial in VC++ that shows how to do this is overwhelmingly large. Is there anywhere I might find a tutorial on playing MIDIs using MCI or a source code snippet? Surely someone out there has asked themselves why MCI has to be so damned complicated? Oh. Right. 16bit. Go figure. Telamon ----------------------------- Let be be finale of seem, seems to me.