the mci and media player controls are too slow, hitting the play button swaps the image with another, but its getting slowed down while the control plays the file. I'm thinking that using the api will be faster and allow the swap to occur instantaneously (or pretty close)

anybody know of any documentation on using the api to play mp3 files (or wav, mid, etc, a player would be pretty useless if it only played one file type) or have any tips? much appreciated.