I was wondering what you guys are doing for background music in your games. I''m working on a very small arcade game type project that I intend to distribute (for the first time) as freeware. I was thinking of making background music myself, but basically I decided that I don''t want to spend the time on something that most people would probably turn off anyway. So then I started thinking that I would include the ability to play a users audio CDs or MP3s in the background while playing the game. Have you guys done anything like this? Which format should I use, or should I code for both and give the player the option? Or should I take the time and pound out a couple of tunes on the guitar and include that instead? I''m using DirectX so I could use DirectShow to decode the MP3s and CD audio doesn''t seem that tough, so I don''t see much problem with either. The sound effects in the game use .wav files if that matters in any way.