A:

To play a digital sound with the full Miles API, follow these steps:

1) Allocate an HSAMPLE with AIL_allocate_sample_handle.

2) Load the file from the disk with AIL_file_read (or your own file IO routines).

3) Point the HSAMPLE at the loaded disk file image with AIL_set_sample_file, AIL_set_named_sample_file, or AIL_set_sample_info.

4) Finally, call AIL_start_sample to begin playing the HSAMPLE.

To play a digital sound with the Quick API, follow these steps:

1) Call AIL_quick_load to load the file.

2) Play the file with AIL_quick_play.