What is the easiest way to play any sound file?

I like music and movies. Most of times, I enjoy them on my laptop, which does NOT support decent sound system: just a basic sound card and a regular stereo headphones jack. Thus, ...show more

This is for a touchscreen kiosk application.  When the user touches the screen, there should be audio feedback.

I was wondering if there is a way to make it so if I press a certain button on my keyboard it will play a specific mp3/wav or whatever type of sound file.

I play HD videos on my PS3 and connect it through an Optical Cable to my Sony HT K-5500 Home Theater System. Problem is, whenever the sound is encoded in AAC 5.1, no sound comes out unless I change the Audio to 2ch. AAC. Is there a way to resolve that...

I've had Wavepad Sound Editor for a while now, but just recently it started to not play any audio through my speakers or headset. I know its the program though, because everything else plays, and the files I open in the program play in my files, just...

I just downloaded my first avi file. It was a video file, took five hours from Ares appeared fine but when I play it back I only get sound and no visual. Any tips/ideas? Faulty file? Am I doing something wrong? I am clueless PC wise by the way!

I'm making this small text based game and the technical stuff is almost finished so now I would like to see if I can spice things up a bit. I thought it'd be really neat to be able to play some music in the background while the player is playing the...

the speakers are logitech g51 5.1 surround sound speakers. whenever i play a game i only hear ambient noises in the rear speakers of my sound system. i have 5.1 sound enabled in the games, just it seems like my rear speakers do absolutely nothing what...

i have received a .mov file from a cd. when i push the spacebar on my macbook to preview it, i can only hear the sounds (i get the same preview screen as if i were trying to preview a music/mp3 file) Also: the default icon for the file is the same as...