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[muku]

But what is one to do.

Make a special edition that is restricted to 4999 downloads that supports MP3?

Hehe, "Limited Deluxe MP3 Edition" :D Too much hassle to keep track of number of downloads though when you don't host yourself.

[jonny]

You could ignore the whole thing and hope you don't get caught. Who's paying attention anyway? (Not that I'd do that...)

[Thorst]

I think it is doable to make your game a front-end to the OS media player, even though, as Ciardhubh said, it could get complicated.

Look at www.foxytunes.com.  It's a Firefox add-on that works like this (in case you have an irrational fear of unfocusing the Firefox window, I guess.)

I speculate that you do not need a license for this.

[muku]

That would feel too clunky and unreliable for me. Besides, it doesn't work for my compo entry where I actually need to get at the decoded audio data in order to generate a level from it. I've since integrated libvorbis into my game and it works perfectly nice