# Advanced Sound Player

This chapter describes the advanced sound player, which is a new Music library component for playing sound files. The advanced sound player is intended to replace the sound file player discussed in Playing Sound Files . This chapter contains the following topics:

- Overview of the Advanced Sound Player
- Players, Sounds, and Markers
- Decision Functions
- Caveats
- For More Information
- Function Calls

The discussions in this chapter assume that you are familiar with the sound player described in Playing Sound Files .