Playing Audio in Windows

[Barry Levine]

Greetings, Listas!

I am developing an app that will play audio speech. Shouldn't have a 
problem playing the audio files on either Mac or Windows (according to 
the RevDocs) as long as I import the AIFF or WAV into the stack (or 
another stack the app is using). I envision the clips being about 60 
seconds long or less (sometimes considerably less, like 10 seconds 
long). I won't need to have multiple clips playing at once nor will 
there be any queueing(sp?) taking place.

Is there anything I should do or look for at the get-go before I do a 
load of programming and find that I had made some wrong assumptions? 
I'm thinking in terms of the sound quality or format or even the 
program I use to record the speech in the first place.

Thanks,
Barry