No music in Final Fantasy 8

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Recently decided that i wanted to play Final Fantasy 8 after not playing it for some time and got it installed with no hassles, bot hardware and software graphics mode working fine.  I did have an issue with the game when i started it up it would go back to the desktop.  It would'nt quit, it would sit in the taskbar but i could not get into it.  This was solved by removing the cccp codec pack i had installed.

The first time i installed it the music would work, both with the totally unpatched and patched game and with the updated dls and svg files.  However because of the issue I had as described above, i uninstalled and reinstalled it several times in an attempt to get it to work.  Somewhere along the line the music stopped playing completely.  Now, everytime i use FF8 configurator to attempt to play the music, whether it is with the old dls and svg's or new, i would get the 'failed' message.  I have tried with all combinations possible in the FF8 configurator and used the 1.2 ff8 patch as well as the updated dls'.

I have also attempted to use the ff8midi file, which encounters a problem and closes, as does winamp when trying to play the FF8 music using Ficedula's winamp plugin.

I have also uninstalled and reinstalled my sound drivers, to no avail.

Im guessing this may well be a problem with my computer setup somehow and not FF8, but I have no idea how as I didn't change anything during this process.  Please does anybody know how this problem could be fixed.

System:
Windows XP SP2
Soundblaster X-FI
intel core 2 duo
asus p5w dh
ati 1900 xt

Many thanks for reading
 
Do you have more than one choice in FF8Config for "DirectMusic Port" on the sound tab?  If you do, what is it set to?
 
The choices I have are 'Microsoft Synthesizer' and 'SB X-Fi Audio [8C00]'
Microsoft Synthesizer was selected when I checked, however upon using the other and firing up the game there is still no joy.
Bizarre  :|
 
i second that and need help with my music too.dk what i can do about it :/
 
okay for everyone,who got the same problems as we have.....i found a solution.deinstall your current directx version and reinstall it :)
 
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