C++ Tutorials - Absolute n00b spoonfeed

as in what is 'the reason'.

why is that LPRCT so hard to grasp, even from the msdn website
AAARGH! pardon my noob frustration and noob impertinence

What don't you understand about it? An example would be:

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PlaySound("PathToFile.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME);

If your use for this is to play multiple sounds, i.e a game - I would look into a sound library rather than this API

But what does the NULL and SND_FILENAME arguments do?? and why would it need SND_FILENAME if you already enter the string "PathToFile.wav"

That is all explained on the MSDN article. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd743680(VS.85).aspx