Sound?

So, it's that time again. Another user wants to put sound in his games. FMOD has an awful license, and DirectSound seems incredibly hard to use. I'm OK with Windows-only techniques, because I figure, if the Mac users have to use Wine, a Linux binary would be trivial and unappreciated. So, I've got a little code here- it works perfectly, but I'm not satisfied.

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#ifdef __FB_WIN32__
#include once "windows.bi"
#include once "win\mmsystem.bi"
#else

#endif

dim shared as string*2 closeTriggerString=chr$(255)+"k"
dim shared as ubyte spacekey=0
dim shared as uinteger vertical=0

screenres 640,480,32,2,&h00
screenset 1,0
width 640/8,480/14

public sub soundplay(byval sound as string)
PlaySound(sound,NULL,SND_NODEFAULT OR SND_ASYNC)
end sub

public sub soundloop(byval sound as string)
PlaySound(sound,NULL,SND_LOOP OR SND_NODEFAULT OR SND_ASYNC)
end sub

public sub soundstop
PlaySound(NULL,NULL,0)
end sub

public sub text(byval textX as integer,byval textY as integer,byval textData as string)
draw string (textX,textY-1),textData
end sub

do
if multikey(&h39) then
spacekey=1
else
if spacekey=1 then
spacekey=0
if vertical>=480 then
cls 0
vertical=0
end if
'obviously you need bounce.wav
soundplay("bounce.wav")
text(0,vertical,"played")
vertical+=20
end if
end if
pcopy
if multikey(&h38) and multikey(&h3E) or inkey$()=closeTriggerString or multikey(&h01) then end
loop

It only has one audio channel. Here are the options I'm considering:

a) Test winmm more thoroughly

b) Use FBSOUND (if you guys can give me help)

c) Use DirectSound (again, help!)

I can't find much information on waveOut, so I assume it's just for Windows CE and Vista+, correct? It seems complicated anyways, and it may be a part of winmm. So, I'll forget about waveOut.

What should I do? I'm really leaning towards either DirectSound or some winmm multichannel trick (even using the music track). Please give me some code or something to help me out. All I ask is that I have at least 2 audio channels to work with, so the sound experience isn't an ambient void.