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Hi David, Hmm. Unbiased. I'll try. Opinion. Gladly give it to you. If you have no programming experience, definitely buy the book. The book teaches you elementary programming. If you already know how to program and all you want to do is include MIDI playback along with your FLIs and FLCs, then buy Kevin's Miditools package. It shows you how to interface your C, Basic or Pascal program to his MIDI player. As for digitized sound playback (VOCs and WAVs), the MIDI TSR does not support that. If you are looking for a total solution (MIDI, digitized, FLI and FLC playback, interactive control through programming logic), then buy the book. It allows you to buy the new version of GRASP Multimedia at half price ($249), that includes color support up to 16 bits (32,000+ colors) and extended memory support. The book also includes over 3 megs of code that you can cut and paste into your program: a software magazine example, music video example, kiosk example, demo example etc. etc. It allows you to buy MIDITools for $30 less. And it is full of advice (opinions?) about integrating multimedia elements (image processing, MIDI recording, sound recording etc. etc.). GRASP itself does not ship with MIDITools, so MIDI playback is NOT included with the commercial release of GRASP. Does that help? Philip