My first real QB64PE game is up.

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Thank you for your insight! 

For some reason I thought I didn't need to free the memory like for images.

It's an easy fix and I will get to it to prevent memory leaks

You can also use _SNDPLAYFILE which automatically loads, plays and then closes the sound for you. This is usually ok. However, if I were to play some sounds often (say an explosion sound in a shooter game), then I'd rather pre-load the sound and keep the sound handle throughout the lifetime of the program. This is purely for performance reasons.