sims sound

[bOOls eYe]

That's right. Installing the game will not copy the music files to your hard disc. There will be a subdirectory 'Music', but you will notice it will be empty. You just have to copy the 'Music' directory from your cd to your hd, overwriting the existing one.

And I think you will have to change something in the Registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Maxis\The Sims]
"SIMS_MUSIC"=".\\"

You have to point to the main dir, NOT to the music dir itself !