you have an application (sound) that you need to run for your pleasure/business you rule out the one thing that makes it work, XP. Now there might be stuff you need that wont run on XP but the case for not working correctly do to not liking a vendor is a big problem with IT today. Find the application for your client, ask what hardware and OS it works on then install it. Customer 1st.
my 2 cents but I a whore dont forget :)
thanx,
bill