Play background music

I play background classical music when flying online. It doesn't interfere with the aircraft communications at all. It's just like a passenger listening to a station on a commercial airliner. There are even commercials.

I have Yahoo Messenger (YM) running while flying online and can tune to a radio station of my choice. YM plays the radio station in the background and I can still hear the aircraft sounds and radio messages. Of course, the sound levels for the aircraft and YM have to be set before takeoff. If you switch back and forth during the simulation, the FS9 simulation will pause while you adjust YM.

Hey Bob, I do the same; except I listen to Sirrius online (have account). It's a nice little addition to flying! Oh, also listen to live atc every once inawhil, except I notice I get lost in what their doing and forget to listen for fs atc