To find out if a system can play WAV output, call the Windows API function
waveOutGetNumDevs and see if the result is greater than zero.

The waveOutGetNumDevs function retrieves the number of waveform-audio output
devices present in the system.

UINT waveOutGetNumDevs(VOID);

Parameters

This function takes no parameters.

Return Values

Returns the number of devices. A return value of zero means that no devices are
present or that an error occurred.

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