nimos100 Thank you for your time and help.
To confirm, this DID work for you and you were able to PLAY audio files that were sitting on your "local C: hard drive" and NOT the "sounds" folder within C2, correct?
I tried this exactly, but was not able to make your workaround work, even for files sitting on my local C drive. I followed your example exactly as described. Do you think that you can share a simple .CAPX, just to see if i missed something.
Thank you in advanced for your continued assistance...
nimos100 & 
Animate
i tried the example as well without success .... a sample .CAPX would be a huge help!
thanks!!!
-Rik
Here is an example that will let you load and play an audio file from your computer.
Capx:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109921357/Play%20sound%20file%20from%20disk/Play_sound.capx