mp3 music and mp3/wav speech output probs **SOLVED**

[Nixxon]

Hail
I'm having a problem playing background mp3 music when player speech is activated. At first i figured running mp3 music as well as mp3 voice files at the same time may be impossible due to the lack of channels on my sound card. So i changed all the voice files to wav and rebuilt the vox file (at a huge size increase ) low and behold i STILL can't play bg music in rooms that contain speech
Any suggestions? Cheers guys  

EDIT - s'ok when i put playmusic in the before fade in function it worked, along with the voices... all in wonderfull sweet sweet compressed mp3 glory (soon to be ogg).
Also, noticed the bg music's volume will lower sublty when speech is playing, thought that was kinda cool