There is a general problem with games written for Win9x that use CD Audio tracks for music. It seems in WinXP such games rarely play music correctly.

1) CD audio doesn't function at all.
Sometimes it is fixed if CD is in CD-ROM with lowest letter, e.g. if you have two CD drives E and F game cd must be in drive E. Same applies to virtual CD drives. In WinXP Pro (not sure about Home Ed.) you can change letters assigned to all your drives in Control Panel > Administration(?) > Computer Management > Disk Managment.
For example, Lander game music works only if it in first CD drive.

2) CD audio sometimes work, but sometimes not.
Probably game-specific. Abomination: Nemesis Project game audio tracks (very fitting music) are played on strategy level, but on tactics level music starts at the beginning of the level rarely and after playing the track it doesn't resume it. In Win9x music always played.

3) CD audio doesn't work at all.
For example, in excellent RTS by Rage Software Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, where music is very big part of the game. It doesn't play even in game menu through the special in-game CD Player.

If someone knows anything about getting music to play in such games in WinXP, especially in two mentioned games, it would be great to hear.