To put it shortly, by personal experience, except Suse I haven't heard music from a Linux box ever.
Lets see I've heard music (mp3 included) on redhat9, suse, mandrake, debian and I'm sure whatever your distro is you could get the music up...
#lspci (see the output of your sound card) or #scanpci -v
not quiet sure right now of other distros on debian run `alsaconf` follow the steps as the ncuses shows you..
On redhat or fedora try redhat-configure-sound or system-configure-sound..
On suse try yast (sound config section) it will be easy...
Derwyn