"plays both kinds of music, ... country AND western"

Thanks to oiio for pointing me in the direction of this handy external add-on for Pure Data (an Open Source environment for creating real-time audio and visual applications). It's called readanysf and it plays "both kinds of music". Which, as we all know, is "country AND western".

It also reads (m)any sound formats. In the green and pleasant land of Pure Data, this is a "holy-grail-cow".