Re: playing a .wav file...

Royce wrote:
Is there a way to play a .wav file in a batch file, but without windows media player opening up? Just want to play the .wav file with no windows opening up or if possible not even minimized. 

30306 Jul 12 21:57 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
scmd.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi

92) How do I play a sound from the command line?

The simplest way to emit a brief beep is
 @echo <Ctrl-G>
How to enter the ASCII 7 character depends on your editor program.

If you can get hold of QBASIC it has a PLAY statement. For example
  @echo off & setlocal enableextensions
  set bas_=%temp%\tmp$$$.bas
  > %bas_% echo PLAY "l8 o3 cdefgab o4 cd"
  >>%bas_% echo SYSTEM
  qbasic /run %bas_%
  for %%f in (%bas_%) do if exist %%f del %%f
  endlocal & goto :EOF

The Sound Recorder can be used to play a Wave Audio Sound file
(.WAV). For example
 sndrec32.exe /play /close %SYSTEMROOT%\Media\tada.wav

References/Comments:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q168789/
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=uJqTHMN9EHA.1400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=426a617e.3383905@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


   All the best, Timo

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