Re: Play sound without launching media player

From: Carrie Garth (PostInGroup_at_invalid.cxg)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:41:52 -0500

| "Peter Davis" <nomail@privacy.net>
| Message news:9554A3FC05FFB5D4AM2@127.0.0.1
| How do I play a WAV file I have got in a folder *without*
| launching a media player?
|
| Most of the warning sounds XP uses do not need a media player
| to be launched. How can I test my WAVs using the same method
| of playback?

If, for example, the WAV is named:

e:\helpmeet.wav

Click Start, click Run, type the following command and click OK:

sndrec32.exe /embedding /play /close e:\helpmeet.wav

Thanks to the Scripting Expert "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" for the
above command.

REFERENCE:

From: "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Subject: Re: Play sound in command prompt
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 01:27:42 +0100
Message-ID: 3E58157D.33F1478F@hydro.com

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