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What is the simplest and fastest way to play a sound file from the command line?
So far all the solutions I've found either involve calling a full-blown media player or using a Swiss Army Knife type program that also performs about 100+ other functions besides playing sound files.
I was hoping there would be a single-purpose command line program just for playing a sound file, but such a program doesn't seem to exist.
The reason I'm unhappy with the existing programs is that I'd like to play several sound files in quick succession and all the ones I've tried (sndrec32.exe, wizmo.exe, etc) introduce a short delay between the sounds. I assume that's because they load into memory, run, then unload from memory each time.
I'd like the sounds to play one after the other as quickly as possible.
Ideally I'd like a program that I could feed a list of sound files to and it would play them all, but a program that can run quickly from the command line to play one sound file would be great too.
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I havent actually tried this, but Winamp playlists are just a text file of paths to the mp3 files, so you could generate a playlist and then open that in a minimised copy of Winamp (or any other player which can use the same playlist format)
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I havent actually tried this, but Winamp playlists are just a text file of paths to the mp3 files, so you could generate a playlist and then open that in a minimised copy of Winamp (or any other player which can use the same playlist format)
Unfortunately that would still introduce a significant delay when first called as the program would have to be loaded into memory. I'm looking for something where the sound plays as close to instantly as possible when the command is issued.
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The old version of WinAmp (2.95) is very small and will I think load as fast if not faster than sndrec32.exe
http://www.oldversion.com/windows/winamp/
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Rekrul
One that I use is Nircmd v2.86, you can do a search, I use it to play text from a file, play one second of a mp3 or play from the clipboard.
It does have a small delay but not much
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I don't know if this can be done in pure batch without external programs, but I know to make it in VBScript
Set oPlayer = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX")
'Sound path
oPlayer.URL = "C:\Music\MySound.wav"
'Play the music
oPlayer.controls.play
While oPlayer.playState <> 1 ' 1 = Stopped
WScript.Sleep 100
Wend
oPlayer.close
So the code will be
echo Set oPlayer = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX") > "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
echo 'Sound path >> "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
echo oPlayer.URL = "C:\Music\MySound.wav" >> "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
echo 'Play the music >> "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
echo oPlayer.controls.play >> "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
echo While oPlayer.playState <> 1 ' 1 = Stopped >> "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
echo WScript.Sleep 100 >> "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
echo Wend >> "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
echo 'Close >> "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
echo oPlayer.close >> "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
start /wait WScript.exe "%TMP%\Sound.vbs"
When the script ends before an EXIT simply put
DEL "%TMP%\Sound.vbs" /Q /F>NUL
It has a small delay
I wish that this code could you help
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