Play wav batch file windows 7

Thiago Belem Thiago Belem 3 3 gold badges 9 9 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Using start file. It might take a second to start a bloated media player, just for a single beep. In addition, file associations might be wrong, the media player might not play the file, or it might play it over and over again, etc. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Not in windows now, in order to test this possible solution, but try to: "start " I think it will open the wav file with the associated program that your windows has for ". Improve this answer. Well, it'll certainly open the file in whatever application is associated with the type, but that's it. It's up to that application to decide what it does with it - it might play it, it might add it to a queue, or something else.

Even if it does play the file, it's entirely likely that it won't terminate after playing, meaning this is probably a bad idea. This is so much not the best answer! Antonio, that was in : — zipizap. Amazingly, this is marked as the accepted, "best answer"! This answer should be deleted. It isn't even worthy to stay as a comment.

Show 1 more comment. Wave files PowerShell can be used to load the System. New-Object Media. Play ; If you want, you can run this from the normal command line: powershell -c New-Object Media. PlaySync ; note that PlaySync is used in the second example since the standard asynchronous play would be interrupted by the PowerShell process closing when launched like this And if you wanted to play only the first, say, 5 seconds of the sound: powershell -c New-Object Media.

Bob Bob Is it possible to also have this command kill and currently playing wav files before executing the new wav file? Dodd10x Not easily for global audio, no. Could you provide more context? Do you intend to kill or pause? Is the other player another instance of this script, or a media player, or a browser, a game, etc.?

If it's another instance of the same script, then it's much simpler though still not entirely trivial. It's another instance of the same script. I'm thinking I could add a line to kill powershell. Dodd10x There are two ways I would suggest. One is to get the process ID of the PowerShell instance and save it to a file, then kill that ID at the start of a new instance and clear the file.

This is safer than killing all PS processes. Semaphores are a cleaner way of doing this, but a bit more complicated. I'd be happy to go into further detail in chat. This is the best answer. Nick Chammas 5 5 bronze badges. This issue occurs is caused by a design change in Windows 7.

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If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language. For more information about how to obtain a Windows 7 service pack, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. I dont know a way to run a Sheduled Task with the credentials of the current logged on User! As a workarround i suggest to put a never ending script into the Autorun registry or Startmenu , which plays the sound every X minutes.

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