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I want to be able to play a wav/ogg/mp3 etc from a batch file and not get a window,
diagnostic data, etc. Just simply play the dang thing.

I've tried a few things but no good. The one I have just prints which is fine but it of
course has to load powershell. It's not fast.

powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\Users\alkne\Music\Sounds\waves\ringout.wav").PlaySync();

Any ideas?
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Alan K wrote:

I want to be able to play a wav/ogg/mp3 etc from a batch file and not
get a window, diagnostic data, etc.-a Just simply play the dang thing.

I've tried a few things but no good.-a The one I have just prints which
is fine but it of course has to load powershell.-a-a It's not fast.

powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\Users\alkne\Music\Sounds\waves\ringout.wav").PlaySync();

Any ideas?

https://mpc-hc.org/
I don't know if MPC-HC can be run from a batch file but it is reasonably
small and simple. There are many others.
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On 4/17/2026 9:10 PM, Alan K wrote:

I want to be able to play a wav/ogg/mp3 etc from a batch file and not get a window,
diagnostic data, etc. Just simply play the dang thing.

https://github.com/jimlawless/cmdmp3
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On Fri, 4/17/2026 3:10 PM, Alan K wrote:

I want to be able to play a wav/ogg/mp3 etc from a batch file and not get a window, diagnostic data, etc.-a Just simply play the dang thing.

I've tried a few things but no good.-a The one I have just prints which is fine but it of course has to load powershell.-a-a It's not fast.

powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\Users\alkne\Music\Sounds\waves\ringout.wav").PlaySync();

Any ideas?

ffplay.exe 1>NUL 2>NUL -autoexit -nodisp recording.wav

You would want a statically compiled executable, rather
than the dynamic one with some number of DLL in it.

https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/

ffmpeg-release-full.7z

And this is not fast either, it's not aplay.
But a full release version of ffmpeg (containing ffplay.exe),
can play just about anything. If the item only has a sound track,
it will play the sound track (even content without timestamps as
such, such as the WAV in the example. I expect some of the delay,
is Windows Defender scanning the EXE on load.

Paul

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On 4/18/2026 3:10 AM, Alan K wrote:

powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\Users\alkne\Music\Sounds\waves\ringout.wav").PlaySync();

I am using MPG123 in Windows (and maybe Linux) all the time! :)

mpg123, Fast MP3 Player for Linux and UNIX systems
<https://www.mpg123.de/>
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