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I have a small VB Script that calls a system sound as an alert. In Windows XP I used sndrec32 to play that sound. But sndrec32 was not continued in Vista and Windows 7. It was light and quick and ideal for such tasks.
Q: What replaced this tool? When you click the test button in the sounds window what is it that plays it?
Dave
Posted 2013-01-21T21:47:03.403
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In Vista, Sound Recorder is instead called SoundRecorder.exe and has different command-line switches.
The only command line option I found so far can only be used for recording.
SoundRecorder /FILE myrec.wma /DURATION 0000:00:30
The old /PLAY "C:\Path\File.wav" /CLOSE switch doesn't work anymore
You can use wmplayer.exe %windir%\media\ding.wav instead.
It supports several command line parameters and can be started minimized
You could copy the old sndrec32.exe from Windows XP over to your Windows 7 into the same place. It needs the "Run as Administrator" option checked
nixda
Posted 2013-01-21T21:47:03.403
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sndrec32.exe is also in Windows Server 2003 if you have that handy like I did. – Matthew Lock – 2014-12-19T03:19:52.217
I couldn't get it to start minimized by running from a command line. Found an answer here to create an run a VBA script: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23313709/play-invisible-music-with-batch-file
– davidfrancis – 2015-06-11T07:58:16.633Blech, so ugly. Why do they have to change the things they got right? – einpoklum – 2017-01-04T19:56:09.630