Play One Song at a Time

[raywood]

I have a playlist. I use IrfanView as my default audio player. It plays one song at a time.

My prototype batch file goes like this:

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start "" "Song 1.mp3"
pause
start "" "Song 2.mp3"
pause
start "" "Song 3.mp3"
pause

When I run the batch file, Windows ignores the pause commands. It starts one song, immediately starts the next song (stopping the first), and so forth. IrfanView ends up playing only the last song.

Originally, I had it as start [song] & pause, but that did the same thing.

What am I missing?

[AR Coding]

how about:

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start "" /wait "Song 1.mp3"
start "" /wait "Song 2.mp3"
start "" /wait "Song 3.mp3"

[Aacini]

Simpler:

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"Song 1.mp3"
"Song 2.mp3"
"Song 3.mp3"

[raywood]

Sadly, that produces this:

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'"Song 1.mp3"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

[AR Coding]

Did you try my way?
Or

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start "" /wait "C:\path\to\IrfanView.exe" "C:\path\to\Song 1.mp3"
...
...

[Jer]

Didn't know about irfanview playing audio files and I just hammered this
out until it worked. Another part of this scheme could be to sort
the playlist in random order before playing.
Jerry

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@echo off
setlocal
set "musicpath=c:\music\"
set "pListpath=%muspath%myplist.m3u"
set "prg=c:\program files\irfanview\plugins\iv_player.exe"

pushd "%musicpath%"
>"%pListpath%" (For /F "tokens=*" %%s In ('dir /b "*.mp3"') Do echo %%s)
start "" "%prg%" "%pListpath%"
popd

endlocal & exit /b