Play a basic sound in DOS promt (Batch file)

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budhax · #1 Post by **budhax** » 18 Feb 2008 21:45

Using the DOS command TYPE for some files you can hear a sound, then (in some cases) the process displaying the file's content stops (few characters later). This is my start point idea to play a sound in DOS.

From an Excel file (.xls) I extracted a character playing a sound, and I surrounded it by letter 'a' and 'b' in this file: http://airfirst.ch/b2/SoundChar.txt
In fact, it is just the BELL character in the ASCII table:
http://www.asciitable.com

So, here is a way to play a system sound in DOS:

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ECHO

where the character after "ECHO " is this BELL character. It looks like a big dot (in EditPlus editor).

Do you know another way to play a sound in DOS?
Any comment, improvement will be appreciate.
Thanks.

"System sound" means sound played by motherboard's speaker, so you can hear it without external speakers or sound card.

DosItHelp · #2 Post by **DosItHelp** » 19 Feb 2008 21:25

budhax,
Nice! You can create the bell character directly with your keyboard, i.e. on the command line type:

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c:>echo [ALT+7]

[ALT+7] - hold down the ALT key, type '7' on the number pad, release the ALT key.
On my box [ALT+7] shows up as:

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c:>echo ^G

However typing '^G' is not the same.

Thanks for sharing!

davep · #3 Post by **davep** » 29 May 2008 14:58

Interesting, but I can't reproduce your success.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
Toshiba Satellite A105 X86-based PC

Thebetr1 · #4 Post by **Thebetr1** » 30 Jun 2008 04:00

A beeper we made years ago ... guess we were bored

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@ECHO OFF
title Beeper
:top
>nul
pause
goto top

Skeletor · #5 Post by **Skeletor** » 04 Sep 2008 07:08

I like using .wav files in my dos scripts

sndrec32.exe /play /close ringin.wav

carlitos.dll · #6 Post by **carlitos.dll** » 04 Sep 2008 15:55

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DosItHelp · #7 Post by **DosItHelp** » 08 Sep 2008 19:57

Skeletor,
I searched a little more and found the /embedding flag allow to run it without UI:

sndrec32.exe /embedding /play /close "C:\WINDOWS\Media\Windows XP Startup.wav"

What a beauty - thanks for sharing!
:wink:

carlitos.dll,
Very interesting. Question: Why do you need expand command, can't the EXE be create directly?
It should be possible to create any binary file, like WAV files. Any examples?
:wink: