[play audio without starting an app - how?]

Hmm, no, it doesnt work on my system either... but then I do have a lot of services disabled, so maybe thats got something to do with it.

The code looks like it should work... but it still brings up a window (the echo dialogue to keep it open while playing) so it's not so useful.

...unless i was to interrogate the wav for it's length, and then make the code stay active for that period...

I don't know how easy that is.

I think there is a directX control in msc with the same name, so I will try activating it that way if i can figure it out... just to expriment a little.

Thanks for that suggestion.

Drop this thread a comment if you do see anything else please.

[play audio without starting an app - how?]

Hmmm.

So by what function does the OS make it's various sounds?

Is there some function call i can access via vbscript/jscript etc?

(ie: WITHOUT coding a compiled app)

Thats what i want to do: use scheduler, or 'at' to play audio at a particular time...WITHOUT any application popping up or starting to do so.

[autorun -> send index of CD to text file]

Yeah, the syntax is probably missing an & - i was expanding my original code to see where the problem was.. and gave up midway.

I'm passing to the vbs from a cmd because i cant make an autorun handler that will execute a .vbs .... and all it really needs to pass is the drive letter.

Also, excuse my ignorance, but what is an FSO?

I'll assume its another registry key, and have a look for it later...but it doesn't sound like one.

And no, i make sure I name ALL my CDs/DVD's with the date and an alpha letter.

(if i burn something for someone else I couldnt care less, it's rare and i don't catalogue them)

eg:

20041002a (for today - cd 1)

20041002b (for today - cd 2)

etc

(it's not likely i'd ever burn more than 26 CDs in a day, but i'd go to "aa" "ab" ..."az" "ba" "bb"... "bz" etc if i ever did.)

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[Autoplay]

As you suggest; a registry key will probably be easiest for your purposes, however if you have TweakUI.exe you can fiddle it in there as well.

OR, just right click on the drive -> properties -> autoplay (tab) and figure out which one is set.

[play audio without starting an app - how?]

I'd like to shedule a wav file to play at specific times (like an alarm clock) but I do not want to start an app when it plays - basically I just want the underlying OS to make the sound, NOT start media player (or anything else).

Is this possible?

[autorun -> send index of CD to text file]

Sorry if I was difficult to understand.

After I posted i tried writing a script to do what i wanted.. it seems to work a bit, but still errors.

Heres how it works:

1) a file called CDIndex.cmd is in \windows folder

----contents of file----

CDIndex.vbs %1

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2) a file called CDIndex.vbs is also in \windows

---- contents of file----

Set Sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

VolKey = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Current Media\Disc Label"

WriteKey = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Common Documents"

VolName = Sh.RegRead(VolKey)

WriteName = Sh.RegRead(WriteKey)

Command = "dir" & " " & Mid(Wscript.Arguments(1),2) & " " & "/o:n /b>" WriteName & "\" & VolName & ".txt"

Sh.Exec(Command)

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So basically Autorun (through a handler I made) passes "%L" (drive:/) to the .CMD, which calls the script and passes it the drive name (eg: w:/).

The script then checks the registry to get it's label (name)...

... and the default "my documents" folder location...

...and then does a "dir" command with some parameters...

...and pipes the output into a text file with the same name as the CD label.

So why does it constantly give a 'subscript out of range" error?

Is my syntax wrong?

[autorun -> send index of CD to text file]

I like to keep a text file that contains a "dir /o:n /b >>CDindex.txt" for easy searching of my multitudinous media.

question:

How would I use something like VBscript to interrogate the inserted CD for it's label/name, so I can get autorun to exec the script, so that simply by inserting a CD/DVD it would write/update a text index file on my local drive?

Where each text/index file has the same name as the CD.