How to make music play in background of batch game

Question

I am making a batch game in notepad and I was wondering how I can play the file music in the background.

I have this:

@echo off
start Music.mp3
Pause

What this does is it starts my music named Music.mp3 but it starts it in a separate window that pops up. What I want is for it to start playing, but not pop up in a window. I also want it to start and play in the background as I play my game.

Any ways I could do this?

Answer 1

The closest your can get using internal commands of a command processor can only minimize a window. If you really want to "background" it, the script will be long and confusing.

start /min /c "" Music.mp3

Alternatively this:

@echo off
set "file=track12.mp3"
( echo Set Sound = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7"^)
  echo Sound.URL = "%file%"
  echo Sound.Controls.play
  echo do while Sound.currentmedia.duration = 0
  echo wscript.sleep 100
  echo loop
  echo wscript.sleep (int(Sound.currentmedia.duration^)+1^)*1000) >sound.vbs
cscript.exe //nologo sound.vbs

This creates a vbs that starts the music without a new window.

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User Lưu Vĩnh Phúc has suggested, using a hybrid script prevents the issue of cleaning up.

@echo off

rem ----START OF BATCH CODE---
rem You can paste your entire batch code down here, and use
rem the cscript command whenever you want to play the sound.

cscript //nologo "%~f0?.wsf" //job:VBS

rem ----END OF BATCH CODE---

<package>
  <job id="JS"> 
    <script language="VBScript">

       Set Sound = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7")
       Sound.URL = "%file%"
       Sound.Controls.play
       do while Sound.currentmedia.duration = 0
       wscript.sleep 100
       loop
       wscript.sleep (int(Sound.currentmedia.duration)+1)*1000)

  </script>
</job>

Answer 2

Here's another script based on WMPlayer.OCX.You can use it like:

mediarunner.bat Music.mp3

Here's one based on the bgsound tag in internet explorer.It allows you also to set sound volume as parameter.Does not require installed media player unlike WMPlayer.OCX approach:

soundPlayer.bat Music.mp3 -50

One based on SP objects though unfortunately it can play only wav files:

spplayer.bat file.wav

None of the script creates temp files.