Command-Line Media Player?

[Kirsle]

Does anybody know of a command-line media player for Windows, which doesn't have a GUI?

i.e. something kinda like Sendmail where you can access it from Perl, but which doesn't have a GUI.

What I want to use it for is to play sound files (like MIDI, MP3, etc.) and could distribute it with some of my programs so the end users don't have to go through all the hassle of installing Audio::Audiere or something.

So... it could run the media player, then control its process to keep track of it to stop, start, play a new file, etc.

Google searches haven't returned anything useful. Windows Media Player (mplayer2.exe) has command-line options to start media files, but there's no option to run it without the GUI. So using that as a means of playing sound clips would be kind of distracting when the window keeps popping up. ;-)

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[audiopro]

Back in 1995, before we had even heard of MP3's, we worked with .wav files, called from DOS and played via an early version of Winamp. No set up was required but I fear that would be too simple now, in this crazy, gizmo driven world. You could run multiple instances of it and up to 5 would play nicely together on a PC with a 210Mb hard drive and 4 Meg of memory.
Have we made progress?


Keith

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