Looking for minimal wav player *** Found one ***

[anandfan]

Want a very simple wav player. I'd like to just click on the filename while within Windows Explorer and have the wav play in the background without popping up a new window. Or you may know some options I can pass to WMP to force it to do this.

 

[igowerf]

You can set Winamp to just sit in the tray and play whatever you load up.

 

[foofoo]

i'm partial to coolplayer
try here...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/coolplayer/
enjoy

 

[Sid59]

foobar.

 

[anandfan]

thanks for the replies. while I'm sure these are all fine players, they are also far beyond what I consider a minimal player. I 'm looking for something so small it loads instantly and can't do anything except play a wav and then die. No menus, no file selectors, no windows. just sound. it's the kind of program I think should be the default for opening wav files.

 

[glugglug]

Your windows explorer doesn't do this in the preview pane?!?!?! Are you using windows 3.1?

 

[anandfan]

Your windows explorer doesn't do this in the preview pane?!?!?!

No. I use Windows Explorer (under Win XP) to browse folders containing wav files and then double click on a wav file to play it. This starts my all-in-one media player (MM Jukebox, what can I say, I like it), plays the file, then waits for me to close the player. I just want to double click the wav file and hear it. I don't want to see the player, don't want to close the player, and don't want to lose my place in the folder.

 

[glugglug]

just click the file (not double click) and wait half a second and a play button will appear on the left side...

 

[theAnimal]

What about WAVBrowser?

 

[glugglug]

wait I think I figured out a better one:

Go into REGEDIT.

Look for the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SoundRec\shell\open\command
Set the Default value to

mplay32.exe /play /close "%L"

INCLUDE THE QUOTES.

That should do what you want.

 

[anandfan]

Thanks, all. I finally found a program I liked via alt.comp.freeware: "MicroWav".

From here:Bob's Best Freeware

Excerpt from program description:

Do you sometimes think the Windows Media Player is more than you need to audition a few tiny WAV sounds? MicroWav is an alternative to this monumental overkill. Unlike the cumbersome Windows Media Player, MicroWav loads instantly. It is invisible, and is very stable. Just for fun, you can select and play multiple .wav files.

Size: 18K bytes !!!!

 

[anandfan]

glugglug:

just click the file (not double click) and wait half a second and a play button will appear on the left side...

Doesn't work that way on my machine. Neither a RMB nor a LMB will give me a play button.

OTH, your registry hack looks like it would work. But I'm happy with MicroWav and will keep it.

Thanks for looking into it!

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: glugglug
just click the file (not double click) and wait half a second and a play button will appear on the left side...

For some stupid reason, the windows media preview pane that was present in 2000 was removed for both editions of XP....those bufoons! I used to use that all the time with w2k.

BUT...one problem it used to cause was that if you previewed the file, then tried to move it, it said it was in use, you had to click on another file and preview that before moving the first, this may have been why they got rid of it.

Jamie

p.s: that little wav utility sounds great, put it on me list of things to get.