Creating music with batch - batch-file

Question

i wanted to know if there is some way of doing music with batch, not just opening a mp3 file from cmd, but commands to do notes or something like that. If there really isn't how to do it, i understand.

Answer 1

batch can play music by creating and starting a vbs script to Leverage the internal windows media player.
Note: In all the below scripts, the variable %sounds% refers to the folder your sound scripts are located, and must be defined.
The core of playing music is the following Batch Script:
#Echo off & REM MusicPlayer.bat
Set "MusicPath=%~1" & REM Full Path for the music file
Set "vol=%~2" & REM Volume as number between 0 and 100
Set "LoopTF=%~3" & REM 'paramater 3 as 'true' or 'false' determines if the track is to be looped.
(
PUSHD %sounds%
%= Change to the directory your sound files are located =%)
::: Ensure no Conflict with the Previous Script.
IF exist PlayMusic.vbs (
DEL PlayMusic.vbs
)
::: Creates a vbs Script to launch the music (Occurs without any visual indication or prompting)
(
echo Set Sound = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7"^)
echo Sound.URL = "%MusicPath%"
echo Sound.settings.volume = %vol%
echo Sound.settings.setMode "loop", %LoopTF%
echo Sound.Controls.play
echo While Sound.playState ^<^> 1
echo WScript.Sleep 100
echo Wend
echo Sound objTS = Nothing 'Destroy the object.
)>PlayMusic.vbs
start /min PlayMusic.vbs
(
POPD
%= Return to your Previous Directory =%)
::: Exit the Launcher and return to Previous batch program.
GOTO :EOF
The above script is called with 3 parameters as Remarked.
Another Vbs can be used to Monitor the batch's status and call a batch script to stop the music when the batch is closed:
#Echo off & REM Monitor.bat
(
ECHO Set objWMIService = GetObject ("winmgmts:"^)
ECHO Set proc = objWMIService.ExecQuery("select * from Win32_Process Where Name='cmd.exe'"^)
ECHO DO while proc.count ^> 0
ECHO Set proc = objWMIService.ExecQuery("select * from Win32_Process Where Name='cmd.exe'"^)
ECHO if proc.count ^< 1 then exit do
ECHO wscript.sleep 1500
ECHO loop
ECHO Set WshShell=createobject("wscript.shell"^)
ECHO WshShell.run "%sounds%\KillMusic.bat", 0, true
)>%sounds%\MusicMonitor.vbs
start %sounds%\MusicMonitor.vbs
Goto :EOF
The above script creates a hidden vbs that fetches the number of instances of cmd.exe via the objWMIService.ExecQuery. This occurs during a loop, with the break condition being 0 open cmd.exe windows. A sleep is built into the loop to reduce the frequency of calls to the WMI service, as these are very resource intensive. When the loop break occurs, it starts the killmusic.bat program in a hidden state.
The below script "KillMusic.bat" is called either directly in your quit label or by the vbs monitor when it determines Cmd.exe is no longer running. DoMonitor is a variable that is changed in your main script prior to killmusic being called. 1 indicates the monitor should be restarted, and is used when killmusic.bat stops a currently playing song to start a new song. Monitor is a Variable containing the path to Monitor.bat
#ECHO OFF & REM KillMusic.bat
taskkill /pid WScript.exe /f /t >nul
IF exist "%sounds%\PlayMusic.vbs" (
DEL /Q "%sounds%\PlayMusic.vbs"
)
Timeout 1 > nul
IF "%DoMonitor%"=="1" GOTO reset
GOTO :EOF
:reset
CALL "%Monitor%"
GOTO :EOF
These three programs can be seen in effect here.