sounder.exe - play a wav file from the command line

Description:

Sounder.exe plays .wav files from the command line. It was written to provide audible alerts to windows batch files.

Be aware: I have been getting reports from users that Windows Defender and Virustotal think that sounder is a virus. I pulled it down, rebuilt it, put it back up - and my Windows Defender promptly deleted it. Then it deleted wget. Then I deleted Windows Defender. Its as good as I can make it - if you have concerns about its safety I invite you to build from source.

Usage: sounder [/stop] [/loop times] [/timer ms] [/help]  filename.wav

Options:
    /stop           Creates the file "stopfile" in the current directory, which will stop preexisting playback
    /loop times     Plays the wav file "times" times before exiting
    /timer ms       Stops after "ms" milliseconds, even if the sound isn't done
    /help           Shows this help screen.
    /id             Specify a custom stopfile id to stop this sound individually
    /stopbyid       Creates the stopfile specified by /id, which will stop all prexisting matching sounds
    /unique         Will not start playing a sound if another /unique sound with the same /id is already playing.

Options are provided in both the windows and unix styles.  The flags "-s", "/s", "/stop", "-l", "/l", "/loop", "-t", "/t", 
"/timer", "-h", "/?", "/help", "/h", "-v", "/v", "/version" all work but are omitted above for brevity.

In order to use the "stopfile" functionality, the working directory must be writable. 

Examples:

Its getting a little complicated, so for instance if you have two alarms, one alerting you to ducks and the other alerting you to bears, but want no more than one copy of each .wav playing simultaneously...

sounder.exe /id bears /stopbyid bears.wav

sounder.exe /id ducks /stopbyid ducks.wav

Those commands can be spammed - at any given time they will stop the playback of the specific wave file and start another, but won't interfere with the other wave file.

To make all the sound stop, regardless of /id, you can issue a "sounder.exe /stop". To make all sound stop and play a new .wav file issue a "sounder.exe /stop newfile.wav". (stops existing playback, then plays newfile.wav)

Download:

Listing directory https://download.elifulkerson.com/files/sounder/June2016:
 sounder-src.zip                               October 15 2017 18:46:58               31882     Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
 sounder-src.zip.asc                           October 15 2017 18:49:32                 801     GnuPG signature
 sounder-src.zip.md5                           October 15 2017 18:49:32                  50     MD5 checksum
 sounder-src.zip.sha1                          October 15 2017 18:49:32                  58     SHA1 checksum
 sounder-src.zip.sha256                        October 15 2017 18:49:32                  82     SHA256 checksum
 sounder-src.zip.sha512                        October 15 2017 18:49:32                 146     SHA512 checksum
 sounder.exe                                   October 15 2017 18:44:18               32768     PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386 Mono/.Net assembly, for MS Windows
 sounder.exe.asc                               October 15 2017 18:48:12                 801     GnuPG signature
 sounder.exe.md5                               October 15 2017 18:48:12                  46     MD5 checksum
 sounder.exe.sha1                              October 15 2017 18:48:12                  54     SHA1 checksum
 sounder.exe.sha256                            October 15 2017 18:48:12                  78     SHA256 checksum
 sounder.exe.sha512                            October 15 2017 18:48:12                 142     SHA512 checksum
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See also:

vid.zip - similarly, play a video file full screen
voice.exe - commandline text to speech