Maybe a question asked before but here it goes.

I am creating a very simple perl-based poem for my girlfriend who I am meeting (met her online) for the first time next week. It's really simple but I thought it'd be cute. It will just post line by line with a little sleep interval in there (by the way: if you can think of some other cutsie thing for it, let me know!).

The question is.. From the command line in Windows XP, is there a way to play a MP3 sound file WITHOUT opening an external player like WMP? I was hoping to open a song while the first line of the poem was posted and then after the last line it will kill the song.

Anyone know how this would be done?

In reply to Playing music within CMD on WinXP by Anonymous Monk

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