I’d like to get a peep out of my Windows 7 machine. Actually, I’d like something louder but I’d settle for a peep.
The problem has been created by my aquarium. Don’t worry. It didn’t leak over the computer. I have bright lights for aquatic plants which need to be turned on at 10:30 a.m, on at 12:30 p.m., off at 8:30 p.m., and off 10:30 p.m. These simulate the spectral patterns of tropical daylight. I’m proud to say I saved $60 by not buying the automatic controller for the lights in the knowledge that I could schedule a task in Win7. That works just fine and an alert window pops up four times a day to remind me to change the lights.
The only problem is it doesn’t pop up. It remains buried under any other windows I have opened so I tried to add sound to the scheduled task. I can start Windows Media Player from the scheduled task and make it play a .wav sound, but the /close parameter does not seem to be available in version 12. Also, I spend a lot of time listening to radio or music on Windows Media Player and it doesn’t handle double duty well.
Are there any other programs that can play a .wav sound and can be run from a command line?
