How to make music play in background of batch game

Question

I am making a batch game in notepad and I was wondering how I can play the file music in the background.

I have this:

@echo off
start Music.mp3         


        

Answer 1

The closest your can get using internal commands of a command processor can only minimize a window. If you really want to "background" it, the script will be long and confusing.

start /min /c "" Music.mp3

Alternatively this:

@echo off
set "file=track12.mp3"
( echo Set Sound = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7"^)
  echo Sound.URL = "%file%"
  echo Sound.Controls.play
  echo do while Sound.currentmedia.duration = 0
  echo wscript.sleep 100
  echo loop
  echo wscript.sleep (int(Sound.currentmedia.duration^)+1^)*1000) >sound.vbs
cscript.exe //nologo sound.vbs

This creates a vbs that starts the music without a new window.

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User Lưu Vĩnh Phúc has suggested, using a hybrid script prevents the issue of cleaning up.

@echo off

rem ----START OF BATCH CODE---
rem You can paste your entire batch code down here, and use
rem the cscript command whenever you want to play the sound.

cscript //nologo "%~f0?.wsf" //job:VBS

rem ----END OF BATCH CODE---