mp3 playing at windows startup - Tech Support Forums

rockpile · April 24th, 2003, 06:45 AM

Not sure if this is the right forum but I was just wondering I have a mp3 from one of my favorite tv shows and was wondering if there is a way to make it play at windows startup and if possible how would I do that TIA.

Rockpile

muno · April 24th, 2003, 06:48 AM

Convert it to wav, goto sound and multimedia properties and browse for it in 'windows startup' sound.
-M

//edit: Gotta add that sounds make startup take longer. Eg. you put a 40mb wav file to play on startup, that takes huge amount of resources and a bunch of time to free cpu cycles for other tasks.

MrRatt · April 24th, 2003, 06:52 AM

or just put a shortcut link to the MP3 in your Startup directory on the start menu, that will have the same effect if you want to keep the filesize small

Creatures · April 24th, 2003, 06:58 AM

you're right MrRatt you can put the shortcut into the startup directory, but i wouldnt do that, because my PC loads too many things, so winamp or WMP would crash my system immediately

Creatures

rockpile · April 24th, 2003, 10:38 AM

Thanks for the response guys the file size is only 872kb says 44 seconds in media player so I will try what muno said and check back later thanks again.