Program to play audio transparently

[Adam]

I'm in need of a program that will play a wav file behind the scenes.

I have software that monitors panic/camera systems. The program allows me to launch a "program" when a certain action happens. Right now I have it launching the .wav file, which basically opens media center and plays the file. However, media center stays on the screen. I also don't want the user to see media center launching. I just basically want the audio file to play behind the scenes.

I'm fine running something in system tray, the user doesn't see that, but as far as programs running on the bottom task bar, we just want our monitoring software running, so they cant click around and do wrong.

Any ideas how to accomplish this? The software doesnt let me just pick a wav file (which would be nice) i can launch a program... with command lines... so any thoughts?

 

[Adam]

Update: I've found a program called cmdmp3 - works great... however my damn software does not like me adding additional command lines to the program im running, that's another issue though:

http://www.mailsend-online.com/blog/a-command-line-mp3-player-for-windows.html

 

[RedTalon19]

I know you can set Winamp to display only in the taskbar, just set that as the default program for .wav files and it will play in the background like you want when your alert program launches those .wav files.