Play sound on remote server when a user visits a certain webpage

Question

I've to play a sound on the server machine when I access on certain page with a client machine.

Is that possible with classic ASP?

Answer 1

ASP being just a scripting language doesn't offer any facility to directly play a sound clip. But we can use the CreateObject function to create a command shell instance and run sndrec32 (Sound recorder available in Win XP) and pass the .WAV sound file's path as an argument to it between double quotes.

Create a module file: functions.asp

Option Explicit

Dim strSoundFile, objShell, strCommand

Sub PlaySound()
    strSoundFile = "C:\Path\of\some\file.wav"
    Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
    strCommand = "sndrec32 /play /close " & chr(34) & strSoundFile & chr(34)
    objShell.Run strCommand, 0, True
End Sub

In your ASP code, enter the following code at the beginning of the page where you want to make the call:

<!--#include file="functions.asp"-->

PlaySound

Reference: How-can-i-play-a-sound-from-within-a-script