A bell-ringer macro

jro11 · Dec 29, 2024

I run up against this desire repeatedly...
a) I'm doing a copy or a move and it's taking forever... or I'm running a program and it's taking forever...
b) and I have other things to do while waiting...

Is there a simple macro (even better, a macro with an interface, i.e., an app) that I can use to instruct my computer to ring a bell or produce a sound or play an mp3 when the process (of copying, moving, or running) has completed itself?

antspants · Dec 29, 2024

You could use Powershell to copy or move files and have it play a sound upon completeion. It would need to be run for every job with the move/copy to and from paths changed each time.

Full disclosure, this is a Co-Pilot script.

I would suggest testing it on two dummy folders.

A PowerShell script that will play a sound when a file copy or move operation is completed. This script uses the System.Media.SoundPlayer class to play a sound file. Make sure you have a .wav sound file that you want to play (e.g., completion_sound.wav), and update the path to the sound file in the script.

Powershell:

# Path to the sound file
$soundFilePath = "C:\path\to\your\completion_sound.wav"

# Function to play the sound
function Play-Sound {
    param (
        [string]$path
    )
    $player = New-Object System.Media.SoundPlayer
    $player.SoundLocation = $path
    $player.Load()
    $player.Play()
}

# Path to source and destination
$sourcePath = "C:\path\to\source\folder"
$destinationPath = "C:\path\to\destination\folder"

# Copy or move files
Copy-Item -Path $sourcePath\* -Destination $destinationPath

# Play sound after the copy or move operation is completed
Play-Sound -path $soundFilePath

If you prefer to move files instead of copying, you can replace the Copy-Item cmdlet with the Move-Item cmdlet:

Powershell:

Move-Item -Path $sourcePath\* -Destination $destinationPath

Don’t forget to set the sound path, add the sound path to where (replace the folowing with path) C:\path\to\your\completion_sound.wav
You could just direct it to an established “Ding” wave or something.

antspants · Dec 29, 2024

You would only use this for large copy/move jobs (if it works). Otherwise you’ll be rewriting the script with source/destination paths forever.

dacrone · Dec 29, 2024

Can be done a handful of ways.. PowerShell, Scheduled Task, AHK script but easiest would be to use a program that has that function built-in

FreeFileSync has it

jro11 · Dec 29, 2024

Thanks...both of you (forgot I had FreeFileSync).

How about the ability to play a sound when an app completes its task (e.g., Macrium completes its 2 hr image).

Brings back memories (25+ years ago...) when I was using Mac programs to run these kinds of programs (macro) with the ability to use conditionals, loop, etc.

A bell-ringer macro

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