Playing .WAV files from Citect

After fighting with playing .WAV files from Citect, I am still having a bit of an issue.

Using Windows Media player, it seems that it attempts to connect to the internet, even though I have turned off everything in the settings except for associating the music files with .WAV files.  This gives a blue rotating circle and a program running indication in the Task bar.  We have had this happen to the point where the Citect program becomes unresponsive until the operations are finished.

The systems I work on do not have internet connections, so this must be due to retrying and eventually failing.

Question here is if anybody has used another lightweight program that just plays the file without the overhead?

I am assuming that Windows Media Player does not give the ability to turn these things off, but maybe I have missed them.

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  • Hi All,

    In October 2020 Update there was a fix (see readme):

    66451 - DspPlaySound() had issues in playing system sounds.
    As part of this there was an additional fix :
    C:\Program Files (x86)\AVEVA\Citect SCADA 2018 R2\Bin\SE.Citect.PlaySound.exe is from Oct 2020 update onward no longer called for Win7Sp1 or greater. (So Ash, this should remove the need to remove it on a future update)

    Earlier OS'es still use SE.Citect.PlaySound.exe since there was a memory leak on these OS'es.
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  • Hi All,

    In October 2020 Update there was a fix (see readme):

    66451 - DspPlaySound() had issues in playing system sounds.
    As part of this there was an additional fix :
    C:\Program Files (x86)\AVEVA\Citect SCADA 2018 R2\Bin\SE.Citect.PlaySound.exe is from Oct 2020 update onward no longer called for Win7Sp1 or greater. (So Ash, this should remove the need to remove it on a future update)

    Earlier OS'es still use SE.Citect.PlaySound.exe since there was a memory leak on these OS'es.
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