I never expected spending hours on a simple shell command line!  This was
what I wrote to call winamp.exe to play an mp3 file:

dim sng as string
sng = "C:\My Song.mp3"
Call Shell("C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe " & sng)

I could call Winamp with this but could not correctly load the song.  Winamp
saw "My Song.mp3" as two songs, probably because of the space in the song
name.  I checked everything for a solution, including the official Winamp
site, but could not find any clue.  After hours of experimenting, I finally
found out that if there were spaces in the song name, the song name had to
be delimited with a pair of double quotations.   I changed my code and now
it works:

sng = chr(34) &  "C:\My Song.mp3" & chr(34)
Call Shell("C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe " & sng)

If you want to load more than one song, simply stack the song names:

sng = chr(34) &  "C:\My Song 1.mp3" & chr(34) & chr(34) &  "C:\My Song
2.mp3" & chr(34)

If you want to add songs using the "/ADD" parameter, the same syntax applies
as well.

There does not seem to be any direct documentation on this.  It might be
trivial but I hope it helps someone.

Kelvin Fun

This applies very generally. For example, on the MS-DOS command line:

del some file.txt
...gives an error (too many parameters) but...

del "some file.txt"
...does what you'd expect.

Eq.

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