Run Picard through start /d cmd

MusicBrainz Picard
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Greetings.

I launch programs to work with MB all at once through bat file. Syntax is:
start /d “path” exe-file

The problem is that picard doesnt launch correctly through this syntax. It launches, but console window stays open and if to close it manually, picard closes as well.

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start does open the command prompt windows. From the docs:

Starts a separate Command Prompt window to run a specified program or command.

Any specific reason you use start? Why not call picard.exe directly without the command prompt?

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If i execute:

@ECHO off
“e:\programs\MusicBrainz Picard\picard.exe”

Then the same thing happens - console window say opened.

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I assume @outsidecontext meant:

Directly call
e:\programs\MusicBrainz Picard\picard.exe
from your Windows Explorer or from a manually created shortcut to this location.

There is no console window if you start it this way (but then you can’t see any debug information anymore if you still use /d).

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Well, i need to launch several programs at once, so thats why i used batch file. I suppose i cant run them using shortcut?

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You can call it this way:

  1. Create a shortcut, in this example it is named picard.exe.lnk and saved in the same directory as picard.exe
  2. Use this syntax in your batch cmd file:
    start "" "e:\programs\MusicBrainz Picard\picard.exe.lnk"

But again, without console window you can’t see the debug information from the command line parameter /d

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This way it worked, thank you. :slight_smile:

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Just to give some background: Picard attempts to attach to the console if started from there, so log output is visible there (which can be extremely helpful when debugging crashes).

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