# Dashboard audio node

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-audio-node/11232
**Category:** General
**Created:** [17 May 2019 10:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-audio-node/11232 "2019-05-17T10:23:59Z")
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### Author: ![RogierQ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/rogierq/32/3211_2.png) [@RogierQ](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/RogierQ)
#### Post date: [17 May 2019 10:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-audio-node/11232/1 "2019-05-17T10:23:59Z")

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Hi!

Windows talks to me instead of playing a pling  
This is what i send to the node  
msg.payload = "C:\Windows\Media\kennisgeving.wav"  
return msg;

what is wrong about this, in the manual i says it can play wav files

thanks!

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### Author: ![hotNipi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hotnipi/32/383_2.png) [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)
#### Post date: [17 May 2019 10:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-audio-node/11232/2 "2019-05-17T10:52:17Z")

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The manual says:  
Expects `msg.payload` to contain **a buffer** of a wav or mp3 file

So you'll need to read the file with file read node, configured to output buffer object

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### Author: ![RogierQ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/rogierq/32/3211_2.png) [@RogierQ](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/RogierQ)
#### Post date: [17 May 2019 11:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-audio-node/11232/3 "2019-05-17T11:11:53Z")

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Thanks!

Changed it now but keep getting errors like below  
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Eigenaar\Desktop\notify.wav'

when i enter the path in windows it plays.  
I also did double\ for the path