[mattmarshall]

Hey all

I hate waking up to a damn alarm clock. I want to wake up to the beautiful music coming out of my Powerbook.

Is there a program that will allow me to put my Mac to SLEEP (save energy) and have it wake up at a certain time the next morning, and begin playing a "wake up" playlist? Or even just a certain song?

I would love this. Have you seen it anywhere?

- matt

[Developer]

Code:
tell application "iTunes"
	tell source "Library"
		tell playlist "Top 25 Played"
			set this_track to some track
			play this_track
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

Play Random Favorite Song

You need to adjust this to the playlist you want to play (they are called differently for everybody), then paste into Scripteditor and save as application with the name "Play Random Favorite Song" or so.
Then you can create a daily repeating event in iCal and as the reminder you select "Open this file" instead of message window.

However this doesn't work if the computer goes to sleep or the lid is closed, so it's not very reliable.

[akkeri]

Alarm Clock Pro can handle this for you, too.

[tooki]

*yawn* *cough* VersionTracker and/or MacUpdate and/or Google *cough*

tooki

[gorickey]

Originally posted by tooki:
*yawn* *cough* VersionTracker and/or MacUpdate and/or Google *cough*

tooki

tooki needs to take a sick day...

[mattmarshall]

yeah, i know about VT. I was just wondering about people's experiences with the different ones. I tried a bunch, and iBeezz seems great.


- matt

[BoulderDash]

Just throwing this in: Panic's Audion 3 has an Alarm Clock function.

BD

[Chuckit]

I've always been fond of MP3 Alarm Clock. It's a pretty nice alarm clock app. It doesn't put your computer to sleep or wake it up, but the Energy Saver preferences can do that.

[zen jihad]

You could use the energy saver prefs ane to wake your computer up at a set time each day. Then have iCal trigger iTunes to start playing at a time just afte the Mac wakes up. You can even set this to start your Mac up from cold. It;s what I do, works a treat.