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Would you want an alarm clock plugin?

I would probably use it
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gekkomna

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Alarm clock plugin
« on: September 23, 2006, 08:24:01 pm »
I was thinking of buying an alarm clock today and then I heard this dean martin song on the tv - "How do you like your eggs in the morning" and i thought that it would be great to be woken up by that - or any other song for that matter.

Imagine a simple plugin that optionally set a wakeup time for each day of the week, and at the specified time randomly or specifically picked and played a track from MC which has been 'flagged' as a alarm track.

The 'flagging' could for example be by specifying a new field type - i.e. AlarmRing(Yes/No), the selection could be the same as an SQL select statement (?), and playing it should be quite easy given you're telling MC to do it.

I dont know anything about programming with MC, but from my old school programming experience I know this wouldn't be too difficult.


What do you all think?
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nathanchavez

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Re: Alarm clock plugin
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2006, 11:55:52 pm »
This can already be accomplished using MCs built-in scheduler.  Use a command line like:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\mjextman.exe /PlayReplace TREEPATH=Playlists\Wake

Just create a playing called "Wake,' in this case, and you should be all set.
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Re: Alarm clock plugin
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2006, 12:06:46 am »
A nice integrated user friendly option sounds good. You might want to look at nncronlite and some of the freeware alarm clocks so you know what is and isnt around.

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Mr ChriZ

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Re: Alarm clock plugin
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2006, 02:30:29 am »
What would be real funky is if you could get your computer
to turn on at say 7.00am.  Then have Media Center start playing
at 7.10am, thus saving electric too.
Quite easy on Dell PC's.
My Asus board on the other hand has been set up to do
that for the past four years.  One morning it did actually
work which gave me quite a shock at 5am...
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