alarm clock that will play music to wake me up ?

[djmh]

uhhhm, well if you know of a website or program i can download that will play a song of mine to wake me up that would be great ....

thanks !

[Regenweald]

Exaile has an alarm clock plugin. Not sure how many other players have such a feature. I've used it a few times.

[Superkoop]

sudo apt-get install alarm-clock
;)


-Seriously...

[unforgiven512]

I find the alarm-clock package wonderful =D

It's very customizable, and the templates -- awesome.

Would be pretty sweet if it pulled the birthdays from your contacts in evolution.

[LookTJ]

You could use cron as an alarm :)

command vlc to play a media file.

[moster]

sudo apt-get install alarm-clock
;)

-Seriously...

OMG, how simple and easy install, look and behave. Near perfection, thanks :D

[myusername]

i personally use the alarmclock plugin for rhythmbox and it works great. just google it and you'll find it pretty easily

[unforgiven512]

Also, for the record, I've always found the alarm at onlineclock.net (http://www.onlineclock.net) to work quite well. It's web/flash based. And it doesn't exactly play music. But it does its job.

[capnthommo]

Re: alarm clock that will play music to wake me up ?
Code:

sudo apt-get install alarm-clock



hey, really excellent. thanks from me too. brilliant.
:)

[misterfixit]

hey, really excellent. thanks from me too. brilliant.
:)

here is an example: once you run alarm-clock and set it to do it's thing, try this for a test (place in the "execute a command entry area":

audacious --play http://everego.com:8000/classic

[RabbitWho]

Is it safe to leave a laptop plugged in and turned on all night? I can't help but wonder if I'd be seriously hurting its life span.

[bodyharvester]

Is it safe to leave a laptop plugged in and turned on all night? I can't help but wonder if I'd be seriously hurting its life span.

i started a thread not long ago asking the same, plenty of stuff on that there, maybe give it a bump if youre really concerned?

here it is -
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1251532

[RabbitWho]

i started a thread not long ago asking the same, plenty of stuff on that there, maybe give it a bump if youre really concerned?

here it is -
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1251532


Thanks! :)

I took a look at the alarm clock anyway, it's excellent.. you an set different allarms for different days.. wonderful for me because I start work at a different hour every day.. and I know what you're thinking.. just pick the earliest time you have to get up and get up at that time every day.. but the earliest morning for me is 6 and every evening ends at 8, so basically as soon as my head hits the pillow I'm asleep.
Anyway this would really help me, and being woken up by music and not the infernal beep would reduce my stress levels... though i'll need the beep for backup.

[bodyharvester]

Thanks! :)

I took a look at the alarm clock anyway, it's excellent.. you an set different allarms for different days.. wonderful for me because I start work at a different hour every day.. and I know what you're thinking.. just pick the earliest time you have to get up and get up at that time every day.. but the earliest morning for me is 6 and every evening ends at 8, so basically as soon as my head hits the pillow I'm asleep.
Anyway this would really help me, and being woken up by music and not the infernal beep would reduce my stress levels... though i'll need the beep for backup.

which alarm clock? the apt-get or a music player? im gonna use exaile to wake me up to the Dethalbum II

[RabbitWho]

which alarm clock? the apt-get or a music player? im gonna use exaile to wake me up to the Dethalbum II

The apt get one works as a music player. (but probably just plays one song as opposed to going through the whole folder, I haven't tried yet, but if there's a way to get it to go through the folder I'd be happy to hear it)
Bjork is going to wake me up ha ha.

What else was I going to say.. it's completely slipped my mind

[pwnst*r]

Thanks! :)

I took a look at the alarm clock anyway, it's excellent.. you an set different allarms for different days.. wonderful for me because I start work at a different hour every day.. and I know what you're thinking.. just pick the earliest time you have to get up and get up at that time every day.. but the earliest morning for me is 6 and every evening ends at 8, so basically as soon as my head hits the pillow I'm asleep.
Anyway this would really help me, and being woken up by music and not the infernal beep would reduce my stress levels... though i'll need the beep for backup.

also, you can use Audacity to fade the music in gradually, which helps even with softer music (unless of course one of these programs adjusts that for you).

[bodyharvester]

also, you can use Audacity to fade the music in gradually, which helps even with softer music (unless of course one of these programs adjusts that for you).

i think exaile does

[Jesus_Valdez]

I use alarm-clok and its great.

I like the way I can put some nice words to woke me up each morning, it's great to wake up and see something like "you're awesome" with great music in my laptop.

[misterfixit]

Is it safe to leave a laptop plugged in and turned on all night? I can't help but wonder if I'd be seriously hurting its life span.

I seriously doubt that it would hurt it's lifespan. If the laptop is plugged into the wall then it is running on wall power with a trickle charge to the battery. Assuming you have the screen saver set and so forth, it will simply come to life once alarm-clock runs. As for life span, you most likely will not own it more than a few years at the most, as the permanent implantation brain to Internet is coming along in the next 10 years.