Use Your Computer as a Music Alarm Clock /NO SOFTWARE

Shows you how to use your computer to launch a batch file to allow your computer to work as an alarm clock with Microsoft's scheduled tasks option.

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Music
• Alarm Clock
• Batch
• Bat to exe converter
• Tutorials
• Song
• Alarm
• Software
• Windows
• Clock
• Hack

[robinmitra1]

Hey thanks a lot for the tutorial! In addition to just playing the music file, I used nircmd to gradually increase the volume at small intervals until I press a key...perfect for mornings!

[dlopes381]

@robinmitra1 that's pretty interesting. Mind sharing how?

[rafilo007]

How can I run it for a complete iTunes playlist ?

[dlopes381]

@rafilo007

You will need to open Itunes and right click on the playlist you want and export it as a m3u file.

Than all you have to do is create the batch file to launch the new .m3u file instead of the mp3.

Itunes should open, launching the playlist.

Hope this helps, if you need more help feel free to ask

[vickybandlover]

Awesome it totally works and I found a way to start a specific playlist instead of just one song. ^-^ I know probably some other people have figured that out too but w/e it's still a win!

[dlopes381]

@vickybandlover Glad I could help you out! If you have any questions feel free to ask. I will do my best to help you.

[dilldb]

Thanks! Works 100% and it sure beats paying for a program the does the same thing.

[XxELiTeGLiTcHeRsxX]

that is so cool awesome i need to do it to wake my ass up tomozzzzz lol

[VideoGuyNC]

If your file extension of choice, (for music in this case) is set to your chosen program, all you need to do is to set the Task scheduler to run the mp3 file. The .bat file is completely unnecessary with media files.

[robinmitra1]

@robinmitra1 I let the script wait for user input for a few seconds before increasing the volume further when the user doesn't press anything and shutting down windows media player when the user presses the required key. But running the script as a scheduled task doesn't display the console window (cmd), which defeats the whole purpose of user input. Therefore, this forces me to use the task manager to kill the script and windows media player manually. Let me know if u know a solution to this..

[robinmitra1]

@dlopes381 sure..I couldn't find a way to natively change system volume using batch programming. So, I used nircmd command line utility which is very easy to use and doesn't need installation. In my batch script, I set the volume level using nircmd to a preset value and started playing the song. Then, I used a FOR loop for increasing the volume in increments using nircmd..

[robinmitra1]

@Monitorreiniger lmao!

[robinmitra1]

@XxxnnnLi Works for me..mine starts Windows Media Player..this method will open the "default" player associated with the media you are trying to open.

[bry252123]

too complicated... too tired :( lol my friend borrowed my ipod i ussually just use an app on my ipod but yeah.. night who ever is lame enough to read this.. lol jk

[malixian]

Great vid! Thank you!

[XxxnnnLi]

didnt work for me... do you have to use itunes? I use vlc player as my default and i used a flac music file. did i do anything wrong?