How To Create A Usable Alarm Clock With Your iPod

mtorbin · 09:04 AM

(PLEASE NOTE THAT I'M TYPING THIS FROM A SIDEKICK SO I APPOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE IF THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THIS THREAD.)

So, you are like me and you listen to your iPod while you're sleeping. You've played with the alarm feature, but it doesn't really ACT like an alarm, right? Now you can change that! Here's how:

1) Get an alarm sound that is particularly annoying and load it into your iTunes master library.

2) Create a new playlist and call it "alarm".

3) Drag this new alarm sound into that playlist. I also made sure that this play list looped in iTunes, but I'm not sure if that carries over to the iPod.

4) Sync your iPod with iTunes.

5) Go to CLOCK > ALARM CLOCK > SOUND on you iPod and select the new playlist that you just created called "alarm".

You're all set! The next time you set you iPod alarm you'll actually have an alarm to wake up to.

- MT

virividox · Feb 4, 2004, 10:02 AM

i used to use the ipod as an alarm and did that annoying sound, but then i just wastes battery, now i use my annoying cell phone

but its a good idea

Wash!! · Feb 4, 2004, 11:24 AM

I use my ipod as an alarm since day one..I made a playlist called 'morning songs" selected the most upbeat songs, set the ipod to shuffle songs.

I have different song every morning to wake me up..

cubist · Feb 4, 2004, 12:46 PM

How can you sleep with the earbuds in?

Wash!! · Feb 4, 2004, 12:52 PM

I plug it to this old headsets I have set the volume to the max an put it next to my night stand, it is loud enough to wake you up, you could get also very cheap little speakers and do it that way too but the old headset works fine for me.

pncc · Feb 4, 2004, 01:01 PM

You can also use the new Griffin Technology iTalk voice recorder as it has a small speaker. The Belkin one also works, but I like GT's products better.

mtorbin · Feb 4, 2004, 01:50 PM

Actually, I have those "over ear" headphones by Sony (the ones that cost like $10 and are blue) and they mostly stay in all night long. Granted, when I move next year I'm getting speakers for my bedroom.

- MT

Feb 4, 2004, 09:01 AM	#1
mtorbin macrumors member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Philadelphia	How To Create A Usable Alarm Clock With Your iPod (PLEASE NOTE THAT I'M TYPING THIS FROM A SIDEKICK SO I APPOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE IF THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THIS THREAD.) So, you are like me and you listen to your iPod while you're sleeping. You've played with the alarm feature, but it doesn't really ACT like an alarm, right? Now you can change that! Here's how: 1) Get an alarm sound that is particularly annoying and load it into your iTunes master library. 2) Create a new playlist and call it "alarm". 3) Drag this new alarm sound into that playlist. I also made sure that this play list looped in iTunes, but I'm not sure if that carries over to the iPod. 4) Sync your iPod with iTunes. 5) Go to CLOCK > ALARM CLOCK > SOUND on you iPod and select the new playlist that you just created called "alarm". You're all set! The next time you set you iPod alarm you'll actually have an alarm to wake up to. - MT __________________ Matt Torbin President Center City Philadelphia Macintosh Users Group http://www.ccpmug.org/ Last edited by mtorbin : Feb 4, 2004 at 09:04 AM.

Feb 4, 2004, 10:02 AM	#2
virividox macrumors 68040 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Manila - Nottingham - Philadelphia - Santa Barbara - Boston (ugh hate not knowing where to call home)	i used to use the ipod as an alarm and did that annoying sound, but then i just wastes battery, now i use my annoying cell phone but its a good idea __________________ 17" MBP , 2 gig ram, 200 gig fw800 + 120 gig fw400 + 250 gig usb2 ext, 5g 80gig Ipod, Tiger d200 & d70

Feb 4, 2004, 11:24 AM	#3
Wash!! macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: here, there, who knows	Old news.. I use my ipod as an alarm since day one..I made a playlist called 'morning songs" selected the most upbeat songs, set the ipod to shuffle songs. I have different song every morning to wake me up.. __________________ Anyone who has never make a mistake has never tried anything new... imagination is more important than knowledge ----- G5 1.8Ghz 1gig ram baby!!!; G3 B/W/512 ram; G4 400/1 gigi ram; G4 450/20gig/1.5 gig ram; iMac 400 special edition; PowerMac 7100/80mhz; Mac LC; 15gig 3G ipod-1994 songs and counting!!; 5 gig Original ipod-200 songs (mostly Japanese); newton 100; newton 130

Feb 4, 2004, 12:52 PM	#5
Wash!! macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: here, there, who knows	you don't I plug it to this old headsets I have set the volume to the max an put it next to my night stand, it is loud enough to wake you up, you could get also very cheap little speakers and do it that way too but the old headset works fine for me. __________________ Anyone who has never make a mistake has never tried anything new... imagination is more important than knowledge ----- G5 1.8Ghz 1gig ram baby!!!; G3 B/W/512 ram; G4 400/1 gigi ram; G4 450/20gig/1.5 gig ram; iMac 400 special edition; PowerMac 7100/80mhz; Mac LC; 15gig 3G ipod-1994 songs and counting!!; 5 gig Original ipod-200 songs (mostly Japanese); newton 100; newton 130

Feb 4, 2004, 01:50 PM	#7
mtorbin Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Philadelphia	Actually, I have those "over ear" headphones by Sony (the ones that cost like $10 and are blue) and they mostly stay in all night long. Granted, when I move next year I'm getting speakers for my bedroom. - MT __________________ Matt Torbin President Center City Philadelphia Macintosh Users Group http://www.ccpmug.org/

Feb 4, 2004, 12:46 PM	#4
cubist macrumors 68000 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Muncie, Indiana	How can you sleep with the earbuds in?

Feb 4, 2004, 01:01 PM	#6
pncc macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2002	You can also use the new Griffin Technology iTalk voice recorder as it has a small speaker. The Belkin one also works, but I like GT's products better.

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