How do I do this?.....

[SayCheese]

Hi people,

I am wondering if the following is at all possible to do and if so how?

There is a podcast that I listen to and it gets updated at about 2 or 3 am several mornings a week. What I want to know is this....

Is there a way to wake my MBP from sleep mode, at a predefined time such as 4am and then get iTunes to download the podcast, making sure it has finished downlaoading, before going back into sleep mode? I have been in the situation before where I have been part way through a download and then the MBP goes back to sleep mode and stops the download part way through.

Once it has downloaded the other part of the question come into play. I then want to be able to dock my iPhone to the MBP connected dock when I get up and the podcast updates automatically, keeping on the iPhone only the last weeks worth of podcasts.

I am sure that there must be a way to do this but am not sure where to start.

All help appreciated.

 

[R.Youden]

Hi people,

I am wondering if the following is at all possible to do and if so how?

There is a podcast that I listen to and it gets updated at about 2 or 3 am several mornings a week. What I want to know is this....

Is there a way to wake my MBP from sleep mode, at a predefined time such as 4am and then get iTunes to download the podcast, making sure it has finished downlaoading, before going back into sleep mode? I have been in the situation before where I have been part way through a download and then the MBP goes back to sleep mode and stops the download part way through.

Once it has downloaded the other part of the question come into play. I then want to be able to dock my iPhone to the MBP connected dock when I get up and the podcast updates automatically, keeping on the iPhone only the last weeks worth of podcasts.

I am sure that there must be a way to do this but am not sure where to start.

All help appreciated.

Hmmm,

I think you probably can do this. The best guess would be to make your mac wake from sleep and sleep at a set time (under Schedule in Energy Save in your System Preferences). I am sure there are some apps out there which you can use to make iTunes start up 2 minutes after you wake the machine from sleep. You then leave it long enough to download and send it back to sleep.

I think there is a setting in iTunes to only download the latest podcasts to the iPhone but I am not sure.

Hope this helps.

 

[ajchapinjr.com]

Would the Automator program not be of service in a situation like this?

 

[R.Youden]

Would the Automator program not be of service in a situation like this?

That is what my initial though was, but I am not sure if it can determine when a podcast has completed its download.

 

[vanmacguy]

You can write (or probably download) an Automator script that you drop in iCal that will do this.

Google it, I've seen something like that in a magazine once, but I don't have it anymore. There's a site somewhere that has hundreds of Automation scripts especially for iTunes - again, just Google it.

Cheers.