possible to automate itunes?

[Kingsly]

I had a thought. Its a crazy one. Really cool too. Here it is:

So i'm sleeping. Its 7:00 in the morning. iTunes automatically springs to life and begins playing some classical at extremely low volume. Over the next hour it slowly brings it up to a level capable of waking me (preset by me).
then around 10:30 it switches to another playlist of my choosing (pre-programed, that is)....

Say around 5:00 it turns on some gotan project or federico aubele. Finally it ends on some oscar peterson or carla bruni as I go to sleep, gently lowering the volume... next morning it all begins again.

Possible? Please, if it is help me make my dream a reality.

 

[Sesshi]

I don't see why not. All of those things are achievable separately but you just need to tie it in. I'll require a bit of work that's all.

 

[Greenjeens]

I had a thought. Its a crazy one. Really cool too. Here it is:

So i'm sleeping. Its 7:00 in the morning. iTunes automatically springs to life and begins playing some classical at extremely low volume. Over the next hour it slowly brings it up to a level capable of waking me (preset by me).
then around 10:30 it switches to another playlist of my choosing (pre-programed, that is)....

Possible? Please, if it is help me make my dream a reality.

I think you can immediatley have much of what you want. Not sure about an hour long gradual sound rise. Seems like it should be possible to extend the timers start to full volume setting for the Application. Then just set another alarm and select another playlist!

A few other people have had Itunes alarm dreams and created more than a few solutions

I use iTaf. It's a free alarm program. The script seems to use a fair amount of system resources, at least on my overburdened G4, since it is a timer running in the background.

You can set alarms from any itunes songs and adjust the gradual increase in volume to wake up gently.

Got an idea for a low tech solution! Record a CD, or MP3 or DVD for more time for a long wake up, or to hold several "wake up" programs.
Then set even a simple timer to turn on the CD/MP3/DVD player. Many modern CD/Disc players have a timer switch, so the player starts when power is switched on at the plug.

http://itaf.sourceforge.net/
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10582

iTaf Features
• iTaf is an alarm clock to wake up with iTunes.
• iTaf allows to schedule the automatic closing of iTunes.
• iTaf weekly agenda allows to create a collection of alarms during the week.
• Option to set the level of system volume added.


And a few other alarm clocks!

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/s...m+clock&plt[]=macosx&mode=basic&action=search

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Chronomaniac 1.0
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-
Dave

 

[Bedawyn]

iBeez was capable of doing the alarm-clock playlists with the gradual sound-rise three or four years ago, and I swore by it the first year or two I used it. Unfortunately, every point upgrade seemed to make it worse, so I eventually stopped using it. Don't know if more recent versions work any better.

 

[TEG]

I would have to vote for Alarm Clock Pro, which not only can use iTunes, but also WMP, Quicktime, WAVs, or anything else.

TEG

 

[cwedl]

I know people on this forum have used iTunes Alarm because I recommended a while back.

 

[Killyp]

The software Alarm Clock will do everything you want with minimum fuss. It's a little toolbar icon and you can configure repeating alarms (with fades etc...) and single alarms. You can choose whatever music you want to go into the alarm.