Alarm Clock - Wake to a playlist

I think Apple should enable the alarm clock to allow you to wake to a playlist, in addition to the ringtones. I love to listen to music in the morning and I miss how my 1st gen nano could do this but 3 years later the iPhone cannot. I think Apple usually thinks of everything, so I was really surprised when I couldn't wake to a playlist. Please, make this a feature for a future update.

Have you provided feedback to Apple?
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Otherwise even if Apple doesn't supply it when the 3.0 update comes around App's are meant to be getting access to the Playlist/Music so i'm sure one of the alarm clock app's will have it

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Alarm clock - wake up to music

On my good old iPod I can set the alarm clock to wake me up to one of my playlists or anything else in my music library. This is not the case with the iPhone. Can someone get word back to Apple that future versions of the alarm clock should allow this. It seems to me there should be no technical reason not to do this, so why not?

Do it yourself here :-
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Ian

Alarm clock wake up

Looking for reccommendation of a simple alarm clock app, that will "wake up" the laptop & act as a morning alarm clock too.
Thx.

Do it yourself here :-
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Ian

Alarm clock: wake to music or radio?

Please help: I want to set an alarm in my iPhone3G and wake up to an internet radio station or iPod music. Anyone know how I can do this?
Is there a general way to scrip some iPhone3G functions at a scheduled time? Like a chron job for instance.
Thanks for you help...
-hjb-

Can't be done now, but a nice idea. You can submit a feature request to Apple.

Would like to use an alarm clock. I need the alarm clock to function from the sleep mode. A review said that MAC products will not allow a program to wake up a Mac. Is this correct ? Are there any products in the Mac store what will function from the

Would like to use an alarm clock. I need the alarm clock to function from the sleep mode. A review said that MAC products will not allow a program to wake up a Mac. Is this correct ? Are there any products in the Mac store what will function from the sleep mode ? How do I check this out ?

You can set times for your computer to turn on or wake from sleep in the Energy Saver system preference pane using the Schedule... button.

Is there a way that iTunes can act as a Radio Alarm Clock? I have found the radio station I enjoy listening to in the iTunes Radio List. Is there anyway iTunes (and my Mac) can be set to come-on and start playing that Radio Station from Sleep mode at spec

Is there a way that iTunes can act as a Radio Alarm Clock?
I have found the radio station I enjoy listening to in the iTunes Radio List. Is there anyway iTunes (and my Mac) can be set to come-on from Sleep mode and start playing that Radio Station at specific times of the day?
Any App or plug-in that does that?
Many thanks
Kevin

Turning your Mac into a clock radio.
1. In iTunes create a playlist that contains just the radio station you want to wake up to.
2. Export the playlist (as .m3u works well). Get Info on your playlist file and look at the Open With entry to make sure it points to iTunes, VLC or some other app that will stream your station.
3. In iCal create an event entry at the time you want to wake up.
4. Right (or Control) click on your wakeup event and select Get Info.
5. For "alarm" select Open File.
6. Now under Open File there will be a place to add the file to open. It will probably be some default entry (like iCal). Click on it will allow you to select "other." Then use the file dialog to select your playlist file.
Your Mac will wake you up at the appointed time. You don't need to keep iCal running. If you want to put you Mac to sleep for the night then there is one more thing you need to do. Open System Preferences to Energy Saver and click on the Schedule button. Check Start up or wake and set the wake up time to slightly before your iCal alarm time.
Dan

Problems with 'Alarm Clock'

Good day.
I use my Ipod as Alarm Clock - it's pretty good to wake up while listening to the favourite music. I made it to start playing playlist without beeping.
I don't know why, but sometimes (after watching video, listening to the music before I go to bed) my alarm clock doesn't work correctly: when it's time to wake up, it just shows a message *wake up* as usually, but without playing music, so I'm being late for some times already...
Please, tell me what to do, how to fix this problem, 'cause I hate ordinary beeping alarm clocks.
P.S.: Sorry, if my english isn't very good.

Pick a sound, song, etc. for the alarm and make sure it is not the default one.

Using my Mac as alarm clock

Hi- I notice in the Sys Prefs under Energy saver you can get the Mac to Startup (or Shutdown) at specific times.
The problem is you can only set Weekends, Weekdays, Every Day or ONE day in the week. I work Saturdays but not Mondays, so I need to set the Mac to wake at 6:00 on Tues-Sat inc, and not on Sun/Mon.
Can the Mac do this on it's own (Automator?), or will I need a bit of shareware?
Thanks muchly!

There's nothing more reliable than a windup alarm clock that you set every night... What if there's a power outage?
Here's another one that looks pretty good (never used it myself) and it's donationware.
http://www.robbiehanson.com/alarmclock/index.html
If you leave your Mac ON all the time (using only display sleep) like I do, you can create a repeating event in iCal that sounds an alarm. I think it can also run a script, which can be used to launch iTunes and play a specific playlist. But I don't think iCal will wake up your Mac if it is sleeping.

Help with the alarm clock, please!

i'm using the ipod mini, and every morning the alarm clock goes off with the exact same song. is it possible to make the mini choose the alarm clock's track randomly? or, at least, is it possible to choose a different song to start my morning off with?
thanks!

The iPod wakes up to a song from a playlist. It chooses the first song in the list.
Although I've never tried it, it may choose something other than the first song in the list if you set the songs to "shuffle".
Failing that, you would have to create a different playlist with a different song and select that to wake up to.

Music Alarm Clock

Hi. I was wondering if there is any way to use the ipod touch as an alarm clock that plays music. With my ipod video, it could either play a playlist, or my ihome alarm clock could play it. But with the touch, it cant play music with its own alarm, and the ihome cant wake it up and play it all at once. Does anyone know if there is something that will work? (why would apple take out something thats actually useful like this?)

I played with this a bit tonight after discovering that my son's Touch apparently didn't wake with his iHome iH8.
I think that turning off the automatic screen lock on the Touch will prevent it from locking up, and allow the alarm clock to wake up the Touch to play music. I've run a couple quick tests and they seem to corroborate that. I'll let you know how it goes in the morning...
So, you've got a choice: hassle of no music via your iHome, or hassle of disabling the screen lock.

Alarm to wake up my powerbook

Hey hello,
can some-one help me.
i've been looking for an alarm clock thingy that'll wake me up every weekday at 8.
it should take my closed powerbook out of sleep and start playing a smooth and slow playlist out of itunes (or something like that.)
does anyone know how to do this?
i've tried aurora, iAlarm tried creating an automator app, but i couldn't make it run automatically at 8 let alone let it wake up my mac.
does any one know? how to does
1. wake up my sleeping pb automatically each day at a certain hour
2. make it start playing music at that moment.
thanks for your help

This is what the developer of Alarm Clock has to say on the subject:
9. Will my laptop wake from sleep if the lid is shut?
Unfortunately No.
I'm actually a powerbook user, and I've been looking for a solution for this for some time.
To date, I don't know if one exists.
Here is some more detail:
When you authenticate you give the application (actually a small 'helper' application) permission to tell the OS to wake from sleep at a particular time. This is necessary because only the OS has the ability to wake the computer from sleep. So right before the computer goes to sleep, the alarm clock program informs the OS that it must wake up at a certain time. The OS (I'm assuming) writes this info to the firmware and then moves the applications out of memory and goes to sleep. If the computer isn't a laptop, or the lid isn't shut, everything works just fine. The problem is, if it is a laptop and the lid is shut, the OS completely ignores the request to wake from sleep. I have no idea how to get around this problem at this point since I can't change the operating system.
The workaround is to simply not shut the lid to the laptop. Just manually put it to sleep, or let it go to sleep itself.
If you have any idea on how to fix this problem, or you know of any software that can get around this problem, I'd love to hear about it.
Matthew Whiting

Ipod nano alarm clock

Hi guys, help needed
I was sent an email from Apple saying that i can use my ipod nano as an alarm clock, and thats true...i can, however it also said, wake up to your favourite track......
heres the problem, all i can get is a setting for a beep, not to have it come alaive at the set time with my favourite track...
any ideas appreciated
I have the latest software, and use Nike+ on windows xp verion 2
any help appreciated
mick

The track you want to wake up to must be in a playlist.
So, create a playlist (with just one track if that's all you want) and select this to wake up to.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/maximize/4/#2

How can I turn my Mac using iTunes into an alarm clock?

Here's my question: How can I turn my Mac, using iTunes, into an alarm clock?
I want to be able to put my Mac to sleep but have it set up so that when it wakes up at the predetermined time iTunes will open and start playing the music I've selected....
A "musical alarm clock"...
A friend suggested using the Energy Saver option in Sys. Preferences to wake the computer at the right time. He said that then I could use iCal to start iTunes. I would then have to use an Apple Script to get iTunes to play the song I want.
But is there a SIMPLER way to do this? Are there any programs out there that do this already??
Thanks for any help....

I recently got a copy of AlarmClock Pro from MacWorld UK. It is shareware, I think it is (USD?)19. I haven't had a chance to try it out much, but it does look quite good. I have an older version. The latest version looks even better.
I'm sure there's plenty of freeware apps out there. You might also want to try looking here for an applescript here Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
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Looking for a specific Iphone alarm clock app

Hello,
I have been looking on the apple store for an app that I came across a while a go. It's an alarm clock app with a calculator for morning tasks, so it will ask the user how many tasks and how long each task is going to need, and then it will calculate the total time the user need in the morning. It also has an alarm clock to wake you up according to the time calculator. If you have 5 tasks:
brush up ---------------------------10 min
prepare breakfast----------------10 min
eat breakfast-----------------------5 min
read news---------------------------5 min
driving to school--------------------40 min
the total time is 1 hr 10 min. Then you enter the time school starts, 8am for example. The alarm clock will wake the user up at 6:50am in the morning on that day.
Does anyone have this app and would like to share the name of the app with me? I have been desperately looking for it and regreted not saving it to my wishlist on the first time.
Many thanks to the apple community!!!

1password is FREE for a limited time, and it allows you to store login info and notes(you can use as journal) and then lock the application with a passcode. And lockbox does about the same thing, it's free too.

Looking for an Alarm Clock app where you do math problems to turn it off

Someone told me of an application for the iPhone that is an alarm clock in which you can use a mode that, when the alarm sounds, you need to solve a math problem or other visual test in order to cease the alarm. That way the user is more awake by the time the alarm is stopped. Sounds annoying, yes, but would be just what I need.
Anyone know which alarm app this is? Or if it even exists?

There's another app that got a lot of press recently called *Proactive Sleep*.
It works similarly to the math app mentioned above but you do a 30 second visual game when you wake up. It also records your score as well as your sleep patterns and can give you recommendations and other feedback to improve your sleeping habits.

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