Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
Alarm clock feature [available as plugin ;-)]
VL:
Hello all rockbox users and developers!
Here is what i'd like to see in rockbox:
Ability to stop playback in given time and play pre-defined music file, i.e. alarm clock.
Why? I use to sleep in transport and listen to some relax music, partitioning off
external noise. Thus i don't hear station announcements. My current solution is to
use mobile phone with a timer. But it would be so nice to wake up from sudden music
stop and sound in the ears: WAAAAAAAAAAKEEUP,MTF!!
Generally, i find it usefull to have an alaram clock application as a standard one in rockbox.
Stop-watch feature will be nice too.
So, question are:
is it possible in rockbox to write such an application(plugin) ? i.e. does it allows some sort
of process in background that can wake up and control playback?
If you know that such plugin exists, please link me to it. I'd write it my own, but i'm afraid i
don't have enough time to develop for rockbox... So if anybody will do it, i'll be happy ;-)
pixelma:
Some players which can be woken up from the RTC already have an alarm wake-up (e.g. some Ipod models) - and for some others there's a patch for it in the tracker (e.g. the Iriver H300). To help answering your question it would be interesting which player you are talking about exactly...
Febs:
I think what he is looking for is not something that wakes up the player, but something that plays a designated file after a certain amount of time. I can see how this would be useful. I know that my train ride is 28 minutes long. I could program a specific file to play after 26 minutes to alert me that we're approaching my stop.
Hillshum:
Or if one could leave player on all night(while charging or something) and connected to speakers, something could start a certain song
froggyman:
couldnt the autoplayed file be either a playlist (.m3u) or a song?
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