After scoring my first job post college, I congratulated myself with a Sony desktop stereo. One of the coolest features this stereo had was the ability to set it to play a specific track on a disc at a specific time. The song would slowly fade in, so that if you were sleeping you weren't jarred awake by a glaring alarm or morning radio show.
Things have changed in these post-iPod days, but applications are still available that mimic this rad feature. One such iPhone/Touch application is Playlist Alarm Clock from Chillix...
P.A.C. lets you create two playlists on your iPhone/Touch – one to help catch some zzzzs and one to wake up to. You can either create the playlists on your iPod directly or in iTunes.
Just tap on the Sleep or Wake areas of the screen and the panels will slide open, switching those functions on and allowing you to set up your playlists and configure your options.
Sleep: choose your playlist then decide how long it will take for the music to fade out. You can choose as many songs as you like. If you only choose a few songs to listen to, P.A.C will simply repeat them as required for the duration of the time you’ve specified.
The progress bar shows at a glance the time period you’ve chosen and how far through it you are.
Wake: set the time you want to wake up and how long you want the music to fade in for this time in seconds rather than minutes). You can also choose to activate the snooze function.
Plug this into a stereo dock and you could start your days off on the right side of a soundtrack.
The application is $1.99 from the iTunes store (iTunes link).
What would be your ideal wake-up soundtrack? Ours would include Van Halen's "Panama."
(Images: Chillix)
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog
mmm, interesting, i think i will check it out
view lowonthe456's profile
great app, not so great price. honestly, this is something apple's alarm should allow you to do automatically (choose a song). because of that, i don't think this app is worth $1.99. maybe, maybe i would pay $.99 for it, but i really think this is one of those things that should be free.
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The clean interface to me looks worth the $1.99 (thats just two bucks...) price to me.
I personally use Alarm Clock 2 to wake me up every day of the week. It has great features such as "easy wake" which starts the volume lower and gradually raises it as your ears adjust, I can put my Mac to sleep as it will automatically wake it at the set time and it has an automatic switch off after a user set amount of minutes (just incase I'm not home that morning when it goes off). Best yet, as far as price goes, it's free.
I do still have the standard alarm on my iPhone go off a few minutes later as a backup though.
Nouniard
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I bought it.
Set it.
It didn't work.
$$flush
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