On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It plays from a selection of pre-recorded music (and I think it can add > more). > > The very simple solutions won't work; it needs to, for example, go off > every day at 6. > Used early model MacMini via eBay - $50-$100
Used AKAI LPK25 Midi Controller Interface Keyboard via eBay = $30 Garageband - Free. Start it up, select a 'Keyboard' project, from there you can select 'Mallets' which include both Aurora and Church Bells. Have some talented person play away to their hearts content - should be able to record several thousand hours of continuous music on an average old Mac HD. Save best renditions from Garageband to mp3 Start iCal (if your unlucky and have a new Mac it might have Calendar installed in which case UPGRADE it by installing an earlier version of OS X like Snow Leopard that comes with the much more useful iCal) and create an Event 'Ring Church Bells' at 6:15 and have it repeat every day*. Set it's alarm to 15** mins before and have it "Open file" selecting the church bell mp3 file of your choice***. If possible plug the headphone jack straight into the amp Aux inputs - need a 3.5mm to RCA adapter cable. A couple of dollars at RadioShack. If this isn't possible, a 1st generation Airport Express with AirPlay (eBay <$40) will allow you to wirelessly stream the music from the Mac to the Amplifier. If power consumption is a problem a basic home timer could be set to turn the amp on from 5:45 to 6:15. * Obviously you are not limited to a once a day event. You can create alarms for every hour, 1/2 hour, or whatever. ** You will need to set the Mac to start and autostart iTunes each day at 5:55 and make sure the Mac is not set to go to sleep inside 15min of inactivity, otherwise, if iTunes isn't already running there will be a noticeable delay waiting for iTunes to start or the computer to wake up. *** You could create 7 different events, one for each day, repeated weekly, and choose a different mp3 file for each day of the week. You could create special alarms for specific holidays and seasons and play specific files appropriate for those events. Discounting the time spent in bidding wars on eBay, it should take about an hour to set up. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
