PC as wake up radio?

[Manco]

Just wondering whether it'd be possible to have my PC start up automatically at, say, 8AM AND begin playing music in iTunes aswell?

I know the first shouldn't be too hard to do, but is the second possible?

[Sensei Kiisu]

You'd have to make it so that when it powers up... it automatically logs you in, (removing the password to your account SHOULD do this),

then, if you download VTuner Pro - you could set it so that it starts up automatically,

OR,

create a macro, which runs on start-up, and clicks your Itunes, or selects a playlist - you can record your own macros with a lot of software out there.. just Google them (:

[Simetrical]

I use my (Linux) computer as an alarm clock. I just keep it on all night, and use a cron job. If you just leave it on, or if you can get it to boot up automatically, you should be able to use Task Scheduler or something to run a program when you want it. Then you just have to have a program that will play music when you start it, maybe a music player that takes a filename on the command line.

[Manco]

As it turns out it's the automatically booting my PC that's harder to do. Apparently my BIOS doesn't support a scheduled boot.
Oh well, my gripe with leaving it in sleep modus was that my case fans are pretty loud and they don't slow down automatically. But I guess I could manually lower them every evening, it's just a switch on the back of the case anyway.

[mrmouth]

Something like Vista shutdown timer has a wake timer. I use the shutdown timer, and have never toyed with the wake, but it should work...

http://www.vistashutdowntimer.toflo.de/