Scheduling music with an iPod
July 3, 2019 12:51 PM Subscribe
I'd like to use an iPod to schedule 20-30 minutes of music to play twice a day at specific times. The music would be a random selection of pieces from a large playlist. It would start at the beginning of a song and end at the end of a song.
How do I do this?
Is it an iPod touch (which can run iOS apps), or something other kind of iPod?
posted by mbrubeck at 2:57 PM on July 3, 2019
posted by mbrubeck at 2:57 PM on July 3, 2019
You could look into Siri Shortcuts in the iOS 13 beta (if it's a newer iPod Touch). (or possibly Alexa Routines, though I'm even less sure about this). They can trigger an action at a specific time of day.
posted by whisk(e)y neat at 3:20 PM on July 3, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by whisk(e)y neat at 3:20 PM on July 3, 2019 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: IPod touch.
It is connected to a sound system.
I’m trying to eliminate an older computer that is part of the current set up.
The entire set up is in an unheated outdoor sheltered space - a brick and stucco tower which is frequently damp but not wet. The tower has power but not WiFi.
I had thought that this problem was solvable using an alarm clock that plays music from your playlists but didn’t identify an app that would do it.
Our current set up uses task scheduling, windows media player and fourteen different playlists: two each for the seven days of the week. Adding or subtracting songs is annoying, hearing the same playlists over and over again is annoying. Transferring files from iTunes to WMP is annoying and dealing with a computer that is a probably couple of months from dying is annoying.
At time x, turn on music app
Play playlist Y on shuffle
At end of song, If time elapsed is more than Z then stop.
posted by sciencegeek at 7:28 AM on July 4, 2019
It is connected to a sound system.
I’m trying to eliminate an older computer that is part of the current set up.
The entire set up is in an unheated outdoor sheltered space - a brick and stucco tower which is frequently damp but not wet. The tower has power but not WiFi.
I had thought that this problem was solvable using an alarm clock that plays music from your playlists but didn’t identify an app that would do it.
Our current set up uses task scheduling, windows media player and fourteen different playlists: two each for the seven days of the week. Adding or subtracting songs is annoying, hearing the same playlists over and over again is annoying. Transferring files from iTunes to WMP is annoying and dealing with a computer that is a probably couple of months from dying is annoying.
At time x, turn on music app
Play playlist Y on shuffle
At end of song, If time elapsed is more than Z then stop.
posted by sciencegeek at 7:28 AM on July 4, 2019
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This probably isn't very helpful but it might lead somewhere - I'm 95% sure I wrote a python script, many many years ago, that did either exactly this or something extremely similar. So if you google around you might be able to find a publicly available one that someone else has written. However obviously this would involve the speakers hooked up to a computer. Or doing some Raspberry Pi type stuff but I have zero idea how those work.
posted by ToddBurson at 2:49 PM on July 3, 2019