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Old May 13th 18, 06:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Neil Turkenkopf[_2_]
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Hi folks,

[Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......]

I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with Win
10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour.

I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've been
using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function.

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc.


Neil ¦¬D
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Old May 13th 18, 06:57 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Neil Turkenkopf wrote:

[Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......]

I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with
Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour.

I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've been
using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function.

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc.


You could use the task scheduler. Set it to start on the hour, repeat every
hour, and kill it after so many seconds.

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Old May 13th 18, 07:13 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Big Al[_5_]
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Default Hourly Chime?

On 05/13/2018 01:46 PM, Neil Turkenkopf wrote:
Hi folks,

[Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......]

I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with
Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour.

I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've
been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this
function.

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc.


Neil ¦¬D

I'm still using Rainlendar and don't have an issue with it.

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Old May 14th 18, 05:42 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Neil Turkenkopf[_2_]
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Default Hourly Chime?

"Auric__" wrote in message
15.223...

Neil Turkenkopf wrote:

[Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......]

I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with
Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour.

I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've
been
using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this function.

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc.

===============================================

You could use the task scheduler. Set it to start on the hour, repeat every
hour, and kill it after so many seconds.

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Thank you Auric! That sounds quite promising, but I have NO idea how to do
that.
Sorry!

Neil ¦¬D
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Old May 14th 18, 05:45 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Neil Turkenkopf[_2_]
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"Big Al" wrote in message news
On 05/13/2018 01:46 PM, Neil Turkenkopf wrote:
Hi folks,

[Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched, etc......]

I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with
Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour.

I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've
been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this
function.

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc.


Neil ¦¬D

================================================== =======
I'm still using Rainlendar and don't have an issue with it.
================================================

Hi Big Al!
That's encouraging indeed, could you possibly explain how you did it?

Thanks!
Neil ¦¬D
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Old May 14th 18, 06:57 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Tim[_10_]
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Default Hourly Chime?

"Neil Turkenkopf" wrote in
news
Hi folks,

[Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched,
etc......]

I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included
with Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every
hour.

I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've
been using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this
function.

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc.


Neil ¦¬D

I use Clocksmith Lite. Unfortunately it does not allow one to provide their
own wav file, but includes several different chimes to choose from.

You might want to think about creating a small batch file to play the
selected WAV/MP3, then uses task manager to schedule it to be executed
every hour as desired. I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The only
problem I can see would be finding an executable that will play the file
without manifesting itself on screen.
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Old May 14th 18, 08:20 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Neil Turkenkopf wrote:
"Auric__" wrote in message
15.223...

Neil Turkenkopf wrote:

[Win 10 Home, Ver 1803, Build 17134.48, 16 GB RAM, all patched,
etc......]

I'm wondering if anyone knows a program or utility (that's included with
Win 10) which will allow me to play a certain WAV or MP3 every hour.

I already have a calendar program which did this (Rainlendar) and I've
been
using it for years, but 1803 came along and now I have lost this
function.

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/suggestions, etc.
===============================================


You could use the task scheduler. Set it to start on the hour, repeat every
hour, and kill it after so many seconds.

Thank you Auric! That sounds quite promising, but I have NO idea how to do that.
Sorry!

Neil ¦¬D


This shows a crude example. The Windows 10 Task Scheduler likely
has some more options to make this easier.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/window...uler-play-song

You can click the "enable all tasks history" for the duration
of your experiments, so you can have some log information in
there to look at. Later you can disable the status again,
if you get bored of that information being collected.

You can use the Action:Run in the example, to "test" the task
execution and listen for the chime. That way, you won't have
to wait an hour to hear a chime. Once the chime is heard and
appears to work, then you can relax until the hour comes around
and see if it chimes on its own. If it doesn't chime, you go
back into Task Scheduler and check the history to see what
error it threw during the run.

The example doesn't show it, but you'll notice the program
absolute path has double quotes on either end. The *argument*
passed to wmplayer, may need double quotes around it to.
The double quote rule applies to a lot of cases where
the path has a space character in the name, and the double
quote delineates where the string starts and ends.

Some Windows utilities are smart enough to realize there
is only one command line argument, and if the argument passed
to them doesn't have a double quote, they assume all the input
is intended for just one path variable. But adding double
quotes can remove the ambiguity.

"C:\a dumb program\some.exe" "C:\users\Pauls House\my chime.wav"

The Task will likely run as SYSTEM account, giving the command
lots of privileges. SYSTEM account is likely to be able to
access your home directory and access the chime sound file
when desired. You also have the option of using other
account choices for running the command. Sometimes, this
also involves the usage of a password (I haven't done
that much Task Scheduler work, so maybe someone else
can help with that part).

Paul
 




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