Can I use iTunes as an alarm clock?

There is not alarm clock feature in iTunes.

As far as I can see the only way of doing it is pretty cluncky. You would need to schedule a task that starts iTunes to run at your desired wake up time.

You can schedule tasks from Control Panel>>Scheduled Tasks.

Here is a way of creating a bat file that you can schedule to start iTunes.


Create a new notepad document and paste the following line into it:

cscript startitunes.vbs //t:60

Save the file as StartiTunes.bat in the folder of your choice.

Create another new notepad document and paste the following lines into it:

Set iTunesApp = CreateObject("iTunes.Application")
iTunesApp.Sources.ItemByName("Library").Playlists.ItemByName("Party Shuffle").PlayFirstTrack()

Save it as Startitunes.vbs in the same folder as before.

Check that it works by double clicking on startitunes.bat, iTunes should start up and play Party Shuffle. You can change Party Shuffle to another playlist by editing the vbs file.

Now schedule StartiTunes.bat to run at your desired wakeup time.


As I said, pretty cluncky and is it worth it?

Thanks for letting me know about the alarm clock program, it sounds ideal.

I was going from a free solution, not everyone wants to pay. 🙂

There is actually a free program that is designed by the same guys. It's called just plain "Alarm Clock," and it's free.

Here's the link:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/alarmclock.html

It works very well for me as I use it to wake me up for classes every day.

Wait, I lied...It's not made by the same folks, but it still works just as well for a simple alarm clock.