More User-Friendly Sleep Timer [6427]
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:20 pm
Hi all,
I just wanted to throw in an idea for MediaMonkey that I know I personally use on a daily basis as a Gold customer. I, like most other MM users, use it for audio management and iPod syncing (I know as of now iOS4 is being worked on, so I'm unfortunately using iTunes for iStuff
)
Situation:
Every night, I enjoy (did until iOS4) falling asleep to music from my MediaMonkey library. Problem is, I don't always go to bed at the same time.
How this relates to MM for me is simple, and I'd imagine that others would have a similar situation. I'm making this text smaller since it's a personal thing.
I have a Sirius XM program that I have Windows set to schedule opening at 0600 EST (The Virus XM 202/Sirius 197, if curious) to listen to morning programming while waking up/getting ready for work. To prevent music from MM and the 0600 programming from mixing, I typically try to setup MM to close at 0600 on the dot, so that if I'm awake and can't go back to sleep, I'm not laying in total silence/faded listening.
The problem that I have is I'm required to do math in my end to use a setting I payed extra for; not the worst thing in the world, but when trying to go to sleep, the last thing I want to do is think.
With the current screenshot, I wind up inserting a value of somewhere between 300-420 minutes, translating into 5-7 hours. When trying to account for half hours/minutes, setting the sleep time can be a bit of a challenge.
This next section is not to advertise another program and it's extensions, it's just for comparison and examples
I've had to use SongBird as my 'go-to-sleep' program since it has a CountDown extension that seems to work easier then the MM variant:
Set the minutes to the next hour, select the remaining amount of hours until 0600, and click the Play icon, and it starts counting down until a similar "Action At End" option is selected (close SongBird, reboot, etc.).
Proposal:
I photoshopped (badly) a concept of what I had in mind as a way to include my idea into MediaMonkey.
This way, the user can make the sleep timer more accurate by setting the hours (values 1-12 maybe) and the minutes (values 1-60) and still provide the same functionality without changing too many things in the settings.
This way, I wouldn't need SongBird or it's extension. (When the iOS4 problem gets fixed, iTunes can go away as well! )
That's my two cents, please provide feedback on the idea and let me know what you think! I don't know how long the images will be hosted at the public uploader will keep the images up.
Thanks and keep up the great work with MediaMonkey!
I just wanted to throw in an idea for MediaMonkey that I know I personally use on a daily basis as a Gold customer. I, like most other MM users, use it for audio management and iPod syncing (I know as of now iOS4 is being worked on, so I'm unfortunately using iTunes for iStuff
)Situation:
Every night, I enjoy (did until iOS4) falling asleep to music from my MediaMonkey library. Problem is, I don't always go to bed at the same time.
How this relates to MM for me is simple, and I'd imagine that others would have a similar situation. I'm making this text smaller since it's a personal thing.
I have a Sirius XM program that I have Windows set to schedule opening at 0600 EST (The Virus XM 202/Sirius 197, if curious) to listen to morning programming while waking up/getting ready for work. To prevent music from MM and the 0600 programming from mixing, I typically try to setup MM to close at 0600 on the dot, so that if I'm awake and can't go back to sleep, I'm not laying in total silence/faded listening.
The problem that I have is I'm required to do math in my end to use a setting I payed extra for; not the worst thing in the world, but when trying to go to sleep, the last thing I want to do is think.
With the current screenshot, I wind up inserting a value of somewhere between 300-420 minutes, translating into 5-7 hours. When trying to account for half hours/minutes, setting the sleep time can be a bit of a challenge.This next section is not to advertise another program and it's extensions, it's just for comparison and examples
I've had to use SongBird as my 'go-to-sleep' program since it has a CountDown extension that seems to work easier then the MM variant:
Set the minutes to the next hour, select the remaining amount of hours until 0600, and click the Play icon, and it starts counting down until a similar "Action At End" option is selected (close SongBird, reboot, etc.).
Proposal:
I photoshopped (badly) a concept of what I had in mind as a way to include my idea into MediaMonkey.
This way, the user can make the sleep timer more accurate by setting the hours (values 1-12 maybe) and the minutes (values 1-60) and still provide the same functionality without changing too many things in the settings.
This way, I wouldn't need SongBird or it's extension.
(When the iOS4 problem gets fixed, iTunes can go away as well! )That's my two cents, please provide feedback on the idea and let me know what you think! I don't know how long the images will be hosted at the public uploader will keep the images up.
Thanks and keep up the great work with MediaMonkey!
