Comments on: How to Set Windows Media Player to Start Playing Music Automatically at a Certain Time? – Use as Morning Alarm Clock

By: Canukistani

Canukistani — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:28:37 +0000

So i’ve followed the steps in the main article and the step given by pirtateship79 and it’s not working.

lytebyte instructions result: 6am wmp is open and has my playlist loaded but not playing songs.

pirateship: zip

i’m using vista and wmp 11

By: kman

kman — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:41:50 +0000

For no weekends, use “weekly” and check the days you want it to run.

By: kman

kman — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:35:47 +0000

I have found this to be quite buggy/unreliable in Win 7.
If you use file associations, and use your playlist as your “program/script”, task manager does not seem to be able to kill the process after the delay specified (e.g. automatically stop after “2 hours” doesn’t seem to work, wmplayer is still resident in memory).

If the task is run with highest privileges, users will NOT see it as a process in their task manager unless they “Show processes from all users”.

If wmmplayer is not already resident in memory when the task starts, and was run with highest privileges, selecting “End” in task scheduler does not seem to work and the process will need to be killed manually in task manager (by viewing processes from all users).

Presumably, in Vista/Win 7 mode, the user does NOT need to even be logged in for the task to start, but does need to make sure the login/password is stored. Of course, if the password is wrong, there is no warning. The task simply won’t work.

By: Sander

Sander — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:38:03 +0000

Hey, I had a question. Is it also possible to set it up in such a way that it won’t start playing during weekends? I love waking up with music and I always turn it on but in the weekend I’d just like to sleep a little longer.

By: Jocelyn

Jocelyn — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:41:23 +0000

Ok i was looking for this but i couldnt find task scheduler in my programs could it be because im on windows xp???? HELP!!!

By: John

John — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:38:34 +0000

Does the application will be closed after all songs were played?
Is it possible to set the application running for some time and the close it to run another application automatically?

By: John

John — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:24:12 +0000

Which additional flags exist for wmp?
Is it possible to wake uo from the morning program at HBO?
How it can be done?
Is it also possible to shut the computer down after some fixed amount of time?
And one last question is it possible to start everyweek but at some delay from the previous week (since the morning time changes during the different year seasons)?
Many thanks

By: Ravindra

Ravindra — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:19:34 +0000

Mr Byte,

This is very helpful. Its been sometime that I was looking for this. Do you any any additional media player options which we can pass with arguments. I am mainly looking for shuffle.

Thank’s a lot again.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:41:02 +0000

wow!
dude, this is legend -wait for it- dairy!!!
thank’s a lot! =)

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:58:47 +0000

Thank you Pirateship79 all is working well now