Open .mp3 at certain time and close after play

[johnhill]

Hi,

I would like to open .mp3 file, "Play my song", which is located in my D:\ drive. Currently using Potplayer to open all my media player. This song will be my alarm clock at 6:00am. When done, close the Potplayer. The song is about 3 minutes long.

Thank you.

[BoBo]

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ppPath := "...\podplayer.exe" ; TBA !!
SetTimer, KickMeLikeBeckham,% 1000*60   ; check every minute
Return

KickMeLikeBeckham:
FormatTime, CurrentTime,, HH:mm   ; hh:mm = 12h format | HH:mm = 24h format
If (CurrentTime = "06:00") {
   ToolTip % CurrentTime
   RunWait, %ppPath%  "D:\play my song.mp3", Hide, PID
   Process, Close,% PID
   ToolTip
   }
Return

Not tested.

[johnhill]

Since I can open the mp3 directly. Not going to include ppPath.

Below is the code I currently using but it will continuously open the same file until the script is stopped.

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#persistent
SetTimer, CheckTime, 1000
Return

CheckTime:
FormatTime, CurrentTime,, HH:mm
If (CurrentTime = "06:00")
{
Run, "C:\(my file location)"
} 
Return

How can I change this?

[Xtra]

You can use SoundPlay to play .mp3

[BoBo]

You're using Run instead of RunWait. Checking the time every second (1000ms) will probably open 60 concurrent instances of the same song at the time the condition is met, right? Correct me if I'm wrong but you seem to ignore that you'll open a separate podplayer instance with each iteration, so once a song has finished playing you'll end up with a still existing podplayer process??

[johnhill]

You can use SoundPlay to play .mp3

Thank you. Will check it later.

[johnhill]

@Bobo, now with this code, the script will only run once.The only reason I think it run multiple time is the checktime is 1000.

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#persistent
ppPath := "C:\(programme file)"
SetTimer, CheckTime, 1000*60
Return

CheckTime:
FormatTime, CurrentTime,, HH:mm
If (CurrentTime = "20:41")
{
Runwait, %ppPath% "D:\(my file location)\play my song.mp3"
} 
Return

Now figure how to set close after play. Cant seem to get it work. Please brief me the tooltip. Another thing is the script didn't close after opening the mp3.

[BoBo]

Do you switch off your clock once it rang if you want to use it the next day as well? That's why I haven't used ExitApp. Best case it runs 24/7.

[Xtra]

Stop the timer when you play the .mp3 and then turn it back on after:

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CheckTime:
FormatTime, CurrentTime,, HH:mm
If (CurrentTime = "20:41")
{
    SetTimer, CheckTime, Off
    Runwait, %ppPath% "D:\(my file location)\play my song.mp3"
    SetTimer, CheckTime, On
} 

[johnhill]

Thanks @xtra, Bobo

Do want to close the potplayer not the timer. If successful writing this, I do want to turn it off at the week days though . Any idea what command I need for the tasks.

[BoBo]

Well, I've already posted a working code that does exactly what you've requested.
No idea what's your problem. Simply click on a command (eg. like Process) within the code section of this thread to get further details.
Good luck.