I've been using apps to alarm clock NPR stations for years. You can radio, podcasts, music, regular alarms, etc. You can also designate a sleep timer so it stops playing after x time if you want to fall asleep to music too.
Tons of options. This is my current one https://audials.com/en/apps/overview . On Sat, Sep 7, 2024, 17:35 Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/7/24 16:26, Michael Barnes wrote: > > A guy I used to work with had a little box with an Arduino in it that > > played mp3 files on schedule through a bluetooth speaker. It had a USB > port > > he plugged a flash drive into to hold the files. He periodically changed > > the files for different sounds/tunes. Don't know the details, but should > be > > easily doable. It was dumb and annoying, but worked well for what it was. > > > > A DDG search turned up several Arduino alarm clocks with mp3 players. > I'll find some time to look into them and probably build one myself. > > Thanks for the idea. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens >
