Re: [slim] Fun with Alarm Playlists: Listen to News and Music from around the World

2009-03-08 Thread ericj
It is just a playlist, which would go with your other playlists, as configured in basic settings. This file is called something like morning.m3u but playlists could be also .pls files, or just something you construct and save. When you set an alarm, just set this to be the playlist that works.

Re: [slim] Fun with Alarm Playlists: Listen to News and Music from around the World

2009-03-05 Thread Bokenrosie
ericj;390013 Wrote: I have not seen this use described here. Using Alarms in the morning with playlists, we awake to a local non-challenging classical station, hit forward to listen to the BBC World Service 5 minute Bulletin, Nachrichten (news) from Deutsche Welle, the NPR Bulletin, then

[slim] Fun with Alarm Playlists: Listen to News and Music from around the World

2009-01-27 Thread ericj
I have not seen this use described here. Using Alarms in the morning with playlists, we awake to a local non-challenging classical station, hit forward to listen to the BBC World Service 5 minute Bulletin, Nachrichten (news) from Deutsche Welle, the NPR Bulletin, then more 'challenging'

Re: [slim] Fun with Alarm Playlists: Listen to News and Music from around the World

2009-01-27 Thread Phil Meyer
I do something similar on my Boom in our study/kitchen area. It plays a playlist consisting of LBC news. Just before I leave, I press FWD to switch to local travel news. Sometimes I then go back to the news channel and sit around for half hour answering more forum posts before departing for