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08-05-2012

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crontab+mplayer alarm clock

I'm trying to run a alarm.sh using crontab, which play a song as
an alarm at 6.15 am. I'm using amixer so that volume increases by 10% in every loop.

My script is the following.

Code:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PLAYER=/usr/bin/mplayer
SONG=/home/hbar/Music/song.mp3
DISPLAY=:0.0

15 06 * * * /usr/bin/amixer sset Master 10%+ > /dev/null && $PLAYER -loop 5 $SONG > /dev/null 2>&1

However, nothing is happening! If I don't use amixer, song is played in the desired time.

(For testing I was changing the time to a time after 1 minute of the current time, so it's not that I need to wait till 6.15 am.)

Thanks.

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-06-2012 at 03:47 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples

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audio::mpd::common::status

Audio::MPD::Common::Status(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Audio::MPD::Common::Status(3pm)

NAME

       Audio::MPD::Common::Status - class representing MPD status

VERSION

       version 1.120881

DESCRIPTION

       The MPD server maintains some information on its current state. Those information can be queried with mpd modules. Some of those
       information are served to you as an Audio::MPD::Common::Status object.

       An Audio::MPD::Common::Status object does not update itself regularly, and thus should be used immediately.

       Note: one should never ever instantiate an Audio::MPD::Common::Status object directly - use the mpd modules instead.

ATTRIBUTES

   $status->audio;
       A string with the sample rate of the song currently playing, number of bits of the output and number of channels (2 for stereo) - separated
       by a colon.

   $status->bitrate;
       The instantaneous bitrate in kbps.

   $status->error;
       May appear in special error cases, such as when disabling output.

   $status->playlist;
       The playlist version number, that changes every time the playlist is updated.

   $status->playlistlength;
       The number of songs in the playlist.

   $status->random;
       Whether the playlist is read randomly or not.

   $status->repeat;
       Whether the song is repeated or not.

   $status->song;
       The offset of the song currently played in the playlist.

   $status->songid;
       The song id (MPD id) of the song currently played.

   $status->state;
       The state of MPD server. Either "play", "stop" or "pause".

   $status->time;
       An Audio::MPD::Common::Time object, representing the time elapsed / remainging and total. See the associated pod for more details.

   $status->updating_db;
       An integer, representing the current update job.

   $status->volume;
       The current MPD volume - an integer between 0 and 100.

   $status->xfade;
       The crossfade in seconds.

AUTHOR

       Jerome Quelin

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Jerome Quelin.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-04-01					   Audio::MPD::Common::Status(3pm)