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MorningPeeps Yves

Alarm clock for Songbird


MorningPeeps



Description

An alarm clock for Songbird.
Version 0.4.1 permits you to set multiple alarms and different playlists.

I hope you enjoy my work.
Let me know if you are having some issues or want some enhancements :)

=README

MorningPeeps is NOT a MediaView, it's a panel that you can run from the statusbar and optionally from a side panel.
You can open it by clicking on the statusbar icon, or right-click on it to disable MorningPeeps.

2 alarms are set in MorningPeeps by default.
To edit one, you'll just have to double-click on it and you'll be able to modify and delete this alarm.
To add an alarm, you just have to click on "Add an alarm", this is gonna open an equivalent dialog as to edit it.
You are able to un/activate MorningPeeps or each single alarm by checking/unchecking the checkboxes.

Shoutcast support : Create a new playlist and open a location in it (Ctrl+U / Cmd+U), you'll be able to choose this Playlist in MorningPeeps.

Be careful this is still beta, and there could be still some hidden bugs.

=BETATESTERS

Please upgrade to MorningPeeps 0.4.1.2 and Songbird 1.4.1 and let me now about bugs and enhancements :)

=LOCALIZATION

You can translate MorningPeeps on BabelZilla
You can also test translations on BabelZilla

=KNOWN ISSUES

- Songbird Window dimension/resize rendering issues http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16627

=ROADMAP

- 0.4.2 Timer

=TODO

- Snoozer
- Support 12 hours clock system (am / pm)

=IDEAS

- Launch an alarm on defined dates
- Launch external documents & websites
- System wake up (I'm not familiar with system stuff, if anyone wants to work on this, I would ship it with MorningPeeps :))

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Release Notes

Just a version update to be compatible with Songbird 1.4.x
Sorry no bug fix, or enhancement, I really don't have any time...




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Comments

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Schwadegan
Schwadegan

I've been waiting for this add-on, but I can't figure out how to use it after install :P

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@Schwadegan : go to View > Media Views > MorningPeeps
You can also click on the button right to the searchbar and choose MorningPeeps :)

about 1 year ago
Schwadegan
Schwadegan

ah! , didn't realize it was a media view^^ thanks!

about 1 year ago
ValentinDREAN
ValentinDREAN

Hey,
nice addon but I wanted to have another enhancements! Maybe you could add a different time to chose on EVERY days! 'Cause for example, I wake at 10am on sunday for my work and 9am on friday, etc...
To finish.......... It's not working on mine! I tried on the media view "morningpeeps" and on the normal view library!
I'm on the 0.6.1 and on WindowsXP

thx for your future answer ;)

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

Hmm not working ? Could you be more specific ?
Isn't any functionality working at all or just a specific ?
Like it won't save the time, the days, it won't launch the player, or something ?

Actually I'm not able to test it on Windows XP before monday.
I hope we can find the problem together quick :)

These kind of enhancements are going to be add in the future while I'll also like to define more alarms ;)

Thanks for your support :)

about 1 year ago
munkthenut
munkthenut

I love this, I have few ideas i would love to see if possible, i am snoozer so having it just play music might not wake me up but if you can have it incrementally increase the volume that would be awesome. Second i would be a sleep timer.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@munkthenut : The volume increase is a good idea.
What should the sleep timer do ?

about 1 year ago
ValentinDREAN
ValentinDREAN

Okay, I had to relaunch songbird to make morningpeeps working! ! !! It's a good project that should be studied!

Cya!

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@ValentinDREAN : Update to 0.1.1 it fixes some stability issues ;)
I'll try to keep up the work to progress really fast :)

about 1 year ago
J4DED
J4DED

On Vista and on Leopard I cannot use this addon. Both are running 0.6.1 and the media views is disabled after installing.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@J4DED You've to be in your music Library or a playlist to access the Media Views, they aren't working in a webpage or something.
Future versions should be displayed as a pane to put into a sidebar ...

about 1 year ago
munkthenut
munkthenut

@Yves, i think it should be a countdown timer that stops the music playing after you set it. Like before you fall asleep.

about 1 year ago
Choobie
Choobie

Hey Yves! Great plugin! I used it yesterday to wake me up for work, but it didn't work today. I didn't realize that you had to actually have the media view open in order for it to go off, but no big deal still got to work on time (I'm guessing this is why you are switching to a panel view?)

I was thinking of trying to hack this plugin to add features like the sleep timer and multiple alarms, but it looks like you are already working on it (and I am pretty much trash at Javascript right now anyways).

What might be a cool feature (and more likely possible once you have it in a pane view) is to pull from different playlists for different actions/events. For example, I would have one playlist for "easy listening" that I use for the sleep timer, and one that is set to fast and energetic music to wake up to. Additionally setting the volume individually would be pretty sweet as you could set it low for the sleep timer and deafening loud for the wake up.

But anyways, I want to thank you for all the work you have put into this. I might try and dig through the source code a little bit later on and see what I can do (or at least understand!)

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

Hey Choobie :)
You're guessing right, I'm actually working on the pane :)

Library handling will also be available in the future, actually it's a bit acrobatic to hack everything together trough one version ...

0.2 is gonna include Multiple Alarms and Pane View ... and maybe some more ;)

I'm actually in holiday ... That's why I'm not gonna release the 0.2 before 2 weeks..

Well thanks for your support and encouragements, if you want to talk some more about hacking MorningPeeps you could connect to irc.mozilla.org and join #songbird with an IRC client or trough this page : http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Advocacy/IRC
You'll find me under the nickname "NeX"

about 1 year ago
remy1of1
remy1of1

This is what I've been waiting for...almost. I think it would be nice if you could select the track you want to play at the designated time. then it would be perfect.

about 1 year ago
Toasted_Snowflake
Toasted_Snowflake

Love the add-on Yves. I'm looking forward to the new features.

Is there any way to have the alarm play a SHOUTcast radio station instead of just songs in the library and if there isn't would you consider it for a future version?

about 1 year ago
vladak
vladak

Yes, sleep timer would be nice. Say set the timer to either countdown mode or specific time after which it will stop the music (gradually ?) and optionally run user specified command (e.g. 'shutdown -h now').

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

I'm sorry I was kind of really busy and over-worked these days.
I'm gonna release 0.2 really soon to make it correctly work on Songbird 0.7 and also introduce new features.

@remy1of1 : Playlist Handling will certainly be part of the future 0.3 release :)

@Toasted_Snowflake : Good idea, this could be implemented in the future.

@vladak : Timer is also planned, I took note of your ideas and I'll try to introduce them in a user-friendly way also, in a future release :)

Thanks to all of you for your support and recommendations :)

about 1 year ago
sabayenda
sabayenda

Don't know if it's possible, but it'd be really cool to have it were the volume gradually increased to the set volume (I usually have mine low in songbird, and it'd be cool if there was a gradual crescendo, possibly editable by the user, as in amount of time it takes to get to your set volume)

Can't wait for the new release, as I updated to 0.7 and I miss MorningPeeps something fierce!

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

0.2 is finally out !
Let me know if you're having some issues :)

about 1 year ago
stevo
stevo

@Yves I like your add on but I feel that this should be something that takes up very little UI, have a look at the Last.FM add on (audioscrobbler). I think it would be much better to have the actual alarm clock as a service/component that does not depend on the UI at all (ie so we can be in mini mode) and have 2 entry points to enable/disable the alarm (menu and icon in status bar).

It would also be nice to have the ability to select a library/playlist to use for each alarm.

I currently have a problem (after upgrading from 0.1) that nothing happens when I click on the Add Alarm button and there are no alarms in the list. We also noticed that you have to have the library visible in order to play at the alarm time.

about 1 year ago
JaerBesan
JaerBesan

I just found this add-on today. It took me a while to figure out how to use it. I think a short user guide would be helpful. Some items in the user guide may be obvious to those who have been using MorningPeeps for a while. An example of an obvious statement would be that Songbird must be open, but not necessarily the active application. A not-quite-so-obvious statement would be that the Library tab must be the active tab in order for MorningPeeps to work (at least in my testing this was true). I also noticed that the UI was a bit off when using some non-default Feathers (but I think this may be more a problem of the Feathers because other Songbird functionality is off too).

This may turn into my most frequently used add-on. I love the concept and it's off to a solid start. I second the request to be able to specify a playlist for an alarm. I think a starting point for development would be to either specify a playlist or use the default, random library crawl.

@Toasted_Snowflake - I am able to work around the internet radio issue by adding stations to my Library. I have very few songs on my hard drive and only a few stations in my Library, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to get a station for my alarm. If you want a specific station, then you either need to have just that station in your Library or else wait for a playlist feature to be implemented.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

Wow, thanks for your feedback !
@stevo : The interface is designed to easily integrate new functionalities, this is gonna be part of the next steps, as library handling and stuff.
I still keep your proposal in mind and I'll have a look at your component, thank you :)

@JaerBesan : It's hard to define the "best interface" for every user, each user has different ergonomic and interface habits, depending of their profile and also their OS.
Actually it's 0.2, this means it's in progressive work, and I'd like to build a good add-on usable by everyone, newbie and advanced users ... I'll try to respond to profiles like yours and mine and profiles like stevo ...

Actually the interface is using the basic 0.7 Gonzo styles and should remain faithful to any other interface.
Because I'm not interacting with any kind of sensitive interface stuff, these bugs are probably more issues of Feathers then my add-on.

You're sure right, I'll write a little guide on this site to introduce users to MorningPeeps :)

about 1 year ago
atreiu
atreiu

Not working for me. If i click "Add an alarm", nothing is happening. Doesn't matter if the "Alarm on" is checked or not.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@atreiy : there actually seems to be a bug on the first launch, you've to active your Library tab, to properly use MorningPeeps.
Sorry for that :/

about 1 year ago
To0n1
To0n1

I'm currently using 0.7.0 on Windows XP sp3 box and this plug in does not work -

I'm active in the Library, and when started, no alarms show up in the panel. I am also unable to add a new alarm even with the "Alarm On" check box checked.

about 1 year ago
To0n1
To0n1

Actually I found a workaround to my problem.

Switching from Gonzo Black feathers (which I was using) to Regular Gonzo, then back solved the issue. I'm now able to see the two default alarms, as well as add alarms.

about 1 year ago
Popper252
Popper252

Weird, I was having the same problem toon. I'm using the tint feather and I had to switch back to gonzo default and then again over to tint for it to work.
Thanks for finding the fix!

about 1 year ago
Popper252
Popper252

Nevermind, it's still not working. Oh well.

I did what toon had said to do originally and i got it to let me add alarms. But then the alarms wouldn't actually go off. Lucky for me I set a backup alarm this morning :)
Hopefully the bugs get worked out. This is a great add on!

about 1 year ago
remy1of1
remy1of1

Great upgrade, even in beta. Thanks for this Add-on. Can't wait to see your next release.

about 1 year ago
ValentinDREAN
ValentinDREAN

On this update, I haven't the time, then, when I push the "add alarm" button, it does not happen nothing..!

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@ValentinDREAN : Sorry for that, I'm working on it.
An update 0.2.2 should be available in a few hours :)
This should fix all 0.2.1 know issues.

about 1 year ago
ValentinDREAN
ValentinDREAN

@Yves :
Working perfectly! Pretty nice addon!
;D

about 1 year ago
snorgplat
snorgplat

I love the Add-on so far, do you think it's possible to add a feature that allows you to pick a playlist for the alarm to play when it goes off?

about 1 year ago
Rory-Ginger
Rory-Ginger

I really want this add-on but it doesn't seem to be compatible with ver1.

about 1 year ago
MNeagle
MNeagle

Even in library tab under media view morningpeeps is not showing up as an option unlike other extensions. bug?

about 1 year ago
MNeagle
MNeagle

oh figured it out- just had to assign one of the sidebars to this add on

about 1 year ago
szman86
szman86

hey mneagle, can you get it to work for ver1? I really would love for this app to be able to work for it so i can stop skipping class.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

Hey folks !
@snorgplat : I'm actually working on this, yes this is gonna be available in the next release.

@MNeagle : Media Views aren't supported anymore in 0.2, this was how worked 1.0

@szman86 : It's gonna be 1.0 compatible really soon.

I'm focusing on the 0.3 version to avoid a last 0.2 version just to make it compatible with 1.0rc1.
I removed "Volume increase" from the 0.3(.0) roadmap, I'd like to finish playlist handling and make a quick upgrade to 0.3 to be 1.0 compatible.

The next version of MorningPeeps will only work with 1.0, Songbirdteam fixed some UI bugs I needed for 0.3, thanks to you guys !

Hope you enjoy this announcement, stay tuned :)

about 1 year ago
nicolaluna
nicolaluna

hi yves,

this is such a great add-on, thanks for working on it! one thing i'd like to chime in- to be able to use this i need to select the music i'm waking up to. right now it chooses at random and there are some tracks i can *not* wake up to.

i've been running a script to launch a playlist with songbird for a while now, and i'll keep using it till your next release- i think you're including that option. but i'm looking forward to this, much simpler!

i agree with the person that suggested instructions to come with this- as with a lot of songbird things that would be helpful. searching through the comments takes forever and it's easy to miss items....

thanks again!!!

about 1 year ago
gruevy
gruevy

update omg... doesn't work with the 1.0 rc. HALP :(

about 1 year ago
gruevy
gruevy

disregard that, i didn't read all the comments

about 1 year ago
nicolaluna
nicolaluna

sadly, whoever created this add-on is not visiting this page at all anymore. so don't bother posting questions, guys: it seems to only serve as a library now. there is no help. so much for updates. :(

incredibly disappointing.... hopefully songbird is not going the way of the dodo?

about 1 year ago
Jak
Jak

Hey, I'm running songbird 0.7 and I can't find the morningpeeps option in the media views menu.
Help!

Cheers

about 1 year ago
JoshuaRL
JoshuaRL

@Jak
Turn on one of the sidebars, and then at the top where it says what you have there change it to MorningPeeps

@nicolaluna
Dude, he was just here 18 days ago. And the next version will have playlist handling, woot!

@Yves
Dude, you want some help? I don't have a whole lot of time or much experience with this but I'm a fast learner. I'd love to help make my favorite addon for Songbird better.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

Hey folks !

About 0.3 :
This release only works with Songbird 1.0(pre+) and upcoming versions, see the release notes why :)

@nicolaluna : Actually I'm not dead, I just have some kind of life and other stuff to do ;)

@JoshuaRL : If you want to help me, you can contact me on IRC (irc.mozilla.org/songbird) and find me under the nickname "NeX" :)

So what about the next release ? What do you guys absolutely want ?
Check out the TODO list or just propose some other stuff :)

Again, I hope you enjoy this update :)

about 1 year ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

nice :)

about 1 year ago
boosh
boosh

Great Work Yves! Keep it up!

about 1 year ago
szman86
szman86

hey does the sidebar have to showing for it to work? If so is there a way to have an icon where the last.fm scrobbler is so you can enable/disable the alarm. Great add-on btw, I'm gonna use it everyday!

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@szman86 actually yes, but I was considering this as a good improvement as stevel and many others told me this kind of feature would be great.

I'm looking forward to develop this and other functionalities :)

Glad to see it's also serving other people than me to wake up :p

about 1 year ago
SoulFusion
SoulFusion

This addon is really great, but I have one major issue:
the alarm ONLY starts when morning peeps is actually shown in the sidebar. If I set an alarm and hide morning peeps for e.g. lyric master, the alarm just won't start.

I'm not sure whether this is only a problem I have or whether it is a general bug.
(I'm using songbird 1.0 with Mac OSX Intel 10.5.)

about 1 year ago
pakito555
pakito555

Great Add on =) keep up with the good work....

- Snoozer
- Timer
- Volume increase

and a little more of design on the clock =) would be great

about 1 year ago
kanuuker
kanuuker

I just installed morningpeeps today and other than a couple of features I'd like, which have all been mentioned in the comments, I like your add-on. The biggest feature that I'd like to see is the ability to select specific playlists or songs, but here's a very rudimentary work around. As I normally don't rate my music (it's all good :-), I simply added a 5 star rating to the music that I want to start in the morning and set morningpeeps to play from the highest rated music. So far, so good :-)

about 1 year ago
benow
benow

Great stuff. /me also raises hand for volume increase.

about 1 year ago
Steve123458
Steve123458

It's really cool, it works & it's not an entire app.

about 1 year ago
Steve123458
Steve123458

About of that it's not an entire app, I saw it on an good way, you don't have to install an program to use it. ;)

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

Hey guys !

@SoulFusion : This is a normal behavior, I'm aware that people would like to hide it, and I'm gonna work on it on 0.3.2 as I just defined in the roadmap :)

@kanuuker : Actually MorningPeeps 0.3 works this way, you can choose what playlist you'd like to play, be sure to use Songbird 1.0.
If you still can't choose your playlists, let me know, we'll try to figure out what's the matter ...

@pakito555, @benow : This is gonna be part of 0.4 once I've finished the 0.3 core updates like the ability to hide the sidebar and a configuration saver that I forgot in 0.3 ...
Also what did you mean by "more design on the clock" ?

@Steve123458 and all of you : Thanks for your support :)

about 1 year ago
IAmDann
IAmDann

An alarm clock was the one thing keeping me from switching over from iTunes (I have a handy itunes alarm that I've used every morning for 3 or 4 years now).

The only feedback I have is something that everyone else has already said, and you're already working on, volume increase. But I figured I'd throw in my two sense, and express my appreciation.

Thanks!

about 1 year ago
Eric.
Eric.

Great add-on, works perfectly. Just something I would add because I don't know if anyone has requested this already, but it would be nice to be able to make the green digital clock smaller.

Keep up the good work!

about 1 year ago
anmweber
anmweber

I know this question has been answered before but I am still having difficulties finding Morning Peeps after I have installed it. It is not under view/media views nor is under that drop down menu by the search bar...I know for a fact that i have it installed but I just can't seem to find it!!!

I love the idea and I'm very excited to use it!

Thanks

about 1 year ago
Grazfather
Grazfather

Worst extension I have ever installed. RAndomly played music (silently) scrobbling songs I had never seen (over 50) adding palycount to songs I had never even heard. I deleted it the day after I installed it. seriously this ruined my music library.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@IAmDann : I'll work on it I promise ;) I'm actually busy with some other stuff :) But I'll try to upgrade MorningPeeps soon.

@Eric this kind of feature isn't planned, but I could think about it if there are more requests for it :)

@anmweber : MorningPeeps is a side pane, you can open one in the "View" menu and select one add-on, like MorningPeeps, to be displayed in.

@Grazfather : Unfortunately your comment isn't helping me a lot because it isn't constructive...
MorningPeeps shouldn't be able to create new songs in your Library, neither to scrobble songs invisibly or to affect your Library in any other way ...
I can understand your madness about this problem, and I'd like to help you to figure it out, but try to be more constructive in the future, you aren't helping anyone with this kind of comments, thanks :)

about 1 year ago
limerix
limerix

I installed this add-on yesterday, and when I tested it, it worked perfectly fine. After restarting my computer and opening up Songbird, the next day, the alarm failed to work! Is that happening for anyone else?

about 1 year ago
limerix
limerix

Ah, I see, I have to restart Songbird every time I change the name or date of the alarms. Would it be possible to change that for the next version? To have the changes saved automatically rather than having to restart Songbird every time?

about 1 year ago
Grazfather
Grazfather

You're right sorry Yves.

I set it to play a short playlist of my favorite songs (called 'best'), but I kept my earphones in so I didn't hear it go off (obviously this is my fault), but it went off for the whole day (even after I woke up from my normal alarm clock and turned the alarm off), and instead of using the playlist I had specified it played through my entire library during the day (so when I went home my last.fm widget showed ~50 plays of songs I definitely listened to and weren't in the playlist, also adding to the play count.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@limerix Actually by hitting the "Save" button, it should save automatically your settings ...
Could you tell me what operating system you're using ? And maybe verify if you got the rights to write to the disk where the extension is located ?
You could also try to use a fresh profile, more info about that here : http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/index.php?title=Developer/Articles/Uninstall_Songbird&highlight=uninstalling+songbird
And finally, you could check out the Error Console and paste the output on pastebin or something and give us the link to check for an error :)

@Grazfather You're welcome, I don't know if you rated MorningPeeps down, but it would be nice to reevaluate your rating if you did ;)

about 1 year ago
dragonmage
dragonmage

Just installed and tested. Seems to work well.

I'd like to request the option of having an alarm not only play music, but also to open a url or a local file.
 
The url thing comes in handy for many things. You can set an alarm to remind you to pay a bill and have it open the page where you make the payment, or if you work outside sometimes (like I do) you can have your wake up alarm open up your local weather so you know how to dress for the day, etc...

Local files could be opened to remind you of a project you need to be working on...

Just some things to think about.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@dragonmage Wow nice idea, I'm gonna think about it :)

about 1 year ago
DemQ
DemQ

Hey Yves, id like to thank you for making this alarm clock, like other comments ive read...the only thing keeping iTunes was the fact that it had a perfectly working alarm clock...ive been using Morning Peeps for the last few weeks but it has not always worked( in fact it rarely worked )...i was wondering if i had to have a song already playing from my main music library for it to go off or what...the previous alarm clock i was using started by default in your main library and if you had decided to have a song playing from a playlist or ipod the night before it would begin that song...what am i doing wrong here? and is this already possible?

about 1 year ago
dragonmage
dragonmage

Thanks. That's what I do. If I can ever figure out how to get paid for ideas I'll be set.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@DemQ : Actually MorningPeeps need to be open in a sidebar to work, if you hide it, it's not gonna work, this could be your problem ;)
You can choose to play a playlist or the main library by double-clicking on an alarm and changing the settings.
Resuming from the last played song isn't possible, this could be a future feature if there are enough requests :)

@dragonmage : haha, open an "idea-agency" :P

about 1 year ago
DemQ
DemQ

you mean on the right with the green clock and alarm on and add an alarm and all that jazz? still not working...
it should be going off at 7 on M-F and on Sat Sun at 10 30 both are on and seposed to open in main library..what gives?

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@DemQ : This is weird, you are the only one reporting that ... Did you tried to reinstall MorningPeeps and are you using the latest stable release of Songbird ?
If you still got problems let me know by emailing me : nex.anka AT gmail.com you can also use this address to add me to GTalk or Jabber or you could try to catch me on irc.mozilla.org #songbird on evenings (GMT+1)
I hope we can find out what's the matter :)
Thank you.

about 1 year ago
DemQ
DemQ

Seems that i need to click on the alarm that is set for the morning or it doesnt work, cant be a song, cant switch to mini player...very annoying...let me know if that is in fact the problem or its the user end of the application...

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@DemQ :
No you don't have to click on an alarm, it's able to launch the right alarm automatically.
No it can't be a song, but you can create a new playlist with only this song and choose it.
You'll be able to switch to miniplayer in 0.4, I'm gonna integrate a component to work without the sidebar or any UI :)

If you need real support please contact me by mail to avoid infinite dialogs in the comments that are not meant to that ;)

about 1 year ago
boosh
boosh

Thanks for the update Yves!

keep up the good work!

about 1 year ago
misscharli
misscharli

I can't use it because I have the Songbird version 1.0. Can you please update the quiz, because i really like it and would use it :(.

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@misscharli : This isn't the BirdQuizz add-on page, you probably want to comment on their page here : http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1221
But you're welcome to test and comment about MorningPeeps ;)

about 1 year ago
Wayne
Wayne

Hi Yves,

I've just started using MorningPeeps and so far I really like it. I see from the roadmap that you plan to have a timer which would be awesome for me - music starts in the morning, shuts off when I go to work, starts back up when I get home. How cool would that be? :)

I'd like you to take a look at this idea I posted to the Songbird GetSatisfaction forum a while back: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/smart_party_shuffle

MorningPeeps can sort of meet some of the daily requirements by good use of smart playlists. Being able to use dates as well as time and day of week might be able to reach a good portion of the rest of it.

Thanks for your time,
Wayne

about 1 year ago
Jerome
Jerome

Thays you very much!
Merci beaucoup!

Mais je toruve que l'horloge n'est pas très belle... Il faudrait qu'on ait le choix entre plusieurs thèmes!
Et pourquoi ne pas rajouter les heures de réveille dans une toolbar en haut (ou en bas) de SongBird?

Sinon merci!!!

about 1 year ago
Nuckinfuts
Nuckinfuts

Any chance you could make this addon play regardless of Songbird's play-state.

To elaborate, this morning MorningPeeps did not go off, though yesterday morning it did. The difference was that last night I hit PAUSE instead of STOP.

So it would be cool if the alarm threw a stop signal if the current state is pause. I'm not familiar with Songbird's API so I don't know how difficult that is.

-Thanks!

about 1 year ago
eXtreme
eXtreme

It will be great if we have the Wake up from Standby function

about 1 year ago
Jerome
Jerome

And from Miniplayer ;)

about 1 year ago
eXtreme
eXtreme

How can I use both MorningPeeps and Now Playing List together?
When switching between panels, MorningPeeps stops working

about 1 year ago
Jerome
Jerome

@ eXtreme : It's impossible for the moment... But it's planified for the 4.0 :)

about 1 year ago
eXtreme
eXtreme

One more thing is the addon stops working on Mini Player mode

about 1 year ago
Yves
Yves

@Wayne : Thank you, I linked your post to the Songbird team :)
Integrating dates could be fun, I'm gonna add it to the idea list ;)

@Nuckinfuts : Weird, MorningPeeps shouldn't have any problem to start the defined playlist no matter if you stopped or paused... I'm looking forward to code in a more "defensive" way to avoid these kind of bugs ... Sorry for that ...

@Jerome : I don't really have time to respond to everyone's design preferences, so there will be no options to change the interface. You can write your own CSS file or feather and load it into Songbird if you really want to change it ;)

@eXtreme : Please take the time to read the roadmap, the readme and other comments, all our comments where answered before. All your demands are planned in version 0.4, be patient ;)

Thanks for your feedbacks and ideas =)

about 1 year ago
odferr
odferr

Hi! don't have MorningPeeps on my View > Media Views menu :S and the preference on morningPeeps on add.ons is not enabled. :S
songbird1.1.1 ubuntu

12 months ago
Jerome
Jerome

I'm waiting for the 4.0 ^^

11 months ago
jomaweb
jomaweb

Hi!
same as @odferr
don't have MorningPeeps on my View > Media Views menu :S and the preference on morningPeeps on add.ons is not enabled. :S
Versión: Songbird 1.1.2, Build 1042 (20090331142126)
Windows Vista Home Premium
AeroBird Feather

11 months ago
focal.truth
focal.truth

Bug Report: The default playlists included in MorningPeeps only show show some of my playlists in the selection menu, I counted around 58 which is about half of those in my library. Creating a new alarm gives me access to all of those in my library.

Also, how do you plan the snooze timer to work? I have a number of radio shows I enjoy but forget to tune in to pretty often. The Dj's don't do podcasts but the stations stream over the web. I was thinking about using Morning Peeps to schedule these broadcasts automatically but it would be even cooler if I could shut them off when the show is over as well. An auto-shutoff timer for alarms would be perfect. If not I guess I could hack together a solution by playing an empty playlist when the show is over but an included feature would be nice as well.

11 months ago
Atomox
Atomox

Great add-on, except...

I installed it during Songbird 1.0, and it only worked briefly. Now in Songbird 1.1.2 Build 1042, it doesn't work at all. It will often increase my volume, but it never initializes playing anything. I always set it to my library by default, I have 3 alarms (no overlapping days), I always make sure it's the visible pane, and I've even tried reinstalling the add-on. No dice.

I'm desperate for it to work, as I woke up much easier in the morning when awaking to music.

11 months ago
lnx
lnx

I've been waiting for this app sooo long... but still hasn't an important feature:
waking my macbook from sleep or turning it on before the alarm starts.
Just like Aurora 4 from Metaquark.
THAT will be the day...

10 months ago
robcro
robcro

I have been wanting this application for so long! I really would like to see this application go as far as it can. I haven't even tried it yet so I will do so tonight, but i would like to support this in any way possible. Out of curiosity what type of process is involved writing an add on for songbird? And are you planning on setting up a dedicated web site?

10 months ago
knucie
knucie

Hey, I'm having some problems. At first i installed now playing side bar - it worked fine. After I discovered MorningPeeps I installed it as well, but under media views it did not appear. I tried uninstalling now playing side bad and reinstalling Morning Peeps, however, under media views is just filter pane and list! Maybe because I'm using x64 bit os? Any other suggestions? I have my pc on 24/7 next to me, thereforethis add-on would help me a great deal!

10 months ago
knucie
knucie

nvm forget it! Wroks!

10 months ago
RalpH_himself
RalpH_himself

do you think you can add a function to send the computer to sleep mode in the evening and wake it up in the morning again? I guess it will be difficult with Javascript...

10 months ago
neil.s
neil.s

Hey....nice idea, brilliantly implemented, but only one question : What the hell is it doing in a sidebar??!

I mean, I JUST downloaded Songbird so I might get some of the terminology wrong, but basically, the entire orientation of your program is horizontal! Only the top half of your addon has any content, the bottom half is empty indicating the addon doesn't need any height. Also, considering the entire table to select which days of the week the alarm plays on is oriented horizontally, I just thought it would make more sense to place MorningPeeps in the bottom content pane. Till now I have added 4 content pane addons, and all of them wanna occupy the right content pane, and till now, yours is the worst fit in there....

Sorry if I came off too harsh, its just 2.50 in the morning. I hoped to give some positive criticism so you could make your app more functional by utilising the bottom pane so people can use your addon in conjunction with something else more fitting of the right pane like a Now Playing list. I read somewhere that there is an easy workaround to change it to the bottom pane, meaning that it isn't gonna be a lengthy recode for you or a major redesign of the GUI, just a setting tweak. Optionally if you feel like putting the work into it, you could add a settings pane where one could choose which pane a user wants it. Actually, this idea should ideally have been built into Songbird itself! I'm surprised it isn't!

10 months ago
neil.s
neil.s

PS - The comment above ended up getting too long, so here is the gist of it - I feel your addon would fit better in the bottom content pane rather than the right one....

10 months ago
Yves
Yves

@everybody : I'm not planning to support computer wake ups ... But I would appreciate any help on this and implement your work :)

@Atomox : Do you finally get it to run ? Are there any errors in the Error Console ? mail me with the details ;) (nex.anka AT gmail DOT com)

@robcro : mainly javascript, xul/xml and css ;) http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Developer_Intro/Extensions

@neil.s I'm sorry this is a due to a Songbird bug introduced in 1.1 =( ... This should be fixed with the next release of MorningPeeps and Songbird, in 1.0 you where able to choose the sidebar, I'm also working on a statusbar icon... should be available for Songbirds next release

10 months ago
xto
xto

Hey thanks for this alarm clock.

One issue can you add a feature to support a diffrent clock system, for example 12am-12pm
IT's annoying to convert all the time.

Oh and computer wake up would make this probablly the best alarm clock out there ( if you added a timer too).
I've tried alot of computer alarm clocks and this one seems pretty good.

Thanks.

10 months ago
stevo
stevo

Yeah! Thanks for making it a component, good work.

10 months ago
Spiri
Spiri

I get an error, the music does not start playing:
"Songbird has encountered the following media core error: No URI handler implemented for "songbird-medialist". Any idea what could be wrong?

10 months ago
boosh
boosh

Woo!! No more sidebar. Thanks!

Your TODO list is perfect!

and can i suggest making the the "Shuffle" and "Volume Increase" options checkboxes instead of buttons (a little confusing determining if its off or on)

10 months ago
maxcarnazero
maxcarnazero

I like this add on but the new version has caused a funky display issue. I sets the height of my songbird window and won't allow me to re-size it. Adjusting width works fine. Maximizing the window gives me the full view otherwise the whole program is stuck on at height of about 400px.

Otherwise it works great!

10 months ago
Yves
Yves

@stevo actually it isn't a component ... it's a tricky panel hack ... (yeah yeah was kind of fun :P)

@Spiri : stevel told me it's maybe because your installation is corrupt

@boosh : I like these buttons :P but I'm gonna think about it when I need to introduce more options ;)

@maxcarnazero : Yeah I confirm ... it's because I'm using a panel ... it's still "there" when you hide it and still needs place ... sorry for that but until I develop a real component this would behave like that ...

btw. I'm gonna ship 0.4.1 with localization support really soon, maybe next weekend :) (thanks to Goofy)

10 months ago
thevan
thevan

I've got the same problem as maxcarnazero... would never have guessed that it was this add-on that caused it. Wow.

10 months ago
Darknight0
Darknight0

For those of you looking for a sleep timer, heres a current workaround:
1) create a new playlist with 0 songs in it
2) create a new alarm for whenever you want your music to turn off
3) select the empty playlist for the alarm

Now if your alarm goes off it will queue up the next playlist of blank and when the current song is done, your Songbird will quit playing.

10 months ago
Elicaris
Elicaris

First off Yves I'd like to say your add-on is what gets me up in the morning. An intelligent and simple way to set up an alarm for multiple purposes. I have been using it since I first began using songbird with out any problems... till recently.

I installed the latest version yesterday and for some odd reason when I try to resize the window in songbird it automatically fixes it's size to a tiny box. I can stretch it horizontally but not vertically, no matter what I do. I signed up to bring this oddity to your attention so hopefully it can be fixed.

 Keep up the good work :)

                                                                                     -E-

10 months ago
Yves
Yves

@Elicaris can you tell me what's your operating system ? thanks :)
Actually there are some weird rendering issues :/ I'll try to fix that ...

10 months ago
fairweatherfan
fairweatherfan

I really like the idea of this add-on but can't get it to work. I set alarms, have the library tab open, have the alarm boxes checked but when the appointed time arrives, a song from the library is selected but nothing plays. What do I need to do?? Any help??

10 months ago
shinyhappydan
shinyhappydan

I've found a strange bug. Once I have created an alarm, if I then try to edit the alarm there is a problem with the playlist selection. The selection is empty, and the selection box looks short. If I then try to select a playlist, I only get 14 playlists to choose from (I have many more than 14 playlists)

This would not be a big deal for me, except that my favored playlist is one of the ones which is not displayed :)

Hope this helps you, and thanks for this great extension.

9 months ago
shinyhappydan
shinyhappydan

It seems that this does NOT occur if I set the playlist to be one of the playlists that are shown when I try to edit the alarm, with the exception of the Main Library playlist

9 months ago
snowboarder04
snowboarder04

Hi Yves,
First off, this looks like a great plugin and just what I need. Unfortunately I can't get it to function. I can set and configure the pre-configured alarms, however I cannot create a new alarm, clicking on the "Add an alarm" button does nothing, no new dialogue opens. Also, the alarms do not activate at the configured time, no music is played, nothing happens.
Also, the "task bar" window is very bunched up making it hard to see which days the alarms are set for. (see screenshot below)

One last thing, when clicking on the check-box next to each alarm, they do not instantly become ticked/unticked, instead you have to click around on other parts of the pop-up for the change to take effect.

Once these few bugs are ironed out, you're onto a winner :)
P.S. Running Songbird 1.1.2, Build 1042, MorningPeeps 0.4.1 and Windows 7 RC1 (Build 7100)

9 months ago
boris
boris

@Yves

The vertical and corner resizing problem was filed in our Bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16627
Please follow up on a fix and resolve it Fixed when it's done, so users could re-test it.

Thanks.

9 months ago
jwjenkin
jwjenkin

hey
first off, i love this add-on its pretty awesome!!
now for the bug
whenever i minimize songbird, i have to click the minimized window 3 times before it pops back up. also, i have my windows start menu on autohide, but it doesn't hide when morningpeeps is on. I've tried disabling it, and it seems to do the trick. but i still want to use the add-on!! help please!
thanks!

9 months ago
DoomSwitch
DoomSwitch

For some reason when I have this plug in installed I get a really bad resizing problem.. The window wont expand vertically. It sucks :(

8 months ago
axel9000
axel9000

i just got songbird for my mac and I can not seem to see where this add-on even is once I download it...I tried looking under media views...where is it?
thanks! looks like a great add-on!

8 months ago
emericaki27
emericaki27

hi, i have the exact same issues as snowboarder04. so at least i know its not me or my machine :) also even with a pre-configured timer, such as the work or weekend timer, i can't seem to get the alarm to actually go off ha.

I realize it sounds like i'm down on the app but when i found it i lit up because its exactly what i need. no more throwing my phone against the wall with a generated sanyo keyboard style ring tone going off, there would finally be music to wake up too!

as snowboarder04 said your onto a winner and cheers for making this available :) i will concede that im running vista and that said, vista may very likely be the culprit for all the failure going on here as it is in most other cases haha.

im running songbird 1.2 and 0.4.1 on morning peeps. hope you can resolve because i think this is the single greatest app on songbird, even above fasterbird :)

7 months ago
emericaki27
emericaki27

amends to my previous bit, after several minutes of playing around with the app, i was able to get the "add an alarm" button to function but i still have yet to mess with it enough to get an alarm to actually go off ha. ill let my computer sleep for a night and try it tomorrow... maybe it will be happy by then and i will be able to say without a doubt that this is the best app on songbird.

7 months ago
emericaki27
emericaki27

Well letting my computer sleep for a bit and think it over must have helped because it is happy now. Love the app great job mate

7 months ago
junsumoney
junsumoney

I have it downloaded, installed, and I was in my Library Tabs, I went to Media View, but Morning Peeps is not there. This is frustrating as I have installed it multiple times and it's not there. Please help.

7 months ago
MozzUK
MozzUK

This add-on has been useful on countless occasions. I really like it but have had to disable it recently. For some reason it resizes my Songbird and locks the size. Conflict possibly?

7 months ago
jdaverth
jdaverth

@ MozzUK,

This add-on has been useful on countless occasions. I really like it but have had to disable it recently. For some reason it resizes my Songbird and locks the size. Conflict possibly?

Same problem here and only all of a sudden after doing some unrelated add-on updates. PLEASE FIX THIS!! I don't think I can live without my morning peeps!!!

>

7 months ago
foolishgrunt
foolishgrunt

A small black box appears over the player window every time I open Songbird. It goes away when I right-click on the morning peeps icon, and doesn't show up at all when the app is disabled. Anybody else having this?

6 months ago
eXtreme
eXtreme

Feature request:
 - Skip next activation (without having to turn it back on): bc of holidays or illness
 - Turn speaker on or down to 50% if it is muted or set too high

6 months ago
Paruru
Paruru

Thanks for the addon! If you can add a good snooze function to this I'll kiss you (or not, your choice.) One thing though, it leaves an empty black square above the status bar when minimized. I'm running in LInux Mint.

6 months ago
river
river

great add-on

5 months ago
mattevt
mattevt

Every time I click on the icon, it exits song bird. Super irritating. (Ubuntu 9.10, SB 1.2)

4 months ago
ryanmcg
ryanmcg

@MozzUK @jdaverth -- I am having the resizing issue as well. As long as the add-on is installed, I have no control over the size of the Songbird window.

4 months ago
davidarredondolopez
davidarredondolopez

Hi everyone, maybe all of you know this but i didn't see the comment to use this add-on ¿do i have to leave the computer on all night so the alarm start at the time programmed?
If i have to do this, any idea to leave the computer off and start before the alarm?
Thank you and greetings from Mexico.

4 months ago
system32
system32

hola david,
I've been looking for an alarm clock that features system wake up, and found only one that could do it, but it's full of errors. Morning Peeps won't do that, but you want to check this out > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zHebg_3liM then you can run Songbird at startup.
Suerte!

4 months ago
system32
system32

Yves: thanks, it's a great add-on and the only one I really need. Great design and very simple.
One thing only: the side panel and the status bar panel don't always display the same alarm settings. e.g. I added an alarm on the status bar panel, then opened the side panel and edited the strart time. the changes don't update on the status bar panel (neither if I turn the alarm off or on). It only works well the other way round (changing the time on the status bar panel), but I choose not to do that because clicking on the check-boxes to activate an alarm does nothing (most of the times). I hope I made myself clear. ´_´
p.s not a problem really, the latest change is saved no matter where it's made. thx

4 months ago
BR-Charles
BR-Charles

Bugs on 0.4.1.2

Turns alarm off does nothing (it could stop the music when the alarm rings).

Volume increase - if chosen - become endless (same with music stopped!). The volume bar moves by itself and only stops when reach max volume.

Thanks, Yves. I loved this add-on. Sure it needs few adjusts. System wake-up possibility is very important if you let computer on by a long period.

3 months ago
pyromaniac1992
pyromaniac1992

when installed you cant resize the window to teh exact size you need, you can only have it fully maximized or as a small and skinny window

2 months ago
soccerush10
soccerush10

Crashes with Songbird v. 4.3.1, I have filed bug #19492 with Bugzilla. Yves, please see that page for comments and any bug fixes that you manage to make: http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19492

2 months ago
Zogato
Zogato

This is a great addon! Glad to see it works on the new version too!

I hope you keep updating this wonderful add on!

2 months ago
sannita
sannita

great,but since i use koala,when i try to set M.peeps,songbird closes itselph....sorry for my english

2 months ago
Zogato
Zogato

Hmmm I'm not sure if its just this Addon, but it seems songbird is preventing me from resizing the window. It either has to be in full screen or in a very skinny window.

Using the latest songbird on Windows 7 32bit.

2 months ago
richardba
richardba

My favorite addon, well, the addon should be reintegrated with sidebar to prevent resizing bug.

about 1 month ago
Paruru
Paruru

I've been unable to get this working in Linux Mint 8. When I click on the MorningPeeps icon Songbird closes! It's very strange. @_@

about 1 month ago
hope727
hope727

Just updated to Songbird 1.4.3 (on a Mac) and I can't seem to get the alarm to come on. I've tried re-installing 2 or 3 times, but it still doesn't work :(

about 1 month ago



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