New wakeup music?
Feb. 22nd, 2014 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swehBack in 1993 I bought a CD called "Woman To Woman: The Very Best Of Female Singer Songwriters".
At the time I had it on my "5 CD" deck. I would play it when I went to sleep. Later when I got a CD Alarm clock I would go to sleep listening to it, and wake up to it. Umm...it's 2014 and I'm _still_ using this CD. (Well, the original CD has bit-rot so I'm using an mp3 rip I took in 2001). Seriously, for as as long as I've been in America (14 years), if not longer, this has been my "go to sleep, wake up" music. It's been my most played ever CD.
I wonder if it's time to change...
What I really want is an alarm clock that'll play my mp3 collection via wifi (smb share/nfs/whatever). I'd hoped the Chumby would do this, but the LED display wasn't really suitable for a bedside alarm clock IMHO. And there was no "simple" alarm clock function. My current CD-based alarm clock has a simple function; "press this button and play music for 30 minutes" (can be changed). That's great for "go to sleep". Many computer-based alarm clocks focus on the 'wake up' side but have piss-poor 'go to sleep' functionality. I never found a chumby alarm clock that could replicate this simple function.
So I'm still listening to this same 20-year-old CD... I know I'm on time when I hit the off button when the song says 'pipe dream' :-)
At the time I had it on my "5 CD" deck. I would play it when I went to sleep. Later when I got a CD Alarm clock I would go to sleep listening to it, and wake up to it. Umm...it's 2014 and I'm _still_ using this CD. (Well, the original CD has bit-rot so I'm using an mp3 rip I took in 2001). Seriously, for as as long as I've been in America (14 years), if not longer, this has been my "go to sleep, wake up" music. It's been my most played ever CD.
I wonder if it's time to change...
What I really want is an alarm clock that'll play my mp3 collection via wifi (smb share/nfs/whatever). I'd hoped the Chumby would do this, but the LED display wasn't really suitable for a bedside alarm clock IMHO. And there was no "simple" alarm clock function. My current CD-based alarm clock has a simple function; "press this button and play music for 30 minutes" (can be changed). That's great for "go to sleep". Many computer-based alarm clocks focus on the 'wake up' side but have piss-poor 'go to sleep' functionality. I never found a chumby alarm clock that could replicate this simple function.
So I'm still listening to this same 20-year-old CD... I know I'm on time when I hit the off button when the song says 'pipe dream' :-)
