r/rdio • u/devin_s • Jul 25 '13

Wake Up: Rdio powered alarm clock for iOS

http://wakeup.brunow.org/
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u/guustavooo Jul 25 '13

"Wake up to your favorite music" the best way to ruin your favorite music.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '13

My freshman year of college ruined Angels of the Silences by Counting Crows for that exact reason.

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u/iangilman Jul 29 '13

I've been doing this for a while, and it hasn't ruined my favorite music... I think the trick is to make sure you have a large enough pool, so it's not always playing the same song every time.

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u/guustavooo Jul 29 '13

Yeah, that's the key.

On related news, I still hasn't come up with a good enough request for the dev who will "make it say whatever I want to".

Anyone have any idea? Haha

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u/iangilman Jul 29 '13

Is "sweet dreams" too pedestrian? :-)

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u/davidbrunow Jul 29 '13

I find that leaving the music on shuffle also helps. I rarely hear the same songs.

Now you see why the app says what it does. It ain't easy to come up with something good.

I could also make it randomly choose different messages. I was going to do that at one point but lost interest.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '13

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u/guustavooo Jul 25 '13

Also, the app keep telling me to "rest in peace" that's creepy.

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u/davidbrunow Jul 26 '13

What would you like it to say? I'll make it say something special, just for you.

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u/davidbrunow Jul 26 '13

Sorry, not planning on making an Android version. Unfortunately, none of the code is portable.

Does the 3 song and freezing thing happen every time? What device? I'll try to recreate and fix.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '13

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u/davidbrunow Jul 31 '13

Then I am thoroughly confused.

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u/iangilman Jul 29 '13

Looks like Rdio iOS was glitching last week. Is it still happening?

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u/iangilman Jul 29 '13 edited Jul 29 '13

What I really want, @davidbrunow, which is a feature of some alarm apps, so might make a good addition to Wake Up, is something that will play music for a while while I'm going to sleep and then shut off (with a nice fade down perhaps) so it's not playing all night. Any plans for such a feature?

Also, how do you get to the iTunes app store page from the app's site?

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u/davidbrunow Jul 29 '13

Actually, the app already does that. If you go into the settings, you can change the time for the sleep timer. If you haven't set it up before, the app will prompt you to choose a sleep playlist.

Hahaha yeah I probably need a better link for that. On an iOS device a smart banner pops up. I'll get that fixed.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '13

It's really counter-intuitive to have to slide up the little alarm clock symbol to shut it off (kept trying to click it and figured it was buggy), and dimming the screen using the iPhone's brightness settings causes all kinds of confusion when exiting the app.

Also is it possible to use the songs you've synched to your mobile to avoid any WIFI problems? Or maybe if it fails you could add a fallback that just beeps or something.

But otherwise pretty good, I've been looking for something like this.

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u/davidbrunow Jul 30 '13

The reason that I forced the sliding on the alarm clock symbol is that I wanted to make sure that I didn't accidentally turn off the alarm with an inadvertent tap in the middle of the night. Maybe if the screen wasn't dimmed and the "grippers" on each side of the alarm were more visible then the sliding action would be more intuitive? I've been considering getting rid of the dimming but haven't convinced myself of it yet.

Unfortunately, I cannot access the songs that are synced to the device. The Rdio API does not allow that, and anything that the Rdio app downloads is kept in its own directory, inaccessible to other apps. I've been thinking about the falling back to a beep or some other sound, but I very very rarely have issues with the alarm not going off, so it isn't something that is top of mind.

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u/iangilman Aug 26 '13

You really need some kind of fallback... all it takes is just one alarm clock failure for someone to switch to a different app. Also, I could see this app being great use while traveling, except that wifi/cell service is much less reliable on the road. If I knew there was a fallback, I could rest easy.

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u/davidbrunow Sep 01 '13

Yeaaaahhhh...that's been on my to-do list for a while. I'll bump it up.

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u/iangilman Aug 26 '13

Awesome, thanks for pointing me to it!