Re: Audio CD's

#1 · December 14, 1997, 12:31 pm

Posted by: microcsm <microcsm@...>

In a message dated 12/14/97 9:24 AM, you wrote:

>My son just can't wake up in the morning. I think he's trained his
>unconscious mind to tune out the sound of his alarm clock.
>
>But if only I could program his Mac to start up the strains of "Bad, Bad
>Leroy Brown" from his Jim Croce CD at 6:30 AM, I'll bet that would get
>his blood flowing. He'd have to leave his Mac on all night, but he
>tends to do that anyway.
>
>It seems like this shouldn't be too hard to do, once you know the
>secret. Does anyone here know how to fiddle with Audio CD's
>programmatically?

Rick, I think with the latest system's (7.61+), you can set the CD to
automatically start playing any CD in the drive when a CD is inserted.
That might also hold true for any CD in the drive _when the computer is
started up_. If that were the case, you could just set the computer to
come on at 6:00 and be done with it. Of course, that assumes the Bad
Bad Leroy Brown is the first track on the CD...

Barring that I do believe there are AppleScript / Apple Event interfaces
to the AppleCD Audio Player. Just not sure where you would go to get
more info on them...