Wake up with your favourite media files playing
Ever wanted your pc to act as an alarm clock? i mean, which switches on at a predefined time, and start playing media files.
Recently i have FINALLY found a real simple solution to my self-posed problem! (never give up on your quests people! 
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Its name? WOSB (abbrev. for Wakeup On Standby.) 
but mind you, this method can only be used IF your computer can hibernate. (most pcs since windows xp release are APM enabled so normally this should not be a problem.)
The official site is here
Get WOSB (From mediafire)
(about 325 kb)
Install the program and it should run immediately after the install.
Okay, now set the date and time you want your pc to wake up from hibernation for the first time. (you can then configure the program to wake your pc every week on specific days.)
Now one sidequest for you. minimize wosb, and go to your favourite media player. set up the playlist you want the pc to play when it wakes up. it can contain as many songs as you want. save or export the playlist (in either .m3u or .pls , anyone will do) and close your media player.
Back to Wosb. in the field *(2) specify what to do at that time:*
Tick the checkbox, click the […] button, browse to the playlist created above and double click on it.
In the *(3) Specify what to do next* field, you can specify an amount of time to wait (thus playing the playlist) before shutting down / hibernating (useful to make the task fully automatic, waking up PC, playing your playlist, re-hibernate after some time, and repeat next morning for example) but personally i set that to *just wait* because the amount of time i take to wake up is greatly variable
As for the *(4) repeat these tasks* field, it is pretty intuitive, just that you need to select a day to enable the radio button (every week, in a week, etc…)
You can then click start to activate the task. (i havent tested the batch process function yet, but sure will.) also, when you want to turn off the pc, do NOT shut down, as it will cancel the task set in wosb. just right click the wosb in the tray (near the clock) and click on hibernate, taddaaa! just one last thing, before hibernating, ensure your speakers volume is at a reasonable level (i once ended up waking up everybody with sepultura *ROOOOOOOOOOOTS! Bloody ROOOOOOTS!* at nearly maximum volume )
Well, the most technical ones might have noticed, the playlist is opened by wosb. this means that in its place, any other program / file etc might be opened (even several programs or files, using a multilauncher script as the opened file in wosb) Furthermore command prompt params can be passed to the program opened. this means there are tens (or hundreds? ) other possible uses of wosb. (however not yet thought of any )
Btw,thanks to a friend who has tested this on an ibm thinkpad, turns out it works fine. the only thing is that the laptop should be left open after hibernation.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:02 pm[…] here is the usage guide. Download WOSB from here. and here is a user experience post Happy power […]
July 18th, 2007 at 6:52 amone more jutsu completed!
have you tried it?
btw if anyone has tested this on a laptop plz inform 
January 14th, 2007 at 7:05 pmwow! zat’s really really really interesting!!!
January 14th, 2007 at 5:45 pmlol you must mean 324 KB
must test that soft of yours
Hey leo, youre into scripting too??? Coolz!
that one was a simple sfx script (winrar users right click it to see what i mean)
But i also use inno setup and Auto it 3.0.
im now on a project with some friends, UBkey
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Hey, a jutsu designer will always remain one, theres no changing that trait of a person! ) am sure you yourself has also improved in jutsu creation! 
January 13th, 2007 at 11:48 pmlol No, i dont use liokun since last year!!! but just in case that would help in recognising me!
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I also did it, using Jetaudio
which has a built in alarm which wakes your pc from standby, and plays the files in its playlist. But Chris, your way is better, because jetaudio is 16 mb (compared to that soft*s 324 mb) and well, for just that functionality id rather uninstall jetaudio! (was to be expected from you chris!
Hey, you make installers?? cool! script wise or wizard? i use inno setup compiler
January 13th, 2007 at 10:16 pm@ Yashvin yep, real nice! lol
@ liokun, hi. still the same nickname after two years heh? yep, thats me. (how many times have you been in here silently???)
long time no see mate! as you see, i have completed our jutsu (technique) after quite some time 
remember how we at first deactivated the fan to make the cpu *BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP…* at startup? 
hey leo, got your email in that comment. will mail you laterz. 
hey you guys tell me if you find another possible use of the WOSB? (ive found some, but nothing useful. like waking the browser, going to a given url, and then power off after 30 minutes)!
January 13th, 2007 at 4:07 pmerm,
first of all. nice site, learned a few tricks in here
But am kind of confused…
sorry to ask, but were you in F5BS 2005 at ADP?
Anyway sorry
Nice program you got there by the way!
January 13th, 2007 at 3:37 pmnice software!
January 13th, 2007 at 3:03 pmThis was smtg i’ve been trying too since long..
January 13th, 2007 at 8:50 amtill now..
i used to hibernate with winamp playing a song which would more likely me make me awake (sepultura been in the playlist quite some times)..and then i would u a feature of the bios which would start up the pc at a given time..however for this to work correctly i had to each time hibernate with winamp playing some song
i installed wosb and today i woke up with Summer Moon..featuring David Guetta..and gosh today is the concert..wish i could get a ticket
wosb works well
those who have not tried it..
go ahead
try it