Module for webcast alarm clock daemon

dakedesu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I read somewhere about a perl monk who had a perl script interacting with a MP3 player as his alarm clock, where at a certain time, music would start to play.

I am wondering what sorts of modules I would need to create something similar to this, and am wonder what the other monks would recommend.

Need it to goto 100.3 The Bear's webcast, and be able to play it. It uses either Real Player or Flash, I will check later, but better to allow for both
Have this happen at a certain time
Run as a Daemon

No this is not homework, if it was, I would wonder about the teacher's sanity, I just think it would be really cool if I could program this :)

Summary: What modules do I want?

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Re: Module for webcast alarm clock daemon by jepri (Parson) on Apr 01, 2002 at 12:54 UTC
If you are running linux, try: `prompt> at 8am at> /usr/bin/xmms http://url.to.music/ at> <control-D>` [download] I use this quite often to get up. There's a gnome front end as well. In desperation, when I get too tired to figure out at, I'll type: perl -e 'sleep 460*2;`xmms loud_song.mp3`' [download] Substitute real player or flash player as necessary. Under windows NT you can use the system scheduler to do the same thing as at. Most of the complexity in these things comes from programming the front end. If you want to make a full scheduler (reinventing wheel alert), use Date::Manip to figure out when you want an action to occur, then write a program that lets users input actions and times. Then check to see if a action should have occurred, say once per second and off you go. There isn't really a need for too many modules. If you are trying to get something tricky off a webpage, you will need LWP, but apart from that and Date::Manip, you don't need too much. ____________________ Jeremy I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Module for webcast alarm clock daemon by belg4mit (Prior) on Apr 01, 2002 at 16:32 UTC
a cron; in perl. Though there is no mention of MP3, you could certainly do it. `-- perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"`	[reply]
Re: Module for webcast alarm clock daemon by dakedesu (Scribe) on Apr 07, 2002 at 21:21 UTC
update: Well, after checking out the site I wanted the webcast from, they are apparently doing something daft like using their own plugin for it. It would also appear that they have a bunch of grumble windows experts mutter, mumble, grumble working for their site, seeing as how the plugin is currently only for Internet Explorer for Windows (Though it will work for Mozilla, just you have to install it with IE). If I was not as much of a lazy bum, I would request the specs to the format, so I could write a server for XMMS. DakeDesu teh Confused Werewolf. In perl, only those who are bless'd are treated as objects (Webpages under construction)	[reply]