If you are running linux, try:

prompt> at 8am
at> /usr/bin/xmms http://url.to.music/
at> <control-D>

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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 4*60**2;`xmms loud_song.mp3`'

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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.

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