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Myoozick Player

The Myoozick Player is a software MP3/WAV/MIDI file player able to fill your day with music, no matter how long that day is. It can play a list containing any combination of MP3, WAV, and MIDI files. The Myoozick Player is launched from any WakeUp screen, but runs in its own window, separate from WakeUp, so it can be operated independently. It uses the same colors as you set for WakeUp's Alarm Clock view. As soon as it is launched, tracks are loaded into the Myoozick Player from the directory specified in WakeUp's Settings view as the Default Music Directory. Myoozick Player will actually search all subdirectories of the Default Music Directory, and include their sound files as well. The tracks are loaded into the player in alphabetical order (by directory), but can easily be rearranged.

While developing WakeUp, we found we already had the major features of an MP3 player (with .WAV and .MID also). It was so capable as an MP3 player that we kept using WakeUp alarms as if they were MP3/WAV/MIDI players. Of course, that got in the way of other alarms, which just fell into a Pending state, waiting for the current alarm to finish before firing. Our playlists can go on all day without repeating, so this meant alarms could wait a very long time. It was a problem, certainly - we wanted the alarms to sound when their time came up, but we liked setting our playlists too. The decision to finally develop the Myoozick Player as a large feature of WakeUp handled both these issues quite well. The Myoozick Player can play our music continuously, and it doesn't block alarms from firing when ready. We assumed you would also like the ability to play music all day and have alarms fire on-time. That is why Myoozick Player operates independently from WakeUp. The only connections are logical - Myoozick Player follows WakeUp's color schemes, and will also go away if you close the WakeUp window (minimizing either is fine). Unlike WakeUp's main window, you can resize the Myoozick Player window to see more entries in the track list if you like.

Play/Next: The button seen as Next above actually has two states: Play, and Next. If no track is currently playing, the button says Play, and will start playing the selected track as seen below (in this case, it will play Let It Be.mp3).

When a track is playing, that button changes to say Next, and pressing it will stop playing the current selection, and start playing the next track on the list.

Stop: If you simply want to stop the current track, but don't want to start the next track, press the Stop button instead. Myoozick Player will stay at the same selection, and wait for your next move. Stop can be used if you are playing a track but want to randomize or add tracks (both described below).

Add Track(s): If you're not currently playing a track, you can add more tracks to the list using the Add Track(s) button. Since the Myoozick Player already starts off with every selection of your Default Music Directory, you may never need this button. However, we wrote Myoozick Player to be flexible. If you have other music directories also, you can include their tracks in this list. Tracks are added to the Myoozick Player list just as they're added to an alarm's sound list - by selecting files in a dialog. All new tracks are added to the end of the play list.

Randomize: Whenever a track is not currently playing, you can rearrange the tracks in a random order (repeatedly) by pressing the Randomize button. If your playlist contains 332 tracks like ours, (or more), this makes each new listening experience a variety likely never heard before. We know it varies the tracks much more than the average radio station.

If you miss a particular radio station's format after a while, try recording a few dozen commercials as sound tracks and placing them in your Default Music Directory to play as tracks in the Myoozick Player, and avoid hitting the Randomize button for three or four months. Make sure there are many more commercial files than songs in the directory. Make many copies of the most annoying commercials with different file names so they are repeated often, and if you have the editing tools, make them louder than your regular music files. If, after all this, you miss the directionless, self-indulgent chatter of DJs, we are out of suggestions.

Remove: The Remove button lets you trim your list to match your temporary wishes without permanently deleting or moving files. It removes the selected track from the playlist, but the track will appear again the next time you launch the Myoozick Player (unless you actually do go and delete or move that file).

Track Up/Down: The up and down arrows move the currently selected track up or down in the play order of the list. Whether or not you are playing the selected track, its position in the list can be swapped with the track before or after it. Because you can select a different track in the list from the track currently playing, these buttons will even move that newly selected track instead of the current track. This is another way to skip certain tracks, as opposed to removing them from the list.

Double-clicking on any track will start playing it. If another track was playing when you did this, that track will stop playing immediately, so the new track can start.

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