# MP3 Player with alarm?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-with-alarm/239684>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 12, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-with-alarm/239684 "2004-04-12T23:08:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-with-alarm/239684/1 "2004-04-12T23:08:34Z")

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My current alarm clock is useless at waking me up nowadays so I was wondering about using my PC to play a MP3 at certain times of the day. Anybody know of a program which could do this for me?

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**Author:** ![EasyPhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-with-alarm/239684/2 "2004-04-12T23:27:09Z")

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How about using your cell phone? That is of course if you have one.