Section 89. Use Your iPod as an Alarm Clock


89. Use Your iPod as an Alarm Clock

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

5 Set the iPod's Date and Time


SEE ALSO

91 Turn Your iPod into a Boom Box with Remote Control


Taking your iPod with you on a vacation isn't just a matter of keeping entertained in distant localesit's also a practical matter. You can use the iPod to make sure that you wake up each morning to a more pleasant sound than your phone ringing with a wake-up call from the hotel's front desk. The iPod can act as an alarm clock, beeping at a prescribed time, or you can hook it up to a set of compact portable external speakers and have the iPod begin playing music from a specified playlist at the set alarm time. You might like this arrangement enough to use it at home as wellso long, clock-radio!

NOTE

Be sure to set the iPod's date and time before beginning this task; see 5 Set the iPod's Date and Time for details.


1.
Set the Alarm Time

Navigate into the Extras menu, then select Clock , then select Alarm Clock . From the next screen, select the Time item. You're presented with a simple time readout (in 1-minute increments ) that you can adjust by rotating the wheel. Set it to the time you want to wake up (making sure that the display screen reads AM if you want to set it for the morning) and press Select to set the alarm time. You are returned to the Alarm Clock menu.

89. Use Your iPod as an Alarm Clock


2.
Turn On the Alarm

After you've set the time of the alarm, you must turn on the alarm. Highlight Alarm and press Select to toggle the alarm clock function to On . The next time the iPod's internal clock reaches the set alarm time, it emits a melodic beeping cadence for several secondsenough to wake up most people sleeping a few feet from it.

3.
Choose a Beep or Playlist

If you don't like the beep and want to take your alarm clock to the next level, first invest in a set of small, portable speakers built for the iPod like the Altec Lansing inMotion iM3 ($179). In the Alarm Clock screen, choose Sound , and then select one of the listed playlists and press Select .

TIP

You can use any set of powered or unpowered speakers you like, as long as they can be connected to the iPod Dock through its audio output jack or directly to the iPod's headphone jack. Speakers built for the iPod, with a built-in Dock, are probably the most elegant solution with the fewest wires.

NOTE

If you have Shuffle mode enabled, the iPod selects a song at random from the playlist you choose when the alarm goes off.

4.
Connect the iPod to External Speakers

The speaker system acts as an iPod Dock. Insert the iPod into the slot in the tray so that the Dock connector fits over the tongue in the slot. When the iPod's alarm goes off, it plays its music through the Dock connector and into the speakers.

NOTE

Shut off the alarm music by pressing Play/Pause .




iPod + iTunes for Windows and Mac in a Snap
iPod + iTunes for Windows and Mac in a Snap (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0672328992
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 152
Authors: Brian Tiemann

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