How might I use Automator or Applescript to launch iTunes at midnight, and kill it at 5am ?
(This is the only time when I have unlimited bandwidth.. rural sat-based ISP.. ugg.)
Thanks.
MacOS – automate app launch at midnight
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Related Solutions
To get it to work in iTunes, you can try setting it up like this:
Service receives selected: text in: iTunes
Actions:
"Get Selected iTunes Tracks" - Get selected: tracks
"Open Finder items" - Open with: VLC
for f in "$@"; do new="$(echo -n "$f" | sed -E 's|/$||;s| +$||;s|^ +||;s|/ +([^/]+$)|/\1|;s| +(\.[^.][a-zA-Z0-9.]*)$|\1|g')"; mv "$f" "$new"; echo "$new"; done
(Paste as a Run Shell Script action and select Pass input: as arguments.)
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Best Answer
This is the easiest, non-technical, method:
(I'm on Snow Leopard, I've edited these to match Mavericks - the exact buttons to click may be wrong)
tell application "iTunes" to activatetell application "iTunes" to quit. Save it somewhereDone!
The calendar app does not have to be running to allow the events to take place.