Unless you’re planning to have the radio streaming all day long you’ll probably want to have it on and off at various times when the programs you want are being played.
One of the problems I find is that if I just leave it to my memory, I often forget, and then I’m disappointed because I’ve missed my programme.
You might also want to use your computer as some sort of alarm system.
There are all sorts of reasons why you might want to schedule the radio stream.
So for this post I’m going to continue to look at how we can schedule the radio programme to play the Dead Hand by Wilkie Collins. And for this purpose I’m going to use the Solway Task Scheduler.
So the most important thing is once you’ve downloaded it and installed it to click it on.
On my computer I’ll find the task schedule icon like a clock in my task tray.
So we need to open that up and then we’ll find the open image of Solway’s Task Scheduler which should say no tasks have yet been created.
So first of all, we must create a task.
To do this we’ll go down to the bottom of the task schedule picture and click on the plus button which will say add a new task.
It should be a simple matter to add the details into the define new task.
The task name in this case I’ve called The Dead Hand to remind me what the story is and the file to open is the icon that I made on my desktop for Audio Book Radio. And then I put in the scheduled period in this case once only because I only want to listen to this once today. The start date, which is the day that the programme is played and local time, which in my case is 14.10. And to finish this part of the procedure, after clicking off, just for Thursday, I am going to click on the save button.
Once everything is saved I can check the screen again and see that we are ready to play the programme on schedule.
And here we can see that it says The Dead Hand, the frequency – once only, The time, and everything is now ready and this means that at 4.10 today I will be able to listen to The Dead Hand while I’m doing my work or just relaxing
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[...] Obviously you can just leave the radio streaming until you’re ready to record but a better way might be to schedule when you want the broadcast to start. If you’ve forgotten how to do this, or haven’t read the Post Tutorial, you can find it here: (Let’s Schedule “The Dead Hand” by Wilkie Collins) [...]