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Awaken

Awaken

Digital alarm clock that uses iTunes playlists.

Version:  4.0.23

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Needs work

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: julia2 Sunday, March 09 2008 @ 09:17 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

I like the look and feel of this app very much, it's gorgeous. Functionally, however, it's got a few issues. This morning it didn't wake me - its screen said the alarm was in progress, but iTunes was paused. Further investigation showed that the song selected in iTunes had its checkbox un-checked (I have a number of songs I keep in my collection but do not want in regular play rotation (30-minute classical pieces, Christmas songs, etc.). Maybe that's why Awaken choked, I don't know. But reliability is paramount in an alarm clock application.

When turning on the sleep timer, the program interrupts the currently-playing iTunes song and starts playing a new song. This is quite annoying, it'd be much better if it just started the timer and left iTunes alone at that point.

The program also really needs to have a slow fadeout option on the sleep timer function, it is not conducive to sleep to have the music continue at full volume and then suddenly cut off.

There is little/no documentation, the Help screen says "Coming in software update".

I wrote the developer some days ago but haven't received a reply. In fairness, the issue I wrote about (conflict with APE) was mentioned in the Read Me or somewhere, but still I asked a question and a reply would have been nice.

I'll definitely buy it if these issues are sorted out.   
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Needs work - elijah1028

I just want to reiterate what Julia said. I'll definately buy this if these problems are worked out. Thanks!

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Saturday, August 09 2008 @ 08:26 PM PDT