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.
Awaken
Digital alarm clock that uses iTunes playlists.
Version: 4.0.23
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
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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!Reply to This
Saturday, August 09 2008 @ 08:26 PM PDT