A script to listen to RealOne radio then sleep

Jan 19, '05 08:23:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

The following shell script will launch a radio station (in RealOne Player) and put the computer to sleep after an hour. In this case, it will open the 6 Music radio station. Saving this script as myname.command allows it to be executable from the Mac Finder:

#!/bin/sh

say 'Opening 6 music'
open rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/6music/live/6music_dsat_g2.ra
sleep 3300
say 'Sleeping in 5 minutes'
sleep 300
say 'night night'
osascript -e 'quit application "RealOne Player"'
osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to sleep'
Remember to make the script executable (chmod 755 scriptname).

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