Hello,

I am looking for some software to realize a 24 hour music server.

This is the situation:

I have a large collection of Classical Indian Music Ragas which are supposed to be played only at certain time slots of the day (or night) to unfold theirs full effect.

These are three hour time slots.

So I have lets say a dozen Ragas in MP3 or OGG or Flac format, which go in a certain time slot.

Now I would like to fire up a program and which then automatically starts playing the correct ragas for the time of the day without any additional intervention.

Is that time over (let's say it's one o'clock) I want it to automatically go to the next playlist with the corresponding ragas for the next time slot from one to four o'clock and so on.

If I could have some more features, like have the pc go into hibernation at a preset time or when playing stops, even better.

Also some way to play random ragas from that playlist for the corresponding time would be great.

I have helped myself with batch files, which pass to Winamp the filenames of the ragas and at the same time start psshutdown to put the computer into hibernation when the playing has ended. But of course I had to manually start the batch file and was not able to switch to the new playlist when the next time period has started.

Would anybody have any idea?

I have read with interest your posts about jukeboxes, and thouhgt maybe somebody knows of a proggie that can do that.

Thanks for your help. :)

Kind Regards,

Brahman

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1.) Never let Chkdsk do anything to a damaged hard drive, it will only make things worst and unrecoverable.  :down:

2.) Attach the drive to a second IDE channel, since HD utilities cannot reliably read all drive data from a USB drive. Especially when you are trying to rebuild the MFT and recover partitions this is absolutely essential, since USB drives give wrong physical information to the OS.

3.) Don't do anything to the harddrive until you have mirrored the drive to another drive with special software (NOT with backup mirror software like Ghost or Acronis TI) that is used for HD recovery (pcinspector clonemaxx, Raw Copy by Roadkil http://roadkil.net/RawCopy.html is the only free util that does reverse copy, which is easier on a failing drive, driveimage xml clones from windows, http://copyr.tetroniks.ru/download/copyrR13.zip  copyr is the best free clone  util for inaccessible drives - though there are much better commercial ones).

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5.) Suggested further informations:

Here is an exhaustive freeware link collection for hard drive related troubles:

http://www.s2services.com/quickdiskrecoverylinks.htm

Hope that helps. If you are careful and don't mess up too much, you should get all your data back, though it may take some time.  :Thmbsup:

Regards,

Brahman