Features
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- plays one random MP3 from a directory

- windows scheduler allows one random MP3 to be played every 15 minutes, and allows a laptop to hibernate overnight



Setup
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- make sure perl and winamp are installed

- tweak alarm.cmd to your specific paths

- drop a bunch of MP3s in the folder indicated in alarm.cmd (I just use the same folder alarm.cmd is in)

- go to Settings > Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks > Add Scheduled Task, tell it to run alarm.cmd

	- configure it to wake the computer up

	- for super-hard-sleepers like me, you can tell it to keep calling alarm.cmd every 15 minutes for the next 3 hours

- put your laptop in standby or hibernate

(be sure to test it to make sure it wakes up and plays...  sometimes it needs your username/pass, or various other specific settings)

(i prefer a laptop because I can plug it into my bedside amplifier, to give it the best chance at waking me up)


ToDo
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- it's currently hard to stop winamp when you wake up.  Right now I just use pskill.exe from sysinternals.com
	on a shortcut on the desktop, assigned to a keyboard shortcut

- it relies on my current password, which I have to change every month.  Either create a separate user so I don't forget
	to update this password, or switch over to using linux.