I always used to wake up to my favorite radio station on my alarm clock. However, I have moved and can no longer get that radio station over the air. To solve this problem, I would like to stream the station on my laptop, but have it muted overnight, then set it to unmute at a specific time in the morning, so that it will act as an alarm clock. Is there a way to schedule my laptop (Windows 7 64-bit) to unmute at a specific time?
Solution:
You can use the utility NirCmd to mute and set your volume from the command line.
Mute
nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 1 Unmute
nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 0 Just use the built-in scheduler. There is a basic overview of using the scheduler here or look at schtask or at to schedule from the command line.