Set A Different Alarm For Every Day Of The Week

Set A Different Alarm For Every Day Of The Week

Every Wednesday, there’s a YouTube series that adds a new music video of a screaming frog saying “It is Wednesday, my dudes.” Wouldn’t one of these Wednesday songs make a better alarm for your Wednesday mornings than “Radar (Default)”? You can make this happen, my dudes.

The best alarm is music you like but never listen to

You should never use your favourite music as an alarm, because once a song becomes your alarm, it stresses you out any time you hear it.

Personally, I like to use novelty music, like “It’s Not a Moon” by Bad Lip Reading, or vaporwave Seinfeld: music that won’t come up on shuffle or in a cafe.

The key to this music is that it’s fun, it’s catchy, but it’s already kind of annoying, and it’s often not even available on Spotify or iTunes. It usually doesn’t end up in your jogging playlist. This stuff makes great ringtones, and it makes great alarms.

Alternately, you can use “classic” songs that you know, but wouldn’t really throw into your own music library. Like oldies, or music from movies or video games, or deep cuts that you usually skip over. They just have to beat “Marimba” or “By the Seaside” or your regrettable download of “Minions Saying Banana.”

[referenced url=”https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2018/01/dont-set-your-alarm-to-your-favourite-song/” thumb=”https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_ku-large/qvut0su1jikjru5xzmwr.png” title=”Don’t Set Your Alarm To Your Favourite Song” excerpt=”When you use your phone as your alarm clock, you might think that you want to wake up to your favourite song. You do not. The first couple of days you’ll enjoy it, but then the effect will reverse itself. It won’t be ‘I wake up to my favourite song’, it will be “sometimes iTunes plays my alarm”. Every time your old favourite song comes on, you’ll feel antsy or anxious.”]

A different alarm every day

Consider this: if your alarm tells you what day it is, you get a head start the second you wake up. And both novelty music and golden oldies are great at telling you the current day. Consider this lineup:

Not all of these songs are available on iTunes or wherever you buy your music. And maybe you don’t actually own any music but stream it through Apple Music or Spotify. That’s OK, you can still turn any song into an audio file with the apps below.

How to turn any music into an alarm

If you want to use popular music as your alarm, most platforms make it easy. Android and iOS let you use any song in your music library as an alarm. So do the Google Home speaker and the Amazon Echo.

[referenced url=”https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2018/02/how-to-set-a-music-alarm-with-your-google-home-speaker/” thumb=”https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_ku-large/eugopefj8unqwrdgapmk.png” title=”How To Set A Music Alarm With Your Google Home Speaker” excerpt=”I love starting every morning with a daily briefing from my Google Home speaker (just say ‘Hey, Google good morning’ and you’ll get the weather, news and any events on your calendar), but using it as an alarm clock is another story. That’s because Google’s never made it easy to wake up to music instead of a wailing siren — until now.”]

If your song is buried in a YouTube video or a Soundcloud stream, then extract the audio to an MP3 with the website Peggo or the free app 4K YouTube to MP3. Those are our two favourite ways to get audio from YouTube.

If your song is in some other stream or video, like Spotify or an AVI file, you can still record it by capturing audio from any app. Just use the audio editor Audacity (free for Windows/Mac/Linux), or a free trial of Piezo (Mac only), a simple app specifically for capturing audio from any app.

Then throw your new recordings into your mobile music library of choice, and you’re golden. Or you could just wake up every morning to System of a Down screaming “Wake up!”


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