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1. 

   dhiraj113
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago

   I am bringing to your notice an architectural issue with regard to the design of this alarm clock. Let me explain the situation with an example. Suppose I set the alarm fade in duration to 5min and the sleep duration to 4min and suppose I press the space bar for the first time 1min after the starting of the alarm. At the time of going to snooze mode, the alarm sound would have slowly risen to 20% of its peak value but at the time it restarts i.e 4min after, its sound would be 100% of its peak value. So the essential functionality of fading and smooth wake up is lost because of setting a sleep duration time that is comparable to the fade in duration time.

   Can you make some addition to the alarm clock allowing how the user wants the fading in to work with regard to the sleep duration. To be precise, can you provide some way of telling the alarm clock that for me sleep duration should not be counted into fade in duration.

2. 

   Mark
   Administrator
   Posted 1 year ago

   The snooze function simply pauses the alarm, so the volume resumes at whatever level it was set to when the snooze mode was first activated. A lot of people have requested that the volume begin fading in anew, so this will be an option in an upcoming release.

3. 

   Anonymous
   
   Posted 1 year ago

   I would like to say that I am happy to read this. I have just paid the licensing fee after using the program for 30 days. In doing something like this, I always make a pros/cons list as I go along and consider it very strongly before hitting that 'purchase' button - and I can truthfully say that the only really big 'con' I could come up with was that seemingly sadistic lack of a feature to make the 'snooze' alarm fade in instead of shattering the morning and leaving me clutching at my heart! (Oh sure, it encourages me to *not* use the snooze feature so much, but how many of us *actually* want that? :P)

   Only other thing I can think of and is purely a 'perk' sort of thing, not vital to functionality - is if it's not too hard, it would be very nice to have a 'random' alarm selection - so that I could point the alarm to a directory of mp3s and say "choose any one of these to wake me up" instead of the same alarm every day.

4. 

   Mark
   Administrator
   Posted 1 year ago

   Hi Anonymous,

   First, thanks for registering! I'm very happy to hear you enjoy Citrus.

   An upcoming "fix-up" release will change the default snooze fade behavior, since the sudden volume re-activation is not what most people say they expect. It won't be too much longer now until it's ready either, so stay tuned!

   Additionally, you'll be happy to know that the "random" alarm functionality already exists in the current version. On the edit alarm screen, simply click the playlist button (the one that looks like two pages of music notes) and add whatever songs you wish to the playlist. When the alarm activates, it will shuffle these songs randomly before playing them.

5. 

   Anonymous
   
   Posted 1 year ago

   How brilliant! I had just assumed that a playlist would automatically start at the 'first' song every time. You have my thanks, and my positive word of mouth, which I'm sure is of more value. Looking forward to the new release. Thank you!

6. 

   Mark
   Administrator
   Posted 1 year ago

   Just a quick note to say that the latest version of Citrus Alarm Clock, which was released today, now fades in the alarm volume after resuming from snooze mode. Enjoy!

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