Program your iTunes music when you want, the way you want.
Daypart is a simple yet full-featured Mac application that allows you to schedule iTunes playlists when to play, giving you an easy way to program varied musical content throughout the week in your home or workplace.
Smart Playlists, Playlist Folders, and Genius Playlists provide some degree of musical variety, but you still have to manually select, start, and stop each playlist one at a time whenever you want to switch from one to another. Daypart does all that for you and lets you program every day of the week with different playlists at different times. You can have Daypart play your iTunes DJ playlist in the morning, Most Recently Added around lunch, dance music in the afternoon, Classical for dinner, and audiobooks in the evening. And on the following day schedule something completely different. Plus, you can create more than one schedule to accommodate your many listening habits.
Click here to watch the Video Demonstration.
With Daypart you can:
- Schedule playlists flexibly, for just a few minutes or several hours
- Schedule intricate configurations of playlists on a weekly basis
- Segue between playlists without cutting off songs
- Automatically shuffle and/or repeat playlists
- Store and re-use frequently used scheduling criteria
- See how playlists are scheduled over a period of days
- Log information about playing tracks
- Automatically load and engage a schedule at startup
Plus, Daypart features:
- Uncluttered, easy-to-use interface
- Scheduling tips
- Scheduling conflict-awareness
- Detailed Help book
Daypart is easy to configure and use. Download the well-featured demo and try it out for yourself now.
Need Daypart for PPC/Mac OS X 10.5? Download version 1.0.4 here.
Updated in version 2.1.1 (current):
- Fixes issue with closing Template window
- Fixes issue with misidentifying Genius as Folder playlists
- Improves timing calculation at midnight crossover
- Minor stability fixes
- jan 15, '12
This update is free for all registered users of Daypart.
Updated in version 2.1.0:
- Fixes issues which precluded scheduling the iTunes DJ playlist in previous version; iTunes DJ can now be scheduled
- Adds preference to create a text log of played tracks (registered only)
- Adds preference to quit after last scheduled Event action of the current day (registered only)
- Un-registered versions limited to 90 minute demo period per launch
- nov 7, '11
Updated in version 2.0.0:
- Compatible with OS X 10.7 (Lion)
- Adds customizable toolbar to Scheduler
- Adds text size toggle for Scheduler Table
- Adds "Duplicate Event" tool to Scheduler
- Improves Calendar View
- Improves "engaged" activity light in Player
- Improves transitioning from radio stream tracks
- Adds preference setting to automatically add new unique Event criteria to Templates
- Adds update notification through Sparkle framework
- Minor GUI changes
- Many minor fixes to improve stability and performance
- sept 27, '11
System Requirements
- Installation on an Intel Macintosh computer running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or better
- (Version 1.0.4 is still available here for PPC/Mac OS X 10.5)
- iTunes 10 or better
Purchase and Register
Download Daypart version 2.1.1 now.
The un-registered demo version of Daypart can save one Schedule with up to three Playlist Events and will be limited to a 90 minute demo period per launch. Some feature preferences are also unavailable.
The full version of Daypart costs $20.00. After your payment is received you will be emailed a registration code and instructions which will enable Daypart to create as many Schedules as you like each of which can contain an unlimited number of Playlist Events. You'll also enable me to continue working on Daypart and make it work better for you!
You can make safe and secure payments using your credit card. Just click the PayPal "Buy Now" button below.
PayPal users: Payments made by PayPal eCheck will take up to 5 business days to clear. As soon as your eCheck clears with PayPal your registration code will be emailed to you. (Your payment will be by eCheck if you do not have a credit card attached to your PayPal account or your PayPal account is "unverified".)
Web mail users: There is a likelihood that emails from me will be routed to your spam or junk mailbox. As soon as you receive the PayPal confirmation, check these mailboxes for the email containing your registration code. Otherwise, if you don't receive your code, let me know; it may take me a day or two to manually send you a code.
If you have any problems, ideas or suggestions, please email me.
My name is Doug Adams,
dougscripts at mac dot com.
This application uses reasonable precautions to protect your data, but that is no guarantee against unforseen situations on your computer. While no files can be affected by this software, I make no guarantees to this application's effectiveness on your computer and cannot take any responsibility if something goes wrong while using this application.