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Let Aurora wake you and your Mac. Wake up every morning to the sound of your favorite iTunes playlist instead of that annoying alarm clock.
Aurora is an alarm clock for your Mac that lets you wake up to your favorite iTunes playlist or any TV or radio channel from EyeTV. Other features include a Snooze Timer, a Fall Asleep Timer, Apple Remote support and the ability to wake your Mac from sleep or from a powered-off state.
Aurora 4 has greatly improved usability and reliability. The alarm properties are much more accessible. Alarms, playback/snooze and fall
Aurora is an alarm clock for your Mac that lets you wake up to your favorite iTunes playlist or any TV or radio channel from EyeTV. Other features include a Snooze Timer, a Fall Asleep Timer, Apple Remote support and the ability to wake your Mac from sleep or from a powered-off state.
Aurora 4 has greatly improved usability and reliability. The alarm properties are much more accessible. Alarms, playback/snooze and fall
What's New
Version 5.0.3:
- Fixed a problem with the sleep timers
- Fixed the iCloud Reminders
- Improved OS X 10.9 Mavericks compatibility
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.8 or later
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| Downloads:89,169 |
| Version Downloads:2,807 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Audio |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:20 Nov 2013 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / OS X |
| Price: $14.95 |
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Let Aurora wake you and your Mac. Wake up every morning to the sound of your favorite iTunes playlist instead of that annoying alarm clock.
Aurora is an alarm clock for your Mac that lets you wake up to your favorite iTunes playlist or any TV or radio channel from EyeTV. Other features include a Snooze Timer, a Fall Asleep Timer, Apple Remote support and the ability to wake your Mac from sleep or from a powered-off state.
Aurora 4 has greatly improved usability and reliability. The alarm properties are much more accessible. Alarms, playback/snooze and fall asleep modes have their dedicated panels. Aurora still builds on iTunes playlists, but doesn't use iTunes itself for playback, greatly enhancing reliability. Aurora 4 takes full advantage of Mac OS X Leopard technologies, and does not run on Mac OS X Tiger or earlier.
Aurora speaks your language: it comes with English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Russian localizations.
Aurora is an alarm clock for your Mac that lets you wake up to your favorite iTunes playlist or any TV or radio channel from EyeTV. Other features include a Snooze Timer, a Fall Asleep Timer, Apple Remote support and the ability to wake your Mac from sleep or from a powered-off state.
Aurora 4 has greatly improved usability and reliability. The alarm properties are much more accessible. Alarms, playback/snooze and fall asleep modes have their dedicated panels. Aurora still builds on iTunes playlists, but doesn't use iTunes itself for playback, greatly enhancing reliability. Aurora 4 takes full advantage of Mac OS X Leopard technologies, and does not run on Mac OS X Tiger or earlier.
Aurora speaks your language: it comes with English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Russian localizations.
cirrus-cirrus reviewed on 03 Jan 2014
I got this in a MacUpdate Bundle & installed it on my Mountain Lion MacPro. I tried to turn it off & removed it from startup items, but it kept re-installing the startup item. After my removal attempt, via AppDelete, my MacPro began freezing every morning at startup, requiring a daily forced restart - very tiresome. As soon as I removed all remnants, including those hiding in Library/Group Containers, the daily freezes stopped. I'll find another alarm clock.
PaoloR6061 reviewed on 12 Dec 2013
Status in Menubar sometimes disappears, apparently at random, and I need to reboot my Mac to see it again in the MenuBar (other procedures useless) (in the Preferences of Aurora “Enable Alarms when Aurora isn’t running” and “Show status in the menubar” are always selected). If I don’t reboot, Aurora doesn’t start. By the way: In Mac Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Items, Aurora disappears.
Sometimes, Aurora wakes the Mac, starts, but doesn't play music.
I tried to delete Preferences and all other files and re-install Aurora but nothing changed.
Thank you
Paolo
MacBook 5,1, late 2008, OX 10.9
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RemekTek reviewed on 07 Oct 2013
+9
+1
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Hunter_e59bf642 reviewed on 28 Mar 2013
+42
Ochre reviewed on 22 Nov 2012
If they increased Aurora's compatibility with playlists and third-party software (MplayerX, VLC, Radium etc.) maybe it'd be worth owning. Yes, you can use scripts, but that's a whole new bag of hurt…
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exit_success reviewed on 15 Mar 2012
+1
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Jeff-Nailen reviewed on 10 Dec 2011
What struck me the most about Aurora, and the reason I bought it and use it, is that it is dedicated to reliability and stability which is exactly what is needed in an alarm clock when you depend on it to wake you up pleasantly every morning. Well worth the price. Don't be fooled by other options with zillions of hard to use features or really low prices and lack of reliability. Aurora is the one to trust.
+1
jhismith reviewed on 14 Mar 2011
P.S. Running Snow Leopard (up-to-date) as well as most up-to-date versions of EyeTV and Aurora. 'Alway open Live TV window at Startup' checked in EyeTV preferences.
+42
If EyeTV is the only application that Aurora seems unwilling to work correctly with, I do encourage you to lay at least part of the blame at the feet of Elgato, not Metakine.
NB: I don't work for Metakine or even own a copy of Aurora, I just have a lot of bad experience with EyeTV :(
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Tischer.s reviewed on 05 Feb 2011
The app is simply stunning, nice simple interface, starts the mac to the right time, works smoothly and looks very nice!
In my opinion it is much better then awaken the opponents app!
Thanks for the nice developing :)
Status in Menubar sometimes disappears, apparently at random, and I need to reboot my Mac to see it again in the MenuBar (other procedures useless) (in the Preferences of Aurora “Enable Alarms when Aurora isn’t running” and “Show status in the menubar” are always selected). If I don’t reboot, Aurora doesn’t start. By the way: In Mac Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Items, Aurora disappears.
Sometimes, Aurora wakes the Mac, starts, but doesn't play music.
I tried to delete Preferences and all other files and re-install Aurora but nothing changed.
Thank you for help!
Paolo
MacBook 5,1, late 2008, OX 10.9
Does Aurora work well when the LCD lid is closed? (MacBook)
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Problems I've had with Aurora:
Computer started up, iTunes started up, plays wrong playlist
Computer started up, iTunes hung, Aurora's built-in player started and started playing, but no sound came out of my speakers (yes, sound was turned on)
Computer started up, iTunes started up, doesn't start playing
I always have to set my clock next to Aurora, so that if it doesn't work I wont miss school...
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For example: I have a 9:00AM day for school on Mondays, but Tuesdays-Fridays I have a regular 8:00AM day.
It would be great if this feature was implemented. I love it otherwise.
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Is the download corrupt?
I'm using a Intel iMac with 10.4.6.
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I read the previous comment, and can see that others have had problems with aurora as well. From the suggestion, I also tried alarm clock 2 and it worked flawlessly. (and it's free) Goodbye aurora.
I'm sorry for the trouble Aurora caused you. Since version 1.4 Aurora should make sure your Mac will wake up before continuing to play music after snoozing. However, as setting a wake up time requires admin privileges, this won't work if you haven't authorized Aurora's helper tool. Since you say it woke you up correctly the first time, I presume you did authorize... Could you please check if this problem is reproducible?
Jonas
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Frankp rated on 21 Dec 2013
+8
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Paddy2a rated on 12 Nov 2013
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Rad-Azz rated on 14 Oct 2013
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ErvinsS rated on 10 Oct 2013
+1
Hunter_e59bf642 rated on 22 Sep 2013
Pmu8158 rated on 18 Sep 2013
+80
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Saltmine rated on 13 Jun 2013
+2
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