wymcol

Thanks buddy. I think I needed some spoon feeding.

I can't understand why the Every field needs to be greater than the duration. Doesn't make sense to me.

I did take a look at those options but they seem to be for ending the task. Perhaps with the options Im posting in my screen grab I can achieve my goal. Let me know if you think they're correct.

Im Super Hanns. My 360 is having trouble reading disks though. I tried cleaning the lens but now I may buy a replacement dvd drive. Curse you Bill! How about you guys form a clan?

Although ShoutCAST is running on a 2k3 machine my 'listener' machine is XPSP2. I want the shoutcast server to be up and running all the time (except when the machien reboots) so the service will be available all the time but my listener machine will only play the music through speakers at lunch and break.

screenshot of scheduled task advanced options. Where's the end time option?

I am setting up an IP Radio station within our college. I have setup a tidy little studio where the mp3 will be encoded. Students save their pods to a shared folder. I have installed ShoutCAST on a server within the college. The server reboots ever weekend. When it starts up it launches a playlist in its startup folder. I add current pods to this playlist from the shared network folder. Students and teachers can listen to the stream from any workstation in the college by clicking a hyper link on the intranet page. Additionally we are playing the radio from speakers from various pcs within the college. These pcs are only to play at break and lunch times. I have built an XP SP2 machine that I will use to play the url at certain times of day. I have set the machine up to automatically login and put a playlist file with the url of the shoutcast server within the startup folder. Obviously this means that the radio will loop throughout the day. Since I only want the radio to play at certain times in the day I tried using scheduled tasks to launch mediaplayer but I can't seem to add an end time for my programs. Does anyone have experience with scheduled tasks? If so how do I add an end time? Is there another method that I could use?