Script Suggestion: Turn Off Music If Inactive 5 Minutes

1. I tend to get dragged into new tasks as I meander around the building and sometimes going for a drink of water ends of turning into an hour long tech support venture. If I'm just running to the drinking fountain I usually don't turn off my music. I'm wondering if anyone has written a script that detects both key presses and mouse movement simultaneously? Ideally I'd love to have a script that if neither are detected after 5 mins, it closes my music app.

   
   

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   spirion
   

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   Posted 3 months ago

   
   

2. I would imagine EventGhost could do this quite well.

   
   

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   alexward1981
   

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   Posted 3 months ago

   
   

3. A little script, you'll have to customize it for your own music player.
   For 5 minutes, if inactive, it'll stop the process.

   #singleinstance force
   SetTimer IdleChk,300000
   
   IdleChk:
    if (A_TimeIdlePhysical > (60*60*1000))
       process, close, foobar2000.exe
    RETURN

   Hope it works for you. If not, somebody else with more skill than I do can put something better.

   
   

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   SmallWorld
   

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   Posted 2 months ago

   
   

4. Using the code to pause windows media player from my tip at lifehacker, Universal shortcuts to windows media player , you can have something like:

   SetTimer, IdlePause, 10000 ; checks every 10 seconds
   return
   
   IdlePause:
   
   If A_TimeIdlePhysical > 300 ; if idle time is greater than 5 minutes
     PostMessage, 0x111, 18809, 0, ,Windows Media Player ; Stop Playing Track

   There other things you can do also. you can only mute the player by replacing the last line with:
   

   PostMessage, 0x111, 18817, 0, ,Windows Media Player ; Volume Mute

   
   

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   nakuls
   

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   Posted 2 months ago

   
   

5. I suggested your topic to a friend of mine and a couple of minutes later he came up with this: http://apps.nozavi.com/downloads?task=view.download&cid=19

   I started using it and found it is actually pretty cool.

   
   

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   markerfit
   

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   Posted 1 month ago