Set up a schedule to silence your PC during certain periods.
Set up a schedule to silence your PC during certain periods.
Hello everyone! I have a concept I'd like to test and I'm curious if it's feasible. I'm planning to create a keyboard shortcut that will silence my Windows PC for 30 seconds at certain times. After some research, I found Task Scheduler and a tool called NirCmd that could help. Does anyone know about NirCmd? Is it reliable? Are there any risks involved? My goal is to automatically mute Spotify ads whenever they appear, so I don't want to be distracted by interruptions. Any advice or methods you know of would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
uBlock Origin restricts advertisements in the browser, but using the app itself may require a different approach at the host file level to achieve similar results.
Blocking would be the simplest approach. There are likely tools available that can handle this or similar tasks. If you're tech-savvy, you could create a script file and assign a macro to trigger it whenever needed. Explore options for apps that offer this functionality. If none are found, feel free to message me—I might be able to draft a quick script. You'd need to assign a macro to a key, which would then execute the program to mute or unmute. The tricky part is finding an app that supports both features consistently. With Spotify, it seems the number of available options varies, sometimes only one or two at a time, while other times you might get multiple.
I hadn't heard about adblockers for desktop apps before, I'm going to look into it! Updated: I tried it and it looks like it works, though it can have some issues.