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How about preloading of songs over wifi only. Another way could be to automatically enable wifi a few minutes before the alarm time.

Defaulting to standard ringtone if no song was downloaded.

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That's a good suggestion. Right now it actually does cache the song when it's on wiFi, so it often works correctly. But, I find when my phone gets low on memory, the cache is sometimes cleared, and if I'm not in WiFi, it will go back to the default ringtone.

Actually automatically enabling wiFi is a good idea. I just assumed most people would try to be in wiFi as much as they could be, so I assumed the user would do their best to make that happen. Maybe I shouldn't have assumed that.

It wouldn't be much of a deal to me either, as I'd just use a Wifi-enabling task. Though I'd say many users would appreciate such feature.

Yeah I like it. That sounds like a relatively easy thing to implement, which could "fix" having your phone's default alarm sound instead of the song of the day.

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