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Does this app synthesize a new song everytime it alarms you? Not exactly clear how it works from the playstore description.

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It's actually a new hand-picked song every 24 hours. If you're curious, on how exactly it works. I have a rails server which I host all of my songs, which updates once a day. Then I pull in the song data from the server into the ios and android apps. So everyone who has the app listens to the same song.

Do you use it to showcase your music? Do you push/pull the media to everyone at the same time? Does it fallback to the last song if it can't reach the server for whatever reason?

It's not my music. Actually, I get artists to submit their songs, and I pick the ones I like. Or I reach out to artists I like and ask for permission to use their songs.

No, all the phones will pull the data at a different time, so it should keep the load down from the server. Plus there is a bit of randomness thrown in for good measure.

It doesn't actually fall back to the last song. It caches the current song, but if for some reason the cache doesn't save for some reason. Or if you are offline. Your phone's default ringtone will play.

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