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Open a terminal and type

sleep 30min ; mplayer xxx.mp3

Don't need any ticking timer, it will just distract you. But if you really need it's only a few more lines.

I used to do sleep 60 min ; find / to wait for the hard disk noise but that doesn't work anymore since i have a SSD.




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