I need some kind of alarm
 

I had the alarm plugin for xmms... it works, but then sometimes I get the "Can't open audio" (I always get this when I need it to go off most). And now, it doesnt even try to play at all, just a popup that says this is your "wakeup call" and that is it... as if a popup on my computer screen will wake me up!

I have checked the options a dozen times, there is no reason it shouldn't be playing the audio... I was wondering if there are any other alarm type programs?

The simplest and cheapest way to do this:

sleep x;madplay file.mp3

where x is the amount of time before you leave.

Another not-so-cheap solution is to use leave, and, using a scripting language, set it up to wait for leave to print its reminder and begin playing music. Or play a loud random noise.

if you have x running, then you can issue a:

sleep x; xmms -p

in a virtual terminal. If you're not running X, then use the same command but use a console player (madplay, cdcd, etc.)

If it's a regular thing, you could set up a cron entry to do it instead.