What program can I use on Windows, which is similar to Linux crontab, fcrontab, and jobs can be added with text or json, etc. file?

Question

I would like to record programmes from an online radio stream. For this purpose I would like to find a program for Windows, which supports timed execution of jobs, similarly like crontab on Linux, and the jobs can be added from simple text file - similarly to crontab - or as a JSON file, etc.

Or equivalently a multimedia program - like VLC, ffmpeg, etc. - which supports recording streams beginning at a given time, and stopping the recording process after a certain time elapsed. Maybe with a plugin.

Answer 1

That program is called at.exe on Windows, and it runs as a commandline app, inside the batch/MS-DOS shell. On Windows at.exe does the same things as cron on Unix, not as at on unix.

The Wikipedia article about at highlights the differences - with screenshots, command options and their syntax, etc. (Scroll down a bit on the article's page.)

The requirements to use at.exe with .bat files is a bit awkward. But you could put a single command inside that bat file, a call to your custom script (in Powershell, Perl, Python...).