How to mute my PC for a specific time interval

[SatanicAlienOctopus]

Hello peoples of this forum!

I recently had an idea and I want to check if it works. I'd like to make a keyboard sortcut of some sort that will mute my Windows PC
completely for a specific time interval let's say 30 seconds.

From a quick looking around I see that I can use Task Scheduler and a tool called NirCmd to create something. Does anyone has
any insight on this? Do you know of NirCmd? Is it safe or am I getting myself in trouble?

The reason behind this all is I recently started using Spotify and I get annoyed by the ads, so I am thinking of just muting it
automatically whenever one of them pops up. I just don't want to get out mood I probably don't care about the silence break.

Any info? Do you know of any way to actually do it?

Cheers.

[wirs]

Why not simply use an adblocker?

[duncannah]

uBlock Origin can block ads on the browser, if you're using the app then a hosts file level ad blocking would do too

[Chris_R.]

Add blocker would be easiest 

 

I'm sure there are some tools out there that can do this or similar, I just don't know them.

 

If you were programming savvy you could write a "script" .exe file and assign a macro to execute that whenever you want.

 

Look into finding apps that can do this...if you can't find any send me a PM I could probably make a script really quick to do this. It wouldn't be automatic you would have to assign a macro to a key, that when pressed would execute the program to mute/unmute.

 

The oddball is the time and unmute function I'm not sure how many apps out there do that.

 

The thing I've noticed with Spotify adds it seems to me sometimes I might get one or two, but other times I might get 5 in a row.

[SatanicAlienOctopus]

I wasn't aware of adblockers for desktop apps, I will check them out for sure!

 

EDIT: I gave that a go and seems do be doing it, although sometimes buggy.