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Assigned to Rusty for triage / UI suggestion |
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I expect that if the PC is being used for streaming by a machine that has been granted access then it shouldn't go to sleep while streaming is in progress (i.e. no UI required).
This could be problematic for some users, though, who grant access indistriminately, and will not understand why their PC isn't going to sleep, so a UI option may be needed for such cases.
e.g. Tools > Options > Media Sharing
[x] Prevent sleep mode while streaming
(enabled by default) |
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This issue isn't about streaming. For streaming we have already added this "feature" in the past as 0011104.
This issue is about playing local content, i.e. user from DDT-744-11307 is requesting an option to prevent computer from sleeping even if a _local_ file is played. At least this is my understanding. |
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Another request in AMY-189-10655 on Surface. |
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As far as I'm concerned, any app that is playing music/video should by default not allow the computer to fall asleep (I don't think that a config option is even required).
Frankly, i'm surprised that this was only reported recently--makes me think that it's either related to a Windows system change or a change in MMW. |
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Ludek
2016-11-01 15:30
developer
~0046071
Last edited: 2016-11-01 15:32
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I don't think that playing audio files only should prevent computer from sleeping.
It should be up to the user to configure this.
But Peke is right that user can configure this in Power Options (see attached screenshot).
According to my tests the Multimedia settings works correctly (but tested just briefly on Windows 7 and MP3 format only).
Assigned to Peke to test and ensure that all media formats played by MediaMonkey respect this settings as they should (also on Win 10 anniversary ).
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afaik, the advanced config dialog only allows the user to configure sleep behavior for:
- multimedia sharing
- video playback
But perhaps peke will find that it works for audio as well.
If not, my feeling is that there may be a small percentage of users that want their machine to go to sleep during audio/video playback, but I expect it's smaller than the number of users that are annoyed by a device going to sleep during playback (note: with MMA there hasn't been any pushback on the behavior that I'm describing). But if we don't agree, we can spec a new UI. |
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Per IM discussion, we don't actually need to suppress sleep, but rather to let the playback continue in the sleep mode, which is probably possible by using https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn892355(v=vs.85).aspx . Petr will look into it. |
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