Hi folks.
I have recently fixed a Shuttle PC and plan to dedicate it to being a SqueezeCentre server, so that my main machine is freed up. It's an older Shuttle PC running Windows XP SP2, and as far as I can tell everything about it is fairly standard.
My problem is that I have set the power management so that it sleeps after a certain period of activity - in this case 1 minute (for testing purposes). Despite having the 'prevent PC from sleeping when playing music' plugin activated, the machine still sleeps.
Any ideas? I could increase the sleep period up to (say) 10 minutes, but I presume the same thing will apply - except after 10 minutes rather than 1?
Or, and I'm going on a hunch here, is it because there is no real activity whilst a song is playing (leading Windows to think it is 'idling')? In which case I'd guess increasing to 10 minutes ought to do the trick for all but the longest songs. Even if this is the case, is there a way of telling Windows to 'stay awake' whilst a Squeezebox or SoftSqueeze is active?
Many thanks,
John
PS. If I can't get around this problem I may look to try Ubuntu on this machine, though as XP is on it already I'd prefer to minimise the amount of extra work involved.
I have recently fixed a Shuttle PC and plan to dedicate it to being a SqueezeCentre server, so that my main machine is freed up. It's an older Shuttle PC running Windows XP SP2, and as far as I can tell everything about it is fairly standard.
My problem is that I have set the power management so that it sleeps after a certain period of activity - in this case 1 minute (for testing purposes). Despite having the 'prevent PC from sleeping when playing music' plugin activated, the machine still sleeps.
Any ideas? I could increase the sleep period up to (say) 10 minutes, but I presume the same thing will apply - except after 10 minutes rather than 1?
Or, and I'm going on a hunch here, is it because there is no real activity whilst a song is playing (leading Windows to think it is 'idling')? In which case I'd guess increasing to 10 minutes ought to do the trick for all but the longest songs. Even if this is the case, is there a way of telling Windows to 'stay awake' whilst a Squeezebox or SoftSqueeze is active?
Many thanks,
John
PS. If I can't get around this problem I may look to try Ubuntu on this machine, though as XP is on it already I'd prefer to minimise the amount of extra work involved.
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