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I have been doing my homework this week to attempt allowing my computer to sleep while not streaming. Measure 10 times, cut once, that sort of thing. Anyway, I got WOL all set up properly the first time and was extremely impressed that it worked straight away. But the computer falls to sleep despite choosing "Prevent idling to sleep" when sharing media in the advanced settings section of power options. Does anybody have an idea why this would be ignored when using Subsonic. Otherwise it works really well. A simple app on my devices and a desktop shortcut wake it right up and starts playing. But I can't stop it from falling asleep.

Any tips?

Thanks in advance for any help.

-CL

Anyone out there with any ideas?

If you are wanting your PC to go to sleep when not being used, it's going to be tough.

Subsonic does occasional indexing of the database, scanning for new media in your media folders, and other general tasks - not to mention the standard stuff that Windows does in the middle of the night (anti-virus scan, maybe a defrag also).

Those are the tasks that keep your machine awake.

I'm not familiar with the inner working of Subsonic but is there some process that is running while streaming music that can be mapped to Windows sleep feature. So that when it is streaming, the machine will not go to sleep.

I have no problem having the machine fall asleep. I want it to stay awake while streaming via Subsonic though.

If anyone cares, I found a solution that works pretty well for me.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/coffee-sc/

Setting it to 25 KB/s for the upload threshold keeps my machine awake while streaming.