iTunes stops playing when screen sleeps

[Király]

When your screen goes to sleep, does iTunes finish playing the current
track, but then not play the next one until the screen is woken up
again? I don't mean system sleep, I mean display sleep.

I've been having this problem since I installed 10.13 and there are only
scant reports of this that I can find by googling, so I wonder if it's
affecting just a few of us or everybody. Thanks.

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K.

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[David Empson]

Király <m...@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:

> When your screen goes to sleep, does iTunes finish playing the current
> track, but then not play the next one until the screen is woken up
> again? I don't mean system sleep, I mean display sleep.
>
> I've been having this problem since I installed 10.13 and there are only
> scant reports of this that I can find by googling, so I wonder if it's
> affecting just a few of us or everybody. Thanks.

I can't repeat it.

My test computer is running macOS 10.13 (17A365 - I hadn't installed the
supplemental update at this point), iTunes 12.7.0.166. It is an Early
2011 13-inch MacBook Pro, plugged into power. Music playing through the
built-in speakers (ignoring my usual array of better alternatives).

I manually put the computer into display sleep (Control-Shift-Eject)
while iTunes was playing a track, left it in that state, and the next
track started playing.

Further tests:

1. Installed the supplemental update, now build 17A405 (took two
attempts: the first one didn't take long enough after restart to have
done any significant work).

2. Starting playing a track in iTunes.

3. Adjusted system preferences to sleep display after 1 minute for both
battery and power (computer sleep set for 10 minutes).

4. Let the screen go to sleep by itself.

Music kept playing, next track ok.

5. Unplugged power.

Music kept playing, next track ok.

6. Plugged in power again, waited more than 10 minutes.

Computer did not go to sleep, new tracks kept playing.

(As expected - iTunes playing music should suppress computer sleep.)

7. Set iTunes to play to one of my AirPlay speakers.

8. Let the screen to go to sleep again.

Music kept playing, next track ok.

9. Used remote control on AirPlay speaker to pause and resume.

Computer display stayed off, music kept playing, next track ok.

10. Switched to Bluetooth headphones.

11. Let the screen go to sleep again.

Music kept playing, next track ok.

--
David Empson
dem...@actrix.gen.nz

[Lewis]

In message <ose17k$qfc$1...@dont-email.me> Király <m...@home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
> When your screen goes to sleep, does iTunes finish playing the current
> track, but then not play the next one until the screen is woken up
> again? I don't mean system sleep, I mean display sleep.

No, it continues to play the track, then the next track, then the next
track until the end of the playlist.

--
"Making music should not be left to the professionals." - Michelle
Shocked

[Fred Moore]

On 10/20/17 7:35 p, Király wrote:
> When your screen goes to sleep, does iTunes finish playing the current
> track, but then not play the next one until the screen is woken up
> again? I don't mean system sleep, I mean display sleep.
>
> I've been having this problem since I installed 10.13 and there are only
> scant reports of this that I can find by googling, so I wonder if it's
> affecting just a few of us or everybody. Thanks.

Yes, this exact behavior just started happening to me today for no
reason I can figure out. I was in the middle of riding my exercise bike
when the screensaver kicked in and the music stopped. Previously, only
the screen would go dark. Pressing a volume key on my Apple remote
brings the display back up and restarts the music after a very short delay.

I'm running OS 10.9.5 with iTunes 12.6.2 on a 2012 Mini.