

You may have noticed that the majority of Windows Store applications don't show the same behavior when you play music in them.

Play Music on a Surface While the Screen is Off If you play music videos on YouTube, those videos will stop when the power saving mode kicks in. Note: While music is mentioned, the same behavior happens when you play videos. That is, unless you change the default configuration of your device. This means that you cannot play music using desktop programs continuously while the device is idle. While you can use all kinds of programs and apps for that, the following happens when you play music using desktop programs: As soon as the screen goes to sleep (the device itself is still active), music stops.Īs soon as you use the touchpad, type or use the mouse so that the screen becomes active again, music playback continues. One thing that I did not realize up until recently was that the Surface behaved weird when it comes to playing music.
