No, the bug still appear while power plugged in!
Music stops playing on MS Surface when screen turns off.
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I have a Microsoft Surface. I have my mp3's in my default Music folder. When I play an album, a song will play but it will not play the next song if the screen has turned off. I always need to hit the power button again to turn the screen back on in order to play the next song. This makes this device useless as a music player as I have to turn it back on every few minutes. Often the song will start skipping as well when the screen turns off. This is for the Music app but also any other music playing apps I've tried such as Music Info. And please don't tell me this is by design. It is not by design. It's a bug. It would be nice to know when this will be resolved. Playing an MP3 is a basic function that should just work out of the box. It really can't be that hard. If a $30 mp3 player can do it I sure expect my $700 tablet to.
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Anonymous
2014-07-06T16:21:13+00:00 -
Anonymous
2014-06-30T18:59:39+00:00 Surface2 all updates
while on battery and screen goes off music stops (iheartradio, tuneinradio) when song ends..
while power plugged in everything works
so annoying to have such BASIC functionality NOT WORKING FOR MORE THAN A YEAR!!
annoying, but not surprising...this is why i bought an ipad
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Anonymous
2014-06-30T18:51:43+00:00 Surface2 all updates
while on battery and screen goes off music stops (iheartradio, tuneinradio) when song ends..
while power plugged in everything works
so annoying to have such BASIC functionality NOT WORKING FOR MORE THAN A YEAR!!
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Anonymous
2014-06-28T19:29:08+00:00 At this point its pretty clear that the developers are either incompetent or just not working on this issue.
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Anonymous
2014-06-28T18:57:47+00:00 I'm using Dell Venue 8 pro, which also support connected stabdby. It used to play musics continuously in sleep model. It failed to do that recently after I reinstall the OS. When the first music stops, it resumes on playing the next music after 20 seconds. It also resumes when I push either of the volume buttom.