This doesn't help with a surface 3.
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.
Windows for home | Other | Music, photos, and video
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Anonymous
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2016-03-11T01:05:05+00:00 I had this problem to, i solved this by: windows + X, power options, change when the computer sleeps, on battery i have it as turn of display after a desired time, sleep as never (as closing the lid puts it to sleep) and on power i have them both set to never as i'm not concerned about battery consumption when plugged in.
hopefully this helps you
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Anonymous
2016-02-23T17:17:51+00:00 how the helll can this still be happening ??
I see people complaining since Surface 2 and the same problem exists in the Surface 4!
W.T.F! Microsoft, this has got to be an easy BUG to fix.
What gives?
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Anonymous
2016-02-08T03:18:23+00:00 I have the same issue with Jet Audio, VLC Player, Spotify and many more media players on my surface pro 4. I think the best solution is to put screen off and sleep time to more than one hour and then define screen saver for about five minutes. This is a good working workaround.