It's even worse with TV, for which you usually don't want the same image to be display for a long period of time. It's exactly the same reason for audio.
You should try power management tool that check if there is a fullscreen window instead. If your setup needs keyword/fingerprint so as to unlock while watching videos, you should change your setup and have something like a timer before lock after screensaver triggers.
> Furthermore, under Video there is a "Disable Screensaver" option, but why is there not one for audio?
in version 3.0.4, Windows will still go to sleep after whatever the selected sleep time is,which is a pain when you're trying to watch/listen to something while doing something else around the house.
This looks like a different problem to me (sleep vs screensaving vs lock). I'll check in Windows if there's something you can do. Otherwise, the solution might be something like disable screensaver + screen fading or pinging microsoft to have a solution for this. It looks like something with the audio API would be a better fit if possible.
> That being said, it seems to me that some people actually liked the so-called bug and saw it as a desired feature.
You know, some people asked video hardware decoding glitches to be available as an option so as to produce artistic images. The developer are spending their time writing a media player. If you want a different software, feel free to fork and do it, it's the magic of open source software.
Having a lot of option used by 0.1% of the users clutters the base code with special cases that you have to test.
> What does make want to puke is the extreme narrow tunnel vision of a few developers.
You can (borderlinely), you're completely free as long as you respect the code of conduct, but AFAIK you're not paying them and I don't think it's a good way to talk to them and ask them to spend time on features you want.
