iTunes Sharing: Screensaver?
My iMac plays host to my iTunes Music Library with another Mac in the house (connected to my home stereo). It's a superb solution (an old 400Mhz PB as a music server) and provides the best music jukebox experience available.
However, I've need to make a few sacrifices in order to achieve perfection.
1. My iMac can never sleep (otherwise I have to physically go to it and wake it)
2. My iMac's 17" LCD will stay on (displaying desktop) whenever the cleint is playing music. This is a waste of power (and potentially the life of the display)...It doesn't seem to matter what my screensaver settings are...
Anyone know how to put the display to sleep (or at least into screensaver) while it is actively sharing a library of tunes?
Anyone know how I can allow it to sleep and still have it wake when the client (PB) requests shared music?
THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY ASSISTANCE!
However, I've need to make a few sacrifices in order to achieve perfection.
1. My iMac can never sleep (otherwise I have to physically go to it and wake it)
2. My iMac's 17" LCD will stay on (displaying desktop) whenever the cleint is playing music. This is a waste of power (and potentially the life of the display)...It doesn't seem to matter what my screensaver settings are...
Anyone know how to put the display to sleep (or at least into screensaver) while it is actively sharing a library of tunes?
Anyone know how I can allow it to sleep and still have it wake when the client (PB) requests shared music?
THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY ASSISTANCE!
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Sorry if this ends up being of no help...
I've done that. I set the screen to sleep in 10 minutes, but it will remain on and displaying the desktop (or the foremost app/window) while the client is connected. It appears to be a bug/part of iTunes music sharing from an iMac (I just tested it, and my 12" Powerbook will sleep the screen even while sharing the music library)
I was hoping that maybe there was a work-around, or that i had something set incorrectly???
Originally posted by Sport73
Actually,
I've done that. I set the screen to sleep in 10 minutes, but it will remain on and displaying the desktop (or the foremost app/window) while the client is connected. It appears to be a bug/part of iTunes music sharing from an iMac (I just tested it, and my 12" Powerbook will sleep the screen even while sharing the music library)
I was hoping that maybe there was a work-around, or that i had something set incorrectly???
One more note...The POWERBOOK wakes the monitor when I change the song etc.
You will have to send the powerbook a "Magic Packet" to wake it up. However, I do not know what the packet is, or how you send it!
I am sure google can prolly help.
Also, on the lowest brightness setting, my PB actually turns off the backlight which should help prolong its life.
Since the minimum time to enact display sleep is 1 minute, this will result in a 1 minute on -> Sleep - Finish song -> 1 minute on -> Sleep -> Finish song -> 1 minute on ...
scenario.
That's less than perfect, and almost seems worse for wear on the system than just leaving the monitor active. Setting the screensaver and disabling monitor sleep WILL allow the monitor to show the screensaver uninterupted while sharing its library, so it appears that's the best I can do...
Originally posted by bauman
You can just use an all black image as your screensaver... the backlight's still on, but it's better than nothing.
Nah, it won't help. The pixels would just be displaying black instead of other colors. I don't think it will prolong the life - in order to save an LCD's operating life, it has to have the backlight turned off. The backlight is the part that fails first.