I want to be able to press the power button or close he touch cover and have the music play.
I have my screen set to never shut off, because I read a lot and get distracted a lot. on my ipad I can just press the power button cant do it on my surface...well im sure I can but have not figured out how.
I just started the music playing and then hit the power button to put it to sleep. Screen went dark and music kept playing. I haven't done it for an extended period but it seems to work. I do have my screen set to turn off after a few minutes. But this is using the power button not waiting for it to time out.
So with the hurricane out of the way I tried an experiment... Started Xbox Music to stream Pat Metheny...got the music going, then hit the physical power button to put the unit in sleep mode - music streamed the entire album . However did notice minor stuttering / distortion whenever I got an incoming email... Music streamed without stutters when the Surface was in 'awake' with email and word processing running...