indragiek/sonora-issues — Issue #2: Manually inhibiting hard-drive sleep
Author: zwaldowski
Created: 2012-02-01 05:33:28+00:00
State: open

My iTunes library is stored on my HDD while my system operates off an SSD. Fairly often, the audio engine buffers enough of the song that my HDD has time to spin down, but whenever that buffer runs out audio playback will halt until my HDD spins up again. I know that the Core Audio daemon inhibits sleep (as in standby), but perhaps [a method of preventing sleep](http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1160/) could be used to keep the HDD spun up, or maybe the engine could be a little more predictive in having to spin it up again.

Thanks for everything you guys do, Sonora is mind-boggling as always.