Is it possible to prevent the win7 sleep state while using spotify?

Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent windows 7 to go to sleep while using Spotify?

I have read the answers in this question but if it's possible I'd rather not resort to start a third party program like insomnia every time I want to listen to music.

So are there a setting or a registry entry buried somewhere deep in windows that allows you to do this? Either for a group like "all audio" or for specific programs?

Solution 1:

you could create a batch file to launch spotify:

powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 0
start /wait "C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe"
powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 30

and launch it with hstart to hide the console window: hstart /NOCONSOLE "launch spotify.bat"

Solution 2:

On win7 to permanently add "power saving exception" for specific application: start cmd and execute

powercfg -requestsoverride process "[exe path]" DISPLAY SYSTEM

For example:

powercfg -requestsoverride process "C:\Program Files (x86)\DScaler\DScaler.exe" DISPLAY SYSTEM

This seems to permanantly add "exception" - override to system

The exe path of Spotify is:

"%AppData%\Spotify\Spotify.exe" or "C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Spotify.exe"