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Can't run Music on my iMac for more than about 15 minutes

I run Music (1.0.6.10) on my iMac (2017; 8MB) running Catalina 10.15.6. Lots of ripped music resides on the iMac's 1.3TB Fusion Drive. I connect the iMac to my receiver/amplifier via cable, using the iMac's headphone jack. This works fine (when it runs I have no issue with sound quality) but after about 15 minutes the iMac displays a message like "are you sure you want to close all apps and log user out? Of course I don't want to but by then Music has stopped. Are there settings that I can change somewhere to keep this from happening; keep the app(s) running and keep the user logged in? I might want to play a big playlist that might run all day.

Thanks

Jeff K.


iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 5, 2020 11:13 AM

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Posted on Aug 5, 2020 11:52 AM

First try resetting the SMC, as per > How to reset the SMC of your Mac - Apple Support


Then if that does not help,

  1. go to > Apple > System Preferences > Energy Saver > set Computer Sleep to Never.
  2. go to > Apple > System Preferences > Security and Privacy > General > deselect Logout after ______ minutes.

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Can't run Music on my iMac for more than about 15 minutes

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