I don't think this is too clever at the moment.

I turned my Touch off, whilst it was connected to my local server (or at least 
the last thing I played on it was some local music).
I hibernated my PC (whilst cooking, because the cooker currently has a fault 
that causes the power to trip).

My PC needed to be offline for some time, so I decided to play some internet 
radio.

I turned on the Touch.  This must have sent a Wake-On-LAN magic packet, because 
my server turned on.

This is not good - there's no way to attempt to use Touch without causing the 
local server to power on.

On Classic players, it only sends a WOL when attempting to connect/switch to a 
music source.  It is possible to get to the setup screen (via left-arrow) 
whilst not connected, to select an alternative source (eg. MySqueezebox.com), 
without sending a WOL to the local music source.

Now that music library source switching is meant to be transparent on 
Touch/Radio, I don't think the WOL packets should be sent automatically when 
pressing power button, because there isn't the same obvious concept of being 
currently connected to a particular server.  I think that only when I attempt 
to play something from a music source should it sent the WOL packet.

Does everyone agree?  If so, I'll raise a bug report.

Phil
 
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