i always put mine to sleep when not in use. you can go into energy save and click the box to turn on wake on network access. when i start remote on my ipad or iphone to connect to the mac mini, you can see all the hard drives light up and it only takes a couple of seconds for it to wake up. since i use screen sharing from my imac to control the mac mini for upgrades and other things, i use the program "wake on lan" which will show you all devices on your network and you can click on the mini and wake it up. why have it stay awake when your no using it.
also, i have pure music setup so it plays the song after it reads it into memory. there is a couple second delay but i think it is worth it.
also, i have pure music setup so it plays the song after it reads it into memory. there is a couple second delay but i think it is worth it.