[spencerjford]

With that option Kodi sends a low level single to keep those sound devices alive.

Regardless of a video playing or not.  

I always use wasapi, but I also always turn off kodi system sounds, because I find them annoying.  So that's maybe why i don't have any issues.

I prefer wasapi.  In general, it is perfectly fine to use.   But also may be the case where I have the kodi sounds off. 


I also prefer to manually select the sound device instead of system default.   As a lot of times with a driver update the system default sound gets put onto another device, and I end up with no sound when I start a video.  Which you can imagine would be rather annoying.