Keep Spotify Connect alive?

[krisbrox_1]

I am often listening to music from my desktop connected to speakers. While cooking or just not beeing by the desk for other reasons I like to controll the music stream from my smart watch, which again is connected to my phone. This works great, for about 5 minutes before the spotify connect feed from the phone to the desktop dies. I then have to wake the screen on the phone and open spotify to connect again. Is there something I can do to keep spotify connect alive on the phone all the time? I understand this most likely is a method to save battery, but it would be great to keep the connection allive for a longer period of time.