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Nothing better than a website that starts playing sound as soon as you open it!
by beervirus 6y ago
Nothing better than a website that starts playing sound as soon as you open it!
- boogies 6y agoI didn’t mind — ^W is not hard to type — but it does strike me as slightly odd that this seems to have been a conscious choice: “It is based on BitListen by Maximillian Laumeister”, which requests you click anywhere to unmute (https://www.bitlisten.com/ https://www.bitlisten.com/).
- gregsadetsky 6y agoGoogle Chrome has changed its autoplay policy in the past few years [0] -- sites now require typically user interaction before they're allowed to start the audio context. You can see this in the page's code [1] -- line 157 and further. I was surprised to hear the page start playing right away though. Maybe Chrome's "whitelisting" has become more permissive..? See this [2] as well. [0] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p... [1] http://listen.hatnote.com/ http://listen.hatnote.com/ [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Autoplay_guide https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Autoplay_...
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- maxlaumeister 6y agoIf I remember correctly, back at the time they adapted BitListen into Listen to Wikipedia, Chrome's policy permitted autoplaying sound. The "click anywhere to unmute" notification was something I added some time later, after the new autoplay policy, so that people wouldn't think the website was soundless or that sound was broken.
- beervirus 6y agoOn Firefox, it just starts playing as soon as the tab opens. That's what I was complaining about.