In general, you are right to complain, audio in the web is always a problem; the only debate is about just how much and in how many ways it is broken. In pract

In general, you are right to complain, audio in the web is always a problem; the only debate is about just how much and in how many ways it is broken. In practice, you probably want to take a look at Howler.js - it's pretty comprehensive library that tries its best to overcome the various limitations and problems.