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Re:Creator by RickS on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:03PM (#16621122)
IMO this is less a fault of websites that contain media, and more the fault of the OS that mediates what media is playing.

In other words, there should be a toggle to "default mute the web and keep spotify running".

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Re:Creator by MBCook on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:13PM (#16621292)
I disagree. How is the OS supposed to know the difference?

If you want to make a nice animation, how about not including an audio track? Or using the attributes to specify it should be played muted so it won’t cut my audio by default (what YouTube and others do).

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Re:Creator by rebuilder on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:36PM (#16621581)
The OS (or browser, rather) probably shouldn't allow autoplaying sounds at all.
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Re:Creator by llao on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:11PM (#16622034)
Your OS cannot play multiple audio streams at once? That sounds like Linux 10 years ago.
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