Most people enter the site through the homepage and then click on the news articles. Also I need to make a playlist feature but due to this, it seems quite impossible to play the next track in the playlist without user interaction. Site design / logo 2023 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. Just click the icon to the left of the web page's address in the address bar to access and view the permissions for the current website. This . Autoplay guide for media and Web Audio APIs. More detail can be found in the Web Audio API Alternatively, with long cache times (none of the audio files have changed since they were added), one could load all three formats and play whichever works first. When it is high enough, media is allowed to autoplay on desktop only. Sounds like you need to click on something - perhaps on the stream? When using the allow attribute on an