Autoplay an audio with HTML5 embed tag while the player is invisible

Question

I want to autoplay a MP3 audio file and I don\'t want the player to be visible.

Answer 1

"Sensitive" era

Modern browsers today seem to block (by default) these autoplay features. They are somewhat treated as pop-ops. Very intrusive. So yeah, users now have the complete control on when the sounds are played. ^[1,2,3]

HTML5 era

Early days of HTML

References

1. Jer Noble, New , WebKit, link
2. Allow or block media autoplay in Firefox, FireFox Help, link
3. Mounir Lamouri, Unified autoplay, Chromium Blog, link
4. Embedded content, World Wide Web Consortium, link