Cross-origin audio not playing in desktop Chrome

[joonaspaakko]

I made a test case: https://codepen.io/joonaspaakko/pen/rNWQKpX

1. When you click play, console log prints playing(), seek(), and duration() every second

2. I don't know if there's a better test to be made, but what it prints out when I run it in chrome is this:

   playing: true seek: 0 duration: 291.4

   • seek() never changes and there's no audio
   • So howler seems to think it's playing something, it even fetches the duration, but it's not actually playing anything

3. On Firefox seek() is changing and I'm getting audio

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• In my tests it works in:

  • Desktop (Mac): Firefox and Safari (not in Chrome)
  • Mobile (IOS): Firefox, Chrome and Safari

• The radio example: https://howlerjs.com/#radio suffers from the same issue on Chrome (as far as I can tell)

• I thought maybe it has something to do with strict-origin-when-cross-origin, but I'm just throwing wild guesses

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Update: I tested this on a different computer with the same chrome version _^{_{Version 89.0.4389.82 (Official Build) (x8664)}} and my test audio works on this computer just fine... Strangely enough howler's radio example is still not outputting any sound.

[joonaspaakko]

Turns out I'm just a panicking idiot. Didn't do enough thinking and I've now realized that I have a Chrome extension called Disable HTML5 autoplay, that not only disabled auto play in this case but also fully blocked playback.

Should've done better testing in incognito from the start...