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Comment by birdymcbird | Hacker News Reader

I see a weird animation in Safari mobile. No sound.

The AudioContext is suspended (by default, no auto-play). You have to resume() this on a user interaction.

E.g., add a click-handler for the play button, which triggers,

  if (myAudioContext.state === 'suspended') myAudioContext.resume();

Is your iPhone on silent? I had to switch it on to hear the audio.

This. It’s a quirk of iPhone I suppose. But I’m always forgetting about it so probably not great UX.

Not working for me in Safari on macos (works in Chrome though ... nice!)

I found the same with Safari on Mac - need to right click -> settings, and enable auto-play for media with sound

Getting nothing on my iPad with sound turned up.