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I feel like some websites are not complete without music and sound effects, this this one. Sound effect examples:

At Emera Beach, if it's thundering, there could be thunder sound effects while you're there.
At the berry garden, when you're harvesting berries, there could be a something that sounds like plucking berries.

Music examples:
At Rowan's Lab, he could be playing different types of music, depending on the weather. (Metal for heavy fog; classical for a rainbow; blues for rain, etc.)
At the Game Center, the Golden Slots play electronic music when spun.

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Since about a year, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox no longer support audio on autoplay on desktop, tablets, and mobile.


To autoplay video or music, your site visitors need to change the settings in their own browsers.


Chrome's autoplay policies are as following:

• Muted autoplay is always allowed.
• Autoplay with sound is allowed if:
- User has interacted with the domain (click, tap, etc.).
- On desktop, the user has previously played video with sound.
- On mobile, the user has added the site to their home screen.

Safari's and Firefox's policies are similar.

Basically, you can't have autoplaying music on by default which is already in my opinion a huge waste of time to be putting development hours into going and implementing this. Especially since majority of users are using Google Chrome for their browser. There are sites that can autoplay audio/video by default that are very popular like Youtube, but they're only able to do so as they're put under a whitelist that Google has for being trusted and permitted to do so.

You could still have music that can autoplay on mute and the user could unmute it, or that you can play manually if you want. But, honestly I don't see majority of users here even bothering to be wanting to listen to such music or these sounds effects on whatever pages you want to be putting sound on. Personally, when I'm on PH doing my interactions or whatever else I'm listening to music or other things like podcasts in the background on Youtube, Soundcloud, Spotify, etc etc.

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This suggestion has received less than 60% support and was moved to rejected.

Total votes: 15
Support ratio: 13%

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