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by scotth 6401 days ago
I'm cherrypeel.com's developer. thought i should put in a warning that the site plays music immediately.
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And you wonder why you're losing traffic. As someone who browses the internet, if my computer starts playing music (in this case, loudly) without my consent, I go on safari to hunt and kill the infringing tab. I strongly recommend against this 'feature'. Display something that says "play now!" and even load the song if you want, but don't actually play it until I consent. Please.
Telling that the developer comes by to warn us about the music playing automatically. Think he has advised against it before?
My suggestion is to make auto play an opt-in option for registered users.
Ah! There you go.